Grant Selig, true freshman, 90-93 t94, SL mid 8’s,... Split low 8’s, 6’0, 185lbs. Example here showing why he gets so many whiffs on the slider. FLATGROUND Pitchingshow more

#2 Ranked Player in the ‘28 Class RHP Cullen... Scott (TX) is flashing brilliance dialing the heater up to 98 mph 🔥 and holding steady in the mid-90’s; FB plays heavy and is showing strong command of it; worked a low-80’s SL and low-70’s CB into the mix but relied heavily on the FB; big time live arm w/ ease in his delivery paired with quick arm action. #WWBA Perfect Game Texas PG_Uncommittedshow more

49ers Fullback Kyle Juszczyk showing why he’s so valuable... to this offense in week 8. He was huge accounting for backside kick outs on Split Zone vs. the Cowboys. Kyle Juszczyk #FTTB #NFLshow more

‘29 Justice Smith (CR Baseball) turns in two scoreless... innings in relief at 68% strikes Low-80s throughout, grabbing 85-87 when he wants with feel ITZ. 68-71 mph SL getting S/M down at the knees, mixing the mid-70s CH AS for Ks. Freshman arm on the rise 📈 Justice Smith || #DEHS26show more

🚨COLLEGE COACHES🚨 Uncommitted 2026 RHP from Keller High School... Connor Davenport (Connor Davenport) Rehabbing back from TJ he has been crushing it! This day here on his return to the mound he was 88-91. He still has not thrown a full bullpen yet, looking to do so in the next couple weeks. ⚡️ This is a kid who I would not be shocked gets into the upper 9’s come senior year. 🔥 Any questions feel free to DM ++ character kid 🫡 FLATGROUND Pitchingshow more

Shifting focus to 2025, RHP Tyler Bremner (UC Santa... Barbara Baseball) is one of my favorite College arms in the class. As a freshman, Bremner split time between the bullpen and the rotation and pitched his way to a modest 5.37 ERA with an impressive strikeout-to-walk ratio of 80-to-17 across 55.1 innings. Bremner has a lean, athletic build at 6'2" and 180-lbs. He has room to fill out physically and as he does, his already-electric stuff will only tick up. Bremner has a low maintenance, under control operation with present arm speed. He attacks hitters from a high-three quarter slot and his fastball sits in the 93-96 range and tops out at 98. It has elite riding life (averaged over 21" of IVB in '23) and is most effective when located in the top-half of the zone. Between its velocity and shape, it is a 60-grade offering. He boasts two quality secondary offerings in a mid-80s changeup and low-80s slider. Bremner’s changeup is the more polished of the two, but his sweeping slider has plus potential. In 2023, Bremner’s changeup generated an impressive 48% miss rate. He has advanced feel for the offering, and he will throw it to both left and righthanded hitters. It plays well off his mid-90s fastball and flashes big time late tumbling life and some fade to the arm side. Bremner threw his slider just 12% of the time in 2023, but it has the chance to be a true out pitch in the future. It features ample late sweeping life as well as some depth, and is a real weapon especially against righthanded hitters. It has reportedly taken a step forward this fall and could be a lethal offering in 2024. Between his plus control, low effort delivery, and the chance to have three plus or better pitches, Bremner profiles as a starter professionally. He has a chance to become a household name this spring and with two strong seasons pitching in the rotation, Bremner has 1st Round upside in 2025. (📽️: UC Santa Barbara Baseball)show more

