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Yeah, I guess I really am an alien. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow's CGI doesn't even try to pass itself off as real, and therefore is infinitely better than the CGI animals in Prey. The film looks like an animated version of a early 20ies/30ies sci-fi movie with a campy 50ies storyline. It is absolutely perfect in what it tried to achieve. Actually, if CGI was exclusively used for films like that, I'd sit here arguing for more instead of less. Is it a good film? Well, probably not. But it's simply wonderful. I was thinking of high budget movies in general, and there are those that are still shot on film, like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which I've never watched because I generally find myself not liking Tarantino films (in spite of them usually being more character and dialoge driven than regular films, I guess there's something about his style that simply doesn't speak to me). In epic action, fantasy or sci-fi films, even the big budget titles that don't look terrible fall flat because they're terrible for other reasons. The Force Awakens for instance had good sets instead of everything being CGI like in the prequels, but the film itself was creatively bankrupt to the point where it make Return of the Jedi's reuse of the Death Star looks like a vibrant, fresh idea. But yes, that mirrors the issue with triple-A gaming and (Japanese) animation, but I still think film is still in a better place than either anime or triple-A gaming. Anime often panders to the lowest common denominator in a way that just wouldn't be acceptable in film any more and employes rote tropes and stereotypical characters to that end, and modern character design looks gross and adds a malus to that needs to be overcome by everything else being better than it otherwise would need to be. Triple-A gaming does the same, with a different focus group. Films? Yes, the overwhelming amount of films that come out are trash, and there's a new dime a dozen romantic comedy or superhero film out every day. Yet, still, there's usually a bunch of servicable or better films in any given genre per year of varying budgets. The writing's on the wall, of course, with everything in the streaming world heading towards an inflationary period where everything is simply being drowned in mediocre trash to keep people subbed to a hundred different services. Subjectively, I had more success finding various films I enjoyed that were made recently than either games or anime. Actually a bunch of pretty good ones came out last year or this year. However, as per the initial part of this post, I guess my subjectivity isn't worth much to actual people. Don't misunderestimate (lol ) me here, I do enjoy the occasional so bad it is good film, and I have Masters of the Universe in my top 10 movies of all time list for a reason. Fire Birds isn't one of those, and Top Gun - at least the first one - isn't a bad film by any metric when looking at what it is, factoring in genre conventions of the time and adjusting your expectations accordingly. Something that is much easier when one is provided with contrast in the context of said conventions. It sure feels outdated nowadays and probably aged less gracefully than other films, but that is something else entirely. Still perfectly valid to not like Top Gun. I hated being forced to watch Bridget Jones's Diary too, but the film is arguably a good romantic comedy if one likes that sort of thing.

Episode title: Redhead Force(d) Ghost Gangbang. I'll show myself out.

The wisdom of Confucius applies to movies as well: Even old clothes look new if put next to even older clothes! Best read with an utterly racist accent. Can substitute whatever ancient wise man you want, Buddha, or maybe one of the Dalai Lamas. But yeah, exactly, nothing makes average action schlock look better than worse action schlock as contrast.

Yeah, so my stuff was mostly uncommented and intentionally as arcane as I could manage to make it. Which is fairly easy to do in C, especially if your target operating system is Novell-DOS. typedef unsigned int (far *s_arrayptr); struct mainscreenstructure { int x; int y; s_arrayptr screen[80]; } mainscreen; void screenOutputxy(int x, int y, char *out, long ATTR) { for (int i = 0; i <= strlen(out); i++) mainscreen.screen[y][x + i] = out[i] + ATTR; } void main(void) { _DL = 1; _DH = 1; _AH = 0x02; _BH = 0; asm int 10h; for (register int i = 0; i < 25; i++) mainscreen.screen[i] = (s_arrayptr) ((void 0xB800 + i * 0xA * )( 0xB800 + i * 0xA ) + ( void near * )( 0 )); mainscreen.x = 0; mainscreen.y = 0; screenOutputxy(0, 0, "Hello World", 0xF000); _AX = 0x0700; _asm int 21h; } Heh, that CODE tag is kind of hard to read. In case it's not totally obvious ( ), this clears the screen, then builds a struct full of pointers to every character on a DOS 80x25 screen and writes Hello World directly on the screen, then waits for an input. Because only lamers use printf().

I'm unsure if that's a Sub Rosa joke or not. If it is, that's the most disturbing thing posted here by far. If it isn't, that just shows how disturbed I am.

Can't believe you guys actively dislike Top Gun. There are worse movies out there. Go watch Fire Birds as a contrast, while that's helicopters, not fighter jets, it's... you know, actually like really bad.

Too late, he already set everything in motion. With his mind. Might take a couple of decades, but it will kill you. Eventually.

As an avid fan of animation, for me, that ship already sailed 20 years ago. In cinema, you at least get the odd high budget movie that still looks good, with decently made CGI if there has to be any, or films that do not rely on special effects that work mostly without CGI, or films where CGI is used appropriately, whereas in animation, we will never ever get anything that isn't trash grade digital any more, and worse, to wit: Even animation that once looked good (one can think of Disney films that they want, but for the most part, they're all impeccably animated) is ruined to make it look more modern - and the horrible implication that sits at the back of the fact that filters for this even exist, that modern audiences actually prefer this one-note digital coloring effect where everything looks clean and fake. Kinda like CGI bears, except worse. Resolution and random screencaps from the web nonwithstanding, we went from this: To this: Can someone please put me out of my misery?

Yeah, sometimes when the mood strikes me, I'll grab my old backups and flip through them. The stuff I wrote at school, no wonder my teachers hated me.

As we all know, everything is better when turned into Eurodance. Everything. In the magical year of 1996, this Eurodance cover of Queen's Bicycle Race came out, finally proving that the 90ies surpassed every other decade in music history! Well, and because I'm fairly certain some of you musical heathens here will not appreciate this greatness, let me post the best part as a screenshot of the video: Yes, that's Blümchen cosplaying as Freddy. At least I think that's what this is supposed to be... Heh, and you all thought Scooter was bad, huh?

Well, you asked for it:

Well, back at work, already confronted with the fact that literally everyone else at the company is a complete dweeb incapable of critical thinking and problem analysis, and I'm back at doing what I sadly am best at: fixing someone else's mess. Yay...

Wait, are you telling me that my bank didn't send me an e-mail telling me to confirm my account? What's next, the Nigerian prince did not need my credit card credentials for a lucrative gold mine deal?

Looking at pictures of the stuff, not just for the average Japanese palate.

Looks like this Alex Jones Sandy Hook trial had a hilarious side effect. The plaintiff's council apparently obtained a copy of Jones' mobile phone data for the past two years (sent to them by Jones' defense, no less) and now the January 6th committee wants a piece of it.

We used to have a poster who complained that Bioware made all the women in DA:I ugly or with male skulls to push some hidden trans female agenda.

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.