Home › Forums › Ganymede & Titan Forum › Smugle or Strugle? – Dispatches From Smegle Search for: This topic has 2,749 replies, 24 voices, and was last updated 2 hours, 48 minutes ago by RunawayTrain. Scroll to bottom Viewing 50 posts - 51 through 100 (of 2,750 total) 1 2 3 … 53 54 55 Author Posts May 5, 2022 at 9:16 am #273434 International DebrisParticipant Oh fuck off. β¬β¬β¬π¨π¨π¨ May 5, 2022 at 9:46 am #273435 Flap JackParticipant then it was a case of thinking back over which episode most likely fits the colour balance on show as the look of the headshots evolves a fair amount over time … the colour balance of the Holly headshots changes over time. You’re operating on another level, Jenuall. π€― May 5, 2022 at 1:02 pm #273439 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant BURN THE WITCH May 5, 2022 at 1:25 pm #273440 WarbodogParticipant Such a bold claim demanded investigation. Here are the first full Holly shots from each episode: I know visual Holly was added into The End and Balance of Power (at least) with later reshoots, not sure if Waiting for God was another of those, but he’s on set monitors for most of that. Maybe the paler ones from Future Echoes & Confidence and Paranoia were the earliest version? My bullshit also demands investigation. May 5, 2022 at 2:00 pm #273441 DaveParticipant Are those from the smegadrive? Am I right in thinking that it uses the Blu-Ray as the source? I wonder if those colours were tweaked much for the new transfer. May 5, 2022 at 2:14 pm #273442 Flap JackParticipant Tired: Remembering which outfit Cat wears in each episode. Wired: Remembering which hexadecimal colour values Holly’s monitor background and face skin are in each episode. May 5, 2022 at 2:20 pm #273443 WarbodogParticipant Here’s a version using an older source, with less distinct variation: I’d say Waiting for God (bottom left) looks like the telltale prototype there. May 5, 2022 at 2:28 pm #273444 DaveParticipant Wow, there’s quite a lot of difference between that and the first set. May 5, 2022 at 5:02 pm #273445 Jonathan CappsKeymaster Yeah the Blu-ray versions look quite rubbish by comparison! We used those as they work better for memes as they’re brighter, but some of the grading choices really re questionable. May 5, 2022 at 5:35 pm #273446 DaveParticipant Yeah you’d assume they did it to try and get a more consistent look, but the BR ones are all over the place. Weird. May 5, 2022 at 5:49 pm #273447 Flap JackParticipant Honestly I don’t find the change problematic (and it not being as bright actually looks a bit weird to me now), but it is strange that the Blu ray flipped things around so Holly is at his whitest in Future Echoes and Confidence & Paranoia, and makes him less white in Me^2 as well so the difference is even more obvious in this comparison. May 5, 2022 at 5:57 pm #273448 Flap JackParticipant Ohhh, hang on a sec: once I’d realised I was looking at Series 1 Holly, my next guess was Me2! Did my subconscious remember his DVD face colour??? I mean probably not, but still. May 5, 2022 at 7:27 pm #273449 JenuallParticipant Let’s face it, Holly colour grading hot takes and deep dives are the content we all come to G&T for! The evolution of the pixel effect is quite fun to see over time as well, by MeΒ² it’s significantly more subtle May 6, 2022 at 12:09 am #273457 Flap JackParticipant 06/05/2022 4/6 β¬β¬β¬π© I’d correctly identified the type of scenery by Guess 2, but getting the episode wrong (I put Backwards) made me second guess myself for 3. May 6, 2022 at 12:24 am #273458 clemParticipant π© Piece of piss. May 6, 2022 at 3:12 am #273459 RunawayTrainParticipant 06/05/2022 β¬π© That’s more like it. Had a complete and utter brain block for literally a few minutes after the second square was revealed though – I knew *exactly* which episode but couldn’t think of the title!! Strange feeling to have a total blank about Red Dwarf. May 6, 2022 at 4:26 am #273460 WarbodogParticipant #RedDwarf #Smegle 06/05/2022 I managed to identify the blurry material in square 1, so went through the rustic ones. May 6, 2022 at 6:25 am #273461 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant #RedDwarf #Smegle 06/05/2022 β¬π© Thatβs a bit better. Clem how the hell did you recognise it from the first square? May 6, 2022 at 7:36 am #273462 DaveParticipant Yeah, this one was much more gettable – I got it on guess two too. May 6, 2022 at 8:15 am #273464 JenuallParticipant 3 for me today, kicking myself as I should have got it from the hat! May 6, 2022 at 8:15 am #273465 UnrumbleParticipant #RedDwarf #Smegle 06/05/2022 β¬π© Same π May 6, 2022 at 10:02 am #273468 clemParticipant Clem how the hell did you recognise it from the first square? That didn’t really help. It was just that there were quite a few brown squares and Gunmen’s the brownest episode. At least I think of it as such, possibly because of the VI DVD cover mainly. May 6, 2022 at 10:07 am #273469 DaveParticipant There’ll be a day when it’s a sea of bright pink and everyone gets it on the first attempt. May 6, 2022 at 10:19 am #273471 JenuallParticipant Thereβll be a day when itβs a sea of bright pink and everyone gets it on the first attempt. Or fails and it turns out to be a close up of cats pink suit! May 6, 2022 at 10:34 am #273473 International DebrisParticipant The hat gave it away for me. May 7, 2022 at 12:30 am #273480 clemParticipant β¬π© Another one where the colours were a big help. May 7, 2022 at 6:43 am #273481 WarbodogParticipant Another one where the colours were a big help. It didn’t look/feel like several of the series do, so I went for the other options. May 7, 2022 at 7:50 am #273482 DaveParticipant Took me 4 today. There’s a lot of shots/scenes from TPL that just haven’t got lodged in my mind yet, and that’s one of them. May 7, 2022 at 7:57 am #273483 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant #RedDwarf #Smegle 07/05/2022 π© BOOOOOM! May 7, 2022 at 9:15 am #273485 International DebrisParticipant I think my guesses were the same as Warbodog’s. May 7, 2022 at 9:53 am #273486 Flap JackParticipant 07/05/2022 4/6 β¬β¬β¬π© Seems like Dave and I are somewhat alike in mind with this one! The scene just didn’t occur to me – even once the hand holding an implement and the helmet were revealed and I guessed correctly, I was thinking of the scene where they’re using the vegan forks for some reason. The white squares threw me too. Turns out there weren’t any actual white things in shot, just some reflective things (LIKE MOONLIGHT OMG). Also, if it’s The Promised Land, then as long as you recognise the frame shape you’re guaranteed to get it in 5. So if you’re not feeling confident then the strategic play is to guess other series first. May 7, 2022 at 4:02 pm #273490 RunawayTrainParticipant 07/05/2022 π© I’m shocked! Didn’t recognise the brown from anywhere, so as a shot to nothing guessed TPL, and here we are :D May 7, 2022 at 4:57 pm #273491 clemParticipant May 8, 2022 at 1:16 am #273500 Flap JackParticipant 08/05/2022 2/6 β¬π© Ahhh, that’s more like it. Thought it was that one part of their AR trial in Back in the Red at first. Although even now I can’t remember why or how there was a solid white background there. May 8, 2022 at 3:34 am #273501 RunawayTrainParticipant Payback for yesterday? 08/05/2022 β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ (But, as a very niche aside, after coming across highlights on YouTube of an archaeological excavation with Stewart Ainsworth, in a trench, *digging* – something I never ever though I’d see, to the point that I actually laughed out loud in disbelief – nothing can dampen my amusement tonight!) May 8, 2022 at 7:10 am #273502 UnrumbleParticipant 08/05/2022 β¬β¬π© First guess was M-Corp, as there was a stark white background. When that failed, I thought it might be something from outside in Better Than Life. Then it was clear it was the Holly watch, and well, rather