Those things fucking suck when you can get them to work and they are downright dangerous otherwise.

Whenever someone says, “Statistically…”, you know they’re about to say some dumb shit that is an ignorant misinterpretation of statistics.

Oh yeah, me too. Reboots can be novel and interesting sometimes. In this case in particular, a less campy vibe would be a very good thing.

I think we can stop worrying about spoilers for stories that have already been told though.

Spoilers? The novel was published in 1982. The original movie (as silly as it can be) was released in 1987. You can’t spoil a reboot.

This whole post is a lie to manipulate people into engaging with an astroturfing bot.

Do don’t do this. You’re just a few lines of code.

You’re not not pushing 30. You’re a bot.

There’s no due process anymore. Why do you believe you’ll ever be granted a lawyer, let alone a phone call, or a court date? They’re just out there assaulting and disappearing people.

If it made a PDF with an image, it also made the plain image for which you’re asking. The PDF in this case is basically a container for that image (along with all the text, formatting, fonts, etc.). There are numerous programs for extracting images from PDFs.

You want mpd to server and play the music, connected with a web front end (there are a few to choose from) accessible on the private store wifi. You should probably serve this frontend only to a certain machine on the network (like the managers computer in the back) and lock everything else out. The last time I ripped CDs on Linux I used whipper, which I believe was the successor to morituri. This is all only legal if the CDs they have already included the licensing fees to play them publicly or are themselves freely licensed. There are sources of freely licensed music out there that you can play publicly without paying.

Isn’t this basically in line with the plot of the prequels anyway?

This gives me God Emperor of Dune vibes.

I think it’s more like this…

Angel: “Push it over the edge and watch it fall.”

Devil: “Drink from it after giving yourself a thorough self cleaning and leave the area before they notice.”

They should hide somewhere in the game itself the real credits of the people that spent significant effort to make the game. An Easter Egg if you will. Like just after defeating the dragon, you find a scroll in their horde with the real credits.

These are fair points, that I have no real argument with, but I do have a different perspective.

• Tastes vary widely, especially when you try to start trying to throw a little humor into the horror mix. I genuinely enjoy watching some things others really hate and conversely can’t stand to watch some franchises that I know are actually pretty good.
• I freely admit that I enjoy cheaply made horror and movies that makes big swings and take wild chances. Sometimes that works out. Sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes even the failures open the door to something else. The Alien franchise might have taken a really different direction if James Cameron didn’t work on Galaxy of Terror (a low budget mess of a movie that I don’t recommend to anyone that isn’t seriously into bad movies the way I am). Even though I don’t like Galaxy of Terror enough to repeatedly watch it, I’m grateful for the insight.
• I think the trick really is to find a reviewer(s) whose taste align with yours. For example, I enjoy watch Brandon Tenold’s takes on cult movies on YouTube. I don’t always bother to find and watch the movies he reviews, but after watching his take I can usually get a good feel for if I’ll enjoy it enough to spend the time and effort to find and watch it.
• My time for movies, shows, and books is not precious and limited. If I start watching or reading something that I’m not into, I’m okay with not finishing it. There’s no reason to torture myself over it, I just move on. I don’t consider this a waste of time.

The diffraction effects from a pinhole camera are not what make them work.

I didn’t say this, you did. You’re chasing your own tail.

Is this wit or a genuine request that one of us explainsthejoke.com?

The ratio of the size of the image to the distance from the pinhole is the same as the ratio of the size of the sun to the distance to the sun.

A pinhole camera has no lens. The effect here is like a pinhole camera, but a pinhole camera is nothing at all like a lens. Pinholes diffract light. Lens refract light.

EDIT: Of course you can’t resolve an image through diffraction. That’s not how pinholes cameras work. Diffraction negatively impacts image resolution, but it absolutely happens when light passes through them. But, although lens do use refraction to resolve an image, that same process also has unintended negative effects on image resolution (spherical aberration, chromatic aberration, etc.). I didn’t bring up any of that because it was ultimately a distraction from the important part: narrow gaps diffract light, lens refract light, and pinhole cameras do not work like lens.

Can this keep num lock engaged? I swear my biggest frustration with windows lately is it’s habit of randomly and arbitrarily turning off numlock after I’ve turned it on. I never turn off numlock while working. I never use the number pad arrows. I prefer the number pad numbers and use them practically all day. And yet, several times a day I find my cursor moving around the screen instead of typing a number because windows decided that it got to control the numlock function instead of me and the dedicated light up key designed for that function that has worked fine for me for decades before.