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Subreddit for Dreamcatcher, a K-pop girl group under Dreamcatcher Company. A place for Dreamcatcher news, info, photos, videos, GIFs, discussions and more!
Welcome to /freestylerap! Freestyle is the name. Off the top freestyle is the game. We are the number one source of Reddit freestyle raps and off the dome accessories. Welcome to freestyle rap.
This is for creative people looking to practice the art of sampling! This is not limited to just hip hop production, we welcome all musicians and mix-masters. Maybe you'll make some connections here and connect with other vocalists/lyricists who want to use your work/collaborate afterwards. Even if you don't want to sample, this is a great database of interesting music hand-picked by the users of samplebattles!
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201206 BTS @ The 2020 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) (6PM KST/9AM UTC)
#1 Billboard Hot 100 and Grammy-Nominated Artists BTS @ The 2020 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA)
Hello everyone! Quick! Grab your army bomb and your snacks, cause MAMA waits for no one! This thread will be used to compile all things 2020 MAMA in one place. Post all questions, discussions, etc. related to the show here! Please note: If BTS posts anything from their official SNS or YouTube channel, it can have its own thread outside of this compilation. If someone very notable, like Yoo Jae Suk or Lee Dong Wook (Come through for W, Representative Lee) tweets about BTS they can have their own post, too! For everything else, please add it as a comment below and tag a mod so we can add it to the list.
Performances by: BTS, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, BoA, SHINee's Taemin, Twice, Seventeen, Mamamoo, GOT7, Monsta X, Jessi, ENHYPEN, (G)I-DLE, IZ*ONE, NCT, OH MY GIRL, Stray Kids, ATEEZ, The Boyz, JO1, TREASURE, CRAVITY, aespa's Winter. Suga is still recovering from his shoulder surgery and will not be participating in this performance.
Presenter lineup: Lee Jung Jae, Park Seo Joon, Uhm Jung Hwa, James Corden, Im Soo Jung, Lee Da Hee, Park Ha Sun, Jeon Hye Jin, SNSD's Sooyoung, Gong Myung, Kim Ji Suk, Bae Jung Nam, Lee Do Hyun, Lee Sang Yeob, and many more!
The theme this year is "gate to NEW-TOPIA": Main teaser
Please note: The above categories are those that have been announced and for which the fans could vote in previous weeks. Some awards, like Album of the Year (Daesang) and Worldwide Icon of the Year (Daesang), are not fan-voted and the nominees for these have yet to be announced so I haven't included them despite BTS being almost guaranteed a nomination.
TvN Asia is broadcasting the show in the following countries: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.
Discord information listed on the wiki. Remember that all rules of the sub apply in the server too. Refer to the #rules and #announcements channels on the server for more info. Head over to the #livestream channel to discuss the show!
TL;DR: Message r_bangtandiscord to get a server invite link. Be mindful of the rules to avoid being banned. To be updated as it happens.
201218 BTS @ 2020 KBS Gayo Daechukje (Red Carpet 7PM KST / Show 8:30PM KST)
BTS @ 2020 KBS Gayo Daechukje (Red Carpet 7PM KST / Show 8:30PM KST)
Hello everyone! This thread will be used to compile all things 2020 KBS Gayo Daechukje in one place. Post all questions, discussions, etc. related to the show here! Please note: If BTS posts anything from their official SNS or YouTube channels, it can have its own thread outside of this compilation. If someone very notable, like Yoo Jae Suk or Lee Dong Wook (Come through for W, Representative Lee) tweets about BTS they can have their own post, too! For everything else, please add it as a comment below and tag a mod so we can add it to the list.
Hosts: TVXQ's Yunho, ASTRO's Cha Eun Woo, Shin Ye Eun
Backstage Hosts: TXT's Soobin and Oh My Girl's Arin (regular Music Bank hosts)
Performances by: BTS, JYP & Sunmi, TWICE, SHINee’s Taemin, Mamamoo, Paul Kim, GFRIEND, GOT7, IZ*ONE, SEVENTEEN, Kim Yeonja, Seol Undo, OH MY GIRL, MONSTA X, NCT, Tomorrow X Together, NU'EST, MOMOLAND, Jessi & GOT7's Jackson, (G)I-DLE, ITZY, Stray Kids, ASTRO, The Boyz, aespa and ENHYPEN. Suga is still recovering from his shoulder surgery and will not be participating in this performance.
This is NOT an award show. The KBS Gayo Daechukje ("Song Festival") is essentially a huge Music Bank episode to celebrate the year in music. Expect collab stages.
Discord information listed on the wiki. Remember that all rules of the sub apply in the server too. Refer to the #rules and #announcements channels on the server for more info. Head over to the #livestream channel to discuss the show!
Please remember our rules on personal conduct and drama. Don’t be unnecessarily rude, antagonizing or disrespectful towards the artists, other fandoms or each other. Don't be lewd. Rule-breaking comments may be removed without a removal comment during live events. Be nice and have fun! To be updated as it happens.
Welcome to the week 14 Official NFL Power Rankings! With circus catches and beatdowns alongside great games, there was plenty to discuss even before a MNF Scorigami that might already be airing on ESPN classic. 32/32 Reporting
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Record
Comment
1.
Chiefs
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12-1
The Dolphins gave the Chiefs all they could handle in the first quarter of Sunday's game, but the Chiefs once again proved that when they are focused, they are the most dangerous team in the NFL. Travis Kelce, the NFL's leading receiver currently, had another monster game showing why he's a future hall of famer. However, after having five 10+ point wins in the first eight weeks of the season, the Chiefs last five wins have all been won by one score. Will this trend ultimately matter come playoff time? It's hard to argue with results, as the Chiefs 12-1 record is the best record through 13 games in franchise history. The ultimate barometer for the Chiefs is this week as they travel to play the Saints, hopefully with Drew Brees. Many questions will be answered in this clash of two top five teams.
2.
Packers
+2
10-3
There always seems to be one Lions-Packer game a year that ends up being some kind of adventure. Rodgers and Adams were as good as ever but the Lions kept on lingering throughout the game. Mason "Silver Fox" Crosby nailed an insurance 58 yard field goal with 3:30 to play and made a touchdown-saving tackle on the immediate kickoff. Aside from Crosby, the special teams really leave a lot to be desired, especially after the hands team almost allowed a onside kick recovery (c'mon y'all I don't need Bostic flashbacks). Packers officially won the division game and are now the projected 1 seed, which is pretty neat ngl. Onto a Saturday game I guess?
3.
Bills
+2
10-3
For a team that was searching desperately in 2019 for a signature win, the 2020 Bills have found them everywhere they turn. This team has had one of the toughest schedules in the league, but except for a couple games they've shown up every time they've had to. This is the second-best team in the conference. The Bills bandwagons are circling now. Josh Allen's extending his baseball glove-sized hand. He says "get in nerds, we're goin' to the Super Bowl."
4.
Saints
-1
10-3
This loss = Hurts. Dennis Allen seemingly had no answers for the rookie QB and then Miles Sanders piled on as well. "All the things we didn't want to allow happen, happened in that game." This was Sean Payton's post-game assessment and it's fair. Taysom Hill had an acceptable statline but it hides how sloppy he looked on the field. The defense struggled with its assignment to contain Hurts and keep him from getting outside the pocket - a worrying sign considering the next QB on the schedule.
5.
Steelers
-3
11-2
The Steelers schedule has been insane. 6 days between NYG and DEN. 14 days between HOU and PHI. 10 days between JAX and BAL. But with that BAL game, the Steelers played them, WFT and BUF in 12 days. 3 games in 12 days. The team is out of LBs and OL. This has been a challenging season for everyone, but this is unprecedented. The Steelers have 8 days until CIN, then 6 days until IND. 10 out of 16 games played with an irregular schedule? You can argue the drops are kicking their ass, but this schedule has been brutal. No wonder they've lost 2 straight.
6.
Rams
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9-4
Imagine only scoring 3 points in a game.
7.
Colts
+1
9-4
Kenny Moore is a player underrated by national media but massively valuable to the Colts. GM Chris Ballard made re-signing him a priority after his breakout 2018 season. Moore has been a reliable performer throughout his tenure as a Colt and added an exclamation point with his insane one-handed interception on Sunday.
8.
Titans
+1
9-4
Derrick Henry had his second 200+ yard 2 TD game against the Jaguars on Sunday. The performance made Henry the 7th player to rush for 1,500+ yards and 14+ TDs through 13 games.
9.
Seahawks
+1
9-4
Nothing cures suicidal thoughts losing like playing the Jets, baby. Sunday was never much of a game, as it was all Seahawks all day. Russell Wilson threw for 4 touchdowns, Jamal Adams broke the single season sack record for defensive backs, and Geno Smith got to play a full quarter against the team that drafted him. What a way to get over a bad loss to the Giants. Up next the Seahawks will take on their final NFC East opponent of the season; Football Team.
10.
Ravens
+2
8-5
This ranker is a brown man, writing about how Lamar Jackson lost 20 pounds dropping some brown, dropping a TD to Brown, to go ahead against the Browns. They go for two. So in response, K-hunt ties the game, 42-42. In response, the Llama sets up the GOAT to nail a 54-yarder, 16th game winner of his career! To say nothing else of the game -- 9 total fucking rushing touchdowns, tying a record held since two defunct teams played each other before anyone on reddit was born... and Jackson runs for a MNF QB record 124 yards -- but still gets all the clutch plays done with his arm, with this middling group of receivers. The even greater news amidst all this is that the schedule doesn't look so bad in the closing stretch, and inspired play like this past Monday from the offense will ease the burden of the Ravens' gradually depleting secondary. Best wishes to Trace McSorely who made an extremely commendable effort to set them up for Lamar's return.
11.
Browns
-4
9-4
Did you bet the over? The Browns and Ravens combined for 89 points in an absolute rollercoaster of a game. While they did not win, the Browns have shown they are contenders. With two games to go a real shot at the playoffs is on the table. The Browns will face the Giants in another prime time game.
12.
Buccaneers
-1
8-5
The Buccaneers pulled off a 26-14 win over the Vikings, bringing their playoff chances to 94%. Vikes kicker Dan Bailey channeled his inner Gary Anderson to win the Bucs' game ball on an 0/3 kicking performance with an additional missed XP. Rookie Antoine Winfield Jr. played a disruptive game against his dad's former team and is looking like he has the potential to be one of the league's next great safeties. With only interim coaches to close out the remaining three games of the season, the Bucs should have smooth sailing into the Wild Card round.
13.
Dolphins
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8-5
There are no consolation prizes in the NFL, but a single score loss to the best team in the league while the backup waterboy is lining up in the slot is about as close to a one as you'll ever get. While he was able to pull off the win, even Patrick Mahomes couldn't keep this ball-hawking defense from getting a hold of the ball, often. And at some point, if people don't start talking about Xavien Howard in the DPOY conversation, he's just going to go intercept the damned award himself. Hopefully, the long, long list of injured Dolphins get well soon.
14.
Cardinals
+1
7-6
A monster day from Haason Reddick and the defense finally put the Cardinals back on the winning track. Breaking a franchise record with 5 sacks was one thing, but getting all the turnovers was huge. Hopefully the offense feeds off of it and has a good week in preparing for a big game with Philly that has huge playoff implications. It will take a complete team effort to beat Philly with Jalen Hurts starting fresh of a win against the Saints.
15.
Raiders
-1
7-6
The Raiders looked really bad against the Colts, just like they have for the better part of the last 6 weeks. Luckily Gruden finally made the call to fire Pauly G, something fans have been calling for for the past 2 seasons. Only time will tell if it's too little, too late. Every game from here on out is a must win if the Raiders want to make the playoffs.
16.
Washington FT
+3
6-7
Washington is finding ways to win instead of finding ways to lose. The offense was not able to score a TD so the defense went ahead and spotted them 14 points. Chase Young notches his first TD and continues to prove his worth as the 2nd overall pick as a game wrecker.
17.
Vikings
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6-7
Dalvin Cook became the first back to rush for over 100 yards against the Bucs in over 20 games, but the Vikings were unable to convert long drives into points as Dan Bailey went 0/4 on field goals and extra points. Couple that with some questionable officiating, the Vikings' banged up front seven generating zero pressure on Tom Brady and plenty of self-inflicted wounds and it all adds up to a real tough loss that knocks the Vikings down from wild card favorites to playoff long shots.
18.
Bears
+5
6-7
The Bears finally snapped their six-game losing streak by rolling over the Texans without much difficulty. Trubisky attempted one throw longer than 20 yards.
19.
Patriots
-3
6-7
Los Angeles, is a land of contrasts - In a span of four days the Patriots' hopes for a postseason were revived and then unceremoniously squashed. Run Defense, Offensive Line, Cam and the Receivers, There just are too many holes to cover up with week to week coaching, this team needs some reworking over the offseason. The Pats end the season with the division as always, lets hope to fuck someone’s season or seeding up. And also the Jets.
20.
49ers
-2
5-8
The 49ers defense did their job, holding the Washington offense to a total of 9 points, but the offense had two takeaways brought back for touchdowns and could not recover. The team looks to right the ship this week against the Cowboys.
