I LOLed. Amazing. Bravo!
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can also watch Star War on terminal
Well, the first several minutes, anyway. Some future civilization which recovers only ASCII Star Wars will be unaware how the story ends. It will be a subject of great debate among scholars.
That's so sad. They'll never know the classic line "Soy tu padre mijo"
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#23When the apocalypse happens, I am sure of two things: 1) I will be able to play DOOM on something. 2) I will be able to watch Bad Apple on something. I suppose there are worse fates.
It'll be like that episode of The Twilight Zone with the guy's glasses when you find a CD with Crysis on it but only have a Voodoo 5 installed.
That would be wild but very funny. They are rare now but in the bizarro land, Nvidia never exists!
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#24So 8000001 bits? Not byte.
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#25i did similar for dns https://youtu.be/AJ2Q12vYojY
awesome
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#26Incredible concept and execution! Long, axe-grindy aside: I wish people had collectively decided on some other mostly-black-and-white video to use for this kind of thing than Bad Apple. As a stereotypically nerdy-looking socially awkward male in a world where that is often enough all by itself to be viewed as "a creep", I feel pressured to distance myself from anything that others might interpret as confirmation of t…
You're not wrong. Until the 2010s, a Playboy centerfold[1] was the most popular test image. Around the same time that got canceled, Bad Apple was popularized for video tests.
> And so I long for the day when BA just... goes away.
I honestly thought it had gone away. Every time I see Bad Apple, I assume a millennial weeb from the past is behind the demo and I check if the upload date is from before 2020. It usually is, and the project is now unmaintained.
Anyway, unlike Lenna, I don't think I've ever seen Bad Apple used for anything important. It's much easier to ignore. Your annoyance is valid, but only in the same sense as thinking graffiti is tacky. People don't look at it and think "Oh shit! JJ wuz here?! Watch out!".
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#27ssh to funky.nondeterministic.computer for some similar fun.
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#28Incredible concept and execution! Long, axe-grindy aside: I wish people had collectively decided on some other mostly-black-and-white video to use for this kind of thing than Bad Apple. As a stereotypically nerdy-looking socially awkward male in a world where that is often enough all by itself to be viewed as "a creep", I feel pressured to distance myself from anything that others might interpret as confirmation of t…
> the clip plainly can be interpreted in this way, and that suffices.
I have literally never seen someone interpret it this way in the 17 years the video has been making the rounds to tens of millions of people on the internet. There is nothing in the video that could possibly be construed as sexual by any human being with even the most tenuous grip on reality. It would take some insanely misogynistic mental gymnastics like "girl + dancing = sexual" to reach that conclusion. If someone did interpret it this way and raise a fuss, the correct response would be to ignore them for being a completely unhinged Twitter weirdo. Pre-emptively avoiding things you enjoy because of how they might be interpreted by unhinged Twitter weirdos is itself unhinged.
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#29Incredible concept and execution! Long, axe-grindy aside: I wish people had collectively decided on some other mostly-black-and-white video to use for this kind of thing than Bad Apple. As a stereotypically nerdy-looking socially awkward male in a world where that is often enough all by itself to be viewed as "a creep", I feel pressured to distance myself from anything that others might interpret as confirmation of t…
As a fellow creep - just don't watch it while riding a bus or working in an open space. It's ok to exercise your privacy.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, the first several minutes, anyway. Some future civilization which recovers only ASCII Star Wars will be unaware how the story ends. It will be a subject of great debate among scholars.
That's so sad. They'll never know the classic line "Soy tu padre mijo"
Or learn about the role of Cerveza Cristal in a galaxy far, far away.