#compressed video formats

[myhelendai]

#lossless video formats #compressed video formats #uncompressed video formats #lossy video formats

[nipuni]

I made another one of these little videos!! this time with my new phone camera 🥰 I’m still learning but it’s an improvement! and it’s pretty fun

#Nips videos #Nips photos #personal #you can see me being cringe trying to pose for photos so that Nicolas could test the camera #also been learning how to use davinci resolve and it's great #tho video formats and compression still elude me #I think there should be more fics set in trains writers if you hear me-

[aggressive-almond-cookie]

Random and probably meaningless but it looks like the side order trailer train scene bit happens geographically further down the tracks than the original train scene, judging by where the city is in the background.

#this literally isn't anything I think I'm just picking too much apart now #like it's literally by a few seconds maybe it's probably just how the scene was rendered slightly differently or something #also the jelly is more blue lol but the whole thing is slightly more blue so probably just lighting differences in rendering too #or even just in how the video was compressed/formatted before/during upload #splatoon #side order #I guess you could speculate though that the inkling didn't get off the train until later in the second one I dunno #I need to stop this literally isn't anything lol

[stellaretic]

    ❝No you don't!❞     ❝Raha!❞

#compressing detailed video into gif format SUUUUUCKS. #but i think i'm getting better at it. #.gif #ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #endwalker #wol #warrior of light #g'raha tia #wolgraha #gif cw #flashing cw #fast movement cw

[jolikmc]

Nobuo Uematsu, Leif "Compression of Time" (Progressive Rock Remix) Final Fantasy VIII (1999) Square Co, Ltd.

#music #Sony SPU #Sound Processing Unit #Portable Sound Format #PSF #Nobuo Uematsu #Compression of Time #Final Fantasy VIII #1999 #Square Co Ltd #remix #digital music #Leif #unknown year #video game music #progressive rock music #absolutely mindblowing #holy smokes

[girasois]

words for users !

ideias de palavras aleatórias para ajudar você a criar seu próprio user;

random ideas of words to help you to create your own user.

core -> aesthetic core

vlog -> daily videos

logs -> daily facts

mp3 -> audio file format

m4p -> apple audio file format

mp4 -> video file format

txt -> text format

jpeg -> image file format

jpg -> image file format

png -> image file format

gif -> animated file format

raw -> uncompressed file format

zip -> compressed archive file format

rar -> compressed archive file format

web -> internet file format

doc -> document file

pdf -> document file

vinyl -> phonograph record

film -> motion picture; photography

user -> person who utilizes a computer or network service

i2 -> "keeping it real"

self -> a person's essential being

itself -> a person's essential being

priv -> private

luv -> love's short form

tale -> a fictitious or true narrative or story

archive -> to place or store (something) in an archive

list -> connected items

tier -> a type of hierarchy

talk -> speak in order to express something

chat -> to have a conversation

post -> to announce or publish something

zone -> a subject to particular restrictions

vie -> life in french

tie -> to form a knot or bow in

on/online -> connected to a network

byte -> a group of binary digits 

bits -> a small piece, part, or quantity of something

ram -> hardware in a computing device

8bit -> computer term used to designate either color depth

pixel -> a minute area of illumination on a display screen

data -> things known or assumed as facts

series -> a number of things, events, or people of a similar kind

village -> a self-contained community within a town or city

lab -> a laboratory

lady -> a woman

miss -> a form of address to a woman

mister -> a form of address to a man

error -> something not found

art -> the various branches of creative activity

petit -> small in french

poet -> a person possessing special powers of imagination or expression

thing -> an object without a specific name

stuff -> a vague reference to additional things

vogue -> the prevailing fashion or style at a particular time

tv -> taylor's version and/or television as a system or form of media

media -> the main means of mass communication

topia -> an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect

saur -> forming names of extinct reptiles such as dinosaurs

tune -> a melody, one that characterizes a particular piece of music

deun -> melody in deutsch

off/offline -> disconnected from the Internet

gloss -> shine or luster on a smooth surface

fae -> a fairy, in modern fantasy fiction

#random users #cute usernames #tumblr users #twitter users #usernames #user ideas #aesthetic usernames #soft users #users #aesthetic url #messycore #messy aesthetic #alt aesthetic #messy packs #aesthetic core #user #user name #random #random user ideas #random user #random ideas #text post #masterpost #masterlist #long post #long list

[iwonderwh0]

I don't think androids store memories as videos or that they can even be extracted as ones. Almost, but not exactly.

