Let's Jam this Bog with Roasts

[French Fry]

"no, we don't listen to YOU, we listen to your background noise"
that's retarded as fuck hahaha

[Slime]

it looks like this feature is an opt-in thing, at least it was when the article im reading was written. but it was used to target ads. and these sort of "features" tend to trickle in until the original "opt-in" feature looked fine in comparison to what we end up with

plus i don't trust them to tell the truth

we all know that Zuck himself puts tape over his laptop camera. i still wonder about that picture, and if he wanted the tape to be the focus.... a sort of warning he's handing us to make himself feel better about selling all of his users...

[Izak MD]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...011_story.html

antonio inoki in the news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Izak MD]

first he beats the shit out of the great antonio, then he tells japan that north korea merely wants to blow up the united states, not them!!!!!!!!!!!!!

is there nothing this man can't do????

[Mr Mong]

This anime is funny

http://i.imgur.com/5lh7MwF.jpg

[Mr Mong]

advice for bown

[Nixon]

i wouldn't doubt that facebook is listening at all, there has been a handful of times now where i was discussing a certain band / tv show / film with a friend and went on my phone and coincidentally saw an advertisement for it

[Skittlebrau]

I mean, they're sifting through the cookies on your phone like a motherfucker, at the very least.

[Izak MD]

i love legend of the galactic heroes!!!!!!!!

[Dungeon Snake]

Originally Posted by Nickson

i wouldn't doubt that facebook is listening at all, there has been a handful of times now where i was discussing a certain band / tv show / film with a friend and went on my phone and coincidentally saw an advertisement for it

yeah. also, when i watch a video or read an article, and then search for something related to that article or video (like for example the name of the author), it will immediately suggest that name or topic within a few letters of my typing it in. sometimes it will even have related terms from the article. and it will also be a different color as though i had already searched for it. i honestly don't mind because it lets me search things faster & i figure they're tracking everything anyway. but just goes to show they're watching

[Happyjuice]

Bleeding Gums Murphy's first episode is nice and all. But you'd put him above Apu or Barney or Wiggum????



TBH man I'd put Hans Moleman or shit even Hank Scorpio above Bleeding Gums Murphy.....If he wasn't dead and a main part of the intro nobody would give af. The story of him and Lisa is good, but his character doesn't have any depth.

[Slime]

Originally Posted by Dungeon Snake

yeah. also, when i watch a video or read an article, and then search for something related to that article or video (like for example the name of the author), it will immediately suggest that name or topic within a few letters of my typing it in. sometimes it will even have related terms from the article. and it will also be a different color as though i had already searched for it. i honestly don't mind because it lets me search things faster & i figure they're tracking everything anyway. but just goes to show they're watching

imo thats a little less bad, that's standard internet tracking where their social buttons (share on FB, etc) also serve as trackers for what sites youre on etc. you can disable this by enabling the social + tracker list in your ad blocker

listening to your mic for advertisement purposes, ever, is a step too far imo... but it is what we'll be seeing more of eventually i guess

[Dungeon Snake]

Originally Posted by Happyjuice

Bleeding Gums Murphy's first episode is nice and all. But you'd put him above Apu or Barney or Wiggum????



TBH man I'd put Hans Moleman or shit even Hank Scorpio above Bleeding Gums Murphy.....If he wasn't dead and a main part of the intro nobody would give af. The story of him and Lisa is good, but his character doesn't have any depth.

i would put lenny & carl above any of the guest characters

[Slime]

haha i'd never seen the video the gif is from. love the radar gun

[Mr Mong]

Originally Posted by Lohr

haha i'd never seen the video the gif is from. love the radar gun

Lol I broke my.fucking wrist sandboarding in ica we used snowboards though and the guy took us on much bigger dunes that were pretty narly and then his buggy broke down so we.had to wait.around in the desert for someone to pick us up and the next day I had to wait in this filthy Peruvian hospital to get a cast and meds was a good day

[Izak MD]

mr. mong you should watch all 110 episodes of that anime

it's the best of all time

it's the greatest

[Quilt]

Originally Posted by Quilt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raFKb7kjz2g pleasing effects with a human touch

these guys had a technical obstacle (we want to fire cool lasers) that they overcame with creativity (scratching the film) that results in a unique and interesting looking effect. today in animation, obstacles are approached too often with cold technical solutions because they don't have to resort to creativity

lets say you wanted to animate the craziness of a fly's perspective as it flies through a rain storm, dodging raindrops. the biggest obstacle would be that thousands of raindrops falling is very complex.

