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I'd be interested to learn about the software that created the ASCII version of the movie. Is there a simple way to do this, or would they have made something custom?
Slightly off topic, but I find the fascination with ASCII-arting things interesting. I grew up in the days of 2400 baud modems and even ran a BBS briefly. At the time, ASCII art was the only thing you could do to differentiate yourself. Nowadays I suppose it's a combination of nostalgia and ease of transferring since pretty much every system ever has a way of reading ASCII. But I wonder how long the trend will last -…
A bunch of young Swift fans came with their parents and it was a good introduction for some kids as to what you can do with programming
Some images: https://www.facebook.com/dmitricherniak/media_set?set=a.5502...
A video rendering I made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hyfGkkFoOw
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No, the goal is to remove Lucas' artistic touches and get as close as possible to the original theatrical releases. Color correction means reversing all the color changes that Lucas made to the movies. Where higher quality film of a scene exists, they splice it in. Etc. If you google a bit you can find a detailed explanation of the changes.
For the record, the proper way to make a possessive out of a name that ends in s is just to use 's. It should be Lucas's. s' is only for when something is owned by more than one object. Think animals' house where there are several animals. http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/possessives.htm
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I've "solved" this by having torrents go to a "Torrents" folder, then symlinking those files into my organized collection.
I hardlink them instead. Then I can prune them from the torrents folder without affecting the organized file.
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There's a bunch of Phantom Edits; the name's been reused several times. The one I watched was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9LEhOZZbuk All three prequel movies edited down into a single 2-hour film. And you know what? It's actually... still not what you'd call good. But it's embarrassingly better than the originals. But there are others, like the Phantom Re-edit, which tries to improve on characters like Jar…
How come this is still on YouTube? Isn't this copyright infringement?
"All trademarked and copyrighted liscences are property
of their repsective owners."
With 1m+ views, it's nice to see it's made it so long. Don't feel good about its prospects for much longer though!
I'd be interested to learn about the software that created the ASCII version of the movie. Is there a simple way to do this, or would they have made something custom?
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To make it work i think the client should have some hard drive space allocated for the purpose of "preservation" , which he can automatically use according to some reasonable policy(maybe only files i downloaded can be put in the folder) and it should allocate some share of my bandwidth for that purpose. Than the client automatically manages everything with coordination from the network. That's the only way this can…
There are distributed data stores that work just like this. IPFS ( https://ipfs.io/ ) is a recent effort, while Freenet ( https://freenetproject.org/ ) has been around for a while. Whether this can be retrofitted into Bittorrent not clear. Conceivably one could write a bridge between IPFS and Bittorrent such that an IPFS url could serve as an "IPFS seed" much like a HTTP url can serve as a BEP 19 webseed.
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I watched Ep 1 again recently and IMHO Anikin is the worst part, not Jar Jar. Most of Jar Jar's scenes are blissfully short and at least the kids enjoy slapstick. Anikin entertains nobody, and he's critical to the plot. And he destroyed the enemy force by accident.
I can't argue about any of that - I just found that Jar Jar was STRUCTURALLY problematic, not plot problematic.
Slightly off topic, but I find the fascination with ASCII-arting things interesting. I grew up in the days of 2400 baud modems and even ran a BBS briefly. At the time, ASCII art was the only thing you could do to differentiate yourself. Nowadays I suppose it's a combination of nostalgia and ease of transferring since pretty much every system ever has a way of reading ASCII. But I wonder how long the trend will last -…
I recently had a solo art show consisting entirely of ASCII Art works based on Taylor Swift, and it was quite successful. Probably 300 people came and I'm a veritable nobody. A bunch of young Swift fans came with their parents and it was a good introduction for some kids as to what you can do with programming Some images: https://www.facebook.com/dmitricherniak/media_set?set=a.5502... A video rendering I made: https:…