Not strictly my rarest

But I remember taking a good while to actually achieve it (FTL)

Oh hey

There’s a whole school of political ideology about explicitly not centralising power in the hands of a few people

I guess it’s likely they’re doing some amount of that, yeah. However I believe the way directors typically approach IMAX is to still centre the shot the way you would without the extra vertical frame, so a centred crop would usually be the best option.

I’d find it hard to believe that they never take the opportunity to shift things a bit if it would make it better anyway

Home releases will almost certainly get the non-IMAX, 2.39:1 crop they’ve already cut for standard cinemas, and it’ll get the standard cinema letterboxing you see for other theatrical releases if you watch on a 16:9 TV.

Pan and scan has thankfully died off as a practice

FWIW, 16:9 is mostly used for wide-screen TV content (about 1.85:1), the effect is more pronounced because cinema screens are typically 2.39:1 with most content being that ratio

That’s why you still get letterboxes watching films on TV a lot of the time, despite us all having widescreens now

It’s partly because people would complain the other way if they only used half the cinema screen to display the full IMAX image. I’m not gonna do the maths, but I think Odyssey being 1.43:1 ratio would leave about half the screen blanked out on the sides.

But mostly because it’s the main selling point of IMAX films is there’s more image than a standard ratio. That more is supposed to be mostly in your peripheral vision rather than where you’re focused, directors aren’t really putting anything important in these extremities of the image.

So to pillarbox that image would just dramatically shrink the bit of the screen the viewer should be focusing on, on an already smaller screen.

As someone from the UK who works in software engineering, the combination of meanings is always hilarious

This is a bit of a misread from where I can see

There’s more people upset about not being on the list

Inflation is good for musk, it means his investments make more money

Let’s all not be naive here

Bob is a shithead

Authentik is great, super versatile, if not a bit of effort to get it set up initially

Lol the keywords list is hilarious, imagine publishing a list of things that rustle your jimmies.

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities

The CVE list always cracks me up, there’s like tens daily

Startup

I’m sorry what the fuck

Edit: oh they mean huggingface is a startup, which is kinda a weird categorisation for me, but that’s better than how I initially read it

Imagine referring to your dad by your surname

I was gonna say, of all the big chains in America, Costco at least seems to try and be half decent to its customers and staff

Sounds like the jury is out then

When I worked in GAME (formerly EB in the UK) in the mid-00s we never unsealed new stock for display, we just changed the lining slip on the dummy boxes that always stayed on the shop floor (head office would send us the updated slips they wanted every couple of weeks). Fairly sure we had a policy that once the plastic wrap had been removed it was only returnable as a pre-owned trade-in (which seemed kinda scammy in some cases, but it was the policy)

FWIW I imagine genuinely pre-owned stock would get a label on it to not mix it up with new stock, but yeah no idea how they’re handling non-preowned returns

If it had the shrink wrap on it when you bought it, this is almost certainly from QA at the factory as others have said. It is trivial to build a machine that would read carts on the line, but also plenty of places will still do manually sampled QA.

If no shrink wrap, then it was either opened at the shop to use as a display case (pretty sure they had already stopped using real game cases for this about 2 decades ago, when I last worked in a shop like that), which could either mean a mix up or a staff member testing it out (this wasn’t allowed with non-preowned products when I worked in a similar place)

Or perhaps someone bought it and returned it within the return window if the store allows such a thing, I don’t think typically it would go into pre-owned, but maybe clearance in that scenario. Though I think many places don’t really let you return games once they’re opened due to online registration features