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I typed up half a paragraph about the use of CGI in films, but then Agent Smith asked my why I persist, and I realized that I should just chose not to. Suffice it to say that this sort of weightless fake CGI hurts my personal suspension of disbelief more than an alien big game hunter stalking humans for fun. The bear is only one part of the film, but certainly the most egregious - there's of course the fake snake too, the fake wolf and the fake cougar, and they all have the same problem. Very, very deep uncanny vally. Everything about these scenes makes my brain scream at me. Like @Bartimaeus suggested, if that is the result, one might as well just drop the action sequence entirely. No, you're right, they're all supposed to be Comanche. Great, now the archery doesn't just look wonky, now I know it is wonky. No idea what happened there, but from the video you posted and looking at a follow up, it looks like the producers took a peek at Ishi archery and added some Mediterranean flavor to it. Well, or they watched too much Avatar like you said.

Predator punching CGI bear is probably my laugh out loud unintentionally funny moment in film for 2022. What follows isn't so bad either, the Predator drags a thousand pounds of almost weightless bear through a beaver dam. Yeah, sorry, I guess sometimes close enough just isn't good enough.

It's just shortened to DÖF anyway. Fun fact, there's a Yiddish version (with some English lyrics): The sister of Codo (well, the singer, at least) went on to found 2Raumwohnung: I know, our somethwat grumpy, not very funny northern neighbors. EAV isn't German, is all. Brilliant music videos too, this one often gets falsely derided for being racist, just because it has a bunch of white guys in yellow face and mixes every East Asian culture under the sun. Linked it before, though in the anime thread. Yeah well, I can see how that could be considered racist when not understanding the lyrics. Heh. Actually... without a certain appreciation for the language, the music is just average silly pop. Well, can't be helped.

I understand you want more, that's fine, who wouldn't. This is from the official channel, so it should not be region locked. I hope. What Germans?

Shot on 16mm film, to be specific, with some practical effects and practical blood, to give the film the gritty look it should have. He's not wrong, the film's fairly violent at times, but it looks distractingly clean in its violence. It would also be a decent fit for the setting. I don't mind overlays in film. In games, they're usually the only special effect I turn off if they're there. Not sure why, but film grain in cutscenes is really distracting (like in Mass Effect).

Neither do I, but I don't think I know anything where you'd like the vocalist. While I can be positively snobby when it comes to the skill and quality of education vocalists need to display for me to like them, that usually makes them diametrically opposed to what you... don't hate. edit: This would give Bruce a heart attack if he could understand it.

Watched Prey, basically agree with Jay Baumann's take. It was a fine movie, but it could really have used more practical effects, less CGI, and some nice film grain. It looks way too digital, and that bear is just ridiculous. Most of the CGI animals are bad, but the bear is a real standout.

What sort of mainstream metal bands are we talking about? Late 90ies/early 2000s? Because they're all terrible. Except Evanescence, there only the band is terrible, assuming we count that as mainstream metal, which is a bit of a stretch already.

Tried Iron Harvest. One of the last games I backed after The Dwarves was okay, this one is apparently supposed to be an RTS. So far, It's basically The Dwarves, just set in an alternate reality 1920ies, the kind where there's WW1 era mechs. The campaign plays like a single player MOBA with no bases so far, which - surprise - is not really my thing. Might change later, perhaps. At least it does have a campaign, so that makes it instantly better than 99% of the other RTS trash released in this day and age. edit: Okay, so base building is also in there, and it becomes more of a traditional RTS with ressource nodes to hold and all that. Still can't stop seeing everything as The Dwarves though. Guess that's a bit of an issue, but my personal one.

Certainly a lot better than the actual 'vocalist' of System of a Down.

The 'rona caused a reduced sense of smell, and with it, reduced taste. Most foods that are not laden with salt or sugar, are swimming in fat or rich in glutamate taste like paper. Well, paper that's better chewable than paper, but still, not the most pleasant of sensations. On the bright side, I'm not able to smell sweat or any other unpleasant olfactory experience originating from (other) humans, so that is a plus. What a wonderful disease, can only recommend it to everyone.

How's that any different from real ones? /snark

New vulnarability found, dubbed ÆPIC Leak. Caveat: Needs root/admin priviledges to work, so exploiting this one isn't going to be very interesting in most cases.

