https://youtu.be/sTJ7AzBIJoI

Honestly it’s the social aspect. Everyone I know uses Spotify, so sharing playlists and tracks are super easy. I know there’s converters out there but I can’t be arsed to do that every time I want to send or receive a link. I’ve also got some shared playlists between friends we all contribute to. At social gathering I can turn on the party mode or whatever it’s called and let people add stuff to the queue. The big one though is I’ve got a few friends with really good taste. I can check in on them from time to time to see what they’re listening to right now. Found a lot of great stuff this way.

Same. I watch more YouTube than probably any other streaming service. Plus I got the family plan and I sell the extra seats to my extended family and friends. Works out to be pretty cheap in the end.

I do the same for Spotify, Disney plus. Formally Netflix but they cut down on password sharing

I hate my local theater because they never participate in this stuff but they’re still playing Twisters which has been available on VOD for weeks now.

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For the record I’m not knocking the quality of Twisters. I thought it was a pretty good summer blockbuster. I’m more knocking the quality of my theaters programming choices, playing movies to empty rooms while never doing special events.

Phone wouldn’t work for me, I’ve got a strict no phone around the TV rule for myself because I’m way too tempted to just use it instead of enjoying the thing I’m watching. Also wouldn’t really want to put an Xbox controller onto my wife or step mother.

I wish there was some kind of application you could run that would abstract all the mouse and keyboard interactions into a remote control friendly interface.

Anyway to do this without a keyboard. I used to have a PC connected to my TV for this but eventually just bought an apple tv for simplicity.

1917 actually had a lot of cuts, they were just well hidden…

I mean I guess I wouldn’t necessarily call 37 cuts a lot but it’s still more than 1

There’s a link in their Read Me on GitHub under the title about launching with Docker. Are you familiar with Docker?

There isn’t a bump where the lens would come in contact with the table while it’s set down unless you have a case that makes it flush with the phone again.

Here’s some pictures from a Google Pixel 1. There’s a reason they never advertised low light handheld photos because you basically had to take 20 pictures of the same subject to get one that didn’t exhibit some kind of motion blur. Optical stabilization reduced all this dramatically.

They had to have large amounts of post processing to make up for the small sensor and relied on AI to clean up your image. Personally I always prefer to have good source images and leave upscaling as a last resort.

Phone thickness is definitely up for debate but as someone who takes a lot of photos, the cameras of todays phones are vastly better than the early ones.

Here’s some photos from my collection I found from that era.

I have a bunch of really good examples of pub nights but I don’t want to post anything with people in them.

Unless you had perfect lighting conditions they looked like ass. In order to fix the problems you see in these photos you need a combination of larger sensors, larger lenses and optical stabilization. All of which we’re bumping up against the limitations of physics.

Digital zoom is definitely not a replacement for optical zoom. Digital zoom is just cropping your photo on the fly, you might as well just do it yourself in post. Optical zoom retains the full sensor image. You can also modify focal length with optical zoom. I find myself lately standing further back and zooming in to get that background compression for more intimate shots that you get with a telephoto focal length.

Cameras on phones are getting good enough that I don’t find myself reaching for my SLR much anymore.

I like how the Pixel 6 (my current phone) handled the bump, just one long bar across the back. It doesn’t rock when you have it lying on a table and the bump actually slightly angles it towards your view. I wish there was more of that rather than the stove top bump on one side.

I think the numbers still stand. The long time adjusted R rated box office winner was The Exorcist which is $1.011 Billion adjusted. Joker beat that with $1.078 so Deadpool and Wolverine is now the clear winner and it still has lots of theatre run to go.

Uuuggg, I can’t get my favorite band to star in this. Guess I’ll pick an actor instead…

Yea I can definitely see that. They’re something very haunting and beautiful about the movie. I watched it and thought it was pretty good. Then for about a week I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It gets under your skin and burrows into your subconscious.

Hrmm… good question. It’s been a minute since I’ve seen it so my specific feelings are getting a little hazy at this point. I do agree the first was a better film but this one still lives large in my mind. I think it comes down to combination of elements that made it a fulfilling theater experience. The incredible sandworm riding, particularly the first time Paul is attempting to do it, beautiful imagery of the solders running up a hill side and just start levitating up the mountain, the incredible soundtrack and overall soundscape for that matter, the stark black and white world where we meet Feyd-Rautha in the gladiator ring.

I think the movie would’ve benefitted from being split in two but as a couple hours in the theater I got the spectacle I went in for.

Top 10 if it’s just movies released within the last year:

• 1 - The Holdovers
• 2 - Last Stop in Yuma County
• 3 - ODESZA: The Last Goodbye Cinematic Experience
• 4 - Dune: Part Two
• 5 - The Promised Land
• 6 - Challengers
• 7 - Bad Boys: Ride or Die
• 8 - All of Us Strangers
• 9 - Love Lies Bleeding
• 10 - Hit Man

Top 10 movies I watched this year from previous years:

• 1 - Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
• 2 - Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Ponyo, Howls Moving Castle (Getting my 2 year old into the good stuff)
• 3 - Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
• 4 - Thief (1981)
• 5 - Decalogue (1989)
• 6 - Sorcerer (1977)
• 7 - Dogville (2003)
• 8 - Bay Boys 1, 2 and 3
• 9 - The Guilty (2018)
• 10 - The Black Phone (2021)

Avoid the Noid now sounds like a threat.

I remember liking it but I haven’t seen it in 25 years so I can’t say if my opinion still holds up

It goes it goes it goes

Really? Huh, I was absolutely floored by that. It reminds me of when you’re on the other side of a fight (like Carmy coming out of season 2) you start replaying moments in your head, not just of the fight but random moments in your life in this long stream of consciousness while you’re trying to get your shit figured out. To me this episode conveyed that emotion better than any I’ve seen in the past. Plus it fleshes out his working relationship with chef Terry making the impact of the news later in the season matter more.