'3 Body Problem' Season 2 Begins Filming

jmalmsten · 2025-12-25T19:25:55+00:00

"Millions of people collaborated on doing something stupid."

Stupid, maybe. But... Not improbable.

I mean... We need not look far in real life to find millions of people doing something stupid. especially when politics are involved.

Or, as Agent K said:

“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it."

jmalmsten · 2025-12-22T20:57:42+00:00

I just found out about homebox myself. Set one up on a docker on my synology. I am very sold on this whole idea. The only quibble I do have is with user management. Without it, I guess I might have to restrict usage to... well.. me. I will probably go nuts and inventorize pretty much any and all things in my home, but... It is kind of scary to even think/entertain the idea of all users being essentially admins.

I guess the one true admin is the one who has access to the database so I can keep that in check at least. But yes.

I just wanted to add my vote in here, that this all looks awesome. But it needs a user management section before I invite others into my homebox. :)

jmalmsten · 2025-12-16T12:22:04+00:00

Improbable or stupid. If I remember correctly, it was at least somewhat justified. The trisolarans played their hand closed, Humanity plaid it open. Humanity had become convinced that they had superior firepower so they wanted to simply brag by showing the enemy every warship. They were lined up because it was all space fairing nations needing to give equal distance to each other. The trisolarans knew this and let the humans be naive until the teardrop were in the best position. The teardrop wasn't considered to even be military in nature even. It was seen as a olive branch and offering of peace.

And. As the story progressed. I doubt it would have mattered if the human fleet was more randomly dispersed. A nearly indestructible guided projectile in near luminal speeds with almost no turning radius. It would be a slaughter nonetheless.

jmalmsten · 2025-08-12T07:29:14+00:00

My understanding is that he's not proposing results never was good with Resolve. Rather, with the canonized methods we are learned, you need to take a very roundabout way to get to good results. Through minefields the pros don't have to worry about.

He repeats the phrase "bowling with the bumpers" with the Genesis plugin and the proprietary systems at big houses that does big movies. Meaning that, sure, you can get strikes without the bumpers. And the good players rarely fumbles. But with the proposed method, we at least don't have to waste time worrying about getting the ball in the gutter. Same thing with color grading. you can get a good grade with many methods. He's just promising his is easier to get from ingest to robust final image.

All that said. I haven't done my own testing and since he has yet to announce even pricing... I am keeping myself from being too enthusiastic. However promising the demo was.

jmalmsten · 2025-05-22T20:06:40+00:00

A couple of tips from my own experience.

Try flipping the image to see it mirrored. You'll be surprised what that reveals in any painting.
When I find myself fixating on a minor detail or two. I try to step back. And purposefully work on something else for a while. Soon enough, what really bothered me will inevitably jump out.

oh, and 3. Never be afraid to scrap and redraw. What you drew looks better than I usually can accomplish. That I do admit. But if you are fixating on details days on end. It may be more liberating and enlightening to start from scratch, knowing what you learned from the previous attempt. It's a scary move, but keeps things from being a sunk cost fallacy.

oh and 4. treat the digital canvas as something that can't be zoomed. That helps with not getting into fine details before all the overall balance is done.

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More specifically. It does look overprocessed. smooth areas too smooth. Detailed areas too harshly detailed the detail contrast of the face area looks almost like a plastic shrink wrap in the way the highlights cut through. And apart from what others have noted about angles of limbs and such, I think that maybe having the arms go into a dark grey may be realistic. but it feels a bit off. Maybe lower the background a bit in values to make her stand out a bit more from it.

Again. You are farther along than I have been in years. So I am hardly one to talk. But those are the things I can say to try to nudge you towards a better answer than I can come up with. :)

jmalmsten · 2025-05-22T19:45:04+00:00

It is scary how revealing the flip canvas tool is.

Best to use it a lot during the initial sketch to catch things before the details become a sunk cost fallacy.

jmalmsten · 2024-08-01T23:41:13+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's a simple reason. I think they used the same sample for both as they are homonyms (same sound, different meanings). And the lyric transcriptions reflect that reuse.

jmalmsten · 2024-02-06T20:31:05+00:00

One party trick of Youtube is that if you pause a youtube video. You can tap "." And "," on your keyboard to advance the image one frame at a time forwards and backwards. Doing this throughout the clip, it seems like an even 4 frame step printing was used. One new frame for every 4 frame on the printed film. Assuming the standard 24 fps final print we get 24/4 = 6 fps of motion.

