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Noah

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Noah

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Saw in person on the shelf of the Vinegar Syndrome store in Toronto back in January! Great release, love to support cool 3D productions

Titles on the shelf in the Toronto store Vinegar Syndrome. The titles include Charlie Victor Romeo with an orange slipcover in Blu-ray 3D.

May 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM

Noah

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Space is going to finally be glam,” Katy Perry said, bizarrely. “Let me tell you something. If I could take glam up with me, I would do that. We are going to put the ‘ass’ in astronaut.”

April 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM

Noah

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It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna . . . things that took five billion years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind. It filled me with dread. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.

April 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM

Noah

@xenago.bsky.social

Quinn seems worst affected. Gosh, these compression algorithms are so much worse...

awful ai comressed image of joseph quinn in fantastic 4

April 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM

Noah

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like seriously, does nobody see how this is a major problem? Older videos don't even have the option of being uploaded in a larger container. If you go back to some of your old faves you'll be so disappointed....

awful ml-compressed version of sue storm

April 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM

Noah

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YouTube and twitter are really turning up the dial on their awful ai-ml video encoding. Everything looks disgusting when compared to higher quality original copies.

I wish companies like Disney were smart enough to upload their videos in 2160p containers to get around this mess, but alas.

awful ml-compressed version of johnny storm

awful ml-compressed version of an explosion from fantastic four trailer

April 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM

Noah

@xenago.bsky.social

BC roads are about to get a lot more dangerous.

The British Columbia government is making changes to its graduated drivers licensing regime, eliminating the need for a second road test to obtain a full licence.

Public Safety Minister Garry Begg says the changes, if approved, will see new drivers get "on-road experience" and be subject to a 12-month restriction rather than be required to take another test to get their Class 5 licence.

April 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM

Noah

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When one of the interview subjects makes the comparison to Geforce now streaming is when I knew they were totally out to lunch. There is no overlap between running an HDMI cable over the internet and hallucinating gameplay with generative ml tools lmao

At the same time, he says, "if you think about those streaming services where you were playing at home and your keyboard inputs were being sent to a server," such as say, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Nvidia GeForce Now, Amazon Luna or the doomed Google Stadia, "your computer was just showing you video. And the video was kind of conditioned on keyboard inputs."

April 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM

Noah

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Canada absolutely needs to repeal The Preclearance Act, 2016.

It prevents Canadian citizens from leaving American border facilities when still on home soil, among other ridiculous provisions like allowing CBP officers to be armed!

From CAUT Travel advisory:
www.caut.ca/sites/defaul...

Enhanced Powers of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers at
Canadian Preclearance Zones
U.S. preclearance zones are in eight Canadian airports: Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto,
Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax. Preclearance zones are also located at the Vancouver train terminal, Port of
Vancouver and some B.C.-Washington State ferry routes. There are also proposals for new preclearance zones at
Toronto’s Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (YTZ) and Montreal’s train station for Amtrak services to the U.S.
In the Preclearance Act, 2016 – which came into force in August 2019 – the powers of U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) officers in Canadian preclearance zones were expanded beyond what was originally enacted in
the 1999 version of the Preclearance Act. These changes in powers include:
▪ Canadians can no longer simply withdraw from a preclearance zone after entry.
▪ Under the new Act, travellers in preclearance zones may now be detained by CBP officers and required to
answer identity questions and explain their reasons for seeking to withdraw from the preclearance zone.
While detaining a traveller seeking to withdraw must be without “unreasonable delay,” the length of
such a delay is not defined under the new Act.
▪ Physical searches, including strip searches, may be conducted by U.S. officers when a Canadian police
officer is unavailable or unwilling to conduct such a search.
▪ If Canada Border Services Agency officers are armed in a location where there is a preclearance zone,
then CBP officers in the preclearance zone may now also carry firearms.2
While Canadian law continues to apply in preclearance zones, including human rights legislation and the Charter
of Rights and Freedoms, CBP powers are enhanced under the new Preclearance Act and the ability to enforce
Canadian law is effectively constrained by provisions of the Act

April 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM

Noah

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Image for the blocked

April 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM

Noah

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Image of post for backup

Letter from FIFA criminals denying photojournalist access

April 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM

Noah

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Cineplex is now attempting to gaslight me 😂 dawg, I am older than 6 years old and know what different shapes look like.

