No one AFAIK has been able to fully articulate why watching film (which has a theoretical resolution higher than 4K) is fine but watching 8K footage isn’t... it could be because that’s what people are used to. It could be because of the way the medium is projected; it could be the properties of film itself...

My friend (a pro cinematographer) went to a demo a few years ago where they showed 35mm footage converted at 4K, 6K and 8K, with a variety of processes applied along the way (applying gammas, Log compression, etc.).

Pretty much everyone agreed that the 4K footage looked great, the 6K footage looked decent, and the 8K…

Police killed someone > person died in an officer-involved shooting.

I love Jemisin’s Inheritance trilogy (I’m on the last book now) but everyone tells me I should’ve read the Broken Earth series first. 

In ten years a significant number of people I care about will be underwater or suffering miserably.  Or we’ll be in the middle of World War III. So basically practically nothing I do short of “should I build a shelter somewhere and start stocking it with nonperishable goods” sounds like a good idea 10 years from now.

I was really hoping for something different. Like:
“I learned Esperanto, the universal language.”
“I started microdosing LSD first thing in the morning.”
“I made my own supercomputer by networking a stack of 1984-era PCs.”
“I built a submarine that can visit the Mariana trench.  Suck it James Cameron!”
“I spent months in a…

I worked at a well-known organ transplant center as the “IT guy” in the department and sat in on the weekly listing meetings, where the doctors, nurses, social workers, insurance and admin staff sat in a circle and discussed candidates for transplant. This was to determine who got put on the list for transplant and…

I’m right there with you. A false unity is not one worth fighting for. Conflict can be productive and shouldn’t be avoided if the alternative is agreeing with Grade-A fascists.

The interview is honestly not terribly convincing. “The first time people are connecting” - did the telephone not exist before 1995? Did bullying off school campuses not happen?

I actually think this movie works very well if you kinda pretend it’s not based much on the comic. In a way, Moore was himself adapting other movies and books that had advanced a similar hypothesis about the Ripper.

The murder investigation was really almost beside the point - far from being effective, his visions seem…

I agree with you about adaptations - why I continue to say that Constantine is a perfectly fine movie that shares very little with the source material - except that Snyder and the producers went out of their way to show how faithful they were being to the source material (in some of the behind-the-scenes videos they…

Also the shrink trying to make things right with the couple fighting on the street, and the newspaper man and the kid reading the comics hugging each other in their last moments... those were heroic, beautiful actions that (whether they were effective or not) showed how capable people are of doing unselfish things.

Harvey Keitel did that in Bad Lieutenant and did it better.

I actually thought From Hell was pretty amazing, though again it was very different from the comic. Both are ultimately concerned with class politics, and the brutality of the ruling class, and that comes through in a big way.

I don’t know that we’re supposed to find “V” that sympathetic in the film. He’s not the hero - the people who wear the masks and face off, unarmed, against the army, are the real heroes; as is Evie and the woman whose diary occupies the entire middle of the film.

Capitalism.

The scariest game ever made:

If we lived in a world where Arab (and Kurdish and Bedouin) Middle-Eastern writers were getting the same employment opportunities as Lena Dunham, this might be okay, but they don’t so it really isn’t. Just remember last week when Jason Blum didn’t think there were women horror directors? This kind of myopic worldview…

I thought that the entire purpose of the internet was to shadow your ex without actually stalking them, and find out that that spot/headache/itchy skin is really cancer. And look at cats a lot.

Funny how every time a criticism of centrist Dems comes up, someone - always, invariably, without fail - will bring up the “BernieBro” fairy, and try to redirect the finger back at those fringe loonies who voted 3rd party, went for Drumpf, or didn’t show up. Guess what? They weren’t progressives. I don’t know what…