Andreas_Helixfinger wrote:
Of course explosions have to be firey in movies. It's porn for the pyromaniacs that are watching. Where else are they gonna get their freak on media from?:P

Blame color film footage. When movies were only black and white, no need for bright colored explosions. But color film loves a good fire.

bravo1102 wrote:
Blame color film footage. When movies were only black and white, no need for bright colored explosions. But color film loves a good fire.

Color film footage made fire look sexy. In fact, if my memory don't serve me wrong there was a Bond intro that had digitally rendered sexy ladies in it made of fire, a testamente to just how horny color film is for the flame. Shame on you color film😆

I think it's a convention based on recieved wisdom, like the idea that actors HAVE to show their faces at all times in a show and can't have masks or even helmets on for any length of time…
The original Star-wars and then Mandalorian proved that so wrong it hurts.

I feel it's the same with fiery explosions,

If an explosion contains lightning firing up fireworks, then we can talk it being interesting.

Wait…, it'll be awsome. XD

Andreas_Helixfinger wrote:
Color film footage made fire look sexy.

Were you that pyromaniac in that episode of SVU who got off on fire, and even got aroused by Stabler constantly lighting and blowing out matches during interrogation?

J_Scarbrough wrote:

Were you that pyromaniac in that episode of SVU who got off on fire, and even got aroused by Stabler constantly lighting and blowing out matches during interrogation?

I think I saw that episode on occasion one time:D But, nah, that wasn't me. Never did get any roles in a TV-show, though I was an extra in one murder mystery TV-show that I don't think ever aired. C'est la vie.

This whole conversation makes me want to add more explosions to my comic

Remember when it was like an unwritten law that every single YouTube Poop had to include at least one WTF BOOM?

J_Scarbrough wrote:
Remember when it was like an unwritten law that every single YouTube Poop had to include at least one WTF BOOM?

You're way more into the intricacies of that culture than I.
I don't think I ever saw that XD

J_Scarbrough wrote:
Remember when it was like an unwritten law that every single YouTube Poop had to include at least one WTF BOOM?

You are correct. Just like the past year or so every flat earth rebuttal video has had to have the “15° drift thanks Bob” tag line.

As a Content Creator myself, I honestly can't decide which I found more annoying: that slight “fisheye” look you get from cheaper camera lenses, or that slight “stretch” look you get from more expensive lenses. Both greatly irritate me.

J_Scarbrough wrote:
As a Content Creator myself, I honestly can't decide which I found more annoying: that slight “fisheye” look you get from cheaper camera lenses, or that slight “stretch” look you get from more expensive lenses. Both greatly irritate me.

Yeah, all lenses distort in some way. :(

And with that, one simple solution to these problems is to change your camera's zoom adjustment . . . but you have to keep your zoom to a minimum because even so, the more you zoom in, the more your picture quality is going to be distorted, especially with cheaper cameras. I have a prosumer camera, and the zoom distortion isn't nearly as bad as when you have a regular consumer camera, but it's still somewhat noticeable - at least to my eyes anyway.

Just think, if you ever get cataract surgery you'll have similar lenses replace the original equipment in your eyes.

Both my mom and her best friend had cataract surgeries, so yeah, I get the jist.

J_Scarbrough wrote:
Both my mom and her best friend had cataract surgeries, so yeah, I get the jist.

My mother, my sister and me. I was told about my one day needing cataract surgery when I was in my thirties way back at the turn of the century. It's great, with the new lenses you won't need your glasses anymore. For the first time since I was in second grade I could see myself in the mirror clearly without glasses. Without glasses there was no distracting glare either.
But I'm back wearing them because of subsequent distorted vision due to retina detachments. It's like a curtain falling with sparks and flashes. Most people who wear glasses run a higher risk because of the shape of the interior of the eye is askew. (View askew: good name for a production company ;)

Honestly, glasses never bothered me anyway, and I was definitely fortunate to grow up during a time when making fun of people with glasses had pretty much become passe and a thing of the past, because never once when I was growing up was I ever subjected to the whole “four-eyes” torment that glasses-wearers in generations past had to deal with . . . if anything, people thought I actually looked scary without my glasses, heh. But I do see what you mean about that, particularly with my newer lenses in recent years, they've given the things I look at an ever-so-slightly convex appearance, so whenever I look at anything without my glasses (and I'm so near-sighted, the clearest I can see anything without glasses is about 4-5 inches away from my face) everything looks slightly concave.

Having said that, View Askew, yeah, that does have a nice ring to it. . . .

In the last two years my eyes have started to screw with me so I have glasses that I wear now. First it was distance and then suddenly close vision started to mess up. I still see well without them but things lack definition, especially at distance and small writing close up is impossible.

But I like picking stylish frames :)

People are tribal about fashion in a strange nationalistic way they probably don't even realise.
Like here in Australia (or my small part of it in Perth at least) since mullets suddenly made a full force return, ALL the young men of a certain age got them.

And it's not a modern update or reinvention on the style either, nope… It's a straight out copy of the crap versions from early 90s styles when it was dying out. It's like time travel here to a daggy, dorky past. The clothing on the girls and guys of the same age is the same vintage.

