The Official Status Thread
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Status: wondering if I want to dedicate effort into writing up a Starlost thread for this forum... it's certainly one of the more WTF shows ever created.
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I'd never heard of it before but wiki says it went so wrong Harlan Ellison pulled an, effective, Alan Smithee. Sounds like it would be fun to read if you did.
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I have the entire series on DVD. I decided to put it in today because... uh. Reasons.
Almost every shot of the series is the world's worst bluescreen. They tried to invent this mechanism to "expand" their small sets by synching the camera pointing at the actors with a camera pointing at a miniature set and blue-screening the result. It turned out ass.
But that's the least of the serie's problems. The scripts are either stupid or dull (usually both). The non-bluescreen effects are rubbish. The sound is awful, even the foley is somehow awful. (When's the last time you saw a show or movie with bad foley!?) The actors all sound like they downed about 3 quarters of Nyquil before every scene. Even the editing and camera-work is atrocious.
Sadly, Douglas Trumbull's name is associated with it.
I mean, I remembered it was bad, but I forgot how awful it is. Somehow lasted 16 episodes and signed on Baltar from Battlestar Galactica and Walter Koening from Star Trek did two guest spots. (Keir Dullea did absolutely nothing of note after 2001: A Space Odyssey, but this is below even him.)
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Status: discovered my two new favorite lojban words:
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Status: Every Logjam word that I read reminds me of old movies that have native tribesmen that are caricatures of what real tribes people are and they speak in clicks and "throat clearing" sounds.
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they speak in clicks and "throat clearing" sounds.
That's just Old Man Martin and his chewin' baccy!
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This lojban thing has crossed the line from minor annoying to must stupid thing. Let's add stupid Korean crap to every topic so people see I'm different and "cool". Oh, today I found my favorite Korean word: fucktard.
I know, it's not Korean, no body cares, the same goes for this lojban crap.
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Shh! Sudo! Or do you want him to go back to posting about dwarf fortress?
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Yes, he should have said,
Shh! I mean: sudo Shh!
(Btw, I think I'd rather frequently mistype
shh
asssh
)
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world's worst bluescreen.
I thought it was "green screen"? Just how colorblind are you?
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It's chromakey, but whatever. Green screen. There. Happy? Fuck off.
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It's chromakey, but whatever. Green screen. There. Happy? Fuck off.
It matters. What if they wear the wrong color clothing? They could be missing torsos.
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THE COLOR OF THE SCREEN DOESN'T MATTER YOU CAN CHROMAKEY ON ANY COLOR BACKGROUND BOTH BLUE AND GREEN ARE COMMONLY USED FUCK OFF<shit>
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You totally missed what I was saying.
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THE COLOR OF THE SCREEN DOESN'T MATTER YOU CAN CHROMAKEY ON ANY COLOR BACKGROUND BOTH BLUE AND GREEN ARE COMMONLY USED FUCK OFF
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I thought it was "green screen"? Just how colorblind are you?
I knew about bluescreening decades before I heard about greenscreening the first time.
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THE COLOR OF THE SCREEN DOESN'T MATTER
It does. You have to tell the news presenter what color (s)he must not have in his/her clothing well in time.
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Status: Wrote a helper library for compilers that want to compile to David Morgan-Mar's BIT language.
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THE COLOR OF THE SCREEN DOESN'T MATTER YOU CAN CHROMAKEY ON ANY COLOR BACKGROUND BOTH BLUE AND GREEN ARE COMMONLY USED FUCK OFF
What about plaid? Can you use plaid? How about paisley? Checkerboard?
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What about plaid? Can you use plaid? How about paisley? Checkerboard?
Yes you can: Chroma Key Using a Checker Pattern Background
;)
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You're a dick. Don't ruin my joke!
This microaggression shall not stand!
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Chroma Key Using a Checker Pattern Background
TIL. However, AFAIK that technology is not used in any current, commercially available systems. Cool idea, though; paper bookmarked for later reading.
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Status: Topic load initially failed, hit the reload button, was at the bottom for a split second (which was correct), then got jellypotatoed to post 24.
Discourse!
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Do we need wowhead integration?
That's cropped out of a screenshot, FWIW. I am tempted to assemble a "rustled jimmies" version.
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Status:: it is 84°F inside because the AC has seized up. We may not be able to get it fixed until Monday. They are bringing us a window unit to to tide us by until then. Be interesting to see how well it works, since the apartment is a bit under 1100 sq ft.
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Status: Fell asleep at 8pm last night, woke up at 5:30am this morning. Now what should I make the family for breakfast?
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Serving breakfast at 5:30 pm might lead to raised eyebrows.
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Serving breakfast at 5:30 pm might lead to raised eyebrows.
Not sure if that was an autocorrect, or a lack of coffee...
But, since you mention it, we have breakfast for dinner a couple of times a month. ;-)
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Now what should I make the family for breakfast?
Huevos Rancheros with chili-lime black beans and sliced avocado.
We eat pretty well around here. :)
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Status: Figured this would be worse...
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Welcome back!
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Cheers. Had expected more Discochangesâ„¢ than I've noticed so far too.
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Ok, why does discourse show me a load error page when opening this topic for a few seconds before loading it?
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Because Discourse?
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Why is Windows 10 coming as a surprise to major software companies.
Who uses VIPRE antivirus?
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Shitty game or shitty Windows8.1 component? You decide!
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Status: Why the fuck can't Windows 10 take screenshots that are cropped to the window and not the shadow that it put behind the window?
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No repro?
Alt + PrtSrc
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What the fuck, Dropbox? Why do you need to write to the clipboard in order to save a screenshot to disk?
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What the fuck, Dropbox? Why do you need to write to the clipboard in order to save a screenshot to disk?
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Ok, why does discourse show me a load error page when opening this topic for a few seconds before loading it?
Because it's Doing It Rightâ„¢, duh. TIL this, too.
Shitty game or shitty Windows8.1 component? You decide!
Maybe just a shitty icon – perhaps a missing image size in the .ico file. (Not that I wouldn't expect it to scale it down.)
Please don't take it personally, but my first thought was, "shitty color scheme".
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perhaps a missing image size in the .ico file.
There ya go. If you don't generate the .ico files correctly, it will use the next largest size.
Bad idea: Only generate the 128x128 sizes, just to cause craziness like this.
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"shitty color scheme".
I have made Windows8.1 as pink as possible on my machine just because.
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It is rebelling.
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Status: Injured my shoulder yesterday. Jimmies very much rustled. Hoping it's just a muscle thing that will heal on its own.
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Status: I have said it before, I will say it again, Hyper-V is utter trash.
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Who uses VIPRE antivirus?
We had a large inventory of ancient XP machines and it was the only AV that scored OK on detection and didn't bring them to a crawl.
The central management works OK, the push-deployment actually works reliably. I really don't have a single bad thing to say about it. Seems to be catching all the hideous things the salesmen download too.
It's really cheap as well, which helps