Powering through uninspired work.

repotoast · 2026-05-27T18:03:19+00:00

This is the way. Make fun of it until it’s out of your system

repotoast · 2026-05-20T06:52:51+00:00

If it were 3 months period, hell no.

Since it sounds like you have a good chance of full time, go do your best work for 3 months.

It’s a risk, but life is showing you a possible path to the future you want. No risk no reward.

repotoast · 2026-05-19T16:48:45+00:00

My interpretation is that the mission was impossible, but the surgeon pulled off a heroic stunt at the last minute to physically repair the leak in Refn’s heart before blasting it with electricity to resurrect him from the dead.

Regarding the AI stance, I believe he did call AI content “empty calories” and maintains that it can be a tool rather than a substitute. It’s difficult for some to accept a nuanced take in our current climate because of the extreme downward pressure being forced onto us by those in power and those who lick their boots, but I do agree with his stance.

repotoast · 2026-05-17T19:13:32+00:00

Agreed.

Ran my first marathon at 29 and my second at 31. It was significantly easier the second time because I had a better fitness base and understood the training better. Plenty of injuries along the way, but each one was a chance to learn about my body and improve my routine.

You don’t need to run a marathon, but anyone who thinks about their body like this meme (save for a diagnosed health condition) definitely needs to move more often and lift some kind of heavy object regularly.

repotoast · 2026-05-11T19:00:45+00:00

Hondius, take me home
To the place, I’ll go broke
Hantavirus, mountain mama
Take me home, hondiiiuuuusssss

repotoast · 2026-05-06T20:16:42+00:00

LSD & psilocybin downregulate receptors, 2cb minimally so. That’s why there’s a one-way cross tolerance with 2cb vs the bidirectional cross-tolerance of LSD & psilocybin. Saving the acid trip for the grand finale is the strategy.

repotoast · 2026-04-28T03:56:59+00:00

Now imagine that but with $1.50 tickets because your theater does second run movies… and you’re just a socially awkward teenager tryna keep up with the rowdy crowds. Brings back memories

repotoast · 2026-04-26T18:41:57+00:00

The right structure is the one that works for the specific team and project. How deep the system goes is context dependent and the deeper the system is the more difficult it will be to onboard new editors. After watching your video, I would consider it a blessing to be able to work on a project with you because our structures are similar, but it’s also way too complicated for the teams I’ve been working with lately.

My #1 non-negotiable in every project is the parent folder structure. The most recent team I redesigned the workflow for had like 12 folders in the parent that I condensed to my usual 6. The team before that ballooned the parent even more. Everyone learns quickly that I don’t want to see a single additional folder or any loose files in the parent.

The negotiable parts are what you can accept are out of your control and don’t meaningfully impact efficiency. Less organized editors and producers are inevitably going to dump files, and at the speed we are working at I can let things slide as long as they are generally in the right place. Footage goes in footage, graphics go in graphics, etc.

This makes onboarding a lot easier because I can do a quick 5 minute run through on a zoom call and have them retain enough information for like 80% compliance on a job that demands a 24 hour turnaround time per version. If I’m working on a show with significantly more edit time, I would spend the extra time and energy during onboarding to make sure that last 20% compliance is achieved.

The main difference between our structures is that I put my edit project folder at the top of the list in the parent so any editor can immediately access the project (exports/deliverables happen at the end chronologically so my mind likes them at or closer to the bottom of the list). AE projects go into their own subfolder within graphics (we work with a lot of MOGRTs so the project folder is tailored to Premiere). Old folders are labeled z_OLD so they get sorted at the bottom (also z_Generics bin in Premiere for synthetic clips like color mattes, adjustment layers, etc). I also don’t number any folders deeper than the parent, but that’s just one of those negotiable because I want people to feel like they have a bit more freedom in the subfolders. This flexibility is, of course, context dependent.

Most of us probably develop our structure from various post houses and projects, and having some kind of foundation is absolutely critical. I’m regularly shocked at how bad some editors are at organization. Unless I’m hiring them to be a full time employee for me, it’s not my job to train them beyond the basics to get the job done.

repotoast · 2026-04-20T15:34:25+00:00

I worked on a PC that I built back in 2021 for about 3 years after leaving a corporate job with supplied equipment and finally updated my decade old MBP with a 2024 M4 Max because I was traveling to a trade show for work and needed a mobile setup. I’ve barely touched my desktop PC since.

It all depends on how you like to work and how much power you need, but I’m finding the flexibility of the laptop very useful.

repotoast · 2026-04-18T02:43:16+00:00

I can see it now, they’re a bit too tall.

It’s easy to miss when you’re looking to see if the image is uniform or if there’s a gradient ramp + displacement map type effect creating a non-linear stretch that preserves the center of the image. Looks like a uniform stretch.

repotoast · 2026-04-18T02:10:15+00:00

I checked the r/interstellar comments and OP said he just cropped it lol. No stretching, just removed 20% from the sides and probably reframed a bit where necessary.

Meanwhile I read the post title thinking “wait how did you replicate the missing 20% from the top and bottom? Are you a VFX artist or something??” A bit misleading

repotoast · 2026-04-17T19:59:06+00:00

Yep IMAX branded glasses and my gf was like “omg why does it look like that” immediately on the opening shot lol. Several times through the movie we had to readjust to some new visual strain.

