This is a fair point. If people demanded their money back when a film has bad audio, I wonder if that might incentivise the industry to care more about this.
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This is a real pet annoyance of mine, and I have seeing apologist posts on the internet about it.
If the actors cant enunciate properly except when they’re shouting, that’s not adding realism, they’re doing bad acting.
If the sound engineers can’t get a good audio balance for anything except the loudest moment in a film, that’s not a limitation of technology/sound physics, they’re bad at mixing.
If the director can’t keep all of this in check and make a film that people can actually enjoy, that’s not artistic choice, they’ve made a bad film.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•(Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46]English22·25 days agoI’m surprised VLC fares that badly with CCs encoded this way. Usually it’s pretty good. I’m also now wondering if ffmpeg also shares the same problem
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AIEnglish10·1 month agoFor a brief brief moment I was elated when I parsed the title as ‘Palantir says it has given up on AI’. Then I read the article and was left dejected.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"English7·2 months agoAbsolutely. Screenshots of 3d desktop cube on ubuntu more than a decade ago is what taught me linux existed. It’s an absolutely terrible and inefficient way to run desktop workspaces, but it hooked me all the same.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphonesEnglish14·2 months agoUsers need to know what this dot means, and some like children or the elderly will likely not understand the ramifications
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Daystrom Institute@startrek.website•Interesting Observation of Ferengi Gender Roles in Nagus Rom EraEnglish1·2 months agoI’m not sure if centre-right is a characterisation you can make of ferengi politics in this way.
I usually associate the left/right distinction as an indicator of mainly economic policy. We know that things like unions, worker rights, etc (leftist economic ideals) have never been big on fereginar. I don’t think there’s been that big a shift even with union man Rom at the helm.
I think that attitudes towards social issues like women’s rights are completely orthogonal to economic ones. It’s easy looking at current human political tribalism to group everyone on a left/right binary, but consider that during DS9 Rom, the economic leftist, did not at all like his mother wearing clothes and being open. If anything, the economically right leaning quark was less bothered by it.
those kanji in that order are read as “kawaii”
OK, but all the ticks can go die in a fire
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Science Memes@mander.xyz•Depart, men of education.English43·3 months agoAbsolutely all foreigners - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly67j35y99o
ahem, that’s PROFESSOR Hanks, thank you very much
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Gaming@beehaw.org•Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 20th1·5 months agoIt’s honestly not amazing. It’s a third person shooter across multiple different levels of built up environments, offices, corridors. The enemy AI is pretty terrible, and although there are different tactics you can use to “hack” and take over enemies or melee, it’s usually just easier to shoot.
But the parkour style navigation stood out. You can do wall jumping, which I was not expecting, and there are hidden pickups you can explore and find. And the open environments are nice (the corridors can feel a bit samey after a few levels).
It feels like one of those tie-ins that, had the dev team had more time to explore, balance, and really make it into its own game, might have been really good.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Gaming@beehaw.org•Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 20th7·5 months agoI’ve downloaded some old PS2 era games. Some of the gameplay is quite dated, but I really enjoy the retro feel of the environments and graphics. Perfect photorealism isn’t always necessary to enjoy a game. I’ve been playing Burnout and Ghost in the Shell SAC.
If you are going to make me put a coin into a cart because you don’t trust me to be an adult and tidy up after myself without being nannied, then I am going to do my damndest to bypass your lock and leave a mess out of spite.
In the shops where I am trusted and not required to pay a coin (I never even carry cash these days) I tidy up because that is the decent thing to do.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity)English3·6 months ago“The two models, the 30TB … and the 32TB …, each offer a minimum of 3TB per disk”. Well, yes, I would hope something advertised as being 30TB would offer at least 3TB. Am I misreading this sentence somehow?
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto memes@lemmy.world•Some people just defend the status quo.15·6 months agoTo all the people saying they should release server source code: You don’t even need to do that (as nice as it would be). At the very basic level all that is needed is:
- remove DRM (which probably cost more effort to add in the first place)
- a description of the API for any online components (which any decent dev team will already have internally documented)
SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•FBI offers $50,000 reward for information about gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare’s CEO5·7 months agomagic databases containing the location of every flower shop cross referenced by geolocation and joined to the magic database of endangered beetle habitat
Open Street Map has entered the chat
In fairness, cheese from france is probably safer raw because they don’t have as many superfarms that are as prone to spreading diseases like bird flu
This is why you keep a several hundred megabytes history file set to remember “forever”