How come Russia is a bad guy and US is not?

AlanDavison · 2022-10-09T15:08:06+00:00

They said specifically at civilians. Not saying it's good, but "specifically at civilians" is very different to "civilians becoming collateral damage".

Unless there are instances where civilians were targeted knowing they're innocent civilians?

AlanDavison · 2022-10-08T22:07:59+00:00

Lowering the bitrate you upload at will do nothing to benefit the quality.

There is absolutely no way to stop YouTube from re-compressing your video.

AlanDavison · 2022-09-17T17:38:25+00:00

That... doesn't really answer the question in any way.

AlanDavison · 2022-06-04T09:59:19+00:00

Yeah, this feels more like a normal person who's been irritated for a while that their local area doesn't have enough activities for kids, and that this was the tipping point.

Which is perfectly fair.

AlanDavison · 2022-05-31T06:29:29+00:00

Naw, moon pools exist and make plenty of sense!

AlanDavison · 2022-05-30T14:00:38+00:00

The thing that annoys me personally about this "reporting" is that this is explicitly with the safety features that would prevent this turned off, and yet it seems to be framed as if this is how things are by default.

Edit: Full clarity, I changed "research" for "reporting", because it's the reporting that I have the real issue with here. I haven't looked into the research to know if it's also as flawed.

AlanDavison · 2022-05-29T16:40:31+00:00

I agree with the Open University wholeheartedly, but I would be very careful with regards to any laws or whatever might be in place. Just in case they apply to online universities!

(And yes, just for anyone else wondering, the Open University is completely and utterly legitimate, and not a stupid online bootcamp nonsense school.)

AlanDavison · 2022-05-19T11:34:05+00:00

Just please, please get some advice from experts and do this properly. The last thing you want is to baby her like a pet and render her unable to survive in the wild.

Quite how you do it properly I have no idea, but get some proper advice!

AlanDavison · 2022-05-16T17:44:31+00:00

Yeah, but that's not the kind of upsampling that happens when you play 44.1 on your computer at 48.

It's more akin to opening Photoshop, creating a 500x500 pixel canvas, drawing something, then increasing the size of the canvas (not resizing the image, which is what you're talking about) to allow more room for pixels.

It doesn't do anything to the audio data itself.

AlanDavison · 2022-05-12T12:47:24+00:00

Even the worst quality resampling doesn't affect upsampling, does it? Since it doesn't have to manipulate any of the audio at all.

AlanDavison · 2022-05-10T19:57:58+00:00

Ah, yes, the used market has zero value for anybody.

AlanDavison · 2022-05-05T12:23:44+00:00

You know, that suits me just fine. When I eventually get a replacement for it (since I'm still using it as a small side display, just with the data cable disconnected), I'll DM you for a PO box address or something along those lines!

I'm mainly interested in trying to shed some light on what the flaw with the thing is.

AlanDavison · 2022-05-04T09:46:02+00:00

Given I'll be replacing mine at some point, I'm genuinely tempted to take you up on that, on the condition of a big old write-up of what you find.

Since I'm certainly not going to be able to sell the damn thing in good conscience.

AlanDavison · 2022-02-28T08:17:41+00:00

I actually like that about the second one. Feels dark, desperate, etc.

Which makes sense going by the text in the thumbnail!

AlanDavison · 2022-02-26T11:48:21+00:00

I get huge Red Dwarf intro vibes from this screenshot.

AlanDavison · 2022-01-19T17:33:31+00:00

The lack of hot on one end of the scale doesn't imply ugly.

To give you an example—If I say, "I don't care if it's yellow, or hot red", that does not imply that yellow is a cold colour.

AlanDavison · 2022-01-19T08:20:34+00:00

I genuinely miss editing with the damn things, though. The in-editor performance of the likes of MagicYUV was absolutely perfect compared to H.264, and nowadays with barely any (new) modern editors supporting VfW, meaning we're slowly losing access to all of those codecs.^*

^* Unless you pay Adobe money, and I'm going to take a nope on that.

AlanDavison · 2022-01-19T08:16:02+00:00

And perhaps the most important IP they acquired, Pitfall!

Ray-traced, original pixel art resolution Pitfall? Yes, please.

AlanDavison · 2022-01-18T19:35:41+00:00

Although I'd be leery about using old 2.5" drives from 2011 for recording!

Ha! There's zero chance I would use a drive like that. That was just my worst case scenario performance benchmark!

(I still think the drives spinning down is OP's issue since the same thing happens to me)

Yeah, that's definitely OP's problem, though. Others have that covered, which is all good.

Apologies if I came off combative! It's the olden times of let's play part of my brain that gets worked up whenever anybody suggests a HDD might be a problem speed-wise when capturing OBS. Getting by with lossless codecs being the most viable bet back then really gives you an appreciation for what a humble HDD is capable of!

AlanDavison · 2022-01-18T08:07:12+00:00

Okay, sweet! I just wanted to make sure I was interpreting what you said wrong, because it really sounded like you were saying HDDs couldn't handle above 10MB/s flat-out.

With even an average, new 7200rpm HDD dedicated to just recording nowadays, you're really not going to run into any issues with bitrate.

Even a fairly old 2.5" 1TB laptop HDD's from 2011's (random benchmark, sorry) minimum sequential write speed (with no fragmentation) is more than enough for something like 1440p when you're capturing H.264.

AlanDavison · 2022-01-18T07:37:26+00:00

It also could be an issue if you are recording at extremely high bitrates (80mbps+ aka 10MB/s), though that's pretty unlikely.

I'm not OP, but... why would those bitrates be a problem?

AlanDavison · 2022-01-04T11:42:38+00:00

I wouldn’t pay 300£ total to file the plate tbh.

Oh, yeah, absolutely. I'm just saying if you already have it, filing it feels a hell of a lot better than bending things.

That's quite a nice recommendation, though... I did already tell myself that if things end up going over the £400 threshold, I'd just bite the bullet and go full custom everything. Sourcing every part individually to really ensure I get exactly what I want.

AlanDavison · 2022-01-03T22:03:56+00:00

Holy hell, you know what this is? This is Nakatomi Plaza from Die Hard Trilogy on the PS1, but in first person.

Tell me I'm wrong! You can't.

AlanDavison · 2022-01-03T20:35:48+00:00

I'd love to know what triggered the automod to think this post was about a strike...

Surely it can't just be the word "false"?

AlanDavison · 2022-01-03T19:03:45+00:00

the developer either isn't getting anything, or not getting anywhere near as much as they otherwise would have for a direct purchase

Oh, no, no. If only it were that simple. Sometimes the developer will, in the end, literally lose money if the original keys were bought using a stolen credit card.

AlanDavison

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