LHP Andrew Healy (Duke Baseball) is one of my... favorite Sophomore-eligible arms in this year's Draft. Enjoyed an outstanding true Freshman campaign in '23, pitching his way to a 2.32 ERA with 45 K to just 7 BB across 42.2 IP. Great body at 6'6" and 200-lbs. High-waisted with room to fill out. Smooth, aesthetically pleasing operation on the mound. Clean arm stroke and hides the ball well. Attacks from mid-three quarter slot. Pretty low effort delivery. Healy's FB will mostly sit in the 90-93 range, but he has been up to 94/95. It gets on hitters quick and plays particularly well on his arm side/elevated. Little bit of carry to it. Healy has plus command and control of it. His go-to secondary offering is a high-70s CH that on average is 10+ MPH off his FB. Healy maintains his arm speed well and it features serious late tumbling life. Had a 40% miss rate in '23. Would put a 55 on it. Healy features two distinct breaking balls in a high-70s SL and mid-70s CB. SL has long, sweeping action and is particularly deadly against LHH. After throwing it just 5% of the time in '23, Healy this fall has upped his CB usage. It's an okay 4th pitch and at times will flash some depth. Perhaps most interesting about Healy's profile is his ability to generate swings. Last year he posted a 48% overall swing rate and an impressive 70% in-zone swing rate. Overall control/command would grade out as a 60. Healy is a slam dunk starter professionally and could pitch his way into a top-3/4 round Draft choice. (📽️: Duke Baseball)show more

Gemma 4 26B A4B MoE - 500+ t/s decode... - Single RTX 4090 (24 GB VRAM) - Llama.cpp concurrency 24 - q8 kv cache How many API users can you simultaneously host on a single RTX 4090 (24 GB VRAM) before it crashes? Yesterday, I proved you can host 14 active users using unquantized memory. Today, I used 8 bit KV Cache Quantization to hack the VRAM footprint. I successfully scaled to 24 concurrent users without a single dropped connection. A 71% server capacity boost for free. By adding the -ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0 flags to llama.cpp, you compress the KV cache context memory from 16 bit to 8 bit. This unlocks massive concurrency limits on Gemma 4 26B (MoE) on a single 24GB consumer GPU. Here is the exact telemetry from pushing 8 bit quantization to its absolute physical edge: # TEST 1: The 24 User Concurrency Max Server Config: 24 slots (np 24) | 4,096 context per slot | 98,304 Total Context Client Load: 24 simultaneous requests (2,000 token prompt per user) Unquantized KV cache for this load requires 28GB+ VRAM (Instant OOM). Quantized to Q8, it allocated safely at 23.35 GB. The C++ engine crunched the entire batch in 28.5 seconds. Decode Speed: 21 t/s (Per User) | 500 t/s (Agg) # TEST 2: The 48 User Queue Overload What happens to a compressed cache during a traffic spike? Server Config: 24 slots (np 24) | 4,096 context per slot | 98,304 Total Context Client Load: 48 simultaneous requests (2k token prompt per user) Zero queue drops. The scheduler flushed and hot swapped the 8 bit memory flawlessly on the fly, completing all 48 users in 66.0 seconds (a perfect 2.3x queue scaling multiplier). Decode Speed: 18 t/s (Per User) | 430 t/s (Agg) # TEST 3: The 8 User RAG Slam Server Config: 8 slots (np 8) | 60,000 context per slot | 480,000 Total Context Client Load: 8 simultaneous requests (30k token prompt per user) It allocated 23.83 GB VRAM and chewed through ~240,000 prefill tokens in 46 seconds under massive memory pressure. Prefill Speed: 6,200 t/s (Agg) Decode Speed: 22 t/s (Per User) | 175 t/s (Agg) # The Engineering Alpha (The Quantization Tradeoff): You gain a massive 71% increase in server capacity, but what do you lose? Compute latency. Because the cache is stored in 8 bit, the GPU's cores have to dequantize the memory back to 16 bit on the fly during every single prefill step. In my unquantized tests yesterday, single slot prefill was hitting ~1,500+ t/s. Today, under the heavy 48-user Q8 load, prefill dropped as low as ~750 t/s. You trade a few seconds of initial prefill latency to essentially double your API hosting capacity. For production high volume SaaS, this is the ultimate unit economics cheat code. Here is the exact command to run a 24 user Q8 continuous batching server on your own single 4090, single 3090 or any 24gb vram rig: ./build/bin/llama-server -m gemma-4-26B-A4B-it.gguf -c 98304 -np 24 -b 2048 -ub 2048 -ngl 99 -fa on -ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0 --port 8080 (Note: -c 98304 allocates exactly 4,096 tokens of context per user across 24 slots). Hugging Face links to the Unsloth Gemma 4 26B QAT quants along with performance graphs available in the replies. Would you trade 3 seconds of Time To First Token latency to double your active user capacity?show more

