NeverarGreat

For comparison with the scanner, here’s a photo of the filmstrip taken against a florescent light with a camera which has been white balanced for florescent light:

Scanner:

So it appears that despite some slight differences between them, such as more contrast and vivid primaries with the scanner, they are both quite yellow compared to the Blu-ray.

Handman said:

More fuel to the fire, so soon after the horrendous shooting.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/15/politics/karen-handel-threatening-letters/index.html

Suspicious envelopes were sent to the homes of Georgia politician Karen Handel and her neighbors as well as two Atlanta-area news stations, law enforcement said.

Law enforcement responded to the suburban Atlanta neighborhood Thursday afternoon after a resident reported receiving an envelope, Roswell Police spokeswoman Lisa Holland said. The envelopes contained threatening letters and white powder.

Later Thursday, news stations WAGA Fox 5 and WXIA 11Alive received similar envelopes, the FBI said. An investigation is underway to see if they are related.

Preliminary field tests on the substance mailed to WAGA suggest the powder consisted mostly of baking soda, the FBI said.

Handel is a candidate in Georgia’s closely watched, tightening 6th Congressional District special election against newcomer Jon Ossoff.

“This afternoon we had some suspicious packages delivered to our house and to our neighbors. The packages contained threatening letters and a suspicious substance. The police were quickly notified and street is now being blocked off. We will continue to coordinate with law enforcement as necessary,” she said on Facebook.

Why on earth would such packages also be sent to her neighbors and local news? Are they really this desperate for attention?

LuckyGungan2001 said:

Where are my Random Pictures and Gifs? Three pages of basically no actual images.

A thread was proposed, written, and forgotten.
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Zero-or-Hero-A-Discussion-about-Objectivism-vs-Subjectivism/id/55592

joefavs said:

Safety Not Guaranteed was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, so I’ve been on edge about this from day one. That review excerpt that Alderaan posted for Book of Henry honestly made me morbidly curious, though.

Yeah, quite a few people liked it but I just couldn’t stand the interminable romance or the ending.

The third film in a trilogy is always the hardest to get right, so why Disney seems intent on shooting themselves in the kidney before they even start is beyond me.

After he finishes Ready Player One, Spielberg should just do Episode IX before going into Indiana Jones 5. Or since that franchise is already toast, just skip that and go right into Robopocalypse.

I think the contrast has a lot to do with how much green is apparent in the final image. The first scanned image ‘pops’ in terms of color, though it has crushed highlights and shadows. This makes her skin tone appear red in the shadows. Also, in all of the scans Panaka’s shirt never looks as green as in your averaged image.

The version where Hux says ‘The Resistance…it is wreckage’ was the result of taking it into Audacity and manipulating the pitch. It’s a weird sentence structure but it’s the best I can think of using Hux’s limited lines. The problem is that he almost never says anything in the past tense, always ‘we’ll soon have it’, ‘We will destroy the government that supports’, etc. Perhaps this is something that will have to wait until V3 of this project, after The Last Jedi gives us more to work with.

Not having access to my calibrated monitor is killing me right now.

Based on my crappy laptop screen, these look great. It can’t fix the image errors that plague the Blu-ray, but if someone attempts a project like this in the future, it hopefully won’t take them years. 😃

darth_ender said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa0lMzaljTk

Quality Post.

TV’s Frink said:

NeverarGreat said:

TV’s Frink said:

NeverarGreat said:

Clever content here.

I hate to say it but

NeverarGreat said:

yhwx said:

No

Quality contribution.

Twas the height of folly to press the ‘create thread’ button before at least summarizing my position. Thirty lashes for the accused!

But now you’ve edited the OP with actual content, thus rendering my statement incoherent.

Ruling:

Zero!

Ah, but I have immortalized it in a previous post, rendering it coherent again!

Ruling:

Hero!

yhwx said:

NeverarGreat said:

yhwx said:

No

Quality contribution.

