And you can’t blame me, the behind the scenes surrounding it has been so dark, and we all know that the film is going to feel empty without two key people.

However, while the new trailer didn’t sell me, the new posters featuring the OG cast did.

I’m still unsure about the new cast members, but I’m just going to wait for the film and enjoy it.

#jackassforever

I can't be alone in this. These novels are classics to rival the classics, and defined the world of fantasy we know and love today. They're important. All attempts at adaptations have fallen flat so far, and I think it just can't be done. I know they're throwing a bunch of big hollywood money at this one, but that's no guarantee or even indication of quality. Maybe the effects and visuals will look good, but will they look right?

Yeah they got one or two big names, Ian McKellan really did Magneto justice in X-Men last year, but who are these other people? Cate Blanchett? Orlando Bloom? I just don't know. I want to be excited about this but I think in 5 years people will forget these movies ever happened.

I loved the first Conjuring and greatly enjoyed the sequel (with only some slight nitpicks), and I found the Nun character particularly haunting when she was first introduced in the Conjuring 2, so I was intrigued when I first saw it announced that there would be an upcoming film centered around her. However, as much as I liked the initial two Conjuring films, I didn't care much for any of the Annabelle films despite the fact they take place in the same 'universe' and none of the recent trailer material that I've seen for The Nun thus far has really blown me away. Admittedly, some of the jumpscares from the trailer footage looks kind of cheesy and I've got mixed feelings. On one hand, there's a part of me that wants to look forward to this because I do think the Nun/Valak as a character is genuinely unsettling and has potential but on the other, the lackluster Annabelle films combined with the cheesy trailer material has got me like, "ehhh." And I've got nothing against Corin Hardy (director for The Nun) personally, but I recently watched The Hallow, a previous horror he directed a few years back, and didn't really care for it as much as I thought I would, but that's me.

How are you guys feeling about what we've seen for The Nun so far?

I didn't really know what to title this post but does anyone else feel apprehensive going to see movies or is it just me? I feel like I need to have a shield up when I'm in a movie theatre because there's usually some type of microaggression or full out racism in the film that makes me uncomfortable. And of course the entire audience made up of white people laugh and it just makes me feel worse.

I hate that I can't just enjoy a movie.. I have to wonder what racist thing might be in the movie and how the audience will react. I hate when there's a black person in the movie and they're the stereotyped "hood" black friend, or the loud black woman. I feel like people are watching me to see my reaction. Maybe I'm just paranoid! I do have social anxiety so I'm sure that plays a huge part of this.

Big fan of the books, read multiple times etc and have tried to watch the series, but couldn’t get into it. I will try again in the future but at this time have only watched 2 and a half episodes.

I can resonate with a lot of what I have already seen posted regarding changes to the story, characters, key mannerisms etc, but then I realised what was kind of bothering me the most.

The show had been in filming and production for quite a while. I remember when the series first got announced I was overjoyed but then also filled with a lot of apprehension (thanks GoT S7 & S8).

I had a friend reassure me that the the show runner, Rafe, is also a massive fan of the series and would do his utmost to carry the story as it should be.

Over the years of its creation, what snippets we did get looked amazing. Their vision and concepts of the Winespring inn, the dagger etc.

So there was this 2 years of buildup with the expectation that they are following the source material quite thoroughly.

Then we get this tv series that what I feel just sucker punched us, keeping the stuff that could not be feasibly changed and giving a bastardised version of all else.

Tl:dr The 2 years teasing buildup vs the delivered product is in my mind the biggest disappointment

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

I did a lot of video encoding to get some numbers that may be useful to some Plex server admins here. Enjoy y'all.

^(Yes, I did format it as a research paper. No, I'm not sure why. No, I have no idea if that makes it better or worse.)

Abstract

Video compression is a science of art. It's math that's viewed subjectively, ephemerally, and smeared 20 to 60 times per second. So it's no wonder that we argue all the time about settings without being able to quantify the way video makes us feel. I'm not going to present anything to change your mind.

TL;DR at the bottom. Read the whole thing anyways, it's a fantastic mad ramble.

Introduction

So I got bored one day and wanted to know, "how much does transcoding a file in Plex hurt the quality?" Pretty simple question, right? How bad can it possibly be? So I grabbed a video in my library, encoded it, and watched it again. Didn't look too bad. But then I realized it was already compressed from a higher quality source, so maybe it was so low quality that I didn't notice how bad it was? So I encoded it again, same settings. And it still looked file.

That's when I remembered, if my server transcodes it uses an Nvidia 1060 to encode. Maybe the GPU makes it look worse? I watched a few minutes of it, making sure the GPU was transcoding, and again, didn't notice a problem. So I did what any sane person would do - I grabbed a bunch of different files, set up a bunch of machines in my homelab, and started encoding like my life depended on it.

