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I was just trolling, but obviously I need to come up with some way to make this text humorous. In reality, I'm just thinking of making some really, really bad puns.
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Publishing. Waiting on nitrogenesis' encodes. As I am currently coauthoring a TAS with Randil, I will hopefully be able to talk to him on IRC to discuss descriptions and a good screenshot. Again, this game escapes me!
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sgrunt wrote:
<Flygon> Grunt, I hate to admit it
<Flygon> But you were 100% right and I was wrong
My signature is in a similar spirit...wait who deleted it? Now I'll have to paraphrase :\
<adelikat> Bah, you're right.
<BrandonE> Thank you.
<BrandonE> Jesus Christ.
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I think there should be a way to appeal a decision, that's all. Judging shouldn't be set in stone; perhaps it isn't, but I always was under that impression. Also, I find it frustrating when there are runs that clearly break the records here made by authors that refuse to submit. I wish there was some way to direct the user to this improvement without violating the author's rights.
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Aktan wrote:
Changed Lanczos4Resize to Lanczos with taps=2 since 4 is too sharp and introduces a lot of ringing artifacts.
Oh, an improvement? Well then, you know more about encoding than I do, so I'd be a fool not to use this improved version. I will. Now everyone will use this improved script.
See how this makes a lot more sense than a single maintainer?
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Lex wrote:
1:1 is the pixel aspect ratio. That means that each pixel will be displayed at 1 pixel wide and 1 pixel tall, meaning the 240×160 video will be displayed at 240×160, which is a 3:2 display aspect ratio. Don't get them mixed up!
Just use the command line I posted to fix the file then re-upload it. I don't have the upload bandwidth to spare at the moment.
Well, you can also correct the SAR in the same way. Also, every time I run that command, something goes horribly wrong. Are you sure you can't spare the bandwidth? :(
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Lex wrote:
Brandon wrote:
It has been reported that my SD encode has the wrong Aspect Ratio. I'm hoping Grunt will modify that flag in the file for me and allow me to re-upload it instead of re-encode it. Thank you for your patience.
#tasvideos wrote:
08:15:36 * BrandonElephant has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 252 seconds)
08:17:11 <LexSfX> Brandon!
08:17:16 <LexSfX> oh, he's gone :(
08:17:27 <LexSfX> Flygon! i fixed the original mp4
08:17:31 <LexSfX> mp4box -par 1=1:1 "B:\media\video\speed runs\pokemonruby-tas-fractalfusion,goddessmaria.mp4"
08:17:54 <LexSfX> setting the pixel aspect ratio to 1:1 fixed the display aspect ratio to 3:2
08:18:17 <Flygon> LexSfX, you're spectacular
08:18:24 <LexSfX> yays
08:18:25 <Flygon> I'd never have figured that out
Now I can finally watch the encode. I literally spent at least an hour on this.
Yeah, that's what I was going to have Grunt do. Can you upload it to Mediafire? Also, I thought you guys said not to make it 1:1...
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It has been reported that my SD encode has the wrong Aspect Ratio. I'm hoping Grunt will modify that flag in the file for me and allow me to re-upload it instead of re-encode it. Thank you for your patience.
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I'm not an expert on the scientific issues, but I've read several articles linking fluoride and certain vaccinations to brain damage and autism.
Cite.
Sadly, I don't think it'd help my case much to link to an interview of a doctor conducted by Alex Jones.
Many products that are on the market today are known to cause cancer, the most obvious ones being tobacco, certain food products, etc, and if the FDA isn't taking these things off the market, then they aren't doing their job.
Tobacco's pretty heavily regulated. It's worth noting that almost EVERYTHING is carcinogenic to a small extent. Banning any particular foodstuff to prevent cancer deaths is a fool's errand.
I know that virtually anything can cause cancer, but if something is suspected to be carcinogenic to a abnormal extent, such as in the case of some microwavable products and cell phones, you'd think there'd at least be a debate on recalling said products, or at least some studies.
That said, as I've said before, it's very hard to debate these things without a scientific background as I don't know who to trust. I just have a very hard time believing a government that supports the "War on Drugs" has any interest in my health.
I'm not a fan of the war on drugs either, but don't throw the baby (government regulation) out with the bathwater (government policies that suck and need to be changed democratically)
Again, I'm not trying to get rid of all government regulation. That said, if certain agencies aren't doing their job, then they should be abolished and replaced, or heavily reformed to where virtually all the heads of the agency are replaced. Furthermore, there are agencies that I believe shouldn't exist period (Department of Education, DEA, and the TSA to name a few).
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The reason stuff like this really gets to me, more than other stupid conspiracy theories about UFO sightings, Chemtrails, lunar landings, and other batshit insane stuff, is that this targets and abuses people in a disastrous situation that are desperate for finding a cure for their problems, and does so for profit.
