All Activity

Yeah, maybe it's slowed down slightly and that's what makes it look off to me. The blinking red lights on the towers don't match the pace that I've often seen on towers, but slowing the frame rate down would do that. Also the way the towers fall doesn't seem right, but again, slowing the footage down would do that as well. I didn't see until know that it's from Reed Timmer. I think he's pretty legit. So it's probably a combination of the frame rate and all the debris in the air that makes it look odd to me.

Unrelated to weather, but while we're on this topic, this is a really fantastic four part video series on CGI in movies (as well as the plague of production companies lying through their teeth about their use of it) for those that find this stuff interesting.

I'm hoping we're getting to the point where we have enough depth that it's injuries that start to determine if you have to burn that redshirt. It's hard to make it worth burning a redshirt as a true frosh if you didn't come in the spring. But I'm really looking forward to Nelson in this offense.

This is easily the most moronic take that circulates on the Right. Like, do you think climate change is a sudden event that jumps out from behind a tree and grabs ya? Like, bro, the planet is setting heat records nearly every year. Oceanic heat temperatures are blowing past expectations and heat records are being set every day this year. Like, I realize I'm not talking to somebody who operates in reality because their conservative identity has over taken any rational thought, but my god. The cognitive dissonance of modern Conservatism has rotted away the brains of people.

Don't forget the car is a Ford-F950 MAXXX Super Crew Cab "Tank" edition that gets 8mpg they use to drive to the mall. This voter is pissed at the gas prices and it's Bidens fault (but not when gas prices are lower). They are also against woke electric cars that lower demand for gas.

I'm not truly a vfx guy I just dabble and occasionally work adjacent but to my eye there's nothing that tips me off or actively leads me to believe it's not real footage.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/west/greater-idaho-measure-passes-oregon-county/ https://greateridaho.org/ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/13th-conservative-oregon-county-approves-measure-to-secede-and-join-greater-idaho/ar-BB1mSDGa

i like that sputnik is the source of his story

I'd be surprised if Nelson doesn't redshirt this year and only play the four games. Will likely be quite an adjustment for him like most freshmen.

Obviously there was a real tornado doing real tornado things. I don't think Reed fudged the multiple vortices or the basic footage. As a casual observer, I don't know what you mean by expecting 24 but getting 30 or 48. My initial thought was that it seemed surreal, and @Mavric apparently also thought so, which is why I tagged you. Is there any reason to believe this isn't real? Just manipulated a bit in post?

Be interesting to see if Rhule puts Nelson in as a H back/fullback.In a fourth and 1or on the 1 yard line, I can see him leaping over the top.

he isn't wrong

TWolves are a particular bad matchup for Gordon. Minny possesses 2 7 footers in their starting lineup, and Naz Reid is a bulky 6’10. Gordon makes his impact offensively by punishing smaller players on cross matches or lurking in the dunker spot and getting Jokic lobs that originate off of the Murray/jokic pnr, or when his defender gets caught helping on Jokic. Minny is so big at all positions…they have length to recover both at the rim and chasing around high pick and rolls. Just very little opportunity for Gordon to exploit. One game he did go off in he was just hitting jump shots…which normally a defense would be ok allowing him to take. Just a tough matchup with a team that was built to beat the Nuggets. Throw in the fact that Denver basically had no bench and literally no back up 4 or 5 to spell either Jokic or Gordon. Got a worn out team by the end. MPJ shrank as per usual against a physical team. All that said, if KAT would have gone his usual route and been a mental midget in a big game, Nugs probably win. But he played a hell of a game. And predictably he turned back into a pumpkin for last nights game against Dallas. Oh well. Was a fun 14 months being a Nugs fan. Hoping for a big move where they trade MPJ for some depth. But looks like they’re going to just run it back and hope their young guys make a leap. Which is disappointing.

I think one of the biggest semiconductor manufactories is there...will be interesting to see what happens with that.

I'm armchairing this a little bit, but I think it's a combo of some factors: #1 I think it's just such a surreal display and vantage point we aren't used to, and is lacking any kind of foreground element to orient us to scale or to a normal vantage point we would usually expect to see a tornado from (nearby houses, inside a car interior, etc.) #2 I think there's some very subtle framerate 'trickery' going on. Hard to know without having the original file but if I had to guess it looks like the footage has been undercranked very slightly (playing back slower than 'real time'), and it also looks like the final video is at 30 or 48fps which feels uncanny when you're expecting 24. Similar phenomenon as the 'soap opera effect' on modern TVs. #3 The lighting in the environment is almost too good, and exactly how you would/do try and light something like this if you were creating it with vfx. There's a ton of atmosphere and Incredibly soft diffusion from the cloud cover makes everything look a little dreamy and surreal and cinematic with no harsh highlights or shadows; this is a common compositing technique to try and blend different elements of renders together harmoniously. You can see this to some extent in this vfx breakdown from Arrival with shots that don't look all that dissimilar -

Good lord, I am glad I have never taken a loan out from where some of you guys have. Everything was show to me, well before I signed anything, every month, every payment, the interest rate, how much I would be paying in interest... Again, I am 100% for forgiving loans, starting with school loans, then CC debt and then mortgage.

They're moving signing period up with this proposal after just pushing back the content periods. You're going from no in person contact to signing in a 10 month window.

There is a time and a place for a fullback. As shotgun 10/11 offenses have become the norm across all levels of football, defenses have gotten smaller and faster. Not just in the back end, but across the interior defensive line, too, as getting to the passer quickly has become more important. That leaves an opportunity for the offense to exploit, and we will look to do that. What you see from Nebraska, and many other teams, is a player who not only plays fullback but also hback, tight end, maybe even out wide. A multiple position player who can be block as well as receive. The days of a dedicated fullback are mostly gone, but I think many teams at all levels could benefit from using someone at the position more often. I think there are a lot of tweeners at the college level that can fill roles like Juszczyk and Samuel if teams wanted to do that. To me, the biggest personnel related challenge to running that style of offense is getting the athletic offensive line that can pull off some of those very difficult to execute reach blocks. I know it's pretty popular to gripe about their offensive line, but some of those plays that get credited to their skill guys simply cannot be run if you don't have big boys that can move. We are developing towards this idea. Bringing in lots of TE body types, some of which may stay at TE, others a FB/HB or even an OL. We want big bodies that can move, though, and that's key to so much of what we're talking about in this thread. From a scheme perspective, we don't have to copy the 49ers to still stay in that spirit. One thing they do much better than most is have complimentary plays. They have a lot of plays that work off of one another. I think it's very valuable to our staff to watch their offense and take as many ideas as we can and find ways to create our own style. We didn't see it as much in the run game as that was heavily de-emphasized but we saw it more in the pass game this spring and that's very encouraging.