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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 31, 2024 0:47:13 GMT
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 31, 2024 0:19:22 GMT
Lol Tesla's Cybertruck won a race against a Porsche 911, while it was a towing a Porsche 911. Wow and Cybertruck weighs 7,000 pounds (3175 Kilograms) while towing another 3,000 pounds.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 31, 2024 0:17:04 GMT
Sounds like another fear based move based on what the studio thinks the audience wants. Though not sure if it's possible to know why the studio does that?
Regarding AI handling ads, I wouldn't want to see actors lose out on a paycheck if they became obsolete for filming TV ads, but I think since so many ads are just one offs and you never see that actor again, technically AI might be able to just spit out ads that are completely computer generated and just be done with it with no reason to be offended since a machine created it with no reason to try to offend anyone.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 30, 2024 21:48:26 GMT
What about TV commercials? Here in the US every commercial must include more than 1 race because of the fear of what not doing so would be perceived as. So, every white guy in the SUV commercial must be married to a black or asian woman. Every group of friends watching a football game must be of mixed race to the point where it's actually distracting. A woman who worked for an ad agency was on the Adam Carolla show mentioned how when they were putting together an ad it felt a bit wrong being tasked with going out specifically to find a black person to appear on the screen. We are so scared of the possible wrong perception that we operate more on what something looks like than what it is.
Could AI be a solution when it comes to cheap ads for products like Domino's Pizza? Domino's is a massive chain here. The quality of the product is rock bottom it's difficult to even call it pizza but they advertise the most.
In this AI ad the people look wrong still but I wonder if they fixed that could we once and for all drop our struggle to not appear racist and just chalk it up to entering the right prompts and say "hey this is what it gave us, ye there are only 2 Asians in there and only 1 black person but there're also only two whites". There would be nobody to be falsely outraged at if you can prove you added the prompt to include 'assortment of races within a group of 5 people'.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 29, 2024 18:20:05 GMT
You always got us Paul. Hope things turn around in time for days of better weather.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 28, 2024 22:30:55 GMT
Quite nice and sounds amazing on the right system.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 28, 2024 22:29:31 GMT
Struggling with the vocals but the guitar sounds incredible on my car stereo with the tweaks and enhancements made using EQ presets.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 28, 2024 22:24:47 GMT
Somehow I never got into Blind Melon. They had that one song 'No Rain' on MTV for ages, and I'd heard it so often There that I just sort of tuned the band out.
But this one track from them I've always loved. I don't remember when or where I heard it but was decades ago. I don't know who the song is about but I'd often made my own interpretation thinking it's about a girlfriend or a sister or a mother. I've purposefully never read the lyrics to sort of keep the magic that I hear in tact without actually knowing what it is.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 28, 2024 18:02:01 GMT
Let's not let The Audio Standard turn into An Audio Standard.
Can everyone here post a song in the Just One Track section today?
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 27, 2024 16:30:36 GMT
Is Paul on vacation? He better not be I haven't taken a vacation in 2 years except for a sinus surgery. That's not fair.
If he's reading this I meant a different Paul. Relax.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 26, 2024 14:52:08 GMT
Ye it was cool the way it first appeared too.
Those 'struggle trials' at the beginning were exactly as I'd pictured them.
The conversation towards the end about what frequence modulation would ACTUALLY be necessary for was chilling in how it played out.
Do you remember the "computer" they witnessed inside of the game? that blew my mind.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 26, 2024 1:31:47 GMT
Wow. 3BP. They got the stars flickering. Worth a 2nd episode .
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 24, 2024 23:57:23 GMT
Wow if I wait until tomorrow I'd have a chance to watch it in a larger screen by hooking the phone up to the flat-screen at home using Samsung DEX. I'll give that a shot and watch it after work tomorrow.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 24, 2024 20:49:12 GMT
Ok thanks Martin. I'll try first episode tonight.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 24, 2024 20:36:22 GMT
No I haven't. Is it good enough to begin? If so I could get Netflix tonight.
Martin were you referring to the Netflix version there when you mentioned the ship slicing scene?
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 24, 2024 20:16:49 GMT
Right but do you know what I've found? Foisting that illusion on others has different results in different settings.
At the workplace everybody is trapped with each other. A person's level of confidence dictates how much the others will put up with. If that person has confidence and is preaching the gospel of ME to people without confidence it creates a bizarre situation where they can get away with it all day every day.
In a personal setting it's different but the incentive to allow it is still there in a different form which is that this is a friend so you have to endure it for their sake.
At work it's the group dynamic that either allows it or disallows a person to continue broadcasting this illusion for themselves to live in.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 24, 2024 19:56:11 GMT
I believe that it's an underdeveloped part of the brain or a form of self inflicted mental retardation in all 3 of the individuals I mentioned.
But that's not a criticism of them as if I'm not deficient in plenty of ways and since I can't prove my belief I will state a fact of another kind.
All 3 have landed themselves in less than desirable circumstances far from where they wanted to be or once were. This incessant chatter outloud to others about how great they are is a coping mechanism to lie to one's self to be able to at least partially deal with reality. They verbally create a story for themselves to live inside of and if others buy it then it reinforces that story regardless of whether it has any connection to reality at all.
I think what is disturbing is the amount of people doing this.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 24, 2024 16:59:11 GMT
I have 3 people in my life (best friend, my 1 co-worker, a female friend) who are only capable of speaking about themselves. I'm not joking when I say they have a toddler-like fascination with themselves.
The co-worker I already know will approach me on Monday (and 25 more times that day) to tell me something about themselves. Big news, big development.
With all 3 (this is a fact) if I interject something about me to balance it out I'll receive dead air or "yea".
The female friend I just told her about a hockey team's logo, she showed me a star tattoo she has similar to that logo so now the conversation is within 2 seconds now about her tattoos.
The friend will text me on Monday to brag about something. Guaranteed.
Is it like this in the UK where each person Is so fascinatated with themselves 365 days out of the year? I've known tons of these people here. This is just the latest configuration.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 23, 2024 22:37:04 GMT
Lol tbh Mike I'm only noticing it now but I'd say you're right about the drumming. Id never heard anything from those links you posted, it doesn't really grab me, but I'll try a few times to give it a proper shot.
Fair enough, Martin.
Well here's another quick example of Aluk Todolo's work. It's all quite out there but really catches my ear and imagination.
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Post by rfan8312 on Mar 23, 2024 7:58:17 GMT
Wow, that will be something to see. Excellent.
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