TheUmgawa
TheUmgawa t1_jdtg3xk wrote
Reply to Everyone talks about how huge Andromeda will look in the sky billions of years from now. I present you what the Milky Way *currently* looks like in the skies of our neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud. We appear absolutely huge in their skies! [Simulated view] by lampiaio
I'm glad OP informed us that this is a simulated view. Otherwise I would have thought OP had a really long selfie stick.
TheUmgawa t1_jcjuj0g wrote
Reply to comment by ixid in Pornhub owner MindGeek sold to Ottawa private equity firm by marketrent
Whi-TSSSH!
"Sorey."
Whi-TSSSH!
"Sorey."
TheUmgawa t1_jcirojm wrote
Reply to comment by EmbarrassedHelp in Pornhub owner MindGeek sold to Ottawa private equity firm by marketrent
It's really going to take something out of S&M pornography when the person with the whip apologizes after every lash.
TheUmgawa t1_j6pgroy wrote
Reply to comment by FanOfPeace in 2 big pieces of space junk nearly collide in orbital 'bad neighborhood' by jeffsmith202
On the upside, it also provides natural protection against alien invasion. You gotta look at the glass as half full.
TheUmgawa t1_j6hwo3c wrote
Reply to comment by Laileena in Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Al St. John, 1918. Once his deadpan persona became established, Keaton avoided smiling in front of a camera. by L0st_in_the_Stars
Film stock in 1918 wasn’t the most high-quality stuff, compared to the hyperfine grain stuff you get today, and shot selection at the time was still very limited, in that … it wasn’t exactly “Set the camera for a shot and let it roll for a couple of minutes,” like it was a decade and a half before, but we’re still three decades from the first movie that looks and is edited like a modern movie (that’s why Citizen Kane is so important), so most of the movie is done in medium shots, with close-ups used only sparingly.
As a result, you have to use a lot of makeup to make sure an actor’s facial feature don’t disappear into a blur on the film. It’s very similar to why stage actors wear similar makeup, because the person in the nosebleed seats doesn’t need to be able to see what color your eyes are, but he has to be able to see you have eyes.
TheUmgawa t1_j5xmzcb wrote
Reply to comment by Pretend_Range4129 in TIL American WW2 airplanes were sent to war unpainted starting in 1943. The polished surface made the planes faster and lighter, giving more range to all planes and more cargo hold for the bombers by PatmygroinB
An accurate enough bombardier could wreck someone’s day with either one.
TheUmgawa t1_j5xmkap wrote
Reply to comment by Capepoints in TIL American WW2 airplanes were sent to war unpainted starting in 1943. The polished surface made the planes faster and lighter, giving more range to all planes and more cargo hold for the bombers by PatmygroinB
Painting technology has changed substantially in just the past forty years, let alone the past eighty. The thickness of your car’s entire paint job is thinner than a single coat of paint from the 1970s.
TheUmgawa t1_j5xmcjk wrote
Reply to comment by hansn in TIL American WW2 airplanes were sent to war unpainted starting in 1943. The polished surface made the planes faster and lighter, giving more range to all planes and more cargo hold for the bombers by PatmygroinB
Pretty sure they’re huffing the paint on Spirit.
TheUmgawa t1_j5xm90c wrote
Reply to comment by be4u4get in TIL American WW2 airplanes were sent to war unpainted starting in 1943. The polished surface made the planes faster and lighter, giving more range to all planes and more cargo hold for the bombers by PatmygroinB
Ain’t you ever heard of watercolors? I got my Prang set around here somewhere, I’ll show ya.
TheUmgawa t1_j5g9pxl wrote
Reply to comment by ImpactNext1283 in Looking for movies with a dramatically different director’s cut by pornthrowaway1421
Yeah, if I want to watch Apocalypse Now, I’m just going to watch Apocalypse Now.
TheUmgawa t1_j5dupkw wrote
Reply to comment by up_down_underwater in TIL Germs and Foo Fighters guitarist Pat Smear appears as one of the dancers in Prince's 1985 video for "Raspberry Beret." Dave Grohl in the book "I Want My MTV": "Pat can't dance so they sent him home (...) Prince whispers in the bodyguard's ear. Bodyguard says, 'You can stay. He likes your hair.'" by Bubbly-Incident
Kurt found Pat in the SST Superstore. It's not like they ran into each other while they were shopping; Pat was working the counter. Because that's what you did when you were between gigs. Sometimes it'd be a few weeks, sometimes it'd be a few years, but you still got to be around music and you still got to network with people.
TheUmgawa t1_j5dudfx wrote
Reply to comment by mattdangerously in TIL Germs and Foo Fighters guitarist Pat Smear appears as one of the dancers in Prince's 1985 video for "Raspberry Beret." Dave Grohl in the book "I Want My MTV": "Pat can't dance so they sent him home (...) Prince whispers in the bodyguard's ear. Bodyguard says, 'You can stay. He likes your hair.'" by Bubbly-Incident
"Is THAT who the guy onstage with us at Unplugged and on the entire last tour was...?"
