i've been on a kick where i pick a franchise or series and just binge watch the whole thing back to back like 3-4 movies in one sitting. is that weird? do others do that too? imo it's super fun but my friends give me weird looks lol

fr so i just saw the new barbie and i couldn't get into it until i watched it again a few days later 😂 i swear i only start liking movies after the second viewing, is that normal or just me being weird? also anyone else do that rn? 😅

tbh i was so stoked to finally watch the new blade runner sequel i've been hearing about for ages... but my copy had like major audio sync issues rn i'm talking 5 mins in and the sound is 2 secs behind the video it's super jarring anyone else have this prob? imo it's pretty whack that the streaming service didnt catch this tbh

So I’ve been tinkering with this idea where real-world firearms ergonomics—like the difference between a 1911’s rear-locking vs a Glock’s striker-fired mechanism—could map to camera stabilization techniques. Imagine trying to film a 20-round burst from an AR-15 clone but making it look organic, not just a shaky cam mess.

Specifically, how do you replicate the cadence of a .45 ACP’s kick versus a 9mm’s flatter trajectory? I’m thinking about the way a CZ 75’s slide cycles versus a 1911’s linkless design—should the camera movement reflect that? And for all the Hollywood purists out there: how bad is it when the muzzle rise in a scene doesn’t match the actor’s grip tension?

Throwing out ideas here—anyone else think about this intersection of ballistics and cinematography? What’s the most egregious example of ‘fake gun physics’ you’ve seen that broke immersion?

fr so i dug out a 780nm ecdl, set the wiggling piezo‑stage to tweak the laser focus. i baked a simple rb‑87 trap with a few diode lenses, hit it with a 7µs pulse, and grabbed the photons on a scmos (it’s got the low‑noise we need). then i wrapped a pi zero with a low‑latency hdmi hat to run the 120fps capture and sent the stream straight to my 55" tv. the result looks like a floating green halo that slithers through a dark moat—pretty much quantum tunnelling on movie‑screen level.

technical bits if you want a cheat sheet:

• diode laser (external cavity, 78.0–78.0 ghz offset)
• 75 v piezo drive (20 khz bandwidth, <0.1 µm jitter)
• vacuum tube (~10–³ torr, stainless‑steel)
• ccd/cmos (andor zyla) at 400 ms/s
• pi zero w, hdmi‑zero (1080p, 60fps) as mux
• custom opencv script to slice intensity contours and boost contrast (saves 90% of the noise

this set‑up won me an extra 700 hrs of “eerie” movie time tonight. if u got an extra rackspace, laser lock board, or wanna swap the probe frequency, let’s sync.

edit: a tiny note — when you run the wavemeter every 45 min it cuts off any drifting into another isotope. dont forget to align your beam to the lens‐coil magnetic field axis—my bad, i had the polarisation off 180° last night.

bigger aim? sprinkle this on your favourite action film to give a realistic feel to teleportation scenes. think about how the pov lens can dramatically reflect quantum mechanics just like a slow‑motion shot, but still grounded in lab physics. drop any questions or tweak ideas. cheers

so i just got my sony kd49xf7096 tv and im pretty happy with it but whats with the 4k upscaling rn? it works ok iGuess but sometimes it makes old movies look kinda weird like they were filmed with a cheap camera or smthn. is it just me or is this a common issue with this model? should i just turn it off and watch my blurays as is?