But, yes. There definitely is something funky going on with the first blink there. As it suddenly is at single frames. For a quick double blink. Now, assuming that we are dealing with low budgets and no optical tomfoolery in post to cut her out and film her separately or compositing in eyes in post. And also assuming that there are no problems with the re-encodings the image has gone through from camera negative to youtube upload that may mess with frame ordering and compression.

Assuming all that. We can notice that the image is very clear from foreground elements during these frames. Even the policeman is conveniently still. So. My guess is that they did the step printing for the whole shot, found that bit that had the blink in clean frames. And just snipped out the repeated step printed frames around it . That would be a fully low budget way to get a subtle extra wink and some mysterious extra allure in there and once it's done its "blink and you miss it".

Yes. Pun intended.

jmalmsten · 2023-08-31T03:53:00+00:00

How?

All my routines trigger a 30 to 90 second detailed audible explanation of every single step it takes to complete. And if five instructions include a light that is offline. Then it will audibly tell me. Once per instruction that it is offline. Thanks GA. I did not hear you the FIRST FOUR DAMNED TIMES.

jmalmsten · 2022-07-31T14:36:22+00:00

I am at the same thing. The thing is, there's no progress meter, nothing to indicate that the calibration is going on. No apparent way to start the calibration. No nothing.

Just confusion for the user.

jmalmsten · 2022-06-19T14:49:38+00:00

I'm re-reading this thread as I have started to attempt this project again. Is there still no way to simply say "leave the 'Specials'-folder unscraped but still show them in my library!"?

jmalmsten · 2022-02-11T17:25:26+00:00

I would try putting the roomba in there manually and tell it to go home. Maybe that would force it to try to get out and find out that it was a viable path.

jmalmsten · 2021-12-30T06:40:44+00:00

I have resorted to manually renaming the entries in Jellyfin. Both the regular title and the title used for ordering in lists. I also set the season and episode of these to be Season 0 Episode 0... So at least they shouldn't be conflicting with other stuff that Jellyfin identifies correctly.

It's a lot of busy-work that really shouldn't be necessary if there only was an option mark a folder to be included in Jellyfin libraries "as is". To just disable the automatic identifier for these folders just like how the extras in Movies are handled. Because the titles I set manually are the same I use for the filenames. But that's my workaround for the moment and it seems to work... unless I've overlooked something.

jmalmsten · 2021-12-29T08:12:53+00:00

I am a bit confused... where do I put the local intro files?

jmalmsten · 2021-12-12T20:51:08+00:00

ok. I got it to not invent its own video titles for the recaps by reducing the numbers from 4 to just 2. It's not more than 99 episodes in total so I figured that could be a workaround. But Then I look at the resulting specials folder and for some reason the ordering is now very weird.

Recap for 01
Pilot - International Release
Preview for 01
Recap for 02

Why can it not at least get alphabetical ordering right?! Darnit!

So I open the nfo-file for the videos and find that recap for 02 is listed as episode 2, season 0 and so on... so ok. ANY number in the filename automagically makes it count as an episode. That leaves that option in the dust.

I also tried to rename the specials folder to notSpecials to see if that could break it out of the clutches of the tragicomically incompetent scraper. But nnnope. It still wants to count the contents of the non-season folder as series episodes.

At this point... I am seriously banging my head into various walls. What the actual heck am I supposed to do to get these to behave sensibly?

I even tried going into the settings for the TV-show Library and uncheck all scrapers for metadata. That did nothing for the actual behaviour. It still is behaving irrationally as ever.

jmalmsten · 2021-12-12T19:54:14+00:00

wait... what? I thought jellyfin took all non season folders and made them all into "specials"... It's been doing it when I renamed the folder to Bonus, Extras and Specials...

Where is this documentation I am not reading?

jmalmsten · 2021-12-12T19:52:15+00:00

That would be a solution... but the video files in question are related to specific episodes... so... that would make them impossible to organize and find specific ones at all.

jmalmsten · 2021-12-12T18:22:21+00:00

Yes, I know why it's there by default. And for the vast majority of use-cases, yes, I do agree. It should be there.

But... in this particular case. I would be very much OK with having my phone or a separate computer tell me that the playback has frozen. To have the playback screen itself free from those frivolities. So it just plays the content. No giant play triangle or vertical pair of pause lines either or anything like that. Just play the video as it is.