Done with Bard's Tale Trilogy: If any of you want to play and have not played any, do yourself a favor and play either the first Bard's Tale, or Bard's Tale 3. Stay away from the second game, and for the love of god don't play all three in a row. Since the game keeps track of some stats, I can see that I've skipped almost 1600 battles. The game also gives you the option to transfer character stats and experience between the games. Don't do that for the third, you end up hurting your stats. That's because level ups increase a random character stat, and once they're maxed, they're maxed... and level ups don't give stat points any more - and the last game has much higher stat caps than the second. The game gives you a huge experience boost right at the start anyway, so nothing's really lost. Third game might actually be the best of the three, but if played as third of three back to back, you're sick and tired of everything. Heh.

Past? Mineral oil cooling ist still alive and kicking. Relatively speaking, that is...

I must admit it would be really funny to go for the full kit and then simply stick an i9 with a stock fan on it. With the weight, it could double as leave blower, or whatever else you want. Not going to lie, I kinda like the analog gauges, but everything else? No thanks, and especially not for the price.

EVGA released a new bare bone, the E1 https://www.evga.com/products/E1-bare-bones/ 5k USD for the case, a water cooled RXT 3090, a 1200W PSU and a mainboard.

For a more serious post, I just love these DIF recordings: Not a DIF recording, but something uniquely local: Finland might have a reputation for having dour people, and Britain a reputation for black humor, but neither beats Viennese this sort of morbidity.

Yeah, you already made it clear that you are a tasteless heathen, no need to repeat it.

It was supposed to be a joke. Guess that did not work.

Infidel! Seize him! But if you want some more Scooter, here's one with a shuffle dance music video: Anyway, but I have something better for you. What could possibly be better than Euro Dance Trash from the 90ies? Indeed, 90ies Euro Dance trash combined with German Schlager music. See this once in a lifetime collaboration of Schlager sensation Andrea Berg and your own favorite Swiss DJ, songwriter and coreographer, DJ Bobo!

Writings of Bogdan the Fat. Erm, The Book of Boba Fett. I guess it's a good thing that there is such a thing as a breastplate stretcher in the Star Wars universe, because Temuera Morrison sure doesn't look like he's in prime shape any more. Not that it really matters so much. Warning, language and all that. For the .538 people on the planet, who have never watched Game of Thrones, which I know congregate here on the forum in great number. Just to explain the breastplate stretcher joke. Anyway, in what continues to be a bit mistifying, this series, just like the second season of The Boys got a bit of a bad reputation. Not just here, mind, but generally. None of my friends liked it either, and while I have to admit the colorful Vespa like speeder bikes and the fanservice were a bit much, the rest of the series was far better than any of the other Disney Star Wars stuff - and yes, I'm counting both seasons of The Mandalorian, even if the second season got entertaining at times. With the caveat that I have not watched Kenobi yet. Kinda unmarked spoilers from here on out. I'll keep them brief and general though. Admittedly, Luke's inverted training session and Grogu being Luke and running off saving his friends left me groaning hard, but that's the sort of Star Wars fanservice that probably will never go away, and certainly not as long as Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau create these series. The best part of the series was Boba Fett living with the Tusken raiders, which luckily makes up most of the first half of the series. Wonderfully atmospheric, very slow and with almost no real dialogue, it just shows off that acting works better without a helmet on. Granted, that's a bit rich coming from just Boba amongst the perpetually covered Tuskens, but Boba is the main character, after all. Anyway, the one pointless thing was the Mandalorian focus episode where he was visiting his old clan. He learned by now that this most certainly is "not" the way, but he accepts exile or whatever for removing his helmet and is told redemption can only be sought underneath the now destroyed mines of Mandalore. What a load of crock, coming from a fringe nutjub sect. But hey, we have to set up another uneeded season of the Mandalorian somehow, right? Dunno, I enjoyed watching it enough to binge it. Certainly beats anything in terms of live action Star Wars that came out after 1983. Yeah, Boba Fett isn't much of a crime lord in the series, but that wasn't really the intention, was it? His experience with the Tuskens changed him. Yeah, too bad about the series killing off Cad Bane. He was great.

I did indeed continue on to Bard's Tale 2, a decision many a gamer likely rued. Or potentially all of them, because that was the worst dungeon crawler I've ever had the misfortune of playing. Arcane riddles, sprawling maps that randomly kill your light, songs, or spells and severely grating fights againt hordes of spellcasters that take ages because fifty of the three hundred enemies you're facing decide to cast area of effect spells. The impact is lessened a little with some of the items that can be found and by simply running away, but in the end, for the final few dungeons, all I did was run from every single fight and re-cast buffs. It's so bad the developers realized it and eventually give you items that can cast buffs (with infinte charges) that are immune to the anti-magic zones, but those are too little, too late, usually, and they still don't work against darkness. Nothing more fun than half the map being dark. Walk walk, check map. Walk walk, check map. Walk. Check. Walk. *sigh* Yeah, not touching that. Like ever again.

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