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    One more thing: I rewatched both episodes last night from a European DVD that is mastered at 25 frames per second, with the audio track running at about 4% faster than the source and NTSC counterparts. This means that all audio is pitched up by nearly a semitone. For instance, The Ballad of the Crystal Empire is shifted to sound much closer to Db major than C major. Maybe it's just me but I think this improves just about all the musical numbers, including the background music heard during the crystal heart's reinstatement. All of it feels bolder, more serious, more 'awe-inspiring'. Not quite sure why. These episodes demand a capable hi-fi system to do them justice.
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    This set of episodes makes more sense when The Crystal Empire is an allegory for a person's inner world, and King Sombra is an evil force, at one point enslaving their thoughts but continuing as a burned-in spirit on the periphery of a person's mind that just won't bugger off. In this context, the villain does not need a meticulously defined personality, because what the villain's fighting for will be different for everyone, all that's needed is to capture the mood. And I have experienced just such a thing over a very long period of time, well into adulthood, so I'm heavily biased in favour of this one.
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    So I first watched this video a month ago...hence my very late showing in this thread. Jenny's script is obviously written to be entertaining...occasionally at the expense of accuracy, and TBH it is a fun video, which it kinda has to be for something more than an hour long that non-bronies might watch. Most organisers of the bigger cons were furries, that's true, but she implies at various points that nearly all cloppers were furries as well, which kinda rings false. Some of them might have been drawing from the anime fandom's sexual content aspect if they were part of that sphere of influence, they might even have gravitated to it after pony. Still, I think it's a very good video overall. My background is that I was technically a furry (not knowing the fandom existed) through 2010 at 13 years of age, after which I suppressed interests in that area. A few years ago I discovered the furry fandom and I'm content identifying with it for the time being.
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    I've always liked the G4 and movie animation styles. I stopped watching the show in 2015, mainly due to elements that made the whole production firmly a children's show, namely rather simple story writing and high-pitched or childish voice acting and sound effects. Assuming that hasn't changed much in the years since, no matter what they do to the animation for G5, it's not going to interest me.
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    Congrats for reaching 500k. Wish I was there to witness it since I've been lurking since post 104. 500,170
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    498,254 500k on October 10? That would be 100% cool.
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    G4 was for <6 years? I doubt kids younger than that could understand most of FiM's dialogue. That age bracket is dominated by the likes of Dora. Even six years is a bit of a stretch, maybe nine years is about right.
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    I would go if it's animated in the style of Animal Logic's Happy Feet and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole. If it isn't, I'm afraid it won't mean much to me, given that the story won't mean anything more to older audiences than the 2017 film did, and that the franchise's commercial performance won't be swayed by quality much.
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    Someone posted a sample or two. The show was animated at 24fps (with background audio synchronised with this frame rate), so broadcasts at 25fps in 'PAL' territories necessitate audio speedup by about 4%. The DVDs are made from the broadcast masters.
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    This year is a somewhat interesting for the old FiM show in general as Hasbro and its various distributors begin the transition to the next series. All of the back catalogue through Season 8 has had a physical release at least somewhere around the world, and while there's still a fair amount of information to be found about them online, I want to document them as thoroughly as possible, as the iTunes and Netflix availability might not last the rest of this half-century. The Region 1 DVD sets are a known quantity so I've focused on Regions 2 and 4 so far. One discovery is that Bats! is unavailable on the English/French/Italian+ releases, one has to turn to the Nordic Rarity Takes Manehattan DVD to get it. I'm aware of the German Blu-rays (I own them), I'll get round to adding them at some point. I welcome any additions or corrections that anyone posts below if they so wish. Feel free to share this everywhere. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hvo4Fd2v_SspYg4cVdQh_e6u1gHm4Cw5C-s3SgPpayA/edit?usp=sharing
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    That was made by tjtreece in early 2013, long-since deactivated their deviantart account. Very nice, I'm tempted to use it as my avatar, but I won't.
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    495,504 I just multiply the page number by 25 and you get the number of posts up to the end of a given page, which for 19,820 is 495,500 and then it's a snip.
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    495,502 I think we were thrown off at some point, I believe this is the correct number for this post.
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    495,366 I'm sure most posters on here now I might have recognised back when this thread was new, but with the passing of avatars and usernames there's not much of a chance now!
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    Very few households could afford Laserdisc when it was current, even less bought into it. By the time I was born, Betamax had been shunned for a decade. People with niche interests in say, the original Star Wars trilogy will have a reason to buy into the Laserdisc, but the rest of the world has moved on.
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    433,048 Dawnchaser made us 1,000 posts further away from 1m.
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    The weight of an argument is not based on the number of voices it carries. Also, one does not have to be doing shady things to benefit from secure hardware and software. The latest privilege escalation vulnerability in IME (CVE-2017-5689) allowed keylogging from intruders, so they could monitor anything that was typed into affected machines. I don't think I need to elaborate on the ramifications of that symptom. If I want to spend upwards of £1,000 on a performance workstation then I don't want it to be unusable in ten years if IME or PSP hardware becomes untouchable.
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    I will assume you meant "And what exactly are the ways AMD or Intel would change your mind?" because I have no idea how to answer the original question. I commented earlier on in the post about IME (Intel Management Engine) and PSP (Platform Secure Processor), which are remote management firmware blobs that run on secondary processors within the CPU and chipsets, have access to network interfaces and are considered to be a huge security/privacy risk as a result. Intel has had this in everything since Nehalem, and AMD has had this in everything since Excavator, and neither company seems interested in reverting these developments so the build I have just completed is my final x86 build. Now, on an unrelated note, I went for chip much older than even Steamroller, and the simple reason is that I couldn't get any of my Piledriver chips to work on my board for whatever reason. The upshot is that the 4180 is a true hexa-core, which AMD wouldn't produce again until Ryzen thanks to the Bulldozer experiment. Lisbon's architecture is similar to the one used in the Phenom II, and most software is probably better optimised for it than its immediate successors.
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