I had a brilliant solution to the whole problem. I’m selling the rights, so if anyone’s interested, PM me. I’ll be sure to publicize it two days later.
You can double your money by offering redaction for a nominal fee.
CatBus said:
From the Empire Strikes Back novelization:And to add to his misery, a high-pitched whistle blared into the cubicle, tormenting his keen sense of hearing.
It’s a bit like playing captainsolo a low-bitrate MP3.
Thank goodness I transcoded all my low-bitrate MP3’s to FLAC 😉
They’re not even real puppies. They’re just crisis badgers.
Fake puppies.
Just to get out ahead of this, every single post I made on the subject of Superman was a penis joke.
He still comes around from time to time. IIRC he expressed an interest in maybe giving his six-channel mixes another go at some point, but it was tempered with his other obligations in real life. Not a firm commitment or anything, and no sign any work on it’s been done.
On a different note, there’s this: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-holocaust-museum-aung-san-suu-kyi_us_5aa022f4e4b0d4f5b66cd500
An important object lesson that democracy and human rights can be two very, very different things, and support for one does not imply support for the other. There’s an old Soviet joke: “Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting about what’s for dinner.” It’s actually a pretty apt description of democracy divorced from any sense of human rights.
Are we comparing Trump to Ted Kennedy now?
I guess we could. I’m just asking if anyone wants to see that movie. This is still a general politics thread I believe 😉
Probably shouldn’t, considering we’re talking about how this sort of thing used to keep people from being president.
As for the movie, I like Jason Clarke and it’s a compelling story so… possibly.
Maybe it’s just me but that kind of thing should have kept him out of politics altogether. Not the debate I was looking for but many presidents carried on dalliances (Roosevelt and Kennedy leap to mind) and the media didn’t report on it. Many things have changed.
I tend to agree, it’s just mostly funny in this instance to see Trump supporters (who normally jump at the possibility to take down Dems for the same behavior) bend over backwards to defend him.
Them’s the breaks in politics. If Obama had called for tariffs on steel and aluminum or had talked about sidestepping due process in order to take people’s guns…heads would have exploded on the Right.
And when Obama was reportedly deporting illegal immigrants in record numbers and doing nothing to reform immigration year-after-year…the Left was pretty quiet.
The Left was noisy, but there’s no Left media to amplify that for anyone else to hear. The media was still trying to push the story that there was some sort of illegal immigration crisis in the US (which effectively excused Obama’s actions), and the media’s attempt to fabricate that crisis both pre- and post-dates the Obama Presidency.
The pushback on Obama’s use of drones was also muted.
Muddled more than muted. Lots of people were mad about how the drones were being used, but that got conflated into a larger and louder group of people who didn’t like the concept of drones at all.
I personally never thought “based on a true story” added anything at all to the appeal of a movie, because 1) you’re going to have to take some liberties just to get the story into two hours, if nothing else, and 2) if there’s a way you can tweak the story for no other purpose other than to make it more interesting, you’re either revisionist for doing it, or bland for not doing it.
Some stories are interesting to me, some are not, and whether or not they’re fictional really doesn’t enter into it. And a story about a fictional politician following the Ted Kennedy arc wouldn’t really appeal to me. But then what do I know, I liked Cabin Boy.
Well this film is not a fictional politician following the arc, it is a story about Ted Kennedy. As for creative license on these things, agree it’s a double edged sword.
What I’m saying (perhaps not well) is that my interest in any true story is the same as my interest in the equivalent fictional story. So since the fictional story wouldn’t appeal to me, the “based on a true story” version doesn’t either.
I personally never thought “based on a true story” added anything at all to the appeal of a movie, because 1) you’re going to have to take some liberties just to get the story into two hours, if nothing else, and 2) if there’s a way you can tweak the story for no other purpose other than to make it more interesting, you’re either revisionist for doing it, or bland for not doing it.
Some stories are interesting to me, some are not, and whether or not they’re fictional really doesn’t enter into it. And a story about a fictional politician following the Ted Kennedy arc wouldn’t really appeal to me. But then what do I know, I liked Cabin Boy.
To be fair, I blew off Gary Hart too. No, wait…
please, delete this post.
You probably mean these:
The DeEds are just the films, other people do menu authoring and various extras. Although the AVCHD versions you have are lower-bitrate than the MKVs, so these Blu-rays would also look (slightly) better, and they’re probably more current versions too, which would make them noticeably better.
So I realize the whole Stormy Daniels thing actually doesn’t matter (infidelity, and lying about said infidelity and even making payoffs about said infidelity doesn’t really rank as high as obstruction, conspiracy, corruption, money laundering, etc in my book*) but I promise I’ll be treating it with the respect it deserves.
So Donald Trump’s alias in the legal documents is “David Dennison”. Stormy Daniel’s alias in those documents is “Peggy Peterson”. So there’s a part in the document that says:
PP claims that she has been damaged by DD’s alleged actions against her, including but not limited to tort claims proximately causing injury to her person and other related claims. DD denies all such claims. (Hereinafter “PP Claims”).
Heheh. PP Claims. Heh.
* Then again, the coverup is often worse than the crime, so it’s possible Trump and/or his lawyer may have committed an actual crime while covering up a non-crime.
AFAIK, we have complete mixes and isolated score mixes only. I don’t believe anyone outside Lucasfilm has SFX- and/or dialogue-only mixes, although I’d agree those would be super-handy.
I would like to publicly apologize for my sensitive Wookiee ears holding things up. 😉
Well I’ll be damned. From the Empire Strikes Back novelization:
And to add to his misery, a high-pitched whistle blared into the cubicle, tormenting his keen sense of hearing.
It seems like I accidentally only invited Dom, let me try again.
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Argh. I have decided to give up. Sorry.
Have you considered private threads? Then it’s impossible to give up!
Sounds like a plan to me! And if it’s rotty, well, the audio we’ve already go is already pretty perfect.
PM sent. European Portuguese was a more recent addition, so it’s only in the more current versions.
The current audio track I’m using features the lossless Blu-ray audio for everything except the Castle Anthrax transition, where I switch over to your previous (analogue?) capture. There is a very slight reduction in quality there, but it’s only noticeable when you listen with the volume cranked to unreasonable levels. Other than that I’d say it’s already seamless.
But if you want to try a digital capture for what amounts to less than 10 seconds of audio and little-to-no audible improvement, I’m game.
#ShouldveInvitedStinky
I have been totally unable to take a post by stinky_dinkins out of context. It’s like parodying Björk, it can’t be done.
“I’m not dead yet” bump.
Found another possible Japanese translator, will get the files over to them and see how it goes.
We get so much mileage out of xhonzi typos. It makes me weep with joy.
Remember when scientists made a thing called “Biosphere 2”? It was this enclosure that theoretically behaved the way the Earth (a.k.a. Biosphere 1) did, but in a smaller, totally isolated, idealized way, controlled by the scientists. Under the best case scenario, it would be exactly like the Earth it sought to replicate, except without any factors they couldn’t control. It didn’t work very well at all and fell apart pretty fast.
Not sure what reminded me of that. Oh yeah, and my college roommate made a thing called “Pornosphere 2” but it was different.