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I became a dad two weeks ago. Not going to be around that much for a while, but I'll miss ya'lls.
- Congratulations! I'm glad it presumably went well and Mum and kid are safe and happy?
xNairn - Welcome to child ownership @pseud!!!
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Oideaist - huge congrats! not sure if you'll see this, but here's my 2cents on 'night time' duties...exador1
- having to figure out 'who's turn it is to get up in the night to change or feed' gets old pretty fast.exador1
- what my wife suggested, and what worked for us was 'shifts'... since she was home all day with the baby, my 'shift' began the second i got home...exador1
- til 2am... so.. from 5pm til 2am, whatever needs doing, i was the one doing it...exador1
- that way my wife got time to herself, and it let her relax etc...exador1
- at 2am, i could go to sleep, and get enough rest to basically function at work the next day properly...exador1
- I can't say it'll work for you as well as it did for us, but for us it was a game-changer :)exador1
- psweet! Congrats and enjoystoplying
- Congratulations! I'm glad it presumably went well and Mum and kid are safe and happy?
- imbecile4
- Hopefully not real.canoe
- lol at the book title.skinny_puppy
- voluntary mandatory voluntary mandatory voluntary mandatory voluntary mandatory voluntary mandatory voluntary mandatory voluntary mandatory voluntary mandatorystoplying
- Go team!skinny_puppy
- garbage10
Download/Record Netflix?
Film your screen with your phone, upload to YT, then download from YT.
- Thanks for providing zero value to this. Is that a consistent theme in your life?curiouscat
- ^ Easy, there, cupcake.Continuity
- Convert to DiVXprophetone
- Vimeo has better quality.palimpsest
- Gabriel
- ^^ Easy, there, cupcakes.ideaist
- Garbge if I film my screen with a camcorder, is it VHS>CD>computer>YouT... then download from YouTube again? or do I record from YouTube the second time?_niko
- Jesus, if you want to pirate shows, just get bittorrent. Easier and equally illegal.jagara
- ^+YakuZoku
- @niko If you're going record it twice, make sure you upload your second video to Vimeo like palimp suggested, it will improve the quality.garbage
- ^ thisskinny_puppy
- my intercom is only playing flv filessted
- lolmilfhunter
- imbecile8
Download/Record Netflix?
Describe each frame in rich vibrant expansive ultra-realistic 8k octane render detail then use stable diffusion to recreate each frame copyright free before adding all frames to photoshop as an image sequence to be exported as a gif to be uploaded to ytmnd along with the accompanying blu-ray exclusive commentary
- Nairn9
Download/Record Netflix?
Screengrab every frame you want, print to paper, flick paper whilst recording with your handy, then upload to YouTube - bingo!
- *snort :)PonyBoy
- Yes! Now _that's_ a practical solution!Continuity
- < thisdmay
- Continuity6
- RIP setNairn
- We hardly knew him.Continuity
- Lideaist
- Oideaist
- Lideaist
- Bwahaha.palimpsest
- Gardener7
blog
Coming to my Garden radio show in November
Ladies Night XXVI featuring Feist in session
Graham Dowdall memorial mix
only at https://www.mixcloud.com/Gardene…
- CyBrainX6
QBN stickers
Thanks!
Here are my LOL Cubes with one of my QBN stickers from Shellie around 4 years ago.- Just got these today, too – they look great, thanks! Mine will take another couple of days to send outjamesbeat
- autoflavour3
FUCK ADOBE!
Adobe has single handedly put entire industries on notice.. your about to be unemployed
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- Of course your are.palimpsest
- Maybe your but I’m notnb
- You'rejmckinno
- because photoshop ai?monospaced
- My what is about to be unemployed?Continuity
- I watched a demo of a flat vector in illy turning 3D on a single click a couple days ago so yup.maquito
- Nah
Most of the stuff they presented is just concept work, just looks good, but we barely use that crap in production lolgrafician - Whereas I now have a sudden career in low quality line animations. Suck it.Nairn
- Finally!Krassy
- ill be flipping hamburgers very soonmilfhunter
- I'm about to be unemployed for reasons that have nothing to do with AI.CyBrainX
- Also, good luck trying to handle client revisions, using AI.CyBrainX
- tools so good, no one needs to use them! pretty stupid comment, just fyiimbecile
- https://i.imgur.com/…imbecile
- cruddlebub7
Suggest a good movie…
Still one of my favourite films
- me too, one of the best, I must have seen it 300 times_niko
- I don't think I'm far off that number!!! Her fight scene is insanely brutal. Drexel? What's a Drexel! Hahacruddlebub
- I’ve never seen this! Always knew about it, but never got around to seeing it.nb
- OMG WATCH IT THIS VERY INSTANTcruddlebub
- so many scenes popped in my head just from the thumbnailimbecile
- I've not watched in a few years. My blu rays are obsolete now... Will have to find it online.cruddlebub
- I regret selling and donating all my Blu-raysnb
- https://www.amazon.c…imbecile
- And only 7 years after Top Gun, signs we're getting old etc.MrT
- FUUCK, yes!! One of the all-time greats. I had a huge crush on Patricia Arquette when I first saw this as a kid. Damn, going to re-watch it this weekend now!!elahon
- Oh man so did I! Hahacruddlebub
- Jesus fucking Christ, @MrT - I was NOT ready for that. Damn you. Damn me.
