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Agreed — Rowling is the most cancelled person ever. Only ONE HBO show? Yeah she’s cancelled. People are critical of Rowling, and choose personally not to consume her products, because of how she directly uses her money and influence. Lewis and Tolkein are not contemporaries of Rowling so it makes no sense to hold them to social norms not of their time. That being said, I’m pretty sure they both did the good Christian thing and avoided using their influence and money for hate.

How about if we conduct a ground operation in Israel instead and take their fucking nukes away and go get our fucking money back??? How about that.

How boomers will "hand over the reins" to younger generations

Last year I listened to a CD instead of audio files for the first time in a long time and it's crazy how much lower the sound quality is on streaming and we've just gotten used to it.

Your Netflix "4K" stream and a 4K disc put the same number of pixels on your screen. But the disc version of a two-hour movie is about 70 gigabytes. The stream is about 14. Same pixels, roughly five times less data filling them. You see it first in dark scenes. The stream doesn't have enough data to tell dark grey from black, so your TV just mashes it all into chunky blocks. Then you notice sunsets looking like a paint-by-numbers, with visible stripes where smooth color should be. Film grain is probably the biggest casualty. Directors add that slightly textured look on purpose to make movies feel cinematic. Streaming compression reads it as noise and wipes it. That's where the weirdly plastic, waxy look on a good OLED comes from. One comparison I can't stop thinking about. A regular 1080p Blu-ray (the older HD format, not even 4K) pushes about 40 megabits of data per second to fill 2 million pixels. A 4K stream pushes 15-25 to fill 8 million pixels. Four times the pixels. Less data. A plain HD disc from 2008 can look sharper than a brand new 4K stream. Sound is worse. Netflix sends "Dolby Atmos" audio at about 768 kilobits per second, compressed, with parts of the original permanently deleted. A disc sends TrueHD Atmos at up to 18,000, lossless, nothing removed. Up to 23x more sound data. If dialogue sounds flat when you're streaming, that's not your speakers. Netflix is getting better at this. As of late 2025, 30% of their streaming runs on a newer compression method called AV1, the same picture at a third less data. They also strip film grain out before compressing, then rebuild it on your TV during playback. Saves over a third on file size for most content, and up to two-thirds for really grainy movies. The rebuilt grain looks solid. The tradeoff won't go away, though. Netflix has to deliver a file that works over spotty rural Wi-Fi and gigabit fiber, adjusting quality frame by frame to whatever your connection can handle. A disc reads plastic. Same quality every time.

Getting a 4K player and an OLED really opens your eyes to how streaming services just completely butcher movies with compression lol

There isn't a single time in history where drafting up a list to track a minority has ended well

@GenePark Feels like thy accidentally broke the horse following system with the sprint changes, trying to just follow another horse now just results in stymied, awkward movements as the horses fail to sync.

- they removed the genAI paintings - they moved the storage box yay! - early item upgrading can be bypassed once you get far enough - air stab movement tech was nerfed - a bunch of stuff i haven’t even touched lol Massive update.

me when they ignore something I shared with tons of excitement

@WhiteHouse Can you arrest Epstein’s co-conspirators instead of riffing on a porn site ?

God forbid I care about the artistic integrity and design philosophy of my favorite game.

@xaviersonline_ 📌📌

If we had elves no one would remark on them because they’d have always been there. We have giraffes dude, the cosmos has always been enchanted

Some food for thought.. #NoKingsProtest

She's beyond right. They're trying to stop democracy.

i can't believe @NintendoAmerica endorsed this. I'll probably never buy another @NintendoAmerica product ever again