🚨 WARNING: SOMETHING EXTREMELY BAD IS ABOUT HAPPEN... South... Korean stock market just lost over ₩500,000,000,000,000. KOSPI crashed -8%, and trading was halted. Asia fell first. Tech is dumping. But this is just the beginning. Wall Street is coming next. This is how it always starts: not with a US headline. Not with a Fed announcement. Not with a single, clean catalyst. It starts at the edges. Asian markets close before Wall Street opens. By this time, U.S. traders will read the morning news. The damage is already priced in on the other side of the world. Global tech followed in the same session. The names everyone said were untouchable started cracking quietly. Now look at what the S&P 500 is actually sitting on: 8 stocks → 35% of the entire index All of them tech → all showing cracks All of them → priced for a world where nothing goes wrong Something just went wrong. Asian indices sell off and tech follows in the same session—that’s not noise. That’s the leading indicator the US market has been ignoring. The rotation out of risk is already happening everywhere except Wall Street. That is about to change today. Smart money is already positioned. Retail will read about this tomorrow and wonder why nobody warned them. This sounds SCARY, but I will keep you updated on everything here. When I rotate money, I will post my moves here so my FOLLOWERS can SAVE their money. Follow me and turn NOTIFICATIONS ON, as I will share my strategy soon. Many will regret not following me earlier...show more

🧵 Analysis: Why Jonathan Anderson’s reaction to Jimin at... Dior Fashion Week 2025 is so fascinating 👑✨ 1/ Jonathan Anderson is famously introverted and reserved. He usually maintains composure in public, letting his work speak for him rather than showing spontaneous emotion. 2/ At Dior S/S 2026, while Jonathan taking photos with his ambassador Jimin, Jonathan did something subtle but notable: he suddenly grabbed Jimin’s hands 😳💛 — a rare, unguarded gesture for someone with his personality. 3/ Why is this notable? According to research on human social bonding (Mayo Clinic 🧠), even introverts can show microgestures of connection when they experience strong admiration or emotional resonance. This can include touch, eye contact, or instinctive gestures. 4/ In this moment, Jonathan’s gesture wasn’t planned — it was a pure, human response to Jimin’s presence, showing that charisma and warmth can influence even the most reserved personalities. 5/ For fans, this is a perfect example of Jimin energy: he doesn’t just captivate the crowd, he can inspire rare, genuine reactions from the people around him 🥹🍑 6/ In short: Jonathan Anderson grabbing Jimin’s hands isn’t just cute — it’s a psychological peek into how human admiration works, amplified by Jimin’s presence 👑✨ Use these tags now Tags 🏷️ ⬇️ WELCOME HOME JIMIN DIOR GLOBAL AMBASSADOR JIMIN #JiminxDior #DiorSS26 #PFW #Jimin #ParkJimin #지민 #Dior Extra point: I feel like I’m a mix between Jonathan and Jimin. I can be outgoing, charming, and talkative like Jimin, but I’m still introverted because social interactions can drain me over time, and I need my alone time to recharge (lije Jonathan). So Introversion is really about energy management, not social ability.show more

