@FoldableHuman's Threads
Are you learning how to edit? Confused by Premiere, Vegas, Resolve, iMovie, WMP, HitFilm, AVIDEMUX, or whatever?
Ask me questions in this thread, I'll answer them between tasks.
Ask me questions in this thread, I'll answer them between tasks.
Bad organization. Not using bins, not labeling footage, not nesting sequences.
Like, if you watched yesterday's stream, I did the absolute bare minimum of organization and wasted a lot of time clicking on clips trying to find the thing I was looking for, way more time than it would have taken to do proper labels, tags, or sub-clips.
Quick straw poll, if you're planning on checking out WoW Classic, which launches next Monday: do you have an active subscription already, or were you planning to do that just before/shortly after launch?
I actually don't think they have because there's a far bigger bugbear hanging over the whole thing that makes this a tricky situation to solve.
I estimated months and months ago that WoW Classic was probably going to stabilize around 125k players in the Americas/Oceanic region. Blizzard seems to agree with me because they've got 14 realms for the region which is enough space for a very comfy 8-12k players per realm.
One of the more interesting cultural discussions out there that I spend a lot of time thinking about in other contexts is the difference between deaf and Deaf.
For those not in the know, deaf, lower-case d, is used to discuss the physiological condition of hearing loss, while Deaf refers to the unique cultural existence and expression of people who are deaf, in short physically deaf vs. culturally Deaf.
So sign language is something that you learn, a cultural expression, it's not something you merely acquire by losing your hearing. Many elderly folk are deaf, but losing their hearing late in life have no foot in the cultural world of Deafness.
Hey remember when you dickheads forwarded my name, email address, and IP number to 8chan after we sent you a report about the child pornography ring they were hosting? You get no credit for doing the right thing five years late.
This wasn't an automated system, either. The leadership at Cloudflare made a conscious, human decision to forward the information. Brennan posted the bespoke "lol, these people tried to report you" email that he received from them.
So @eastdakota can eat my whole ass. He's not just some mealy-mouthed fence sitting bro. He likes 8chan. His company has gone above and beyond to defend them. I hope his IPO tanks like the Hindenburg.
Okay, I figured the Thermian video was making the rounds again, but this is A+. Apparently Teal Deer made a "reply" and got himself a community strike for hate speech 😂 
I mean, honestly, this is the first I've heard of any of this. Between VidCon, recovering from con-plague, and being energized to work on new stuff, I only learned about TL;DR's video, well, a half hour ago.
That said I suspected something was up when I received this DM a few days ago.
The best tell is that the DM frames this like a discussion that's happening right now and not a sadsack cartoon avi "replying" to a four year old video.
The best tell is that the DM frames this like a discussion that's happening right now and not a sadsack cartoon avi "replying" to a four year old video.
Sex work is work in both the validating-it-as-legitimate sense and the it's-actually-a-job-and-can-be-very-mundane-and-even-boring sense.
I'm seeing that "if sex work is work then suddenly they'll be teaching it in college!" tweet making a second trip around the block and it's just like "yes, but a lot of those classes are going to be just as dry as any other program"
Even her "dark vision of the future" example of the Brazilian performer's online Porn University was, like, 3/4s seminars on taxes, identifying fraud producers, protecting yourself (identity, law, money, physical safety), managing a production, and promotion.
I was told that I should definitely watch Eragon before potentially playing the video game, and, well...
It looks like a giant candy and is also obviously a dragon egg and I'm really looking forward to everyone calling it a stone for another 20 minutes then being all "BWAAAAAAH? IT'S AN EGG?!"
Oh okay it's more like "oh cool a dragon egg that's interesting" and everyone just stops calling it a stone so people who knew it was an egg calling it a stone was pointless
The art of editing and Chernobyl episode 5: A Thread
After Dyatlov and Bryukhanov leave the meeting in Bryukhanov's office, Nikolai Fomin lingers, sizing it up.
A thing flashbacks often struggle with is putting the audience, who knows the outcome, into the head space of the characters. This bit here, this extra 30 seconds, drive home where these characters are at.
This just in: person who already knows how to do multiplication is faster at solving problem than a teacher explaining multiplication to 8 year olds.
It's literally the same steps, just putting them in a grid instead of stacking them.
Like, let's vocalize the "old way"
2*5=10, carry the 1; move to the tens; 2*3+1=7 == 70
Add an X to increment the second value
1*5=5; move to the hundreds; 1*3 =3 == 350
sum the two values; 350+70=420
2*5=10, carry the 1; move to the tens; 2*3+1=7 == 70
Add an X to increment the second value
1*5=5; move to the hundreds; 1*3 =3 == 350
sum the two values; 350+70=420
Say what you will about the #GameOfThronesFinale, the John Hughes homage was a bold choice to end on.
I just need Benioff and Weiss to see this and I'll officially be "the Game of Thrones meme guy" instead of "the Suicide Squad video guy"
I know the text goes by a bit fast, but like my heroes D&D I started from the need to end on "nothing ever lasts forever/everybody wants to rule the world" and worked haphazardly backwards from there.
