Ah, my software’s pretty purpose-built. Project Threepio doesn’t have any overlapping or even immediately adjacent subtitles–so just going over the logic in my mind, I imagine the SUP will end up having two distinct subtitles with overlapping timings and the same onscreen placement, which will likely behave badly as you describe. If it was smarter, it would probably create three adjacent subtitles, one for each distinct subtitle, and another for both subtitles showing at the same time, with placement adjusted, etc*. It would not be an easy change to the existing script, it would be a whole back-to-the-drawing-board type change.

So while my scripts have all the fancy features I wanted, it’s actually not nearly as feature-rich as other software (or else it’s simply broken) with regard to things that don’t apply to Project Threepio.

* Also, in my brief flirtations with immediately adjacent subtitles, I’ve found that not all players even do that very well, at least right now (they flash, they don’t show up, it’s a crapshoot). If you’re trying to make compatible subtitles, always leave a gap. It could be half (or more) of the problems you’re seeing are with the player, not the subtitles. *cough* especially if you’re using VLC *cough*

doubleofive said:

Since you’ll have to be 5 inches from a screen the size of Rhode Island to see the pixels for 8k, I don’t think it’ll be much of a consumer thing.

Could you please repeat that in a larger font? I’m only 6 inches away from my new Rhode Island-sized 8k display.

yhwx said:

Trump signs a bill he calls deeply flawed.

Because getting your veto overridden makes you look weak, and vetoing a Russian sanctions bill makes you look complicit. But signing the bill while hurling insults and going off on self-aggrandizing tangents makes you look exactly the same as before.

TV’s Frink said:

Is Trump (Finally) Ready for a ‘Pivot’ to Presidential?

Doesn’t he have to pivot to the general first? He’s doing this only because being completely off your nut appeals to Republican primary voters, don’t you know.

I don’t see what the big deal is. My wife and I have a similar plan to prevent our four-year-old from eating all the sugar in the house and making holes in the walls with a hammer.

I hope it will all be explained one day when it’s revealed that all surveys had a third of their respondents from the battleground state of Florida–St Petersburg, Florida, to be exact. But, due to a mix-up at the post office… this would also explain why so many respondents said “Da, is werry good President!”

I followed the link thinking it was an old Fo post pushing the conspiracy theory. Curse you, Frink!

Say it ain’t so!

It appears that the BS Seth Rich conspiracy theory, which was so baseless even Fox News retracted their story on it (Hannity notwithstanding), was pushed to Fox News by Trump himself as a way to fabricate an alternate non-Russia-connected explanation for how Clinton’s campaign data ended up in Trump’s hands. Who’da thunk?

TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

Trump has reached his highest disapproval rating and lowest approval rating yet.

By which metric?

538’s average has him at 38.2% approval, lowest since early June when he was at his true low of 38.0%.

Similarly, RCP has him at 39.2% approval, lowest since mid-June when he was at his true low of 38.6%

Apparently this headline is using the Rasmussen poll (yes, the same Rasmussen all the other pollsters like to point at and laugh). It may still be a useful data point because Rasmussen is always so heavily skewed toward Republicans that it may actually provide a metric of what Republicans are thinking. In other words, Trump’s approval among Republicans may be at its lowest point ever.

That said, trying to ferret out usable data from a crap pollster is at some level hopeless. Man, I wish Mason-Dixon would do more polling, they were great.

Jeebus said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Didn’t frevious used to bitch constantly about the right?

Frievous is a troll, he comes and takes a dump in the middle of the thread for reactions. He’ll say whatever it takes for people to respond. And I dare him to prove me wrong.

I dunno. I didn’t know the people of North Korea ever had control over their economy until he told me they’d experienced socialism at some point – I thought it was a dictatorship, which any grade-schooler should be able to tell you is incompatible with socialism. If he’s not a troll, he’s as profoundly well-informed as one.

I hate to break it to Denmark what the end result of their nation is.

TV’s Frink said:

Suddenly there’s a lot of sense coming out of Arizona. Jeff Flake wrote this today:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/31/my-party-is-in-denial-about-donald-trump-215442

It was we conservatives who, upon Obama’s election, stated that our No. 1 priority was not advancing a conservative policy agenda but making Obama a one-term president—the corollary to this binary thinking being that his failure would be our success and the fortunes of the citizenry would presumably be sorted out in the meantime. It was we conservatives who were largely silent when the most egregious and sustained attacks on Obama’s legitimacy were leveled by marginal figures who would later be embraced and legitimized by far too many of us.

I wonder if Jeff Flake is owning up to his own role in all this, or if this is his way of pretending he’s one of those “good conservatives” who doesn’t do such things, as a prelude to needing to keep his Senate seat in 2018.

On a question about Republican leaders’ refusal to hold confirmation hearings for Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, Flake said the move was not without precedent. A man in the audience shouted, “Bulls—!” as the crowd chanted “shame on you.”

Bullshit indeed.

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/ex-sheriff-joe-arpaio-convicted-of-criminal-contempt/2017/07/31/26d9572e-7620-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.7ea8b765b3fe

Joe Arpaio, a former Arizona sheriff whose extreme stance on illegal immigration made him a household name, was convicted Monday of criminal contempt of court for ignoring a judge’s order to stop detaining people because he merely suspected them of being undocumented immigrants.