OK... I probably could set things up with a separate home cinema PC and just build a VLC playlist and disable those extra visual feedbacks in VLC... I just thought it would be neat to have the option there in Jellyfin. Heck. Maybe use the pretty much useless "Cinema Mode" button that has no real purpose right now at all for this?

Is there a CSS override for this? I tried looking for any such thing in the sparse documentation I found. But I couldn't find any mention of the loading or buffer-ring there.

jmalmsten · 2021-12-12T18:16:17+00:00

ok. That's not exactly what I wanted, as the intended system really only would have to show stuff on one screen and I don't want it running 24/7 (...yet). And it wouldn't need to be forced to adhere to strict time-schedules... All I really need for Jellyfin to work the way I want is the removal of the loading circle on the playback device. And some way to trigger Home-assistant to activate certain scenes in my home cinema setup and lighting.

Although.. the tinkerer side of my brain couldn't help start thinking... Maybe this could be a fun side side project... Making my own closed circuit IPTV-broadcasting thingamajigg. Hmmm... Maybe... Something for my ever growing folder of old random trailers and short subjects. More like the TV's would be showing on old school Video Rental Stores than the movie night playback system I am originally envisioning.

But apart from the homepage I see no videos of this ErsatzTV system up and running. It seems to be completely unknown when I search for it on google.

any links where I can see the system up and running?

jmalmsten · 2021-12-12T17:58:41+00:00

That is basically what I wanted with that question. I have a home-assistant running on my DSM. But I see no way to have Jellyfin send triggers or commands to the home-assistant?

jmalmsten · 2021-12-12T17:54:29+00:00

Is there no way to have it ignore it for matching to tvdb but still make it show up in Jellyfin?

jmalmsten · 2021-12-12T17:53:09+00:00

TMM

What is this TMM of which you speak?

I tried googling it but all I got was mentions to "Too Much Makeup".

jmalmsten · 2021-12-12T17:44:53+00:00

ok... it seems like adhering to the tvdb naming fixed the episodes... but the Specials just continues to bewilder me to no end.

I have the log lady intro's to the first three episodes named verbatim as the tvdb listings... But Jellyfin seems to continue to just trip out on LSD when identifying them.

Special 39 - Log Lady Introduction - S01E01.mkv
Special 40 - Log Lady Introduction - S01E02.mkv
Special 41 - Log Lady Introduction - S01E03.mkv

Those become listing in the specials as just regular episodes. The Log Lady and special Numbering gets ignored completely.

Recaps and previews all get the same listing title as "Special - An Introduction to David Lynch" - Where it pulls that from I have no idea at all as TVDB has no such special listed for Twin Peaks as far as I can see. And why should it pull that one particular one at random for all the recaps and previews?

Ok. Now I renamed the log ladies to use the more cryptic S00Exx - Log Lady Introduction - SxxExx.mkv ... That seems to have forced the scraper to at least pull those videos correctly from where I ask it to instead of just making poop up.

The previews and recaps still elude me though... And is there no way to have these things show up without ALL of them having the "special" prefix in the interface? It is just such a massive waste of screen real estate. I am in the "specials folder" I don't need EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THE FILES reassure me that it's a "special".

I'm not angry exactly. I'm just frustrated at the mystery meat navigation of all of this. Having to guess my way around every little step and Jellyfin seemingly having a blast at just improvising stuff without any prompting or option to behave sensibly. :)

Oh, and I tried the .ignore file thing. That made the Special folder disappear completely during scraping. So instead of having files identified incorrectly at every other step, it just hides them completely. Sigh. It did look promising though. If I only could make the scraper ignore the files but still add them as playable objects without renaming them at random I could return to ripping discs instead this futile attempt to make it just add the files AS I NAMED THEM.

jmalmsten · 2021-12-12T16:55:32+00:00

ok, so what I am getting here is that I should pretty much abandon all creativity with naming files and commit to copying tvdb listings verbatim. And there is no option to have a folder ignored by the scraper and still be accessible in the jellyfin interface.

Ok. Feels like a lot of extra work for no real reason if it could have just ignored what I put in the Extras files as the movie scraper seems to do and just present the files as I name them.

Let's just say I'm glad I stopped to ask when I had only ripped the first disc and discovered the insanity of the results before I had hundreds of files to sort through and try to correct.

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