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File:__hanesaki_ayano_hanebado_….jpg (64.15 KB,433x650)

 No.127020[Reply]

Why play something competitive if you are not going to be the best? or among the best, at least.

¨For fun¨ is the obvious answer but then you have a big skill gap between players. I don't play competitive online games anymore because I haven't been able to find an answer to this. I don't want to be a pro or anything, just good enough to think of myself as ¨good at the game¨. Whatever that game might be.

Instead, I've been playing Prominence Poker and MahSoul because those games are luck based and I can listen to a video or do something else while playing.

What do you think?
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 No.127047

>>127046
I don't know. Probably. I was mainly into speed running Mega Man because I liked doing TAS runs. Then I'd take what I'd learned playing a game frame-by-frame and try to apply it to normal speed.

There is a lot of debate about what is and isn't a glitch as well. For example, in Mega Man 2 you can modify falling speed using the pause button. This can allow you to take a route you couldn't normally reach. It isn't really considered a glitch since pausing is a normal part of the game. But some people might argue otherwise. So most of the rules are made up and arbitrary.

Mega Man 9's offical leaderboard for speed runs didn't list your actual time either. It only counted time when the game was actually running. If you were sitting at the weapon select menu time was frozen. So a lot of people would pause and unpause over and over again to make the platforming portions easier. They changed this for Mega Man 10 by adding a feature from the SNES games where you could switch weapons without using the selection screen. Which was more "fair" but kind of ruined the fun for anyone that was used to the NES games and didn't like that feature. You could still select weapons from the menu like normal but now the clock ran the entire time you were in that menu. Which pretty much forced you to use the SNES way (shoulder buttons) if you wanted any chance of posting a good time.

I was going to show you some runs the guy I used to trade the record with did. But the originals are no longer on youtube. Someone edited them to remove the pause screen which is stupid because now the music is all screwed up. Most of the strategy isn't shown anymore because most of it revolved around when you paused and unpaused.

 No.127048

>>127047
>It isn't really considered a glitch since pausing is a normal part of the game.
It's a glitch if the manipulation of your falling speed is unintentional behavior, or if the availability of the route was an oversight on the part of the developers.

But yeah, the important thing is that the community agrees on a specific set of rules, and if somebody discovers a new trick, the community needs to come together and come to a consensus on whether or not that is part of the accepted gameplay or cheating. That's what playing games is about: a shared set of rules.

 No.127049

>>127048
It isn't considered a "glitch" in Mega Man 2 because they have what's called a "zipless" category. Which basically means any glitch outside of zipping through walls is okay. It's by far the most popular form of the world record.

The pause trick was so well known most people don't even bother to argue it since it isn't a massive advantage and people have discovered ways to get into those areas without it (excluding where it helps you zip). It's basically just re-starting your fall. It halts all momentum you've already built up and makes it so you're falling off an invisible platform. Most people avoid it now because it's much slower than just jumping normally. Since now we're down to timing this stuff by frames instead of seconds.

 No.127050

>>127046
Yeah, they exist. It seems like it's a mixed bag and most people simply want the "best" at events and such, which leads to stuff like THIS where they enter a debug room and just teleport around scenes and it's the most boring thing imaginable. FF7 has been a buggy mess in these events for a long time, but this is a new low if you ask me. Yeah, it's faster than the runs where they actually play the game, so congratulations to them I guess.
Glitchless runs seem like a niche when compared to people simply wanting to beat it the fastest way possible.

 No.127051

>>127050
I can't find it anymore because they take down old TAS runs off youtube now. But there used to be a really cool run of Rockman 1 where you're literally reprogramming the ASM as you play. It's almost impossible to do it on a real console because 9 times out of 10 it'll lock up. But with save states you can try thousands of times and sometimes get through.

By the time you get to Wily 2 the game is so fucked up it can't even render sprites anymore.



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 No.126980[Reply]

What are the best live action and 2d stuff about otaku culture or being an otaku?
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 No.127001

welcome to the nhk maybe
i've only seen a bit of it

 No.127004

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The first season of Genshiken is really good—made me wish my school had an anime club (with actual wotaku). The second season focuses way more on the characters and less on otaku culture, and the third one is mostly a romance anime with an (almost) all-fujo cast, so naturally the otaku stuff is more geared towards women in that one.

 No.127006

>>127004
OH MY GOD IT'S ALICE!

