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Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

I’d like to do content-reactive bias lighting for my gaming monitor and TV, and have bought most of the bits required for it, but…ADHD. I worked for a few weeks on a borrowed monitor that had that sort of lighting and it did feel “easier” to look at. at first I thought it was just good brightness and contrast settings and maybe font selection or whatever, until the owner showed me the difference with the bias lighting turned off. I don’t really understand the phenomenon, and it was a bit distracting at first tbh, but it feels nice.

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bagual
Oct 29, 2010

inconspicuous
https://twitter.com/xooset/status/1588590234778087424

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe
Dang that's a good song.

tokin opposition
Apr 8, 2021

I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)

What a perfect symbol of America

A Bakers Cousin
Dec 18, 2003

by vyelkin

drat kids and their screens :cloud:

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor



slavin away at the cookie clicker farms

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


(they pay me in cookie scrip)

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

XTimmy posted:

PWM can happily cause flicker, it's the frequency that counts. According to Aputure their bulbs go at 20khz so you'd be fine up to about 1000fps.

Not trying to :actually: you, I just know seventeen year old me would read something like that then go say it to the cinematographer and get shut down hard.

I'm out of the game now but my understanding is most LED fixtures will use PWM of some kind of dimming as lowering the voltage to dim the LEDs is not great for them and causes unpleasant colour casts.

you can still manage flicker at the cycle rate of the lamp. but the timing of the shutter and length of exposure has to be calculated to match the rate.


60 hz = 60 up and 60 down cycles = 120 pulses so 120fps is fine at any shutter angle.

With PWM the lamp is not on very long at low %s so you have to test, and LEDs turn on and off fast, more like a square wave.. but why would you dim the lamp low for highspeed? probably fine at 100% especially if 100% means full duty cycle.

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
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Buck Wildman posted:

slavin away at the cookie clicker farms

skill based games in casinos being mostly dead and most gamblers being brain dead might have a causative link

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
they should make a slot machine where you have to beat M. Bison from Street Fighter 2 on 8 star difficulty

Shalebridge Cradle
Apr 23, 2008


redneck nazgul posted:

spend more on candles

no

Entorwellian
Jun 30, 2006

Northern Flicker
Anna's Hummingbird

Sorry, but the people have spoken.



A Jupiter posted:

you haven't lived until your bedroom is lit like a James Turrell exhibit



one might say, you haven't...ahem.. seen the light?

They look like old school Unreal 1 levels.

shrike82
Jun 11, 2005

i was going to saying the middle top battlestation has two computers so it might be a space for a couple for a change
but lol, chances are it's for the one dude

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

shrike82 posted:

i was going to saying the middle top battlestation has two computers so it might be a space for a couple for a change
but lol, chances are it's for the one dude

gotta separate good screen from bad screen

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Why does the slot machine make you press the button so many times

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

Shear Modulus posted:

Why does the slot machine make you press the button so many times

i don't know but i am sure some evil scientist somewhere has determined that it works well to hypnotize your grandma.

shrike82
Jun 11, 2005

pachinko's always struck me as more interesting because you deal with a bunch of the tiny balls

Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

OMBUDSMAN
POSTERS LOCAL 42069




Clapping Larry

Shear Modulus posted:

Why does the slot machine make you press the button so many times

srsly what the gently caress is going on here

demon games

Shalebridge Cradle
Apr 23, 2008


Shear Modulus posted:

Why does the slot machine make you press the button so many times

it looks like the button lights up every so often, can't tell if it's a set time or random. they appear to be blindly button mashing so they hit the button as soon as it lights up. i have no idea what pressing the button accomplishes

more falafel please
Feb 26, 2005

forums poster

my recent splurge lightbulb purchase is LED C7 Christmas light bulbs that are actually ceramic painted glass with a warm white filament, so they actually look like the old C7 lights. the most electronics they have in them is the light emitting diode itself

i got them for my parents because they've been using like 600W worth of incandescents for 40 years and my mom is always worried about the tree catching on fire

Palladium
May 8, 2012

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Gunshow Poophole posted:

srsly what the gently caress is going on here

demon games

they say this is a slot "tournament" where they play for free so spinning the reels as fast as possible increases the payout

definitely not part of a grand strategy to milk their live savings elsewhere though

