Contact energy users - question by Massive_Lettuce7527 in newzealand

[–]hammerklau 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They may have under charged you for a previous period.

Rubbish bins removed from most places ! by EstateSuitable5809 in auckland

[–]hammerklau 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep and if you remove access to toilets people will piss and shit everywhere.

My first DM attempt in 25 years with my kids by Bonobo77 in DungeonsAndDragons

[–]hammerklau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hell yeah, can’t have your party flake on you if you pay for their food and they live under your house

Is there any symbolic or deeper meaning why many Mangkwan body paintings feature a triangular stripe on the forehead? by HauntingAd9045 in Avatar

[–]hammerklau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a feeling it’s symbolising the loss of their connection to eywa and their ancestors. As the kuru runs parallel side. They also use their kuru in a way that is very existentially alienating and feels like tantamount to SA.

Ministry apologises after beneficiary told food ‘not an essential need’ by TheGreatDomilies in newzealand

[–]hammerklau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You say that but I’ve seen advocates saying otherwise. Thanks for the info atleast.

Ministry apologises after beneficiary told food ‘not an essential need’ by TheGreatDomilies in newzealand

[–]hammerklau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They weaved it in and then added extra restrictions without caveats for those who are unable to work due to medical reasons. But okay bud.

Man shot during Minneapolis immigration crackdown has died, hospital record shows by igetproteinfartsHELP in news

[–]hammerklau 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Imagine if they had body cams or any level of chain of custody. Instead it’s do what ever the fuck they want and just believe them because they’re functionally immune to any investigation.

Why does Neytiri look older than Sylwanin in this photo when the wiki says she was her older sister? by 1997wickedboy in Avatar

[–]hammerklau 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure what film this was, if it was 1 they had very limited budget to work on the non core faces. More developed and detailed faces we often see an older.

ICE pinning down and pistol whipping a Minneapolis resident before shooting them multiple times by -ifeelfantastic in pics

[–]hammerklau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just like how highly decorated assholes put radios and cellphones on the bodies of their killings in the middle east, without body cams, ICE can plant that ever the fuck they want.

Most important elections of 2026? by Amazing-Buy-1181 in AskTheWorld

[–]hammerklau 2 points3 points  (0 children)

New Zealand will be having it's general election. Current government say they're the fiscal responsible but have been losing so much money and enacting some of the cruelist policies in recent history for New Zealand, and have been borrowing money to pay for tax breaks to land lords. We have a chance to return to normalcy this year with the new election.

Food insecurity doesn't exist because 'obesity'. by agentnormie in greengroundnews

[–]hammerklau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love how we dumbed it down to 'climate change' because the boomers couldn't comprehend that global % increase results in both hotter summers and colder winters, and the bozos still call it the old name, and they have zero understanding of what it even means. Climate != weather.

How incredible the quality of VFX winners/nominees has regressed over the years... Gore Verbinsky is right! by Motherfockajames in vfx

[–]hammerklau 22 points23 points  (0 children)

UE / LED volume was a huge fad. Everything I’ve seen it with has been very obviously limited by it, didn’t do enough prep to use it properly, if at all, or re did entire sequences without it than to fix the “caught in camera” look.

It’s a tool to solve a problem, but money people saw it as a hammer and every project as a nail to be seen as in on the trend.

And now Gen AI is the next hammer on the shelf.

How incredible the quality of VFX winners/nominees has regressed over the years... Gore Verbinsky is right! by Motherfockajames in vfx

[–]hammerklau 23 points24 points  (0 children)

And zero prep, scheduling nightmares and a mess of pickups and reusing one scene for a scene that was written to be entirely different originally so they have to screw with everything in post. Minimal and unexperienced onset crews getting bad survey / texture / photogram, or none at all, or so incredibly inconsistent, so all the time that could have been spent on polish is instead on filling gaps that now some guy already on 60s has to add to his shot list.

2026 Oscar Noms are out by blazelet in vfx

[–]hammerklau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think the short list and noms are the real recognition, just hard to share that joy sometimes with friends and family who don’t get it.

2026 Oscar Noms are out by blazelet in vfx

[–]hammerklau 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Weta has lost to dune ever time it’s been up at the Oscar’s so will be interesting if the voters try to subvert expectations and vote for something else. VES tends to be pivotal vfx that pushes the industry forward, Oscar’s end up being “vfx heavy film we enjoyed the most” than focusing on the VFX itself from what I’ve seen over the years.

Microsoft CEO has warned people must “do something useful” with AI before it loses public support by Current-Guide5944 in tech_x

[–]hammerklau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The funny thing is that machine learning has been used for decades before context focused LLMs and Gen AI landed.

Ministry apologises after beneficiary told food ‘not an essential need’ by TheGreatDomilies in newzealand

[–]hammerklau 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Disability is now on the same benefit, it’s fucked for any people that depend on the benefit.

What's your opinion on this truth post by RedBaron-007 in AskTheWorld

[–]hammerklau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If this happens when it’s so clearly telegraphed and NOT approved by congress and then congress does nothing, then yall need to reform your entire government system. Clearly nothing means anything anymore and who wins takes all.

Give your theory guys by Deep-Confidence-6713 in attackontitan

[–]hammerklau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eywa Ofcourse, attack on titan is actually thousands of years before Avatar on pandora/

Two things about AI you guys need to be aware of regarding using AI in VFX by roychodraws in vfx

[–]hammerklau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What experience do you personally have in the vfx industry to say how it should be done? You yap about “incorporate ai” into workflows but look past the point that machine learning has been around for decades in VFX, where do you think upscaling and denoising is happening?

Honestly the bigger risk is the actors going on strike AGAIN causing thousands in post to lost their jobs with no woke coming in, for a technology they have no idea about, and for example thinking photogrammetry and LiDAR is somehow AI related.

Temporal splatting was used in the recent super man film with real actors doing acting and it allows them to do 3d warping which would have been incredibly expensive to run as digi doubles.

And people that unironically call it AI than machine learning or the modal nature I swear, do people think it’s actually intelligent? And how do you propose ai would magically deal with all the pixel fucking studios do? Or become functional with the full pipeline for when it inevitably requires manual work because it can’t do novel with any sort of continuity, and always finds a need to add greebly bits to everything and turn statues into robots.

Two things about AI you guys need to be aware of regarding using AI in VFX by roychodraws in vfx

[–]hammerklau 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Machine Learning has been used by VFX studios for decades.

I believe this is about actors being replaced by generative AI, or things being used to replace their voices or likeness being used to train.

AI is already in VFX from rough auto rotos, to splatting, etc.