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‘Despicable Me’/‘Minions’ Becomes First Animated Franchise To Reach $5B In Global Box Office
  • I think it easiest view this usage of "animated films" as a genre rather than an a technical description. Films like the MCU and Avatar will have digital effects on every frame but they are not marketed as animated films.

    According to Wikipedia the top 5 are:

    • Despicable Me
    • Shrek
    • Toy Story
    • Ice Age
    • Frozen

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_animated_films#Highest-grossing_animated_franchises_and_film_series

    For some reason Wikipedia isn't listing Pokemon on the animated franchise table but The Numbers put the Pokemon franchise box office at $1.156b. If we cross reference that with the Wikipedia table that places it above The Lego Move but below The Secret Life of Pets.

    https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchises#franchise_overview=fPokemon:od3

  • Olympics Sign 12-Year Agreement with Saudi Arabia for Esports Games
  • It sure feels like they took an intensive three week course.

    They interpreted esports as the electronic version of sports (similar to email, e-cigarettes , E-commerce, etc) instead of the more common usage of playing video games as a competitive sport.

  • ‘Despicable Me’/‘Minions’ Becomes First Animated Franchise To Reach $5B In Global Box Office
  • I had a look at some comparison numbers over on Wikipedia:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films#Highest-grossing_franchises_and_film_series

    It looks the main Shrek series (2001 to 2010) averaged $745m each while the first 3 Despicable Me films (2010 to 2017) averaged $849m each. These numbers feel roughly equivalent given inflation.

    But the spinoff series is a different story! The two Minions films (2015 and 2022) average $1b each while the two Puss in Boots films (2011 and 2022) average only $520m.

    Its a shame Puss in Boots didn't achieve more success, I thought they were both excellent films.

  • "GitHub" Is Starting to Feel Like Legacy Software - The Future Is Now
  • The problem wasn’t that the line I wanted wasn’t on the page—it’s that the whole document wasn’t being rendered at once, so my browser’s builtin search bar just couldn’t find it.

    I feel like this has been the case for a while now. Luckily they offer other search tools so its a gotcha that you only have to hit once.

    In edit mode they capture the crtl-f keystrokes and offer their own search and replace tool. An argument could be made that they should offer a custom search tool for read mode if they are going to break the browsers built in tooling.

  • Canvas!
  • On android I take a screenshot and use the lens tool in my photos app.

    The screenshot tool has a lens feature too but that one only offers opening the link while photos will also let me copy the URL without sending it to my browser.

    In this case it is: https://watchdominion.org/

    Lens is also good for OCR with built in copy to clipboard and translation features. As you can screenshot most apps or take a photo of a sign, letter, gift card, etc. it can be a handy little tool.

  • Wii And GameCube Emulator Dolphin Gets A Version Number Overhaul | Time Extension
  • The old version 5.0 is now replaced by the new version number 2407, reflecting the current month of July in the year 2024.

    This change isn't about introducing any fixes, updates, or features to the emulator itself;

    I think this misrepresents the situation. There are 21k commits between these releases!

    https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/tree/5.0

    https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/tree/2407

    This is their take:

    Eight years have passed since that great release, and we have seen the dividends of that effort time and time again. Dolphin has seen constant updates, with new features and enhancements coming side by side with bug fixes and stability improvements. Users are now able to upgrade without fear, knowing that even in the unlikely event of a bug it will be fixed within hours. And of the thousands of titles that Dolphin can run, the number that do not function can now be counted on one hand!

    All of this was achieved without a new release. In fact, Dolphin has been in the 5.0 era longer than any other, and with almost twenty-two thousand commits over the past eight years, the 5.0 era now makes up over half of Dolphin's entire commit history! But users haven't forgotten our past releases. They have been waiting for years, patiently anticipating when our next release may arrive.

    That wait ends today.

    https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2024/07/02/dolphin-releases-announcement/

  • Please add zoom support when viewing gifs

    The gif format is currently lacking pinch zoom support.

    This makes it impossible to see details like text in larger images.

    Some examples:

    • https://yall.theatl.social/post/3060843
    • https://feddit.dk/post/6519612
    • https://feddit.dk/post/6559987
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    Are bot posts visible for anyone else?

    My Lemmy account have the bot post toggle set to true but I'm not seeing any pictures in this thread.

    https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13215898

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    Digital Foundry - The Last Hope review

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