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i saw 300 in am imax theater and the picture was so big that I could clearly see the resolution mismatch/artifacts around the arrows in gerard butler's chest at the end
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Beve Stuscemi posted:resolutionin’ "Resolving" 
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1440p is a really nice resolution for a computer. i think 4k is pushing it. its nice for teevee tho
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4k is great until you run into some application that doesn’t play nicely with dpi scaling
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i got a 29” 4k monitor and i’ll tell u what civ 6 looks sweet
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echinopsis posted:i got a 29” 4k monitor and i’ll tell u what civ 6 looks sweet that’s ur posts actually
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aw :3
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git apologist posted:that’s ur posts actually 
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git apologist posted:that’s ur posts actually is that a diabetes thing
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why not 8k? eventually the content will catch up so no need to upgrade now, but let’s get all the graphics hardware specs going so in a few years i can have some 39” office monitors for text editing
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it's a class issue an 8k screen needs a big enough room that you can sit back and utilize it without having a pixel density that isn't wasted (our eyes are only so good) or watching tv like a cat watches tennis we're all dying and poor and living in shoe boxes
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really. the only reason I’d get a 4K tv is cuz one of of my 1080s die and only the bottom of the barrel models are 1080 any more. was literally doing that tonight with google searches like “does 1080p look worse on 4K tvs?”
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1080p looks fine on 4k cause it's a clean 2:1 scale. And yeah, agreed. I was on a 720p 40" from the early Obama years when I bought my 4k last year; it was a huge upgrade. And yes i still have the old 720 and it's my bedroom tv [fighting commences] It's so, so hot though. Like it's constantly making GBS threads out 273 watts of heat. I absolutely turn it off when i'm not actively watching it.
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^^ this mf didn’t realise they bought a fire place
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My 4k panel only runs on logs and has one really good channel that just shows burning logs.
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previous owner also had this horrible electric fake fire (that changes colour!) Under where their Samsung frame was and it's absolutely awful but I can't remove it because they walled the loving thing in with 50mm mdf also I think it's got sawdust in it now from where I drilled into the wood above it to run some proper cables through to the TV because all they had was one garbage hdmi cable as they clearly didn't know how to fish cables
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Aug 9, 2023 08:53
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sounds like you should renovate, really
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Tankakern posted:sounds like you should renovate, really gotta sort out the bathroom that looks great until you get close up and realise all the hosed up stuff like how do you re-lay a tile floor and somehow manage to end up with it being lower than the previous one? how do you manage to fill a shower drain with tile adhesive? Or install a toilet that is trying to flush uphill? e: the guy doing the replacement said "why are you replacing this it's all fine?" and we said "yeah well look at this" "oh..wtf yeah I understand now"
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:gotta sort out the bathroom that looks great until you get close up and realise all the hosed up stuff Some mfer always trying to flush uphill
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:gotta sort out the bathroom that looks great until you get close up and realise all the hosed up stuff I feel this pain my whole house is filled with pretty decent renovations that variously require hours or days of labor to fix various minor acts of laziness or stupidity. I get the feeling that the guys who flipped the house spent the whole time getting wasted.