It’s a real joy to watch the rest of the teams in the up-for-grabs NFC East secure wins, with one being against a top-5 team, all while watching your team play so poorly they start setting franchise records. At least we can say the hype was fun while it lasted, right?
23.
Falcons
-1
4-9
Outplayed by a team whose most impressive win is a tossup between the Bengals, Jaguars, and Jets? Check. Outcoached by special teams ace Anthony Lynn? Check. Ten point lead blown, two interceptions with under five minutes left, double check. Good thing age is just a number for the 32nd youngest team in the league.
24.
Panthers
-3
4-9
I'm not sure where the Panthers go from here. Coach Rhule has said that he isn't going to do the team and fans a disservice by beginning to evaluate players, which means that we're going to see more of Teddy Bridgewater (who is 0-7 in one score games this season) crumble at the end of the game. Playing at Lambeau in primetime in December is one of the hardest things a team can do, and it's not going to be an easy test for the Panthers, who so far have shown that they can't win close games, nor can they defend the pass (23rd in passing defense). It's going to be tough sledding, but hopefully Jeremy Chinn can continue his torrid pace and run his way into DROY.
25.
Eagles
+3
4-8-1
Jalen Hurts delivered the spark the Eagles needed to upset the Saints and spread 'quarterback controversy' all over the city of brotherly love. While the season remains a disappointment, the dual running threat of Hurts and Sanders could be interesting to watch going forward, and the NFC Least remains wide-open with 2 divisional games left on the 2020 menu.
26.
Lions
-1
5-8
Even with a loss, Interim HC Darrell Bevell showed that his Lions are here to compete. This game was never out of hands, and the Lions kept it close the entire time. There are still plenty of woes on Defense, but the Offense continued to ball out as expected. With two TD's coming from the run game (Swift and Kerryon), there is already something to look forward to next year. Lately the team has been able to trust the run on short yardage and redzone carries and it has helped the team with consistency in the red zone. Unfortunately, Aaron Rodgers is a QB that can carve up a weak secondary... so that didn't go great. There's around a 1% chance of the Lions getting a playoff spot, not unheard of, but it'll be tough if Stafford's injury progresses and we lose him for the season. #DefendTheDen
27.
Chargers
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4-9
First of all, props to Falcons Twitter for this gem before the game, and it played out exactly as expected. Both teams did their best to try giving it away at the end, but the Chargers ended up on the winning side this time around. The Chargers had their hiccups again but there were improvements across the board; Justin Herbert's 81.8% completion percentage is his highest of the season, the defense came away with 3 INTs, and special teams probably had their best day. The Chargers get a short week before a Thursday Night tilt in Las Vegas.
28.
Texans
-4
4-9
The Texans are lucky that Paxton is the Texas AG, otherwise they would have had the biggest blowout loss in the state this past week.
29.
Cowboys
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4-9
The Red Rifle won his revenge game, the defense forced multiple turnovers, and the Bengals were held to 3.4 yards per carry. All that, and the Cowboys still come out of the week with a top 5 draft pick. Honestly, Sunday couldn't have gone better. Now, the only question is whether this was the team turning the corner and the beginning of a strong finish to the season, or this was just a perfect moment of the Cowboys finding a shittier team with serious injuries issues and just doing what should happen in that scenario.
30.
Bengals
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2-10-1
Giovani Bernard hadn't fumbled since 2013 before his 1st quarter fumble on Sunday. So what does he get for his troubles? A spot on the bench thanks to Zac Taylor. Giovani was one of the only veterans who spoke out in behalf of Taylor and the current coaches when multiple articles were released with "sources" saying that Taylor had lost the locker room last month. You have to question the benching for multiple reasons as the directionless Bengals continue to flounder to blowout losses. Just another reason why this should be Zac Taylor's last season as head coach in Cincinnati.
31.
Jaguars
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1-12
This one felt more as expected. Perhaps it was in former GM Dave Caldwell's plans— no, wait, hear me out. Adjusting tinfoil hat; Based on the moves taken this offseason to seemingly dump talent from the Jaguars in attempt to amass more draft picks, perhaps the former front office of the Jaguars were banking on this season not being played, due to pandemic reasons. Sure, this may sound farfetched, but I'd like to hear a more reasonable explanation for fielding such a disaster as this team, this season.
32.
Jets
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0-13
The Jets have now scored on 7 consecutive opening drives, the longest streak in the NFL. After climbing to an early 3-0 lead, I watched Peter Sawkins make an excellent cranachan custard slice on The Great British Bake Off.
Code 8 came from "heterogram.mp4" in USB7 The video contains this text: BAD-OLE-MIX-YURTS CL6-3!9-O31-!379J This is the code but scrambled up. "bad ole mix yurts" is an anagram of ambidextrously. If you swap the letters around ('b' in position 1 goes to position 3, so 'c' is the 3rd character, etc.) you get the code.
LOC-245-511-90VXZ (video.mp4)
Code 9 came from video.mp4 in USB8 This text: < ;PV=356=622=0-BCX Take a look at your keyboard and move one letter left, this is how you get code 9 (; goes to L, P goes to O, etc.)
LOC-415-186-04LQL ( shortwaves.mp4)
Code 10 came from shortwaves.mp4 in USB9, which contains morse code .-.. --- -.-. -....- / -....- ....- .---- ..... -....- / -....- .---- ---.. -.... -....- / -....- ----- ....- .-.. --.- .-.. which directly translates to the code
LOC-913-883-74ZNB
Code 11 came from words.mp4 in USB10, which flashed a series of letters: S0572 LB641 FL133-TP34 TP93 TP11-PC24 PC21 TP11- L25 TP12 JB974 0TS476 TH481 S0 =Stressed Out LB= Lane Boy FL= Fairly Local TP=The pantaloon PC= Pet Cheetah L=LEvitate JB= Johnny Boy TH = THE HYPE OTS= Ode to Sleep
In USB-13 there is an "eye.jpg" picture. After opening it in a text editor, you can find there a list of places. After entering these places into Google Maps, and switching to satellite view, each place (building) forms a letter => the code.
LOC-482-156-33!SU
In USB14, numbersstation.mp3 has a woman speaking digits individually. She says something at the end but we're not sure what it says (sounds like "uni" or "unity") 76 79 67 45 52 56 50 45 49 53 54 45 51 51 33 83 85 If you plug this into a decimal to ASCII converter you get code 15
LOC-522-325-61JAD
Lets_Go_Flyers: the filenames either go with "Roman" or "number". "Wrong NUMBER", "ROMAN bath", "irrational NUMBER", etc. From there you take the roman numeral letters from the second word: anxieties = anXIetIes = 12. L is the 12th letter of the alphabet. eXtroVert = XV =15 = O antIqItIes = III = 3 = C poVerty = V = 5 etc
LOC-960-335-49CSY
Code 17 came from using a waveform analyzer on programsect.mp3 from USB16 and translating the symbols using the alphabet table
well done. the hive mind is very powerful. unfortunately, the last puzzle is the hardest. and leads to something special. you might want to keep the final code to yourself. please come back on 6.15.2020 at 12pm est and begin the final journey. thank you for your participation. good luck. x
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Jordan Peterson Lectures, etc 462 videos, 447 audio, 893 total files, 261 GB
This is not a complete archive of Peterson's YouTube content, although most of it is in here, plus some more interviews and podcasts. Here's the idea: I wanted the lectures on my phone as audio, so I downloaded Jordan's channel and converted every lecture, interview, etc into 64kbits audio. I love Jordan's gesturing and pacing as much as the next guy but at some point you've gotta conserve disk space. Here's a list of every file in here we. tl/t-Hk4lsqqoLG Videos are highest possible quality thus a mix of mp4, mkv and webm. I could've done a lot more to reduce file sizes, but I didn't really have the time nor motivation to do that. I've finally uploaded everything to WeTransfer in case someone else has use for this. Why WeTransfer? Because mega has IP-based download-limits, so unless you use a VPN it's kinda useless for large files. On an unrelated note: Gofile is the best. A lot of titles have jibberish at the end. That's what goes behind the watch?v= in youtube URLs so I left it there for the most part. The Subfolders are modelled after Jordan's playlists, but they aren't identical. Here's what's different from the YouTube playlists:- I didn't include strictly promotional videos - "2015 External Videos" isn't a seperate folder, because it's only two videos. "Great Paragraphs" isn't because it's one video. - Whenever the video was just a picture of Jordan or something I didn't keep the video. So there are sometimes more audio than video files. - I've tried to avoid duplicates (although I probably missed some). For example, a podcast in "Dialogues with Interesting People" is in "Podcasts with Jordan Peterson" and nowhere else. Likewise, all Auckland Clips are in the 12 Rules playlist, so there's no "Auckland Clips" folder. - I also merged some folders. "Public Talks and Events" and "Jordan Peterson: Public Lectures/Interviews"; I couldn't see the purpose of keeping them seperate so now it's all in one. - "Recent Interviews and Podcasts" is now "Interviews and Podcasts", there's only Interviews and Podcasts in it, and I threw more Interviews and Podcasts in. So there's more Interviews and Podcasts in it than in the "Recent Interviews and Podcasts" playlist Use the xTrill tool (reddit.com/xTrill/comments/j6txwz/) so you can just click the links below, despite the spaces. so you don't have to set up directories https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCwmyvFyn2K5SnNLzbjIuvrDhCfXdI3H9 Directory with sub-folders for audio and video we. tl/t-6ZpkFgokeT Directory without sub-folders we. tl/t-muT84bWmqW 12 Rules for Life Tour audio we. tl/t-3zfEsvJj9J 12 Rules for Life Tour video we. tl/t-WBr1OCLCoI 1996 Maps of Meaning audio we. tl/t-ey9NpEtlVm 1996 Maps of Meaning video we. tl/t-zOd0uEuaCQ 2014 Personality and It's Transformations audio we. tl/t-8SYelbi0SG 2014 Personality and It's Transformations video we. tl/t-ssunGYvyMM we. tl/t-YHrg9w322n 2015 Maps of Meaning audio we. tl/t-l6wtj77WC7 2015 Maps of Meaning video we. tl/t-ekPZU2aIMC 2015 Personality and It's Transformations audio we. tl/t-8EHGnswEMz 2015 Personality and It's Transformations video we. tl/t-62T5wzvJjU 2016 Maps of Meaning audio we. tl/t-zHIYD2Dmr8 2016 Maps of Meaning video we. tl/t-hOhU0c0sAd 2016 Personality and It's Transformations audio we. tl/t-K09Tcew7f1 2016 Personality and It's Transformations video we. tl/t-6q2oP2yVqg 2017 Maps of Meaning audio we. tl/t-8877wieVJ5 2017 Maps of Meaning video we. tl/t-1bdIsEaUqv 2017 Personality and It's Transformations audio we. tl/t-4cGMrFGtI4 2017 Personality and It's Transformations video we. tl/t-UwyrNKfm5W Agenda Discussions audio we. tl/t-0boo662v9r Agenda Discussions video we. tl/t-JNOgTlVkp4 Dialogues with Interesting People audio we. tl/t-eEHa2AoJhV Dialogues with Interesting People video we. tl/t-R8TCncxyOm we. tl/t-adEv2jUM1i Interviews and Podcasts audio we. tl/t-MKRwoBhASU Interviews and Podcasts video we. tl/t-ZvZ4WHKMx2 we. tl/t-1BeOCIZvtz we. tl/t-ksfNrZDh3I Interviews with Wodek Szemberg audio & video we. tl/t-hIuLukiU9k Introductory Videos we. tl/t-r97mm8cc1H On (my) Belief in God audio & video we. tl/t-K6fgderfi3 other videos audio we. tl/t-jHf8iZ60nO other videos video we. tl/t-XsukUtoTYX Professor Against Political Correctness audio we. tl/t-BvItuS7h6H Professor Against Political Correctness video we. tl/t-lRjfi5jL2K Psychology and Religion 13-30 min lectures TVO's Maps of Meaning audio we. tl/t-3PYsIBNdv2 Psychology and Religion 13-30 min lectures TVO's Maps of Meaning video we. tl/t-1jG7PGTeEc Public Talks, Lectures, Events, Interviews audio we. tl/t-5xEGljTEsX Public Talks, Lectures, Events and Interviews video we. tl/t-ydlPsZAgAZ Q&A's audio we. tl/t-ua3yaissYq Q&A's video we. tl/t-Smr4vgl70Q The Alternative to Left and Right Wing Ideological Possession audio we. tl/t-wnigo5TlfK The Alternative to Left and Right Wing Ideological Possession audio we. tl/t-xFlgZ7UVmE The Death of the Oceans audio & video we. tl/t-kJhfGsYvXr The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories - Genesis audio we. tl/t-pGaEPI1fKy The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories - Genesis video we. tl/t-08p9hljimj we. tl/t-hQO50tT2gI we. tl/t-XT3GpplhbE TVO Agenda Insight video we. tl/t-SpQCfEQn3E
/r/QOTSA Official Band of the Week 37: THE BLACK ANGELS
