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Re: VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion

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Post by dpflan » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 10:08 AM UTC

pants2 wrote: post #25

hatmanstack wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Removed the mother. Enjoying 9 seasons of a man cornering his teenagers on a couch, describing every woman he's ever dated.

Removed the ring. Just watching three movies of Frodo and friends living life in Hobbiton.

Reminded me of "Garfield Minus Garfield" - https://garfieldminusgarfield.net/

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Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.

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Re: VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion

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Post by postsantum » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 10:11 AM UTC

actionfromafar wrote: post #46

postsantum wrote: post #27

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Inserted myself to Friends. Endlessly rewatching every epidode trying hard to disassociate from my real self

That’s the usual mode of watching Friends these days? :)

Nobody can afford real friends in this economy

Re: VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion

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Post by teaearlgraycold » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 10:20 AM UTC

mkl wrote: post #47

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #19

I don't see any demos. Did I miss something? Not interested in running a Colab.

You missed the embedded video near the top.

Thanks. Shockingly the GitHub iOS app just completely omits that.

Re: VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion

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Post by the_af » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 12:33 PM UTC

conception wrote: post #12

the_af wrote: post #10

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Why China? I see this being used in many countries, especially in the West. We've crashed head straight into a dystopian future. But worry not! The crash can be edited out of reality.

Which films have had items censored out of them for release?

> Which films have had items censored out of them for release?

I said "I see this being used" as an idiom for "this is likely to be used soon" ("I see this happening in the near future"), not that I've seen this used already. But, like the commenter who responded to you showed, movies already get edited to censor things.

Re: VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion

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Post by gosub100 » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 3:55 PM UTC

postsantum wrote: post #27

hatmanstack wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Removed the mother. Enjoying 9 seasons of a man cornering his teenagers on a couch, describing every woman he's ever dated.

Inserted myself to Friends. Endlessly rewatching every epidode trying hard to disassociate from my real self

That's actually a really good idea. It would be like fanfic except replacing actors instead of writing new plots. Die hard fans of various shows would go banas over it.

Re: VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion

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Post by RunningDroid » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 7:51 PM UTC

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #53

mkl wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You missed the embedded video near the top.

Thanks. Shockingly the GitHub iOS app just completely omits that.

The Android app does the same thing

Re: VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion

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Post by Dylan16807 » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 10:19 PM UTC

dryarzeg wrote: post #44

croes wrote: post #40

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Given the current situation in the world why do you not think about technology can be misused, especially if it’s VFX. I guess I have seen more AI generated spam ads than content created for the intended purpose.

> Given the current situation in the world why do you not think about technology can be misused, especially if it’s VFX. I think the point of the parent was that while you need to think about how this technology can be misused, that's not the only thing you need to and can think about.

If that's the point then it was a dumb point to begin with because there were a whole two top level comments mentioning censorship at the time. Technically it was a majority, but only because so few people had commented.