I know, it's a terrible thought. I'd love to believe our government and corporations are here to serve us and would never hurt us for their own gain. I'd love to believe that fluoride is good for you and that the spikes in autism and cancer have nothing to do with the aforementioned powers. I'd love to believe 9/11 was an outside job. I'd love to, but I can't. The world has evil people in it, and we can never underestimate what some of them are capable of.
No one's saying the government is perfect, it's just that most of us take the bad with the good. Government provides stability at the cost of taxes, some corruption, and bureaucracy. You may not appreciate it, but many of us value this stability, even while acknowledging the costs.
However, you'll have to do better than hearsay connecting supposed spikes in autism and cancer with government. Need I remind you that the decline in the number of pirates has been conclusively linked to the increase in temperature over time? And citing your belief that the September 11th terrorist attacks were an inside job is doing your cause no favors.
Being a libertarian must be quite a miserable existence. You believe that nearly everyone in power is "evil" (your own word) and out to get you, just because they can. Any misfortune is somehow linked back to the government, simultaneously turning a blind eye to any good it may do. Your political views are so broad and outlandish that they have no hope of ever being adopted by more than a fringe group, much less the government, ensuring that you feel perpetually downtrodden. I'd pity you if I didn't think your beliefs were destroying the country.
Lessons to take from this topic: guard your wallet carefully and don't be controlled by fear. Be rationally skeptical.
I'm not an expert on the scientific issues, but I've read several articles linking fluoride and certain vaccinations to brain damage and autism. Many products that are on the market today are known to cause cancer, the most obvious ones being tobacco, certain food products, etc, and if the FDA isn't taking these things off the market, then they aren't doing their job. That said, as I've said before, it's very hard to debate these things without a scientific background as I don't know who to trust. I just have a very hard time believing a government that supports the "War on Drugs" has any interest in my health.
The thing I am a lot more informed about, however, is 9/11. I don't want to derail this conversation further than I already have by talking about non-medical issues, but I take offense that you merely said bringing up this case doesn't do my cause any favors. If you'd like to discuss it on IRC, I'd gladly chat with you about it.
I try to expose the evils in Washington and beyond. I supposedly have a movement that will not be adopted by anyone, and I'm perfectly within my rights of free speech, yet this somehow means that I am destroying the country. That doesn't make any sense, you know it, and even if you disagree with me, claiming that somehow my words are destroying a nation that was built on dissent is un-American.
By the way, how's Final Fantasy Legend II going? :)
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Warp wrote:
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I know, it's a terrible thought. I'd love to believe our government and corporations are here to serve us and would never hurt us for their own gain. I'd love to believe that fluoride is good for you and that the spikes in autism and cancer have nothing to do with the aforementioned powers. I'd love to believe 9/11 was an outside job. I'd love to, but I can't. The world has evil people in it, and we can never underestimate what some of them are capable of.
So you are basically saying that you believe in all those conspiracies for the simple reason that there are evil people in this world. Frankly, that's quite a stupid argument.
You clearly don't understand how science works. Even if there was a huge evil organization rotten to its core that would want to establish some falsities as the currently accepted scientific truth, that would simply be physically impossible. You can't control the entirety of the world-wide scientific community. The scientific peer-reviewing process makes sure of that. Things are evaluated, tested and experiments repeated by different people from different countries and cultures. If something is false, someone is going to raise questions and others will have to answer those questions satisfactorily. How exactly is this evil corporation going to silence all of the scientific community? Claims like "the FDA is suppressing cancer cures, and in fact wants to cause cancer" is such an US-centric notion that it gives me nausea. It's like the only country in the world with any saying on medicine would be the USA (and hence the FDA). Any person making such claims is an idiot in my books. (The same goes for all the other conspiracy theories as well.)
I believe in what I believe because my government lies to me constantly, puts out dis-info that is clear to anyone with eyes, and has much to gain in each of the cases I've mentioned. You're implying the government listens to the scientific community. Many people in the community have raised concerns over fluoridation and have denounced cannabis as a poison. The government doesn't care, and will continue to put out false information so that the people will believe them. Why would this be different in the case of cancer? It's not just the U.S; corporate interests have no borders.
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Truncated wrote:
The reason stuff like this really gets to me, more than other stupid conspiracy theories about UFO sightings, Chemtrails, lunar landings, and other batshit insane stuff, is that this targets and abuses people in a disastrous situation that are desperate for finding a cure for their problems, and does so for profit.
I know, it's a terrible thought. I'd love to believe our government and corporations are here to serve us and would never hurt us for their own gain. I'd love to believe that fluoride is good for you and that the spikes in autism and cancer have nothing to do with the aforementioned powers. I'd love to believe 9/11 was an outside job. I'd love to, but I can't. The world has evil people in it, and we can never underestimate what some of them are capable of.
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Having both text and captions could work, but personally, that is a bit hard to maintain. If you can handle it, that'd be great, but I think captions would really help link sections of your text to the actual game play.
