Was the replacement ANH crawl ever finalized? I think I’ve only got the first version prior to everyone tweaking the color and making improvements. Just wondering so I can go ahead and burn the disc. 😃
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Same.
I probably used Handbrake, but I don’t know what is ideal.
You’re correct that Adobe won’t let you edit VC1. You’ll need to convert it using other software (ideally to lossless).
Thread title needs updating.
I thought you were trying to tell me that the new forum software allows us to change thread titles.
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I’m pretty sure I remember Mike saying he would get this output on film - to make it easier to archive and preserve.
In my opinion, I’m not sure if film would be easier to preserve. The main problems people cite is how video formats change and how digital media storage mediums deteriorate. Let me tackle the latter first. Film also deteriorates—-look at how hard it is to get a good film print of Star Wars. You can alleviate the digital storage problem by just copying it listlessly to new storage devices. You can even try to checksum it to make sure you’re getting an exact replica of the original copy. (You can also do the same with formats and codecs) As far as I know, that’s not possible with film. So, I think most of this as possible should be done digitally.
Of course it would (and surely has been) archived digitally. The lossless versions are probably >20TB/copy. There will always be issues with formats, though. It’s easy to think a few years and a couple operating systems down the line. But over longer periods of time, compatibility will be more difficult to ensure. The format needs to be well documented, and presumably the software should be open-sourced. None of this is to suggest that it isn’t possible or shouldn’t absolutely be done. Just that, worst case scenario, that film is always going to just be film.
An LPP would have color that outlives all of us except for Frink. Other deterioration wouldn’t be an issue for an archival print. Star Wars prints are in bad shape because they’ve been watched a million times over the decades (sometimes perhaps by people who don’t know what they’re doing with film).
Nice, I think I’m preapproved just like all these great loans I keep hearing about.
Wow, thanks for the confirmation.
I must say I’m pretty surprised that all this was happening from one IP, and the ban evading that I imagined must be occurring wasn’t even necessary in all of this. Still, I guess it’s a good thing moving forward. Plus it’s funny to know that he wasn’t even a clever idiot, just a lucky one.
Edit: actually, there were more accounts than that list, right? So maybe he was evading?
I guess that also exonerates Dat. Dat is just Dat.
The sabers were rotoscoped from the SSE. I haven’t seen the sunset shot yet, but I assume it’s the same.
Looks good to me.
Going to be a pretty big undertaking to do the whole film. 😃
Yeah, if the frequency or type of posts can be limited, there would be no need to block posts entirely for some time frame. More of an alternative suggestion. Presumably Jay has to code whatever ends up being used.
This speculation could easily turn into a witch hunt. Wait until we have something more concrete to go on before you set up that duck scale.
Agreed. If it wasn’t Wario, though, or someone similar who delights in ban evading, such as a current non-banned member, they might not have covered their tracks at all.
This is all assuming that you guys check IPs and ban IPs and such. Don’t think I’ve seen that confirmed, but I don’t doubt you have that bare minimum of functionality.
Dat_SW_Guy? Yeah, I have a feeling that it might be Hansi, but it’s just a hunch.
Ditto.
When I report a post of his, which happens from time to time, I mention that it might be a good idea to check to see if his IP matches the Wario accounts (or at least to see if Dat is using the same VPNs as Wario). No idea if they’ve done so of course.
He’s not quite as destructive as the other accounts. But I am pretty damn curious.
He got away with his Hansi account for a long time, but that’s because no one could prove that it was him, even though I think we all knew it.
Hell, I’ve been back and forth on whether “Dat” is him every other time I see him post. It’s the same line as thinking with the Hansi account, though. He tried the rapid account creation/spamming/banning approach (and is back to doing it today). Became unsatisfied with how it was going, and went for the slow and steady trolling approach because he actually does want to be part of the community, despite being utterly unwanted.
Dat seems to participate in actual conversations sometimes, though, so I haven’t quite convinced myself of him.
Not Wario64. Wario64 was a general troll, harmless, but that spamming today was some super-calculated politically-driven disinformation shit.
It’s just supposed to be edgy. Spam stuff you’re not supposed to say, like slurs. Middle school stuff with some indication of modern SW being superior to older SW.
