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All My Music Playlists on YouTube Uplifting Moments of Reflection youtube.com/playlist?list=… Music To My Ears youtube.com/playlist?list=… Music Through Time youtube.com/playlist?list=… Sound of the Keys youtube.com/playlist?list=… Rage Against The Dying of the Light youtube.com/playlist?list=…

@MiddleEarth_xD Ico, SotC, TLG

Trust nothing day gets worse every year.

@CainhurstUmi I'll bring along every gen so we can play competitive time attack after

party at mine we will all watch Nico on my tiny dvd player

I just realized something pretty cool, other than Star Wars back in the 70s, dune is the only IP that has completely invented its own visual language, it’s the first time in decades we got a truly alien franchise

@brandlev21 @gina_scooter 4K is so ridiculous when you consider every movie still renders their effects in 2K.

@gina_scooter True, but with 4K’s you gain HDR, a wider range of colors, and less compressed audio and video. Resolution is one of the least meaningful upgrades with 4K discs.

you really don't even need 4k any blu ray looks significantly better than the streaming version.

🚨 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: “We are so close to these models reaching the level of human intelligence, and yet there doesn't seem to be a wider recognition in society of what's about to happen … There hasn't been a public awareness of the risks.”

Today’s Dev Direct felt underwhelming, there’s not really a softer way to say it. Making Custom Servers free is a genuinely good move, but it raises a bigger question of whether that’s the main focus of Season 20 or just one part of it. The reaction from chat seemed pretty clear. Most people weren’t especially excited about Custom Servers, aside from those who initially thought it meant PvE servers and then felt let down when that wasn’t the case. The bigger issue is that it didn’t answer the questions people were hoping for. If anything, it created more. What happened to the Orb teases, what does the new seasonal model actually look like, and where is the team focusing its efforts going forward. These were the kinds of things many expected to hear about, especially since the Dev Direct was delayed with the explanation that there needed to be a clearer direction for the seasonal approach.That clarity just didn’t come through. Instead of feeling like a direct update, it ended up feeling more indirect, leaving people still waiting for the bigger picture. I love you guys, but this was really dissapointing. #SeaOfThieves

@buffys artofthetitle.com/title/the-fall/

when did you realise you may be watching the greatest movie of all time?

@MichaelTepsic @BestMovieMom Quite a bit youtu.be/Fe7Px-ddVS4

@BestMovieMom What does Jackson have to do with it? He was only partial producer. Spielberg produced and directed the movie.

It’s insane that we still haven’t had a sequel to this masterpiece. What is Peter Jackson doing? He should let someone else direct it if he doesn’t want to do it anymore.

Virgin Punk: Clockwork Girl (2025) Key Animator:Shinya Takahashi Studio: SHAFT

@firewalkwjaime Shouting into the abyss "nobody needs 4K!"

A single 4K UHD player (or any gaming console that plays 4K discs) is a better investment than Netflix, or any streaming service to begin with.

@nickromancer21 snap with that monitor setup and the shelves full of manga, almost bought the same PC case as you too 😆

#desksetup #artstudio Made some changes in my studio space recently. I’ll miss the little couch I had, but I love how everything looks with the new desk extension and shelves ✨

@COWCATGames 4K is scamming everyone out of what we already had that worked better, just to sell us a worse experience at higher resolution.

@COWCATGames They never should've chased 4K to sell TVs. This console generation should've specced hardware for 1080p@120fps. Nobody needs higher resolution if it sacrifices frames. Then games could've been developed without all the insane costs, technical hurdles and limitations.

Sony just ensured the new kids generation will never touch a home console. They'll keep playing Roblox on their phones/tablets. By focusing so much on POWER, they are literally killing their future.

As a society can we please agree to stop engaging with AI written wall of text posts! They're becoming more and more prevalent, with their machine like writing style that clearly hasn't come from a human mind. 🤖

@anishmoonka @wiresandtrees Yes some films lack colour in the same way these wall of text AI written slop posts lack any humanity. They can confidently write any opinion to sound believable now, with information you'll never fact check.