After thinking about it for a bit, I niw regret that post. I was trying to be snarky but it probably wasn’t even funny, and has now impeded serious discussion of the topic at hand. I know I have a reputation for shitposting around here, and I think most people here would think that that post is a shitpost. I apologize.

Don’t worry about it. I deserved it for my ‘clever content here’ placeholder post, but I just felt strongly about getting this thread out there before I could talk myself out of it.

TV’s Frink said:

NeverarGreat said:

Clever content here.

I hate to say it but

NeverarGreat said:

yhwx said:

No

Quality contribution.

Twas the height of folly to press the ‘create thread’ button before at least summarizing my position. Thirty lashes for the accused!

yhwx said:

No

Quality contribution.

Lord Haseo said:

NeverarGreat said:

I was making a statement about the Randian leanings of Zack Snyder.
You already said that you don’t identify with Snyder’s Superman, and I wasn’t trying to imply that.

My apologies.

This image of Superman is merely an example of the ‘few great men’ who lead humanity into new ages of capitalist prosperity despite the (according to Rand) laziness and common meanness of the vast sea of humanity.

Given all his bouts with Darkseid and other beings of his nature I would say Superman is pretty important on a Cosmic level. The people reaching for him mean nothing when when we’re talking about events of that magnitude.

I’d like to continue discussing Objectivism and my objections to it, so I’ve created a thread for continued discussion: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Zero-or-Hero-A-Discussion-about-Objectivism-vs-Subjectivism/id/55592

Hopefully this thread can return to the images of its former self.

As much as it frightens me to contemplate, there are many people who subscribe to the idea that most human beings are insignificant, worthless, and contemptible. I believe this stems from a materialistic, ‘Objectivist’ view of the world, wherein only physical facts comprise Truth and only those who capitalize, produce, or otherwise exert influence in the world are worthy of value or praise.

The Objectivist philosophy is well-known, just read any of Ayn Rand’s books such as Atlas Shrugged (or try to and then get desperately bored and skim through the final fifty pages of pontification to get to the end, like I did). However, although there exist fairly well-developed versions of opposing ‘Subjectivist’ philosophy such as Idealism, none is particularly clear.

So here is my philosophy, put here for consideration: Like in most Idealist formulations, the universe is ultimately an illusion. Unlike Idealism however, in my view nothing exists, not even mind. This nothingness is fundamentally undefined, and so it can appear to be anything, and this gives rise to the illusion of the universe.

Science has a lot to say about consistent natural phenomena, but it can say nothing beyond the fact that they are consistent. Science cannot find ultimate Truth, and natural phenomena cannot be proven to be true, merely consistent in their behavior. There is a difference between facts and Truth.

Even though nothingness is undefined, and thus ultimately unknowable, one can approximate fairly well its basic attributes. It is singular, simple, unchanging, dimensionless, and pure. Just consider a point. It is also True, and for that reason it is the subjective core of all things. I believe that it is the soul that religion speaks of, and all life shares this simple, beautiful Truth.

So when someone tells me that humanity is worthless, or the universe is without meaning, I will cordially disagree. Life creates meaning through an exploration of the illusion that is the universe, for the more falseness we know, the more we can understand Truth, and ourselves. Self awareness arises from this relationship with falseness. It always changes, but its source is always the soul.

So in summary: Zero! (but isn’t that kind of heroic?)

I was making a statement about the Randian leanings of Zack Snyder.
You already said that you don’t identify with Snyder’s Superman, and I wasn’t trying to imply that.
This image of Superman is merely an example of the ‘few great men’ who lead humanity into new ages of capitalist prosperity despite the (according to Rand) laziness and common meanness of the vast sea of humanity.

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/06/15/the-book-of-henry-is-not-your-average-garbage-movie#disqus_thread

This is bad. Like, really bad. Disney’s got to hire someone competent to direct this movie.

Lord Haseo said:

NeverarGreat said:

I dunno, you seem to also be able to read and write, something that most people throughout history were unable to achieve.

A more substantial thing to take into account is the accolades these people. Billions dead yet hardly of them brought about the world we live in now in any discernible way. Currently there are billions alive yet only a small fraction of them will propel humanity forward.