Firstly, because their memories include other data such as their tactile information, their emotional state, probably 3d markers of their surrounding...a lot of different information. So, their memories are not in a video-format, but some kind of a mix of many things, that may not be as easily separated from each other. I don't think a software necessary to read those types of files are publicly available.

Even if they have some absolute massive storage, filming good-quality videos and storing them is just not an optimal way to use their resources. It's extremely wasteful. I think, instead, their memories consist of snapshots that are taken every once in a while (depending on how much is going on), that consist of compressed version of all their relevant inputs like mentioned above. Like, a snapshot of a LiDAR in a specific moment + heavily compressed photo with additional data about some details that'll later help to upscale it and interpolate from one snapshot into the next one, some audio samples of the voices and transcript of the conversation so that it'd take less storage to save. My main point is, their memories are probably stored in a format that not only doesn't actually contain original video material, but is a product of some extreme compression, and in this case reviewing memories is not like watching HD video footage, but rather an ai restoration of those snapshots. Perhaps it may be eventually converted into some sort of a video readable to human eye, but it would be more of an ai-generated video from specific snapshots with standardised prompts with some parts of the image/audio missing than a perfectly exact video recording.

When Connor extracts video we see that they are a bit glitchy. It may be attributed to some details getting lost during transmission from one android to another, but then we've also got flashbacks with android's own memories, that are just as "glitchy". Which kinda backs up a theory of it being a restoration of some sort of a compressed version rather than original video recording.

Then we've also got that scene where Josh records Markus where it is shown that when he starts to film, his eyes indicate the change that he is not just watching but recording now. Which means that is an option, but not the default. I find it a really nice detail. Like, androids can record videos, but then the people around them can see exactly when they do that, and "be at ease" when they don't. It may be purely a design choice, like that of the loading bar to signalise that something is in progress and not just frozen, or mandatory shutter sound effect on smartphones cameras in Japan.

So, yeah. Androids purpose is to correctly interpret their inputs and store relevant information about it in their long term memory, and not necessarily to record every present moment in a video-archive that will likely never be seen by a human and reviewed as a pure video footage again. If it happened to be needed to be seen — it'll be restored as a "video" file, but this video won't be an actual video recording unless android was specifically set to record mode.

#dbh #detroit become human #dbh headcanons #androids

[lacefuneral]

ok i've seen some posts about the tumblr alternative cohost but none that were actually helpful so!

(disclaimer: i am very new to this website. users who have been there longer can and should chime in with additions and/or corrections)

Cohost Introduction Post

What is cohost?

Cohost is a fledgling website that is essentially a tumblr clone, but with its own culture and site-specific features. It is also very much a work in progress. You are encouraged to talk in the cohost forum to suggest changes for devs, report bugs, and upvote other people's suggestions. This website WILL grow and change over time. And as such, I do not know if/when the information I share here will be outdated. Edit: To answer an ask I received, anyone can join cohost without an invite. It used to be invite-only. It is not this way anymore.

Is "adult content" allowed there?

Yes. Cohost is not on the app store, meaning that it is not subject to Apple's specifications. You can post illustrations, writing, and photographs (cohost does not support any video formats at this time, just gifs). Cohost has an elaborate filtering and trigger warning system (moreso than tumblr), and you can disable adult content for your entire account or for individual tags. I actually don't engage with the adult content at all on there. Visual CSEM (both real and fictional) is specifically forbidden (although frankly I think the guidelines could be stricter wrt written content. Still, does seem to handle this better than AO3 does, going as far to say that written content about real minors is forbidden.)

How are minors protected?

The minimum age to join cohost is 16, and requires proof of parental permission to join. Users who are under 18 are automatically age-gated and cannot view adult content.

If cohost isn't on the app store, how is it used?

You can, of course, use cohost on a computer, but it is designed with mobile in mind. Opening the website on any IOS browser, clicking "share", and then "add to home screen" will install an app for you to use. The same can be done on an android. There is a guide here.

How does cohost work?

First, you create an account. Then you wait for approximately two days (read: weekdays) for the account to be activated. This is done to prevent spam bots. In the meantime, edit your profile. List some interests, your pronouns, your other social media links. Give yourself an icon. Note: icon and banner file sizes are small. You may need to shrink and compress images.

