that's the point. that episode was amazing and def. hard to watch. the show is hard to watch but it's rewarding. my favourite trait of the show is that the show allows the characters to be flawed but to also learn, grow, and be better people, which i don't think i've really seen before in TV.

X-COM & its sequels are THE strategy PC series I played & replayed the most ever, on both PC & Android on my tablet.

No other copycats I played like Jagged Alliance came close to my love of X-COM.

I always picked my team members that's high on Psych att/def. I prefer mind control the aliens to recon & go on suicide missions than using firepower.

I'm confused; did his paddle actually touch the ball or did he just--spin or bump it with his body across the net? and how is that a legal serve?

Sorry, need to see it in higher def and from multiple angles

As a weird side note to this, and how good Canada's SAR is, we just launched three satellites this summer. They're going into a geosynchronous orbit above the Atlantic. They're going to be able to track ship signals, create hi def images for rescue, and keep communications with vessels in distress.

I'm always impressed with our SAR capabilities. I wish we still sent DART teams to other countries to help.

Def a parody, none of those cars were even a 2015+ mustang when the narrator mentioned a 310 hp 2018. 2018 GT's are 460hp.

there are def. economic factors at play, but there are also racial multipliers.

it's def. live. syncing all the instrumentation and loops would be nearly impossible.

This should most def be *nsfw

Even the rocket that ran out of fuel exploded! This is def rocket science. Although you would think they would create a more specialized platform like one that could erect a silo around the rocket. Those short legs look like the biggest fail point and even after landing it looks like the rocking motion of the water will tip it over.

I was having some fun with this, trying to make the worst solution I could. This was definitely my ugliest that (I think) works (Python 3):

def fb3(m=100):
for oh in range(1, m + 1):
b = bin(oh % 0xf)[2:].zfill(4)
if b.count('1') % 2:
d, e, a, r = 5 * 0x605F05D * (3 ** 4) << 4, 0x30, 4, 0xf

else:
oh, d, e, a, r = 0, 0x1338098, 0x62, 5, 0x1f
if '00' in b or '11' in b:
oh = 0x514

if b[:2] == b[2:]:
oh = (oh * 0x2710 if oh else 0) + 0x960

yield ''.join(chr((d >> (a * int(c)) & r) + e) for c in str(oh))

[print(o) for o in fb3()]


Sift seems to be squashing the space even in code tags...

I think Republicans have a disconnect on the word "Build" when they talk about Building an Economy. You build from the ground up. You don't build an attic, then put up walls, then floors, and finish with a solid foundation. It starts with that solid foundation. In an economy like ours that rely on people spending, you need people to be able to spend. That means the people at the low end that do more spending than those on the top (per dollar earned anyhow), need to be the ones having disposable income. If they spend 100% or more of their income on living essentials, they can't spend to move the economy. When they finally do spend, then the retailer can hire more people (at least until automation starts taking over low end jobs, which is frighteningly soon), which means more people with income to spend, which feeds into the cycle. Eventually transportation starts picking up, which feeds more money into the economy. Eventually production has to keep up. By punishing those at the bottom, is shooting oneself in the foot. Half the people who work for Walmart qualify for food stamps, though Walmart makes enough to pay everyone a living wage, give them benefits, and still be profitable, but the people conservatives (Christians yet, who Jesus said to help the needy and the poor, and how the rich were going to hell) are mad at, are the poor people working there, rather than the rich owners/operators for not paying living wages. So conservatives seek to punish those workers by taking away something that allows them to spend money on things that actually move the economy forward. 3 people buying a $25k Chevy will do far more for the economy than that rich ass hole who just put $70lk on a Mercedes or Lexus. Their collection of TVs, video game systems and the like, do far more for the economy than that rich guy's super high def, ultra large screen TV. It's such a fucked up world in conservative land... I'm still at a loss how I used to be a part of it.

It gets to what @enoch was talking about above. There are some really good business owners, then there are the winny bitches who say they can't pay living wages... One of the jobs I worked at, complained in a letter to all of us that if Obama won (first time around) he'd have to fire over 350 people if he put his tax plans in place. Come that February, Obama isn't even in office yet, and he fires 350+ people. Then tells the rest of us that the company couldn't afford to give us raises... of course the company at the same time, went out and purchases a private jet for him, and then he purchased a second mansion in the local, Jack Nicklaus, signature golf course gated community... and he already owned the second largest mansion there. But oh, the conservatives are so support him over his employees, and think poorly of his employees for needing help living day to day, and praise him for his business acumen. The problem with conservatives is they LOVE greed. Love it. They worship it more than they do the Christ they say they serve. They just don't want their money going to help others, they give plenty at their church, they give time at the soup kitchen, but God forbid that their taxes help those working for the asshole business owners who chose greed over their employees. Pay your employees living wages, and no, you won't have it on easy street like Enoch's nephew, but I can guarantee you that his son is the far better human... and that's not to say the nephew doesn't give, he very well may, but he chose to take that money for himself than to pay his employees well. It doesn't matter if he gives tons of it away, it was ill gotten, how much could it have helped his employees had he let them keep more of their labor? Sadly, that nephew seems to be the vast majority of businesses in the US.

there's def. that but there's also that completely unnecessary plot point and scene from the last one ostensibly justifying statutory rape.

colour grading as in DI is "new" and related to digital film but colour timing, which is the analogue method, goes back to the start of film making.

i've done work for several marvel films, their DI is generally pretty subtle. the raw footage def. has blacks (and negative values in the blacks). the new cameras used wont change this unless they want to change it. the colour gamut has been wide the whole time. OCIO colour may have a certain effect but i can't see it having the colour effect wanted here.

@AeroMechanical is exactly right. the new cameras aren't going to change shit. they're still going to grade the movies to be consistent with past movies. and they've fully had the latitude to grade them in a more vibrant manner the whole time.

and as far as rereleasing them as "UHD Blu-Ray box set" (i'm assuming 4K UHD), they can't. they were all done in HD or 2K (at least the ones i've worked on). uprezing is possible (4K outside of a theatre is actually pretty bullshit, you can uprez HD uncompressed to 4K without that much effect) but resolution doesn't change colour grading/DI.

Serious question; what phones in the last 4 generations shoot in 240p? No Samsung since the ...I dunno, at least 2010; no iPhone ever as far as I remember. Lumia---every generation shot in higher def...etc etc etc. So; how is it that we still have 240p video of stuff like this? lol

Or...is this someone's 8 mm film from 1985 converted over to video badly?

*isdupe for high-def re-upload goodness