Congrats, that's awesome! ☺️

Exciting times! Maybe I should get ahead of the curve and do some YouTube videos on Resolve colour grading for photographers or something? 😅

But I'm shocked, SHOCKED that they've actually made this step. Never had any inkling that BlackMagick cared about the non-video side of things, and would actually put resources into competing with Lightroom, given they have a very different niche generally.

The Resolve Colour tab is so considerably better than Lightroom or any other RAW photo editor, to the point that I've graded all my photos in Resolve for several years now, but lack of dedicated photo support made this painful (e.g. horizontal and vertical photos on the same timeline).

Holy shit, Davinci Resolve is adding a photo mode! This is legitimately the #1 feature I would have asked for and I never thought BlackMagick would actually do it?!

Is there a term for the opposite of Redundant Acronym Syndrome (e.g. PIN number etc.) to describe where the word feels redundant but actually isn't?

Any time I talk about Unreal's Material Parameter Collections and have to say 'MPC Parameter' it feels wrong in a RAS way, but is technically correct.

Sir, have you considered that you are a pack of macaques in a trenchcoat.

(Imagine a person in a house on the other side of the planet being the only illumination in the photo: with a long enough exposure/brightness you might eventually see the light scattering through the window into the atmosphere, which indicates there's a chance their photons could hit the camera)

Personally partial to 2, in which case it mostly depends on how long your exposure is, so it's a photo of most people except those in windowless flats and bunkers.

1 and 3 seem a bit arbitrary, though I imagine when people say this they mean something like 3 - Alice is on earth, therefore a photo of earth is a photo of Alice.

People will also be inside buildings and vehicles so the question is if it's about an acceptable depth of penetration through matter, or photons from the person hitting the camera or some transitive relationship (Alice is in the house, therefore a photo of the house is a photo of Alice) 🤔

Oh I caught this on the radio and didn't realise the person speaking was Gove. The Telegraph is being cheeky here in entirely failing to note that the statements were made as part of a comedy panel show and not, say, a hard-hitting interview.

Spectator and Telegraph yanking each other's chains?

why did obama leave a baseball on the oval office desk

Not because it is easy but because it is cheesy

Like what it's doing to environmental materials and light transport on a physics level is neat (for a photoreal-aspiring game), but what it's changing in terms of actual lighting and tonemapping, changing visual direction, isn't. Question is - can one even be decoupled from the other with this tech?

Apart from faces, I think I'm split. I think there's some nice tactile details that get added, and I like in principle the idea of a filter that tricks my eyes a little bit more into thinking that I'm not looking at CGI. But, it's also pushing it into a very generic Netflix look I really dislike.

But the big issue is it's being presented as a neutral quality/lighting improvement, which it clearly isn't. Far from from what DLSS usually does. A neutral quality improvement shouldn't change the style and aesthetic *at all*, and this clearly does, which puts it in the realm of gimmicky filter.

I think there's parts where the effects are very interesting. Especially the subtle stuff - smoothing out polygonal edges, more believable lighting on foliage. If this were 'free' with the hardware, being able to dial in some of these adjustments from baseline would be a cool capacity to have.

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So this is good, right? 🤔
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Do you suppose Sims are able to perceive the plumbob or is it more of a Jungian subconscious awareness that permeates through cryptic but strangely meaningful dreams which leads them to ascribe importance to the shape without fully being able to articulate why.

Bewildering, given that even the unrepentantly corrupt US Supreme Court refuses to go that far, even now?!

Today is Sex Worker's Rights Day. Sex worker rights are human rights not just because we're humans just like you, but also any rights taken from us will be taken from you too.

Surveillance, police violence, debanking, censorship, we faced all of those for years before it turned on everyone else.

Every time that a game has ambitions to be the next Doom, WoW, Apex, etc. I'm always reminded of Douglas Adams talking about how he wanted to be a member of Monty Python when he was younger. Cleese, specifically, and didn't really understand that the role was already taken until he was much older.

Love the classification as a "space western".

I need more of this in my life so badly.

Oh my god it wasn't even close 💚

Having enjoyed all of the above and also The Darkest Files, already very much looking forward to this!

End of an era! Hope exciting things on the horizon for you Phil, it's been a pleasure 😊

PTSD flashback to bards singing in Skyrim and in the Witcher 3, with pauses between each line, completely breaking the tempo and flow of the song.