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Time machine only shows yesterday and today backup. Need help
Main Post: Time machine only shows yesterday and today backup. Need help
Top Comment: From your post history, it looks like you didn’t get Time Machine working until two days ago because of some incompatibility with OneDrive: https://reddit.com/r/mac/comments/pf1s6j/has_anyone_experienced_this_problem_on_time/ So, wouldn’t it make sense that you only have two days of backups?
Today I learnt - Zed's Ultimate shows if a champion will die from it
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqkDXj72Cts&feature=youtu.be&t=3m47s There will be a shuriken above a champion's head if they will take fatal damage from the deathmark.
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I always thought that the shuriken was there just to show the deathmark
got my results today and it only shows 2 generations, is that right ? shouldn't it go back further ?
Main Post: got my results today and it only shows 2 generations, is that right ? shouldn't it go back further ?
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The test goes back much further this particular timeline is just telling you how far back your closest ancestor with 100% Eastern European is, so as it says 1-2 generations that means either one of your parents or grandparents is likely 100% Eastern European based on your estimate
Today's kids shows suck.
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When I was young I mainly watched cartoon Network, with shows like, mad, regular show, the amazing world of gumball, adventure time etc.
But now cartoon Network is infested with shitty remakes of shows from the past. Like Ben 10, teen Titans Go, and the Powerpuff girls.
Don't even get me started on Disney XD, it used to have X-MEN, gravity Falls, Zeke and luther. Hell the only thing worth watching on Disney XD now is the new spider-man show.
So modern day kids shows suck.
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Most kid shows I watched growing up suck when I revisit them.
Is there an actual reason as to why todays tv shows only have about 8 episodes per season and are released with 2 year breaks in between?
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I know it probably has something to do with streaming and such but I'm sure I'm not the only one who misses the old formula? So many tv shows from the 2000s are still so popular even with the sheer quantity of episodes. I've heard people say that Stranger Things was the show that popularised this phenomenon and I can definitely see how that might be the case.
Bring back the old tv formula! (they probably won't 😔)
Top Comment: The big shift was the departure of syndication as a major force in US television. Back in the day, the networks would make shows and then sell them into syndication, basically packages for local channels where they could air popular shows year-round, ad infinitum. Syndication was big money, so making enough money for syndication was a driving force. Syndication pay tiers increased sharply at 100 episodes, so getting to 100 episodes ASAP was seen as a big driving factor for long seasons. Factoring this against production practicalities was a big issue so after years of floating around 30 episodes, it came down in the 1980s to about 26 episodes and then in the early 1990s to 22 episodes, so you'd hit syndication at around 4-and-a-half seasons (bearing in mind the first season of a show was sometimes only half a season, or sometimes they'd get a final season half-length order just to reach syndication levels). That model went out the window with cable, particularly HBO in the late 1990s, as they no longer needed syndication and they wanted to prioritise good quality content. Production time and schedules. Making 22+ episodes of high quality TV is incredibly taxing, on the writers, editors, directors, actors, everyone. The making of Lost (25 episodes in its first season) was infamously deranged, with actors getting into serious hijinks whilst being stuck on Hawaii for nine months (which sounds fantastic until you realise you can't fly to see family or anyone at short notice), showrunner Damon Lindelof having a full-blown meltdown and going AWOL for a week (everyone else had to cover for him) etc. On Star Trek they had to carefully rotate which character was going to be in focus that week so everyone could have extra time off mid-season. They once scheduled two Data-heavy episodes back to back and it almost broke Brent Spiner in the process (his makeup requirements being very extensive, meaning his days on set were rarely under 18 hours). This is all a massive headache. Modern shows are colossally more expensive even allowing for inflation. Battlestar Galactica, a good-enough-looking show, cost £2 million per episode in 2005 which translates to $3.2 million today. A modern streaming Disney Marvel/Star Wars show costs around $25 million an episode. House of the Dragon is estimated at a bit south