 No.127008

File:alice otaku.jpg (694.68 KB,1296x1812)

>>127006
You called?

 No.128977

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>>127004
>The first season of Genshiken is really good—made me wish my school had an anime club (with actual wotaku)
In terms of highschool mine had one in like 2014 before it became flooded with ironics 2 years after. That aside, before that happened my anime club didn’t have too many hardcore fans, many of them were a bit casual. I don’t remember that many shonen fans though, they were all nice. But I still felt alienated from mine. Guess that’s what happens when you’re a niche in a niche(?) That aside, I’ll stick with the manga instead of watching season 2 for now.



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 No.107105[Reply]

Do you drink/like energy drinks?

I've noticed quite a few of the people that I talk to drink them, but I personally find them pretty gross and not all that helpful.
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 No.126759

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>>126757
Hey, show some respect to my girl! No one talks smack about my Rosie Palms!

 No.126760

>>126757
Ayase shouldn’t have lost as hard as she did

 No.126788

>>126722
well, I ended up eating my words. I was feeling surprisingly good up until lunch so I decided not to drink the energy drink (monster) I brought. I instead drank a powder drink that has caffeine and B vitamins (effectively an energy drink). it’s weird that I was feeling so decent with 3 hours of sleep.

 No.126923

I have now gone one week without energy drinks.
I am still a gormless, lazy, and unfocused good for nothing, just as I was while drinking energy drinks but now my heart isn’t going crazy at least.

Resisted the urge to try and replace them with Zyn as well.

 No.126925

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>>107105
I’ve had gween tea w/ one spoonful of coffee powder for the last two days….headaches are terrible but I least I feel nothing emotionally…
Other than that I don’t like monster/red bull, not a fan of kidney stones.



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 No.126811[Reply]

Can we take a moment to pay our respects to Utako Shimoda. Who blessed us with the seifuku.
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 No.126880

File:seifuku1.png (657.68 KB,1114x1600)

>>126879
A boy after my own heart.

 No.126881

File:sukumizu.png (478.27 KB,1114x1600)

Does anyone know which great person we have to thank for the introduction of sukumizu? They should be honored just as much as Utako-sama.

 No.126889

>>126881
sukumizu are trash, bro.

 No.126894

>>126877
>it's a shirt, a sweater AND a blazer together
And underwear, too.

 No.126981

File:86513.jpg (32.35 KB,256x300)

>>126881
The japanese school system in the 80s?



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 No.126345[Reply]

What's your favorite yokai/Japanese folklore being? I think most people are probably going to say kitsune, but the bakeneko is interesting as well. The Sawarineko in Monogatari was based on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakeneko
It's a cat spirit associated with curses that not only it can possess people like how it's demonstrated in Monogatari, but also kill them and take their place by shapeshifting into the person, similar to how kitsune also have shapeshifting powers. It's the opposite of the maneki-neko which brings good luck. You know, that cat figurine with a raised paw.
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 No.126381

>>126379
yeah, for the more major yokai, people will have put some extra work into the article, but if you pick any random example from category:yōkai, it will probably be a mess. sadly the best resources like YokaiDB seem to remain untranslated. i also came across this interesting paper about it https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13110/marvelstales.27.2.0276.

 No.126382

File:bakeneko.jpg (65.58 KB,632x474)

the bakeneko is also the inspiration for the original kusuri arc from the ayakashi series, which the mononoke series was based on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jo3-rC-Hns

 No.126383

oh that link's dead. try these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vos07NQEPD8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37sp3tLzgY0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA_WEELuE20

 No.126384

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>>126362
>Typically 99 or 100 years
And here I was looking forward to marrying my PC when it turned...

 No.126799

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>>126356
You probably know a fair bit more than you think, but normally when they're presented in anime and stuff the youkai aren't exactly treated as or specifically stated to be folklore monsters because they just are. It's ingrained into the culture so seeing them isn't as out of place. And even then because it's so ingrained there's many different interpretations. Like the Nine-tails from Naruto is an interpretation of kitsune and in the folklore nine tails signifies the highest level of kitsune. Likewise for a more recent big shounen, in Jujutsu Kaisen Ryouman Sukuna is an actual piece of folklore himself too. Uchouten Kazoku is basically entirely about youkai and folklore.