While he won't toe the rubber this spring for... the Hoosiers, RHP Luke Sinnard (Indiana Baseball) is an arm to be familiar with come July. Began his college career at Western Kentucky, but blossomed last year as a Sophomore at Indiana and pitched his way to a 4.27 ERA with 114 Ks (led the Big Ten) to just 25 BB across 86.1 IP. Earned a Second Team All-Big Ten selection. Towering, workhorse frame at 6'8" and 230-lbs. Sinnard attacks from an ultra high-three quarter slot and possesses an outlier release height north of 7-feet. Somewhat of a deep pull here, but his arm slot is a little reminiscent of former College of Charleston RHP William Privette, though not as sling-shotty or true OTT. His FB sits in the 91-94 range (T96) but it plays up thanks to the carry Sinnard is able to get on it through the zone. Last year, it averaged over 2,500 RPMs and over 19" of IVB. Sinnard's low-80s CB is a true bat-misser. Flashes immense depth and almost true 12-to-6 shape with some teeth. He has good feel for the pitch and it is effective against both right and lefthanded hitters. Held opponents to a .118 average and generated a 46% miss rate last spring. Also features an effective high-80s Cut/SL hybrid. Boasts late lateral life with a touch of depth. Gets under the hands of LHH. Another pitch that Sinnard has plus control of. Lastly, Sinnard throws a low-80s Split/CH. Feel for it is inconsistent, but it gets good separation off the FB and at times flashed tumbling life. It's an okay 4th offering. Sinnard has pro-level starter written all over him and even though you won't see him this season, he profiles as a potential 4th-7th round pick in this year's Draft. (📽️: Indiana Baseball)show more

RHP Justin Mitrovich (Elon Baseball) is one mid-major arm... to follow this season. Was excellent as a true Freshman and pitched his way to a 3.68 ERA with 66 Ks to 21 BB across 63.2 IP. Last spring he worked a 5.06 ERA and collected 96 Ks against 30 BB in 80 IP. Mitrovich also showed positive flashes on the Cape this summer and notched 17 Ks in as many IP. Mitrovich has an athletic frame at 6'3" and 200-lbs. Room to fill out physically. Worked exclusively out of the stretch during the spring, but went back to the windup this summer. Works on the 1B side of the rubber, starts his motion with a small side step then gathers himself. Leads into a high lift, and the rest of his operation is up-tempo. Plenty of depth on his long arm stroke, attacks from a three-quarters slot with present arm speed. Some effort. Mitrovich's FB sits in the 91-94 range, but has been up to 96 with some life in the top-1/2 of the zone. Figuring his heater out is going to be the key for him going forward. Threw mostly 4-seamers during the spring, but went 2-seam heavy during the summer and still generated a whiff rate < 20%. A handful of the latter flashed late arm side life, particularly against LHH. Both play well in the top-1/2 of the zone. Needs to iron out the shape and maximize it. Mitrovich's bread-and-butter offerings are his secondaries. His low-80s CH is one of the best of its kind in the college ranks. Averaged over 12 MPH off his FB last spring and is a legit swing-and-miss pitch against both LHH and RHH. Throws it with conviction and will use it in any count. Consistently flashes fade to the arm side as well as ample late tumbling life. True "falling off the table" look. Mitrovich's feel for the pitch is highly advanced, and last spring it generated a 52% whiff rate, 47% chase rate and held opposing hitters to a .198 average. Comfortably a 60. Rounds out his arsenal with a low-to-mid-80s SL that is a particular weapon against righthanded hitters. Gyro look that's not big in shape, but will flash some lateral glove-side life with late bite. Flashed above-average at times last spring and garnered a 45% miss rate. Gets whiffs both in and out of the zone. Mitrovich is a strike-thrower who looks the part of a starter at the next level. As mentioned, the key with him is developing the FB. Fits as a 5th-7th rounder for me right now. (📽️: Elon Baseball)show more

