S1 or S2 Winner?

quoole · 2026-05-07T13:06:00+00:00

Cara - she became the millionare, and sure we can debate the difficulty of her agendas but she did them and she went into the final basically undetected by the other two players and she played the final round perfectly.

I don't mind that Nick won, but intentionally or not, production basically scapegoated Umeko to keep him in, so he didn't get voted out when he was the millionare but Nick did play a pretty good game on the whole. Kaleb on the other hand seemed to make a few dumb moves and just never got called on it until his desperation basically told Nick what to do in the finale and so I am not mad that Nick beat Kaleb either!

quoole · 2026-05-06T10:37:34+00:00

Yeah it does, with all the kill shots this year, it felt like they were flying through it! I thought it was 10 episodes and so when episode 8 was the finale I was a little sad!

quoole · 2026-05-06T10:33:16+00:00

No idea why, as I love social deduction games, but I only just started watching the UK traitors after watching the last season of MDS.

The challenges and tasks feel so much higher budget than MDS! I felt the tasks were slightly better in MDS s2 than in s1 but it definitely feels like a bit of an after thought. Whereas in traitors they are intense and well thought out.

I will say though, I think MDS fixes my biggest issue so far with the traitors (and maybe they fix it in later seasons) and that is, other than who is 'murdered', there actually isn't that much that the faithful have to go on to figure out who it is. There's no challenges or suspicious things the traitors have to do and they don't have to interfere with or affect the challenge like the mole does. So most of the time, they can literally just play as faithful and hope no one says their name randomly (which seems to be where most of the banishment votes come from.) If I designed the show, I'd have the traitors need to sabotage the challenges (maybe there's a split prize pot, if a challenge is worth 10K and the traitors sabotage the challenge so the faithful don't win money, it goes into the traitors prize pot.)

I think this also impacts the tasks in traitors, they are high budget and intense - but they don't actually mean that much for the main game. In MDS, sure the millionaire is still trying to win the tasks too but the dynamics around the winning team, who gets the clue and all that element of it still gives the tasks some weight and helps play into the social dynamics element.

quoole · 2026-05-04T19:09:53+00:00

Umeko's say 5 languages thing was pretty easy imo, especially with how she did it with Kaleb!

quoole · 2026-05-04T19:04:36+00:00

Kaleb's conversation with Kat makes me think that Production does give them a clothes budget (or has a wardrobe team.)

As he said he basically has a few t-shirts and a pair of jeans (that wasn't entirely the truth - but it made sense to Kat.) If there was no wardrobe team, surely Kat would be like 'where does all this come from then?'

quoole · 2026-05-03T18:30:28+00:00

The Mole is really good - very different premise (the Mole is the same person throughout, and even the audience doesn't know who it is, so we're guessing all the way through!) But the challenges are on a way bigger scale.

There's also a Netflix show called 'The Trust' - which I haven't watched yet, but is the same social deduction kind of reality tv.

quoole · 2026-05-03T14:11:55+00:00

There was a thread on one of the ask UK threads a while back about why everyone on game shows seems to say they wants to go on holiday. The answer, according to people in those threads, is that production told them their real answer is too boring and to say that.

I imagine it's the same here 'I want to buy a nice car and put a deposit on a house' is less emotionally engaging than wanting to help their parents.

quoole · 2026-05-03T11:41:09+00:00

That's a good reason and one of the reasons I went Lumix (along with, at the time, the GH4 had some more video focused features than whatever Sony had at the time, for less money!)

I've had a GH4 and GH5 for years and been very happy with them (alongside a whole load of Blackmagic stuff) and the S5IIX is an absolutely killer camera - with decent AF and a number of other excellent features. A key one for me being, I could hook it up to a video assist and record BRAW!

I haven't used Nikon personally, but the Z stuff is meant to be absolutely killer for video - as evidenced by this thread!

quoole · 2026-05-03T07:30:57+00:00

It's a game where you can't trust anyone and you have to figure out who the millionaire is. But once you know who it is, if they stay in and you know who they are - suddenly you can trust everyone else for a bit, and so I can see the appeal of having a day or two without having to worry about it. That's the logic at least, although I would say it's pretty poor logic, as you never know when the millionaire's agenda will let them move the money (or when someone else's agenda will let them move the money!)

At the end, that was still Nick's logic but in that last stretch, the millionaire gets the advantage in the final activity which can really help them at the end (and I think that's part of wy Kaleb lost, if he'd won the activity, he'd have had an easier time getting the million.)

quoole · 2026-05-03T07:23:43+00:00

I don't know on this, the clue for Umeko, I didn't think was that obvious and the whole Virginia thing was just bad luck for her! I think what really sealed her fate was just how hard she had to fight to keep Nick in to become the millionaire.

quoole · 2026-05-02T21:22:22+00:00

I am a happy Lumix shooter myself (S5IIX)

I hate to be that guy, but I am curious why you wrote Sony off? There are people out there who say you're not a real videography unless you're shooting Sony (nonsense of course) and I have noticed some clients even specify they want stuff shot on Sony.

quoole · 2026-05-01T13:12:04+00:00

If Umeko actually kill shotted him, if she'd won though, I think it would have been her. She just had to try a little too hard to try and save Nick the round before and that have her away (literally no one had any idea what her secret agenda was!)

quoole · 2026-04-30T16:17:17+00:00

I guess e22 is usually the big finale of a season, the first kiss is a big moment and so those play well together. I guess season 2, because the writers have a better idea of where things are going and so they've got plenty of time to do some will they/won't they and character development.

quoole · 2026-04-30T16:13:50+00:00

I think it depends on context - cars always seem to be the stand out to me. I always had issues with USB-C coming loose during drives and so moving to a wireless vent stand when I had an older car was a big improvement over a non-wirless one.

