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  • Saw it a few days/weeks ago (2024 Oct, so 2 months since this OP). It’s an alright film.

    Several I personally noticed though:

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    • For their first-time appearances as characters, since it’s the very first film they were presented, right from the get-go, you’d know who would be the final survivors or who would have the plot armor from the very start, Android Andy and Rain.

    • The actors themselves, I don’t know, from they’re first appearances there, you know they’re not the same experienced actors of the previous films. It showed, it felt. Hence, the fear and fright a viewer should feel were not the same too. Seemingly, the trailer was a little more scary, honestly. I think such casting resulted to less “scary” than the previous films.

    • More reliance on the Android again, although not as much as the previous Prometheus and Covenant. The babying was made apparent too. Like unwittingly yet somehow seemingly there’s much more, like the way she looked at him at times. And, a fully-functioning whole Android, and not even that supposed “found from the trash” poke was believable. She has such an Android when likely no commoners have one in their lifetime, surely such Android could be utilized for income or something, even plain water buffaloes are utilized for field work, transportation, heavy burden, etc. for centuries in rural even “far from civilization” places. I mean something, somehow that Android could have been utilized, no matter the attempt of the film to portray it as not as very useful or frail, which was not really believable. Andy even had the out-of-the-blue robotic strength to hold open those heavy mechanical doors when no previous film androids were seemingly the same.

    • Final monster was not, um, not as overwhelming. No resemblance to the iconic Xenomorph aliens at all, hence reducing connection. It’s somewhat like Edward Norton’s Hulk who had no tiny semblance of his alter ego, hence the believability of the viewer to see him still as Norton’s Banner but transformed to the Hulk was thoroughly reduced during his CGI Hulk scenes. Looking back, I think it was not the very suited decision to have it as the final design of the alien monster, since it somehow resulted to closer to a generic monster appearance.

    • Surprisingly, even though he was just the CGI/AI likeness of the late Ian Holm, Rook still, exhibited that he was the more experienced actor. Can’t understand really. Rook was still scary. So kudos to them for capturing/recreating such.

    • So, not bad, just OK. But still, I can’t rank it above the other last films no matter how divisive they were, they had their own charm and appeals.











  • Well, they’ll probably see it. I think Lemmy users should post there too to trigger them. The Reddit counterpart Mods with those same names are active in the Subreddit counterpart, not just by Mod activity but they’re actually knowledgeable of yt-dlp usage and other programs like Python, and they actually answer/reply there. So hopefully the Lemmy counterpart becomes active too, like at least cross post.



    1. Alright, I checked your screenshot, your results have no single AV1.
    2. Your -S "codec" seems to be not working as you intended anymore. Sometimes the ranking changes too through time, so you must update your command line. Happened to me too before. For example, use -S vcodec:av01. Again, don’t forget, your results have no single AV1, hence no AV1 could be downloaded.

  • So far works for me. For example Joshua vs Dubois highlight:

    yt-dlp.exe -S vcodec:av01 -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZJCDbszAE4

    244     webm  854x480     2517.02MiB  689k https │ vp09.00.30.08  689k video only          480p, webm_dash
    609     mp4   1280x720    25    │ ~ 43.08MiB 1746k m3u8  │ vp09.00.31.08 1746k video only
    247     webm  1280x720    2530.53MiB 1236k https │ vp09.00.31.08 1236k video only          720p, webm_dash
    614     mp4   1920x1080   25    │ ~ 70.25MiB 2847k m3u8  │ vp09.00.40.08 2847k video only
    616     mp4   1920x1080   25    │ ~143.88MiB 5831k m3u8  │ vp09.00.40.08 5831k video only          Premium
    248     webm  1920x1080   2558.60MiB 2372k https │ vp09.00.40.08 2372k video only          1080p, webm_dash
    394     mp4   256x144     251.70MiB   69k https │ av01.0.00M.08   69k video only          144p, mp4_dash
    395     mp4   426x240     253.96MiB  160k https │ av01.0.00M.08  160k video only          240p, mp4_dash
    396     mp4   640x360     257.51MiB  304k https │ av01.0.01M.08  304k video only          360p, mp4_dash
    397     mp4   854x480     2513.14MiB  532k https │ av01.0.04M.08  532k video only          480p, mp4_dash
    398     mp4   1280x720    2523.01MiB  931k https │ av01.0.05M.08  931k video only          720p, mp4_dash
    399     mp4   1920x1080   2543.07MiB 1743k https │ av01.0.08M.08 1743k video only          1080p, mp4_dash
    
    

    As you can see, the bottom are 399, 398, 397, 396, etc., all AV1 formats. Last is 399 which is 1080p. The last on the list is the one would be downloaded, especially if you have FFmpeg.









  • Thanks for the quick reply. So maybe indeed urine was the culprit of the sow bug’s demise after all. I thought they were robust enough for both feces and urine, as I have seen some internet pics of pill bugs feasting on I think dog poop, although those are big pill bugs and not the small sow bugs in mine, and of course those using isopods as clean up crews in tanks, hence I arrived to the wrong conclusion. Interestingly, the small pinhead-sized beetles are not affected.

    Just when I thought I got endless supply of fertilizer for almost per day. I was even dreaming of having a new raised enclosure just for the urine to be buried regularly (along with scraps) and thinking to have the sow bugs to have a feast, hence to have ready-to-use soil for pots. Before the appearance of these sow bugs, the last I’ve seen them were decades ago.

    Luckily I still have surviving numbers from the Papaya pot which I must take care to remultiply. Back quite a while, I remember whenever I scoop the soil from the raised bed, there were immediately numerous sow bugs but none today anymore. I’m glad back some months I scooped some and put in the papaya pot.

    Also glad that both onion and garlic plants have no effect on them as I remember reading they have antibacterial or something properties.

    Thanks again, my friend. 👍