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You can challenge these copyright claims, by the way. If you look at the details for each claim there should be a link that permits you to write a message explaining why the claim is false.
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You just know people are gonna submit other hilarious three-letter extensions based on Hourglass's .wtf, so let's disregard those in advance.
How about .bhk or bkm?
Not that I think .tas is too bad. Little unspecific, but that's not such a big problem.
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I read a lot of non-fiction and could recommend a ton of books, but one I'd particularly want to recommend is Defeat: Why They Lost Iraq by Jonathan Steele. It's an extremely well-written, meticulously researched account of Iraq during the invasion and subsequent occupation and explains the complex internal sectarian politics and their historical context.
Basically, the book's central thesis is that the failure of the war wasn't just a matter of bad planning, but that Bush and Blair "were defeated from the day they decided to occupy the country". In the introduction, he writes "This book is not a narrative or chronology of the American and British occupation of Iraq. It is an explanation of why George W. Bush and Tony Blair lost their war, and were bound to do so." Aside from that, it also has a very good discussion of the neoconservative ideological basis for the invasion.
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It's possible for someone to go on some antiquated file sharing network (like Kazaa or ED2K/eMule), search for porn and then download literally every result (selecting everything and clicking download), in that case maybe you'll get child porn without actually wanting it. There was a case like that here in the Netherlands.
But if it's on your Nintendo DS, surely that means you consciously moved the data onto there. It don't doubt this guy will be found guilty.
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Warp wrote:
Dada wrote:
They showed the video in northern Uganda and people got angry and actually started throwing rocks at the screen.
I didn't quite understand why.
Because their suffering was being trivialized for some American hipster's personal agenda and financial benefit. Remember that these are the people who had to actually deal with him.
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I have long thought it to be a good idea to be able to open up forum posts for others. e.g. by whitelisting them, or by permitting everybody to edit the post. You'd need some kind of wiki-style history function to avoid abuse.
That would be nice, for sure.
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DarkKobold wrote:
DootBeep is an alt of XKeeper, who many of you well know was banned by adelikat. The main reason behind XKeeper's ban was for his consistent negative attitude towards TASers, administrators, and anyone else who behaves in a way contrary to his expectations. Xkeeper is of the concept that if anyone does things in a way he disagrees with, then the proper course of action is to berate them.
I certainly don't disagree with banning people who deserve it, but I never really saw the point in deleting posts. It only serves to confuse people who took part in that discussion, and it makes it impossible to verify if the admins did right in banning someone.
Of course, there are exceptions. Like if someone posts personal details, or regular commercial spam, or shock images. But if someone's going to get banned for being a public nuisance, I would want to read his posts to see if I agree with the decision, so that I can at least have the possibility of disagreeing in an informed manner. Especially if it happened as a result of a discussion.
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You should really get natt's encodes if you want to look at them outside of Youtube. On Youtube they're massively upscaled and probably not encoded as well.
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natt wrote:
The run fully syncs with the 1.1 greatest hits US disks as recorded on redump.org. PSXjin 2.0.2 "svn0"
I'm making downloadable encodes (but it's going to be another 16 hours of encoding before they're done, heh). Game looks pretty spiffy.
Ah, nice. Glad that you're doing it. I was thinking of doing them but since I have to renew my setup (using a pretty old x264) I wasn't looking forward to it.
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exileut wrote:
Why not make a 20GB per disc target output?
No need, only the full encode of all discs combined is so large. The individual discs are neatly under 20GB. I might do a H.264 encode targeting 20GB for the full thing.
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Pasky13 wrote:
Any updates for the encode?
Sorry about the delay. It's very nearly there. In fact the last pieces are being uploaded right now. I had some trouble with the audio because I was forced to use something other than regular uncompressed PCM, which caused some problems for Youtube's processing. Plus some issues with psxjin and audio sync.
Link to videoLink to videoLink to videoLink to video
The fourth disc hasn't started uploading yet so I don't know the URL yet.