U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton wrote that Arpaio had shown a “flagrant disregard” for the court’s command, and that his attempt to pin the conduct on those who worked for him rang hollow.

“Not only did Defendant abdicate responsibility, he announced to the world and to his subordinates that he was going to continue business as usual no matter who said otherwise,” Bolton wrote.

A Justice Department spokeswoman said Arpaio faces up to six months in prison at his sentencing, which is scheduled for October 5. Arpaio’s attorney said he would appeal in order to get a trial by jury. He had been convicted after a trial in front of Bolton.

Lock him up! Lock him up!

You’re using the masculine pronoun in an exclusively feminine accusative phrase. The masculine form is: Pardon him! Pardon him!

Now, write it out a hundred times, and don’t do it again!

It’s clearly Luke. He’s holding a lightsaber. And badly, too–the nerve endings must have given out in his robotic hand.

Teletherapy. It may add a sometimes-annoying barrier between you and your counselor, but the increased options may be beneficial enough to outweigh that. Admittedly I’m coloring your current counselor situation with how I’d react in a similar situation, but I’d say it’s worth exploring.

suspiciouscoffee said:

Good news: I am finally getting counseling or whatever.

Agreed with the rest, you appear to have gotten “whatever” when what you really need is “counseling”.

There are lots of Christian counselors who would not think to insert religion into their counseling. There are also lots of Christian counselors who may insert religion into their counseling, but would refrain from doing so if you made it clear you did not want that. Make sure you didn’t get someone from the second group by stating what you consider to be out of bounds in your counseling. And then there’s the third group, where the correct response is to run.

Why not go full surrealist?

Jeebus said:

CatBus said:

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

I seem to remember Jeebus cheering on WikiLeaks during the run-up to the election. Wonder how he feels about them now?

I don’t know about him, but my thoughts were always that we shouldn’t ignore the shady stuff exposed by WikiLeaks purely because it came from WikiLeaks.

Unless it’s shady only because they trimmed out the context that would have revealed that it was normal (like their Mueller hit job)

It wasn’t though, the context was all there. Sure, the tweet was dishonest, but they didn’t remove contradicting information. They fooled only the people who look at the tweet and take it at it’s word; anybody who cared even remotely to follow up the information looked at the actual document. My point is, there may be reason to doubt the contents of the leaks in the future; but this isn’t it.

“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’.”

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

I seem to remember Jeebus cheering on WikiLeaks during the run-up to the election. Wonder how he feels about them now?

I don’t know about him, but my thoughts were always that we shouldn’t ignore the shady stuff exposed by WikiLeaks purely because it came from WikiLeaks.

Unless it’s shady only because they trimmed out the context that would have revealed that it was normal (like their Mueller hit job), or if it’s shady only because the stuff they exposed had been altered by Russian intelligence before they released it (like their Macron hit job). With WikiLeaks you get so many options!

yhwx said:

Finally, if Democrats win the House in 2018 (which they have a good shot of doing)

Nitpick: that link shows Democrats with a just-under-8-point national lead. Both 538 and RCP consider an 8-9 point national lead to be the bare minimum Democrats need in order to break even in the House, taking gerrymandering into account. So that really shows Democrats gaining seats in the House but failing to win a majority, and of course that doesn’t take into account the voter suppression and Russian interference which we can safely assume will be much more aggressive this time around.

TV’s Frink said:

CatBus said:

TV’s Frink said:

I seem to remember Jeebus cheering on WikiLeaks during the run-up to the election. Wonder how he feels about them now?

Well, there was a time when it wasn’t clear WikiLeaks had an agenda or even a record favoring any particular nation or institution, and people could be forgiven for taking them at their word.

In the fall of 2016?

Point conceded.

TV’s Frink said:

I seem to remember Jeebus cheering on WikiLeaks during the run-up to the election. Wonder how he feels about them now?

Well, there was a time when it wasn’t clear WikiLeaks had an agenda or even a record favoring any particular nation or institution, and people could be forgiven for taking them at their word. That was, after all, the whole point of the operation – to build up a reputation for neutrality and truthfulness, so that they would be a better channel for distributing Russian propaganda than RT, Sputnik, and Pravda, which would be (and still are) more easily dismissed by Western audiences.

It’s basically the reputation equivalent to money laundering – reputation laundering. Obvious Russian state propaganda goes in, plausibly neutral news appealing to a conspiracy-minded Western audience comes out.

In case there was any doubt remaining that Wikileaks is/has become just another pro-Russian propaganda mill.

dahmage said:

It’s only 3.5 years to go.

1. Congress needs to start working together
2. Achieve some things directly against Trump’s wishes
3. Public opinion sways to see how much better things could be without Trump.
4. Congress can actually impeach and get rid of Trump

One out of four ain’t bad. Wait, no, one out of four is terrible.

Until Congress gets it’s shit together in a bipartisan way, most people will assume that a change of president is not going to do much.

So that’s a given, then.

Okay, I’m done. Aside from the clinking chain noises and the mixing levels Jerjerrod dialogue thing, to me it sounds pretty much like the 83 stereo mix with less dynamics. Maybe the Jerjerrod dialogue thing even qualifies as a “smoking gun”–present in ROTP and not in the 83 mix. If so: Worst. Smoking. Gun. Ever.