The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution

[Losonti Tokash]

sitting in a restaurant, guy changes big screen to a hunting channel

we are presented to what appears to be a clip show of some lady shooting a whole shiltoad of deer, followed by a leopard and then a guy shooting an elephant in the head

kind of upsetting man

edit: soundtrack is hard rock and everyone going "WOO"

[Losonti Tokash]

"SWEET SHOT BRAH" *30 second close up on a pig while it squeals and bleeds out all over the ground"

[Oxymoron]

"Was your steak okay, dear ?"

[Phantasee]

That is fucked and I'm going to have a salad for dinner now.

[Oxymoron]

Coulda been worse

coulda been a documentary on industrial animal farming



note : despite my best efforts I am NOT a vegetarian.

[timmy]

Did you choose to live in Nebraska?

[Losonti Tokash]

that's a complicated answer

[Aaron]

I think I'm going to have to teach my kids to honour the animal that we just shot and killed. At least no high fives and beers.

[Darth Fanboy]

Those hunting and some of the sportfishing shows realllllly do their respective sports a disservice.

Like when I was growing up I never hunted but the people I know who did supported the environment and sustainable practices and all of the things that would allow the chance to hunt for generations to come. Then you vsee these cockbags who want to be Ted Nugent and you kinda hope for a non life threatening injury to the trigger finger. (Or in Alyrium's case full disembowelment).

[Darksi4190]

You know, when did Aly become such a misanthrope anyways? He was always in favor of protecting the environment, but I can't recall when he crossed the line to "I fucking hate Humans."

[Darth Fanboy]

He has kinda always been that way, and I admit I can understand his POV while not going to the same extremes. But I think that he just started getting called out on it as the board matured (using that term loosely) and started collectively moving against the so called "tough guy" posting.

[Darksi4190]

Well, he's an open homosexual living in fucking Texas.

If anyone's got a reason to despise humanity, it's him.

[Gands]

He has kinda always been that way, and I admit I can understand his POV while not going to the same extremes. But I think that he just started getting called out on it as the board matured (using that term loosely) and started collectively moving against the so called "tough guy" posting.

Remember when he got banned for some weird ragequit?

I just looked through that thread in parting shots, and it has this gem:

The rules are the rules and they apply to everyone, and if there are exceptions, they are few and far between and generally reserved for people who predate the board with a long history on ASVS or are otherwise larger than life (Shep is an example of the former and Axis Kast belongs to the latter category). And even then there is no immunity.

[Oxymoron]

Hum... Don't want to seem like a vendettopath, because to be frank I don't care much about the issue ; but doesn't that excerpt from Edi prove the official existence of the "Old Boy Club", as in a group of people on the board who enjoy a certain degree of immunity from its rules ?

[Zod]

So I think for sharpening my video-editing skills, my first real project is going to be creating "new" episodes of Sealab 2021. Shouldn't take more than a few hours each.

[Aaron]

Hum... Don't want to seem like a vendettopath, because to be frank I don't care much about the issue ; but doesn't that excerpt from Edi prove the official existence of the "Old Boy Club", as in a group of people on the board who enjoy a certain degree of immunity from its rules ?

I think we've used it to mostly mean a group of people who cover for each other without being aware of it. Wevall know it exists, every group has one, I think these guys are blind to it though.

[Oxymoron]

Maybe, I don't know. I was more referring to it being officially acknowledged, though.

[Agent Bert Macklin]

I think I'm going to have to teach my kids to honour the animal that we just shot and killed. At least no high fives and beers.

Video was taken down. It was Fair Use, plain and simple.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=5sMehihgX6E

I guess the dispute worked.

[Agent Bert Macklin]

So I think for sharpening my video-editing skills, my first real project is going to be creating "new" episodes of Sealab 2021. Shouldn't take more than a few hours each.

How is Adobe Premiere? I've been using Sony Vegas. It's cool, but options are limited via codec.

Awesomesauce. A 40 second clip is taken down by the copyright police.

[Zod]

So I think for sharpening my video-editing skills, my first real project is going to be creating "new" episodes of Sealab 2021. Shouldn't take more than a few hours each.

How is Adobe Premiere? I've been using Sony Vegas. It's cool, but options are limited via codec.

Awesomesauce. A 40 second clip is taken down by the copyright police.

The codecs are kind of limited but it gives you almost as much flexibility and ease of use as Final Cut Pro X. (For a third of the price.) The time consuming part comes in from figuring out which clips to edit and fine-tuning them to get exactly the cut you want. I gave the trial for Vegas a shot but didn't like it nearly as much as Premiere.

[Agent Bert Macklin]

I made this with Vegas. https://vimeo.com/43504012

It took a while, but the results are fantastic.

[Zod]

Yeah, I think I could do the same thing with Premiere, I'm just not familiar enough with all the things I can do yet. I made this after about an hour of dicking around.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=FBeo-rVKFHw

[Agent Bert Macklin]

That's good. The cuts are seamless. When I first started, I kept getting flashes of the end of a cut. I realized I didn't delete enough of the clip to make it seamless. How long did it take to encode that, Zod?

I also recreated the Fellowship prologue using the extended edition Blu-ray transfer. I was going to do the entire film, but it would take a long ass time.

[Zod]

I wasn't really paying attention to encoding times, but it took less than 15 minutes to encode. Course I've also watched a lot of tutorials on FCPX, and Premiere is really similar in how it handles.

Though on my first render the video was really choppy; the default quality wasn't high enough and I had to tweak the settings to get it to play smoothly.

[Agent Bert Macklin]

What pissed me off is that I had to rip those clips from the Blu-rays and encode them using other software. Vegas can't read AVC, it seems. If it could have, I would have finished it more quickly.

The encode of the link I provided took about two hours at 720p.