Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!

Ya ever just sit there and think about something that happened a while ago that made you mildly upset... but then you just don't stop thinking about it. Next thing you know, you can't get that instant out of your head and you just want to smack someone? I walked into that trap this evening.

My older cousin had two kids with this spoiled, wannabe thug who's been withholding child support for years. Now she's dating this new thug wannabe guy who invited all his creepy friends to our Mardi Gras parade spot (this was over 2 damn weeks ago. How dumb is it that I'm stewing about this? Oh well... kind of nice to know I have the free time to actually stew this evening.) Well anyway, these guys are all watching the parade, and these high school dancing troupe marches by and does their little routine. People are applauding and throwing them beads and asking for an encore, and what are this guy's friends doing? They're fucking cat-calling the 16-year-old girls and saying stuff like "yeah baby, show me that ass!"

....Really? It was pretty disgusting. They're close to 30. And ok, maybe it wasn't the boyfriend himself who was shouting these things, but the company he keeps is making me nervous. Her kids are screwed up enough from their first shitty dad. Bah... not my business and nothing I can do, but why does she have to hate dating guys who understand that being a badass doesn't mean posturing like some kind of neck-tattooed rooster with a noisy muffler pipe and no manners?

#firstworldproblems

I'm annoyed that the top of the line 40" Sony Bravia that I scrimped and saved for back in 2007 has a picture that looks so much worse than the Wal-mart Samsung I bought this past summer. I've calibrated both with the AVS's calibration blu-ray, but the Samsung just has a better range of brights and darks I guess. I realize that there's a five year difference in there, but both are 1080p, and I paid about a tenth of what I paid for the Sony to buy the Samsung.

I also think interpolated frames are da debil.

I don't need my TV to interpolate motion, the drugs do that for me.

This is an argument that predates HDTVs by decades. Think about when Twilight Zone switched to video from film. People didn't like it. They still don't like it. People prefer 24 fps because it has that film look. 60 fps, or some other interpolated framerate looks too good, and people don't like their video to look too good. Too good has become equated with cheap, because cheaper cameras frankly capture motion better by design. Or rather, the expensive cameras have been intentionally hobbled to 24 fps to recreate the judder we all love so much. No judgement there. I certainly prefer the aesthetic of 24p. Some authors have gone so far as to try to justify it by saying 24fps is closer to how we perceive real life, and what we see in 30p or 60p as "too good" is an artifact of our brains misinterpreting too many still pictures flying by at once.

I'm really looking forward to the reaction film snobs have to watching The Hobbit in 48 fps.

Azurephoenix said:

Here's the thing... if the film is natively shot in 48fps then it will look fine at that frame rate because that's how it was shot. Watching something shot in 24fps at 240fps plus major frame interpolation is totally different.

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I was referring to those film snobs who hate the look of video because it's natively 60 fps, not frame interpolation.

makare said:

does anyone else see azurephoenix's text as different than everyone else's? it looks weird.

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Yes, he's manually changing his font to arial so it looks like this.

All things considered, I prefer arial myself, but am too lazy to adjust it.