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Internet Old One posted:I feel this pain my whole house is filled with pretty decent renovations that variously require hours or days of labor to fix various minor acts of laziness or stupidity. I get the feeling that the guys who flipped the house spent the whole time getting wasted. same except ours was just a boomer couple who had friends do poo poo cheap (and half-assed)
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look the previous owner knew how to get ahead. for example, you can save upwards of five dollars AND ten minutes if you make electrical splices with tape instead of wire nuts and a junction box for even more savings, you can use duct tape instead of electrical tape
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:like how do you re-lay a tile floor and somehow manage to end up with it being lower than the previous one? how do you manage to fill a shower drain with tile adhesive? if the old floor was floated or used cement board as a backer and the new one uses a modern uncoupling membrane, that cuts the thickness significantly. filling the drain with thinset can happen if you are installing certain types of bonding flange drains and use way too much e: tile isn't a uniform thickness, so if they went from some kind of thick porcelain or natural stone to a thinner ceramic, that cuts the thickness too The_Franz fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Aug 9, 2023 |
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Achmed Jones posted:look the previous owner knew how to get ahead. for example, you can save upwards of five dollars AND ten minutes if you make electrical splices with tape instead of wire nuts and a junction box once saw an old metal lamp where for the wiring someone had used a couple of those plastic drywall anchor things instead of wire nuts
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Achmed Jones posted:look the previous owner knew how to get ahead. for example, you can save upwards of five dollars AND ten minutes if you make electrical splices with tape instead of wire nuts and a junction box when I did a minor remodel and opened up a wall I discovered a previous owner fished in a new wire so they could have a three prong grounded outlet, and then just pushed the old wire back into the empty cavity behind the wall. the old wire with bare ends. the old, energized, wire with bare ends. also we went cutting a channel to run a wire to where we wanted a ceiling fan, only to discover there was an old wire running right there. and some previous owner just stuffed plaster over the bare ends of the wires and leveled it out. and yes it was also still energized spent a fortune to have the whole place rewired so we could sleep at night these were all terrible DIYs that probably happened when JFK was president and it’s a wonder the house didn’t burn down decades ago
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kitten smoothie posted:the old wire with bare ends. the old, energized, wire with bare ends.  you win. at least with all our messed up discoveries, there haven't been any bare energized wires.
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Flushing up the hill by Kaet Flush
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The_Franz posted:if the old floor was floated or used cement board as a backer and the new one uses a modern uncoupling membrane, that cuts the thickness significantly. filling the drain with thinset can happen if you are installing certain types of bonding flange drains and use way too much it was none of these, it was incompetence
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:gotta sort out the bathroom that looks great until you get close up and realise all the hosed up stuff I used to do a lot of exhibit work for aquariums and zoos, one was a river otter exhibit and the gunite guys came in and sprayed their concrete all over the place and cleaned up by sweeping over spray into a drain, that drain coincidentally became plugged with concrete. Spent most of a day drip pouring muriatic acid down there and using a 12 foot long stainless steel all thread rod to break it up so the main wash down drain for cleaning the exhibit was useable. People can be remarkably stupid.
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Manzoon posted:I used to do a lot of exhibit work for aquariums and zoos, one was a river otter exhibit and the gunite guys came in and sprayed their concrete all over the place and cleaned up by sweeping over spray into a drain, that drain coincidentally became plugged with concrete. did u get to pet the otters
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Riptor posted:did u get to pet the otters Not there unfortunately, but down in Miami I was replacing windows at an otter exhibit and they were standing at their holding cage like little inmates, I put my finger up to the bar and one reached out and held it. Was extremely cute.
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Manzoon posted:Not there unfortunately, but down in Miami I was replacing windows at an otter exhibit and they were standing at their holding cage like little inmates, I put my finger up to the bar and one reached out and held it. Was extremely cute. I did that once but it was a ferret and it bit me
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Achmed Jones posted:look the previous owner knew how to get ahead. for example, you can save upwards of five dollars AND ten minutes if you make electrical splices with tape instead of wire nuts and a junction box more than half the house (kitchen and laundry included) was on the same (knob and tube wiring) circuit (running through a federal pacific panel) we're kind of amazed we never had a basement fire
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an otter could just as easily have taken a finger. those things are vicious
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kitten smoothie posted:energized, wire 
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Achmed Jones posted:
oh yeah also we never knew where our doorbell transformer was, and in the process of rewiring the house we found it buried behind a wall dear reader, there were singe marks on the stud behind it. like i’m guessing every time someone rang our doorbell it was just rolling the dice on a house fire
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I thought the thermostat was not actually wired to anything but it turned out it was but was only powered when the system timer was "on" but then it was wired up backwards so it never actually did anything, like the switched live was always on or something and the dial did nothing. so basically it was all managed as on/off on the timer and then radiator thermo valves, there was no "stop pumping hot water". we think the previous owner just flat out did not know what a thermostat was supposed to do
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Roosevelt posted:an otter could just as easily have taken a finger. those things are vicious yeah, i've seen the magazines!
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I did that once but it was a ferret and it bit me they do that, don't take it personally.
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