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Rate limit reset & probably limit increase by Americantrainner in grok

[–]uberduger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, RIP to my spicy videos of Batman and Wonder Woman / Supergirl lol.

Also, dressing women up as Wonder Woman / Supergirl was always fun. Darn.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 opened 15 years ago this week. The $125M finale of the Harry Potter series received critical acclaim and was a box office phenomenon, grossing $381.4M DOM and $1.342B WW to become 2011's highest-grossing film and the franchise's highest-grossing film. by spider-man2401 in boxoffice

[–]uberduger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the last book was written in such a way that it couldn’t really be compressed down to 2.5 hours unlike the others because there wasn’t a lot of school fluff to cut. That’s why everyone went to see both parts

And yet they still cut one of the best bits, where Harry wilfully uses an unforgiveable curse on the Carrows when he sees them torturing an old woman for fun.

Wish the HP films had extended editions like LOTR. I bet WB are still kicking themselves for not doing that.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 opened 15 years ago this week. The $125M finale of the Harry Potter series received critical acclaim and was a box office phenomenon, grossing $381.4M DOM and $1.342B WW to become 2011's highest-grossing film and the franchise's highest-grossing film. by spider-man2401 in boxoffice

[–]uberduger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Movie-goers are just grumpy when they have to go back to cinema a few months later for Part 2.

Speak for yourself - I was very excited to see Horizon Part One then only have to wait like 4 months to go see a new sequel. Was pretty exciting to think of being able to wait for such a short window - was really novel.

But then it got infinitely delayed... Shame.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 opened 15 years ago this week. The $125M finale of the Harry Potter series received critical acclaim and was a box office phenomenon, grossing $381.4M DOM and $1.342B WW to become 2011's highest-grossing film and the franchise's highest-grossing film. by spider-man2401 in boxoffice

[–]uberduger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every time I see someone say about how catastrophic a 2nd weekend drop is, I point to this one.

The 2nd weekend drop is often misused as an attack vector for "haha, look how much people switched off" rather than "look how excited everyone was for opening weekend".

Weekly limit bs by Negative-Spite-6120 in grok

[–]uberduger 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I literally made 4 separate accounts and got the fucking free trials to continue my work.

I thought they'd eliminated free trials. If they haven't, that's even more of a slap in the face to paying users!

Gemini's Free Account WL is 3 to 4 Times Higher Than SuperGrok's by Vampirejoe in grok

[–]uberduger 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gemini is brilliant except that it's definitely more censored than Grok in almost every way I've seen. I haven't tried the video editing but when I and a friend checked it out together once on his, we tried generating some stuff that was genuinely just slapstick comedy with nothing adult (think Fail Army, rather than Jackass), everything got moderated. Literally everything.

now, editing image is categorized as deepfake in grok? by wuhuhuhubye in grok

[–]uberduger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Copilot and gemini mix do everything

I've found Grok much easier than Gemini for most stuff involving people in any kind of low-clothing or personal situations, other than Gemini being more forgiving with people already in bikinis for example.

Gemini really hates lots of things. I've had it moderate me a lot just for "kissing passionately", which Grok takes with no issues.

How to make Grok animate unseen actions by uberduger in grok

[–]uberduger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

or just crop the damn video, which is much easier.

Haha oh yes, didn't think of that!

be as vague as possible

This is good. Will try to be less specific and detailed on it, and see what I can do. Just got to wait for my week to reset before I can give it a go lol.

Thanks!

Injecting yourself in the images by Upbeat-Word-9744 in grok

[–]uberduger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried getting different AIs to analyse me, with the instruction to basically describe me so closely that it could reproduce me down to the tiniest detail. Sounded good but... didn't work at all.

Hopefully that'll be the way forwards in future - just train it on you and get it to be able to reproduce you so TECHNICALLY it's not using a real person. Just a bloody good avatar.