I don’t know Wario’s specific type of trolling as far as content. But he’s the one who gets off on making new accounts and using them at full speed before he gets banned, evading bans, etc.
Sure. Trolling is kind of used as a catch all term. There’s minor trolling where someone’s just kind of being obnoxious a wink and a nudge. In my opinion, stuff like that (Frink) works here because of the small size of the community, though it does mean he’ll rub off the wrong way on new people, and a few older members. I’m sure many disagree, but they can probably see the difference between that and what Wario does.
Other times people just use the word ‘trolling’ when they can’t possibly fathom that the person they’re arguing with might be speaking genuinely. Or they’re just a bit unrelenting about their point. Sometimes it’s just using the word to discredit people you disagree with, especially in political discussions.
And then there are people like Wario. At this point, if it was directed at an individual it would probably be considered harassment. It’s not really, though, so I’m not sure what to call it besides excessive and pathetic trolling.
I agree with you that his life probably is very unfortunate. I disagree about caring whatsoever about it. People have much harder lives than him, surely, and manage to not to be totally shitty. Alternatively, he could quite likely just be a bored kid with nothing to do, especially as school as out at the moment.
What I find interesting about this is that this seems to only be isolated to one person, presumebably Wario64. If we can find a way to just get him out, which may be hard to do due to such things like VPNs and proxies, I think 95% of this problem would be solved. The other 5% comes from the recent ad spam, whcich should be easy to solve.
I think you’re right. It’s unfortunate, since the forum is generally able to exist peacefully and mostly self-police. It works for the most part because of the relatively low traffic. But all this is exactly what this turdgobbler is exploiting. Assuming for a moment that Wario could eventually be permanently banned (he can’t) or that he would give up (this is probably all he has going in his life. He won’t), the site would still be wide open for the next little kid who wants to throw a tantrum.
On any given forum, even low-traffic ones, a certain level of trolling is to be expected. The fact that we don’t have more of it here is the part that I find exceptional, rather than Wario’s continued presence. Can you imagine how bad it would be if we were actually brigaded by a group? One user making tons of accounts is bad enough. We should have safeguards.
One post per hour is too stringent. I mean, the Politics thread would be way less lively if that were the case.
I mean for new members. Lots of forums essentially have tiers, with the new member tiers having limited abilities. You can ask a question with your one post per [time limit], but you can’t spam. Once you reach a certain duration as a member, or post count, your limits can be reduced.
It doesn’t prevent spammers from existing, but it slows them down. It makes it so they have to spend a week or more building up an account just for their several minutes of being a dick-face. Making admin-approved account creation will hopefully prevent them from just starting (and maintaining) 12 of them at once to build up an array of accounts.
Yeah, something needs to be done. There aren’t enough moderators online at this time of day.
0 is slightly fewer than enough for this matter, yes.
So what’s that guy’s deal, anyway? Did he start out as a normal user and just got pissed when people made fun of him for liking the prequels or something?
Yeah, I’ve been around for his posts. Just didn’t know if there was anything that made him start acting like such a loser.
Is it just me or is it a huge neon warning sign when a member has non-ironic Hayden as an avatar?
I don’t think admin approval or one week wait times for new users are good ideas, it would probably discourage legitimate new registrations.
Anyway, the approval thing is ridiculously common on forums these days. I don’t think it would be an issue, as long as there were mods actively responding to the requests.
Again, I think the wait time (whether it’s a week or a few days) is a good idea for new users in general. Send them an automated PM that says that they’re welcome here and we encourage them to read our rules and project pages and whatever. Maybe let them post in some sections but not all? They should definitely not be able to create threads or make 25 posts in their first hour.
So what’s that guy’s deal, anyway? Did he start out as a normal user and just got pissed when people made fun of him for liking the prequels or something?
Nah, he flooded Harmy’s threads with hundreds of anime porn (hentai or whatever) images. My suggestions apply site-wide. If it was just Off Topic I wouldn’t have given a shit. 😛
Maybe a title character limit so he can’t create massively long titles.
Yeah. That’d be a good start.
I’m not sure what the forum software’s capable of, but I think they really need to find a way to IP ban.
I seriously doubt that our mods would have been incapable of doing a simple IP ban after all this time. He probably used his mom’s credit card to get a decent VPN. Some forums ban well known VPN hosts, but I kind of doubt we’re capable of that here.