Blackmist

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Blackmist,

In fairness we’ve been around a lot longer, but it is impressive how one little island nation has managed to fuck so much shit up from afar.

Blackmist,

Is that a rain coat?

Blackmist,

I think the most disappointing thing about it is how cheap they all are to buy. You’d expect them to be bribed in the millions, but it’s always a couple of thousand here, a couple of thousand there.

Turns out the most unrealistic thing about Clay Davis from The Wire, is how much he took.

Blackmist,

The golf course near me has spent the last month about a foot underwater.

I have never been so smug. I hope it’s ruined.

Blackmist,

I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage.

– Kurt von Hammerstein

LinkedIn is Facebook for that last type.

Blackmist,

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Blackmist,

That’s because we told them that there would be jobs on the other side of that debt.

Just lie your way in. Worry about how to do the job later.

Blackmist,

I feel seen.

Use your legs for a bit and they won’t get as cold.

Blackmist, (edited )

Hard agree. The others just don’t give any characters enough to time to do anything other than show, do a bit of fan service, and fuck off again. Endgame is a complete clusterfuck.

The only things that have been anywhere near that good since are the Spiderman (maybe not the middle one) and Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn is just at home doing this stuff) movies.

I wanted the Taika Waititi and Sam Raimi films to be a lot better than they were, and they just feel too constrained by the House of Mouse for the kind of directors they are.

Blackmist,

National Treasure is fucking awful though.

It’s certainly no The Mummy (Brendan and Rachel obviously, not Tom’s shitty effort that killed the whole “Dark Universe” franchise two movies in), which is about where I draw the line on popcorn guff.

Blackmist,

I think that’s just doing the Justwatch style thing. It’s a start, but it’s not a true integration.

Sad thing is, I’m pretty sure Netflix used to encourage you to make your own UI for it. Then they blocked it all.

Blackmist,

I prefer movieuniverse.se, but mostly for older movies.

For newer stuff it’s streaming or the servarr stack. I didn’t buy all these speakers to listen in stereo.

Blackmist,

I’m heading back to it.

The streaming was sort of OK, and now it’s wank. Spread across dozens of services, that don’t have enough content to justify their existence. No UI linking them all together means you have no idea if something is available or not without checking justwatch.com

If music was like this, I’d pirate that too.

Blackmist,

Yeah, why is it doing that?

Especially when I’m using the Jellyfin Android TV client. The quality goes from ok to complete shit.

Does it not like mkv files?

Blackmist,

Subtitle codec is not supported.

I think they’re in ASS format, according to the subtitle selection menu, embedded in the mkv file.

Is there no way to convert that to something that is supported?

It doesn’t help that this is Across the Spider Verse, so it’s not exactly what most video codecs are expecting. The playback quality with no subs is light-years ahead of the transcoded version.

Blackmist,

I’ve got old PCs, but would rather have something that uses very little power rather than some ancient Athlon X2 running full tilt.

Those mini PCs are neat, but lack space for drives.

Blackmist,

Checked on the dashboard as per the other comment.

It’s subtitles. I’m probably going to try Kodi as a client, see how that goes. Shame, because I quite like the Jellyfin client UI, it just doesn’t work with some files.

Blackmist,

It’s strange because Jellyfin claims to be able to extract and convert subtitles on the fly, and even has an option to disable that, but for some reason it’s choosing not to do it. There doesn’t seem to be a definitive list of what does and doesn’t work. You just play things and hope it doesn’t trigger the transcoding dance.

Kodi’s player does work (to an extremely impressive level, including DVD rips I made years ago), but I’m really not keen on the UI, dating as it does from before Android TV was a thing. All the buttons seem configured just differently enough from everybody else that simple things like checking how long a video has left, to backing out so you can finish watching tomorrow are borderline infuriating. I did get a keybinding editor for it, to make it so pressing back stops the video, but knowing all the functions is something that takes more knowledge of it than I have. I’ll probably get it configured eventually, but it’s annoying to start with.

The Jellyfin UI on the other hand is great. I love the detail on each film, all the cast and blurb and all that. It’s just the player is Exoplayer, and every limitation in that is now Jellyfin’s limit too. There does seem to be an option to swap it, but what with? I’m not sure what Kodi uses internally. Maybe it’s their own thing.

Blackmist,

Was.

Blackmist,

I’m not deaf but I fucking love subtitles.

There’s a lot of mumbly actors out there.

Blackmist,

The series would have been fine had they not been needed to understanding what is happening in the movies.

Cue me wondering where I’d missed that Elizabeth Olsen is a villain again in Dr Strange 2.

I can deal with watching a movie every few months on the off chance that some of them are entertaining popcorn guff, but I’m not sitting through endless shows where you see 10 hours of characters you don’t care about and their extended families you also won’t care about.

Blackmist,

We need a new metric standard. Introducing the 💩.

112.6 standard rolls = 1k💩

Blackmist,

It would hardly be the first time.

I’d settle for “not actively supporting it” at this point.

Blackmist,

Isn’t that exactly what most PS5 games do?

Blackmist,

Google and Facebook in shambles.

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