I got it to work and my grand child liked the "Haunted M&M's" that make their name
Thanks!
Show HN: Make a video of any word forming out of candy
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#32That was fun. Thanks for sharing.
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#33“Designed while making love to a bunch of old men”, what is that supposed to mean? Edit: I guess it’s some kind of frivolous random quote generator. Confusing and awkward.
Yes, it's a random byline generator. I had fun with it while making this, getting a new byline every time I tested the site. I replaced it with a real byline now.
I think it’s just that the one I got was attention grabbing in the wrong way, enough that it was hard not to interpret it as being somehow significant for the whole site.
I think the whimsy/random thing can work, but putting sexual references in there just makes it feel immature.
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#34How long did that take you to make, ballpark?
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry. I was running out of memory on the queue server, so had to restart the server many times while fixing it. Instead of caching all the render results in memory, they are now being served from disk instead, which should solve the issue.
Super excited to see results but reporting same issue just now...
And fixed, thank you this is great fun! Font choice possible?
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#36I'm a video maker and this is very cool! Good job
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#37“Designed while making love to a bunch of old men”, what is that supposed to mean? Edit: I guess it’s some kind of frivolous random quote generator. Confusing and awkward.
Yes, it's a random byline generator. I had fun with it while making this, getting a new byline every time I tested the site. I replaced it with a real byline now.
Ha, I got something about making love with monkeys and thought that sentence was lost in translation.
> getting a new byline every time I tested the site.
Did you make sure that it is new every time? I'd say a simple timestamp would be a better choice.
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#39How does this work behind the scenes? Seems rather alot of work to put text on candy - can you explain the purpose of it more please? Presumably it is made with Blender at the back end judging from the random quote generator "Created while running away from a squad of offensive drunk guys who are fans of the black skills of Blender." UPDATE: This looks like an interesting thing - I'd like to hear more about it - but…
> can you explain the purpose of it more please?
Look carefully at the bottom line of the home page and all will be revealed
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#40Pretty fun doing this with unusual unicode characters, like the various emojis.