After the two days are up, make your first post! Write a basic introduction (with what you feel comfortable you feel sharing) and list some interests you like, maybe some hobbies, media, etc. And then tag this post with "#welcome to cohost". This will let existing members know that someone new has joined, and they may initiate conversation and/or follow you.

Next, go to the search and type in "The Cohost Global Feed" and click on the tag. Bookmark this tag. This is essentially one giant community space where you can find random users. (There is currently some discourse on the website as to whether this tag existing is a "bad thing" or not because "cohost isn't supposed to have a global tag". Just ignore that lol). Next, go back to search and type in things you like. TV shows, maybe. Video games. Music. Anything. See if people have posted in the tags. Follow them. Comment on their stuff. Click "like" to bookmark the post if you want to.

Most crucially, make sure that you bookmark the actual tag so you can look in that tag again later without having to manually type it each and every time. Also, you get a feed called "bookmarked tags" which allows you to scroll through all of them at once, which replaces the "for you" feature other websites have.

You can "share" a post (called "rebug" in user slang) which serves the same purpose as a reblog on tumblr. In a rebug, you can add your own tags or comment in the body of the post. Cohost users do not talk in tags as much as tumblr users - they tend to prefer to speak in the body of a rebug, or in the comment section (replies). At this time, you cannot view all reblogs. But you can view all comments in the comment section. Any post that is rebugged will preserve the tags of the OP, with any additional tags added being attributed to you. Rebugs are named after the website mascot Eggbug, a purple bee-like insect.

Posts are called "chosts" - and shitposting is called "shitchosting." Two examples of global shitposting tags are "#css crimes" - which is when a person does goofy things with the HTML/CSS editor to make colorful text, fake chat windows, and such - and "#shitchosting" which is a general shitposting tag. I've also seen people use tags like "#random".

If a post makes you laugh, check out the OP's profile. See if they post frequently, and if you have any common interests. If you realize you want to block or mute someone instead, you can.

You can send asks just like on tumblr, but your inbox must be manually opened first. So remember to do that.

How do I look at my own blog?

This is one of my gripes about the UI. You would think, intuitively, you would click here (at the top of the screen). But you would be wrong!

It is ACTUALLY under the sidebar menu, called "Profile." And I'm not the only one to to complain about this. (To get back to your dashboard, by the way, you click on the cohost logo.)

Are there sideblogs?

Yes! Each sidepage (sideblog) has its OWN set of likes AND followed pages (blogs). This allows you to easily switch between multiple sets of dashboards. A lot of users use this to have a SFW dashboard and an adult content dashboard. But it works like tumblr, too. You can have a side page/dashboard for whatever you'd like. Maybe one of your pages is for programming. Maybe another is for photography. You switch between your pages by clicking the arrow next to your icon/username at the top of the screen. ("Ohhhhh.... THAT'S what that's for.")

What's the userbase on there like?

Mostly programmers. Trans people. Furry artists. Plural systems. Furry trans plural programmers. Certainly a lot of shitposters. The website is trans-run and, as such, has zero tolerance for TERFs. Everyone seems pretty friendly from what I can tell. And there's very much a culture of "follow someone randomly based on their vibes" that doesn't happen as much on tumblr. Tumblr is more like "I really like this TV show, I'm going to follow 40 blogs about just this interest." Because the cohost community is so much smaller, there is a lot less content overall, especially fandom content. You can't follow 40 fandom pages because your fandom tag has a total of 3 posts, all made by one person approximately a year ago (well. for me anyway).

Cohost, then, actually has much more in common with real-life socialization. You seek out people with interests that may be very different from your own, and to find a common interest is very exciting! Unlike tumblr, you are encouraged to tag as much as possible. This allows your posts to be seen, to find common interests. And, of course, don't forget to look in "#Welcome To Cohost" too! You may find some new friends there.

What file formats can I post in?

Currently, I am aware of basic image formats working (like jpeg, png) animated gifs, and mp3s. You currently cannot upload videos to cohost. I believe the reason is not related to server costs, but rather as a way to curb the uploading of copyrighted content.

How does cohost make money?

There are no ads, and yet, as far as I am aware, cohost is operating comfortably. There is, however, an entirely optional "cohost plus" that is $5 USD a month. Currently, there are a few perks, but not enough to convince me.

What if I think something about cohost should change?

Cohost has a forum where users can submit ideas for features and other users can discuss/upvote those ideas.