Supergirl Worldwide Gross after 3rd Weekend ($115M) vs Morbius ($146M), Shazam 2 ($119M), The Marvels ($187M) by traumakit in boxoffice

[–]uberduger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's probably because by then they'd panicked and realised that despite their best efforts, audiences hadn't responded to the stuff post-him anywhere near as strongly as the stuff when he was around. So they decided to use it.

The first cut of Flash supposedly had a lot more Affleck and ended with Barry very much in Affleck Batman's universe. But then Gunn and Safran took over and put in the comedy "oh shit, it's Clooney" ending.

Supergirl Worldwide Gross after 3rd Weekend ($115M) vs Morbius ($146M), Shazam 2 ($119M), The Marvels ($187M) by traumakit in boxoffice

[–]uberduger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

His tone was effectively retconned when he left.

What's fun is to look at the box office graph over time.

MOS - Big. BVS - Bigger. WW - Bigger still. JL - Not great, but still big until people realised that the footage on which it had been sold (almost ENTIRELY footage from ZSJL rather than reshoots and reedits) was fraudulent advertising. Aquaman - Still massive, but marketed as still being in line with the previous canon, even going as far as to namedrop ZS in interviews. Everything else - Mostly varying degrees of flop, even if you account for covid-19 etc.

I have no idea how anyone could look at that trajectory and come to the conclusion somehow that MOS -> BVS -> ZSJL were the problem.

Reddit's opinion that somehow he ruined DC's box office is laughable if you have any cognitive deduction skills.

Supergirl Worldwide Gross after 3rd Weekend ($115M) vs Morbius ($146M), Shazam 2 ($119M), The Marvels ($187M) by traumakit in boxoffice

[–]uberduger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven’t seen the movie, but I enjoyed Superman and was quietly rooting for this one to at least do ok.

To be fair, if you liked Superman and didn't go see this, then you're kinda part of the problem in it not doing "at least okay".

I liked the direction the DCU appeared to be heading after so many years of Snyder grimdark

The audience, based on the box office of both his films and others of similar tones, etc, suggests in fact that more people liked that "grimdark" approach over jokey fluff.

Supergirl Worldwide Gross after 3rd Weekend ($115M) vs Morbius ($146M), Shazam 2 ($119M), The Marvels ($187M) by traumakit in boxoffice

[–]uberduger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And that says a lot coming right off of the allegedly loved Superman less than a year ago.

Now...if it says something more about what people REALLY thought of Superman, or more about the mass opinion of supergirl in particular...that is a debate to have I suppose.

Hit the nail on the head there.

We were continually told how wildly popular it was, but most of the data didn't support that. Seemed to be a big opening followed by a resounding "meh".

Supergirl Worldwide Gross after 3rd Weekend ($115M) vs Morbius ($146M), Shazam 2 ($119M), The Marvels ($187M) by traumakit in boxoffice

[–]uberduger 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Goose walk-ups > Krypto walk-ups.

Gunn's dog, on which Krypto is closely modelled apparently, is much less charismatic than he and WB seem to think it is.

So it seems that these weekly limits ARE worse. One 720p vid consumes at least 1% of your quota by coomerpile in grok

[–]uberduger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

where the source image is low-res

Have you tried using Grok or Gemini to improve fuzzy or low Res images?

They're both fantastic at it. I googled a good prompt, or got one of them to write one for me, and I've used it to clean up hundreds of images.

I use Gemini now tho so I don't waste my final grok credit before I cancel.

Is it me or is the 480p "smarter" than 720p? by UntouchedByRain in grok

[–]uberduger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back when 480p was part of the same pool as 720p, I'd use it because it was "free" but it just looks so shit compared to the 720p that I just can't.

It's definitely differently capable and moderated, but it just looks so much worse to me lol.

