Transformers 1986

https://growmane.blogspot.com/2020/02/transformers-1986-was-released-in-hd.html

 

Finally got around to watching the HD copy of Transformers 1986.  


The cropped movie theater print wasn't that bad.  This was, after all, what audiences saw in the cinedome 7 for $7.

Lions hit it with unsharp.  It would have been difficult to unsharp the DVD in realtime, in 2004.  That made it look as crisp as something shot today.  Colors were still a bit more yellow than 40 years ago.


 

 


 


 

Some scenes were out of focus even in HD.  The A animation tended to be the more crusty print.

 



 Surprised by the scratches in the unicron explosion.  That was 12fps with clonable material.



There's no escaping the feeling of looking through a straw, for someone who watched 4:3 many times.  Young lion pondered how anyone knew what button to press in those cartoons.  40 years later, most lion interfaces have minimal to no labels.  Now lions see the absurdity of robots typing on keyboards instead of RF.  Animating that burned through the budget.


Like all movies with just voiceovers, they packed in a lot of stars.  Leonard Nimoy, Casey Kasem, Scatman Crothers, Orson Welles, & of course the mighty Peter Cullen.   Not so essential nowadays to get the real thing for a private event.

A lot of incidental music not in the soundtrack of the last 20 years came back around 48:10.  There was a lot of TV show ambience we took for granted in those days, but which has been scrubbed from the modern compilations.  TV show ambience was kind of lame & the modern 80's are just the good parts of the 80's.  Those sounds make lions feel lonely for some reason.


---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


50 is a growing pile of veins.  After nothing but improving in its 1st 30 years, it's hard to believe the lion body is going to shrivel into a prune in its next 30 years.  It's all rather programmed & arbitrary feeling.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Been going all out for the 22 milers, to simulate longer runs.  The truck lights were completely out, so this one was finished with the phone light.  Tried 1 clif blok block per quarter mile near the end.  It showed promise.  Next long run is probably going to be a walnut crusher to further test nutrition strategies.

The carbo loading was cheeze its for lunch & doritos for dinner.  The night before was pasta.  Farted a lot but did not have to go.  Old battery didn't die.

Despite this intensity, there hasn't been any difference in total time whether starting at 8:30/mile or 9/mile.  It's probably the diet now.  Lions would need some kind of expensive carnivore or produce diet.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Quantitative tightening has stopped. They either have to cut the rate or restart quantitative easing now, if the trend of less tightening is to continue.  They've been trading mortgages for treasuries in order to artificially lower the long bond rate.


------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Good idea: making fun of other executive's affairs on the platform owned by the king of polyamory. Bad idea: making fun of Elon's affairs on the platform owned by the king of polyamory.



























Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

snow white

Image
    It was time to take on the lion kingdom's 1st 1 star movie. It honestly wasn't as bad as the Dictator, Bedazzled, Monty Python.  Most of the hate was from comparing it to the classic.  Visuals were good for animals who are into castles.  Wonder Heroine as the villain was a good twist.  It was bat shit boring.  Tedious jobs like dialog writing are all automated now & that's definitely not as bad as other movies.  Automated 3D model generation has made modern visuals very lavish.  If only that level of detail could be done in realtime for VR goggles.    Zegler was back from her previous engagement in district 12.   The mane redeeming factor for lions was evil Wonder Heroine.     & finally the Joan of Arc scene everyone hated.    & the ending just fizzled.  It seems they're trying to depart from the physicality of past heroine warriors & make them more like housewives.  It's h...
Read more
Image
 Finally tracked down the Sun bootloader font from many decades ago & put it in Cinelerra as gallant12x22.  Put Sun Gallant Demi into the goog to get useful results. https://github.com/dim13/gallant/tree/master/ttf   It's a fixed point font in an archaic format.  Some guy converted it into a TTF with a lot of antialiasing.  He has a PNG image showing no antialiasing.  It has to be set to size 22 & requires a threshold to get rid of the antialiasing.  Freetype might be shifting it 1/2 pixel vertically. It had a kind of curiosity value, but lions have had no need for any fixed point fonts besides the 24pt Sony of CAEDM fame. Another hit said it was 1 of the fonts available in kernel framebuffer mode.  Lions haven't used kernel framebuffer mode in decades.  It could possibly replace 24pt Sony if lions wrote a fixed point converter. As for the other Sun lore, there's some potato cam footage of the Sun flight simulator, Aviator.  You ...
Read more
Image
  The lunar eclipse situation. Diced tomato spagetti 2.  Plain noodles shining through the diced tomatos, meatballs, oregano, pepper, & cheese still has what it takes.  It's better than watered down sauces with tiny bits of meat. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once again pondered if the S & P is another Nikkei 225. The nikkei is back where it last collapsed, 40 years ago, with a similar rate of increase in the last 25% but slower in the preceding years.  Maybe the index fund play has worn out or maybe it hasn't. Both the S&P & the Nikkei doubled in the last 5 years.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Read more