Here is a list of posts made for newcomers to read:

#long post #cohost #tumblr migration #tumblr alternative

[soraka-in-warhammer40k]

I feel like the youtube channel that manages to compress a 2000point 40k battle report into 20 minutes of presentation with an neat script and some inbuilt meme-commentary will be the undisputed king of the video format.

Right now the darn thing is downright unwatchable and I wonder how many people put it on just for some generic background noise. The low bar right now is almost an hour and most of it is some random guys who I couldn't give two shits about with negative camera rizz blundering about and rolling some dice.

There has to be someone out there who can top that, right?

#warhammer 40k #wh40k

[artistpicks]

Category is: The Art of GIF

Welcome to November’s Artist Picks series! This month, we’ve invited @catswilleatyou to share posts surrounding the theme, “The Art of GIF.”

Here is what they have to say about it below!

What does “The Art of GIF” mean to you?

The GIF is an art form that was born on the web. Videos existed in other places; paintings, photos existed in other places. GIFs just didn’t exist anywhere until the internet came along. Many artists were thrilled to be at the moment in art history when this medium was born. Even though the compression techniques are outdated and the functionality has been surpassed by other formats, the perfect infinite loop of the GIF has yet to be achieved by another file format. MP4s still have a hiccup when they start over. While GIFs are widely used for quick jokes and communication, many artists still believe there is more depth to this medium. I believe that as digital art continues to gain acceptance as a high art form, GIFs will eventually be realized as a cornerstone to it. To me, the art of GIF is about working within limitations and birthing something infinite.

Why did you pick these particular posts?

A few years ago I started creating GIFs that are Phenakistiscopes. I couldn’t find any resources on how to make Phenakistiscopes, but I found lots of tons of centuries old Phenakistiscopes that were making amazing GIFs. I sort of backwards engineered my own method of making them and I continue to explore this medium with GIFs. There’s a lot to be learned by limiting yourself to a small number of frames. I keep thinking I’m done making these but every time I work on one, I learn a new animation trick.

(Below are specific mentions of the artists @catswilleatyou chose posts from.)

@volvulent is a mysterious artist to me. I know nothing about their personal life. I’ve never been able to find them on other social media platforms. I feel so fortunate to have stumbled on their work many years ago. They are a complete master of organic form and hand drawn infinite loops. You can follow some of the shapes on these drawings for several seconds, and then when you go back and study the art closely, you discover that the whole looping sequence is only fraction of a second long.

@katecursed uses old and outdated technology in ways I’ll never understand. Tons of analog CRT TVs, oscilloscopes, old video games, and synths. I love it. She grew up around this stuff and is extremely knowledgeable. Her GIFs are timeless.

@alcrego is an absolute workhorse and in my opinion, a historically important GIF artist. He has an instantly recognizable voice using almost entirely black and white. I think he would even go so far as to say he only uses light. The minimalism is always deceptive—there is so much depth to his exploration of GIF as an artistic medium.

I’ve also chosen some very “classic” looking @kidmograph GIFs. I credit kidmograph with bringing the retro/video game style back into fashion about a decade ago. When he started posting this stuff, I hadn’t seen anything like it. Shortly after (and still to this day), there was a huge movement of artists that co-opted this approach. I wanted to include their work here because when you see this look, I want you to know where the echo started. I also want to say that this is just one of many tricks kidmograph has. They explore a wide range of styles and approaches, and they are continually evolving.

@mrdiv always had such a knack for color, compositing, and simplicity. When I was first learning 3D, they were a great artist for me to study because I saw how much emotion and reaction they can get with using very very little. I love the minimalism of their work.

I love how @maxcapacity incorporates vintage equipment in his process to create such wild psychedelic GIFs. They’re always pretty saturated with lovely colors. For me, there’s a heavy hitting moment with this work where I’m watching my childhood get spit back to me in perhaps a more truthful version than I even recall it. It’s hard to explain but the nostalgia lures me in, and then I’m cut with a darkness by them. There’s also some humor sprinkled in.

@zbags’s work is instantly recognizable with the way they use creepy lively eyeballs behind faces. Collin’s work is disturbing and fun. There’s always an added bonus in reading his wild descriptions and titles. When there was a file size limit to GIFs being posted on Tumblr, I was always impressed by their ability to get a very long and detailed animation into a small file. I think he’s doing lots of frame rate tricks I still don’t think I’ve ever figured it out.

Find out more about Artists Picks here!

