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Re: Show HN: Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023

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Amazing! I hope vector stuff makes a comeback, especially since its useful in tandem with AI (like with diffusion video nets + controlnet). You are right about it being incompressible, among other things. I am going to restart it and see how much NVENC butchers it. EDIT: Usual CQP settings are going absolutely bonkers. EDIT2: https://youtu.be/6x3WUw12kKE

The 2016 demoscene production "Through the Cracks" has some similarly catastrophic effects on Youtube's encoder, particularly around 2:30:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N5CLcSkkWs

Re: Show HN: Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023

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Bravo, dude. The analogy I go to is that of a living versus a dead language, which I got from my dad. He was a professional cellist for years before he said screw it, got an MBA, and went into finance, and I always thought this was some tragic compromise on his part—but when I finally asked him about it (well into my twenties and figuring out my own career) he said it was nothing of the sort: finance back then (~late…

How do you even start writing counterpoint? What's the actual theory there?

Re: Show HN: Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023

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Amazing! I hope vector stuff makes a comeback, especially since its useful in tandem with AI (like with diffusion video nets + controlnet). You are right about it being incompressible, among other things. I am going to restart it and see how much NVENC butchers it. EDIT: Usual CQP settings are going absolutely bonkers. EDIT2: https://youtu.be/6x3WUw12kKE

The 2016 demoscene production "Through the Cracks" has some similarly catastrophic effects on Youtube's encoder, particularly around 2:30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N5CLcSkkWs

Even 80000k CQP HEVC at 2160x2160 looks pretty janky.

Yeah, catastrophic is a good descriptor.

Re: Show HN: Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023

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This is very cool. It sent me down a rabbit hole of NG’s Flash Forward submissions that ultimately triggered a strong sense of nostalgia for the late ‘00s and ‘10s. There was a lot of kid culture here at the time. I’m not familiar enough to know (probably since I don’t have kids), but I get the impression that in some ways New Grounds was for my generation what Roblox is for kids today. Can anyone attest to this?

It makes me wonder what a resurgence of flash via Ruffle.rs could mean for the web today. That being said, there are also a lot of exciting ways to make this kind of content today now too.

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