It’s going to be really weird when machines start replacing all the people working menial jobs.

Randian Objectivism is usually a stone’s throw from total nihilism.

ENTIRELY RANDM PICTURE:

I had a dream that we were watching The Last Jedi, and it was a horrible, boring mess. I couldn’t even pay attention to the movie and kept zoning out until a part set on Skellig Michael. There were AT-ATs walking around a stone temple in a cave on the island, and they had to walk around big stone letters that spelled out THE LAST JEDI in English. Then it cut to an alien world where an ‘adorable’ CGI creature hopped around and talked about random rubbish to a 3-inch tall Finn. Then there was something about the lava villain from Moana chasing us around a port town, and then I woke up.

I dunno, you seem to also be able to read and write, something that most people throughout history were unable to achieve.

I’ve been able to find the widescreen VHS and the accompanying filmstrip. The only thing on hand to scan this is this film converter: https://www.amazon.com/Wolverine-Mighty-Digital-Converter-Bundle/dp/B00YB15SS8/ref=pd_day0_421_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00YB15SS8&pd_rd_r=SBK5CEN7W115QY6QKTTC&pd_rd_w=5n2As&pd_rd_wg=QPl0f&psc=1&refRID=SBK5CEN7W115QY6QKTTC

So it’s not ideal, but let’s see what it can do:

Not bad, but just in case I made two extra scans at either end of the exposure curve:


For comparison, here’s what the Blu-ray looks like:

CatBus said:

I’m saying that Trump’s allies control the House and the Senate, and they have already bent over backward to avoid investigating this matter, so it’s abundantly clear what they’d do if he fired Mueller (same thing as when he fired Comey–either nothing at all, talk about how Mueller was a liberal partisan hack, or the McCain Special*). The courts have no legal authority to investigate, prosecute, or remove a President, so it doesn’t matter where they stand.

* Talk about what a sad, bad, terrible thing this is. Outrageous, unwarranted, and unprecedented. And then do nothing.

I agree with you, just making a Star Wars reference.

Warbler said:

CatBus said:

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

So WaPo is reporting that Trump is under investigation by Mueller for possible obstruction of justice, and there’s also a report that Trump floated the idea of firing Mueller publicly in order to influence Mueller to go easy on the investigation.

Amazing.

I hope he does fire Mueller it will add ammunition to the case.

More to the case, yes… but with nobody left to prosecute it.

I think a lot of people underestimate how lucky we are to have a Special Prosecutor in the first place. If the stars hadn’t aligned just right, the only things checking the power of this menace would have been the House, the Senate, and the courts. And while the courts are doing an admirable job going it alone on the whole checks and balances business, there are some things they simply lack the legal authority to do.

There’s this school of thought that if Trump indirectly fires Mueller by cycling through justice department heads just like Nixon did (he can’t fire him directly), that this will lead to widespread outrage, and that this outrage will lead to Trump’s goose finally being cooked. But what’s missing from this theory is the legal mechanism and authority that would cause Trump’s downfall. Courts can’t do it. House and Senate won’t do it. 25th amendment? Pfft, Trump’s own hand-picked cabinet of sycophants won’t do it. Voters? Show me how any amount of voter outrage can work against this map to do anything but give Trump an even friendlier Senate than he already has, and don’t even talk about House maps. Where’s the realistic path? Are we counting on military coups now? [Different, friendly] foreign interventions? Alien abductions?

Mueller is all we have. Please don’t wish for him to be fired just so you can feel the rush of righteous indignation, because it would only be followed by the utter incredulity of watching nobody doing anything about it.

Nixon did it and there was still a mechanism that eventually led to his downfall.

Yeah, but it took a Democratic majority.

Are you saying that Trump has control of the courts and the Senate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXlao2KNYjQ
Tommy Wiseau and Star Wars? Yes please.

Wish I could do more than crummy mockups but I’m away from the data tapes for a few days.

The audio needs to be shifted forward almost a full second to work in this case.