Thanks to some previous research, I know that there's some math out there to actually quantify the difference in quality between reference and compressed video. Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio is the classic, and Structural Similarity Index Measure was made for exactly this. And on top of that, noted Internet Content Delivery Company Netflix developed VMAF for their entire library of content. So I used those three metrics to compare the 450 final encodes I created.

Methods

Encoder Settings

You can find my encoding/calculation scripts, encoder presets, and ramblings at this github repo. In short, I selected 9 videos to serve as "sources" for comparison:

^(Note: these are numbered 0 to 8, but reddit's markdown start

TLDR: 4 day trip through hell. Consumed slightly over 3.5 grams of mushrooms. Had an amazing out of body experience filled with some terror and confusion, but a lot of love, beauty, and spiritual awakening. Lasted longer than I expected. Thought it was over after 12 hours, but started to lose touch with reality the next day. Entered a psychotic state and was unable to determine what was reality. Deteriorated further for 2 days which culminated in a violent episode and eventually arrest by police, hogtying in the ER, strapped to a restraint chair multiple times, and ultimately injected with anti-psychotic medication and forcibly admitted to a behavioral health unit. Eventually discharged. Lingering mental issues, but feel like I’m slowly coming back to normal. Assault charges are pending from actions that occurred during my arrest.

Preface: This is hard for me to write, but I feel like it might help someone else out there. Maybe I didn’t look hard enough because I didn’t want to find them, but during my investigation of the downsides of psilocybin and magic mushrooms it didn’t seem like the trips lasted that long or could be extremely dangerous. I had an appointment with a psychologist yesterday and she said that I should write everything down and think about sharing it, so here we are.

Background: A little about myself so it might help explain my inexperience with this kind of thing and generally who I am and where I started this journey. I am just over 40 and have lived a fairly clean and sober life compared to the average American. I did a bit of drinking in highschool and college, but I met my future wife early in college and mostly stopped partying after that. I smoked some marijuana from time to time with friends when they offered, but probably no more than a dozen times in my life. I smoked cigarettes and cigars when drinking on occasion but otherwise I’ve never tried most drugs. I am successful by most measures. I have no criminal record, I don’t break the law. I have a wife, kids, a dog, a great job, a beautiful home and family that loves me. I know it’s a good life, but I’ve struggled with depression for the last five years or so. I know that I have everything I’ve ever dreamed of and more, yet I would still get overly cranky for no particular reason and I would often feel depressed. It got worse and worse for a number of years, ultimately hitting my bottom emotionally when I thought I was going to lose my wife to cancer. After my w

Hi everyone. I previously recapped the timeline of season 3, episodes 401-403, and 405 of the series. Today, I recap and analyze episode 406, “A House for a Hero,” where many bemoaned the return of Davina, as well as the drawn-out plot between Christine, Emma, and Mary. Let’s get to it!

Scene 1: I Would Not Describe Her Banging on My Windows As 'Calm'

Christine: \"He also proposed to me\" Emma: \"Actually, no, that’s not the truth, Ellen\"

We pick up directly after the ending of the previous episode.

The producers shoo their underpaid production assistants away to film Mary and Jason having an unscripted fight in their video village. Christine wanders aimlessly around the party, asking former telenovela superstar Vanessa if she is the reason Mary stormed off. Mary returns, shade is thrown, and Romain is just happy to get the free food and booze that comes along with having the most chill series regular (!?!) role of this series.

Vanessa tells Christine that Mary is pissed she is there because she will stir the narrative pot with Emma. Christine can’t deal with Mary’s “frantic energy,” so she moseys herself on over to ask Emma “aye yo bitch, can I talk to you for a minute?” Emma has been ready for this conversation all season long, rehearsing glances and blank facial expressions in between fulfilling orders for her frozen, plant-based food company.

Mary is SICK of the \"'nice to my face' and then does fucked-up shit\"

Christine and Emma’s skyline-view conversation is the most monotone, passive-aggressive heated shit show that has glanced my Samsung TV since [Kourtney calmly t

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*pit**clink**pit**clink**pit**clink* is the sound that my natural, left foot and new, bionic right make as I cross the Balcony outside Triple M.

That door is already fixed… The one that Fluffy and I tore through, destroying it!

I think I’ll have to add Maintenance to the, ever growing, list of staff who are getting raises after our recent run in with Terran pirates. To think that they were able to repair all the battle damage while we were voidside!

Ms. Tuun objected when I revealed how much I intended to increase her pay but… not as much as she did at her interview… there was no haggling. It seems that having a devoted friend group and a loving partner is helping buoy her estimation of her worth.

I cross the threshold and make my way to the Commonroom.

The door opens to reveal one very tired Don, one very tired Sahas, one very tired canine and four very tired Humans all in various states of repose on the furniture around the [coffee table].

