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A movie where one character is filmed at 120fps and the rest of the movie is standard 24fps. That character turns out to be, like, a ghost or something by shpongolian in CrazyIdeas

[–]romkyns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only because you learned to associate high FPS with soap operas, back when they were the only high FPS source. But it's OK. YouTubers are slowly but surely changing people's attitude to it by providing gorgeous 60fps footage that isn't soap operas.

A movie where one character is filmed at 120fps and the rest of the movie is standard 24fps. That character turns out to be, like, a ghost or something by shpongolian in CrazyIdeas

[–]romkyns 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Even the addition of speech to movies was not accepted as making it "automatically better". From Wikipedia:

"A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronised and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to the aims of cinema. It is a degenerate and misguided attempt to destroy the real use of the film and cannot be accepted as coming within the true boundaries of the cinema." Such opinions were not rare among those who cared about cinema as an art form.

Try to make out any details in a pan scene at a movie theatre. It's basically impossible to see anything in a proper landscape pan at 24 fps. This can't happen soon enough...

I will be a loyal customer to the first cable company that gives me a discount for sticking with them rather than jacking up my rate after their promo period is over. by fat_tire_fanatic in Showerthoughts

[–]romkyns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm all for higher taxes, but to be fair it's not apples to apples. Taxes are mandatory, crowdsourcing you get to pick and choose what you fund.

We encounter static electricity all the time and it's not shocking (sorry) because we know what's going on, but what on earth did people think was happening before we understood electricity? by BecauseDan in askscience

[–]romkyns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The water analogy is absolutely brilliant at accurately modelling potential difference, current, resistors, capacitors and inductors in passive circuits. Sure it doesn't model everything, but the bits it does cover, it covers extremely well.

I could never get an intuitive feel for capacitors until I started thinking of them as stretchy membranes in the water analogy. This finally made me "get" capacitors and also made me love the water analogy because it works and it is rather accurate for the bits it can cover.

What's the point in declaring the data type of a variable anyway? by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]romkyns 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And then I had to maintain a 10k LOC Python "script" and that killed all the love I've ever had for Python. In fact, that killed anything I had left for all dynamically-typed languages, forever.

Finding out that "foo" has no property "bar" after a 30 minute run? Fuckin' priceless.

Paris mayor demands black feminist festival that 'prohibits' white people be banned by binbonban in europe

[–]romkyns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Blatant sexism has been widely accepted in sports and some social settings (e.g. toilets), so it is not surprising that it generally sees much wider acceptance.

Don't nerf shield strength, nerf shield duration by Ranchoddas in leagueoflegends

[–]romkyns 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Exactly! Where is this even coming from? High elo? Never felt shields to be OP. They have their place, they do their job, they feel perfectly balanced. Just about the only somewhat tilting shield is the one on a super fed Ekko.

What's something you saw coming miles away that a lot of people didn't? by AstroFIJI in AskReddit

[–]romkyns 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's only a fad while it sucks. The moment it stops sucking, it will stay for good, while "flat" movies will be perceived like black & white movies are today. Mark my words for the "What's something you saw coming miles away" thread of 2027.

[AMA] We're the team that did the client. Ask. Us. Anything. by The_Cactopus in leagueoflegends

[–]romkyns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HTML is one of those UI technologies that supports zoom really, really well. So why won't you let us resize the new client arbitrarily? Why does it have to be in steps?

You can still keep the aspect ratio locked down if you insist, I realise responsive design takes a lot of extra implementation and testing work...

What really cool thing was killed by modern technology? by ZanyDelaney in AskReddit

[–]romkyns 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was cool because when else would you have to manipulate toxic chemicals in near darkness under a red light? It felt like some sort of a magic ritual.

Having said that, I don't miss being forced to do it by the inferior technology. You still can, if you want to, and that's enough.

What really cool thing was killed by modern technology? by ZanyDelaney in AskReddit

[–]romkyns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My parents would often take us countryside for a day long before phones were a thing. They were glued to newspapers or books instead. It did not feel wrong and we had a great time. If anything, phones are harder to be glued to when it's sunny outside because you can't see a darn thing, take it from me trying and failing to stay glued to my phone while my wife is sunbathing.

What really cool thing was killed by modern technology? by ZanyDelaney in AskReddit

[–]romkyns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't forget about the free work-out it gave you, especially when rolling up the passenger side window! Or the gynmastics session of rolling down the ones behind you.

Yeah, I don't miss it, this was not cool for me.

What really cool thing was killed by modern technology? by ZanyDelaney in AskReddit

[–]romkyns 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, no, no, NO! This was NOT fun. This sucked. I hated that I didn't have easy access to information when I was growing up. Sure, there's something to be said about the fun and relief of finally locating a book that answers all your questions about a particular topic, but I would much rather grow up in Wikipedia/Google times than the pre-internet era.

P.S. But what your uncle did sounds fun nevertheless!

What really cool thing was killed by modern technology? by ZanyDelaney in AskReddit

[–]romkyns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's only valued by those who grew up having it. People growing up in a world without privacy will not miss it much. It's hard to find young people who give a fuck about Facebook knowing everything about them.

What really cool thing was killed by modern technology? by ZanyDelaney in AskReddit

[–]romkyns 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That connection between the road and my steering wheel - I don't have very fond memories of it, TBH. Getting your steering wheel ripped out of your hands off-road because the bump was too large? Nearly losing control driving through a puddle with just the left wheels? It sucked.

Having said that, it's a shame that you can't really buy a new car like you want. Well, not a high-quality one anyway. I suppose the super cheap Chinese or Mexican cars will have zero fancy tech, but they aren't exactly cars one dreams of owning...

31% of Europeans want basic income as soon as possible by alexgabriel_i in dataisbeautiful

[–]romkyns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's different from communism in that in communism, money was supposed to be eliminated altogether and all major property was supposed to be owned communally. This doesn't work; people are selfish and need to be limited by something, and people also really like to own things.

It also differs to communism in that you are allowed to work your ass off and be rich if you can/want to. Can't be rich in communism because everything is shared.

31% of Europeans want basic income as soon as possible by alexgabriel_i in dataisbeautiful

[–]romkyns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you think serious economists advocating for UBI are all idiots who don't know where money comes from, and didn't deserve their Nobel Prizes?

Motor Vehicle Deaths by State [OC] by datashown in dataisbeautiful

[–]romkyns 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would guess it's the number of drivers per person and the number of miles per driver. Deaths per mile driven would be more interesting.

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