u/BactaBobomb

This is probably really dumb to complain about, but I've been watching tons of game shows recently, and a lot of them are Celebrity variants. Like Celebrity Jeopardy and Celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. And they're fine, but from watching so much, I'm noticing that it's just like... a constant flow of people not taking anything seriously. It's jokes like every second. Everyone needs to make a quip, everyone needs to have a humorous banter, everyone has to be a comedian, even those that aren't typically comedians.

It's just annoying to me. I prefer the shows with just regular people.

This started being evident to me when Patton Oswalt was called as a phone-a-friend, and he turned the whole think into a joke. And someone seemed like they deliberately sabotaged their phone-a-friend "for the bit."

I'm sure this is silly and barely any - if any - people share this opinion.

With Jeopardy, yeah they make a ton of other variants that are a little more serious (or at least have a much better balance). But with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, at least in the US, I think the only one currently airing and doing new episodes is the Celebrity one with Jimmy Kimmel.

Credit where it's due, though, the Oscar Nunez and Kate Flannery run did make me laugh a lot. And I was really happy, and a bit confused, by that run.

Okay, I guess it's a little silly to say I miss her. The show's been off the air for years, and they have plenty of her episodes on YouTube. But while I'm watching episodes of The Chase, I just really don't like Sara Haines. No disrespect intended; I just feel like Brooke Burns is the better host. It feels like she's actually enjoying her time. The way she banters with Mark, the warmth she exudes with the contestants, the way she reads the questions flawlessly and seemingly in the same exact speed no matter if it's for the chaser or the prey. And I just love how she lights up and smiles when they get a successful pushback.

Sara Haines is just really no-nonsense, and I think it leads to a less compelling host.

Is Brooke Burns working on any shows currently?

I haven't done Dev Mode yet. I felt like I wouldn't benefit from it. But I just found my old copies of SAW and Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball 2, and I was so excited... until I remembered that neither of them was backwards-compatible on Xbox Series X.

But I read about something called Xenia Canary? Is that something I can install and play those games with? I'm having a hard time finding information about it, how good it is nowadays, and what the compatibility list is like.

I would think major things like Halo and Gears of War would fare well on it. But I think DOAX2 and SAW would be considered quite a bit lower in priority for people to get working. I'm hoping I'm wrong, though.

I really would love to play these again and not have to get a 360 to do it :(

I posted this on the MacOS subreddit, but I didn't know this one existed... so I'll try here, as well.

Basically, I'm trying to make a fun animation in Motion where I have Kunimitsu from Tekken (dressed to look like Misty from Pokemon) capturing Panda in a Pokeball. I thought it would be fun practice to send Panda to the Pokeball and decrease her size as she got closer until finally disappearing into the ball.

It went well at first, when I was able to copy and paste the cutout for KuniMisty from Pixelmator Pro to Motion. But then when I tried to copy the cutout of Panda from Pixelmator Pro and paste it into Motion, the KuniMisty cutout turned into a rectangle (filled with a checkerboard pattern of grey and white squares), and Panda was pasted.

I notice the rectangular box happens when I hit Copy on a different asset from Pixelmator Pro.

I was thinking it has to do with the behavior of copying and pasting on MaxOS. Maybe it is copying like a digital footprint of the object, but not the genuine image? For some reason the best analogy I can think of is with fighting game replays, they typically only record the inputs and apply them to the characters in the replay. They don't actually have a full file of a replay (though you can save them as one). It saves on resources and storage size.

I'm wondering if a similar thing is going on here.

Is there any way around this? I thought I was able to do it without issue in the Apple Store.

And I tried taking the objects in Pixelmator and saving them as their own images, but I looked everywhere in there and couldn't find it.

I took a selfie, but the light made significant shadows with my nose over the bottom of my face, as well as elsewhere. My eyes had shadows, but that's probably normal.

But I tried using the Lighten tool to lighten the shadow cast from my nose, but it's not matching the lighting of the surrounding area at all. I can't get the right strength nor the right amount of swooshing with the brush.

Is there a way to fix the uneven lighting like that? Or some way to match the surrounding light's intensity and color?

This is kind of the first time I've done stuff like this with a photo editor. My experience up to this point is cutting parts of pictures out and pasting them onto other pictures. This is the first time I'm focusing on the presentation details like this. When I've tried adjusting the lighting, I made myself look almost like Jeff the Killer because it was so badly overblown. I have no idea what I'm doing.

I would prefer to learn how to do this by hand and not use AI or anything.

