https://imgur.com/a/diDzw63

Movie Paul from 2011 is getting so many downloads for some reason 480.73.

Anyone have an explantion as to why?

  • xamirozar@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Actor Paul Giamatti won a Golden Globe recently so maybe some search engine autosuggest when “movie Paul” is typed before his last name sends people off on a tangent?

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    10 months ago

    Honestly, I don’t even remember it being that funny. I haven’t gave it a second thought since its release. The power of social media marketing, I guess.

    If you’ve never seen Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, I’d encourage you instead to take a look at Shown of the Dead, and Hot Fuzz, both really good movies.

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    10 months ago

    Perhaps some Youtube’s done a video on it… I feel like I’ve seen a headline or link saying something like “Why Paul is underrated” recently.

    I didn’t know there was an extended version, do the extra 6 minutes add anything? Maybe not

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      10 months ago

      Thing that gets me. This is the 720p version… surely people would want the 1080p version? Lol

      • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works
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        10 months ago

        I usually watch the movie on my PC and my setup is plain stereo with a non-FullHD monitor, so… not much point in downloading 1080p 🤷.

          • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works
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            10 months ago

            Meeh, doesn’t really bother me 🤷. I usually just use the default settings in whatever DE in Linux (I usually use xfce, but I’ve switched when I felt like it, if I’m getting bored and wanna try something new 😂), or change a few font sizes here and there and all is good 🤷. Regarding Windows (I dual boot), I don’t really care that much to be honest, I rarely use it the past few years. I only use it for work and only when I have to do some things from home or when I need to use some obscure piece of software that just doesn’t work in Wine.

            So… no, I don’t really see a reason to buy a bigger monitor. Actually, I haven’t bought a monitor for ages, like probably 20 years 😂, all of the ones I currently use are salvaged from one pserson or another - they wanna trade up, they give me their old monitor 😂. I don’t complain, they’re still usable for me 🤷.

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              10 months ago

              I appreciate you for preventing eWaste by reusing 🤩 that is awesome! I myself use the old macbookpro and iMacs from my father running Linux :D it’s great to live in a time where one can get such powerful computing devices for free 😇 But for watching movies and series, I really appreciate higher resolution and don’t feel satisfied if it is less than 1080 (more if we talking 25" plus)

              • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works
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                10 months ago

                To be honest, I just love reusing old stuff and giving it new meaning ☺️. And fixing stuff too. Sure, they will eventually be worthless, but I try and extend their life as much as possible ☺️.

                Regarding the movies thing, each to his own 🤷 😉. I don’t judge. Hell, even I sonetimes download 1080p and watch that on my TV, but it’s mostly a special case scenario, like some good movie I’ve wanted to watch for a long time, but never got around to it, or something like.

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        10 months ago

        So if you have newer nvidia based card you can upscale to 4K based off 7 20p

        The result is closer to 1440 p

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            10 months ago

            I’ve used my 3090 with Nvidia super resolution just watching old shit I downloaded back in the LimeWire days that for some reason I was still holding on to and the result is not perfect but it is pretty decent.

            For instance I had a copy of chobits that was probably in hell 240i resolution or something, and with Nvidia super resolution it looks only vaguely indistinguishable from the 720p stuff you can stream online.

            Of course, when you use Nvidia super resolution with the 720p stuff it looks stellar, so higher resolution by default wins over AI up resolution but it works in a pinch

            • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works
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              10 months ago

              Wow, that is really impressive. I would love to see a few screenshots with comparisons.

              Also wonder why AMD hasn’t jumped on that train as well 🤔.

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            10 months ago

            It’s the same general thing as DLSS in games. Saying 720p > 4k upscaled is comparable to 1440p is pushing it a bit, but overall the tech’s pretty impressive.

            • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works
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              10 months ago

              Have no idea what DLSS is 😂, don’t really play games (meeh, an oddball here and there, every 7, 8 years or so).

              But I did read about this new tech Nvidia had and I thought it was just BS to be honest. Turns out it’s not. Good for us. If it’s that good, I guess it could be used to process old SD recordings to make them look at least 720p, which of course is a lot better than plan SD.

              This could also come in handy when processing archived material in TV.

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                10 months ago

                Unfortunately the results of, say, 240p > 720p tend to be nowhere near as impressive as 720p > 1440p. Just not enough info for it to play with.

      • xor [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        10 months ago

        720 is dvd quality… which is good enough for most people… plus the file size is much smaller… plus a lot of people watch shit on their phones anyways

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    10 months ago

    On January 11 (in Canada) a Paul prequel tv show will be released, perhaps all the interest isbeing generated by marketing for that shows release

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      10 months ago

      What is the name of the show? I’m interested but unable to find articles about the show or who’s in it.

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        10 months ago

        Omg its a ted prequel tv show I saw a billboard for, not Paul, sorry I have no idea about the Paul movie interest

        My mistake!

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            10 months ago

            Yeah there’s gunna be a prequel tv show for the ted movie with someone else playing the younger version of mark Wahlbergs character. It’s out January 11. I only saw the billboard on my way to work though.

            Not even sure if Seth MacFarlane will still voice ted but hope so otherwise that will be… Not a good show IMO

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      10 months ago

      This is the third time I’ve seen this referenced. I looked this up and now I feed stupider for having read anything about it.