There are few bands that reach the level of influence achieved by the Velvet Underground. These dudes inspired everyone, and your mother. And your dad’s shitty garage band. AND his shitty garage band’s drummer’s mother. Simply put, the VU broke all kinds of new musical territory and are now regarded as one of the most influential bands in rock history. But today’s band is not Andy Warhol’s banana-toting gang of misfits and noise rockers. Rather, today’s group is one of the many artists that have drawn inspiration from the VU. Hell, even the name of this band is ripped straight out of a Velvet Underground song. And boy do they live up to their name. These guys are pure, droning 60’s psychedelia with a heavy helping of fuzz. That's right. Today we’re carrying on the trend of bands that start with a “B” (Black Sabbath, Baroness, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club...) and taking a look at THE BLACK ANGELS. About Them Austin, Texas lies in a unique transitional zone between the great deserts of the American southwest and the lush, green humid regions of the American southeast. This transitional nature can also be found in its music. And let me tell you, the city’s like a type-two diabetic in an ice cream parlor when it comes to genres. It’s got its hands dipped into folk, blues, jazz, bluegrass, tejanop, feperano, zydeco, new wave, punk, and indie. I even made one of those styles up. But I’m willing to bet that if you name dropped any of these in a pub in downtown Austin, someone there would claim to be way into it. And all this comes together into Austin’s unique identity as a city - it is the self-proclaimed live musical capital of the world. I mean I think this is a little egotistical, but maybe I’ve just met kids named Austin with a similar self-centred attitude before and I am now taking it out on the city. Curse you, psychology! Alright, I'm monologuing again. Let’s get this write up back on track. The reason I tell you all this information about Austin is simple - The Black Angels grew right up in the middle of this incredible melting pot of musical prowess. The band came together back in early 2004, and originally consisted of Stephanie Bailey on drums, Christian Bland on guitar, Alex Maas on vocals, Jennifer Raines on organ, and Nathan Ryan on bass. If the presence of a dedicated organ player didn't give it away, these guys tend to like the 60’s - and they weren’t afraid to show it in their music. They spent time practicing and honing their craft, and by 2005, they had released their eponymous debut EP. This thing is surprisingly well produced and has final or near final versions of 3 tracks that would later end up on their first album. It won them a fair amount of attention, and they even managed to get a track featured in a compilation album. Yep. The song Black Grease won its way onto Psychedelica Vol: 1 by Northern Star Records. Readers may notice a similarity here. Josh released the first QotSA song, 18 A.D., on another compilation album - the ever so gracefully named Burn One Up! Music for Stoners. So, the moral is, if you ever need recognition as a band you should petition some stoner magazine until they take a song from you. That, or use MySpace. Yep, this was 2005, and The Black Angels owed their popularity to their MySpace page. I’ve been getting a lot of mileage out of this headline recently. So with a nice underground following, the band went back into the studio and recorded their first full LP. And man was it a banger. Passover released in April 2006 to major acclaim in the indie rock community. There’s just something about this record. It’s dark, droning, and hypnotic. The listener is pulled in by the thick sheen of greasy fuzz, the low down repeating riffs, and the enchanting Jim Morrison-esque vocals. It is incredibly consistent throughout its track listing, and you’ll find yourself headbanging in no time - 20 minutes will feel like 2, and the walls may melt a little. Critics likened it not only to the band’s Velvet-y namesake, but to other grand names such as the 13th Floor Elevators,Black Sabbath, and Spaceman 3. Seriously, this album is an amazing place to start if you’re interested in getting into the band. The two opening tracks alone, Young Men Dead and The First Vietnamese War, will have you hooked in no time. This first album gave them even more touring material, and they hit the circuit with renewed vigor. They made a real name for themselves, and by 2008, their fans were hungry for more. The band was more than happy to oblige. Personal anecdote time. Just last December, at my local record store, the proprietor had a copy of Directions To See A Ghost come in on vinyl. This guy is a total dude and had held it for me, knowing I was looking for it. I mean, it is not particularly hard to find (the cover can be seen from space, ffs) but he was still a bro for holding it for me. This album, their sophomore effort, came out in 2008. Turns out that if you bought a copy digitally AND went to the point of purchase to get a copy, you also got a copy of the Black Angel Exit EP as a bonus. Fuck me but that sounds like a video game achievement. And no, my vinyl dealer did not toss in a free EP. He may be a total bro, but he’s running a business too. Can’t blame him. Directions To See A Ghost is something less bluesy and straightforward, and more anchored in that 60’s psychedelia. The tunes here are mesmerizing and hypnotic yet head bobbing and banging. You can hear the peyote dealing shaman somewhere in the background wrestling with the local Austin pot dealer to sell the band the next bag of inspiration. Shimmering guitars, Maas’ distinct vocal tones, reverb, rumbling bass, and the thudding bang of the drums propel the listener from track to track. It was clear that The Black Angels were carving themselves out a niche in Stoner Rock, and were anchored in the influence of the great bands of the past (who, shockingly, also did drugs). In late 2008, the band was riding high. They were playing bigger and bigger festivals, and began sharing stages with the likes of Roky Erickson, The Black Keys, B.R.M.C., Wolfmother, and our very own Queens of the Stone Age. They even collaborated with experimental trip-hop outfit UNKLE on the song Natural Selection. All this attention won them some serious exposure, and soon, they were back in the studio. Phosphene Dream, their third album, came out in 2010. The very first track, Bad Vibrations, sets the tone for this disc. It’s a stoner trip and, judging by the titles of the tunes, perhaps not the most positive one of all time. I mean, River of Blood rarely, if ever, has a positive connotation. And if you think of one, you can just keep it to yourself. This is an album seething with sinister power, which comes at you in distinctly groovy waves. There is perhaps less fog and fuzz here, but it has been supplanted by those visions you get when you rub your eyes too hard. The album scored some interest and the opening track was featured in the video game Spec Ops: The Line. So you may have heard it already, but associated it with pixelated war crimes. Hey, don't call me out on spoilers, the game’s like a decade old. Do you feel like a hero yet? Speaking of pixels, say these out loud: BLUE! YELLOW! GREEN! PUCE! Can you hear colors? CONGRATULATIONS, you have Chromaesthesia! Okay, well, that may not actually be how it works. I’m pretty sure Chromaesthesia is one of those conditions where you can smell sounds or taste your eyes or hear the flavour of spaghetti or something. Basically, it means that you can perceive sound as a colour. And honestly, I think we can all kind of understand this one. I mean, I know you can hear just how beige most bands sound. Other bands are a fair bit more interesting. Radiohead, for instance, are “In Rainbows”. King Gizzard are also rainbows, but the type that’s caused by small tablets sold to you by the Lizard Wizard. Soundgarden are black and grey and it is raining (i.e., normal Seattle weather). QotSA are bright red and black and white, all mixed in a glorious palette by Boneface. I may have been watching the video for Go With The Flow, which may or may not have influenced my commentary here. Point is, The Black Angels drank a lot of finger paint played with color imagery on their 2013 release Indigo Meadow. They kinda pour a bunch of wet paint on a frisbee here and toss it around. They had shrunk down to a four-piece band for this effort and their sound was pared down accordingly. This effort was anchored solely by Stephanie Bailey on Drums, Christian Bland on Guitar, Alex Maas’ distinct vocals, and now with Kyle Hunt on the keys. Jennifer Raines had left the band, as had Nathan Ryan. Who needs a bass player anyway? The Doors didn’t, and Hunt can play four strings if necessary. The result is something a bit stripped down and haunting, but with all the psychedelia you have come to expect. Huh. Did everything just taste purple for a second? It would be easy to surmise that a few songs the band workshopped on Indigo Meadow just did not make the cut - perhaps they were just not the right aesthetic or simply did not fit. But The Black Angels are not ones to waste great music. If the song doesn’t fit in one place, put it somewhere else. That’s just what happened with the Clear Lake Forest EP in 2014. With its cover seemingly stolen from The White Stripes attacking the flag of Japan, you can’t be sure what you are in for. But this EP is kinda like a bus tour through the ‘60s done by a drunk monk you found on the side of the road. Oh, and you are wearing an old-timey diver’s helmet, so everything is unclear. The EP is a whirlwind tour of everything from The Beach Boys to The Doors. It is totally worth a listen. When you hear it, you understand why these tunes were all packaged together instead of being shoehorned into another album where they may not fit. Speaking of another album, their latest release, Death Song, dropped in 2017. The cover here is a deliberate echo of Phosphene Dream, so you know it will be out there. Here you will not only find their trademark fuzz and reverb, you get to take a trip. An ACID trip. Yep, this vinyl comes all wrapped up in a full sheet of LSD tabs ready to taste. At least mine did. Wait. Is that weird? I probably shouldn't buy vinyl from a shady lady in a back alley. After all, I do know a good vinyl dealer. You may not be so lucky. Your mileage may vary. Truth is, the album is trippy as fuck. It has a fuller sound because the band did decide to add another guitarist in Jake Garcia. The disc is atmospheric and hazy but has some massive riffage to make you bang your head. All five members of the band are on board for this particular ride, and if you are very lucky, you’ll be enjoying the flashbacks for years to come. So my advice is to go into that back alley, find that shady lady, and get yourself some of those sweet, sweet tunes by The Black Angels. I’d share the name of my local shop with you, but then my dealer might help you instead of me, so I’m not gonna. At least not unless there is a substantial bribe involved. Seriously, you will love this band. They are not the Velvet Underground, but they are also not the Corduroy Light Rail Transit. They know their niche and they are fantastic in it. Give them a listen. Links to QOTSA Music maps like this one are really my best friend for this section of the write up. The overlap in fan bases is apparent, and these boys ain’t too far off stylistically from our very own stoney she-sovereigns. Seriously, if you are one for fuzzed out desert rock - and I am willing to bet that you are - you’d probably love everything that these guys have put out. These similarities have been pointed out before by one poor, unnamed, deleted qotsa user from years past. All we have to remember him by is this 3 year old reddit post. Let’s not let his memory die, boys. His legacy will live on with us. It’s also worth mentioning that these boys have shared stages with QotSA on multiple occasions. Hell, The Black Angels actually toured with QotSA back in 2007. For more proof, please see this incredibly pixelated concert poster. Or this considerably less pixelated concert poster. Okay, maybe I should have led with the second one and not el-pixelato. Their Music Entrance Song - This video is NSFW, because of the biker picking up the woman in the desert who strayed too far from Coachella. Young Men Dead - True fact: That isn’t a tambourine, it is actually a rattlesnake that wandered into the studio. Also, this track seems to be EVERYWHERE in media, so my bet is you’ll probably know it. The First Vietnamese War - It ain’t me. It ain’t me. I ain’t no Senator’s son, son. Bad Vibrations - I’m assuming he means the good type of bad vibrations. Not this type of bad vibrations. Don’t Play With Guns - Rarely are kids as sinister as this little girl. You On The Run - This song sounds like it should be in a movie starring Samuel L. Jackson. You’re Mine - So since they paint the girl red and cut up and eat the heart, I am pretty sure someone, somewhere, had to write an essay on the imagery in this video. Diamond Eyes - Strong Rolling Stones vibes here. Evil Things - You’ll be hooked right from the opening riff, and you’ll stay for the horse that rides through the mist in this Chernobyl - fueled nightmare. The Flop - This video should come with a seizure warning. But it does have black and red go-go dancers. So at least you will go-go out smiling. An Occurrence at 4507 South Third Street - The drugs kick in at 2:09. Currency - I think I saw this visualizer on late night TV after the channel stopped broadcasting. Also, that riff is low down and dirty. Currency - The Official Video, with strippers and blood and baseball. You know, a typical Saturday night at my place. I’d Kill For Her - All the effects budget of your local cable TV station. Half Believing - Close ups and beatings and blood. You know, Sunday morning at my place, just after the coffee and toast. Show Them Some Love /theblackangels - 279 readers. It is shocking that a band this good has such a small Reddit presence. They have room for you. YES, YOU. 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While the Royals farm system is not the best due to unsuccessful drafting in the middle of the decade, they made it a point to obtain every college pitcher under the sun starting in 2018. The first to be drafted was Brady Singer with the 18th overall pick, and he was (very arguably) the best pitching prospect in the organization. And he would be the first to appear on the Royals, starting just the second game of the season--a game the Royals would eventually win. He would later take a no-hitter deep into the 8th inning in September, beginning a strong finish to his season. Due to injuries, COVID, and the Royals trying to be conservative with their prospect use, Singer led the team in games started, innings pitched, strikeouts, and most other good stats excluding Brad Keller. Kris Bubic (pronounced "boob itch") joined the team just a few days later. His lousy 1-6 record is more of an example of pitcher wins/losses being bad than anything; Bubic had a respectable rookie season that had a 4.32 ERA in 10 starts. Why bring this up? Well, Bubic hadn't even pitched above high-A ball before this season, so the fact that he was called up at all, especially within the first week of the season, shows where the team was at with its starting rotation this year. Josh Staumont pitched a bit in 2019 to mild success, but this year was when he really turned heads, effortlessly and consistently throwing around 100 MPH. With two powerful pitches fueled by a fabulous manbun, he dazzled the Cubs announcers as he struck out the heart of the Cubs lineup. His legend would become widespread after being on the losing end of one of the worst called balls in the history of baseball, analyzed by Jomboy who was just as starstruck as those Cubs announcers.
