Darkness Ascendant he/him Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 Just now, Mestiv said: We talk about anything we want. Just write something and maybe you'll start a new subject I know, but i wanted to know what you were talking about before (quoting plays?the Bible?idk) because it seemed interesting.
Mestiv he/him Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 Just now, Darkness Ascendant said: I know, but i wanted to know what you were talking about before (quoting plays?the Bible?idk) because it seemed interesting. Honor Spren made a picture with a quote from Hamilton, there were a couple posts about an online D&D character test, bible quotes came as an offspring of Father's Day mention. It's hard to write a summary of a Random Thread
Darkness Ascendant he/him Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Mestiv said: Honor Spren made a picture with a quote from Hamilton, there were a couple posts about an online D&D character test, bible quotes came as an offspring of Father's Day mention. It's hard to write a summary of a Random Thread So they were biblical quotes. Thanks for trying anyway Are you guys thinking of what I'm thinking? (something to do with Allomany) Edited June 20, 2016 by Darkness Ascendant 1
Delightful Posted June 20, 2016 Author Posted June 20, 2016 (edited) My brother has a beta app that feels like a miniclip game, but actually teaches how to code in Swift. I'm having fun with that. Edit: over heard today "I need a new soundtrack to my life that doesn't involve American history" And I've just downloaded the soundtrack so.....:D Edited June 20, 2016 by Delightful
Jo and the Bush all/any Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 2 hours ago, Iron Eyes said: Life can be tough sometimes. WHY IS THE CHILD FROZEN? 3
The Invested Beard Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 What you don't know at first is that you are seeing a brief glimpse into Dog Hell. The place where bad dogs end up, unable to reach their owner, damned to repeat the slide mistake over and over for eternity. Happy Monday. 3
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 1 minute ago, The Invested Beard said: What you don't know at first is that you are seeing a brief glimpse into Dog Hell. The place where bad dogs end up, unable to reach their owner, damned to repeat the slide mistake over and over for eternity. Happy Monday. Your basis for Dog Hell seems theologically unsound. And overly....Monday-inspired. 1
Edgedancer he/him Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 2 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: Your basis for Dog Hell seems theologically unsound. And overly....Monday-inspired. There aren't many dogs going to dog hell (they are to bussy being good boys in life), so the Dog Devil got kind of lazy.
Jo and the Bush all/any Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 Seriously though, can someone with photo/.gif/video editing skills please explain what is happening with that child? Was the dog edited into a picture of a slide? Or what?
Mestiv he/him Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 40 minutes ago, The Only Joe said: Seriously though, can someone with photo/.gif/video editing skills please explain what is happening with that child? Was the dog edited into a picture of a slide? Or what? I don't have the skills you mentioned, however I have some general knowledge about those things. When you open this GIF with GIMP or Photoshop or any other program that is able to handle GIFs properly, you'd see that there is only 1 frame/layer that contains the whole image of the dog, the slide, the boy and grass. All other 59 frames/layers consist of the dog changing position. This is a trick used in video encoding applied to GIF format. In a video there are two kinds of frames, I don't know their proper names, but let's call them base frames and transforming frames. Base frame is just like a photo, full information about what do display on the screen (just like a simple JPG). The transforming frames however consist of information on how to modify the previous frame, to achieve a new frame. Usually changes between two consecutive frames are very minor, so there is less information to store that way. So, a typical movie is made of a series of [base frame, transform, transform, transform...., base frame, transform, transform, transform, ...]. This is the reason why you can sometimes get short glitches while playing back a video, that go away after a couple of seconds. They go away when a new base frame is loaded... In summary, this GIF has one base frame and 59 transforming frames, that include only the dog and not the boy 4
The Sovereign Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 1 hour ago, The Only Joe said: WHY IS THE CHILD FROZEN? Column A: 1 hour ago, The Invested Beard said: What you don't know at first is that you are seeing a brief glimpse into Dog Hell. The place where bad dogs end up, unable to reach their owner, damned to repeat the slide mistake over and over for eternity. Happy Monday. Column B: 12 minutes ago, Mestiv said: I don't have the skills you mentioned, however I have some general knowledge about those things. When you open this GIF with GIMP or Photoshop or any other program that is able to handle GIFs properly, you'd see that there is only 1 frame/layer that contains the whole image of the dog, the slide, the boy and grass. All other 59 frames/layers consist of the dog changing position. This is a trick used in video encoding applied to GIF format. In a video there are two kinds of frames, I don't know their proper names, but let's call them base frames and transforming frames. Base frame is just like a photo, full information about what do display on the screen (just like a simple JPG). The transforming frames however consist of information on how to modify the previous frame, to achieve a new frame. Usually changes between two consecutive frames are very minor, so there is less information to store that way. So, a typical movie is made of a series of [base frame, transform, transform, transform...., base frame, transform, transform, transform, ...]. This is the reason why you can sometimes get short glitches while playing back a video, that go away after a couple of seconds. They go away when a new base frame is loaded... In summary, this GIF has one base frame and 59 transforming frames, that include only the dog and not the boy Joe, to aptly answer your question I am going to draw on the knowledge of Archer:
Jo and the Bush all/any Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 23 hours ago, Edgedancer said: I was on the way to either Lawful or Neutral Good but then quit halways through because most of the questions were phrased so poorly that I just refused to answer them. I'm using the site to make my own alignment quiz. Anyone want to suggest any questions?