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Inzult wrote:
Just curious, anti-fluoride guys: how do you feel about iodized salt?
I don't know anything about this, so I can't say. Iodine is at least meant for human consumption, though, so unless someone points me to some articles regarding this issue, I'm less concerned about it than fluoride.
By the way, I don't discredit all vaccines, but that doesn't mean that vaccines can't be used for malicious purposes. I hear a lot of horror stories regarding flu vaccinations.
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Warp wrote:
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I take a cocktail of vitamins every day, which if I ate until I was sick wouldn't cause permanent damage, and probably serve a lot of good, but I don't want to put it into anyone's water or food supply because it's an individual's choice.
So basically your only argument is that health must be a choice of every individual?
No, I said without getting into the "facts" about it, we should consider the logical implications. The problem with bringing up facts and science is that they can be as easily distorted as anything else. I'm a computer scientist; if an "expert" told me that fluoride is the cure to cancer, I'd certainly be skeptical, but I can't exactly bring up counter evidence. As such, I try to avoid vehemently citing things.
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@Brandon: The way to fix government organizations that don't work in your interest is to make people aware of it and become politically active (and propose solutions instead of just spreading hate for the organization). If you abolish them, who else is going to represent your interest? A good way to make institutions like that work more in your interest is to make them receive more tax payer money. If there's no government at all, I guarantee you it's in best corporate interest that you learn why their products are good for you and for you to become addicted to everything.
I could explain why American politics is virtually a lost cause, but that's another discussion. I have solutions which I'll happily spread: legalize every drug and use $12 billion/year we spend locking up kids on clinics to get people real help. Provide actual clean water and promote the consumption of fluoride elsewhere if you have studies to really back up how much it can help. Create an organization that really moderates corporate abuses instead of pretending to stick up for the little guy while allowing multi-billion dollar companies to not pay a single dollar in taxes through loopholes and subsidies. In general, stand up for the people who gave you power instead of spending money on counterproductive institutions that do nothing but profit off of them while giving them the false sense of security that someone is watching over them.
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.... Department of Education.
Uhm, what? Would you rather only have private schools, so only the rich can have children educated? I mean, I'm with you on homeland security, but... education?
Also, on marijuana, it really isn't the DEA's fault that they are having to go after small time dealers. They are an enforcement agency, they don't write the laws, or even get to decide how to enforce them. They simply have to enforce the laws that are written and voted on by the congressmen and women you (the people) vote for.
Blame the lobbyists who lobby congress to keep marijuana laws. The for-profit-prison has been the death of sane handling of drug crimes. Don't blame the DEA, they can't do much until the law is changed.
I could get into the specifics of why the Department of Education is a problem, but first, do you realize that the Department of Education is barely 30 years old? Did we have a functioning educational system before 1979? Are you seriously willing to contest that education has gotten better since then?
On the DEA, no, I'm not blaming the bureaucracy; I'm saying it shouldn't exist. Although I have to wonder how some people who work for these agencies and "just take orders", the main blame rests on the policy makers.
Finally, on fluoride, again, even if I don't get into the details of why it has serious issues, the concept doesn't make much sense. If you have a population, and you want to promote consumption of a substance that could potentially help, you promote it via the media. I take a cocktail of vitamins every day, which if I ate until I was sick wouldn't cause permanent damage, and probably serve a lot of good, but I don't want to put it into anyone's water or food supply because it's an individual's choice.
The problem with talking about these things and bringing up valid criticisms is that people assume you're against the thing these organizations are supposedly for. Do you really think I'm against education, safe food and drugs, etc? All I'm saying is that these organizations often don't do what they are supposed to do, and worse yet, they often do the exact opposite. Why? I'm not going to bother, as I know I'll just be called a nut job who wears tin foil hats. I think my concerns are valid.
Would it be a good idea to take this discussion elsewhere? I know this is Off-Topic, but it was never my intention to derail the cancer discussion. I guess it'd be appropriate to mention that I lost my grandmother to it, and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
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I'm not saying abolish everything, but sometimes I do have to wonder if we'd be better off without these organizations, not because they're ideologically flawed, but that their application is either poor or outright sinister. I'm sure like in any other organization, there are some good people who really care about what they do, but I have a hard time believing that the government is in the best interest of my health when they label cannabis as a Schedule I narcotic poison and fluoride as an innovation in dentistry that we should force into the water supply. Don't even get me started on the DEA, Homeland Security, or the Department of Education.
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Pro-tip: if a government organization is created to do something, it will probably do nothing of use (If not outright help persist the problem), drain the taxpayer for profit, and attempt to lobby for why it should continue on the grounds that the problem isn't solved yet.
No, I didn't watch this yet. I probably should though. I'll keep it in mind.
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LSK wrote:
This. Also, FractalFusion, I highly recommend the use of captions for your encodes in the future, as mine are very well received, and they'd probably shorten your submission text significantly. It's a lot easier to read a play by play than an accompanying essay.