Blake Brown (Blake Brown) lives mid–upper 90s and has... touched 101 mph at 6’0, 195 lbs while carrying 20–25% body fat through his midsection.⁠ ⁠ Does he throw hard in spite of that… or because of it? ⁠ ⁠ When you rotate at 95–100+ mph speeds, your trunk isn’t a rigid lever. It’s a deformable system— fascia, fat, muscle, viscera — all behaving with fluid-like properties. ⁠ ⁠ So here’s the why behind the ‘velo pouch’: ⁠ ⁠ 1. Rate-Dependent Behavior Viscoelastic tissues (muscle, fascia, fat, viscera) display time- and rate-dependent properties.⁠ -Low strain rates (walking, slow lifting): tissues deform and dissipate energy, acting as dampers that absorb shock and protect joints.⁠ -High strain rates (explosive trunk rotation): the same tissues stiffen non-linearly, behaving more like elastic springs. Instead of leaking energy, they store and recoil at the precise velocities required for throwing.⁠ ⁠ 2. Elastic Storage & Release⁠ As the trunk rotates, fascial slings that spiral around the torso are loaded. This deformation increases strain energy within the system. At pitching-level strain rates, those tissues recoil elastically, amplifying rotational velocity and contributing to the rapid acceleration of the arm.⁠ ⁠ 3. Rotational Energy Transfer⁠ Performance hinges on efficient rotational energy transfer. A more compliant torso allows greater torsional deformation (similar to wringing a towel), increasing elastic loading before recoil. Additional soft tissue mass distributes rotational forces across a larger surface area, smoothing out energy transfer through the chain and reducing localized energy leaks.show more

Shiloh Hendrix Found Guilty on One Count in Racial... Slur Video Case, Sentenced to Probation A Rochester, Minnesota jury reached a split decision late Thursday in the disorderly conduct trial of Shiloh Hendrix. The case stems from an April 2025 playground incident in which she used the N-word toward an 8-year-old Black autistic boy after he took an applesauce pouch from her diaper bag, an act she described as defending her child’s property. (Video: AI) After roughly nine hours of deliberation, the jury found Hendrix guilty on one count of disorderly conduct related to the viral aftermath video and not guilty on the second. She was sentenced to one year of probation, a $1,000 fine, 200 hours of community service, and a stayed 90-day jail term. Rochester NAACP chapter president Wale Elegbede called the outcome a “mixed result,” stating, “There isn’t a path to restorative justice where there’s no remorse.” Defense attorney Brian Karalus strongly disagreed with the conviction, calling the proceedings a “fraud” and a “circus,” and indicated plans to appeal. Many observers have raised concerns that the conviction represents an assault on free speech, arguing the words, while offensive, do not meet the legal threshold for unprotected “fighting words.” A growing number of people are asking why this case was ever brought to court at all, and whether selective enforcement risks undermining the First Amendment.show more

LHP Zach Root (Arkansas Baseball) is one of the... best college lefthanders in this year's Draft class. After splitting time between the bullpen and rotation as a Freshman, Root last year was a full time starter and pitched his way to a 3.56 ERA with 76 Ks to 21 BB across 68.1 IP. Slightly undersized at 6'1" and 186-pounds, but there's present strength and physicality in his lower-half. Natural funk and deception in his delivery that includes a high leg lift and some tilt in his upper-half. Average arm stroke with a slight wrist coil, attacks from a mid-three quarter (maybe a tick lower) slot with a bit of cross fire. Root's FB will sit in the 91-94 range, but it was up to 97. Will flash arm side life through the zone and is best when located on either third (arm or glove side) of the plate or in the top-half. Not a real bat-misser right now, so refining its shape should be a point of focus both this spring and beyond. Bread and butter offerings are his secondaries. Root's low-80s CH gets averaged almost 10 MPH of separation off his heater and it's a pitch he throws with conviction. Consistently flashes fade to the arm side as well as late diving life. Generated a 46% miss rate last spring, would stick a plus grade on it. High-70s-to-low-80s CB flashes big-time depth with some sharpness. 11-to-5 shape against RHH, but will be longer than it is deep against LHH. Has a decent feel for the pitch, and last season it held opposing hitters to a minuscule .048 average while generating a 48% miss rate. Rounds out his arsenal with a mid-to-upper-80s CUT/SL that against LHH will flash sweeping life with some late bite. Potentially average offering. Would like to see his strike-throwing improve this season. Day 1 profile this July. (📽️: ECU Baseball)show more

