Random roundup
I found this warning on a story the other day. I sporfled.
"This story will contain exceptionally heavy levels of angst, misfortune, agony, and uncertainty."
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Best description of married life ever:
The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and the princess lived happily, and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.
- GK Chesterton
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I remember seeing Babylon 5 on TV, and thinking that the special effects were brilliant. And then years later I got the DVDs, and all I could think was that my memory must have been faulty. Or special effects had improved so much in the intervening time that it made that stuff look cheap.
I found the following quote that explained it, though, and I feel better. In a way. 'Cause now I know my memory was good, but on the other hand I guess we'll never have the chance to see it the way it was meant to be seen.
"The DVD release of Babylon 5 has awful-looking CGI. The series was shot widescreen with the intent to letterbox it for high definition broadcasts and DVD later (though it was broadcast in 4:3 originally). The creators intended to re-render all the CGI to match the DVD's letterbox presentation, but the models for the CGI were lost, so they had to resort to cropping the standard-def graphics. As a result, there is a noticeable drop in picture quality whenever there is a CGI element on screen."
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Listed as "The funniest Whose Line Is It Anyway? clip EVER". I can't vouch for that, but it's definitely up there. Not really all that safe for work.
Richard Simmons on WLIIA--Living Scenery Sketch
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I apologize to the Twitter peeps who keep seeing this. Now that I've put it here, maybe I'll shut up about it. Maybe.
John Simm in the "Here to Stay" video (by New Order). You don't have to have any idea of what's going on in this video to enjoy it. I don't. Who cares? John Simm/Photographer Boy w00t!
What? I'm just sayin'.
"This story will contain exceptionally heavy levels of angst, misfortune, agony, and uncertainty."
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Best description of married life ever:
The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and the princess lived happily, and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.
- GK Chesterton
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I remember seeing Babylon 5 on TV, and thinking that the special effects were brilliant. And then years later I got the DVDs, and all I could think was that my memory must have been faulty. Or special effects had improved so much in the intervening time that it made that stuff look cheap.
I found the following quote that explained it, though, and I feel better. In a way. 'Cause now I know my memory was good, but on the other hand I guess we'll never have the chance to see it the way it was meant to be seen.
"The DVD release of Babylon 5 has awful-looking CGI. The series was shot widescreen with the intent to letterbox it for high definition broadcasts and DVD later (though it was broadcast in 4:3 originally). The creators intended to re-render all the CGI to match the DVD's letterbox presentation, but the models for the CGI were lost, so they had to resort to cropping the standard-def graphics. As a result, there is a noticeable drop in picture quality whenever there is a CGI element on screen."
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Listed as "The funniest Whose Line Is It Anyway? clip EVER". I can't vouch for that, but it's definitely up there. Not really all that safe for work.
Richard Simmons on WLIIA--Living Scenery Sketch
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I apologize to the Twitter peeps who keep seeing this. Now that I've put it here, maybe I'll shut up about it. Maybe.
John Simm in the "Here to Stay" video (by New Order). You don't have to have any idea of what's going on in this video to enjoy it. I don't. Who cares? John Simm/Photographer Boy w00t!
What? I'm just sayin'.