Any tips?

Regarding Forza Horizon 6, I don't know if I'm going crazy, but I swear the physics in this game feel quite a bit heavier, specifically when colliding with other cars, but in some respects possibly also the actual handling of the cars.

I have my assist settings all the same as I have on the other Horizon games, and I've put hundreds of hours into every one of them. I swear there is something a bit different with this one? The only way I can describe it is that the other games had a much more arcadey tilt to the physics of impacts and stuff. But this one feels like they pushed the slider a little further into the simulation direction than that. Not much, but a noticeable amount.

Did they change something about the physics in this game? Or am I just going crazy?

I was reading a Wikipedia on "kunoichi" and they have a little animation on how to write the Kanji for it. The strokes are in the same order as the way you're supposed to pronounce it. Ku is first, then No, then Ichi...

Is this just a coincidence for this word? Or is there a connection between stroke order and the way a kanji is pronounced?

I go through obsessing over people in my life. It's usually one at a time, but I think there has always been one person I've been obsessed with. If I'm not obsessed with someone, it lasts like a day or two.

But the person I have been obsessed with, she has caused so many tears at how she won't reciprocate the friendship, she hasn't texted in months, and even when we did text, she only did it once every week or two. But when we were together those couple of times, I swear the energy was electric. I swear I was in love. But I've been hurting so much, coming to terms with how maybe she's not the friend I want her to be, and we won't be compatible as friends.

I hate this, but I even told my therapist, "I don't think I'll ever get over her unless I become obsessed with someone new."

And now I think that's happening, and I'm really scared. I bring my dog to the vet pretty frequently, and one of the vet techs is always so sweet to me. And she and I talk in the lobby a lot. Usually it starts with my dog, but then it turns into talking about other stuff, as well, like movies and stuff. We don't know each other super well, but she is so nice. Last week, someone else talked to me in the lobby, and that's fine. They rotate. But when I was leaving, she went behind the desk for something and smiled at me and seemed happy to see me. She asked how I was doing, and I was so happy she was talking to me like this, and that feeling I had was so good. She even said she's excited to see me next time I bring my dog in.

And that one interaction has thrown me into a tailspin. My head is going to all these different places. But I promised myself that no matter what kind of connection I feel I have with someone at the vet's office, no matter how much I like someone, I will not cross the boundary to asking them to be friends or more outside of the office. I want to keep it professional. But this interaction and this person, it's becoming so hard to remain ardent to that boundary. And again, I'm going through a tailspin. I'm trying so hard not to become obsessed. I'm trying so hard to control my mind and move my energy elsewhere, but it's not happening. I don't think I'm strong enough yet. I've done enough work that I can tell what's going on, I think I've figured things out. But I still don't know how to actually act on the revelation that I need to get off of her. It's completely unfair.

I'm just really worried. I promised I wouldn't do anything with seeking outside relationships with the people working at the vet's office. I've been going there for several years, and I've felt slight connections with several of the people there. But I won't do it.... but in the back of my mind I keep wondering if I should break it. What if she does like me or at least wants to be friends outside of this?

I'm scared she won't like me outside of it when she gets to know me. She'll see my quirks, my autism, my inability to read the room sometimes, my undying passion for certain movies, games and books. I'm scared she won't like my personality. I feel like a lot of people like me in short bursts and ships passing in the night, but when it gets past that, they start to get annoyed by me or even resent me. I don't think people care about me, they just tolerate me out of politeness.

What if I don't like her outside of this? I find that hard to believe, but I feel like it's a possibility.

I have gotten better about not messaging people over and over, and I'm trying to be better about not sending long messages. I feel and hope I've gotten better at giving people space more often and more intensely. I'm becoming more comfortable with that. So I have definitely improved in some ways. But that darn mind, that obsessive mind I can't trust.... it feels impossible right now to deal with it. :(

I was looking at the Live Tour tickets, and I think I want to finally take part! But I don't know which tickets to get, I guess. Are there any tickets to meet the ERB guys and take a photo with them? I could only find something called Starbomb VIP, but I think that's like another band that's playing there.

I struggled HARD with Hatch on Lumines Arise. I played it probably 30 or 40 times before I finally beat it. When I did, I was elated, even though I got a C rank.

Imagine my utter horror when I unlocked its sequel, Hatch 2.

This is probably how those Great War vets felt when they heard wind of the sequel to that. Just shellshocked, so to speak.

I still haven't dared to try it. I'm not sure I ever will.

