leftzero

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[–] leftzero 4 points 11 months ago

And do you know how he managed to make every frame in that film look like a period painting..? A very particular and expensive lens NASA gave him.

(Of course, though, while the man despised filming on location, he required massive amounts of reference pictures to build his sets, so even though the official moon landing was fake, NASA still had to get some astronauts there first to take those pictures for him.)

[–] leftzero 10 points 11 months ago

No, no, Kubrick hated shooting on location. All those Vietnam scenes in Full Metal Jacket..? Filmed right next to London.

Now, he did fake the moon landing, of course, that's why NASA gave him the lens he used to make every single frame in Barry Lyndon look like a period painting... but much like with the start of 2001 (also filmed in London), he wanted lots of location pictures for reference (he didn't want to go there, wherever it was, but he had no qualms whatsoever about sending other people), so he demanded NASA send astronauts to the moon anyway to take those pictures, and the official moon landing was faked using those pictures taken in the real one as reference.

[–] leftzero 5 points 11 months ago

It's a casino heist movie, you uncultured swine.

[–] leftzero 2 points 11 months ago

And Connect for Lemmy.

[–] leftzero 14 points 11 months ago

Also, lazyness and procrastination.

[–] leftzero 5 points 11 months ago

Photons move at the speed of light relative to the observer, regardless of the observer's speed.

If we're going physics-accurate, you wouldn't be blind, though you'd probably be a black hole (for a very brief time, before you evaporated due to Hawking radiation).

[–] leftzero 4 points 11 months ago

Photocopy of a photocopy.

Or, in more modern terms, JPEG of a JPEG.

[–] leftzero 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sure we can find volunteers willing to kill themselves once they're done with the killing. 🤷‍♂️

[–] leftzero -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, I should've probably waited for the community patch that'll fix these issues.

[–] leftzero 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, probably, though computers take space, and electricity... though, admittedly, these days you can probably run a mail server on a raspberry pi (if you can get your hands on one) powered by a potato... 🤔

The plan sort of was to eventually (once I can afford a new machine) move everything to VMs, with GPU pass through for the gaming one (I can't afford a dedicated gaming machine — nor have the space for it — and I want something I can easily reset to a clean installation in case of Denuvo and similar malware without messing with my work software), but moving the servers and firewall to a small dedicated machine might indeed be a more realistic (and maybe even cheaper) approach...

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