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Mostly just idiot customers. I work on A/V equipment that runs from local news broadcast to Netflix, Fox ,CNN to film studio equipment. Its very expensive and it tends to be very fragile. People treat the equipment like shit and then get mad when a they get a bill for 20k for 2 hours of work. Had a film crew run a 30k camera into a windshield while filming a stunt, then get mad when the unit is unrepairable. I have had television studios send in a unit for repair, I fix it, they return it saying it wasnt fixed and raise hell. We track the equipment when it comes in, we could tell they switched the outer casing of the fixed unit with another broken one so they could get both for free. 

We also have a form the customer fills out telling us what happened to unit. The response range from "dont know,dont work" to a "meth head kicked our camera" to "Fat kid fell on camera man"

3 hours ago, Bloodporne said:

Also to add one thing I keep circling back to with some of these Arthouse Horror flicks. Many seem to be essentially semi-inept rehashes of Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. To me, a movie like Men is to Repulsion what a movie like X is to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I get everything, especially at this stage, is heavily influenced by something but there's something extra annoying to me about blatant "template movies" that also fail at it. And not, I don't think Men for example is a 100% rip of the aforementioned either but just something that kept nagging me. 

I think there is a difference. X proudly wears its love and devotion to TCM and Hooper on its sleeves.  Films like Men and Hereditary want to be Polanski worship but wouldnt dare utter his name. It drives me nuts.

2 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

I thought it did good job of introducing the characters to us, setting up the various relationships and subverting expectations with the "twist" at the end of the episode. It accomplished all of that without being overly expository and just kind of drops us in to these characters lives without treating it as a "pilot" episode. I'll probably finish it over the next day or so.

Agreed

They treat it like a short story. The writers assume you either know the lore/world or at least familiar enough with something close to it that they don't have to bog down the series with a in depth back story. They also give you snippets of the larger world through conversations or brief flashbacks. I burned through all the episodes in day , a big reason for this was not having to trudge through several episodes of bullshit to get to the good stuff.

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Blackbraid was miles ahead everything on my list.

A few that didnt make the cut but still good

1 minute ago, sblfilms said:

A person enjoying cigarettes saddles everybody else with the costs of caring for their dilapidated health as a result of the intended use of the product

As does booze, poor diets, poor overall fitness, sports ,contact sports, and the list goes on and on. 

I am firmly in the camp of "mind your fucking business". 

If you wanna do rails of powered Clorox off the titties of your waifu pillow in the basement while blowing your paycheck on the latest gatcha game, you do you. 

Dont like smoking , fantastic you never have to

Dont like alcohol, you never have to drink it

Dont like premarital sex, you can wait till your married

Dont like gay marriage, find your hetero life partner 

Dont like Rap/Rock music, the worlds your oyster

Dont like comic books, the Library has you covered

Dont like skydiving, stay in the plane

Dont like motorcycles, drive a car

Tobacco has been in the sights of public outrage for a while now. Society has these swings in perception of whats ok and anything outside of those perceived views needs to be abolished.

3 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

HYPNO-HUSTLER

 

 

Donald Glover to Star in, Produce Spider-Man Movie Based on Villain Hypno-Hustler (Exclusive)

WWW.HOLLYWOODREPORTER.COM

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Fans previously wanted the actor to play Spidey in 'The Amazing Spider-Man.'

 

I have no idea who this character is  Sony seems DETERMINED to single handedly kill the superhero movie trend right now between this and Bad Bunny's movie... also based on an obscure Spiderman character.

I feel like both of these movies are corporate built using the premise of "obscure characters" aka The Guardians Of The Galaxy success. 

A Mix of pop/punk/shoegaze. It feels like it was ripped right out of 90's 2AM MTV haze.  I am hooked on it.

Citizen Sleeper

Norco

Signalis

Cult Of The Lamb

Marvel Suns

Strange Horticulure

Immortality 

5 minutes ago, stepee said:

It is a free upgrade but I’m thinking he just had the regular Witcher 3 without the expansions so it let him buy the complete edition still.

Yup the "free upgrade" is for the complete edition owners. I only own the base version and the only PS5 option cost $30.