Though I wonder at what point we stop calling things folklore and start calling them just urban legends? Since Hanako-san is technically a youkai but is more of a recent thing in that it's post-WWII. Similarly there's a fair bit of urban legends/yurei/yokai that one can see across japanese fiction that have certified themselves in the culture post-WWII but I don't know if we can call them folklore either... Technically I think they should be.



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 No.126728[Reply]

One of my favorite shows is getting a sequel soon. I really like this series and think a lot of people passed over it because it was said to be a Madoka rip-off when the anime came out. I've been reading the LNs and they're really good. I think they'd be a perfect series for someone learning kana.

The new season of the anime should be really good because it will cover what is arguably the best two LNs in the series. The only downside is it'll probably be 12 episodes instead of 24. It's a lot of content to cover in 12 episodes. The first season felt really fast paced because of that. I don't want to spoil anything but suffice to say characters are introduced quickly and certain events happen too fast.

Anyone else a fan of Raising Project? I don't understand why this series isn't more popular. It feels like only a few people have seen it. I am hopeful season 2 will do good in the ratings and maybe we'll get some OVAs or something. A proper video game based on this series would be really fun.
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 No.126790

File:[GJM] Mahou Shoujo Ikusei ….jpg (125.13 KB,1280x720)

>>126758
FUCK SWIMSWIM

 No.126794

This series better be fucking good because I just merged the entire series into a single .epup
https://mega.nz/file/3sFCHKwJ#0MQ1XZM559Zd-Y-_AsNAfI0JMqSxzGXaKvzfhpb1F9I

 No.126795

>>126794
.epub*

 No.126796

File:1475375334980.jpg (140.83 KB,1280x720)

>>126783
They're not really connected. Battle harems were the previous braindead LN template that got adapted way too often. The edgy mahou shoujo trend just fell off over time as Madoka became a distant memory and the genre slowly reverted back to light-hearted stuff like Twin Angel and Ore.

>>126790
She was just playing the game to the best of her ability.

 No.126797

File:[GJM] Mahou Shoujo Ikusei ….jpg (108.39 KB,797x720)

>>126729
I remember not reading the books themselves but hearing about how it really changes after the first round of games where Himekawa starts to take charge and really differ from how she was in the beginning.



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 No.126585[Reply]

https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/nasa-funded-study-extends-period-when-mars-could-have-supported-life/

Wait so does this mean there could be a way to fix the atmosphere on mars and make it habitable again by releasing volcanic activity or something? Or is this suggesting all the water vapor is gone and escaped through the atmosphere
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 No.126617

will someone please think about the rocks

 No.126620

>>126616
Other planets exist for the sole purpose of being repurposed into livable planets by us humans.

 No.126622

File:1527321030222.jpg (87.29 KB,1179x1250)

Rocks need to be free of the corrupting influence of humanity.

 No.126627

>>126585
What if I told you we originally came from Mars and the planet lost it's atmosphere in the last mini-nova.

 No.126632

File:img-3VRtqiWc1m2cIqgYNs29i.jpeg (552.16 KB,1024x1024)

>>126627
And its magnetic field? So there was one and blast damaged it?



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 No.120896[Reply][Last50 Posts]

There's been many a time where I've stumbled upon a character and ironically stated, "Yup, that's me". Pretending or even lying to myself that I'm that character. But that's not the case here, this is me. I am literally Magia Baiser, Baiser is me. The mangaka wrote the story and I was who it was based on. You could not possibly craft a character that was more me than this. That's because if you were to change anything it would not be me, since it's me.
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 No.122411

File:[SubsPlease] Mahou Shoujo ….jpg (354.18 KB,1920x1080)

>>121908
Coming off the final episode, the inbetween chapters made for a perfect finale to the season that left open the chance of a continuation while also wrapping things up in a satisfying manner. Venarita's scheming and the wider world of Mahou Shoujo are still out there, but for now in Utena's hometown she's satisfied with having achieved an ideal balance. She can peacefully play out her role as the villain while toying with her idols. Glad they didn't try to go for an anime original end so the massive success can be capitalized for a second season.

Although here's hoping that they can upgrade to a better studio with a larger budget in S2, since that was probably my biggest gripe with the anime.

 No.123433

File:[Piyoko] Himitsu no AiPri ….jpg (282.34 KB,1920x1080)

Yep, that's me. I've been known to eat a hamburger now and then and people even say "hey, don't you eat hamburgers?"