2. Teasers / MV / Live presentations We believe... all the content should include all members. Not some content, but all of it. We see some people excusing the exclusion of Lee Know in some content because "he will appear in other content", we don't understand why he would be excluded out of any content when the group includes 8 members. There isn't an excuse for this to happen all the time. We will only talk about recent releases and God's Menu to not make this even longer. a) Gods Menu - A title track where they gave him zero lines and screen time (song that they continue to sing, so the company could have made a redistribution of the lines). b) Megaverse - They gave him lines in the initial release, but then they cut his part to 3 seconds, and decided to delete his center part leaving him with half of a line. c) Hall Of Fame - Every live presentation they would cut Lee Know on his own part recording from below all of the other members and only listening to Lee Know's voice without being able to look at him. d) S-Class - They stopped recording the kick he does and instead they record the other members, Lee Know sings there. e) JJAM - When it was dance racha time, Lee Know got almost no time, during the life presentation the moment he goes to the center he says his line "I know..." and while he says it, the screen gets black, so he doesn't have that time on screen, later he is placed at the back covered during the dance break. He is the dance leader. f) Walkin on Water' - During the live presentation, they decided to record everyone on his part, and cut it from his own fancam. g) Recent teasers - He was completely excluded from the first teaser and only included in the second one, he got no solo recording on the MV like the other members. h) Giant - There is a part on the video where all the members are shown, Lee Know is covered and the lights are lowered where he is, making him invisible. During the live presentation, they record other members on his part, they put the dance focus on others, being the only part he has where he sings alone. i) YOUTH - After the release of the MV, the company decided to edit the video causing views to freeze and deleting a very important part where it thanked the people involved. The time from when the video was finished to when it was published was enough to arrange all the details, and the part deleted was so big, it was impossible to miss it. This happened before with his other individual work “Dawn”, which was deleted after some time, and re-uploaded, deleting all the views it had accumulated. This means one of two things, the company puts less interest and effort in Lee Know's work, or the company is purposefully hindering Lee Know's work. Either of the two is unacceptable by a company with so many resources and that claims to be a leader in the industry. This only shows a lack of professionalism and care. j) Dance leader - We know he is the dance leader, and K-stays and the members have talked a lot about how involved he is and how hard he works in that position, but the company refuses to include any footage of him doing it, and even cuts the parts where he gives his all. Just recently K-Stays were raving about how hard Lee Know worked as the dance leader and how much effort it took, One Label cut all of that footage from the Talker. It appears they don't want stays to look at anything he does, or to not give him recognition for anything.show more

Sold out! Look at that smile on his face... while speaking this. Tell me—who smiles like that while grieving? "Jo hona tha wo ho gaya hai"—Oh, so things just magically get "fixed" with money, huh? We need major answers about Mr. Land Mafia- 1. Who allowed him to stay in Odisha Bhavan for his entire six-year tenure in Parliament? Under which rule was this permitted? Was RC Shri Ravi Kant, IPS, unaware of this blatant misuse? 2. Who authorized a permanent hotel room for him, paid by the State Government? Under which rule does a public servant receive such lavish treatment? 3. Is it not a fact that he used to arrive at Parliament every day in a Mercedes?(We have the photographs.) Who was footing the bill for this luxury? 4. Is it true that several of his buildings and constructions lack BDA approval?Isn’t it also true that two separate buildings were approved on the same parcel of land? 5. Isn’t he a serial land grabber and encroacher of both government and private land? How many cases are conveniently buried? 6. How did the previous Biju Janata Dal government approve the regularization of 14 acres of encroached forest land without the Government of India’s approval? Who signed off on this blatant violation? 7. Why have organizations like UN Women, UNICEF, and the UN Human Rights Commission not publicly condemned this? UN Women India UN Human Rights Kanta Singh ji 8. Why didn’t the Government oppose the bail of those who were arrested? 9. What really happened in the 2012 KIIT International School suicide case of Kiranmoy Shaw? Who has been protecting the truth for over a decade? #KIITUniversity #KIITStudentPrakritiLamsal #PrakritiLamsalshow more

