Sledgstone
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The Hobbit trilogy in 4k are completely different cuts of the movie. I had no idea. I was skimming through youtube tv the other day, put on Battle of the Five Armies in the background while I got some stuff done. Then when I sat down I figured I'd finish the movie. I put on the 4k version instead and wtf. Not only is the movie visually stunning.. I had no idea my tv could look this good. I could see every strand of hair on everyone's head and everything was so crisp I could almost tell when scenes used a green screen to film. But what really blew me away was all the extra scenes and the gore. Its like this is the R rated cut. WTF.
Bodies getting crushed, heads and limbs getting cut off and blood.. blood everywhere. WTF. And theres one extra scene where Thorin jumps on a goat and is like "I'm going to the top of Raven hill to kill that Azog bastard" and Dain says "How do you plan on getting past that army?" 6 more of Thorin's dwarves show up in the war chariot. Thorin: "We'll manage." and then theres like a 7 minutes scene of them tearing ass and mass murdering orcs on their way to Raven Hill. WTF. In the original movie, Thorin says he'll go to Raven Hill to kill Azog, the scene changes and we see Thorin and the others on some mountain goats ascending the hill. The amount of blood and gore in this new scene is brutal. I was shocked. But it was f*cking awesome.
Now I need to watch the rest of the movies in their 4k versions to see what else is new. I read the LoTR 4k versions are also getting new scenes.
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Cool. O_o i only watched LOTR original triology. never watched anything beyond that. but im planning to watch LOTR series coming out on amazon.
"i could see every strand of hair" rotfl my first moment i noticed that was when i first tried Roku channel with TCL TV. i only watched hells kitchen with that and it wasnt even HD. so i played a movie Forever Young and i thought something was wrong with TV screen because im like whats that on their face and arms? they look fuzzy wtf..as i looked closer im like holy shit i can see their face/arm hair
and when did they convert old tv shows to 4k too? im watching little house this morning in my amazon library and picture looks amazing! BUT then why arent my old SD and HD movies automatically convert to UDH like that? kinda greedy they want full retail price for the same movies i paid for.
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I know some movies will get auto AI upscaled to 4k depending on the hardware. Like the newer Nvidia Shield will upscale like that. But I guarantee whatever upscale it could do for my 1080p hobbit would be nothing compared to the remastered 4k version.
I can understand why some shows would cost more for upgraded versions. I can't find the article right now but when Star Trek The Next Generation was remastered into HD, they had to redo all the cg space and ship effects for every episode. Mainly because the upscaling process for the original cg made the entire show look like garbage with a $10 budget.
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Theres a new update for IPB coming out later this year. Once I upgrade to that, I'll see what new features there are for the articles section and possibly get articles back up and running again. In hindsight, I didn't like the comment implementation. Because it used the forum topic's comments, in the article it would look out of place because the comments wouldn't start from where the post was upgraded to an article. If there is a better implementation of that I'll probably get the articles back up and running. Heres info on random stuff in the new version that may or may not interest anyone. lol.
https://invisioncommunity.com/news/product-updates/
And there will be an Invision App that works will all sites that use IPB, but its dependent on the community owner keeping the license valid for it to work. Which I generally don't. For the last 5 or so years I let the license lapse when there is no upgrades available. I never saw the value in paying for license renewals every 6 months when there was no upgrades because all it did was give an anti spam option. We hardly have a spam issue anymore nowadays. Eh, we'll see what the app does and if it has a dark mode or not.
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These GW2 events I skipped out on doing over the last couple months are actually pretty fun. I've got some new skins to unlock. I think I'll change up my warrior's look a bit this weekend.
I could have made a new character look like Mei from Overwatch, but I didn't buy the wide rim glasses when they were available.. and custom head pieces can't be used with outfits. ;_; Theres a perfect outfit/glasses combo to make Mei, but the game won't allow the combo to happen.
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Nope.
I forgot the name of the outfit before. I was thinking about the artic explorer outfit with the hood off.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Arctic_Explorer_Outfit
That with those wide rim glasses would have made a great looking Mei.
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All I can hear in my head is "try to git pass dis!"
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This has been a busy summer. I'm almost looking forward to winter so I can get a break from all the lawn mowing and outside projects. Hopefully the snow blower I bought this year works good so I'll have alot of free time this winter to get caught up on things. When I've had free time I've been playing Final Fantasy X over the last 5 months and I've somehow finally hit 100 hours on it. Lol. Only took me about half a year.
I still didn't beat it yet but I'm at the end game stuff now with the monster arena and omega ruins.
