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ayngg commented on Kodak Is Hiring Film Technicians: ‘We Cannot Keep Up with Demand’ petapixel.com/2022/10/12/... · Posted by u/Stratoscope

mikece · 3 years ago

Shooting on film has more merit than the "vinyl is better than CD" argument because if you nail the exposure -- especially on Kodachrome -- you get colors and vibrancy that no other film or digital sensor can capture. That said, I cannot see why anyone shooting on a deadline of any kind would want to shoot on film.

ayngg · 3 years ago

Commercially, film probably shines in larger formats since digital basically only goes up to 645 format which is on the smaller end of medium format and those cameras cost upwards of 50k and most digital cameras use the same sensor technology compared to differences in film stocks. Otherwise it is more of a hobbyist/ artistic choice.

ayngg commented on I spent $3k on a Samsung Smart TV and all I got were ads and unwanted content zdnet.com/home-and-office... · Posted by u/ivanvas

hdjjhhvvhga · 3 years ago

I don't understand why anyone would like to connect such a thing to their WiFi. An external device gives you flexibility and control. The built-in firmware gives you ads and tracking.

ayngg · 3 years ago

Because the vast majority of people aren't tech savvy enough to care about ads and tracking, ads and tracking everywhere is normalized.

ayngg commented on Diablo 2, Diablo 4, and Single Player: An open letter to Blizzard purediablo.com/diablo-2-d... · Posted by u/nixass

KaoruAoiShiho · 4 years ago

"Fans" is a small market, it's better to aim at the mass market who don't go on forums.

ayngg · 4 years ago

This. The video game industry has grown by such huge amounts over the past 10-15 years that fans of old franchises are a small minority of the total demographic developers want and need to justify pumping the budgets they do into games now. Most of the new market consumers are fine with microtransactions, season passes, cosmetics, loot boxes and other types of monetization and gameplay that is way more profitable. If you sell a game d2 fans want, you are making serious monetization concessions to appeal to a tiny sliver of the overall userbase of the next diablo so it doesn't make sense.

When a game like Genshin Impact does 1 billion in revenue every 6 months it is only a matter of time before the rest of the market moves in that direction.

ayngg commented on Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only tip of the iceberg uk.news.yahoo.com/silent-... · Posted by u/danboarder

pharmakom · 4 years ago

This makes me wonder… if Conservative strategy is to run it into the ground and then privatise, which is an unpopular plan with the public, then how are they able to consistently win elections?

ayngg · 4 years ago

It is more nuanced than that. The issue is that a lot of western societies are falling into debt traps because of a lot of social and economic factors which are already straining these systems to the point that they cant keep up, and the conservative strategy (in my good faith interpretation) regarding this is reducing the cost of programs that they consider to be bloated. This can be interpreted as running it into the ground as the bloat is often in bureaucracy which can easily pass the buck to actual service providers which then suffer from lack of funding. In contrast a more liberal solution would likely involve increasing spending then trying to recover that through additional taxes, which conservatives would say doesn't solve the cost problem but rather exacerbates it since bloat remains and is paid for by more debt or taxes. Of course this is just a general simplification of the conflict.

Clearly the solution is probably somewhere in between, but political polarization has simply pushed people to their party lines and entrenched their positions such that no real progress can happen while things continue to fall apart.

ayngg commented on American Cities with the Highest Increase in Homicide Rates wallethub.com/edu/cities-... · Posted by u/kyleblarson

Ancalagon · 4 years ago

I think if those were the underlying factors we would've seen a rise in the homicide rate earlier than immediately after the beginning of the pandemic.

ayngg · 4 years ago

I think it is a multivariable thing, especially when you are looking at different municipalities and their respective crime policies. A lot of the places that top the list have had rising homicide rates over the past decade from a low around 2010-2015, with the national rate reaching a local low in 2014 before climbing from there. To me it could suggest that populations were coping (poorly) for a while before the pandemic broke the camels back so to speak.

ayngg commented on American Cities with the Highest Increase in Homicide Rates wallethub.com/edu/cities-... · Posted by u/kyleblarson

Ancalagon · 4 years ago

Kind of a dumb question based on my own anecdotal observations. Is there any chance that mild brain damage to a large portion of the population (say from long covid in select individuals) produces more violent and aggressive tendencies, similar to lead poisoning from leaded gasoline?

