u/tannu28

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Top large cities by the percentage of the population that identifies as 'Wasian':

Top large cities (min. 100k) by Wasian %, 2024 ACS:

  1. Honolulu, HI (5.1%)
  2. Berkeley, CA (4.6%)
  3. Irvine, CA (3.7%)
  4. Torrance, CA (3.6%)
  5. Seattle, WA (3.5%)
  6. Concord, CA (3.2%)
  7. Elk Grove, CA (3.2%)
  8. San Francisco, CA (3.2%)

Source: American Community Survey

https://x.com/i/status/2057290947331871040

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u/tannu28 — 22 hours ago
▲ 1.2k r/bayarea

A 'Wasian' (White + Asian mix) meetup was organized on May 9th.

u/tannu28 — 11 days ago

Vin Diesel met with the director for the villian role in Terminator 3

u/tannu28 — 11 days ago

[partially lost] Entertainment Tonight coverage of Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

I’m currently working on a fan-edit documentary project focused on the making of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and I’m trying to track down old television coverage from the film’s original 1991 release. In particular, I’m looking for Entertainment Tonight segments covering the movie’s production, premiere, behind-the-scenes footage, cast interviews, or on-set reports with James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, etc.

I’ve already found a couple of clips on YouTube, but they’re extremely short and seem heavily cut down:

https://youtu.be/oc_KU3CPOo4?si=RpXCNeWh4Ibja4P_

https://youtu.be/L3bJhMU9gZ4?si=evXZOklTElCgu4TJ

I know ET did more extensive coverage around the release because T2 was such a massive event at the time. I’m especially interested in full segments, VHS recordings, off-air broadcasts, press junkets, or archived TV specials from 1991.

If anyone has recordings, knows of archive channels/websites, or remembers other programs that covered T2 extensively, I’d really appreciate the help.

Coverage by other news channels will also work.

u/tannu28 — 12 days ago
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James Cameron admits he kicked over the tea cart on the set of Aliens (1986) after getting fed up with the British crew constantly stopping for tea breaks.

Source: Aliens Expanded documentary (2024)

u/tannu28 — 2 days ago

MKVToolNix GUI codec's private data does not match warning when concatenating solution

Let's say you are trying to concatenate v1.mkv and v2.mkv and getting that warning. The output will have playback issues. Solve that problem using ffmpeg.

>ffmpeg -i v1.mkv -map 0 -c copy -bsf:v h264_mp4toannexb,dump_extra=keyframe v1f.mkv

>ffmpeg -i v2.mkv -map 0 -c copy -bsf:v h264_mp4toannexb,dump_extra=keyframe v2f.mkv

Now append v2f.mkv to v1f.mkv .

You should still get the same warning, but you should see that you can seek normally in the new file to any place you want.

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u/tannu28 — 13 days ago

Here's some of them:

  1. Scott, do you like your fucking job?
  2. I understand, I've worked with children before.
  3. God dammit, that's exactly what I don't want.
  4. Lee, you really piss me off.
  5. Didn't you read the fucking script?
  6. The time for dicking is over.
  7. Bad acting. Call the acting police.
  8. What would it cost to get your full attention?
  9. This isn't a fucking party, this is a film set.
  10. No good deed should go unpunished.
  11. Who hired this dumb motherfucker?
  12. Just show me something that vaguely resembles a fucking frame.
  13. I've got 10 special effects men—how come I can't find one?
  14. Only poor craftsmen blame their tools.
  15. Don't give me what I ask for, give me what I want.
  16. I'm not opinionated, I'm just always right.
  17. If Jim wants your opinion, he'll give it to you.
  18. You don't know what the fuck you're doing.
  19. It's amazing how much work gets done with a shotgun up your ass.
  20. That was perfect—let's do it again.

You can read more about it here: https://www.theterminatorfans.com/terminator-stunt-legend-sells-rare-t2-cast-crew-t-shirt/

u/tannu28 — 16 days ago

This is more of a "fan-preservation" than a fan-edit.

The Terminator (1984) was originally mixed in mono due to budgetary constraints. In 2001 for the DVD release, it got a custom 5.1 remix which replaced most of the iconic gunshots, foley and background dialogue. It is considered one of the most egregious remixes ever.

The original mono is only available on:

  • 2024 4K UHD in DTS-HD 2.0
  • 2001 Special Edition DVD in Dolby Digital 2.0 AC-3
  • LaserDiscs and VHS

The original mono is absent from both 2006 and 2013 Remastered Blu-ray releases. Also not available on digital platforms. There is no way to enjoy The Terminator in 1080p with the original mono.

My project has:

>Video: 1080p WEB-DL stream from Peacock uncompressed

>Audios: 3 different mono mixes uncompressed properly synced + 5.1 Remix

>Subtitle: English from Peacock stream

DM for link.

u/tannu28 — 20 days ago

This is more of a "fan-preservation" than a fan-edit.