modern animation would probably say well throw a ton of computer power at it and do a rainfall simulation and zoom in to bug size and work from there

cel animation would be forced to find another way and do it creatively, with some impressionistic/dreamlike visuals

oh and in the modern version they would have render farms spend 6853 hours ensuring every single raindrop has a hyperreal globule distortion effect that just distracts from what is trying to be portrayed. thats so icky to me how they try to mix stuff liek that in with everything else. like the cgi charlie brown movie where the PEANUTS have these million dollar photographic hair strands with independent physics



eguhdgkjck that is some pornographic shit. nastyFŪCKyou fuckin freaks

[OmniromX]

I agree, Quilt. And that 3D Gundam vid is cool/

[Izak MD]

first of all, that whole quilt post is 100% right

second, i didn't know they made a CGI peanuts movie. i just saw the trailer and it may be the most unpleasant thing i've ever seen. horrific. i think i'd rather stare at goatse for 8 hours with leonard cohen than watch that again.

i recently read a book called Art & Illusion by EH gombrich. it pretty much explains why these attempts to achieve 100% visual accuracy in art are always confused and stupid, a pointless goal. there was never any interest in exact first-person "realism" until the modern era; in ancient times, the purpose of art was not to capture the image according to how the viewer sees it from a first-person perspective, but rather to capture the essence of the object centered in the image. this is why the ancient egyptians rarely hid any of the limbs of their subjects in the frieze sculptures; the people were always in poses that revealed the major components of their bodies and clothing. religious icon paintings are much the same way; the most important parts of the painting are about symbolic meaning rather than mimetic correctness. the cubists referred back to that goal by showing impossible angles of the subject not typically available to the naked eye. additionally, cartoons and caricatures were developed because the simplified face, reduced to a few well-chosen lines and contours, perhaps a recognizable shape, could physiognomically say more about the subject than any kind of perfect detail ever could.

like in this drawing by daumier:



if you put that guy into an animated movie, does it make any sense at all to make him exist in a world in which every object in the background is rendered to appear as 100% accurate in detail as possible? of course not.

the same artist would agree:



the background art is just sketched in to the point where you get what it's supposed to be, but the non-realness of the image is revealed for all to see. the ships in the background are just a few lines off in the distance. the sacks of opium are simplified. the ground is clearly the product of a few scribbled pencil lines.

when you attempt to take a cartoon and add "realism" through CGI, you're completely mixing up two irreconcilable philosophies on the purpose of art and just making it into a complete and total mess. profitable for the sheer novelty, but with no replay value whatsoever. it's really just disgraceful

[Dungeon Snake]

Originally Posted by Quilt

like the cgi charlie brown movie where the PEANUTS have these million dollar photographic hair strands with independent physics



eguhdgkjck that is some pornographic shit. nastyFŪCKyou fuckin freaks

yup yup

[Dungeon Snake]

Originally Posted by Quilt

pleasing effects with a human touch

this shit is hilarious

[Slime]

yeah i enjoyed that gundam thing

that peanuts thing looks ridiculous

yeah, cgi limits creativity. so much greatness of film from the 80s and earlier was figuring out how to make stuff work. now the solutions are all there (computers)

when i watch game of thrones or other HBO stuff, its just silly how much is acted in front of a green screen with crazy shit rendered behind them. i'd rather they fake it in other ways. the CGI is just so convenient to them that they use it in literally every shot

this applies to all aspects of all forms of art music etc

[Jesterfoot]

I love this guy

[Slime]

haha i forgot about him

[Bown]

Originally Posted by Lohr

yeah i enjoyed that gundam thing

that peanuts thing looks ridiculous

yeah, cgi limits creativity. so much greatness of film from the 80s and earlier was figuring out how to make stuff work. now the solutions are all there (computers)

when i watch game of thrones or other HBO stuff, its just silly how much is acted in front of a green screen with crazy shit rendered behind them. i'd rather they fake it in other ways. the CGI is just so convenient to them that they use it in literally every shot

this applies to all aspects of all forms of art music etc

I'm usually ok with it for TV as they usually tend to need to make their budget stretch further, even the big-budget shows, but GoT comes the closest of any of them to completely taking the piss. It's like how little of the Battle of the Bastards was actually there. It's like the Marvel movie BTS vids.

But I think it's worse for films like when actions and horrors use CGI blood instead of squibs