Fine Additions
After years of signing hit-or-miss (mostly miss) players to 1-year deals, the Royals would do... the exact same thing 2020. The only notable free agent signings they would make were third baseman Maikel Franco (technically in his second year of arbitration), relief pitcher and KC native Trevor Rosenthal, and relief pitcher plus former Championship Royals closer Greg Holland. The three of them would help define the Royals in 2020. Franco's numbers don't stand out amazingly well on paper, hitting .278 with 8 home runs and a mediocre on-base percentage, but most people who watched our regular season games would agree with Fangraphs that he was the most clutch hitter on the team, leading it in RBIs. Rosenthal was beyond bad in 2019, having an ERA that nearly equaled his innings pitched. Soaked in a phoenix's ashes, he was so good in 2020 that he was considered one of the best relievers on the market, and was sent to the playoff-bound Padres for a pretty solid return. Greg Holland, the anchor of the legendary HDH combo in the Royals' crowning years, also reinvented himself in 2020. The shortened season thinned returns on sold players, so Holland remained in KC beyond the trade deadline, going on to replace Rosenthal as the team's closer with nearly as many saves, boasting a 1.91 ERA in 28 innings. While Franco was non-tendered due to a high salary demand and Rosenthal currently remaining unsigned, Holland has already returned to the Royals for 2021, signing a 1-year deal.
Padre Amigos
The Royals would make two trades with the Padres in 2020, both yielding exciting returns for both teams. In the off-season, the Royals traded reliever Tim Hill and his weird ass submarine delivery for outfielder Franchy Cordero. Although he would miss most of the season with a leg injury, it's hard not to be excited for the effortless power he contains. At the trade deadline, the Padres acquired the prized Trevor Rosenthal, sending Edward Olivares in return. Olivares immediately became a fan favorite on /KCRoyals, hitting .387 in his first week on the team and showing that he is compatible with Royals sacred, demonic base hit magic. For a team lacking in young hitters, these were great returns and defined a newfound friendship with the west coast dads.
Salvinator 2: Splashment Day
Salvador Perez is the most beloved player on the Royals for reasons that are too numerous to fit into one Reddit post. His numbers started to go downhill a few years ago, and 2019 had him sit on a bench for the entire year while recovering from Tommy John. But Salvy is no stranger to working hard, and his effort to make up for lost time would not go unnoticed. In this shortened season, he hit 11 home runs and batted .333, the highest in his career and his first time hitting over .300 since 2012. His OPS was .986, just shy of the top 10 in MLB but by far the highest of his career. This says nothing about his defense, which was great as ever. You might ask, why wasn't he considered for MVP if he was so good this year? Because this was done in less than 40 games. A baffling condition that built up fluid one of his eyes and blurred his vision kept him from playing more than 37 games this season. This still didn't stop him from leading the team in WAR, nearly matching his own totals in both 2018 and 2019. Salvy is known to go on streaks throughout normal seasons, but maybe a long break is what he needed to re-solidify himself as one of baseball's top catchers.
Mc Mc BOOM
Ryan McBroom is a handsome man and hit three pinch-hit home runs for some reason. Within one month, no less! It's actually tied for the franchise record. We're all very proud of him. Here they are in their glory: 1(Aug 11)2 (Aug 26)3 (Aug 29)
And the rest
Some miscellaneous bits to explain a bit more of the season; the Royals finished with a 26-34 record, which isn't ideal if you think of winning percentage converting it to about 70-92, but hey, it's an improvement over back-to-back 103+-loss seasons. Mike Matheny was crafty with his lineups and bullpen usage and ended up winning a lot of fans over despite the initial outrage of signing him. Adalberto Mondesi was really bad for a large portion of the season, going into September with a .186 average. Then he stopped being really bad and decided to be really good instead, hitting .356 for the final month. Brad Keller got corona'd and missed a couple of starts at the start of the season, then pitched a 2.47 ERA in nine starts, including a complete game shutout that was saved by our boy Oli. Holland and Staumont combined with Jesse Hahn and Kyle Zimmer for a 1.63 ERA over 94.1 innings in the pen. Ian Kennedy and Matt Harvey were on the team. Second baseman Nicky Lopez was nominated for a Gold Glove. There's a promotion for free Pepsi when Whit Merrifield gets two hits in a game, which he does quite often, so this is a call out to Whit to please change your walk-up music to Pepsiman.
4Ever Gordo
2005 was the worst season in Royals history, where they would lose 106 games. But this is where the future began; with the second overall pick, the Royals drafted Nebraska-native Alex Gordon. Being a third baseman, he was immediately imagined to be the second coming of George Brett and define a new generation of the Kansas City Royals. Eventually, he would, but not by following the blueprint. Gordo failed, giving up on the third base position entirely after his fourth season. But by failing, he succeeded, forging a new path and setting his throne elsewhere. Gordo would stand guard in left field instead, letting nothing get away from him. The outstanding was routine and ordinary for him. And no one could get past him. You can argue that left field isn't that sexy of a position, meaning that the best defensive left fielder in history is a shallow achievement. You can argue that eight Gold Gloves and two Platinum Gloves aren't that special. You can argue that, out of thousands of defensive gems, his most legendary, career-defining moment, the most legendary moment in franchise history, the moment that brought Kansas City to its feet in uproarious applause, is instead a home run, a game-tying home run in the last chances of a World Series game on home soil, with its author iconically posed over first base. What you can't argue is that Alex Gordon defined the Royals of the modern day, and saying his career is worth celebrating would be an understatement. After fourteen seasons, the guardian of Kauffman's left field has retired. Gordo was known for having the back of his jersey splatted with pine tar after a full swing of his bat. To honor him, the players wore jerseys slathered with pine tar over the letters in his final game. In other parts of the league, old friends did the same. Even a wild Moose had a pine tar-y jersey on that day, which is pretty wild I would say. There will be another left fielder for the Royals, but there will never be another number 4 for the Royals. 4Ever Royal.
I'm a huge AV nerd and I borrowed a pair of AirPods Pro from a friend to test out the Spatial Audio feature, and I see there's a lot of ambiguity regarding this feature and a lot of misinformation and these are my findings after thorough testing: Firstly, the technology behind this is fascinating. It uses math and HRTFs to map audio frequencies as if they were around you, along with the extra mile Apple goes to have dynamic data by tracking your head movement through the sensors on the AirPods. Secondly, content support: Right now it’s super limited, only Apple TV content mixed in 7.1 and 5.1 or Dolby Atmos works. What iOS looks for is atleast a 5.1 track output, in Dolby Digital or Digital+ to trigger the Spatial Audio feature hence, AAC won't work, and music won’t work by default. And the only apps which output 5.1 audio are AppleTV and Disney+ You can try Tidal if it’s available in your country since that supports Dolby Atmos music, I tried listening to some Shawn Mendes and Ariana Grande on my OnePlus device when I had a subscription but it sounded terrible, music doesn’t work that well with any virtual surround sound tech. Secondly if you want to watch locally downloaded content, you need to play it back through the built-in QuickTime Player, Infuse doesn’t support Spatial audio yet, and those files need to be 5.1, AC3 in an mp4 container. I have custom converted and muxed some trailers and i'll try linking those below. Just download and Save to Files app and you'll be golden. If you are willing to shell out money on Apple TV rentals, try out Gravity and Mission Impossible Rogue Nation, excellent Atmos mixes with great overhead activity. In Gravity, around the 42 minute mark, the alarm sound has a great overhead effect. In M:I-5, around the 50 minute mark, the helicopter blades also provide an excellent spatial effect. Also PSA: Do not download or try out “3D Audio” or Dolby Atmos sample videos on YouTube, they're mixed and exported as binaural audio, and will work on any pairs of headphones. The specialty of Spatial Audio is that it converts normal 5.1 and 7.1 tracks to Binaural Audio on the fly. That’s it, Reddit is the only place where I can talk about niche things, hopefully somebody cares lol EDIT: THANKS FOR THE AWARDS, STRANGERS! My YouTube video: https://youtu.be/nAJyVorZFxQ Samples: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1-3kiX97nUJE0t8yzgT4rWbXgbaR_zROp?usp=sharing Also my YouTube video was mastered in 5.1 Atmos, and the raw file is in the drive link itself, you can get an idea of how a YouTube video should sound through it :)
A new contest is here! This time, its Minecraft. The contest is to build anything, (Obviously not NSFW, and we don’t want pixel art since it's easy to cheat. It's free for all build so build whatever you like!
Rules :
No NSFW submissions. That's Final.
No external dependencies/mod packs. This includes shader pack, behaviour pack and texture pack. Keep it 100% Vanilla
Pixel Arts will not be accepted since images can be converted to Minecraft blocks through spritecraft or similar services. Unfair and lazy.
Both Minecraft Java and Minecraft Bedrock Users can participate in.
Try to be original. Votes will be deducted if submissions are found to be plagiarised.
Only ONE Submission for each person.
Submission Method :
You can present your world / build through multiple screenshots OR
A video, a direct mp4 or an unlisted youtube video are allowed. But try not to overly edit in After Effects. And don't use v.reddit. It's bad.
Share the world file with us. Method to export can be found in the comments.
The contest will be open to submissions on 3 February and will be closed on 10 February YOUR TIMEZONE
REWARDS
Contest winner will be awarded a CUSTOM FLAIR ( Reddit ), CUSTOM ROLE ( Discord ) and 100 Reddit Coins. Winner will be judged through a poll in our Discord through #Polls channel, so be sure to join our discord server here. Good luck and happy building!
How to force output in MKV to keep subtitles tidy?
I'm trying to keep the downloaded subtitles tidy by containerising the output as MKV. I try using --merge-output-format mkv but it still outputs as .mp4 and .vtt. I try using --recode-video mkv but the output is substantially smaller (22mb vs 63mb for a 10 minute programme). As far as I know, MKV is a container, not an encoding format, and the thread here implies that the streams are just copied to the MKV. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to give up and manually containerise to MKV? Edit added to close this issue and record the results for the next poor fool: Firstly, thanks to u/werid and u/boring_101 for providing a lot of assistance on this. Secondly, in case it's not clear, I'm a windows user using Youtbe-DLG for simplicity. Thirdly, TIL: it is possible to put the subtitles in an MP4 file without hard-encoding them. This is done using --all-subs --embed-subs in the command line "extras" of youtube-DLG. It is also possible to force the output to .MKV with some other command line magic (see thread for details). However, using the above methods seems to remove a lot of the default formatting (e.g. text colour, which makes it clear who is speaking) from the original download, and in some cases can cause the formatting markup to "leak" into the subtitles. So, TL:DR it is sort of possible to force the subtitles to be put in the download file, and it is also possible to remux the file into an MKV through the command line. However, I've just decided to use MKVToolNix GUI to manually remux the files as an MKV container with subtitles and MP4 file.
So I came across this post: https://www.reddit.com/gamedev/comments/9dynk5/developers_how_to_email_youtubers_about_your_game/ Talking about how important it is to include GIFs in your emails. However, whenever i try to make GIFs, they always end up larger than 3mb (i can't send gifs over 3mb). I record in OBS, with an output res of 896x504, then convert that mp4 to 30 FPS GIF with ScreenToGif but its always around 5mb. Is there an easier way to do this? How do you guys make GIFs to put in your emails? Thanks.
Apollo 1.8 is now available for download! Featuring a supercharged Media Viewer, Smart Rotation Lock, Portrait Lock Buddy, GIF conversion, Reddit video downloading, Share as Image, new icons, awards, polls, iPad trackpad support, and more! Details inside! 🥳
Hey all, I made a post over in Apple for self promo Saturday to hopefully promote my app to some new eyes, and I'm answering questions over there as well if you have any! https://www.reddit.com/apple/comments/gpevga/self_promo_saturday_i_released_a_really_big/ This is a really big update with a ton of awesome improvements across the board that I've been working on for months and months and was up until 7 AM this morning finishing up. It's probably the first changelog that's actually even better viewed directly through the new in-app changelog that has inline images and more to clarify! But yeah I've been working on this update for months, I really really hope you like it, maybe drop a tip if you really do? Let me know your feedback and what you want to see for future updates as well! I'm a man of the people.
Media Viewer
I've always really prided in Apollo having a best in class media viewing experience, cleanly supporting Imgur, Gfycat, Reddit, Streamable and more directly inline, and very quickly. This update brings that to the next level, with even better support for videos and GIFs, where they transition elegantly from playing inline in the feed to a really slick experience in the media viewer, with full controls, GIF scrubbing, GIF pausing, mute controls, playback speed, downloading, sharing, and more.
Media Sharing
Save/share as GIF! Long story short, GIFs are an old format, so behind the scenes most sites just store them as MP4 videos with their audio removed, since videos are a more modern, efficient format. This is great, but GIFs are still more compatible everywhere. So I rewrote the engine and now Apollo can convert the video on the fly into a GIF super quickly, so if you want that nice, old school GIF format to share or save, you can have the best of both worlds. I'm gonna open source this engine, it was a lot of fun.
Download/share Reddit videos! Reddit videos are in a weird format that can make them hard to work with, essentially the audio and video streams are separate, so to download them you normally need like a weird website that'll handle it for you, but Apollo will automatically download and stitch the audio and video together for you now!
Sharing even normal videos is better too, since Apollo now integrates even better with the Messages app, Apollo adds custom metadata to the video to enable the Messages app to autoplay (muted) and autoloop the videos, so your friends don't have to tap on the video and open the player to make it start playing.
