I was listening to the New Year’s Day concert by the Vienna philharmonic and wondered who one of the composers was so used a popular song recognition app. (I expected it would make some fuzzy match on the piece and give me the name + composer). To my amazement it did give the name and composer but as played by the Vienna philharmonic in 2005 in the same location. The orchestra does not have the same members as 19 years ago, nor was it the same conductor, so it seemed the piece was matched on the acoustics of the Musikverein where they were playing, which I found astonishing.

  • Snot FlickermanEnglish
    10•5 days ago

    I don’t think they meant “blows you away” as in “dropping a grenade on Russian infantry.”

    • @FourPacketsOfPeanutsOPEnglish
      3•4 days ago

      I was unfortunate enough (or fortunate depending on your point of view) to see a video of Russian soldiers having a grenade go off right next to them. I used to think some of the effects at the start of Saving Private Ryan were a bit janky and obviously prop based. But apparently, no, that’s exactly what a person being blown up by a grenade looks like.