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Turns out I had some sitemap issues, SEO issues and some issues with the https changeover that google absolutely did not like. It looks like google wasn't crawling the site or at least not crawling and indexing the site like it should have been for who knows how long. I think thats all fixed now and I think google is indexing correctly again. Will this increase our users online? I have no idea, lol. But at least the site should be a bit more visible with google now.. at least until google gives me another email about errors again.
As of now from over the last 5 months our best search term that gives us results is:
"one punch man english dub"
The lowest search terms that somehow loads one of our pages:
"utz cheddar cheese balls"
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I checked yahoo.com for the hell of it.. I searched Ancient Clan and it brings up all the pages no problem. I don't get why google has to be such an ass about indexing.
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Google is actually sending us some traffic again. As of this morning we've had 20 clicks since last monday night from the search term "zoro kill count". Somehow an old topic from 2006 is the number 1 result for that search as of right now. Lol.
At least I know it's working again and google is indexing the correct https links.
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When searching for Ancient Clan, we now show up on page 11 of google results.
I need to update the site description and meta tags. These results are garbage. x_x
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We're going to lose the gif feature.
I've been holding off on the latest IPB update because I was waiting on the theme guy to release his update (that happened last night), so I'll update this weekend.. but one thing in the patch notes from IPB:
"Removed support for Gfycat embeds due to ongoing unaddressed security concerns on their end." The gifs were fun while they lasted.
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Well my dryer broke after about 15 years and multiple repairs I've done over those years. I had to buy a new dryer. So far so good. I was finally able to get my laundry done again and my bathroom no longer smells like dirty socks and febreeze.
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had to call sears technician to fix our dryer about six months ago. he said he would be back bc he had no tools to do the job right away, waiting for that numbnut turned into a week or two, finally called someone else, turned out a freaking bird was nesting on a vent exit and that was blocking the flow or whatever. fixed it less than 15 mins. i got the hang of air drying for awhile, but back to being convenient
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the sears guy kept delaying and pushed back dated schedule. i knew what he was doing. he wanted an extra cash but didn't have time from his work so he made us wait a week after another week. even if he had attempted to fix it, he already told us he was going to vacuum a vent and probably overcharged us. screw that guy.
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*walks past your profile, stumbles and hits my knee on a table* ahhhhh....
*sues*
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look at all the One Piece merchandise they have now!
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Have you read "Star Wars: Tales of the Bounty Hunters"?
Its the latest book I've been reading and its actually pretty good. I didn't think much of it at first, but its 4 short stories/novellas in one book. Its the stories of each of the bounty hunters called in by Darth Vader to hunt down the millennium falcon in "The Empire Strikes Back". The first two stories had alot of Boba Fett in it and the third one had an awesome wookie in it. I'm on the third story and its pretty interesting at the moment, but I bet the last story (which is Boba Fett's) will be the best because it'll tie in his accounts with the first two stories and all the crap that went down on cloud city and then Jabba's palace.
*just realized I typed my opinion about it before you could even say if you've already read it or not* hehehe.
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I think I have that pm saved somewhere, I'm glad you posted it tho. I've actually gotten used to looking at my recipes in my blog when I go to cook something if its been a while since I've cooked it. Now I'll be able to check yours too.
Brats with sauerkraut are the best! Of course I'm the only one in the house that appreciates the distinct aroma of sauerkraut. X'D
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I'm doing good.
hehehe.. yeah, that was a nice setup last time but I think the guys that made that feature were trying to track everyone's usage of it and possibly profit off of some how.
eh.I'll be putting a youtube block on the profile pages soon tho. Maybe tomorrow, maybe next weekend.. I'm lazy. :pppp
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Lmao! X'D That EOD bot kill was a bit challenging. I got it on a round of tdm. Someone left a resupply kit in some bushes, so i proned on it and kept getting my eod bots resupplied as they were destroyed. lol. I kept sending out eod bots and i finally got the kill by sneeking up on a guy, torched him.. he ran and turned around as i slowly brought my eod bot towards him with the torch blazing. Those damn bots go so fast, I had to creep up on him. It was hilarious, he took 3 shots at my bot with a shotgun and missed each time and my torch finished him off. X'D
Whats really funny is that someone got an eod bot kill on me on kharg island on a round of conquest. I was in a tank taking fire from some rpg guy. Killed him, and then my hit points started dropping fast. Nothing was on my proximity scan and I blew up before I could jump out. I got killed by the damn EOD bot while in a tank.