The Terminator (1984) was originally mixed in mono due to budgetary constraints. In 2001 for the DVD release, it got a custom 5.1 remix which replaced most of the iconic gunshots, foley and background dialogue. It is considered one of the most egregious remixes ever.

The original mono is only available on:

  • 2024 4K UHD in DTS-HD 2.0
  • 2001 Special Edition DVD in Dolby Digital 2.0 AC-3
  • LaserDiscs and VHS

The original mono is absent from both 2006 and 2013 Remastered Blu-ray releases. Also not available on digital platforms. There is no way to enjoy The Terminator in 1080p with the original mono. So I made one myself.

My project has:

>Video: 1080p WEB-DL stream from Peacock uncompressed

>Audios: 3 different mono mixes uncompressed properly synced + 5.1 Remix

>Subtitle: English from Peacock stream

DM for link.

u/tannu28 — 20 days ago
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These are actual Ridley Scott quotes from 2003.

2003 DVD Commentary:

>You know, the idea of casual sex would be normal, for obvious reasons. I thought, “Why not?” Because if you’ve got seven on board, somebody’s gonna get left out, right? And so casual relationships—whether it’s male or female, male with male, female with female—seems to be okay in space.

>When you’re locked away in a big tin can for years on end—it could be years, plus hypersleep, so it might feel like a year—you might be away 10 years.

>So I tried to instigate that, and there was a suggestion of that with Dallas. And that was the beginning with Veronica—say, an idea of, “Should we infer something here?” “Should we have an inference of, you know, a lesbian or gay relationship, or not?” It would have been kind of interesting. Today I’d probably do that just to thicken up the layers in the characters.

Enhancement Pods - "Same Sex Relationships in Space" featurette:

>There was an undercurrent—there was a line through the movie which had, more by innuendo than anything else, that there was something going on between Dallas and her. And then later I thought what was really curious—could be interesting—is something going on between her and Veronica, which I thought was far more probable. I don’t mean these two women now—I mean, 100 years from now, you know, that’s certainly not going to be remarkable in space.

>Where I think you’re going to—in fact, in space, relationships are probably going to be discouraged. And if you have the need for sex, it can be with either gender—it really doesn’t matter, right? And I think a psychologist would encourage that—think about it—because if you’re on board with a small unit crew and there’s a relationship with a couple, that fences them out, and I think that’s going to create problems inside, right? Or if that relationship goes wrong and then you have jealousy—geez—you’ve got minor warfare going on inside this steel box, many miles from Earth.

u/tannu28 — 23 days ago
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For those who don't know, Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett came up with the original story of Alien (1979): Crew land on a planet, Alien attaches to Kane, Alien starts killing the crew one by one.

It was Screenwriter and Producer David Giler who thought the story was too generic and added the Ash the android and Weyland Yutani subplots.

Dan O'Bannon 2003 DVD commentary transcript:

>The general idea of what constitutes a suspense story was an issue of some contention among the producers, and I lost a couple of those battles. There was no Ash in my original script, they added that. The idea being here that all scripts must have a subplot. Simply to have a single plot by itself is inadequate, all stories must have subplots. So they created a subplot.

>Ian Holm gives a brilliant performance, it's brilliantly directed by Ridley, but if you stop and think about it, if it wasn't in there, what difference would it make one way or the other? I mean, who gives a rat's ass? I mean, so somebody is a robot.

>It annoyed me when they did it because it was what I called the Russian spy. It was a tendency in certain types of thrillers—when people are on an interesting mission—to stick in a Russian spy. One of them is a spy and they don't know which one and he's trying to screw up the mission. Fantastic Voyage had that. When I saw Fantastic Voyage, I found it annoying. You're just about getting ready to head off into the body of this person and have this fantastic mission to go through his bloodstream, get to the brain and save him, when you're informed that one of them is a Russian spy and he's going to stop the mission from its completion. And instead of it adding any genuine suspense, all it did was annoy me and made me think: “Oh, I see. So maybe now I don't get to see what I wanna see in the movie because the Russian spy will prevent it.”

>It's a tensioning device which is commonly resorted to and doesn't work, cos it doesn't provide any real suspense. It doesn't do anything, except provide finger exercise for the writer who thinks that all stories must have subplots.

>So I think it's an inferior idea, of inferior minds, well-acted and well-directed. And fortunately, it occupies little enough screen time that it doesn't disrupt the main plot.

Ridley Scott:

>But I thought the Ash thing was interesting. That Ash was an implant of the corporation—having a robot on board. So instead of just having a spy, you've got a bio-mechanoid human being.

u/tannu28 — 26 days ago