Damn us all. We're so old.Nairn - Wait. How does Val Kilmer get top listing here?!Nairn
- while slater was gleaming the cube, iceman had already piloted a jet alongside cruise then wielded a sword before playing with the doorsimbecile
- Defo top 30YakuZoku
- Never have I see a soundtrack so off point wtf?kalkal
- I think the soundtrack is an homage to Badlands_niko
- imbecile3
The More You Know ★
The disappointing VFX quality in Cats (2019) has been widely attributed to underbidding by The Mill, one of the visual effects studios that worked on the film. When a studio underbids a project, it means they agree to complete the work for less than its actual complexity might require. In this case, the rush to meet tight deadlines, limited budget, and the large-scale demands of transforming actors into digitally-rendered cat-human hybrids likely contributed to the final product's poor reception. This underbidding is a significant factor in why the visual effects appeared unfinished or awkward in many scenes.
The visual effects fiasco surrounding Cats (2019) stands out as a cautionary tale of ambition exceeding execution. The Mill, a well-established VFX studio, reportedly underbid for the project, resulting in tight timelines, insufficient resources, and overworked artists. The film's complex demands—turning actors into anatomically hybrid, photorealistic "cats"—required meticulous work that stretched both time and budget to their limits.
One poignant detail is the absurd rush of post-production. The Cats trailer released in July 2019 was met with an overwhelming wave of criticism, primarily for its "uncanny valley" effects. The fur technology, facial mapping, and digital tails didn't blend seamlessly with the actors' human-like movements. Instead of postponing the release to fix these glaring issues, the VFX team was tasked with working round-the-clock to meet the December premiere. Some reports suggest that certain artists were crunching 90-hour weeks, yet the workload continued to balloon, pushing them beyond capacity.
This lack of time and resources manifested in jarring ways. Artists were still making last-minute adjustments days before the premiere. The first version of the film, screened in theaters, was released with visible mistakes, including Judi Dench's human hand—complete with a wedding ring—appearing unedited in her role as Old Deuteronomy. This blunder became a symbol of how rushed the project had been. A "patch" was sent to theaters shortly after the release, a rare move in film history, showcasing how incomplete the initial version truly was.
Another tragic detail is the contrast between the film's high-profile cast and the amateurish effects. Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Judi Dench, and Idris Elba were trapped in digital bodies that couldn't maintain a coherent style or realism. Their carefully crafted performances were often overshadowed by awkward CGI that distracted from the emotional beats of the story.
The decision to blend human faces with digital fur, rather than opting for full animal transformations or more stylized animation, created a sense of confusion rather than wonder. In the end, Cats felt neither magical nor surreal, but instead unsettling, a reflection of the rush, underbid, and resulting compromises in quality.
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this whole time i thought the mill was cool for their commercial vehicle advancements, now i know they make mistakes and do horrible work as well
- Wasn't there a 'butthole controversy' with this film as well?Akagiyama
- https://www.vanityfa…imbecile
- Is there a way to get chatGPT to limit the amount of paragraphs and consolidate a little bit. Every point is made like 3 times... building towards the futuretoemaas
- Also, just watched the trailer and the FX didn’t look bad. The reason why myself and most other won’t watch it is because it’s a fucking musical, hahatoemaas
- this is two summaries togetherimbecile
- they had an open ftp where you could download work files, it was weird to see some gladiator stuff next to the insane unrecognizable 3d junksted
- cruddlebub3
recommend tv series
Nothing has topped this series (for me) yet.
- Don't watch with the dub if you can help it. It's really not very good.cruddlebub
- ^ this is correct, I watched it all in dub for whatever reason ... still enjoyed the complex story but yes all dubbing on foreign language shows is horrendous.Ramanisky2
- Dub is fine, done by the same actors who play the characters.robthelad
- Dark is pretty much perfect.MrAbominable
- It's the moments where it all clicks. Your brain feels like it wants to explode.cruddlebub
- same. for me, it's still the high-water mark
haven't seen anything quite as good as this.exador1
- Nairn10
- vibration on or off? -in a 50's robot voice_niko
- flol ew
It's looks like a crash test dummy version of Mark Zuckerberg silently crying for help.Continuity - it's sonny from irobotimbecile
- @imbecile - shhh!
@continuity - perhaps that was intended by Mulkh, knowing he couldn't actually beat him mano a mano?Nairn
- skinny_puppy3
- You absolute motherfucker. I don't even need to click that, knowing I'll have it fucking stuck in my head for the next three days. DAMN YOU.Nairn
- lol what a classic. Did this play elsewhere or only in Canada? So low budget but so good._niko
- def. played in the UK late 70s early 80s._me_
- Lol @Nairn. It was already stick in my head. Sharing is caring.
@_niko We got it in South Africaskinny_puppy - *stuckskinny_puppy
- There’s a voice that keeps on callin me... down the road that’s where I’ll always benb
- Maybe tomorrow, I'll wanna settle down, until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving onskinny_puppy
- lol, actually watched an episode on youtube the other day...so bad it's good....exador1
- grafician2
- deliveroohans_glib
- guy who splooged on Cartmans hand.Ramanisky2
- Batman Returns with lunch_niko
- Ben AaaahFuckKrassy
- Notmy Bat Mansted
- matt damonsarahfailin
- thanks for the donuts, let me grab some of those for youimbecile
- Matthew Perry? Too soon?sab
- dis guy is so memeablemilfhunter
- dis guy is so miserableutopian