 No.126490

File:Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete ….jpg (233.07 KB,1920x1080)

Started watching the BD version which came out a couple days ago. The moans are nice.

 No.126505

>>126490
Yeah, I'd imagine the moans add a bit more to the scenes to give you a complete experience.

 No.126543

>>126490
Damn, no wonder that guy cares about banding.



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 No.114332[Reply]

Cool website, nerds.
Let me know when you incorporate vim keyboard shortcuts like the actual cool software out there.
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 No.114351

Turn your typing into an RTS game

 No.114352

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>>114335
doas pkg_delete vim && doas pkg_add emacs

 No.114354

>>114352
I don't use unix-type operating systems.

 No.114368

>>114332
>vim
>cool software
bad
use sam
https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/mouse_vs._keyboard/index.html
https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/
>>114333
>IDE
even worse

 No.126517

>>114332
Why dont you just get an extension for that



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 No.81302[Reply]

The Kissu Filesharing Thread
It's a thread, and you share files in it.
You can link them, or possibly upload them directly if they're small enough since kissu supports archive files.
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 No.124013

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>>122944














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 No.124014

>>124013
Does this count as a surprise box?

 No.124018

>>124013
i shift clicked it instead tehe

 No.126442

File:WinRAR_mqIMFPNVZP.png (97.07 KB,771x794)

Not sure if people will be interested or not, but here's volume 1 of the R18 music collection from uh, well, you can look at the dates on these. They're MP3s inside a RAR so they might have uhh... what's the term, bit decayed or something. I'll let some audiophile figure it out. Anyway, if anyone is interested I can upload the rest.
https://mega.nz/file/zShRyaqC#r3njScd0w2LzbbhVgJVI9NYRRtPrXKv468UL2HchC44

 No.126443

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>>126442
Convert those mp3s to FLAC if you want to restore the lost data!



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 No.126317[Reply]

The answer is (8r^3)/4pi

 No.126318

what question is this the answer to

 No.126429

File:minigun.png (791.08 KB,1280x1084)

The answer? Use a gun. And if that don't work, use more gun.



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 No.113909[Reply]

Does /qa/ have any more fun facts to share?

I learned recently that prior WWI, many towns in the US spoke the language of the immigrants who moved there, but due to intense Germanophobia, schools began teaching in English exclusively and gradually the US became a de facto English-first speaking country despite having no official language.
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 No.125123

https://www.npr.org/2010/08/08/129024911/candied-corpses-and-87-other-ancient-innovations

>mellification
>mad honey

 No.126315

I miss typed this site's URL and this came up:
https://kisu.moe/profile/kisuchama
Someones blog site kinda cute.

 No.126316

>>126315
Seems like a nice guy. We must assimilate him into the kissu collective

 No.126319

>>126315
reminds me of the guy who owns verniy.xyz... yet his site is down. Maybe I can reacquire it soon

 No.126323

He hasn't used the site in 2 years.



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 No.100351[Reply][Last50 Posts]

Gone from Ubuntu to Debian, but Debian kind of sucks as a desktop environment (constant freezes, poor drivers and performance issues. Also issues with Steam's client)

Where do I go next?
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 No.121547

it's coming up
it's coming up
it's coming up
it's coming up
it's coming up
it's coming up

 No.121548

Yeah, I concur that it's relatively seamless, except I do feel a bit of a performance increasing using wayland. It even kept my graphical configuration without issue! If this is on a rolling distro this should be a fantastic release on fixed release distros.
It even looks like Plastik was ported over as a wm if you don't like the more rounded corners of Breeze.
It looks like KDE will be getting a donation for my tax return.
With OpenSUSE's YaST and Plasma it feels like I'm using Windows 7 forever, now I just have to hope KDE doesn't go insane like they did with 4 and I think tumbleweed should be fine for the long haul unless suse goes under

 No.126309

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I suppose I have about a year and a half before I'm forced to use Linux. How much longer can I put off learning programming in the meantime before I have to start learning to use Linux...

 No.126311

saw

 No.126312

>>126309
how to try linux easily

option 1 (safe option):
https://www.howtogeek.com/796988/how-to-install-linux-in-virtualbox/

option 2 (easy option):
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wubi
https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi/releases/tag/20044r344
(should link to an .exe file)



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 No.122423[Reply]

Greetings and rabbit rabbit (you didn't remember to say it, right?)