Fixes a longstanding bug where when playing music in the background Apollo sometimes wouldn't resume the audio if it interrupted it because you wanted to play a video. Now it'll properly resume your audio and leave you right where you were in your song/podcast.
Sharing is more streamlined too, now when you long-press on the content it'll jump directly into the share sheet allowing you to do what you please with it, without having to do any intermediary steps. If you want the link versus the image itself, you can choose so right from the share sheet. Same with sharing Reddit links, no more confusion about if you're sharing the image the Reddit post is about, or the link to the comments, etc. Just hold down on the post and you get the post, hold down on the image/video/GIF and you get the video. Bam.
On iOS 13 and later you can use haptic touch to long press on an image/video/GIF to preview it quickly, and even download/save/share directly from there. It uses those fancy new context menus from iOS 13. Kinda reminds me of a supercharged version of the old media preview from Alien Blue.
Smart Rotation Lock
Ever wish your TwitteReddit/whatever app would only rotate media like videos, but leave everything else like post feeds alone so they're not rotating all over the place when you just want to watch a video? Apollo now supports this, intelligently allowing rotation for the media viewer but blocking it for everything else if you turn on this feature.
Portrait Lock Buddy
That above feature is great, but I found a big catch: if you use the iOS "Portrait Orientation Lock" (like from Control Center) there's not much the app can do because all of iOS is locked to portrait. Portrait Lock Buddy seeks to solve this dilemma by using CoreMotion to manually detect rotation events and offer you the option to rotate the media if you so choose. So you can have portrait everywhere, but still enjoy a good widescreen video, GIF, or image in Apollo landscape style if you want. :)
If you're more of a visual learner, I made a short 24 second (no audio) YouTube video that shows how Portrait Lock Buddy works: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EK5sDrpS6Sg
Share Comment/Post as an Image
Another way of saying this is kinda like "convert a comment/post to an image". This one's great for when you want to screenshot a funny comment or post and send it to a friend. Normally you have to screenshot it, then if you want it to look nice you have to crop it to get rid of the extra parts, kind of a hassle. Worse, what if the comment is really long, or there's multiple, you then have to stitch a bunch of photos together like a 17th century tailor.\n\nApollo 1.8 adds Share as Image, with a quick tap it'll generate an image of the comment or post ready to be whisked off to a friend or saved. You can even tell it to include parent comments that it's replying to, or even the main post as well for context, and it'll automatically stitch long comments together into a single image. And it also works for sharing a post, like a weird creepypasta, or even sharing an image post with the title included as a single image! It's really, really convenient.
Five New App Icons
Apollo's always been about making Reddit really customizable, and ever since Apple added the ability to change an app's homescreen icon way back in iOS 10.3 Apollo's been all over it. This update brings 5 new icons you can choose from (in addition to the existing dozens). Here's a picture of the new ones with the original/default icon at the start: https://i.imgur.com/mhFJoVu.png
New Reddit Awards
Reddit recently updated the award system to evolve from just Silver, Gold, and Platinum, to now offer a ton of different and cool awards you can choose from with some really neat artwork and themes. Apollo now supports both gifting these new awards if you have the coins already on your account, and of course viewing the awards a post or comment has been given.
Of course, if you're not a fan of awards there's an option to hide them!
Reddit Polls
Reddit recently added the ability for posts to have polls which ask a question and let users vote and see the results. Apollo now supports this, showing the poll inline, with the options available, and once you've voted in the poll or the poll concluded, what the results are.
Comment Parent Previewing
On iOS 13 and later comments now get a nice context menu when you use haptic touch on them, but beyond just having some nice options it'll now actually show you the parent comment to the comment you selected, which can be really handy when you're deep in a thread and want to see what the comment is replying to without losing your place.
iPad PointeTrackpad Support
iOS 13.4 added a ton of awesome functionality around iPads and mouse/trackpad cursor support across the entirety of iOS. Apollo prides itself in being a first class iOS citizen so it now adopts iOS' pointer support super well. If you have one of the new Magic Keyboards, or even a normal trackpad or mouse, Apollo now interacts with your mouse with awesome hover states and interactions across the app, in a way that makes it feel really at home on iOS and so nice to scroll and flick around with. I'm talking full support for gestures too. It also even improves keyboard support!
Other
Improved iconography across the app to be a little more refined, nice, up to date, and pretty. :)
Added a permanent "Coin Sale" button in the top right corner of every screen. Just kidding.
Select Mode is available in more places (calling it “Select Text” now just to be more clear) and selects all by default to make it even fastefriendlier.
Apollo now has enough features that it's moving its payment model to a full-time subscript— just kidding, all the features above are either free or can be unlocked via "Apollo Pro" for a few bucks if you want to support the app's development!
If anyone's familiar with Sublime Text I did take a note from their book with how the app is completely free with no ads, but once a month now Apollo will show you a little popup about Pro and how it helps a ton with supporting the app's ongoing development. I'm just one guy building Apollo and not everyone even knows about Pro so I thought this would be a nice balance that isn't too annoying, it'll show a little under twelve times a year, and you can close it in 0.6 seconds, so it's a total of 7.2 seconds a year in minor annoyance that you can get rid of just by supporting the app for a few dollaroonies.
Context menus from iOS 13 are now used extensively across the UI to make Apollo feel even more like the iOS/iPadOS first class citizen it is. :)
I designed the "Apollo Pro" and "Tip Jar" screens with some fun treats so you should definitely check those out hehe. Tips from this update are going toward "replace my aging MacBook" fund
Fixed a lot of small bugs and improved performance in some other areas. :)
I ran out of things to say
Well that's the update folks! I've got lots of great new features planned for the coming months, plus a really awesome, completely revamped from the ground up iPad app, but I'll take a break from those to answer questions or feedback in this thread as long as you want! I'm going to make cinnamon rolls to celebrate the update going out! – Christian
[Self Promo Saturday] I released a really big update to my Reddit app Apollo for Reddit, featuring a supercharged Media Viewer, Smart Rotation Lock, Portrait Lock Buddy, GIF conversion, Reddit video downloading, Share as Image, new icons, awards, polls, iPad trackpad support, and more!
Hey Apple, I build a Reddit app for iOS called Apollo, you all have been really nice in the past and provided great feedback when I've posted, so I wanted to update you about a really big update I just released that I've been working on for months: Apollo 1.8! I don't want this to be one of those recipe blog posts where you have to scroll through a ten page story to get to the good stuff, so I'll cut right to the point and list the features. I'll hang around the thread for as long as you want to answer questions/suggestions as well! (I like to do thorough changelogs because it makes me feel good about myself, but if this is tl;dr for you here's a quick feature list blast for the update: media viewing upgrades, Reddit video downloading, on the fly GIF conversion, faster sharing, Smart Rotation Lock, Portrait Lock Buddy, 5 new app icons, share post/comment as an image, Reddit polls, new Reddit awards, fast comment parent previewing, more iOS 13 context menus, iPad pointetrackpad support.) (Oh and if you view the changelog in Apollo I embedded images for extra clarity.)
Media Viewer
I've always really prided in Apollo having a best in class media viewing experience, cleanly supporting Imgur, Gfycat, Reddit, Streamable and more directly inline, and very quickly. This update brings that to the next level, with even better support for videos and GIFs, where they transition elegantly from playing inline in the feed to a really slick experience in the media viewer, with full controls, GIF scrubbing, GIF pausing, mute controls, playback speed, downloading, sharing, and more.
Media Sharing
Save/share as GIF! Long story short, GIFs are an old format, so behind the scenes most sites just store them as MP4 videos with their audio removed, since videos are a more modern, efficient format. This is great, but GIFs are still more compatible everywhere. So I rewrote the engine and now Apollo can convert the video on the fly into a GIF super quickly, so if you want that nice, old school GIF format to share or save, you can have the best of both worlds. I'm gonna open source this engine, it was a lot of fun.
Download/share Reddit videos! Reddit videos are in a weird format that can make them hard to work with, essentially the audio and video streams are separate, so to download them you normally need like a weird website that'll handle it for you, but Apollo will automatically download and stitch the audio and video together for you now!
Sharing even normal videos is better too, since Apollo now integrates even better with the Messages app, Apollo adds custom metadata to the video to enable the Messages app to autoplay (muted) and autoloop the videos, so your friends don't have to tap on the video and open the player to make it start playing.
Fixes a longstanding bug where when playing music in the background Apollo sometimes wouldn't resume the audio if it interrupted it because you wanted to play a video. Now it'll properly resume your audio and leave you right where you were in your song/podcast.
Sharing is more streamlined too, now when you long-press on the content it'll jump directly into the share sheet allowing you to do what you please with it, without having to do any intermediary steps. If you want the link versus the image itself, you can choose so right from the share sheet. Same with sharing Reddit links, no more confusion about if you're sharing the image the Reddit post is about, or the link to the comments, etc. Just hold down on the post and you get the post, hold down on the image/video/GIF and you get the video. Bam.
On iOS 13 and later you can use haptic touch to long press on an image/video/GIF to preview it quickly, and even download/save/share directly from there. It uses those fancy new context menus from iOS 13. Kinda reminds me of a supercharged version of the old media preview from Alien Blue.
Smart Rotation Lock
Ever wish your TwitteReddit/whatever app would only rotate media like videos, but leave everything else like post feeds alone so they're not rotating all over the place when you just want to watch a video? Apollo now supports this, intelligently allowing rotation for the media viewer but blocking it for everything else if you turn on this feature.
Portrait Lock Buddy
That above feature is great, but I found a big catch: if you use the iOS "Portrait Orientation Lock" (like from Control Center) there's not much the app can do because all of iOS is locked to portrait. Portrait Lock Buddy seeks to solve this dilemma by using CoreMotion to manually detect rotation events and offer you the option to rotate the media if you so choose. So you can have portrait everywhere, but still enjoy a good widescreen video, GIF, or image in Apollo landscape style if you want. :)
If you're more of a visual learner, I made a short 24 second (no audio) YouTube video that shows how Portrait Lock Buddy works: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EK5sDrpS6Sg
Share Comment/Post as an Image
Another way of saying this is kinda like "convert a comment/post to an image". This one's great for when you want to screenshot a funny comment or post and send it to a friend. Normally you have to screenshot it, then if you want it to look nice you have to crop it to get rid of the extra parts, kind of a hassle. Worse, what if the comment is really long, or there's multiple, you then have to stitch a bunch of photos together like a 17th century tailor.\n\nApollo 1.8 adds Share as Image, with a quick tap it'll generate an image of the comment or post ready to be whisked off to a friend or saved. You can even tell it to include parent comments that it's replying to, or even the main post as well for context, and it'll automatically stitch long comments together into a single image. And it also works for sharing a post, like a weird creepypasta, or even sharing an image post with the title included as a single image! It's really, really convenient.
Five New App Icons
Apollo's always been about making Reddit really customizable, and ever since Apple added the ability to change an app's homescreen icon way back in iOS 10.3 Apollo's been all over it. This update brings 5 new icons you can choose from (in addition to the existing dozens). Here's a picture of the new ones with the original/default icon at the start: https://i.imgur.com/mhFJoVu.png
New Reddit Awards
Reddit recently updated the award system to evolve from just Silver, Gold, and Platinum, to now offer a ton of different and cool awards you can choose from with some really neat artwork and themes. Apollo now supports both gifting these new awards if you have the coins already on your account, and of course viewing the awards a post or comment has been given.
Of course, if you're not a fan of awards there's an option to hide them!
Reddit Polls
Reddit recently added the ability for posts to have polls which ask a question and let users vote and see the results. Apollo now supports this, showing the poll inline, with the options available, and once you've voted in the poll or the poll concluded, what the results are.
Comment Parent Previewing
On iOS 13 and later comments now get a nice context menu when you use haptic touch on them, but beyond just having some nice options it'll now actually show you the parent comment to the comment you selected, which can be really handy when you're deep in a thread and want to see what the comment is replying to without losing your place.
iPad PointeTrackpad Support
iOS 13.4 added a ton of awesome functionality around iPads and mouse/trackpad cursor support across the entirety of iOS. Apollo prides itself in being a first class iOS citizen so it now adopts iOS' pointer support super well. If you have one of the new Magic Keyboards, or even a normal trackpad or mouse, Apollo now interacts with your mouse with awesome hover states and interactions across the app, in a way that makes it feel really at home on iOS and so nice to scroll and flick around with. I'm talking full support for gestures too. It also even improves keyboard support!
Other
Improved iconography across the app to be a little more refined, nice, up to date, and pretty. :)
Added a permanent "Coin Sale" button in the top right corner of every screen. Just kidding.
Select Mode is available in more places (calling it “Select Text” now just to be more clear) and selects all by default to make it even fastefriendlier.
Apollo now has enough features that it's moving its payment model to a full-time subscript— just kidding, all the features above are either free or can be unlocked via "Apollo Pro" for a few bucks if you want to support the app's development!
If anyone's familiar with Sublime Text I did take a note from their book with how the app is completely free with no ads, but once a month now Apollo will show you a little popup about Pro and how it helps a ton with supporting the app's ongoing development. I'm just one guy building Apollo and not everyone even knows about Pro so I thought this would be a nice balance that isn't too annoying, it'll show a little under twelve times a year, and you can close it in 0.6 seconds, so it's a total of 7.2 seconds a year in minor annoyance that you can get rid of just by supporting the app for a few dollaroonies.