$MMTLP I have more questions 1) Why did FINRA... say broker dealers didn't have advance notice of the U3 halt when 8 broker dealer representatives approved the halt??? That was a lie. So why in the last 18 months hasn't Congress set a public hearing or issued subpoenas to FINRA and to every broker that allowed trading in $MMTLP? Start with Hilltop Securities. Its Managing Director Kelly Bell was among the 8 broker dealers representatives on the FINRA panel that voted to unexpectedly halt $MMTLP Yet her company, Hilltop Securities, is a broker dealer in Texas that allowed $MMTLP trading. 2)Why hasn't Congress held a public hearing and issued a subpoena for Hilltop's $MMTLP trading records? Kelly Bell's boss, Hilltop Securities CEO Brad Winges had an advisory role at the SEC so he has plenty of connections at the SEC and FINRA. Thinking out loud here, those connections might be helpful if his firm got into a bind with its $MMTLP position? (Thanks Jalen Duck Jalen, Jr. ) 3) Why hasn't Congress issued a subpoena to find out what conversations Winges, Bell or anyone connected to them, had about $MMTLP with Pete Sessions (Hilltop donated to his campaign), or anyone in his office, FINRA and/or U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 4) Why hasn't Congress held a public hearing to find out if Hilltop and others oversold $MMTLP? When an airline oversells a flight, it is often forced to pay big money to get passengers to take a different flight .. and it doesn't take them nearly 600 days to do it. If broker dealers oversold $MMTLP, and it's clear they did, they still HAVE to settle those trades. And they should have to pay the price investors are willing to accept. It's not a good look for democracy when people see Congress, the SEC and FINRA trying to protect their friends and donors and run out the clock on investors. Will $MMTLP be what upends the cozy relationships between Congress, regulators and broker dealers? Because people do turn on each other quickly when the pressure heats up. And the first one to speak up usually gets the best deal. The truth is easy to remember, lies not so much. BusyBrands 🇺🇸 Kurtis Anna JunkSavvy Timmy Donoghue Onehundredmph Richard Hofman HAM William P. Farrand Dennis Kneale WiseGuys Mark Faulk Mark R. Basile,Esq. Devin Nunes $FNGR $GTII $NWBO $ENZC $AMC $GME $DJT $SCLX $BB $KODK $WULFshow more

You'll often hear it asserted that the digital shots... George Lucas added to the Death Star battle for the Special Edition of A New Hope, ironically, actually look inferior to the original shots, and blend less seamlessly with the footage of live actors. Is this true? You could say it's subjective, but let's take a look anyway. Compare these two versions of the iconic shot(s) of the Rebel starfighters gathered in formation on approach to the Death Star. The Special Edition is on the left and the original version is on the right. Is the Special Edition version actually so incredibly ugly? Is it actually less credible than the original version? Is it actually less dramatically effective? The answer to all these questions, I think, is clearly no. It is obvious why Lucas was not satisfied with the effects in the original pair of shots, and it is obvious that the new (combined) shot is closer to the image he had in his head in 1977. Anyone who tries to tell you the original shots do not look jarringly dated (which is not the case for many of the shots in this sequence, which were not replaced) is not engaging rationally. They either do not really remember what the original version looked like, because they have not actually watched it in years, or they are the victim of Lucas Derangement Syndrome.show more