For a bunch of reasons I can't get into this is my favorite month of the year. One of those reasons is I get more free time to work on things I enjoy.

Over the last couple of weeks I've been re-watching Moon Phase for the first time in over a decade. I grabbed the best version I could find from the usual trackers. The release I got seems to be the most popular and all of the others seem to be using the same subtitles for the English translation. I was disappointed see that the scripts being used are filled with both spelling and grammar errors. One of two per episode I can forgive. A typo that's one letter off on standard QWERTY keyboard I can forgive. But I hit a string of 3-4 episodes in a row filled with horrible errors and it was obvious to me that no one bothered to even quality check the work before pushing it out to the public. This is in addition to several other errors I've noticed in the video/audio portion along with some pacing issues in the scripts themselves.

I posted all that to propose the following;

I've been slowly working on a handful of old series (and one new one) thanks to various people from here and elsewhere that so graciously provided me with good raws for a couple of shows or volunteered to do quality checking. I haven't been able to put out much in the last few months but now that I'll have more free time I'll be pushing some stuff out soon. But I'm one man and can only do so much so quickly.

So I was curious if anywhere here would be interested in helping out with things like correcting spelling errors in scripts or watching pre-release encodes. I need people to do stuff like the following;
1) Test encodes on various set-top devices (video game consoles, firesticks, AppleTV etc)
2) Double check spelling/grammar in English subtitle scripts
3) Watch test encodes on various different software/hardware players and tell me how things work on their local mpv/mpc-hc+mad configs
4) Help track down raws (DVD, LD, BDs and VHS) that aren't as common on public sources for some older content
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 No.125132

>>125130
I test on 5 monitors. Which I know is over kill but it's easy since my workstation is set-up like that anyway. On one of them it's _very_ evident because it's designed to seeing such things (it's a high end 144hz studio monitor). On all my other monitors you can barely notice it or don't see it at all. They're all consumer grade stuff. Some high end. One low end. Another an old CRT. I work with a variety of content so I need them all.

What's funny is a lot of things people obsess over now like grain in old 80s-2000s shows aren't even visible on an old school CRT. Since CRTs act as a kind of low pass filter for grain. So a lot of people are throwing a lot of bits at something that wasn't even the artist's intention. Since such shows were mastered on studio CRTs/PVMs.

But I digress...

My philosophy with this has always been if you're going to take the time you might as well do it right. The video is the least important part of the package anyway after translation and next sound. Sound is what you pay for when it comes to content. They've always been happy to let you watch for free. Plus you can always pair the translation with another person's encode anyway and anyone can learn to encode video/audio in a weekend. But getting better quality than others with less file size has always been a fun goal. I should probably not obsess over it too much. Since I've murdered many a CPU and HDD in pursuit of smaller file sizes over the years. All for something that's going to be re-encoded by someone else when the next new shiny codec comes out in 5-10 years anyway.

 No.125133

>>125131
That's true as well. I can't watch broadcast television anymore because the quality is so awful. People brag about their new TV and 4k cable package to me but all I can see are macroblocks from the company cheaping out and trying to squeeze another channel or two into their limited bandwidth. Satellite TV is particularly bad these days but cable is usually worse because cable companies are evil manifested.

The truth is they get away with it because 99% of people either can't tell or don't care.

 No.125134

>>125133
>I can't watch broadcast television anymore because the quality is so awful.
yeah its fucked up. when I was a kid I stood next to a big TV playing some stuff for normal people and I thought to myself that every frame looks like if you saved a jpg at a quality level of 40 and after saving, tortured it with the sharpen tool. that really put me off TV

 No.125136

>>125134
Digital has been pretty bad from the start. I'm old enough to remember C-band, analog cable and analog OTA TV. The quality was much better back in those days even with the limited bandwidth because each channel got the entire channel's bandwidth. When they switched to digital/DBS the entire point was being able to cram multiple channels into the same bandwidth that used to be occupied by just one.

Analog also degraded much better. When OTA was still analog I could pick up about 8-12 channels locally on bunny ears here. They might not have all looked perfect but they were all watchable for the most part. Worst case you might have to move the antenna a bit for certain channels coming from further away or a different direction. Very rarely the environment would be just right and you could pick up some far away channel for a few hours and everything local would come in perfect.