So, I've had this movie sitting here for a while, The Time Machine (I Found At A Yardsale), that was sent to me with the instructions "don't look this movie up, just watch it"
Well, these shots were back-to-back and I'm about 30 seconds in once you cut off the productions cards and two minutes of opening credits, so that's a portentious sign
It appears this is the titular yardsale.
Actually, let's do a short thread on prophecy as a narrative conceit and how it plays in ASOIF and GOT
Prophecy is a big deal in ASOIAF, it's everywhere. There's tons of overlapping, reenforcing, and conflicting prophecies and, importantly, they're pretty much all BS.
They're poetic (in multiple senses), vague, and generally self-fulfilling.
Totally not weird and suspicious coming from a bunch of people who don't follow me.
Okay. People who think YouTube dislikes count as meaningful criticism have brain worms.
Problem the first: YouTube weighs both a like and a dislike the same, both count as interaction. By disliking a video you're just making it slightly more likely that the video will get served as a recommended video to people who will hate watch it.
The funniest part about the director of Sonic promising to redesign and replace the lead character in the next six months is that it encapsulates how the movie got like this in the first place, and can only make things worse.
No.
The execs are huge dumbasses
This is on its face monstrous, but I want to talk about the actual manifestation for a bit just to give you an idea of exactly how pointless it is.
The fact that Fortnite:BR makes huge changes to the island every twelve weeks for each season is already a daunting development task. But it really doesn't stop there.
When I logged in a few days ago to check out the new Food Fight: Deep Fried game mode, the map had already received another overhaul just in the two weeks since I'd stopped playing after finishing the video.
It's been interesting watching this chart progress
Hmm, let me see...
No. No I have not.
Obviously there's a lot of Patreon talk today.
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First thing's first: aside from the nightmare of grandfathered rates and the plague of feature-tier infographs needed to explain WTF who gets what at what rate, the three tiers are, whatever.
If a new platform launched with this as their slate I would just nod and say "okay." It's unremarkable on its own.
Fortnite's team matchmaker is really good, y'all
In that it makes matches by taking the first X people to queue and putting them together in a game, yes, technically. In the strictest definition that is a matchmaker.
I did a Battle Royale where I finished 4th by just being really good at hiding and the people who were actually winning the match were building complex structures on the run at an inhuman pace.
This was my 3rd BR match.
This was my 3rd BR match.
dO yOu hAVe aNy sKIn tO sPARe?
I know the last few Hellraiser movies didn't do too well, but this is not the reboot I was expecting
Burton's Dumbo here scrying your future in chicken entrails.
Let's talk cats and tummy rubs.
When a cat rolls over and shows its tum it's not like a dog doing the same, but there's some misinformation about what this means. I've seen a lot of people say "the cat doesn't want you to rub its tum" which is not not wrong.
When a cat shows its tum it is an invitation, go on and rub it, but note that rubbing the tum is accepting the actual invitation: wrestle time.
I don't want to be doom and gloom, but Patreon is about to eat itself. Or, more specifically, the investors who demand geometric growth are about to demand Patreon eat itself.
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These paragraphs are separated by only a photo of Jack Conte's face.
"We've kept 5% of almost a billion dollars to run a website that's mostly text and shuffling money around" followed by "we need to tack more junk on to be sustainable"
"We've kept 5% of almost a billion dollars to run a website that's mostly text and shuffling money around" followed by "we need to tack more junk on to be sustainable"
This is the bizarro upsidedown that capital lives in. Their existing model, handle the logistics of subscription service for businesses too small to handle them directly, is the definition of sustainable. It scales up ridiculously well.
I haven't talked at all about Safe Haven, the precursor fic that Snowqueens Icedragon posted before Master of the Universe.
It's surreal, like 80s hack standup through the filter of late 00s gritty reboots.
Edward internally cusses like a 13 year old who just realized there's no actual consequences
So, I have yet to watch the extras on the Fifty Shades blurays. Time to watch them all back to back.
If you're wondering why I haven't, despite the depths of the rest of my research, it's because they all sound like crappy EPK garbage. "Oh, yeah, we're super happy to be working on this, uh, this, uh, project!"
First up: Tease of Fifty Shades Darker.
30 second teaser trailer that uses footage shot in Jamie Dornan's hotel room, and not footage from either movie.
30 second teaser trailer that uses footage shot in Jamie Dornan's hotel room, and not footage from either movie.
So.
I'm re-watching Warcraft.
And I completely forgot that Durotan gets into a fist fight with old man warlock Gul'dan and they just punch each other for five minutes.
I'm re-watching Warcraft.
And I completely forgot that Durotan gets into a fist fight with old man warlock Gul'dan and they just punch each other for five minutes.
This movie is so weird. Everyone looks like college students wearing cosplay. It makes random changes to the lore without making it any more comprehensible. The only human PoC character is a cameo of one of WoW's earliest villains.
There's eight hundred named characters and a solid half of them only get name drops in their final scene, like someone will be walking out of a room and go "thank you for your assistance, Kargath Bladefist, named character from the Burning Crusade" and never be seen again.