Again, completely anecdotal question based on my own observations of myself after having covid (I myself felt very slow mentally and frustrated after having covid), and some of the rise in aggressive tendencies of consumers (e.g. airline passengers and retail consumers), not to mention incidents of road rage.

Edit: help me understand why you’re downvoting. Is it ignorance on my part? I prefaced this by saying it was not an evidence based question

ayngg · 4 years ago

I would think that there are other environmental stressors that have influenced the behavior first, specifically the economic stagnation of the middle and working classes, combined with things like the opioid epidemic, income and housing insecurity with everything further exacerbated by the pandemic, social isolation, economic and supply chain constraints and now record inflation, all within the last decade and with minimal support systems available, along with the rise of divisive populist politics permeating everything and social media pushing people into echo chambers that radicalize their opinions even further.

A lot of people are probably beyond stressed and stretched way past their tolerance point by now.

ayngg commented on As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation twitter.com/arvalis/statu... · Posted by u/valgaze

ayngg · 4 years ago

A lot of art created now, especially for film/ media, already goes through a similar process that AI just automates and accelerates. Several big concept artists I have met have lamented on the fact that many artists in the industry basically churn compositions out through mashing references they gather on google images or asset stores, not to mention just straight photobashing, which has made a lot of the concepts produced fairly derivative and homogenized since everything is just referencing what google images serves or assets that everyone else uses.

Even fine artists have likely had their practice influenced by the whims of what the algorithms on major social media outlets are willing to favor in order to get engagement. It kind of feels like many creatives have been incentivized into becoming slaves to these processes, which has in turn made them seem replaceable with AI.

ayngg commented on The state of South Africa, 28ish years post-apartheid awanderingmind.blog/posts... · Posted by u/awanderingmind

MonkeyMalarky · 4 years ago

It's tempting to suggest electing people based on their past experiences of successfully administering something, except all the real world examples I can think of are former CEOs getting elected to run the government "like a business" and it just leads to shortsighted privatization (and eventual degradation) of public services.

ayngg · 4 years ago

That is true, though I feel like the issue has overlap in the emergence of public relations and the paradigm shift in advertising (from qualitative appeals to emotional appeals) over the 20th century. Basically it is a lot harder to accurately judge if someone can do something, but in modern politics that doesn't matter because emotional appeals are much more successful at capturing an audience. So the business ceo is just an archetype that appeals to an idea, and doesn't have much of a qualitative value outside of that. An example would be Carly Fiorina who ran in 2016 as the candidate with business acumen from her time as CEO with HP, when in reality her tenure at HP painted a different story.

ayngg commented on The state of South Africa, 28ish years post-apartheid awanderingmind.blog/posts... · Posted by u/awanderingmind

nimbius · 4 years ago

It feels like the root-cause of the decay and ruin is, by the end of the writing, a total lack of qualifying competence in leadership or government. the bungling amentia is so agonizingly glaring as to lead one to question if it, as the casualties pursuant to the fall of the raj in india or the bengal famine, were an intentional petulance...an act of thoughtless spite after having been made to atone for an atrocity and capitulate to the will of a people that had for so long been subservient to you.

the ruling party embraces fragments of political systems they observe, as a child might mimic their favourite tv cartoon character, but at the end of the day the jangling discord of kleptocratic nihilism drowns out whatever character features the government hopes to project abroad.

ayngg · 4 years ago

I think some of it has to do with the idea that skills that reward "revolutionaries" are not analogous to skills needed to run the state after they assume control. Those that are able to consolidate power have an advantage in capturing power in a vacuum, but all that means is that they have the political skills to know how to consolidate power, it has no bearing on their ability to run the a nation. The guy who catches the golden goose is just good at catching geese, it doesn't say anything about his ability to care for it afterwards. An issue is that elections filter based on the ability of the former and not the later.

It is sort of similar in how many nation building projects of the west have failed in recent times, because the people put into positions of power, weren't in power before for a reason which is usually tied to their incompetence.

ayngg commented on TSMC killed 450mm wafers for fear of Intel, Samsung theregister.com/2022/08/0... · Posted by u/oumua_don17

metadat · 4 years ago

What exactly causes the increase in complexity when dealing with larger wafers?

ayngg · 4 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s5TO9h6fco

This video was recently published that talked about going from 200 to 300mm wafers, and there is some further discussion in the comments about the transition as well as going to 450.