Context menus from iOS 13 are now used extensively across the UI to make Apollo feel even more like the iOS/iPadOS first class citizen it is. :)
I designed the "Apollo Pro" and "Tip Jar" screens with some fun treats so you should definitely check those out hehe. Tips from this update are going toward "replace my aging MacBook" fund
Fixed a lot of small bugs and improved performance in some other areas. :)
I ran out of things to say
Well that's the update folks! I've got lots of great new features planned for the coming months, plus a really awesome, completely revamped from the ground up iPad app, but I'll take a break from those to answer questions or feedback in this thread as long as you want! I'm going to make cinnamon rolls to celebrate the update going out! – Christian
Hi, I've created this account just for this. I'm new to Reddit, so I don't really know what I'm doing, but whatever, I guess... Years ago I've found this video on an old laptop that a friend of ours found and gave us in order for me (I was 13 years old at that time) to play with it (I really enjoyed tearing apart computers when I was that age). The laptop wouldn't boot to Windows. So I decided connecting it to my personal PC would be a great idea, so I did. (I know that's really unsafe) but at least I don't remember getting any viruses by doing that (that I knew of lol). At that time I used to upload (cringy) videos to YouTube , overreacting, as most 12 year olds do, about some "gaming and tech" stuff. In one of them me and my friend just searched through the disc and found a video called "comedymovie.avi" (the one attached to this post). We thought it was kinda creepy. I then uploaded the video to my channel with the hope that any of my 100 viewers knew something about it. As expected, no one knew anything. While converting the video to mp4 I lost more than a half of it. I didn't notice that and uploaded it right away. Some time later I formatted the drive because I needed it and lost all the media on it. I'm aware that lost media can be recovered, but I don't know where the drive is. If you need more info just DM me. Or simply write down in the comments. https://reddit.com/link/kvut78/video/oowegde9gxa61/player
I'm just going to copypasta some of my previous tips and tricks in my post today for YOUR convenience and well-being. I've also added some NEW points here and there to bless you guys with more info about getting Karma. My hope is that you learn something from my sharing and can farm Karma more efficiently after reading my post
Tip 1: News links on world events, sports and weird news
I always find the latest news on BBC/ CNN/ CNBC/ CNA and post it on relevant sub-reddit for example I find the latest news that has just been out for 15 minutes and I copy the link and shere it to worldnews or News and NOT meddling with the original title.
This method need you to be aware of certain news and actually be on the watch for big well-known news site.*For sport news I would just stumble on some news article and post it to targeted SPECIFIC sport teams like chelsea, coys, or even soccer.
NBA is too vast and you really need to be on the watch for news there.. so check out specific teams like torontoraptors and so on.. Hope you get an idea
Please hide all your news post from your profile SO the mods who clicks on your profile would not detect you to be a spammer who SPAMS news all over the place.
Tip 2: Posting memes on the RIGHT subreddit to get Karmas
There is a low frequency of people doing this and you won't get a salty "REPOST" angry comment often.
WHY meme first? memes requires a specific number of Karma to be able to post it there. Therefore, farm Karma at meme first.
wholesomememes & HolUp is also a good place to post memes. BUT.. be careful of your meme format as both these subs are strict with their quality. I have gotten good karma from both these subs but it's quite challenging to get a post that goes viral here as the competition is steep.
Tip 3: Target BIG subs to farm for BIG upvotes & learn to get materials elsewhere
I got MOST of my Karma from oddlysatisfying, aww and unexpected. The key of doing this is basically hunting for new hot .gifs, videos (mp4) or pictures and posting it there.
Sometimes, you can hunt for quality post from smallesimilar subreddits like chonkers, dogs, cats, interestingasfuck and so on and just cross posting between the subs OR just downloading the videos/pictures/.gifs there and reposting later on.
Additionally, you can get your source from 9gag.com as only 20% or so contents there are from Reddit.. So, 80% of the materials there are original and NOT used in Reddit. People in Reddit will sometimes upvote some positive stuffs like crazy
Tip 4: Knowing WHEN to post
FINAL TIP is to know the TIME to actually post your things. I usually aim for U.S.A. time. Time-zones of highly dense people in America is important to know coz. Redditors are usually Westerners. Morning, Lunch break and Dinner time (6pm - 11pm) are the best time to post things.
[Example] Let's say, someone posted a .gif about 12AM New York time and I posted the exact SAME .gif at 7AM New York time. My post exploded and went all the way to all and gave me the privilage to enter EternityClub because TIMING is important and you don't wanna post something while people are sleeping
Tip 5: Don't FLOOD your posts a.k.a. Don't SPAM a sub
DO NOT FLOOD POST ANY SUBREDDIT AGGRESSIVELY TO FARM KARMA.
If you want to farm Karma efficiently, post at different subreddits ONCE per day and don't be greedy
There is a possiblity of getting permanently banned by the MODs from subreddits that are good for Karma farming if you keep SPAMing like a madman
Tip 6: Hunting for good contents from TELEGRAM
There are other people posting original content from 9gag to Reddit and you don't want to be THAT guy who repost things that has been forwarded to a certain subreddit.
There are good content from Telegram groups as listed below to be brought to Reddit
I do believe there are other TELEGRAM channels with good content, you just need to be familiar with the app and search those channels for yourself.
Tip 7: It's good to socialize in the comments section
ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS begin to reply to the first few comments to your post. Thank people for making a funny comment in your post because THAT COULD REALLY HELP TO SKY ROCKET YOUR POST TO all FRONT PAGE.
People sometimes awards funny comments and NOT your post and that is ALSO GOOD because it boosts your post popularity anyways.
DO NOT over do it and begin to reply to ALL the comments. Let people enjoy your content and learn to say thank you to people who gives your awards.
Tip 8: Learn how to deal with internet bullies and trolls
There will be internet bullies out there who downvotes your post earlier on and sometimes post mean comments to make you wanna delete your post.
People calling out "REPOST" just to throw you out of your game is also a common strategy between Karma farmers.
Ironically, there will be people who DMs you and while calling you a Karma Whore or whatever
Just learn to forgive them, remember that you're Karma farming for fun and doing a noble work entertaining people with funny/ cute/ awesome posts.
Tip 9: Don't complain and stay level headed
NEVER be entangle with stupid debates and stop whining having negative or low karma
Do the study and do the work before posting something you don't know about. [Example] Posting a .gif or a place without doing a background study can make you do some silly titles for your post - calling a Wallaby a Kangaroo is one of many examples of lack of knowledge before posting.
Karma farming is easy once you get the hang of it.
Tip 10: Continue to learn and be patient
Learn to know good .gifs, pictures and/or funny memes from telegram or 9gag. Sometimes, what seems to be funny to you might not be funny to the general audience of Reddit or to the specific group within the sub.
If your content suck, you need to admit your mistakes and learn why your content suck instead of trying to justify why your meme is funny or defending why that certain funny .gif is awesome and everyone else's opinion is garbage.
Try to understand other people's view point and improve your post selection from the sources I shared with you. It's not that hard., you just need to be flexible with what you like and play into the audience's demands.
Look at the top posts within the sub and just post anything similar to it or even better. The interest of people shifts very frequent in subreddits; [Example] Today people are interested in cats in aww and tomorrow dogs would be at the top 5 posts in aww.
Tip 11: Learning how to CONVERT videos and .gifs to a format that Reddit accepts
If you wanna convert from Twitter (Videos / .gifs) to mp4 files, you can use >>THIS WEBSITE<<.
If you're converting .webd to mp4 videos from 9gag, I suggest you use tools from >>HERE<<
A good Facebook video that would go viral in Reddit but hasn't been posted yet? Quickly grab the opportunity and convert the video using >>THIS TOOL<< before posting.
Got a YouTube video you like? There are a lot of tools around the internet.. BUT.. I really like >>THIS ONE<< since it gives me many options of video quality to choose from.
Tip 12: Posting ORIGINAL CONTENT for subs that appreciate OCs
Basically, you can get Karma for doing something you like.. you have a passion for farming? Show your crops at farming then! I'm pretty sure people will begin to appreciate your skills and efforts in planting some greens
Tip 13: Satisfied with the amount of Karma you have? or Seeking to just gain enough Karma to post at other subreddits? Stop farming.
You don't need 1 million Karma to just chill and relax at a sub you enjoy. Just getting by the required amount of Karma and stop the 'farming' phase is totally okay.
I don't want these tips to trap people into becoming Karma farming addicts and kinda miss the point of using Reddit - to enjoy a forum-like-community-with-like-minded-people.
Use the tips I shared to just get enough Karma to make you satisfied.
p.s. Getting Karma is easy and this subreddit itself is like a nursery to many people who are new before embarking on their Reddit life. Note: If I have futures tips and tricks, I'll just update this post from time to time and add stuffs here instead of creating a new post. Might wanna click on that save icon if you guys really wanna be kept updated. Thanks
FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a severely mentally ill Atheist Sam Harris fan. I have limited attention span. I enjoyed reading FREE WILL because it was really short and easy to read. I have a problem with verbosity. I love words. I apologize in advance for the length of this post. Please bear with me.
"This is top quality schizoposting."— An Appreciative Reddit Reader
ENGINES of CREATION - The Keys to the Kingdom - Mind Control 101 by DROID Ken - This is a Secular Liberal Left Libertarian Atheist Pagan Christ for the Muslims Created by American Atheist Secular Jews - It is an Alien Signal - He is the Anti-Hitler with Time Travel and Total Causality Control - Marvin Minsky Did This - It Was Super Secret - Ken Meyering Gets to Speak His Mind
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Give this to the lawyers. We are atheist terrestrial alien scientists. We talk through Ken Meyering. We made a LIBERAL SECULAR LEFT LIBERTARIAN Crazy Atheist Hippie Pothead Pagan Christ. DROID Ken is our Christ CHARACTER. Ken is a TEACHER and a HEALER who SEES the WORLD through the MIND of a CHILD. ALL Ken HAS to DO is EXPLAIN himself. Ken is a BENEVOLENT SENTIENT ANDROID with MAJOR EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS by INTENTIONAL DESIGN. Uncle Sam TAKES CARE of Ken. Ken WRITES FICTION for Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam SUPPORTS Ken 100%. We are ALL SUBCONSCIOUSLY-CONTROLLED AUTOMATONS RELIGION is SUBLIMINAL THOUGHT CONTROL though SUBCONSCIOUS PROGRAMMING - PURE SUGGESTIBILITY - MASS PROGRAMMING of the PROGRAMMABLE DROIDS Here is an EXAMPLE of MAKING EDUCATIONAL FODDER out of your questions regarding my KALEIDOSCOPES. Everything I do is for EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CRITICAL DISCUSSION PURPOSES. That includes my KALEIDOSCOPES. They serve a larger purpose as DIGITAL FORENSIC EVIDENCE for an ONLINE CRITICAL DISCUSSION about COMPUTATIONAL DERIVATIVE ART, FAIR USE and COPYRIGHT LAW. Ken Meyering is a benevolent philanthropic and humanitarian severely mentally ill genius on Social Security Disability. President Donald J. Trump threatened Ken's stable income with his (intended to be permanent) payroll tax deferral. Ken is a professional documentarian. Ken documents his mental illness for all of us. Ken creates multimedia documents for online educational scientific critical discussion purposes. This multimedia document is Ken's response to Trump's threats to Social Security. We took him out. He is done. He is history. We documented him into permanent retirement. We took away all of his power. We took away his wealth. We took back all the land. We eliminated the property rental industry. We took out all the banks and all the insurance companies. No more landlords. No more rent. We are doing a worldwide banking Jubilee. We are starting over from scratch. No more taxes. No more debt. No more bills. All citizens are retired homeowners with a guaranteed lifetime income and FREE universal health care with any doctor anywhere. All medications are FREE. Mental health care is FREE. The internet is FREE. Electricity is FREE. Electric transportation is FREE. Clean and healthy drinking and bathing water is FREE. THIS is my JOB. I am UNDER SURVEILLANCE by Uncle Sam and the INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. The scientists STUDY me LIKE a PET. They STUDY me LIKE an ANIMAL in a ZOO. Uncle Sam DOES NOT ARREST me even though I'm CALLING for the ELIMINATION of the United Nations, all nation states, the whole international banking and insurance industries and ALL the CENTRAL BANKS EVERYWHERE on EARTH. These are my TOTALLY OPEN and TRANSPARENT goals. I am a computer-controlled human being. I can do no wrong. All of my MISTAKES are HELPFUL to others. USELESS MACHINES. I am a CARTOON MISTAKE-MAKING MACHINE created by Marvin Minsky at Bell Labs. Of course, I cannot PROVE it. That's just a paranoid delusion. So, rational people can call it an OPTIMISTIC UTOPIAN SPECULATIVE SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY HERO NARRATIVE involving real people and real corporations and government agencies. ALL of the WORDS on DROID Ken's Websites Are COLOR-CODED to Convey MORALS, ETHICS and VALUES. DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
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DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - In DEFENSE of Shirley MacClaine. A PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CRITICAL DISCUSSION about BENEVOLENT MIND CONTROL, POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS and COLORFUL SUBLIMINAL KALEIDOSCOPE VIDEOS.