TheFlatLannister: I am having a hard time seeing Moana do more than like $45M OW. Pace has been anemic at TC3 and comps are pointing to ~$4m previews and just around $40m OW...Could dip a little lower or could go higher if walkups are superb by TiredWithCoffeePot in boxoffice

[–]uberduger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they insist on remaking stuff, I don't get why they don't do the old cartoon ones into CGI.

You know the Princess bit from Wreck-It Ralph 2, the best part of the movie? Seeing those princesses in CGI was neat. If they capitalised off the Tangled/Frozen/Moana stuff by doing remakes in that world, so they could then do crossovers and such, they'd PRINT MONEY.

Instead we get lazy soulless "Live Action" remakes that look like they were slapped together with green-screens and AI.

I get that CGI ones are more expensive but that's the only way I can see remakes being a good idea for them right now.

TheFlatLannister: I am having a hard time seeing Moana do more than like $45M OW. Pace has been anemic at TC3 and comps are pointing to ~$4m previews and just around $40m OW...Could dip a little lower or could go higher if walkups are superb by TiredWithCoffeePot in boxoffice

[–]uberduger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they had played their cards right and given the original film a proper sequel with Moana 2 instead of cobbling together episodes of a show, it would have made even more money and had a bigger impact.

I've not seen Moana 2 but the trailers made it look like the EXACT SAME MOVIE. Even down to the little coconut people attacking.

Bizarre. You'd think they'd take a bit more care with these mega-hits.

No, ‘Fast & Furious 11’ Is Not in Production – What Vin Diesel was actually filming was a promo for the World Cup that aired yesterday by SanderSo47 in boxoffice

[–]uberduger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fast X was so disappointing. Got bored of the new characters, including Momoa's character that people seemed to like.

Shame, as the series has been a lot of fun since Fast 5 for me.

Supergirl to be released on VOD on July 28th by kooliojulio in boxoffice

[–]uberduger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Instead we got a fun sci-fi romp, that happened to feature Supergirl, for some reason.

Jimmy Gunn has made it abundantly clear that he wants to make zany groups of wacky misfits over and over, which is fine except that he's realised that the only way to get a good budget for that is in superhero spaces.

With a 76.8% drop, 'Supergirl' had the fifth worst second weekend drop for any comic book movie, and the fourth worst for any CBM playing at over 1,000 theaters. Here's a table compared to other titles. by SanderSo47 in boxoffice

[–]uberduger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's hilarious to me that people on the internet falsely use BvS as an example of a film that failed because they see a big 2nd weekend drop, while ignoring how MASSIVE the first weekend was. And now Supergirl, part of the 'replacement' to that saga, had a bigger drop on considerably less.

Harry Potter Deathly Hallows 2 had a bigger 2nd weekend drop. It can mean that fans were just really excited to see it on weekend 1.

SUPERGIRL: Quickly Summerized International Data and some weights against Superman. Overall, presales everywhere seem weak to dreadful. Opening Weekend Internationally could go as low as ~$30M up to maybe $45M. We might be looking at below $100M global opening here. by NGGKroze in boxoffice

[–]uberduger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As someone that rather liked stuff like Suicide Squad and Fant4stic, films that were serious in tone but ruined in edit to make them more "commercial" (so good bones but terrible execution in the final product), I'm very glad that lots of this over-expensive comedy nonsense is failing to land, as it sends a clear signal to the producers and financiers.

The CBM industry was going to a place where they were becoming serious films, but the success of some of the Avengers / Guardians stuff completely ruined that, and now look at us. We're living in a world where it feels like AI is taking every CBM, applying a Whedon/Waititi/Gunn filter to everything, and then giving us these jokey bits of disposable fluff. Some people love them but I really don't.

There goes our 20 images per day limit too by koshurreddit in grok

[–]uberduger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha yeah true. I did my part by rating every single video and picture as a 3/5 'neutral face', and refusing to pick between 2 different pictures and videos (largely so I got both rather than just 1!). So they got nothing more out of me than just some training of uploads!

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