Warm colors increase your heart rate. Cool, washed-out tones lower it. Every remake you’ve watched in the last decade has been deliberately color-graded to flatten that signal. It started in 2000. The Coen Brothers shot O Brother, Where Art Thou? in Mississippi during summer, when everything was, in Joel Coen’s words, “greener than Ireland.” They wanted a dusty Depression-era look. Cinematographer Roger Deakins tried every trick in the book: chemical treatments, lens filters, old darkroom techniques. Nothing worked. So they did something no one had done before: digitally scanned the entire film and recolored it frame by frame. Deakins spent 11 weeks turning lush greens into burnt yellows. No feature film had ever been entirely digitally color graded before. Every major studio adopted the technique within a few years. And then the problems started. Modern film cameras don’t capture what your eyes actually see. They intentionally record flat, grey, washed-out footage to capture as much detail as possible. The plan is for the color team to add vibrant color back in later. But the people doing that work stare at grey footage for weeks. Their eyes adjust. One filmmaker admitted he’d bring saturation up to 120% and feel satisfied, then realized the image still looked desaturated to everyone else. He had to crank it to 200% before it looked normal. That’s just eye fatigue. The color draining also happens on purpose. Muting colors hides bad CGI. If a computer-generated background doesn’t quite match the actors, draining the color smooths over the mismatch. The Lord of the Rings extended editions look flatter than the theatrical cuts for exactly this reason: the added scenes had less polished effects, so they were washed out to cover it. Then streaming made it permanent. Bright colors look messy when video gets compressed for phones and laptops. Dull colors look consistent whether you’re watching on a 75-inch TV or a 6-inch phone screen. So studios color their movies for the smallest screen in the room. Your brain registers the difference even if you can’t name it. Your eyes are wired to perceive warm, rich colors as closer and more immediate. Washed-out tones create emotional distance. When a studio drains color from a scene, they’re dampening the emotional signal the image sends to your brain. Old film stock didn’t have this problem. Kodak and Fuji films had rich, punchy color built into the physical chemistry of the film itself. Each brand had a distinct look you could recognize. Digital cameras capture flat, neutral data by default. Getting that warm, vivid “film look” from digital requires skilled work that costs time and money. Most productions don’t invest enough of either. Modern cameras can capture a wider range of colors than film ever could. The technology has never been better. The choices have never been lazier.

@HighDefDiscNews because HDR really needs more versions

What does “better HDR” mean? The device already is capable of HDR10, Dolby Vision, and HDR10+ forms of high dynamic range.

@fandompulse Making conflicting decisions is their passion x.com/i/status/20360…

Former Walt Disney World VP Dan Cockerell on who killed the Tatooine-Themed Star Wars land: "We got a call one day. They said, ‘Well, we got some news for you all.’ And the Imagineering guys, they’ve heard this line many, many times during their careers. And I had never been through this.” "They said, ‘Well, yesterday Bob Iger met with Kathleen Kennedy, who as a lot people may know was sort of George Lucas’ protégé and headed up Lucasfilm. And they had a conversation. They had a meeting. And Kathleen Kennedy, her point of view was, there are way more Disney Star Wars stories ahead of us than behind us. So we really should think about do we want to build a Tatooine, and build what all the fifty-somethings remember Star Wars is or do we want to build something else which is going to appeal to all the upcoming generations who are going to know the new stories.' And that day Tatooine was killed at the Studios. And all of those concepts were put on a shelf and I’m sure they are sitting in a vault, and I’m sure they’re going be shown someday about what that land looked like and what the attractions were going to be." How disastrous was this decision?

@IdleSloth84_ Oh they're actual idiots then...

REPORT | Xbox Game Pass could be joining Netflix subscription Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters said he and Sharma have “kicked around ideas” for how Netflix and Xbox could work together on subscription bundles. Nothing has been confirmed, but Peters said he “wouldn't eliminate any possibilities.” “You would have to do it in a way that works for the consumer and works for both companies, and frankly, I think Microsoft's still trying to figure out how to make the Game Pass bundle work for Microsoft,” Peters said. “But what I like about Asha's thinking is, it's all about, 'How do we do more?' And it’s already been exciting to watch.” via: GameSpot gamespot.com/articles/new-x…

@rohithklv Why can't they just show the IMAX version on a regular screen for the front row?

Project Hail Mary on IMAX 70MM vs regular IMAX