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  • Oh right yeah it being photoshop makes more sense.

    A bit of liquify on the corners of the mouth and add a set of nice white teeth. I was a bit unsure at first but I have the extended edition on my hd as I was gonna watch the trilogy for the first time in years. So I quickly just browsed through that scene. And imo the only framing that fits is that “I have no memory of this place” as when Gandalf just sits there pondering he doesn’t have his hat on, and then when he realises the smell and gets a bit happier, there’s no further closeup.

    So a very understandable mistake to make and I could’ve bought it had I not had reference so easily available.

    Edit Cover his mouth with something and you’ll see how “odd” the eyes are, that was the giveaway to me. It doesn’t feel like he’s smiling if you do that. And Sir Ian os definitely able to smile with his eyes on command, that I know for sure.


  • and it is a legit screencap.

    Bullshit it is. It’s based on a real screencap, but those are not the teeth of the great Sir Ian Mckellen. And if he was actually smiling, he would be smiling warmly, none of this weird AI forgot to fo the eyes when prompted to make an image smile.

    edit for reference

    edit 2 furthe reference as this is clearly the scene where it’s supposedly from








  • I mean, it’s not necessary, but neither are HD resolutions or high framerates.

    It has seemed every beautiful in some things.

    It’s not necessary, but like, lots of things aren’t. The tech in itself isn’t horrible, it’s just horrible usecases which make it bad. Even if most usecases are horrible. Some aren’t.

    Edit for instance we have much the same power computers with my brother, aside from me having an outdated GPU. Last year when we played HP Legacy for a bit, I would say that his was far prettier when utilising Ray tracing, and the whole game is a sort of feast of aesthetics, so. Although his rig wasn’t potent enough to have great framerates, so playing was still better for him as well without Ray tracing. But the scenery without much action still had good framerares so we saw rhe difference. Idk perhaps it will never be good but




  • And you’re wrong.

    Just because some niche unit uses metric prefixes doesn’t mean that that unit is “in the metric system” as language is used.

    Learn to use language pls.

    Weird how when you open that “metric system” link your pedantry is nowhere to be seen, almost as if by and large “metric” refers to the SI-system, isn’t it? Oh I’m sorry, you can’t answer that with “yes”, because it would mean that you stop pretending like you don’t know what I mean, which you simply can’t do.


  • Lol, you’re the one who’s arguing youre right, despite me clearly stressing that I know that if we’re superanal pedants you could technically make the argument that “metric system” can also refer to non-SI units which use decimal prefixes.

    That a lone doesn’t mean you we’re right. See that “metric system” link there? Give it a click, would you, and then rethink on who’s being pedantic.

    You haven’t told me anything interesting. I’m well aware of things like the attempt of France to change the time to powers a decimal system as well. They didn’t. Time is still in SI-units and that system is colloquially known as THE METRIC SYSTEM.

    Like I said, you’re not exactly wrong, per se. (But you definitely are now, being such an annoying pedant while ignoring the very simple points I made.)