Kaymyth she/her Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 1 hour ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: New chapter, everyone! I find it amusing that you are not only using the same first name for a character that I have used, but you are misspelling it exactly the same way as well. (Aiden)
The Invested Beard Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 2 hours ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: Your basis for Dog Hell seems theologically unsound. And overly....Monday-inspired. I'll admit it. Monday has made me grumpy.
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 18 minutes ago, Kaymyth said: I find it amusing that you are not only using the same first name for a character that I have used, but you are misspelling it exactly the same way as well. (Aiden) Brain sisters!
Oversleep Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 43 minutes ago, Kaymyth said: I find it amusing that you are not only using the same first name for a character that I have used, but you are misspelling it exactly the same way as well. (Aiden) Isn't Aiden an actual name?
+Slowswift Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 25 minutes ago, Oversleep said: Isn't Aiden an actual name? Yes, but I believe it's usually spelled "Aidan".
Haelbarde he/him Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 3 hours ago, The Only Joe said: Seriously though, can someone with photo/.gif/video editing skills please explain what is happening with that child? Was the dog edited into a picture of a slide? Or what? I know that the apps on my phone that let you make that sorta thing take a short burst of photos / a short video, and then you can select a region to animate, in this case, just the dog.
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted June 20, 2016 Posted June 20, 2016 1 hour ago, Oversleep said: Isn't Aiden an actual name? 1 hour ago, Slowswift said: Yes, but I believe it's usually spelled "Aidan". I've actually seen it used both ways, though I think I might've seen "Aiden" used slightly more often than "Aidan." I think the regions I've lived in liked creative misspellings. And the station I'm listening to played a song with the line "It must be love, it must be love/ I fall like a sparrow and fly like a dove." Except that's not what I heard. I heard, "I fall like a sparrow and fly like a duck." It does interesting things for the imagery. 2
Sunbird she/her Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 (edited) On the subject of spelling variations in names... In most cases, I think different spellings for relatively common names can be nice, as long as they're not so "out there" that nobody can guess how to spell it within a few tries. For example--I like the name Raven for a girl, but I would never spell it Rayvyn, as I have heard of some parents doing. And then there's this... Edited June 21, 2016 by Sunbird Whoaaa huge image. Spoilered now. 2
Aonar he/him Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 1 hour ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: I've actually seen it used both ways, though I think I might've seen "Aiden" used slightly more often than "Aidan." I think the regions I've lived in liked creative misspellings. Aiden is actually significantly more common of a spelling for the name than Aidan. (They're both correct, although Aidan is slightly closer to the original Gaelic Aodhan.) Much to my mild annoyance, because it means my name is constantly spelled wrong on various documents. 1
Mestiv he/him Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 (edited) It's interesting how you can pretty much name your child however you want in USA... In Poland you would have to fight a very hard battle against government workers in couple of different offices if you wanted to give your child a name that can't be found on any calendar or some other list of used names. (They go easy on foreigners at least and allow them to use names from their culture)... Edited June 21, 2016 by Mestiv Autocorrect :/
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted June 21, 2016 Posted June 21, 2016 3 minutes ago, Mestiv said: It's interesting how you can pretty much name your child however you want in USA... In Poland you would have to fight a very hard battle against government workers in couple of different offices if you wanted to give your child a name that can't be found on any calendar or some other list of used names. (They go easy on foreigners at least and allow them to use names from their culture)... I've heard about countries that do that. Coming from a nation where celebrities name their kids Apple and Bronx, and a man once legally changed his name to Ynot Bubba, restricting names seems a bit odd to me.
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