This encode is much larger than the longer run of FF8, by the way. FF9 has more complex scenery and does a lot more screen panning, which looks great but is poison when using a fast lossless codec that doesn't use motion vectors. So the full FF8 encode (2560x1792, 30fps, lossless, close to 9 hours long) was 19.5GB, the full FF9 encode (same specs, just over 8 hours long) is 41.97GB. Well over the 20GB limit imposed by Youtube. Maybe I'll make an H.264 version at some point so we can have the full HD encode without segmentation, but it's a lot priority since it won't get processed properly anyway.
edit: okay, so the FF9 encode uses 32-bit color mode and I'm pretty sure I used 24-bit mode for FF8, so let's say they're more like 19.5GB versus 31.5GB. Still a major difference.
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TASeditor wrote:
I think it´s more terrible, that you can´t add "friends" to your channel. That makes sharing your videos much more harder.
Yeah, and you can't have channel comments on your main page anymore. They're hidden on a different tab, and then underneath a button. This sort of thing really destroys the community.
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Bisqwit wrote:
franpa wrote:
Youtube wrote:
Your video, The Legend of Zelda: Parallel Worlds (Part 4) , may include content that is owned or administered by these entities:
Entity: rumblefish Content Type: Musical Composition
I don't think the hack uses custom music, who the hell is Rumblefish?
It's the same company that recently sent a copyright claim to someone who recorded birds.
http://boingboing.net/2012/02/27/rumblefish-claims-to-own-copyr.html
They only reverted it after the issue went public, with the company owner personally posting on Reddit and answering questions.
EDIT: I have no idea why TASVideos forum is assigning broken HTML into this post.
It's because there's a [ quote=Youtube ] in the post source without quotation marks around "Youtube".
edit: apparently the bug only occurs with more than one level of quotation.
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Tub wrote:
(this is taken from Dada's WIP encode, thus it has some artefacts. It's at 3:12:56 into the video, at the end of the second gargant ride, before meeting ramuh.)
I don't think I made that.
Thanks for looking up when that is, though, here's a higher quality screenshot.
Another good one:
Encode for FF9 is delayed a slight bit because Youtube apparently doesn't handle VBR audio too well.
bkDJ wrote:
As funny as that image is, I think word screenshots are discouraged. A lot of people wanted the "It's not a simple tas" screenshot for Majora's Mask, too.
Author preference is important/leading in deciding on a screenshot.
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jimsfriend wrote:
So what you're saying is this is just a really elaborate King of Nigeria scam?
Well, what's going on there is actually pretty terrible despite the fact that the documentary is not accurate. It's not a scam in that sense. Lots of terrible things actually happen in Africa.
But they're just using that as a way of making money that goes mostly to them and not to efforts to actually help those children, and they're advocating for the great imperialist power to swoop in and save the day. When you consider that there's a massive energy reserve in Uganda that the US is interested in (and actually already sent troops for in order to secure it) it should become clear that this isn't just a simple, clear-cut case of "save the children".
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Small progress update: will start uploading the run to Youtube in not too long.
edit: I like this screenshot. Beat the hardest quest in the game? Fine, don't care; close the window before it even fully appears.
Or maybe this one, showing how good the characters are as early as the end of disc 1:
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Yeah, this is what all the big media companies do in some form or another. Youtube is no exception. The DMCA is the reason: it outlines pretty clearly how they must act, which you could characterize as "shoot first, ask questions later".
I wouldn't really say this is Youtube's fault per se. It's impossible to run such a large site in any other way under the rules that govern them.
edit: on another note, Youtube's channel design was finally switched to the boring, stale, corporate new one. The people who chose to temporarily go back to the old one, including me, now have the same as everybody else.
Again, the Youtube help forums have exploded with negative feedback. I'm pretty sure the designers knew this was going to happen and that everybody would hate it, but to Google, the sake of the Product is no longer front and center, it seems.
Here's what that change looks like: http://wedemandhtml.com/tmp/youtube_channel_comparison.png
(this is taken from Dada's WIP encode, thus it has some artefacts. It's at 3:12:56 into the video, at the end of the second gargant ride, before meeting ramuh.)
Another good one:
Encode for FF9 is delayed a slight bit because Youtube apparently doesn't handle VBR audio too well.
Or maybe this one, showing how good the characters are as early as the end of disc 1:
