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Reply #330 - Jun 23rd, 2024 at 1:20pm
 
Videos that tell you to "wait for it."  Half the time when you do wait it wasn't worth it.
I don't have time to wait for it.  I don't want to wait for it.  Just show me the good part so I can get on with it.
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Reply #331 - Jun 23rd, 2024 at 8:04pm
 
Yep, agree with that.  Usually if I see 'Wait for it', I'll scroll passed or close out as quick as I can.  Kind of a race to not see what's intended.
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Reply #332 - Jun 30th, 2024 at 3:36pm
 
On Star Trek or any of its many spinoffs every time a Starship or any other sort of space vehicle zooms by your point of view it makes a WOOSHING sound.  There is no air in space.  There is no sound in space, wooshing or otherwise.  You'd think that for such well written and produced set of series they'd get such a basic fact right.
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Reply #333 - Jun 30th, 2024 at 10:15pm
 
I kind of give them a pass on that one.  I don't think it's something that was done wrong so much as a decision made because it's the way people watching would expect it.  It's the same for explosions in space.  If every space explosion you saw in movies had no sound, it would be much less cool.  Even if it was more accurate.  Not even mentioning that the explosion wouldn't look like how they are portrayed in movies.

There's also things like, like banking a turn.  We see planes make banked turns, so that's what makes sense in our minds.  But in space there is no air.  So a banked turn ain't going to happen.
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Reply #334 - Jul 4th, 2024 at 9:54am
 
joe_meadmaker wrote on Jun 30th, 2024 at 10:15pm:
There's also things like, like banking a turn.  We see planes make banked turns, so that's what makes sense in our minds.  But in space there is no air.  So a banked turn ain't going to happen.


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Reply #335 - Jul 13th, 2024 at 4:35pm
 
   I think that people who spend money on goumet salt have too much money.  Do you expect me to believe that you can taste whether a dish was cooked with Hawaiian Alaea Salt, Asin Tibuok Sea Salt, Light Grey Celtic Sea Salt, Kashmir Pink Himalayan Salt, Cyprus Flake Sea Salt, etc., etc., etc...
People are such pretentious creatures.  Salt is salt. 
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Reply #336 - Jul 13th, 2024 at 4:45pm
 
joe_meadmaker wrote on Jun 30th, 2024 at 10:15pm:
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There's also things like, like banking a turn.  We see planes make banked turns, so that's what makes sense in our minds.  But in space there is no air.  So a banked turn ain't going to happen.


Borg cubes get that right.  Cubes don't make banked turns.
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Reply #337 - Jul 13th, 2024 at 5:18pm
 
Rat Man wrote on Jul 13th, 2024 at 4:35pm:
   I think that people who spend money on goumet salt have too much money.  Do you expect me to believe that you can taste whether a dish was cooked with Hawaiian Alaea Salt, Asin Tibuok Sea Salt, Light Grey Celtic Sea Salt, Kashmir Pink Himalayan Salt, Cyprus Flake Sea Salt, etc., etc., etc...
People are such pretentious creatures.  Salt is salt. 

They've done taste tests.  The answer is: no, people can't tell the difference.
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Reply #338 - Jul 17th, 2024 at 8:14pm
 
ScantPalaver wrote on Jul 13th, 2024 at 5:18pm:
Rat Man wrote on Jul 13th, 2024 at 4:35pm:
   I think that people who spend money on goumet salt have too much money.  Do you expect me to believe that you can taste whether a dish was cooked with Hawaiian Alaea Salt, Asin Tibuok Sea Salt, Light Grey Celtic Sea Salt, Kashmir Pink Himalayan Salt, Cyprus Flake Sea Salt, etc., etc., etc...
People are such pretentious creatures.  Salt is salt. 

They've done taste tests.  The answer is: no, people can't tell the difference.


I guess different exotic salts just aren't worth their salt.
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Reply #339 - Aug 2nd, 2024 at 2:33pm
 
Rat Man wrote on Jul 13th, 2024 at 4:45pm:
joe_meadmaker wrote on Jun 30th, 2024 at 10:15pm:
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There's also things like, like banking a turn.  We see planes make banked turns, so that's what makes sense in our minds.  But in space there is no air.  So a banked turn ain't going to happen.


Borg cubes get that right.  Cubes don't make banked turns.


While we're on the subject....   in every space movie or series we've ever seen when spaceships meet they're always oriented the same, as if there was an up and down in space.  There isn't.  In reality those ships should be oriented differently.  They should be upside down and at every other possible angle to each other.  JS
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Reply #340 - Aug 9th, 2024 at 9:58pm
 
Rat Man wrote on Jul 13th, 2024 at 4:45pm:
Borg cubes get that right.  Cubes don't make banked turns.

Yes!  The borg do things right!  Grin


Rat Man wrote on Aug 2nd, 2024 at 2:33pm:
While we're on the subject....   in every space movie or series we've ever seen when spaceships meet they're always oriented the same, as if there was an up and down in space.  There isn't.  In reality those ships should be oriented differently.  They should be upside down and at every other possible angle to each other.

Now there's something I never thought of.  100% correct.  Grin
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Reply #341 - Aug 24th, 2024 at 12:08pm
 
    Chopping songs.  When I was a kid AM radio was king.  FM didn't exist in any meaningful form.  There were long and short versions to many songs we loved.  When the DJ played the short version of say "Light My Fire" by the Doors we would be angry and deeply offended.  In retrospect it made perfect sense for them to play the short versions.  Their money was in commercials.  The more commercials per hour the more money. 
      Then in the late 60s FM radio came along.  It was far less mercenary than AM.  It was considered "Underground Radio" then.  It would play the long versions of our favorite songs or even whole albums.  Since the sound was superior eventually FM squeezed out AM.  Then it became AM. 
     Chopping songs, though totally annoying, made sense financially.  But now I have YouTube Premium.  They are already making their money.  Yet they chop songs.  Like the drum solo in Santana's "Soul Sacrifice"
at Woodstock.  Or Alvin Lee's iconic "Going Home."  Or the noise part of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love."   And many others.
     Do they think we're too stupid to notice?  What possible reason could there be for non-musicians to butcher classic masterpieces of Rock?  It's not like they have to squeeze more commercials in.  Chopping Rock songs really urinates me off. 
         
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Reply #342 - Aug 25th, 2024 at 9:43pm
 
I hear ya.  I remember always being annoyed when the radio would be playing Pink Floyd and they would cut off (most of) the guitar solo at the end of the song.
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Reply #343 - Sep 10th, 2024 at 1:38pm
 
Beer commercials.  They always show young, beautiful people with perfect model bodies drinking their beer.  Not one beer gut in the bunch, ever.  Come on.
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Reply #344 - Sep 10th, 2024 at 2:46pm
 
Rat Man wrote on Sep 10th, 2024 at 1:38pm:
Beer commercials.  They always show young, beautiful people with perfect model bodies drinking their beer.  Not one beer gut in the bunch, ever.  Come on.


Right‽  I can barely lose weight without drinking!  If I wanted to drink, I'd have to workout full-time.
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