TheUmgawa t1_j5duabg wrote
Reply to TIL Germs and Foo Fighters guitarist Pat Smear appears as one of the dancers in Prince's 1985 video for "Raspberry Beret." Dave Grohl in the book "I Want My MTV": "Pat can't dance so they sent him home (...) Prince whispers in the bodyguard's ear. Bodyguard says, 'You can stay. He likes your hair.'" by Bubbly-Incident
Ah, but did you know that Trent Reznor appears for about thirty seconds in the film Light of Day as part of a post-New Wave pre-Industrial pop trio?
TheUmgawa t1_j5dpyc6 wrote
Reply to comment by yanbu in Looking for movies with a dramatically different director’s cut by pornthrowaway1421
I think people don't care for Ad Astra because nobody wanted to see Apocalypse Now in space. Also, they make it a point to mention that Brad Pitt's heart rate never gets above 80 or something, and neither does the audience's while watching the movie.
TheUmgawa t1_j3rp3sl wrote
Reply to comment by SpinCharm in Samsung's New 8K Projector: Screen Size Can Ramp Up to 150 Inches by No-Drawing-6975
I got a Spinal Tap “None More Black” model, and the solar farm twenty miles away pays me four hundred thirty-seven dollars a week to not turn the black light on during daylight hours. Yes, it goes to 11.
TheUmgawa t1_j2z5f1p wrote
Reply to comment by kento472b in ROG puts 18-inch screens in its latest Strix gaming laptops by Avieshek
It's not even a laptop, at this point. We're back to the era of "portables," in that the battery life is pretty much just enough to make it from one power plug to another, or maybe get your game saved before the battery dies.
TheUmgawa t1_j2e0q02 wrote
Reply to comment by WTFrashelle in Sam Bankman-Fried Likely to Plead Not Guilty to Fraud Charges by habichuelacondulce
That’s what I’m saying. They don’t want it regulated like money, and they don’t want it regulated like securities, but when someone steals or loses their pretend digital money, they want the government to help them.
TheUmgawa t1_j2ckmw3 wrote
Reply to comment by eggshellcracking in Sam Bankman-Fried Likely to Plead Not Guilty to Fraud Charges by habichuelacondulce
Fools and their pretend digital money are soon parted.
TheUmgawa t1_j2cbvmv wrote
ahem
Wag the Dog.
Thank you.
TheUmgawa t1_j2cbt3t wrote
Reply to comment by set_em_off in Finding Woody Harrelson unexpectedly in movies. by come_sing_with_me
I’ve gotta go with Wag the Dog on that one.
TheUmgawa t1_j2azzha wrote
"Your honor, my client pleads not guilty by reason of idiocy. It is our belief that any jury would be convinced that no rational person would have entrusted a moron like my client with their money –or pretend digital money, as it were– and so I currently move for summary judgment, with prejudice, vis a vis ex post facto ad nauseum mens rea. I'm not sure if any of those apply, because I'm as good a lawyer as my client is a CEO. He found me on Facebook, where I go by Hindu Kush 420 Esquire, and must have just thought I was a lawyer."
TheUmgawa t1_j2ato8h wrote
Reply to comment by lg_3000 in Jon Stewart in a mosh pit at a Dead Kennedys show in 1982. by segadreamcat
Debunkings of posts such as this should be closed with the Half-Baked line, “Boo that man! Booooooo!!!”
TheUmgawa t1_j2a5m2h wrote
Reply to comment by sadmep in Does copyright protect characters from being used as a parody? by Hexxegone
The Pooh based horror movie is also likely based on the printed version of the story, so their lawyers probably have a list of what’s Disney original and what’s Milne original, so they don’t include anything that Disney invented. But the book is fair game, having dropped into public domain not terribly long ago, so there’s no one to sue them, regardless, unless they slap a red shirt on him.
TheUmgawa t1_j2386pk wrote
Reply to comment by Fantastic_Ad1613 in TIL that the Hawaii’s Maunakea Volcano, the world’s tallest mountain, (10,210 m or 33,500 ft from base to peak) was first ascended successfully over three days in February 2021. Over half of it is underwater. by Fantastic_Ad1613
Guinness also has records for things like Most Snails on a Face, so I'm pretty sure they'll give a qualifying award to pretty much anybody who pays their fee.
"Well, you're not the tallest above sea level, and you're not the tallest from base to pinnacle... unless... yes, we'll just count everything all the way to the bottom of the ocean! You are now the tallest. Congratulations. That will be four thousand dollars please."
TheUmgawa t1_je3qdt7 wrote
Reply to comment by Killmumger in Steam Is Getting A GameCube And Nintendo Wii Emulator by JamesAsher12
As long as they don’t use any Nintendo trademarks, it’s very similar to the Bleem! case, and, even if they do, there’s precedent for that, but they’ll need to retain a few level 99 lawyer demons. But, in the case of Bleem!, the court found it was totally legal, because the people who made the emulator never saw the original code, as was the case in the Tengen trial.