of $20 million per episode. It's easier to make 20 episodes if they only each cost $2 million, not ten times that. Back in the day there was an accepted, if unspoken, audience-TV covenant that TV shows were just going to look cheaper than movies. There wasn't much to be done about it. We accepted brief, slightly PlayStation-y CG shots in Buffy the Vampire Slayer because that was the cost of doing TV. Even as late as Game of Thrones Season 1, when Tyrion gets hit in the head to skip out an expensive battle sequence, most people were like, "Sure, they can't afford that, fair play." That meant the studios knew they could spend less money and have less post-production time. That's gone, you now have the insanity of pretty good-but-not-perfect CG shots in a Marvel or Star Wars show getting criticised on social media for weeks on end, so the effects and editing have to be much better and thus more expensive and more time-consuming, meaning less episodes. The market is glutted, we went from 200 scripted TV shows on US TV alone in 2011 to around 600 in 2022. The number of vfx houses, editing rooms etc has not trebled as well, so now there's logjams all over the place. Wheel of Time launched on Amazon with a cunning plan to deliver one season per year only to find this wasn't working because the vfx houses they were trying to use were all tied up years in advance (plus Rings of Power then disrupted their airing plans, but that's another thing). A big thing in modern shows is getting very heavyweight actors. These actors might be willing to do 8 episodes every other year, giving them tons to time to do other shows, movies, stage plays, but they're not willing to do 20+ episodes a year which tie them up almost the whole time and means they can't do much else. Zendaya does Euphoria because she can fit it in around her huge movie schedule. If Euphoria was making 20 episodes a year, every year, Zendaya is not going to be in it. You might say fair, another talented, lower-profile actress might be in it instead, but clearly modern TV/audiences/networks have decided having these big actors in TV roles is something they want, which means sacrifices elsewhere. There are still shows adhering to the old formula: Only Murders in the Building and The Bear are both a bit more old-fashioned, shooting on location with very limited effects requirements. Both shows air a season a year without a problem and are batting above average in terms of episodes (10 each). The Bear in fact shot 18 episodes this year between February and June alone and has already shown 10 of them (it's unclear when the other 8 will air, presumably as the fourth season).
Today's Viral Videos (Weather Related Damages) shows how poorly prepared Brunei is for the future.
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As you may or may not know, Brunei is currently having some terrible weather, one of the worst during my lifetime at least. and As you may also have seen some of the viral videos/photos in this subreddit or social media of buildings getting damaged. This IMO reflects Brunei's preparation for the ever-coming future.
Policies and regulations lacking in many countries, with little to no countermeasures, and barely any development over the decade, and yet when a strong breeze of wind comes (imminent future), things fall out like the leaves of trees or the windows of the tall building. Its just unbelievable how Brunei just dropped the ball in terms of the country's development.
The only REAL development Brunei has done is the IT sector which has had a massive improvement since UNN was established. But as a house is a good as its foundation, a single pillar cannot save the entire house from collapsing.
-A frustrated Bruneian
Edit: Okay, first off, really sorry about this! I have bipolar and im Abit autistic, I can type this post and not remember about it AT ALL. My mind was really nowhere when I typed this. I don't even post here that often unless it's at the comments section, so it's really a one off. If there's too much hate just delete the post mods. Stay safe everybody 🫶🫶 and again I'm really sorry everybody!
Top Comment: Apakan... Most of the damages are from fallen trees. Idk what policies we’re gonna impose on trees to make sure they don’t fall. They’re naturally strong — which means the wind was stronger. We had a bad weather dude, just accept it. Probably, what would’ve made the situation more manageable is to have that Weather app send out a warning notification.
TV shows in todays era
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Do you guys think that there arent shows like gossip girl, one tree hill and the vampire diaries anymore with today’s era of social media and livestreaming? I miss having strong fandoms but with people spenind their time scrolling through social media and their everyday lives no one really tunes into tv shows anymore. I mean Netflix has some good shows but its not the same.
Top Comment: Binge culture ruined a lot of what we used to love about tv shows