Is there any possibility this is done just to make it blindingly obvious to the viewer that Breakfast Is Happening™?
I think it’s either that, or directors for major movies tending to be fabulously wealthy and not knowing what normal people have for breakfast.
I just noticed how much Professor Utonium looks like Samurai Jack. A distant descendant, perhaps?
Maybe in three or four years when the mid-gen refresh comes out.
people generally decided that most of the time, being 3D didn’t add enough to the viewing experience to be worth paying extra
Because most of them were just 2D movies converted to 3D in post. Doing that tends to look like crap. The ones filmed for 3D, like Avatar, looked amazing, but studios didn’t want to wait for the next wave of films and wanted 3D now with what they already had.
Even after the camera for it was invented (for Avatar, iirc) most studios just filmed in 2D and converted it to 3D, which looked awful. So on the one hand you have a small number of movies, like Avatar and Coraline, filmed in 3D and looking gorgeous, but on the other hand you have a ton of movies filmed in 2D and hastily converted to 3D to cash in on the success of the ones filmed that way. Those movies looked awful and pretty much killed the trend.
However, the theaters still had the equipment to show them because it’s not like there’s really anyone to sell it to, and the 3D cameras are still out there, too. So every once in a while someone decides to put that equipment to use. It’s not many, though, and most 3D movies are still 2D conversions, so you don’t get much out of viewing them in 3D, and the conversion process and the display tech can actually make them look worse than just watching the original 2D version.
I do like Linux, but I’m kind of amused at the insistence that ext4 volumes on HDDs don’t ever need to be defragged. Microsoft said the same thing about NTFS and look how that turned out. Fragmentation is a consequence of having finite storage and can’t be solved by just making a better FS. Throw seek times in and ext4 on an HDD does, in fact, benefit from regular defragging.
Like they said, muy mal.
RROD was actually 3/4ths of a circle. A full red circle was a different and less troubling error.
Unfortunately, that’s the anti-scalper countermeasure. Crippling their crypto mining potential didn’t impact scalping very much, so they increased the price with the RTX 40 series. The RTX 40s were much easier to find than the RTX 30s were, so here we are for the RTX 50s. They’re already on the edge of what people will pay, so they’re less attractive to scalpers. We’ll probably see an initial wave of scalped 3090s for $3500-$4000, then it will drop off after a few months and the market will mostly have un-scalped ones with fancy coolers for $2200-$2500 from Zotac, MSI, Gigabyte, etc.
too focused on figuring out the gun/enemy type mechanics.
I haven’t finished Eternal and would probably need to drop the difficulty to the lowest setting to try. I just can’t keep up with combat that fast, especially when it feels like I have less freedom to choose my weapon than in 2016. 2016 wanted me to rip and tear, but Eternal wants me to play 3D chess while skateboarding.
“Claims to adore Marx, but seems to decry every single movement to put his ideas into practice”
Didn’t Marx disown the Russian Revolution and other violent attempts at implementing communism? Y’know, the very factions these guys put on a pedestal?
Holography, the real kind, not the Star Wars kind, is probably the way forward. The display would be about as flat as current ones, but the image would appear three dimensional from any angle and wouldn’t require glasses. You could even lean side to side to change your perspective. I remember reading ages ago that a lab was working on it, but I think they had a frame rate of one every few minutes and it was monochrome and I haven’t heard anything since.
Micro is actually tactics since it’s on the level of a single engagement. Strategy is more about the game as a whole, like scouting and map control.
I just want an RTS I can actually play with my wrist in its current condition. I can do the earliest C&C campaigns, but that’s partially because the AI isn’t good enough to require fast and precise mouse movements. I just physically can’t do micro anymore and attempting it hurts, but most RTS games are designed in such a way that micro is required.
I’m from the PNW. I do pronounce the T sound in latter. I also put more emphasis on the first syllable than I do when pronouncing ladder.
Personally, I started on the first part of the remake trilogy, then stopped when I realized how annoyed I would be about waiting for the sequels. So now I’m waiting for all of it to be out on Steam before I start again.
They probably licensed them to another company. Paramount has been mind-numbingly stupid in that regard, getting or producing exclusive content then sending it off to somewhere else. See if Doug shows up on another streaming service in a couple weeks.
Yes to the first part, but the second part is just how businesses work? If your gross income is lower than your expenses you’re operating at a loss and it’s not sustainable. Wages should absolutely be higher, though. Quick back-of-the-napkin math shows that last year Walmart made a net profit of over 11 billion dollars and employed just over 2 million people. They could boost every single employee’s pay by $5000 annually and still make a billion dollars in profit.
Which time?
Probably because he always outwits his opponents and always wins. He’s not any more crazy than the other Looney Tunes, he’s as smart as Bugs, and unlike Bugs, he’s never cruel and remains firmly heroic.