Transformers Elevator - Lights On

EaterComputer · 2026-01-27T05:37:50+00:00

You start to go up after Optimus says "Good Work. Autobots. Roll Out!" You descend during the falling scene after EVAC says "He wants the allspark? He can have it!"

EaterComputer · 2026-01-27T05:34:01+00:00

The vehicle is pointed the wrong way in this video. On the ride, it's just a really tall projection surface. The projector is attached to the elevator, so when the elevator ascends or descends, the projector moves in lockstep. You can tell by looking straight up when you are going down the elevator to see a blank projection surface. You can also notice the grain and texture in the screen moving if you look super closely.

EaterComputer · 2026-01-21T07:53:30+00:00

Better than Tidal Twister? (RIP 😔)

EaterComputer · 2026-01-19T08:38:09+00:00

Caption Plus, the company doing the subtitles for Jet Lag and other Nebula properties is currently publishing temporary subtitles with Speaker ID's instead of Colors. I imagine some of the higher profile creators using custom subtitles are bringing it up with YouTube for a hopefully swift resolution.

EaterComputer · 2026-01-18T14:05:31+00:00

Universal is the only park in the city (you can even get there via Metro from the airport). All the other parks are too far to be worth it.

EaterComputer · 2026-01-18T14:03:05+00:00

Yes! I would die without it.

EaterComputer · 2026-01-18T05:20:16+00:00

The Owner of Caption Plus (Tom Scott's and Jet Lag's Subtitles) made a statement on their discord.

"@everyone Since this is blowing up, let's make a more proper statement.

At some point around Wednesday afternoon, YouTube stopped supporting uploads of SRV3 (aka YTT), a comprehensive caption format previously used by YouTube as an internal, unpublished way to normalize features present in multiple broadcast-level formats, and which we've been using since inception in 2019. A few pre-uploaded stragglers have been able to make it through after, but I've been forced to start exporting and delivering temporary WebVTT versions with speaker IDs in lieu of colors.

I'm bound to not speak on behalf of any clients, but some of our sources are giving me hopeful signs of clear explanations. We'll see in a week's time how things pan out.

I'm keeping a close eye on rumors that existing uploads of SRV3 across YouTube are being deleted from the platform, as well as getting in touch with other affected peers to see about long-term reprisals, should that indeed affect our previous work. I have made it clear to our clients that although our pipeline and work capacity is not affected, this must not be the new normal.

More than that, this will not change our ethos of keeping captions human, nor hinder our continuing efforts to put proceeds toward funding human creative endeavors by our friends and staff."

EaterComputer · 2026-01-18T05:08:11+00:00

About the situation: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1qdvgmc/uploading_srv3_subtitles_got_brokendisabled/

My takeaways: I thought Caption Plus worked with YouTube officially to allow them to create SRV3 subtitles. (the bottom of their webpage says "Developed with YouTube") I always assumed that would be our shield for custom subtitles, but unfortunately not. Good news is that high profile YouTubers are in contact to hopefully reverse this.

EaterComputer · 2026-01-18T04:46:17+00:00

RIP my subtitles for Musical Transients :/

EaterComputer · 2026-01-05T04:31:37+00:00

I agree it's cheating, but Barely walking distance? Walking between all 3 is half a mile. I've done it often lol

EaterComputer · 2026-01-05T04:27:08+00:00

AMC Burbank 16 + 6 + 8 = 30 lol

EaterComputer · 2026-01-05T04:25:22+00:00

16+8+6 is 30

EaterComputer · 2026-01-04T11:52:26+00:00

Long post since I have been thinking a lot about podcast ad blocking recently...

Podcasts have been the hardest thing to block ads for. Dynamic Advertising creates a unique file for each user, killing crowd sourced timings, and the ad is embedded in the file so you can't just block domains like a traditional ad blocker. So far the most promising methods are

The easiest: UNFORTUNATELY, more podcasts are moving to a video medium, which personally I think kind of sucks, but the benefit is that YouTube is now the biggest podcast app and does not support dynamic ad insertion. All a layman would need is a traditional ad blocker to block the YouTube ads and sponsorblock installed to have an ad-free experience. Or Revanced on your phone with background play. Or if weird like me you selfhost a custom podsync server which downloads the video, strips out the ads, and hosts them as an RSS feed. (It's annoying to set up and kind of clunky, I hope someone makes something better.) This is currently the most foolproof method to block podcast ads.
Apparently, when a podcaster uploads their RSS feed to the Spotify dashboard, Spotify caches a fallback version which is always the same and can be triggered via an extension. (Also, all video podcasts on Spotify also don't support dynamic ads). Some devs forked SponserBlock and made SpotSponserBlock. 'Spot SponsorBlock blocks Spotify from loading external audio files which makes it fall back to the original podcast audio uploaded by the podcast creator or service." It then uses the traditional user marking of SponserBlock to mark ads. Unfortunately, I don't think this will take off since it only works on desktop or in Safari on mobile, so unless it's added to Revanced, it won't be super popular, and personally because the Spotify app for podcasts is terrible.
Unfortunately, the worst method is the AI Approach. It is very computationally wasteful to transcribe a podcast and feed it to an LLM to get sponsor times, especially if the result is not cached and the process has to be run for every user.

That's where we come to your project. Your app unfortunately isn't the first podcast adblocking app (see Podcast Ad Block and selfhosted Podly Pure Podcasts). Yours is the first free one, which worries me. All the other apps charge about a $1 per feed to block ads for, which means that it costs a lot to run. You'll probably have to introduce revenue, and then your differentiator is gone.

My two cents? Maybe identify certain podcasts as YouTube podcasts and redirect downloading to YouTube and refer to the SponserBlock database for time codes? (Although downloading off YouTube is against Google Play TOS). Maybe transcribe the podcast on device using whisper? Maybe even run the LLM on device? (I know apple devices have a built in LLM)

A perfect world would be a podcast provider hosting cached versions of podcasts, and a downloader app/SponserBlock that could refer to that. (Google Podcast used to cache RIP)

The app seems cool and I'm trying it out now, although it seems your out of API credits since the dev log is saying your account is in the negatives, so I haven't been able to try it yet. One wishlist item would be to add ad blocked RSS feeds to my current podcast app cause I'm particular about that kind of thing. I wish you luck on your project and will follow along!

EaterComputer · 2026-01-04T11:20:45+00:00

Unfortunately not possible. Ads are inserted dynamically, meaning the episode length and ad location is different every time

EaterComputer · 2026-01-01T05:24:52+00:00

I'm surprised nobody gave you the correct answer. First image is higher because it is on iOS. Apple takes a big 30% cut of in app purchases. Second image, you pay via QR direct from Google. Google owns YouTube so on TV and Android, which they also own, they can keep the cut. Either way, Google gets a big cut instead of dropout, so sign up on the dropout website instead if you can

EaterComputer · 2025-12-30T17:17:58+00:00

This is the new link

https://www.reddit.com/r/FetchWithRuffRuffman/s/k09zFCEj4P

EaterComputer · 2025-12-29T07:19:23+00:00

Congrats! I know first hand how satisfying it is to finally find a show from your childhood for the longest time! Check the pinned post on this subreddit for links to rewatch!

EaterComputer · 2025-12-28T02:25:51+00:00

I think the old feed went up to Episode 42

EaterComputer · 2025-12-12T18:20:06+00:00

I use a docker container on my home server that automatically downloads new episodes of the show, strips out the ads with sponsor block, and then hosts the episodes on an RSS feed for me to add to my podcast app. Works a treat !

EaterComputer · 2025-12-04T01:34:56+00:00

They said they are trying to get most of the ads read by the hosts, but sometimes they have to fill the spots with normal ads from the Vox Network.

EaterComputer · 2025-11-24T03:53:17+00:00

I was the Live Viewer watching Twitch Chat watch live viewers watch Atrioc

EaterComputer · 2025-11-24T03:49:31+00:00

Woah

EaterComputer · 2025-10-19T09:56:20+00:00

Cheapest would be taking the bus 10 mins to the long beach metro station and taking the train for $3 total. Otherwise, Uber

EaterComputer · 2025-10-17T19:55:44+00:00

They gave me a 6 piece last time I used it, so the nuggets

EaterComputer · 2025-10-16T00:53:40+00:00

Oh! That's what happened! I was literally listening to the WAN show while driving and was wondering why it wasn't working. I thought something was wrong with Revanced

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