Yeah I think I’ll just light a match.

If you can show me Roman furry artwork (for a friend who really wants to see it, of course), I’ll withdraw my whole line of comments.

I’m speaking in historical terms here. By new I mean within the past couple of decades.

Certainly not the majority, but being “mainstream” doesn’t require a majority.

If Sync brings more users to Lemmy, that’s a net win for all of us here.

Let’s be honest here. Wanting to be a talking animal isn’t really any less weird than wanting to yiff one.

Trying to distance yourself from the latter by claiming the former is a futile effort.

Sure there’ve been talking animals since humans have been telling stories, but what seems to be new is the rando who’s always there in the comments to say “Yo, I’d totally tap Tigger’s ass”, “That Coyote character is a snack.”

The problem is where the mainstream lies. In Islam, the mainstream is fundamentalism. Of course, fundamentalism is a problem for Christianity and every other religion too, but right now that is not the mainstream of those sects. And that is why Islam gets criticized more heavily than other religions.

Fundamentalism is cancerous wherever it lives.

It’s just as well. Where would you even put them all?

It’s a combination of both. Studios typically will mix the end result for the highest-end sound setups, which most people don’t actually have. If you’re lucky enough to have a full surround with the ability to properly dial in equalizer and other settings, you probably won’t have a problem hearing the dialogue even when it’s mumbled. But on conventional tv speakers, it can easily get lost in the mix.

I’ve used subtitles for most of my adult life, ever since having kids. First it was so I could watch without waking the baby, and then it was so I could follow along over all the noise in the house. And I never went back. So as sound mixing changed and got muddier, I guess I didn’t notice, because I was already used to not being able to hear half the dialogue anyway.

But then you also have that very specific window of time when a lot of stuff especially SFX was done on video that can’t be upscaled. Babylon 5 fans weep.

SNW is really top tier production quality across the board. The camera work, the sound, music, design, everything is goddamned impeccable, and that extends to the post production. So much thought goes into every part of it, and I really have to give Paramount its kudos for enabling that level of attention to detail in all aspects of the franchise right now. If I told a fellow Trekkie in the 90s that we would ever see the day, they would laugh.

Amen to that. Monoculture is bad, in every context.

The Vulcans have it right: Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.

I definitely notice it with a push mower, but there’s also the issue of the grass blades themselves always being cut in one direction. That’ll produce a noticable effect over time if you don’t vary mowing vector.

Voyager won me

But you have to alternate the pattern each time you mow or you’ll get wheel ruts.

What if we had the ability to toggle them off, so if you didn’t want to see them you didn’t have to?

I will do this, but the hashtags will be goofy and unhelpful, and only when I remember to.

#ducks #gandalfdidnothingwrong