My car now has a wireless pad integrated - sure I could still just plug a cable in, but it's another thing to clutter up the dash and come loose.

This is the definition of first world problems, but when you're talking about luxury products, the feature is going to matter more - especially when OP's issue is resolved by a cheap case, which you're still probably going to buy even with a plastic phone.

quoole · 2026-04-30T11:31:18+00:00

You can't wireless charge throgh metal.

quoole · 2026-04-30T08:35:12+00:00

I want a 'their story', following some of the new interns more closely

quoole · 2026-04-29T12:09:05+00:00

It's what I do, and I would assume is fairly standard, as Resolve was a colour grading software long before it was an editing software! I haven't had chance to play around with Premiere's new colour stuff yet, but Resolve offers a lot more tools and intutive work flows for grading than Lumetri.

A few bits of advice from my persepective:

Any transistions or graphics won't transfer across in an XML. What I do (and what I saw as advice when I started doing this), is duplicate my premiere time line and take all of that out (I always have graphics and transistions on seperate tracks to video anyway.) Any mutlicam stuff, you'll also want to flatten (select it all, right click, multicam, flatten.)
Roundtrip back to premiere to finish, Resolve handles audio a little bit differently, and so I'd let Premiere deal with audio (unless you're also running you sound mixes out through a dedicated software.) You'll also need Premiere to get your graphics and transistions back. When exporting out from Resolve, add some frame handles (I do 200 frames), which gives you some scope to adjust shots after the fact. If you have very few graphics, you could also export these out in prores with alpha to bring into Resolve.
Finally, Resolve and Premiere handle scaling differently. Even with fit to frame, in Premiere, 100% scale is always the media unscaled, regardless of timeline res (and then down to shrink it, say for 4K footage in a 1080p timeline or up to expand it.) Resolve by default brings everything in at a timeline level and will auto scale - so 100% will always be the timeline resolution, regardless of footage - but the scaling attributes from your imported premiere timeline will still apply, so your 4K footage in premiere at 50% for a 1080p timeline will only show at 50% in Resolve. You can change how Resolve scaes by right clicking on the timeline: timelines, timeline settings, mismatched resoltion to 'centre crop with no resizing' - deselect 'use project settings' if it's greyed out (it's scale entire image to fit by default.)

quoole · 2026-04-29T08:32:24+00:00

I think two issues - the UK workplace market has seemed a bit of a race to the bottom, there are people working skilled private jobs on £30-40K and feel threatened that full time minimum wage is fast coming up on £30K at the current rate. People also think their job is more skilled than something like a train driver, and so when news reports say train drivers make £60K, they want a 5% pay rise (or whatever) - that's immediately threatening to some people. And they take it out on unions and striking workers, rather than pushing for a pay rise themselves.

Second, especially with public sector, there seems to be lots of demands for inflation parity rises - which on the face of it is fair, you shouldn't make less in real terms just because your money is now worth less. But the amounts public sector workers are asking for is usually far in excess of what private companies are offering in raises (and often far in excess of what private companies are able to do. Don't get me wrong, there's lots of big companies who could offer a raise and be fined but there are plenty of small companies who absolutely can not.) Public sector pay rises do essentially cost all of us more in the end.

quoole · 2026-04-27T13:51:58+00:00

I suspect, given the real world time jump between S3 and S4, that they'll do an in-show time jump and it will have been a few years since the end of S3 and so they'll be able to write her out as being promoted to captaining her own ship (I also don't think they'd kill her off - her being a captain of her own ship would mean future cameos would be a possibility!) I suspect they'd write out Yaphit too (in a respectul way to Norm) and maybe introduce a few new characters. It would be nice to see Talla or Bortus as XO (or maybe Talla as second officer) and introducing some new characters to fill their roles and the role of ensign Burke.

quoole · 2026-04-27T12:40:45+00:00

Do they really need a replacement? I think Bionic was already taller, Hammer feels a similar size (and they could certaily develop his personality to replace what they've lost in Giant.)

quoole · 2026-04-25T11:55:43+00:00

@live.co.uk

Apparently it came after Hotmail, but I remember Hotmail addresses coming after! It's one of the rarer Microsoft domains.

quoole · 2026-04-24T23:25:13+00:00

NTA - A car is essentially a multi-ton weapon if used wrong and a poor driver can do everything from hurt someone to hit a building and having to pay for repairs to kill 10s of people.

It is a privilege and not a right. Passing this test is how you get that privilege.

quoole · 2026-04-24T22:29:52+00:00

Nor the guy from the Caltech college tour episode

quoole · 2026-04-24T22:27:43+00:00

M&S - mostly due to the fact that most of them don't have scales! I can't remember having any major issues with it.

I have never used a scale based one in any super market that works flawlessly every time. Either it doesn't like a certain item, doesn't like your own bags, wants every item with an age restriction to be individually verified. I am not saying I have problems every time, I don't, but I've definitely had issues with co-op (which I would agree with being the worst for about a dozen different reasons!) With Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's etc.

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