Imo it has less to do with photorealism vs non-photorealism and more to do with pbr (physically based rendering) vs non-pbr. The former attempts to recreate photorealistic graphics by adding additional texture maps (typically metallic/smooth or specular/roughness) to allow for things ranging from glossiness and reflectivity, to refraction and sub-surface scattering. The result is that PBR materials tend to have little to no noticeable difference between PBR enabled renderers so long as they share the same maps.

Non-pbr renderers, however, tend to be more inaccurate and tend to have visual quirks or “signatures”. For an example, to me everything made in UE3 tends to have a weird plastic-y look to it, while metals in Skyrim tend to look like foam cosplay weapons. These games can significantly benefit from raytracing because it’d involve replacing the non-pbr renderer with a PBR renderer, resulting in a significant upgrade in visual quality by itself. Throw in raytracing and you get beautiful shadows, speculars, reflections, and so on in a game previously incapable of it.

I’m a bit late to the conversation, but I’ve heard dermarollers + rogaine/topical minoxidil can help! Both are over-the-counter. Might be worth talking to a dermatologist about.

Edit: also enby auntcle is kind of a transition goal for me too lol

Why do you think it isn’t the other way around? I’m honestly kinda wondering if this is a case where at one point perhaps the US has Israel on a leash, but it seems like Israel now has the US on a leash.

This is redneck Dracula flow

I’ve heard it’s Schrodinger’s virtue signaling. Most military guys get annoyed, but then when you don’t virtue signal, it just happens to be the one guy who actually enjoys it and gets upset that you didn’t say, “thanks for your service”.

I have no idea what this is supposed to be but that looks super relaxing. Especially the “rolling a ball on your back” part.

To be honest, I’m kinda surprised that I haven’t seen any music store chains pop up. People like records, CDs, cassettes and so on for the same reason.

They did, but they waited until Amazon was ahead to do it. If I remember correctly they were more expensive than Amazon with no where near the selection of specialty stuff like computer parts or electronics. It meant that Sears was a place I basically never went to except if I was looking for something I literally couldn’t find anywhere else.

Better than the reaction I probably would have had. I would have had to shove my hands in my pockets because I’d immediately have the urge to start touching it and looking closely at all the bits and pieces.

Amusingly, smokinliver appears to be wrong (I literally did a Google search for “side view of a healthy human brain” and got OP’s pic): https://sciencephotogallery.com/featured/side-view-of-a-healthy-human-brain-garry-watsonscience-photo-library.html

Edit: wait, is the joke supposed to be that it is not a human brain? That OP found a not-human brain labeled as “human brain”, therefore demonstrating the Dunning-Kruger effect? I’m confused.

The man destroyed the large blue and white Porcelain Cube at a busy private opening for the exhibition “Who am I?” at Palazzo Fava in Bologna on the evening of September 21. Local police arrested a 57-year-old Czech man who has been identified in Italian media as Vaclav Pisvejc, a provocateur and self-proclaimed artist known for targeting important works of art.

Ai himself is known for smashing works as well. The exhibition’s curator Arturo Galansino noted that several works in the show document the destruction of a precious ceramic. The most famous of these is Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995), a triptych of black-and-white photographs in which the artist holds and then drops a 2,000-year-old vessel. It is a commentary on China’s deliberate erasure of its cultural heritage.

Ai himself is known for smashing works as well.

Hmmm…

Well Ai Weiwei, it seems you got your answer.

While I doubt the vandal was actually trying to make a comment on the artist’s reputation, it does seem very appropriate that one of his sculptures would get smashed at an exhibition called, “Who am I?”

Mhm, as a former projectionist I can confirm that those files average 200~300gb.

Why would they sell them? Cinemaphiles. Your average person won’t spend $200 on a 500gb drive containing The Room, but a hardcore cinemaphile might. My boss at the theater I was working at was the kinda person who would have bought that. Well, maybe not The Room, but he probably would have spent the money for something like The Godfather trilogy.

I think 80% of the world would look up, go “huh. Well, anyway…”

The remaining 20% would be split at either side of the spectrum, with 10% on one side freaking out and trying to whip the 80% into a frenzy, while the last 10% would be a mix of, “PLEASE TAKE ME WITH YOU DON’T LEAVE ME HERE PLEASE”, “HnnnnnnNNNGGG IM COOOOOOMING”, and “Why do we all have to wear these ridiculous ties?”

It has a practically infinite set of images. Seriously, I’ve seen people do geoguesser and get nothing but back roads in the middle of basically Anywhere, Earth; I’ve seen people get stuck inside malls, go into caves, walk down random-ass rabbit trails in the middle of a forest surrounded by miles of fucking nothing (I wish I could remember what video I saw that in, it was fucking insane). Geoguesser pulls from the full catalog of Google Street view images, and there are a lot of street view images.

I’m also into BDSM!

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Me!

I know, I’m kinda complaining by illustrating how difficult it is to get official movie files nowadays; especially if you want lossless, master-quality files.

What is the context for this? I am extremely entertained by the idea that this might be a thing.

What if I don’t want people to miss me? I don’t want people to be sad :c

You can get the files if you want, they’re just very expensive and to the tune of hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars. Also they’re typically encrypted and can only be played back on an approved projection system and you have to buy decryption keys every time you want to watch the movie. This is why theaters suck by the way, they have to pay for the movie, the ability to play the movie, the ability to take money in exchange for people seeing the movie, etc.

Had to look that up; damn, what a pretty mineral.