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Gunshow Poophole posted:

srsly what the gently caress is going on here

demon games

Intermittent Reinforcement: The Powerful Manipulation Method That Keeps You Trauma Bonded To Your Abuser
https://thoughtcatalog.com/shahida-arabi/2017/11/this-powerful-manipulation-method-keeps-you-bonded-to-your-abuser/

the abuser is capitalism

Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

OMBUDSMAN
POSTERS LOCAL 42069




Clapping Larry
look I’m not like, questioning the mechanics of gamification I’ve just never seen a slot machine that operates in the fashion of a cookie clicker

Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

OMBUDSMAN
POSTERS LOCAL 42069




Clapping Larry

Palladium posted:

they say this is a slot "tournament" where they play for free so spinning the reels as fast as possible increases the payout


ah cool thank you

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



the concept of a slots tournament raises even more concerns

Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

OMBUDSMAN
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Clapping Larry

Shear Modulus posted:

the concept of a slots tournament raises even more concerns

d d d double gameification

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
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Shear Modulus posted:

the concept of a slots tournament raises even more concerns

its like settling this year's world cup with RNG

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Palladium posted:

its like settling this year's world cup with RNG

Usually they’re called “refs”

blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


A Jupiter posted:

you haven't lived until your bedroom is lit like a James Turrell exhibit



one might say, you haven't...ahem.. seen the light?

i also want to live inside of a gaming keyboard

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
its gaming keyboards all the way down

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




blatman posted:

i also want to live inside of a gaming keyboard

my razer home came with proprietary cables that broke so now im homeless

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
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leds were a mistake

blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


im just glad my lightbulbs are smart enough to not respond to anything i say or do outside of flipping the switch

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




Home automation woes? Have you considered

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

Shalebridge Cradle posted:

it looks like the button lights up every so often, can't tell if it's a set time or random. they appear to be blindly button mashing so they hit the button as soon as it lights up. i have no idea what pressing the button accomplishes
the button submits a post to the something awful dot com forums

Cabbages and VHS
Aug 25, 2004

Listen, I've been around a bit, you know, and I thought I'd seen some creepy things go on in the movie business, but I really have to say this is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.

Biplane posted:

People really spend thousands and thousands of dollars turning their house Smart(tm) to save one minute turning off all the lights at night? And then some of them admit it, itt? Lmfao

look it was the cheapest and easiest way to extend the RGB gamer aesthetic out of my pc case into our whole house, creating countless battles between my spouse who thinks it's generally annoying and my kids who agree that it loving rules

but also it was like $250 and counting, I've just been replacing the bulbs that were here when we moved in in 2017 with smart bulbs one at a time and we control it all with our phones because i don't want any other listening devices kicking around when we both carry one 24/7

Cabbages and VHS
Aug 25, 2004

Listen, I've been around a bit, you know, and I thought I'd seen some creepy things go on in the movie business, but I really have to say this is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.

grate deceiver posted:

Smarthome poo poo would be kind of a neat expensive toy if it just worked within your internal home network. And if the app was something you could install on your server, preferably open source so you're not at the mercy of the lovely company staying afloat indefinitely. But gently caress right off with lightbulbs connecting to the internet

this is all doable with oss stuff depending on how dedicated you are.

the way i have stuff set up I can control lights over the LAN without internet. I had the lights on a separate network that couldn't get to the outside world but i decided i don't really care if people hack into my lights, go for it, and if that's actually a gaping hole in my whole network, whatever, there's nothing of value on it

also it's funny to gently caress with the lights at home when I'm out of town and know my partner is trying to get the kids to sleep

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


Facebook Aunt posted:

Home automation woes? Have you considered



Help, I'm dummy thicc and the clap of my rear end cheeks has my home lighting strobing like the god drat nightmares fear factory

HootTheOwl
May 13, 2012

Hootin and shootin

Facebook Aunt posted:

Home automation woes? Have you considered



Making an app that claps at the right frequency to trigger my clapper and marketing it as an iot device

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blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


if i plug a clapper into a clapper can i set it up so that my lights constantly strobe on and off

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