obvious.. May 8, 2022 at 7:44 am #273503 DaveParticipant First guess was M-Corp, as there was a stark white background Ditto. I ignored the aspect ratio at my peril. I eventually got it on guess 3. May 8, 2022 at 9:19 am #273504 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant #RedDwarf #Smegle 08/05/2022 π¨π© my first thought from the immense amount of white and mix colours in the centre was the opening shot from Tikka. That at least gave me the series but the second square reveal was clearly the Holly Watch so it could only be one episode then. May 8, 2022 at 9:50 am #273505 Flap JackParticipant It’s funny, despite being the one to warn against not paying attention to the aspect ratio, I very nearly guessed M-Corp too. It was like an instinctive response. And oof, that is some diabolical bad luck, RunawayTrain. I assume your last 2 guesses were for Series VIII and Series 2 (in either order)? May 8, 2022 at 10:39 am #273506 RunawayTrainParticipant And oof, that is some diabolical bad luck, RunawayTrain. I assume your last 2 guesses were for Series VIII and Series 2 (in either order)? I guessed series 2 fairly early on. It was clear from the second guess it was something with Holly, then by guess 4 or so that it was a watch, but I couldn’t for the life of me think where – Epideme and Nanarchy are even less-watched for me than VIII – which in retrospect should have been a clue, but hey *shrug* May 8, 2022 at 11:31 am #273507 WarbodogParticipant It’s an image I’ve seen often enough outside of the episode (memes, maybe a G&T banner?) to recognise it. I figured it wouldn’t be a flash frame explosion or something like that, since I assume these are random frames G&T get that they decide to smegle up, so there’s more chance of a lingering shot. May 8, 2022 at 2:49 pm #273508 clemParticipant β¬π© How’s everyone’s streaks doing three weeks since the launch of the Daily Difficult? I’m currently on 4 having made it to 17 then been foiled by the Duct Soup one a few days ago. May 8, 2022 at 3:22 pm #273509 Flap JackParticipant I’m on 11, just today beating my previous longest streak of 10. May 8, 2022 at 3:50 pm #273510 JenuallParticipant I assumed they were cropping these so that you couldn’t guess via aspect ratio! May 8, 2022 at 4:01 pm #273511 Flap JackParticipant lol, while I can understand being able to immediately narrow it down to 22 or 52 episodes might make it feel “too easy” for some (definitely not me), cropping images to make the aspect ratios uniform would be extremely unfair. Smegle is meant to be testing your recognition of actual frames from Red Dwarf. May 8, 2022 at 4:42 pm #273512 WarbodogParticipant I found it hard to identify the ratio a couple of times, especially with the number of reveal squares (6×4) being the same. I’ve learned to spot it by whether the squares are actually square (BBC) or rectangles (Dave). I’ve got a full 22 days, I don’t know how many of us are left waiting to be picked off. May 8, 2022 at 10:02 pm #273515 RunawayTrainParticipant Streak? More like a smudge – my longest is 4. Equalled or bettered by my longest losing streak, no doubt. [It’s actually quite liberating having no real achievement to protect though, in all honesty.] Warbodog, that is mightily impressive! May 9, 2022 at 5:05 am #273517 RunawayTrainParticipant Ooh, redemption perhaps 09/05/2022 β¬π© May 9, 2022 at 6:23 am #273518 Quinn: Clochebusters World ChampionParticipant #RedDwarf #Smegle 09/05/2022 π¨π© I was doing fine up until that blasted Duct Soup one. I also missed a day so my streaks have been all over the place and I havenβt really been paying attention to my longest Apparently currently on 5 May 9, 2022 at 7:35 am #273519 DaveParticipant Got today’s in 3. I initially thought that hair was someone else. Author Posts Viewing 50 posts - 51 through 100 (of 2,750 total) 1 2 3 … 53 54 55 Scroll to top • Scroll to Recent Forum Posts You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Log In