4 minutes ago, Chris- said:

My wife took my name.

Same

I left it up to her to make the choice though.

1 minute ago, sblfilms said:

Everybody else is welcomed to chime in, but the posts seem to indicate the issue is the hospital (and it’s place in the broader American healthcare system), not the staff tasked with putting the policy into effect.

Correct

It wasnt to chide to health care workers but mor to show the shit show that is the American health care system.

A fantastic documentary on Black film makers thats airing on Netflix

10/10

I pressed Delete but my pictures are still on the intertubes what do I do ?????

Blackgaze/atmoblack

80's Thrash Worship

Elected leaders say News 3 video verifies patient dumping in Las Vegas

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Two elected leaders speak out Monday after a News 3 camera rolled on a woman being taken by security from a Las Vegas for-profit hospital last week and left aba

Fuck this world

Healthy dose of WTF did I just see.

23 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

Wow, I've really learned nothing here. 

To be fair that sums up 99 percent of D1P threads.

46 minutes ago, XxEvil AshxX said:

It's that time again!  Time for dumb PC questions.

 

So GOG's pretty much been my bff for the past few months and I'm enjoying a lot of older RPG's and such that I didn't catch the first time around (or I did, but it was a shitty console port). Anyways.... a lot of them I've been playing in stretched view because they only support 5:4. On top of that it just looks kinda crappy because it's not native resolution.

 

Anyways, I was digging around in a lot of my old shit at my mom's house and I found my old HP computer in a box, complete with my old 1280x1024 monitor. It's has a vga hookup, naturally, but I was wondering....

 

If I bought an adapter for my PC, which supports 3 outputs.. would I be able to hook it up as a third monitor and output the game to that monitor at native resolution, while still having my other monitors at 1080p? or would it fuck all three? A lot of times I'm running Youtube or have a browser open on the other screen while I'm playing a game, and I was just wondering if my GPU is capable of outputting multiple resolutions at once.

 

 

Shouldnt be an issue. Dragging windows between the monitors when they are different resolutions can be a little weird though. I have 4k monitor and 1440p monitor at the same time. 

Listened to about 30 seconds and thought" well thats a new low"

Saw the opening bands 

Too often peoples stuffing is some overly wet , mushy, overly cooked wall paper paste. I feel for those who have to endure that shit. We do chorizo stuffing or oyster stuffing and its always god like. 

Swiss Cheese, Turkey, Horseradish mayo, stuffing, Cranberry Jalapeno jam, Swiss cheese .In that order on toasted sourdough.

Dont kink shame me

Ms. Marvel: Kamala Khan - Pretty safe and a  good introduction to the marvel universe

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur

Iron Heart

Bone 

6 hours ago, Nokra said:

 

I think I might go for this model also. I was looking at the Panasonic DP-UB820-K since it also had some great reviews and was 20% off on Amazon ($397), but its Blu-rays are region locked to Region A, and a significant portion of my Blu-rays were purchased in Germany (Region B).  I knew DVDs could be region locked, but I could have sworn I had read that Blu-rays were region free by default.  

4k aren't but blu rays are.

16 minutes ago, best3444 said:

Yea, I mean the game is extremely good but imo the second half of it hasn't been as good as the first. By know means am I saying it's bad in anyway. It's better than 2018 and is an awesome game. 

 

Early on it was heading into the direction of maybe one of my top 5 games ever. It slowed down a bit but I hope the ending really impresses me. Overall, it's been fuckin fantastic. 

I agree with this but Ill go a step a further and say the latter half of the game really shows the games overall weakness. The pacing of the story becomes a slog to get through. Sections of the game feel extremely drawn out, while the combat "feels" good ,so many enemies are just walking sponges that barely register having their face smashed in with an axe. Not sure why they removed combat mechanics from the first game but its overall worse. They need to get rid of the "puzzles", feels like a couple of window lickers designed them. And FFS they could have named this GOW: Tiny Passage Simulator. 

There are sections where you crawl into an arena , fight, then crawl out though another tiny passage just to go to hall, where surprise surprise ends with a tiny passage.

Game started out as 9 but half way its barely a 7 for me. At this point I am just playing because I am bored.