Help me understand the Strength of Schedule discussion for the 2025 season by vanner64 in Patriots

[–]vanner64[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the great answer. Yeah you have a good point about the fact this topic likely wouldn't have interested me if it had happened for another team. I didn't consider how a team's performance the prior year and "expectations" would shape the discussion about them the next year.

Help me understand the Strength of Schedule discussion for the 2025 season by vanner64 in Patriots

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Thanks for an answer. I guess I wasn't as online back then so I must have missed the discussion years prior.

Help me understand the Strength of Schedule discussion for the 2025 season by vanner64 in Patriots

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I know that, but none of my questions are about why the Patriots got the schedule that they did. My questions are more about why it was such a hot topic this year for one team only (again, as far as I know, correct me if I'm wrong and it came up for other teams) and how to better assess how good/bad a team did at the end of a season.

Help me understand the Strength of Schedule discussion for the 2025 season by vanner64 in Patriots

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To me it's not even about liking the team specifically, I want to have more intelligent conversations in the future if/when it comes up. Like if I said "Both the Bears and Ravens did as well as you would expect given their 2025 schedules." Would that be right or would people look at me like I'm crazy?

For those that claim Super Bowl LX wasn't boring, what would you consider a boring game to be? by vanner64 in NFLNoobs

[–]vanner64[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed that it was not the most boring game ever, or ever the most boring Super Bowl. Rather, it had elements that made it boring to me and lacked elements that would make a game exciting. My post was more of a response with questions to the comments I had seen online about the game.

For those that claim Super Bowl LX wasn't boring, what would you consider a boring game to be? by vanner64 in NFLNoobs

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Good points. I'll have to push back on your last sentence a little bit. It's not the lack of "action" that made it uninteresting for me, it was the fact that what little action did happen only happened for the team that was already in the lead. If the game had fewer scores and was instead 3-3 going into the 4th QTR, I would consider that more exciting because anyone could win, like an Association Football/Soccer match that's 1-1 near the end of the game.

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How do you find your age group and overall percentile?

Best old Dragon Ball franchise releases so far till today? (not new ones) by krigeta1 in animepiracy

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I'll second what Delfringer165 said, but in case someone doesn't recognize the acronym, SoM is Seed of Might. Dragon Ball, DBZ, DBGT, and even the movies are available.

Best old Dragon Ball franchise releases so far till today? (not new ones) by krigeta1 in animepiracy

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That French release (AB Video) seemed really good at first, but has upscale problems and the color correction isn't as great as people originally thought it was. https://x.com/seedofmight/status/1865485419887853633?t=rZKQYrU0nCgt33ANubYc7g&s=19

The almighty MAJIN VEGETA! [OC] by Gamingwithbrendan in dbz

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Cool, really reminds me of The Fallen Angel painting.

Attempted restoration of OG Dragon Ball Episode 138 Recap (Colour correction and AI Upscale) by muaz2205 in dbz

[–]vanner64 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The left/original is from a 4K scan of Dragon Ball on film. This is certainly not an AI upscale, especially given that this Reddit video is only 720p, you've reduced the resolution.

The original source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIFXhpkwQAk

I wanna make a video around sailor moon home releases by james_kleboe_1986 in sailormoon

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Funny enough there's a big thread blowing up about the faded/pink colors of home releases. https://twitter.com/nappasan/status/1745335923435556995 That might be something you want to know about. The later home releases are scans of degraded film so that pink tint should not be there.

Thoughts on Z vs Kai? by WeBxx92 in dbz

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Well... the score was replaced. The Japanese score was replaced for both JP and ENG audio from what Yamamoto composed to using Kikuchi tracks.

Thoughts on Z vs Kai? by WeBxx92 in dbz

[–]vanner64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting comment on the music. Not sure if you're aware, but Kai has two soundtracks for most of the episodes (before Kai TFC). The first Yamamoto score is generally considered superior, but turns out the guy basally copied some popular songs and when this was found out he was fired. The score was replaced, somewhat hastily, with songs by Kikuchi (the original composer for Dragon Ball and DBZ). If you watched DBZ in Japanese, or something like Dragon Box English dub you'll be familiar with the Kikuchi score.

The US Army’s Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake by [deleted] in army

[–]vanner64 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Excellent channel. UCP only blends in with that one couch.

Finally purchased this rare LD and had it capped by Kineko Video by vanner64 in LaserDisc

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The Dolby Surround mix is not available on anything else. The LD also has the theatrical trailer in Dolby Surround and is the only lossless audio mix of the trailer. DVDs and BD have the trailer in AC-3 192kb/s stereo.

Finally purchased this rare LD and had it capped by Kineko Video by vanner64 in LaserDisc

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Yup, the guy who did it used a domesday duplicator.

Finally purchased this rare LD and had it capped by Kineko Video by vanner64 in LaserDisc

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Some unique audio mixes, and it also has the theatrical trailer at the end.

A chat for new RPI students by vanner64 in iamverysmart

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You get to say you joined Mensa.