I've been playing Tetris Effect a lot, and I feel like I'm okay at the game. But now I've hit a bit of a skill wall where I'm unable to get higher scores. I had scenarios I was wondering about. Here are the things I've been trying, but I have no idea what is getting me the highest possible score opportunity:

1. Back-to-back Tetrises in regular mode

2. Downstacking combos in regular mode

3. Downstacking combos in Focus Mode when it's maxed out and hopefully stacked near the top

4. Building my Focus meter by getting Back-to-Back Tetrises, then doing combo downstacking when I enter Focus Mode

5. Doing enough Back-to-Back Tetrises to get the minimum time of Focus Mode and then doing a quick Tetris or two while in it before it expires

6. Starting whatever modes at the maximum difficulty (save for Master and Classic Score Attack)

Those are the things I've been trying to do, and some of it is obviously giving more points than other stuff, but I don't know which ones are optimal. I'm talking about the standard Tetris modes. I think I have a handle on how to get better scores in stuff like Purify and Combo and stuff.

Journey Mode on Expert I'm having a hard time getting past S ranks on most of the levels, for instance.

And then Classic Score Attack... I need a separate section on this one. I have no idea how to get higher scores on it. Do you go for Back-to-Back Tetrises? Or do you do combo downstacking? And how do you move the pieces faster? Is it just my hands being rusty and ancient because I'm in my mid-30s? Any tips on speeding that up?

This has been going on, from my perception, for over a month now. I thought it was an update to Reddit, but I can't do an Image post on any of the subreddits I've been to. I can post images in a Text post, but it doesn't do a slideshow or anything. It just litters the page with pictures all the way down.

I tried Old Reddit, and that lets me do an image post, but it only lets me put one image.... ?

I'm just really confused. I turned off my adblocker and Brave Shields and stuff, and I tried on Microsoft Edge as well as Firefox. I'm just not getting the options to do Text, Image, or Link posts.

I know the subreddits I'm going to allow for image posts. I thought I remember there being an option somewhere on this page, but I'm not seeing them.

Does anyone know what might be going on? It's really frustrating me at this point.

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I hate saw 3d. I don't even capitalize it. I have capitalized it a handful of times for consistency in papers, but when typing about it casually, I always show it the ultimate disrespect by not capitalizing it or referring to it as SAW VII / saw vii.

It's a misogynistic piece of shit. The acting is the worst the series has to offer. The dialogue is the worst the series has to offer. The set design and lighting make it look like a low-budget porn. The story is paper-thin and rushed. The traps have so little meaning to them and serve mostly the misogyny to kill women in much more brutal ways than the men. It's an abomination, and affront to the legacy of the franchise, and I hate it.

But I sort of love it. There's something alluring to how bad it is. That allure converts into genuine entertainment at how fucking terrible it is. I love it in how much I hate it. It's honestly one of my most-watched movies in the series, even though it goes against every single thing I hold near and dear to the franchise. When I first saw it, I yelled at the screen when Dr. Gordon was revealed as an apprentice, and then yelled even more when they fucking retconned Darren Lynn Bousman's limp during Michael's eye surgery (his words: "I just wanted to add a little flair"; perhaps a paraphrase) into being Dr. Gordon and proving all the fucking Gordon lovers right and putting just the most violently rotten and abundant egg on my face and the face of everyone that fought against it with Darren's quote. I fucking HATED it.

But over time, I guess that hate has cooled down and turned into an admiration of sorts. It's impressive how terrible the movie is. Like it's a cinematic achievement the likes of which I have a hard time finding another analog for. It's like if a newborn baby somehow mopped the floor in a hundred-meter dash against Usain Bolt. Like that's how impressive it is.

But credit where it's due, it actually is my favorite Charlie Clouser work of the entire franchise. And the Bobby storyline, while underbaked, was such a cool concept. And the Dr. Gordon stuff I've cooled down on now (I would hope so, after almost 16 fucking years. But I've been known to hold a grudge). So not everything is bad about it. Just 90% of it.

My favorite quotes:

"I think we're breaking UP with you, D I N A!"

"That lady's crazier than a sack full of cats" (tie: the scene where he keeps calling Jill crazy)

"It's a safe house, Jill! SAFE. HOUSE."
"Gibson, this just arrived, it's from Hoffman" (or whatever

"It's just a bottle, Cale!"

Disclaimer: I might have the quotes slightly wrong. But oh my goodness, how gloriously bad it all is.

So there's my confession.