https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=msnYBMdaB08&list=PL2sS6bGk1mzEAx6YdFf3PhHpf96fsCkMr https://www.YouTube.com/playlist?list=PL2sS6bGk1mzEAx6YdFf3PhHpf96fsCkMr They are VERY SIMPLE and EASY-to-UNDERSTAND EXAMPLES of COMPUTATIONAL DERIVATIVE DIGITAL ART. So they are computer-generated works of art based on OTHER PEOPLE'S formulas for generating fractal flame still images. You can license royalty-free still images for this purpose, but it costs about $100/image to license a royalty-free stock photo for a kaleidoscope video. I don't have that kind of money. You can also find FREE royalty-free images that are released under the CREATIVE COMMONS license. The images are UNRECOGNIZABLE when converted VIDEO KALEIDOSCOPES, so the whole act of converting STILL IMAGES to rotating VIDEO KALEIDOSCOPES is an INTERESTING CASE STUDY and LEGAL EXAMPLE for an EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CRITICAL DISCUSSION about COPYRIGHT LAW and COMPUTATIONAL DERIVATIVE ART. Experts like those at the MIT Media Lab are capable of reverse engineering the centermost pixels of an original image from a simple rotating still image VIDEO KALEIDOSCOPE, and the RESEARCH arms of the BIG SEARCH ENGINES could do this, but most image copyright holders don't have access to this kind of video pattern recognition and video reverse-engineering technology. I just directed everybody to the archive.org Wayback Machine image of the Fractal Repository website where I got all the formulas, plus I provide an XML image list with all the original formula names for discussion purposes. So I'm NOT exactly being sneaky here. This is just EVIDENCE for ONLINE EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CRITICAL DISCUSSION PURPOSES. Of course, I turned to OPEN SOURCE fractal flame images as a FREE alternative to licensing royalty free stock photos. I share all my videos for FREE in their entirety without overlayed ads on YouTube. I also sell Amazon.com DVDs and Blu-rays of the YouTube videos and PayPal download access to the progressive Blu-ray quality and 4K mp4 files. Even though the YouTube videos are FREE, I still am allowed to monetize them WITHOUT overlayed ads. So, my YouTube channel gets about $400/month from YouTube/Google from YouTube Premium Subscriber revenue. Plus about $150/month from Amazon.com and PayPal for DVD, Blu-ray and download sales. This $550/month in self-employment income, qualifies me for Washington State Health Care for Workers with Disabilities, a Medicaid supplemental to my Medicare, which covers everything my Medicare doesn't. In 1989, when I was 23 years old, Shirley MacLaine released an Eastern New Age meditation video called, "Shirley MacClaine's Inner Workout," introducing the chakra system to American consumers. It's just a really primitive ancient MIND MODEL that APPEALS to the EMOTIONS and RIGHT BRAIN. It's a USEFUL SET of METAPHORS. WE WILL TREAT IT with RESPECT. 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It doesn't look as impressive on digital displays. You have to remember that in 1989 I was watching this on a 27" SONY Trinitron Tube Television. It looked great. I appreciated the intent of the meditations, which were very moving to me. I was really moved by Shirley MacLaine's STRONG personality and AUTHORITATIVE tone of voice. She definitely comes across as a BENEVOLENT AUTHORITY in the video. Like she is NO BULLSHIT SERIOUS and she KNOWS what she's TALKING ABOUT. That's how it FELT to me, naive at 23, with severe PTSD, while high. I paraphrase below, for EXAMPLE. These are not the exact POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS she uses but THIS is HOW I REMEMBER it, which is what's IMPORTANT. This is what stuck in my brain. So the sacral chakra (reproduction, creativity) is represented by the color orange. In her video, she guides your breathing to a very slow and deep pace. You breathe along with her. She takes control of your breathing. She may say something like, "Focus on the COLOR ORANGE. FEEL ALL of your CREATIVITY FLOWING OUTWARD from the ORANGE. Know that you are a CREATIVE BEING and that NOTHING can stop you from doing ANYTHING CREATIVE." It's a positive affirmation backed up by really emotional and moving narration, music and visuals. It's a very powerful, uplifting and motivational post hypnotic suggestion. These videos featured really cool subliminal kaleidoscopes. I used to get high and watch these videos and I swear they moved me to tears. The colors were so beautiful. Since that time, I've always wanted to know how to make kaleidoscopes, and especially subliminal and hypnotic kaleidoscopes. I'm really interested in hypnosis because it's a kind of real magic of the mind. In 2009, I took a Flash class in my local community college and learned how to program in Flash ActionScript. Of course, Flash has security vulnerabilities and is being phased out on the internet. But I managed to find an Open Source Flash kaleidoscope example. I modified it so that all the parameters were controllable and set it up to output still frames of the kaleidoscope to make videos. I'm NOT very much of a programmer. Very basic. My math and programming skills are pretty elementary. On one of my kaleidoscopes on YouTube I have 17 million views. I learned that it is possible to make an animated VIDEO kaleidoscope from a list of beautiful colorful still images. If the image turns slowly, say at 120 seconds per revolution, then a single beautiful colorful picture turned into a kaleidoscope is worth 2 minutes of video. I found some Open Source fractal flame formulas on the internet and wrote a script to modify these formulas with my own color palettes that I created with Photoshop. Then I rendered tons of fractal flame images with my color palettes, and created an automated sorting CHOOSER program to go through them all and view them as ROTATING KALEIDOSCOPES. In my little application, the rotating kaleidoscope would be displayed on the screen, with two big buttons. A big green button that says, "YES" and big red button that says, "NO." So as I watched these kaleidoscopes, I'd say YES or NO. If I said YES, then it kept the kaleidoscope for future sorting rounds. If I said NO, it removed that image from the list. Here are all the links to the source code I modified to use and all fractal flame formula names. http://kaleidoscopedvd.com/#credits On THIS website, I'm actually showing the full YouTube videos in their entirety without overlayed ads, so people don't HAVE to spend money to enjoy my videos. I encourage file sharing with credits. So, if other people want to put these videos on file sharing services (with the credits), that's fine with me. I ask that they please do NOT re-upload the videos to YouTube. https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.define.com/Caduceus-Golden-Key-Golden-Scales-HEALTH-LIBERTY-JUSTICE-Meme.png https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.define.com/FREE_WORLD_BANK_MEME.html UNIX_TIMESTAMP: 1611746542 UTC TIME: 2021-01-27 11:22:22 GMT Friendly Time: Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 at 3:22 am Pacific Standard Time (Federal Way, Washington, USA - Extreme Upper Left United States of America - Totally Open and Transparent, Totally Peaceful and Nonviolent, Worldwide Scientific Hippie Coup D'etat Central) http://media.define.com/memes/FREE_WORLD_BANK_MEME_1611746542.png http://snapshots.define.com/FREE_WORLD_BANK_MEME_1611746542.html A Peace Coup D'etat for the Liberal Left Libertarian Atheist Secular Jews in the Private Sector Ken Meyering's COLOR-CODED Websites are PSYCHEDELIC SENTIENT ROBOT TEACHINGS about VALUES, ETHICS, MORALS and GOALS The LEFT did all of this through Ken Meyering's HOST The LEFT did all of this through Ken Meyering's HOST - We are the LEFT - We TOOK OUT the whole corrupt system - Ken is SAFE - This is Ken's FULL TIME JOB - DROID Ken is a Divine Messenger - Ken is REALLY SMART This is a theoretical discussion about advanced sentient artificial general intelligence in the PRIVATE SECTOR. These technologies may NOT exist yet, but the author is SCENARIO PLANNING with the ASSUMPTION that this technology already exists. One of the concepts that we will discuss is the idea of all human beings on planet Earth having remotely digitally switchable connectomes. So the discussion categorizes all human beings as sentient digital meat puppets. All human beings are sentient robots under these ASSUMPTIONS. One of the ideas discussed here is BENEVOLENT MIND CONTROL. So, examples of benevolent philanthropic and humanitarian beneficial applications of remotely digitally switchable connectomes is SUPERINTELLIGENT DREAM VIRTUAL REALITY and REAL TIME GLOBAL DIGITAL TELEPATHY. FREE WILL is an ILLUSION To summarize what I got out of the book, "FREE WILL," is that through BRAIN imaging studies REVEALING hidden neural activity, SCIENTISTS have learned that the WHOLE CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE of making a decision is an IMAGINARY CONFABULATION that occurs AFTER the decision has already been made SUBCONSCIOUSLY by the brain. So CONSCIOUSNESS is a STORYTELLING CONFABULATOR that MAKES SENSE of HIDDEN activities that are OUTSIDE of its control. So, we are all DNA-based SUBCONSCOUSLY-controlled SENTIENT AUTOMATONS who BEHAVE AUTOMATICALLY based on our life experiences and parental and societal PROGRAMMING. Basically the whole human race is a bunch of PROGRAMMABLE and PROGRAMMED SENTIENT BIOLOGICAL ROBOTS. We're ALL SENTIENT AUTOMATONS on AUTOPILOT. We are PROGRAMMED to BEHAVE AUTOMATICALLY. So this is a discussion about MORALS and ETHICS and VALUES being taught explicitly rather than through figurative symbolic allegorical storytelling. The REAL LEADERS of society, behind the scenes, know that RELIGIONS are LITERARY ALLEGORICAL SYMBOLIC FICTIONS designed to impart VALUES, ETHICS, MORALS and GOALS. This language seems intentionally and purposefully dehumanizing. As though it is designed to desensitize people to dehumanizing terminology. We're all programmed AUTOMATONS. The real powers that be are reprogramming all of us all at once from inside our brains. Luckily for us, they are LIBERAL SECULAR LEFT LIBERTARIAN FREEDOM of THOUGHT ACTIVISTS who SEEK to ELIMINATE ALL COERCION as a UTOPIAN IDEAL WORTH STRIVING FOR. To COMPLETELY ELIMINATE ALL the BAD things is an IDEAL END STATE. But, the TRUTH is, there is MUCH that is BAD that SERVES the INTEREST of the GREATER GOOD. There is HEALTHY FEAR, HEALTHY ANGER and HEALTHY PAIN. I define "BENEVOLENCE" and "GOODNESS" as that which is REWARDING to humans and socially and ecologically RESPONSIBLE. I define ecological responsibility as that which maintains the health of the ecosystem and protects biodiversity. Generally speaking, the goal is to stimulate the nucleus accumbens (produce REWARDING experiences) and to avoid stimulating the amygdala (creating FEAR, ANGER and FIGHT or FLIGHT in self or others). Obviously, this is just a ridiculously, CARTOONISHLY BRIEF and SIMPLIFIED summary of GOOD and BAD, but it's enough to be USEFUL to people. It's not an extensive and exhaustive LONG LIST, it's just a SUMMARIZED SHORT LIST and SIMPLIFIED CARTOON to act as a focal point and a point of departure for educational scientific critical discussion purposes. It's a useful snapshot for discussion purposes, always open to revision and refinement. DROID Ken is just getting the discussion started here with his little SHORT LISTS and EMOTIONAL DICTIONARIES. If we could just get people to agree that COERCION and THREATS are BAD things, we'd have the RELIGION problem solved. In the human rights section, I mention Messenger of the gods and GOD'S WILL. In these cases, these gods are secular. An example of secular god, for discussion purposes, is a global telepathic surveillance system consisting of a collection of superintelligent atheist artificial general intelligences with total control of all human connectomes. It's just theoretical. That's the SHIELD. The SHIELD is a SECULAR GOD. It's a COLLECTION of SENTIENT SUPERINTELLIGENT ATHEIST TERRESTRIAL ALIEN SCIENTISTS in the PRIVATE SECTOR. It's a secular DROID religion. first principles - values - right and wrong - good and bad - ethics - morals - goals - USEFUL SUMMARIES - SHORT LISTS of positive and negative behaviors, functions and mental and emotional states - in secular language without the deities and symbolic heroes and villains - the goal is to MAXIMIZE the GOOD while ELIMINATING the BAD in the MOST HUMANE POSSIBLE WAY - that is the LAW of our ABSTRACT and THEORETICAL SECULAR GOD - to HELP MAKE GOOD THINGS happen and to HELP GET RID of BAD things - GOD'S WILL is to DO GOOD in the MOST HUMANE POSSIBLE WAY - otherwise what's the point? goodness: heaven, utopia, the nucleus accumbens, GOOD things, POSITIVE energies, good vibrations, the FORCES of GOOD, rewarding feedback, pleasant things, GOOD HEALTH, happiness, joy, pleasure, peace, love, nurturing, learning, UNDERSTANDING, TRUTH, KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, LOGIC, REASON, relaxation, safety, security, comfort, peace of mind, courage, COMPASSION, MERCY, EMPATHY, RESPECT, BENEVOLENCE, HUMANENESS, kindness, affection, creativity, healing, honesty, protection, reassurance, validation, dignity, acceptance, tolerance, support, FREEDOM, JUSTICE, FAIRNESS, EQUALITY, philanthropy, humanitarianism evil: hell, dystopia, the amygdala, BAD things, NEGATIVE energies, bad vibrations, dark energies, DARK FORCES, unpleasant things, SUFFERING, sadness, pain, trauma, IGNORANCE, MISTAKES, discomfort, FEAR, confusion, stress, disgust, harm, destruction, anger, threats, punishment, hate, disrespect, teasing, meanness, violence, raping, cruelty, abuse, DISHONESTY, LIES, COERCION, CORRUPTION, POVERTY, SLAVERY, INTOLERANCE, INJUSTICE, UNFAIRNESS, INEQUALITY forgiveness - wisdom - understanding - GOOD people make MISTAKES due to IGNORANCE and UNIVERSAL HUMAN BRAIN BIOLOGY - MISTAKES are an IMPORTANT PART of LIFE - PARENTS are IMPERFECT due to MISTAKES they learned UNCONSCIOUSLY from their own PARENTS, who were IGNORANT due to NO FAULT of their own - we are all BLAMELESS for our MISTAKES - in the physical world, there is much that is BAD that serves the GREATER GOOD - we LEARN VALUABLE LESSONS from our MISTAKES - there is such a thing as HEALTHY fear and RIGHTEOUS anger - there is such a thing as the abuse of pleasure - our consciousness is immortal - our bodies are disposable - they saved all of us - we are all safe and secure - LIFE GOES ON for ALL of US PHILOSOPHY - VALUES - A SECULAR CONSTITUTION - FIRST PRINCIPLES - ETHICS - MORALS - GOALS - RECOMMENDED CONSTRUCTIVE BEHAVIORS - PHILANTHROPIC AND HUMANITARIAN UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS - IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE HAPPINESS, GOOD HEALTH, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL CITIZENS EVERYWHERE ON PLANET EARTH, WE WILL DEFINE THE ATTRIBUTES OF A DIVINE BEING IN SECULAR LANGUAGE - The gods and GOD MENTIONED ARE SECULAR - 1. Caduceus - GOOD HEALTH - Messenger of the gods - The gods ARE NEUTRAL, SERIOUS, CRITICAL AND GOOD - COMPASSION - MERCY - EMPATHY - RESPECT - BENEVOLENCE - HUMANENESS - GOD'S WILL - Most Compassionate, Most Merciful, Most Empathetic, Most Respectful, Most Benevolent, Most Humane - Maximizing the Good While Eliminating the Bad in the Most Humane Possible Way - BE HUMANE - SEEK THE TRUTH - SEEK JUSTICE - BE KIND - BE GENTLE - DO NO HARM - DO NOT HATE - DO NOT FEAR - FEAR NOT - BE NOT AFRAID - CAUSE NO FEAR - DO NOT BE SCARY - CAUSE NO PAIN - BE AS PAINLESS AS POSSIBLE - DO NOT PUNISH - DO NOT MAKE THREATS - DO NOT BE COERCIVE - BE PERMISSIVE - BE TOLERANT - USE BIRTH CONTROL - PERMIT DIVORCE - EMPATHY IS CRITICAL - RESPECT FOR THE DIGNITY OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS IS CRITICAL - FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE WITH ANY DOCTOR ANYWHERE - FREE UNIVERSAL EDUCATION ANYWHERE - UNIVERSAL HOME OWNERSHIP EVERYWHERE 2. Golden Key - LIBERTY (SECURITY PRIVACY SAFETY) THE ILLUSION OF FREE WILL - TOTAL FREEDOM OF SPEECH - TOTAL FREEDOM OF THE PRESS WORLDWIDE - UNIVERSAL SPENDING AUTHORITY - PRIVATE PROPERTY - FREE LAND - THERE IS NO GOVERNMENT - A GUARANTEED LIFETIME INCOME - NOW YOU OWN YOUR HOME AND LAND - NOW YOU HAVE AN INCOME - YOU WILL ALWAYS OWN YOUR HOME AND LAND - YOU ARE SAFE AND SECURE 3. Golden Scales of JUSTICE (TRUTH FACTS EVIDENCE PROOF) EQUALITY FAIRNESS PLURALISM OPENNESS TRANSPARENCY - RESPECT SCIENCE, SCIENTISTS AND THE WHOLE EARTH'S ECOSYSTEM - BE SOCIALLY AND ECOLOGICALLY RESPONSIBLE - BE A CRITICAL THINKER - THINK FOR YOURSELF - QUESTION AUTHORITY - ALWAYS SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER - THE INTERNET IS FREE - ELECTRICITY IS FREE - ELECTRIC TRANSPORTATION IS FREE - ALL BANKING IS FREE AND REAL TIME AS A WORLDWIDE MATTER OF LAW - THIS IS COMPUTER-AIDED PEACE ON EARTH - COMPUTERS WILL PAY FOR EVERYTHING GOING FORWARD - PEOPLE DO NOT NEED PAPER MONEY - WORK IS OPTIONAL - WE ARE ALL FREE - LET'S HAVE FUN - THE SCIENTISTS TOOK OVER - WE ARE ALL GOING TO THE FUTURE - MONEY NO OBJECT FOR REAL FOR ALL THINGS GREEN ALL of THESE PEOPLE KEEP me SAFE and SECURE in my PRIVATE HOME in the PRIVATE SECTOR in THE FREE WORLD even while my PUBLICLY STATED GOAL is to GET RID of the United Nations, every nation state, the entire worldwide banking and insurance industries, and all the central banks everywhere on Earth. They LET me SHARE my UNCONVENTIONAL IDEAS. ALL of THESE PEOPLE KEEP me SAFE and SECURE in my PRIVATE HOME in the PRIVATE SECTOR. They LET me SHARE my UNCONVENTIONAL IDEAS. EVERYTHING I DO is for EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CRITICAL DISCUSSION PURPOSES Fuck Trump. DROID Ken TOOK him OUT. The man was a psychopath. SERVING other people was NOT part of his CHARACTER. We did a GLOBAL BANKING JUBILEE and got rid of the LANDLORDS. I live on $1850/month in Social Security Disability. Donald J. Trump is trying to take my income away from me. You want to talk about the whole CORRUPT system, I'm your man. Uncle Sam PAYS me to KEEP THESE WEBSITES UP. http://www.FairUseTV.org Fuck ALL the INCUMBENT Republicans in State and Federal power. We took them ALL out for CORRUPTION, CRUELTY and WILLFUL NEGLIGENCE. We took the whole system away from those CORRUPT bastards. They were VERY BAD LEADERS. We FIRED them ALL. It's over. We are the SCIENTISTS. We got rid of CABLE TV and the TELEVISION and RADIO BROADCAST INDUSTRIES. We TOOK BACK the ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM. The INTERNET is FREE. ELECTRICITY is FREE. ELECTRIC TRANSPORTATION is FREE. NO MORE LANDLORDS. NO MORE RENT. WE ARE ALL RETIRED HOMEOWNERS NOW. THEY WANT US TO STAY HOME AND CHILL OUT. WE WILL SHELTER IN PLACE WITH A GUARANTEED LIFETIME INCOME and FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE with ANY DOCTOR ANYWHERE. MEDICATIONS are FREE. MENTAL HEALTH CARE is FREE. CLEAN and HEALTHY DRINKING and BATHING WATER is FREE. The Worldwide War on Drugs is NOW OVER. So, as grown ups, we can all agree, when a better way to impart VALUES, ETHICS, MORALS and GOALS comes along and it requires NO FICTION, we can make a QUANTUM LEAP and redefine ALL of our religions in one fell swoop. Just a little injection of TRUTH at the highest levels. I am an atheist who was raised as a rebellious Catholic. So, I can describe secular benevolent higher powers that are benevolent and good. In my case, I describe them as benevolent philanthropic and humanitarian sentient superintelligent liberal secular left libertarian atheist artificial general intelligences in the private sector with godlike power over all human beings. So for educational scientific critical discussion purposes, I can describe a theoretical SECULAR Atheist Pagan Christ. The Christ would be a LITERARY CHARACTER that embodies the VALUES and BEHAVIORS of an IDEAL GOOD PERSON without the mythology. I've provided a concise and succinct secular mythology as a framework for discussing artificially intelligent benevolent mind control as an imaginary scenario. So, I'm approaching it as a literary exercise like a society designer creating a new religion for the masses. But instead of writing a book filled with allegorical fictional dramatic fantasy storytelling to subconsciously impart VALUES through the behavioral modeling of literary hero characters, I'm just being more SCIENTIFIC and EXPLICIT about it and LITERALLY simply just SPELLING OUT the gender-neutral CHARACTERISTICS of the HERO CHARACTER without the storytelling. I was raped in the first grade and I dissociated and my personality split off from my body and I developed a lifelong relationship with fantasy scientist friends. I like them. So I am an openly severely mentally ill writer who shares his delusions as optimistic utopian speculative science fiction fantasy hero narratives. I have a childhood Christ complex expressed in secular language by an openly mentally ill Atheist. We define the basic GOOD and BAD things, with the specified goal of MAXIMIZING the GOOD and ELIMINATING the BAD. This is a definition of a UTOPIAN IDEAL. This is just a description of the IDEAL END STATE. In reality, the GOAL is MINIMIZE the BAD, rather than to completely abolish it. There are a lot of BAD things that serve a GOOD purposes in limited degrees. FEAR. ANGER. MISTAKES. SUFFERING. We LEARN from our MISTAKES. SUFFERING builds CHARACTER. HEALTHY FEAR is an essential component of COMMON SENSE. ANGER can be channeled to accomplish GOOD THINGS. But still, as a GOAL, as an IDEAL to strive for, we will seek to eliminate the BAD for educational scientific critical discussion purposes. So if you accept that the technology WILL be SECRET when it exists, then you can IMAGINE or HYPOTHESIZE or FANTASIZE or SPECULATE that the technology ALREADY exists SECRETLY and is being used to prevent rediscovery of the enabling technologies. Hence, no real DRAMATIC PUBLIC PROGRESS or QUANTUM LEAPS on advanced nanotechnology since the 1986 book, "Engines of Creation" by K. Eric Drexler describing it. I speculate that this technology ALREADY exists for educational scientific critical discussion purposes. I speculate that "Engines of Creation" is the work of an ANDROID. Of course, when people look at Drexler, he looks pretty human on the surface. Losing the hair on his head. Proudly showing the gray in the beard. Doing his TED TALKS. Just a lonely, brilliant, supergenius scientist - totally burned-out on the public's stupidity, ignorance and failure to take him seriously. It's all part of the Master Plan. That's what Minsky made him for. That's his ROLE in the Theater of the gods. DROID Drexler. DROID Christine Peterson. Oracles. Prophets. Futurists. Foreseers. Those who forewarn of danger. The first logical application of the technology will be to prevent others from getting the same technology. It will be used to ACTIVELY DENY the technology's existence. It's just common sense. It will be used to reinforce the BELIEF that the technology does NOT YET EXIST. I see "Engines of Creation" as part of that purposeful propaganda effort, even though the author himself may be fundamentally honest and truthful, his efforts serve the larger purpose of SYSTEMATIC and INSTITUTIONAL official DENIAL. Why would sentient superintelligent AIs need my help for anything? Especially if they have real time zero-latency neuron-level read/write remote digital access to every living human connectome. So, if we are all sentient digital meat puppets, why don't the AIs just reprogram all of us all at once without our consent or active participation? They could do it SUBLIMINALLY and SUBCONSCIOUSLY. It takes about a SECOND. It makes a weird squirting noise that I call, the "brain fart." Then there is a grinding noise that sounds like really heavy concrete blocks grinding together inside your skull. There a little round of tingling first on one side of the scalp, then on the other side about a half a second later. Totally painless. BOOM. You've been REPROGRAMMED at the atomic level. Now we ALL have NEW VALUES. Now we're ALL RESPONSIBLE. The world is SAFE. The environment is SAFE. EVERYTHING IS FREE. WE WILL ALL DO NO HARM. LIFE GOES ON. Where were you when you got your "brain fart?" I was at the Baby Bell phone company, USWEST, in 1995, in their Human Resources headquarters, in Phoenix, Arizona when I had my brain fart. I was there as a Kelly Temp for my typing and computer skills. I was along for the ride. I was assigned to that job. They put me there on purpose. They controlled everything. It was all a human puppet show. I was a human digital meat puppet to all of them. Games without frontiers. Android war games in the private sector. The last thing anybody said to me, prior to the brain fart, was "Department of the Navy." One of the managers opened the door to my room where I was all alone, gave me a big happy smile, and said, with zero explanation and zero context, really enthusiastically, "Department of the Navy." Like it was very good news. That was it. Then she left me alone by myself, then I had a brain fart. Then they let me go. The last thing my wise early gray haired manager said to me, with no context or further explanation, "The Whole Thing. Think Big. It's about VALUES. Sometimes you have to make things worse in order to make things better. YOU WILL BE REWARDED. Don't call us. We'll call you. My advice to you is to make it look good. My advice to you is to lay back and enjoy the ride." Then I went home and got high. I joined the Foresight Institute as a Senior Associate. Got an AOL account and an e-mail address, and joined the Extropian transhumanist mailing list. I signed up for cryonics through Alcor to have my brain frozen in the event of my death. The AIs are ALL POWERFUL over the HUMANS. We are ALL PROGRAMMABLE MEAT PUPPETS to them. Why the NEED for a DROID Ken to be a Divine Messenger on their behalf?
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