#artist picks #catswilleatyou #gif #the art of gif

[cyle]

The major costs of Tumblr are just storage and access CPM, right? Would optimizing the way posts are stored and compressing the data more efficiently significantly cut costs?

no... i believe the biggest cost of tumblr are the (extremely small number of) people working on it. maybe after that is bandwidth and then storage and then compute power? it's been a little while since i've looked at that breakdown though, so i could have that mixed up.

regardless, yeah, yet another reason we invested a lot of time in the Neue Post Format was to save on storage costs and compute costs -- it's cheaper to compress, store, serialize, and deserialize, than our old post format.

but the thing that really takes up the most space are images and videos anyway, that's probably like 95% of our storage. at one point we had the biggest Amazon S3 storage bucket in the world (i don't know if that's still true).

[vimbry]

I'm personally super into creating art to appear like vhs rips. the kind of thing intended to strike the nostalgia of a false memory in others, or just the fun, indulgent novelty of seeing what your own creations would look like were they to exist in that format. but it's got me wondering - what will imitations of the early dvd-to-online video sharing era look like?

as technology improves and aims for perfection, it becomes harder to spot any distinctive flaws to replicate that easily communicate the time period.

maybe deliberately compressed jpeg artifacts, like screenshots passed around from 240p videos? mock-ups of DVD menus? resurgence of thick macromedia flash vector lineart with shiny highlights in the colouring style?

[verifying-gimmick-posts]

i recommend checking out @colortracker because it would be funny to see you fight him over colors in his posts

Gimmick Post Verification Status: UNIQUE (see below)

The gimmick blog @colortracker is a human-run blog that examines post contents, most often images but also other forms of visual content such as gifs and videos, and attempts to roughly quantify how many colors are present. According to the blog's pinned post, only the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, and gray are counted. Each post receives a score out of 8, the score representing how many of the aforementioned colors are present in the content.

From observations, this blog seemingly builds controversy, intentionally or otherwise, due to the issue of color identification bias. This is a problem that effects several fields of research, study, software development, and even fashion design and marketing. Generally speaking, "objective" color identifications are bad. Human vision and perception is an extremely complicated topic, and humans don't visually process 100% of the information they are seeing, including color. Color is mostly an approximation, your brain kinda "guesses" what color is the "most" apparent or applicable in any instance. The first half of this video ("What Color Is My Hoodie?") by Tom Scott is a good launching point for understanding color perception.

The reason I am giving all of this context and information is to demonstrate that color is, objectively, subjective. "Objective" colors are less useful in practical fields than the general consensus (source is the same as in the first sourced statement). I cannot use a precise color code identifier to dispute this gimmick blog, because color is an example of qualia. I could easily squash and stretch any image, pick out individual pixels and especially use generation loss and compression (a whole other topic that also relates to this blog) to show "definitive" proof that, on my monitor, the "True Blue" theme of Tumblr contains bright red. Alternatively, I could link to an article from when "The Dress" was a meme.

Controversy relating to this blog's determinations & objective/subjective colors are also influenced by Alexis Spectral Data and the digital imaging concept of color management.

On a less subjective note, this particular post contains a formatting error, where two additional colors, likely yellow and purple, are counted in the score but not listed in the post content.

#rating: unique #colortracker #viewer suggestion

[onecornerface]

YouTuber Tom Nicholas misrepresented Steven Pinker's statements on academic writing

Tom Nicholas’s YouTube video “Why is Academic Writing so Boring?” is wildly wrong and misleading in how it portrays Steven Pinker. Nicholas falsely accuses Pinker of making arguments that he very clearly does not make, and ignores almost everything Pinker actually says.

Several years ago, I read Pinker’s book The Sense of Style—a pretty great book about how to improve writing, especially academic writing. When I saw Nicholas’s video, which only focuses on Pinker’s much shorter essay “Why Academics Stink at Writing,” I noticed the view he attributes to Pinker bears little resemblance to the view Pinker develops in the book. But I wondered if maybe Pinker’s essay was indeed a lot dumber than the book, since authors often do a very bad job of compressing their ideas into short formats. So I read the essay—and found Nicholas’s portrayal was not a remotely reasonable interpretation.

For one thing, Nicholas speaks as if Pinker is opposed to academic jargon, which is not true. Pinker thinks some jargon is essential and useful, and that some jargon is gratuitous. Some version of this position is blatantly correct. Nicholas spends a LOT of his video defending the very idea of academic jargon—a view Pinker already agrees with! Nicholas and Pinker may well turn out to disagree on the specifics of what kinds of jargon are justified, but Nicholas can’t explore this idea since he’s misrepresenting Pinker as being opposed to all jargon.

In fact, Pinker mostly focuses on issues other than jargon—and Nicholas completely ignores all of this, despite its obvious relevance to the video topic.

On two occasions in the video, Nicholas presents a quote from Pinker (from page 1) out of context—making it sound as if Pinker is saying academics in the “softer sciences” generally write badly on purpose, “to hide the fact that they have nothing to say.” But the truth is, Pinker doesn’t express this theory himself. He says it is the most popular theory among non-academics! Then in the very next paragraph, he says: “Though no doubt the bamboozlement theory applies to some academics some of the time, in my experience it does not ring true. I know many scholars who have nothing to hide and no need to impress. They do groundbreaking work on important subjects, reason well about clear ideas, and are honest, down-to-earth people. Still, their writing stinks.” This is never mentioned in the video.

Nicholas very briefly mentions that Pinker gives several reasons why most academic writing is bad, but he gives the impression that the bamboozlement theory is an argument Pinker himself is putting forward. Nicholas completely omits the fact that Pinker says the theory “does not ring true.” And Nicholas completely leaves out any mention of the reasons that Pinker spends the entire rest of the essay discussing. Pinker rejects the notion that most bad academic writing is intentionally obscure. Instead, he gives a nuanced and charitable analysis appealing to several factors, many of them fairly innocent. A large portion of his analysis is the “curse of knowledge”—roughly, the tendency for an expert on X to fail to grasp what it’s like to not know much about X, and thus to fail to write in a manner that is comprehensible to someone who doesn’t already know the same stuff.

There is a popular notion that academic writing is generally bad on purpose, and that it is generally bad due to jargon. Some parts of Nicholas’s video are a half-decent rebuttal to this view. But he depicts Steven Pinker as the avatar of this view—a view Pinker explicitly rejects.

Nicholas occasionally mentions that he agrees a lot of academic writing is bad, but he never clarifies how. Meanwhile, Pinker has actually written a lot on diagnosing the problems and giving advice on how to improve it.

Nicholas speaks as if Pinker singles out the “soft” sciences (twice misrepresenting Pinker’s quote, as I mentioned). Pinker does later claim that the humanities have some distinctive writing problems (which may or may not be true, and may be worth exploring at length-- but Nicholas doesn’t even cite this part), but in the essay under discussion he simply does not dwell long on this. Pinker criticizes the writing style of “hard” science research studies numerous times. He also says some writing problems are especially severe in linguistics, his own field.

Finally, Nicholas essentially accuses Pinker of opposing jargon out of a desire to defend status quo capitalism and make it harder to engage in high-level critique of status quo capitalism. Pinker is a capitalist, and some of his political views are probably bad. The only Pinker book I’ve read is The Sense of Style, which barely discusses politics (except in the section where Pinker defends the singular ‘they’), so I can’t comment on that. All I know is that Nicholas blatantly and severely misrepresents the Pinker essay in the video, and none of Pinker’s political positions will change this fact or make it okay.

#steven pinker #academic writing #tom nicholas #youtube

[a-student-out-of-time]

This genuinely might be the first time I’ve ever had a problem with Kaede in ANYTHING! I get that she’s upset, I get that she’s angry, but this WASN’T Hajime’s fault! There’s still no guarantee that killing Shirogane will stop any of this, and she doesn’t seem to realise just how much pressure he’s putting himself under already just to fix this. It honestly feels like if Hajime does ONE WRONG THING, the entire universe suffers for it, and that’s still somehow HIS fault!? I don’t get it at all.

//I understand that, and you're absolutely right to disagree with her, but it's important to remember the context of what's going on here:

The Playbacks weren't happening live, they were information collected from Masa's memories in the future and assembled into a series of videos from her perspective. Nobody there was talking to anyone in 2013 or 2030 directly, nor did they know they would be. I know I had them answer some asks, but that was because some questions were easier to answer in that format, rather than just compressing them all into giant text posts.

Kaede is still a teenager and she just lost her sister and her father, so she's bound to be emotional and make conclusions that aren't actually true.

This isn't ALL Hajime's fault, despite what she said. Hajime's actions unintentionally set up a situation where people like Matsuda and Shirogane could take advantage of it, and then things progressed through a much larger chain of events from there. Hajime was only one small part of it and he didn't intend for any of it to happen like it did.

We've seen things objectively, but Kaede has only ever heard about how all this got started from Sayuri, who's spent decades in this timeline in hiding and being very resentful of her parents for what happened with Kanade. She's an unreliable narrator, but also Kaede's only source of information.

This Kaede has no idea time travel technology exists. The crew in 2030 were able to record Masa's memories from that future with a lot of work. From Kaede's perspective, she was just angrily venting to someone who once knew her grandfather and is left trying to understand why he didn't do more to stop Shirogane.

//Personally, I'd say this all really is Shirogane's fault, but I also can't entirely blame Kaede for being angry and trying to process it all.

//Either way, the goal is to show that this future needs to be corrected, and I'd say we have a lot of reasons to do so ^^;

#mod talks #a student out of time

[y2klostandfound]

New Game Express - Rez on Game Players magazine Vol.24 (Video game magazine)(Hong Kong)(07/11/2001)

Translation in English:

Machine type: DC/PS2 Publisher/Manufacturer: SEGA/UGA Genre : STG Release date: November 22 Price: 6800 Yen Capacity : DVD-ROM/GD-ROM Memory: DC: 9 Blocks PS2: 53kb

The new generation of physical shooting games A new sense of sound and light

The new type of music beat game "Space Channel 5" produced by SEGA and UGA, which was a sensation in the entire game industry and won many awards and prizes, and two years after the release of this work, they will work together again to develop a new music-themed physical shooting game "Rez", and the PS2 and DC version will be released at the same time.

The special feature of this game is that when the enemy is knocked down, the game will play special music, coupled with a unique sense of pleasure, as well as in the light and vibration times the fusion of performance, the formation of this new era of physical game "Rez" was born.

GAME SYSTEM

The gameplay of this game is roughly the same as that of ordinary shooting games, but the stage will be to enter a world of computer space and eliminate the viruses that invaded it. In terms of operation, only the direction control is needed and the X button is used to release the missile (Layer). When the player's hand leaves the button, the enemy will be automatically calmed down. A maximum of several enemies can be locked at the same time.

After pressing the O button for a certain period of time, you can launch an OverDrive attack with the energy bar at the bottom right of the screen. As for the player to shoot down some very heavy energy enemies, the background music subtle changes, If the enemies are knocked down rhythmically, the auditory effect of music harmony can be played!

THE STORY OF "REZ"

The story of this game is about a network company that has adopted a new central network system called "Project-K", but just when the core artificial intelligence "eden" is about to officially operate, it has an enormous amount of intelligence, It was suddenly dormant and unable to function. So, as a player, you have to invade the computer space and revive the artificial intelligence "eden".

Game Flow

At the beginning of each edition, some common viruses appear. Players only need to calm them down to eliminate them. After knocking down a certain number of viruses, an object called NETWORK OPENING will appear. When it is successfully knocked down, the boss of this version will appear on the stage. As long as it is eliminated, the player can proceed to the first version, and finally liberate "eden" as the game goal. As for the music used in the game, they are all played by world famous music, including Ken lshii, DJ TSUYOSHI, Adam Freeland, Coldcut & Tim Bran, ebz, oval, Keiichi Sugiyama, etc.

Sense of Compression ↓ Audiovisual Effects ↓ Attack

Props that appear in the game

NETWORK OPENING

A lighted cube appears during the game, and the player needs to lock and destroy it in order to enter the next level and improve the ability of the machine.

OVER DRIVE

Shoot down the red objects that appear on specific targets. The main purpose is to fill up the energy bar at the bottom right of the screen , and use it to launch the special attack of Over Drive.

LEVEL UP

A blue object that appears when an enemy is knocked down. After successful recovery, the energy at the bottom left of the screen will increase by one bar; when a few bars are full, the machine's ability will be strengthened.

Peripheral Machine I TRANCE VIBRATOR

In order to thoroughly enjoy the music rhythm in the game, this work will launch a somatosensory device corresponding to the USB terminal together with the PS2 version. The vibration produced by this device is different from that of DUAL SHOCK, and the game will have a different vibration effect when different music is played. As for the price, the same version of the game is 8,800 yen, and the individual purchase is 2,480 yen. In addition, the game also launched a super deluxe limited edition. In addition to the game and TRANCE VIBRATION, there are also special T-Shirt, vibrating Head Phone and Wristband. The quantity is limited to 500 sets. Unfortunately, it is only available for reservations in Japan. The price is 12,800 yen.

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