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Ooh, congrats. I've no idea what I'll do for my bachelor's. I'll have to magic up something I can use as a part of my master's in the future.

What else?

Yes.

Well, if there were any scratches or such on the film, they wouldn't follow the film's grain structure. But I don't know anything about that stuff, apart from the fact that edit marks are way easier to hide if you resize the image smaller than the size you were editing it in.

8K as in roughly 8000x4000? If you could actually get a scanner with that much resolution (the dpi numbers manufacturers give are generally way higher than the actual performance), it would be overkill. But then there are movies shot on 65mm wide film that have heaps and heaps of detail. Oh, actually, you were talking about scanning prints. No problem with that, though you really don't need that much resolution. Scanning actual film is problematic. It's really difficult to get all of the dynamic range (all the shadow detail as well as highlight detail). A print never has as much dynamic range as the actual film.

Ehm, there's no resolution in pixel terms, but the amount of detail a given film can preserve depends on its grain structure, on which the biggest influences are the film speed and type of developer used. I only know about the still photography side of this, but I guess the film is the same or similar.

Braid is like a Mario game? Did you actually play it at all?

A movie theatre projector would have to have quite a bit higher resolution than FullHD. 4 times higher is about 8.3MP, or about the resolution of a frame of regular 35mm film. FullHD is good for big screens in your home, but it still was never meant for projection in a movie theatre. I wonder what the resolution is digitally projected movies.

Still fucked up over the break up! Life: Congrats on the marriage, Kingz!

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/giants/2008/11/29/2008-11-29_giants_receiver_plaxico_burress_accident.html There you are, a star athlete with beautiful women fawning over you in a nightclub, and suddenly your gun fires accidentally, spilling your essential fluids all over the nightclub floor. So embarrassing.

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Yeah, that's what I was going for. What Nachimir sees on the tv daily is a different from what you see. Not completely, but substantially.

I thought it would be about sometimes firing itself.

I wonder if Psych is British. British television is pretty comfortable with hideous (but excellent and often really charismatic in their peculiar way!) creatures like whoever plays Dalziel in Dalziel and Pascoe. US Television... not so much. Some ugly people, obviously, but pretty much all above average. I actually have quite a lot to say about this subject, in theory, but I can't really put all that into words very well. It's a difficult issue. I started thinking about it after befriending a number of girls who, in different ways, do not represent the actress/model standard of beauty and seeing them struggle with their self-esteem. I think even discussing beauty using just that simple term paints a picture of people's (well, men's really) tastes basically reflecting game review scores. Women's looks are a scale that runs to a 100. 80 is acceptable, 70 is not really, no one is a 100 etc. But it's just way, way more complicated than that. Women simply do not have to be beautiful in the way portrayed by the media in order to find men to fawn over them. And I don't mean that men will overlook a "plain" face or a non-sickly body because of personality, but will actually find ordinary women attractive. That's only some of it, I could try to say more about stuff like dual (or more...) standards of beauty people have (what they think they like, what they actually like, and what they feel they should like), but I just don't have a clear picture. Brain hurts.

The demo hard crashes my Win7 'puter every time. It's the only thing I've found to do that. Honestly though, the game probably wouldn't be for me anyway.

This game is made by honest to god Finnish people. Apart from that, doesn't really interest me because I don't really play FPSs online, though the zero gravity gameplay sounds interesting and they seem to have thought out their approach really well. The company was originally a part of Remedy back when Max Payne was still in development. They make benchmark software, which is probably why it is so demanding. Honestly, it seems a bit petty to say the game should look better than Resident Evil 5 (at I guess above average quality levels?) at its minimum quality settings. No game looks good at minimum settings. Although you bought it, so I guess you have the right to complain. One of the developers said in an RPS interview that the minimum requirements are high, but honest: a PC with the minimum required system should be able to run it at 30fps. Having run a bunch of games on lackluster systems in the past, I would say that is more important at that point.

Yes :x *sigh*

Oh, wow, I never thought of doing that. Thanks! EDIT: Oooh, yeees.... Ooohh

Hey, I'm a fan of Doctor Who, and especially Tennant as the Doctor. But it's grown really stale lately, and the new specials have all been like season finales -- generally just overblown and badly handled. The guy who is taking over, Moffat, was the same guy who wrote most of the best episodes of the new Who, so hopefully the series'll pick up next season.

The GTA style minimap doesn't fit. It needs something, oh I don't know, the Far Cry 2 map.

The new Doctor Who special was craaaap. It had material for one crappish episode, but was twice as long. I can't wait for Moffat to be in the reins. At least I can hope the series will be better. Just one overblown special to go!

Just FYI, the 'fresh' and 'mature' bits were just my words, I can't remember if they turned up in the trailer. But they could have.

I don't know if six directors will be enough.

Speaking of new IP, here's a trailer for the coming animated feature inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy. It's a new fresh and mature take on the story: http://www.giantbomb.com/dantes-inferno-the-animated-film/17-1636/

I didn't mean to give the impression I hate Final Fantasy. I haven't been a console player until now, so the FFs I've played myself were FF6 and FF5 on an emulator, and we used to play FF7 at my cousin's place a lot. And I liked them! I've kept my eye on the games, though, and it's pretty clear they just do the same thing over and over again. Maybe there's a process of slow iterational change, but not "complete reinvention"... EVERY TIME. ... And now I look like a dumbass