There are four in the room, however, that don’t fit this mould: There is an excited Zunbe… no… Msia! They’ve all insisted I’m to call them by their first names or epithets… it’s taking a little getting used to. Anyway, he’s looking out the bowward window for the moment we come into his home system. It’s quite sweet. Apparently it’s been some time since he last saw his family and home, by means other than a holo projection.

The second and third who aren’t a picture of exhaustion are the wall-mural version of me and a roaring Fluffy, whom I’m sat astride, charging down a mountain with the setting sun of Earth framed behind me. Msia has painted a bone crushingly heavy looking suit of armour onto me, morphed from its original, Terran appropriate, shape to fit a R’qali body plan. On my back there is a second set of entirely ornamental wings. My right talons heft a lance, that looks like it would mass more than my body, with a red and white banner, streaming in the imaginary wind, attached just below the tapered spearhead. My beak is open and my face is fixed in a fierce, silent battlecry… I ought to find that mural very flattering… somehow it’s a little embarrassing… Is it because that Tcakqaal looks like

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

This was Bipasha at 20, just before her Bollywood debut.
Love how chilled out and grounded she is, and open about everything.
Also don't miss how she was approached by Jaya to play a "dusky village" girl against AB Jr for his debut and when the story changed the heroine became Bebo, and Bipasha was offered a role against Jackie Shroff.
Until Kangana spoke up, nepotism wasn't even questioned.

Source: https://www.rediff.com/movies/1999/sep/23bipa.htm

'Once you enter films, your private life becomes a joke'

Sukanya Verma

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Getting an appointment with her was nothing short of a Herculean task. After numerous phone calls and leaving messages, we were on the verge of giving up. But finally, our persistence paid off and we fixed up a meeting with Bipasha Basu*. The dusky beauty, one of the most successful models in the country, is now stepping into tinsel town.*

Winner of the Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest in 1996, Bipasha has catwalked for all leading Indian designers, besides featuring in several popular commercials and in the Sonu Nigam video, Tu*.*

Meeting Bipasha was definitely worth all the trouble. She comes across as a person who has her head well on her shoulders. Sans make up, dressed in a simple white lucknowi salwar-kurta, Bipasha still looked gorgeous. After exchanging a few pleasantries, we settled down for a chat.

Tell me where are you from? And what does your name mean?

Well, I was born in Delhi and grew up in Calcutta. And now my base is Bombay. So you see, I have lived in three metros. Bipasha means deep dark desire (with a naughty grin).

Did you always want to be a model?

Never! I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint (laughs). I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me.

I met Mehr Jessia in a hotel in Calcutta and she suggested that I take part in the Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest. I did, I won and the rest is history.

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What were your experiences during this contest?

You know winning this contest was like getti

Hi y'alls I literally submitted and made a reddit account today just so I can drop this frenzied analysis of Love Me More.

This interpretation is based on looking at the music, MV, and this interview together. Analyzing the music alone would results in a different interpretation, but the MV was so packed with meaning and fun visuals that it was hard not to write (and shove into people's faces) about it.

(This is my first time posting here and writing something like this in a really long time...hhnngg)

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The beginning of the MV starts with her holding behind a faceless driver on the motorbike during a night drive. This drive is a metaphor of her performance career. The beginning of this ride is full of anticipation, with cymbal galloping sounds reminiscent of a cowboy riding into the prairie opening the song. Mitski is unsure of where they're going, but looks possibly curious without any doubts.

>If I keep myself at home
>
>I won't make the same mistake

Mitski arrives in a neighborhood at the same time the lyrics sing "home". This is supposedly her home. Perhaps this is a metaphor to show that she's "made it" on stage; she thinks it's supposed to feel like home.

>That I made for fifteen years
>
>I could be a new girl
>
>I will be a new girl

Instead, she finds a mock of her, a version of her that's painted (literally someone is painting puppet!Mitski's face inside the house) and revered by others.

>I wish that this would go away

Mitski now holds tightly onto the driver and looks apprehensive, contrasting to the beginning of the night drive. The drive is getting rougher as seen with the vibrations and the bodies launching forward. The lyrics "I wish that this would go away" overlap with the motion, showing she wants these bumps and negative experiences to pass. She's holding onto her dear life.

>But when I'm done singing this song
>
>I will have to find something else

The night ride -- her stage career -- knows no stopping and it nearly kills her. The stage lights drive this metaphor.

Also the way they've staged this part with the oncoming car switching to stage lights and the transition to her on the TV is so brilliant, I weep.

>To do to keep me here
>

Buenosdillas

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

an old friend(s) die? I mean I'll enjoy every single second of these films. But in the back of my mind will be a continuous nagging thought: Is this the scene where Luke or Han or Leia or whoever dies?! Will anyone die? Don't know but this is a very real possibility and makes me nervous to see an old childhood friend killed. I may well and truly cry in a movie for the first time in my life.

edit: during a movie, not ever.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "