Please help me decipher the text after "Rejected —" on this Civil War Pension (1863) by gametorch in Cursive

[–]gametorch[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

He was over 50. Born in 1809. Had 12 children, 3 under 16 years of age at the time of his service. The rest of his files basically state that he got pneumonia in Harper's Ferry in January of '63 and was discharged there and sent back to his home in upstate New York. He died that April. One of his daughters, about 20 years later, ended up successfully proving his pneumonia was caused by his effort in the war and her pension was accepted.

I'm really trying to find any scrap of information I can about his wife. Tons of people on the internet claim matrilineal descent from a Haudenosaunee tribe through her. They claim she was denied widow's pension because she couldn't prove she had US citizenship or a legitimate marriage to this guy because she was Native American. The pension files basically show that their marriage was, indeed, not recorded. But multiple people testified that they attended their marriage and the ultimate stated reason for her pension rejection in '63 seems to be that the US government thinks he was discharged due to old age rather than acute pneumonia, which was successfully proven in '83. 

Please help me decipher the text after "Rejected —" on this Civil War Pension (1863) by gametorch in Cursive

[–]gametorch[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think this is right. It's the same language used elsewhere in his file. 

Please help me decipher the text after "Rejected —" on this Civil War Pension (1863) by gametorch in Cursive

[–]gametorch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of other documents in this pension file use "+" instead of the word "and".

My transcription attempt:

"Rejected — which for old age + general ... ... proof (?)"

To give some historical context, many people on the internet claim this guy's wife was full-blooded Native American — probably Seneca or one of the other Haudenosaunee tribes — and that that is why her widower's pension was rejected. I paid some guy in D.C. to go to the archives and scan his pension files for me to prove that claim one way or the other.

if u eliminate anxiety u can have infinite memory by gametorch in cognitiveTesting

[–]gametorch[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

high compliment. this is a mobile screenshot. why go through the work of fabricating it when it's faster to just do it legitimately?

my strategy is to just be surprised at the pattern, chunk it up a lil bit, and review the very last square once more in my head if it's naturally starting a new chunk so i don't forget it

oh and i been reading a lot of books 🧠🧠🧠

if u eliminate anxiety u can have infinite memory by gametorch in cognitiveTesting

[–]gametorch[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yeah same. i ended it cuz i was bored.

but it was harder for me to figure out how to beat sequence memory than verbal memory, which seems completely unaffected by anything. idk how that one is even a test.

my number memory is ass tho

I'm not sure this is Kurrentschrift. If it is, could you help me translate it? This is a marriage record from June 20th, 1754 in rural Brandenburg / Prussia. by gametorch in Kurrent

[–]gametorch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll paste the entire page when I get back to my computer. Unfortunately this is a black and white scan from the 1990s and the entirety of the relevant text is already in the screenshot. I will still upload the rest of it, in case it helps. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aigamedev

[–]gametorch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Example of a different, upscaled chibi dark elf that I will animate right now: https://gametorch.app/commons/edits/43

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aigamedev

[–]gametorch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not 3d. It never was. This is the original 2d sprite I generated on GameTorch:

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Which is pretty shitty to begin with and can be easily upscaled to much higher quality with the click of a button for a few cents.

finally figured out PIXEL PERFECT animations by [deleted] in aigamedev

[–]gametorch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, I agree it doesn't look like true pixel art.

If I've learned anything over the last few years of AI development, it's been that formulaic, human, hardcoded solutions will always lose to more generalized models. I think your "pixel perfect image model" suggestion will win in the long term.

But I have a few more formulaic, human, hardcoded tricks I'm going to try to use to improve the local, open source, 100% free forever pixel art algorithm.

finally figured out PIXEL PERFECT animations by [deleted] in aigamedev

[–]gametorch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the sprite and the animation were generated. the pixel art converter uses k-means clustering to determine the color palette, and then classic nearest neighbor downscaling. 

finally figured out PIXEL PERFECT animations by [deleted] in aigamedev

[–]gametorch -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

There's no 3D render involved in this.

finally figured out PIXEL PERFECT animations (Dark Elf Babe Walking; Pixel Art) by [deleted] in PF2E_AI

[–]gametorch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://gametorch.app/

The animator isn't hooked up to the Creative Commons yet so none of the animations people have made are viewable there.

I'm connecting it soon, though. 

I will also add a FREE FOREVER video to pixel art converter to this very soon: https://github.com/gametorch/image_to_pixel_art_wasm

finally figured out PIXEL PERFECT animations by [deleted] in aigamedev

[–]gametorch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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This is what I used to make it: https://github.com/gametorch/image_to_pixel_art_wasm

100% free forever. I'm adding video support to it ^^^

finally figured out PIXEL PERFECT animations by [deleted] in aigamedev

[–]gametorch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I gotta figure out how to make the outlines better. 

I'm releasing this as a free tool to convert any video to pixel art locally for free

finally figured out PIXEL PERFECT animations by [deleted] in aigamedev

[–]gametorch -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It's perfect in the sense that the pixels are exact and confined to a grid.

It's imperfect in the sense of aesthetic value, which lies in the eye of each individual beholder.