Cineplex email lying to customer.

Good day,

We did receive a response from the location.

They have confirmed that the movie was shown in proper format.

"The film is being shown in Flat. If we were showing it in Scope, it would warp the image on screen. I verified with the playlist and the projector that it is being shown in Flat format/"

Please feel free to follow up with the location further with your complaint.

Sorry for any inconviences.

Regards,

Ref:MSG7653082_aXoRbhwyCiC2U0oXBM0l

April 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM

Noah

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Cineplex is incapable of understanding how aspect ratios work... 😵
I'm gonna get in touch with the distributor this time, it is getting ridiculous.

Minecraft movie cropped to scope instead of presented in flat

April 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM

Noah

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One of the few remaining bright spots on facebook are the groups of boomers sharing stereoscopic left-right images to freeview like magic eye lol

National Stereoscopic Association
Oktay Akdeniz
After using my Huawei P20 cell phone for over seven years with full satisfaction I decided to upgrade it with another phone that has a very high quality camera.
(set of 3d left-right stereo pair images)

April 3, 2025 at 3:49 AM

Noah

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Note that it is possible to disable Gemini on Android and go back to the semi-usable "Assistant" instead.

Screenshot of Android Assistant app asking if Gemini should be the default

March 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM

Noah

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The dozens of us dedicated fans of The Marvels are delighted by the latest episode of Daredevil 😄

Daredevil 1x05 "With Interest"; image of Yusuf Khan's 'NY Mutual Bank' nametag

March 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM

Noah

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Gotta be Duck Dodgers' Green Lantern, The Green Loontern

Duck dodgers Lego Batman
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Duck_Dodgers_(Lego_Batman)

March 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Noah

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Rocks for brains

USD is faster-horse technology -Ryan Schmidt

March 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM

Noah

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A person with Autodesk and Epic in bio hates that people donate to open source software projects instead of paying for awful proprietary programs 💀

Bad Faith award winner 2025?
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March 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM

Noah

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The 3-D Film Archive is restoring Cat-Women of the Moon properly in stereoscopic 3D from original elements, in cooperation with Film Masters! Wow, this is amazing news for accessibility and the preservation of cinema history.
forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.p...
#filmsky #bluray #physicalmedia #film

Facebook post by the 3-D Film Archive:

https://www.facebook.com/3DFilmArchiveLLC/posts/pfbid02Rq2ZoUXw8DjPH2hayLRKLNgyBtSpR8aitAUkpiKqnoLx6mYA5NJftSasXMRi5kXVl

Premiering flat in New York City 71 years ago, 3-D Film Archive is thrilled to announce that we are working with Film Masters to fully restore CAT-WOMEN OF THE MOON in widescreen 3-D from the original left/right 35mm master elements.
Look for a 3-D Blu-ray release of this exciting new 4K restoration in 2026!

March 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM

Noah

@xenago.bsky.social

Oh no...

Steam review for fate remastered:
The new UI is absolutely horrid, but let's move past that.
One of the first things I noticed after fishing up a flawless fish in town was that my new flame beetle pet's idle animations were broken. Alright, I can deal with that.
You can't move while your inventory's open anymore.
I get to floor 2 and get my 2nd tooltip pop-up. "Send your pet to pick up items by shift+clicking on them."
That doesn't work.
Floor 3, "You can command your pet to interact with merchants to sell directly from their inventory."
Guess what? Doesn't work.
Yeah, I'm nitpicking here, but I'm not sure anyone that played the original tested this.
Lazy Gamigo type ♥♥♥♥ for sure. Refund time. Just go play the original, don't support Gamigo.

March 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM

Noah

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Wait, the fall of 3D movies? As a projectionist I'm confused what you mean. Stereoscopic films come out all the time haha. We just screened Wicked in 3D, and the biggest movie right now is Ne Zha 2, a Chinese 3D film 😄