You’re specifically asking about B-Movies here. They’ll grab whoever the heck fills the chair.

If it sounds good enough for the story to be told and trick someone into watching it, the goal was achieved. Time for the next movie!

Most of the time, if the dialog is delivered and actors are on set, that’s really all that matters for tax purposes.

I think the truth of it is, good sound engineering costs money, time, or both. I both ran sound and did sound design for local stage theater and I was shocked at how little the designers knew how to make their transitions seamless and avoid clipping, resonant frequencies, static, and a whole mess of other issues, many of which need fixes during recording rather than post.

It took me about 5 years working with audio software before I was making stuff for other people but a lot of other people have the confidence to learn their skill working with live projects, project result be damned. I go back and listen to my early stuff and I hear all sorts of mistakes I didn’t even know I was making.

Access to good hardware/software can also be a major detriment. I’ve had to sacrifice many design ideas due to available tools. When at the end of the day, it comes down to bad audio vs no audio at all, there’s an obvious winner.

There truly is faith

This was probably a 30-year-old guy who’s been waiting for this moment since the first Oblivion released.

Neon RGB with lots of tricks feels very San Francisco RUSH 2049/Nitronic Rush/Distance. Take a look at those. If it’s not them, let me know how they differ. Racing games are my jam, so I should be able to help you track this down.

Haha no thanks

I actually paid for this and use it on windows all the time. I generally don’t rip my Blu-Rays just because I have so many and not enough HDD space for it. The only reliable way I’ve found to play them in real-time has been MakeMKV + MPC-HC.

Oh, I have like 4 other computers with Linux. This one is just there until support for 10 ends. Then I’ll let go of those last few things and deal with it when that bridge comes. I’ve been on track to ditching it entirely for a couple years now in preparation for this exact case.

I’m down to one Windows machine and the death of Windows 10 will be the death of Windows for me. I’m holding out just for the games that just won’t work under Linux and some other proprietary software like Blu-Ray playback. What a run. I’ll be glad to see it go.

So many times now, it seems any time I ask someone to write anything for any reason, they just instantly give up and ask ChatGPT.

I’ve explained to a few people now: AI in its current form is at best a hammer. You can use it well or poorly, and it doesn’t work on everything.

This being said, it’s a wave. This has happened about a dozen times in the past with different technologies. They thought human knowledge was on the decline when we started writing books because we would no longer have to remember the words.

I do think it enables already lazy people even more though.

Says you! I reorganized my closet this weekend!

As much as MM1 is a slower movie, I actually appreciate it as a foundation for the others. It really lets your mind imagine how things went from 1 to 2.

Similarly, my XP install just died and I didn’t have a copy of Windows to reinstall. Gnome 2 taught me computers don’t have to look or feel boring and the terminal taught me they weren’t scary.

Learned a lot that first year.

I once had a post that got significantly downvoted and I didn’t delete it.

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What you’ll find is most modern files for video, like .mp4, are what are called container files. They have to provide a video and audio stream as well as sometimes an embedded subtitle stream. At the end of the day, it’s a folder.

Then those streams are often compressed, which aren’t readable at a file level. They have to be decompressed first before having any sensible output.

It helps to understand how a byte stream is taken from the binary values to a usually 16-bit range at usually 44,100 times per second and you’ll quickly realize that you’d be hard-pressed to read the raw bits and be able to imagine the sound in your head. There’s far too much to break down here, but there’s whole college courses focused on just this concept.

Something that probably resembles a lot more of what you’re expecting is MIDI. That doesn’t contain audio itself, as such, but instead a series of instructions for the computer to play notes with instructions, like pitch, octave, velocity, length, and many custom channels for anything you could think of.

And that’s all just audio. Video is a dark art that I’ve yet to approach. The things we’ve managed to make happen with the tiny files we use are just wild when you get into the science of it.

Income isn’t a protected class. Is there something else that makes this illegal?

A self-hosted VPN is the most secure free way to host your Jellyfin. I’ve had to learn the hard way over the years, but all the features and control you gain for hosting services yourself comes with all the same responsibilities and risk that the provider would be taking on for you.

The money you spend on their service is the alternative to the many hours it takes to learn how to properly host your own server.

You can definitely learn how to do it and it will be difficult and confusing at times, but that’s what the community is there for. I recommend joining a Matrix server or similar so you can get more real-time feedback for when you’re just getting started.

Totally understand not wanting to take the risk, though. Just something worth considering.

It’s admittedly not a “fun” movie. It’s a really sad story in the end and most of the movie, the characters are uncomfortable in their situation.

I think it touches on some real questions we’re going to have to ask ourselves in the coming years about how much we’re going to allow AI into our personal lives.

For anyone who hasn’t seen it, it forgets most of it, it’s worth seeing. Just don’t expect iRobot or Black Mirror.