This explosion of the style and universal adoption is especially yuck because it's a style that Australia became known for due to terrible TV shows like Neighbours and Home and Away. And they stuck around in Perth long after they'd died out elsewhere. So that's probably why people have dived in extra hard… It's like their version of kilts and Tam o' shanters…



BUT, I was in an Irish pub on Sunday night and noticed they all have their OWN stuck-in-the-past style from the late 90s that they ALL stick with…
It's just as awful.
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Ozoneocean wrote:
it's a style that Australia became known for due to terrible TV shows like Neighbours and Home and Away.

Terrible?! EXCUSE me, these shows were super popular here, and rightly so. I'll never take down my Jason Donovan wall poster.

Fortunately not too many mullets, but men looking like rejects from a ZZ Top lookalike contest is getting old. Used to be you could tell a ACW reenactor by his unruly facial hair, now every convenience store parking lot looks like a sutlers camp of the Army of the Potomac.
Can't men do something with their facial hair besides look like a shaggy dog? 🤣

bravo1102 wrote:
Can't men do something with their facial hair besides look like a shaggy dog? 🤣

Are they still doing beards from the 1800's mutation of the hipster trend O_O
Jeeeez that should have died out ages ago! When did that start? Like… 2013 or something?

dpat57 wrote:
Terrible?! EXCUSE me, these shows were super popular here, and rightly so. I'll never take down my Jason Donovan wall poster.

Oh my… Jason Donovan, Kylie Minogue, Dannii Minogue, and Craig McLachlan to name a few HAHAHAHA! The only good version ever done was Fry and Laurie…
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ml7kz

It's scrailly accurate and their accents are perfect.

BUT, I was in an Irish pub on Sunday night and noticed they all have their OWN stuck-in-the-past style from the late 90s that they ALL stick with…
It's just as awful.
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So the typical way Irish men look (or at least those over here in the pubs) is to all wear some sort of football T-shirt (soccer), were shorts, and have very short hair- shaved at the sides and a tiny bit longer on top. There's very little variation. It's an all ages thing and all classes. They wear that no matter how cold it is.

Extra special going out wear: tight stone was jeans and a zip up wool cardigan. And that was a doctor.

On the subject of cyclical fashion, when, when, when are skinny jeans going to stop being a thing? I mean honestly; 70s bell bottoms stopped being a thing in the 80s, how is it that 2010s skinny jeans haven't stopped being a thing now that we're well into the 2020s?

J_Scarbrough wrote:
On the subject of cyclical fashion, when, when, when are skinny jeans going to stop being a thing? I mean honestly; 70s bell bottoms stopped being a thing in the 80s, how is it that 2010s skinny jeans haven't stopped being a thing now that we're well into the 2020s?

Bell-bottoms came back in the late 1990s in a little way and then much bigger in the early 2000s XD

Skinny jeans are long out of fashion now. The people who still wear them are those that like them unfortunately.

I mean, it's perfectly fine to stick with a fashion when it goes OUT of fashion, it's really good to do that if you like the look and it suits you- you're bucking the trend of dumping it like everyone else and moving to the next “in” thing. That's good.

But skinny jeans are a little different. They were impractical and suited almost no one. You look like a poorly wrapped sausage that's about to burst. You wallet and phone in your pockets (if they even fit) are amazingly uncomfortable and look like someone shat in you trousers… probably yourself. Just filled those suckers randomly.


Your silhouette is of a top heavy blob on two fattish trunks that taper to points. There's no way to look good like that.

The one thing I don't understand is how skinny jeans a socially acceptable clothing item in certain settings like school or the workplace. Even back in my day, anything that was skin-tight was strictly prohibited by school dress code policies, regardless of your gender, but even so, in this day and age, I see school girls walking around in skinny jeans and leggings and such, none of which would've been allowed back in my day. And even so, since when has trying to show off your thigh gap and the shape of your butt become appropriate in office and other professional settings?

And yet, sweatpants are somehow still considered socially unacceptable to wear in public (but pajama pants are?!). . . .

But yeah, I remember the comeback of bell bottoms in the 90s: they called them “flares”.

J_Scarbrough wrote:
And yet, sweatpants are somehow still considered socially unacceptable to wear in public (but pajama pants are?!). . . .

Ha! Truly fashion follows different ebbs and flows around the world!
Almost no one wears tight jeans here anymore and leggings aren't common.
People WILL wear sweatpants in public and get away with it here though haha!

Tight jeans on ladies are fine. On men though… ugh, too much. Especially if it's a bigger guy- I don't mean chubby either, the worst ones are muscley guys in super tight jeans, it looks so horrible.

Ozoneocean wrote:

J_Scarbrough wrote:
And yet, sweatpants are somehow still considered socially unacceptable to wear in public (but pajama pants are?!). . . .

Ha! Truly fashion follows different ebbs and flows around the world!
Almost no one wears tight jeans here anymore and leggings aren't common.
People WILL wear sweatpants in public and get away with it here though haha!

The cut and fabrication of sweat pants is imitating pajama pants so it is really hard to tell the difference beyond being labeled as such on the store shelf. The only thing is those silly patterns on pajama pants. Pajamas were normal college attire for morning classes. Same with food shopping back in the 1970s. You'd see house dresses (face it they were flannel night gowns!) And even pj's. Even saw footies (we called them Dr. Dentons) on one petite young mother who probably got some of her clothes in the boys' department. What do you do when you're below a size zero or it never fits right Or? Or can't stand the choices in Misses?

lothar wrote:

“Remember where you are. This is Thunderdome. Death is listening, and will take the first man that screams.”

Read that she passed away recently.