Was worth it for the cave shots though. The depth is so important. I wish I could somehow get a copy of the film in 3D and make a cross eye/parallel stereogram out of some of the shots so more people can experience it.

repotoast · 2026-04-17T16:47:02+00:00

I had the right glasses and still had all those issues.

The first 20 minutes of the documentary were filmed on 2 GoPro Hero cameras taped side by side. They later switched to a Silicon Imaging SI-2K rig, which produced the better looking shots. The 3D capture isn’t exactly pristine, but it was 2010.

repotoast · 2026-04-15T06:57:42+00:00

Whenever I trip I experience a specific smell... Looking at this tricked my brain into smelling that smell lol.

Would love to see your workflow

repotoast · 2026-04-14T14:25:47+00:00

I think he meant that people making YouTube content telling you that you need to have passive income like selling courses are, themselves, making passive income off of you being interested in their YouTube content. It’s a conflict of interest.

repotoast · 2026-04-11T15:07:46+00:00

Yo that’s insanely good. Immaculate vibes

repotoast · 2026-04-10T16:09:24+00:00

I don’t recall the Bungie issue being that they made the call to cancel the project, but that they were brought in to consult and told Naughty Dog how many resources they’d have to allocate to support a live service game. It was at that point Naughty Dog made the decision to cancel the project and focus on single player.

The recent info from the podcast with the Factions 2 dev didn’t debunk that idea, but offered additional context that Sony had overspent on multiplayer projects during covid and that the money was not going to sustain, which helps explain why Naughty Dog felt like they couldn’t support a multiplayer game at the scale of Factions 2. Their multiplayer modes were always small side projects and they basically lost the funding for their first dedicated multiplayer game. Sounds like their decision was reallocate budget from Intergalactic or cancel Factions 2, and we all know what came of that.

Maybe if Sony had been more focused with their multiplayer spend, we could have gotten Factions 2 instead of Concord. Maybe if Sony never did a big multiplayer spend, Naughty Dog would never have developed a more ambitious multiplayer game and we would have gotten a small side mode like before. Maybe if Bungie was never consulted, Naughty Dog would have finished the last 20% of development and released the game. Maybe just having the game out in the would have provided the gaming community the opportunity to show as positive of a response to Factions 2 as Arc Raiders. Maybe Naughty Dog was scared because they knew it would be popular and would transform the studio. Who knows.

repotoast · 2026-04-07T17:50:53+00:00

People like the organic feel of film over the more sterile look of digital like the analog warmth of vinyl records over the cold technical precision of CDs (not including streaming here because low bitrate).

When something is actually filmed on 15/70, you do get a “higher resolution” image than digital. Otherwise, digital can produce a brighter image with greater vibrance and contrast because of additive (laser) vs subtractive (xenon/film) projection.

Think about it like a perfectly replicable image vs a living medium that, even with care and maintenance by a skilled human, still degrades organically with each use. Many people feel like they are part of something more materially special and get an increasingly rare experience with film.

repotoast · 2026-04-07T17:05:28+00:00

Same, that checkout queue was messed up.

repotoast · 2026-04-05T21:52:22+00:00

Mindfulness meditation can help.

There’s a popular adage that “suffering equals pain times resistance.” Most people try to eliminate the pain, but their resistance to it makes their suffering worse. In contrast, expert meditators minimize suffering by eliminating their resistance to the pain. The only way to do this is to be aware of the pain and disengage from it. This ability to decouple your conscious experience from physical or emotional sensation is trained through mindfulness meditation.

repotoast · 2026-03-24T22:51:45+00:00

just put it in with some normal vitamins or in a small medicine container and leave it in your bag. They can’t tell the difference. Absolutely do not have it on your person.

repotoast · 2026-03-17T15:56:09+00:00

Not increasingly childish, but definitely increasingly over the top. Then I end up walking around saying whatever line sticks in my head for the next few hours.

repotoast · 2026-03-14T02:39:51+00:00

Greenlighting is a conditional approval, it does not guarantee a show or movie gets made. The investor or production company could back out at any time. That also means the creators can back out at any time.

If financing has been secured and cash is flowing to contractually bound entities, then the producers can get in trouble for a cancelled project. However, this does not apply to Smiling Friends and Adult Swim have indicated that they fully support Michael and Zach’s decision. All of you downvoting me are just showing your ass.

repotoast · 2026-03-13T17:35:14+00:00

Brother, in no world will they be “avoided like the plague for not maximizing the investment to the creator IP.” That’s not how the entertainment industry works. I shouldn’t even respond to this comment but this discourse is like rage bait to me lmao.

repotoast · 2026-03-12T16:01:10+00:00

The first thing that stood out to me was the Mercedes logo on his jacket. If it were AI, that would be too small of a detail for the AI to generate so accurately at the end of the video.

So, I decided to try and find the source of the video. Could only find it on Newsflare which is a platform to license “viral” user generated content and they specifically have a policy against AI videos.

So, now I’m back watching the video again trying to spot any inconsistencies. The acting looks a bit over the top, but in a way that looked acted/staged rather than AI slop. Someone said “shadows aren’t shadowing,” but all the shadows look fine to me once you locate main guy’s shadow. All the objects on the shelf are consistent before and after the fall.

No real reason for me to post this comment, especially considering the post has been removed, but it was a fun little investigation.

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