Always will miss you, Vin.
June 6, 2019
June 5, 2019
Blue Monday in the key of Richard Spencer
Youtube just banned white supremacist content from their site.
Free speech advocates are calling this a slippery slope while obviously ignoring part where free speech does not mean free of the consequences of the things you say.
If going after Nazis is a slippery slope then I kinda wanna see what’s at the bottom of that slope. It’s probably rainbows and fluffy bunnies.
Free speech advocates are calling this a slippery slope while obviously ignoring part where free speech does not mean free of the consequences of the things you say.
If going after Nazis is a slippery slope then I kinda wanna see what’s at the bottom of that slope. It’s probably rainbows and fluffy bunnies.
May 6, 2019
MOO
When it comes to the story of the golden calf... who would have thought that Christians would settle for an orange pig?
September 11, 2018
We'll fix it in post
In case you ever wondered how tv and film productions prepare devices for the screen... Found this image on a phone that was used for a video call scene in Sense8. I snagged this from a prop auction hoping I'd see the video the actor (Toby Onwumere) was acting to, but no... Just chroma key masks. Still pretty interesting...
June 18, 2018
Broken facade
Republicans and other right wingers are calling the children in cages 'crisis actors.' Apparently when one lacks the capability to feel empathy, all suffering that isn't experienced by them directly looks like acting. Republicanism in a nutshell.
All Democrats and Independents in Senate back No Child Separation bill. All of them. Not one member of the "party of family values" supports the bill to prevent children from being separated from their parents. Republicans have ZERO moral ground left to stand on.
All Democrats and Independents in Senate back No Child Separation bill. All of them. Not one member of the "party of family values" supports the bill to prevent children from being separated from their parents. Republicans have ZERO moral ground left to stand on.
June 8, 2018
PSA
Telling people with depression to 'reach out' is the 'thoughts and prayers' of the mental health world. It's condescending and it doesn't help.
Mental health issues often need the kind of help that those who suffer from it cannot give to themselves or feel like they can reach out to others for.
When a celebrity dies, don't say "Oh, that's so sad," and post a suicide hotline number. Look around you, RECOGNIZE those who suffer... and reach out directly to them instead.
Mental health issues often need the kind of help that those who suffer from it cannot give to themselves or feel like they can reach out to others for.
When a celebrity dies, don't say "Oh, that's so sad," and post a suicide hotline number. Look around you, RECOGNIZE those who suffer... and reach out directly to them instead.
Otherwise we feel overlooked in part of a grander message that comes off like a platitude. Means well but ultimately does nothing.
September 5, 2017
November 9, 2016
Predicted
The "What the fuck happened?" movie trilogy:
- Network (1976)
- Bulworth (1998)
- Idiocracy (2006)
Bonus supplement: Dr. Strangelove (1964)
November 3, 2016
History
The last time the Cubs won the world series, women couldn't vote... or as Trump supporters call it, "the good old days."
September 8, 2016
$199 Add-On
I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs would be rolling his grave right now but the problem is he needs an adapter to do it.
February 15, 2016
Plague Among Us
Things that encourage piracy:
I decided to rent 5 movies for a long weekend at the studio. Our studio is full of professional gear, so we expect our shit to always work. FOUR of the five DVDs I rented would not play. They were brand new, no scratches. They couldn't play because of copy protection. The copy protection was so severe that I couldn't play them on anything we had in the studio. Not the MacPros, not the professional $5,000 reference DVD Player, not the professional kiosk playback machines, not the burner machine, nothing. I couldn't get a refund on my rental fees for the four movies I could not watch.
Thus officially ended my desire to bother with legitimate channels.
Copy protection and region restrictions only affect legitimate customers. When I download a torrent, I KNOW I won't have any issues playing the movie. No unskippable trailers, no warnings in twenty different languages, no annoying menus that cause even the most beefy players to lag, nothing but the movie I want to watch. No hassle, no time restrictions on streaming, no physical DRM to hamper my ability to play it. No blocking of my being able to watch it because I'm in the wrong country. Even if it were to cost me double the cost of a rental, Pirates have a better product.
The industry (of which I am a part and do everything i can to discourage DRM and price gouging) needs to pull its head out of its ass and stop with the bullshit they themselves are causing that drive people to easier methods to consume entertainment.
- Unreasonable prices,
- DRM/Copy protection,
- Lack of availability.
I decided to rent 5 movies for a long weekend at the studio. Our studio is full of professional gear, so we expect our shit to always work. FOUR of the five DVDs I rented would not play. They were brand new, no scratches. They couldn't play because of copy protection. The copy protection was so severe that I couldn't play them on anything we had in the studio. Not the MacPros, not the professional $5,000 reference DVD Player, not the professional kiosk playback machines, not the burner machine, nothing. I couldn't get a refund on my rental fees for the four movies I could not watch.
Thus officially ended my desire to bother with legitimate channels.
Copy protection and region restrictions only affect legitimate customers. When I download a torrent, I KNOW I won't have any issues playing the movie. No unskippable trailers, no warnings in twenty different languages, no annoying menus that cause even the most beefy players to lag, nothing but the movie I want to watch. No hassle, no time restrictions on streaming, no physical DRM to hamper my ability to play it. No blocking of my being able to watch it because I'm in the wrong country. Even if it were to cost me double the cost of a rental, Pirates have a better product.
The industry (of which I am a part and do everything i can to discourage DRM and price gouging) needs to pull its head out of its ass and stop with the bullshit they themselves are causing that drive people to easier methods to consume entertainment.
February 14, 2016
But wait! There's more!
Now that Scalia is gone, does this mean another one of Reagan's horcruxes is destroyed?
October 17, 2014
March 26, 2014
Pocket Change
Facebook purchased Instagram for $1B, Oculus for $2B, and WhatsApp for $19B. Mystery to me where those numbers come from.