When they did the digital switch over they pretty much ruined OTA TV here. I can't pick up maybe 2 channels now that are watchable. The rest are a constant sea of macroblocks and freezing as the signal drops below the level where the decoder can gracefully fail. 9 times out of 10 it does it during the actual content but commercials will come in clear for 30-60 seconds. But it probably only feels that way because commercials are shorter than content and make up the bulk of run time now.

The best thing ever was C-band. Which was analog satellite service. For the first 10 years or so you could pull the back feeds down directly. Which were basically the feeds cable companies and local stations got before commercial were inserted and they were edited for public viewing. You not only got the content commercial free you could listen to what was being said while the program was at commercial if it was live. It was also extremely high quality because they wanted to deliver the highest quality possible for production. Truly the Golden era of television.

Of course we can't have nice things so it was shut down. First by scrambling then later with encryption. Which only became possible with the switch over to digital/mpeg2.

C-band was also really cool because the dish was massive. We used to set the receiver to lock-in on another satellite then run outside to watch that massive dish turn and tilt. It was the coolest thing when I was a kid. TV from spacPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>125136
>We saw so many respected television people snort drugs and yell at their staff during pre/post-show and commercial breaks.

I know I'm way off-topic but I just remembered something from my childhood that will be burned into my mind forever;

When the first George Bush was president he went on Larry King's show which was pretty popular at the time. During a commercial break they started discussing Halcion. Which was an old school benzo drug for sleep that had been pulled from the market for causing a lot of deaths. The president said
>I don't really think it's that bad
and Larry King replies with something along the lines of
>My cousin is in the pharmaceutical industry. He told me a new drug is coming out of Israel soon. It's better than Halcion!
then he shushes the president because he's got to deliver a line between commercials. After that he starts laughing and bragging about his cousin being in the know. He was basically telling Bush to short the companies stock because it was going to go up soon (aka insider trading). They're just sitting there carrying on like they're having a private conversation. Openly discussing the fact that they're making money off drugs that killed people and had been a big scandal in the news at the time. The way they talked "in private" was totally different from the persona they put on for prepared statements and during the actual interview segments being broadcasted to most people.

Anyway, not long after that Larry King had Bill Clinton on his show. I think it was the lead up to the 1992 election. Anyway he said something to Clinton that always bothered me and even back then I knew it was strange. Larry starts talking about Ted Turner and how he's a great guy to work for. Then he tells Bill Clinton;
>You should call Ted after you win. He'd be willing to uh...serve you. If you know what I mean

Even as a kid I wondered what he meant by "serve you". You could tell he wasn't talking about "serving the president" and it was more like Ted Turner was offering some service. What kind of service I don't know. But the mind goes to horrible places. It was just the way he said it. They started discussing it in a hushed tone and you could tell both of them werePost too long. Click here to view the full text.



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 No.124391[Reply]

Opinions on AI music?

https://suno.com/song/b0a9e912-cc0f-499b-9375-82dbd2d5ff75
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 No.124587

File:AI Song.mp3 (2.56 MB)

As 'primitive' as it is, I've been a fan of this song for years. There's plenty enough generic music made by humans, that I see little point making more just like it with AI - the bigger potential IMO is for using it to make music that sounds inhuman, just as how Vocaloid is at its best when treated as its own style, not as a poor imitation of human vocals.

 No.124636

>>124510
the irony is that if it wasn't good you wouldn't bother to make a video out of it, but it has obvious implications for cheaply producing the "sides" to your main product

 No.124651

it's soulless and i refuse to listen to it
I'd rather hear bad music some actually tried hard to make

 No.124653

I would rather listen to the lazy cashgrab of a professional than the futile efforts of an amateur.

 No.124674

I can't decide if this guy is using AI voice generation or is actually this good of a mimic. But he's producing content at an amazing rate and most of it is good. I don't listen to a lot of rap music anymore (mostly just K-rino) but this guy drops a new album every month or two and I always give them a listen.

I think AI music is like all AI-art. It can be a great tool in the hands of an actual artist. But a lot of people aren't the creative types and they produce mountains of garbage just because they now have the ability to pump it out.

I've noticed a ton of new youtube channels lately that do nothing but post AI generated click-bait. Some of them have millions of views and from the comments it's obvious most people can't tell. I've seen some other suspect stuff on youtube lately as well. A lot of "face reveals" lately that are obviously some kind of AI+face tracking and/or so-called "deepfakes".



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