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[6744d62437f99Kolya]

ffmpegwasm.github.io is a webassembly/javascript port of ffmpeg (the library that runs VLC among other things). It allows to record, convert and stream video in your browser. The data is never sent to a server.

While this is already useful, you can expect a lot of web based video tools being developed in future on top of this.

[6744d6243836eKolya]

Daft Punk have broken up. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuDX6wNfjqc
https://daftpunk.com/

Daft Punk Break Up | Pitchfork
The legendary dance duo has called it quits 28 years after forming in Paris

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28 years... I guess you can say they had a very good run! I enjoyed their early output a lot but they lost me after Discovery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6f_2nPSX8

Looking forward to the "Alive One More Time"-Renuion Tour 2027 (around the world).

[6744d6243891aKolya]

I just watched Space Sweepers (Netflix) and I can recommend it as a joyful sci-fi opera with its heart in the right place that reminded me a lot of Cowboy Bebop, as this review correctly points out.

Space Sweepers review: Netflix sci-fi movie feels like Cowboy Bebop - Polygon
The South Korean science fiction action movie Space Sweepers has been billed as the country’s first blockbuster set in space, like China’s The Wandering Earth before it. Its anti-capitalist, post-apocalyptic story resembles Neil Blomkamp’s Elysium, with rich people leaving a ravaged Earth to live in a space utopia, while everyone else scrabbles to get by. But while its found-family story about scrappy trash collectors on the margins recalls the anime series Cowboy Bebop, the film’s humor is worth more than its impressive action. Streaming on Netflix now.

[6744d62438b5aKolya]

I watched 2 horror movies from 2018: "A quiet place" and "Revenge".

"A quiet place" is theoretically a lean and mean horror thriller in which some kind of monsters (looks are ripped from Stranger Things) solely navigate by sound and terrorize humanity who has to stay really silent. This might be cool if humanity was represented by a bunch of interesting characters, but instead we get a family who in the face of horror uphold American conservative values as best as they can by praying and breeding relentlessly. Ten minutes in I was cheering for the monsters.

"Revenge" is a modern exploitation flick. A sexy girl goes with her marriage cheating boyfriend to a remote house in the desert. His two hunter friends show up and after a drunken party night one of them rapes the girl. Her friend isn't too perturbed when he finds out and tries to buy her silence. When she flees things get even worse for her before she gradually wins the upperhand  and takes revenge.
The film is a bit weird insofar as the first part including the violence against her is relatively realistic, while her comeback in the second halve involves some creative liberties. But that's exploitation movie logic.
In no way does this film turn exploitation on its head, as some critics suggested who never saw a Pam Grier movie.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmR4zLcORNc

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[6744d62438f2avoodoo47]

just for the record, yeah, I agree that is the most uhh, ok I guess moment in the entire trilogy.

[6744d6243904eKolya]

Understandably Bombadil was left out of the movies. In the books though I thought it was nice that Tolkien had included this mythical being that is unaffected by the conflict that engulfs everyone else. Like not everything has to fit this one perspective, regardless of how important it may seem.

[6744d6243916fKolya]

I split off the stoner rock discussion into its own thread. I feel there is more to excavate.

[6744d62439483fox]

KolyaYou chose wisely.

[6744d6243967afox]

Apparently the Tom Bombadil character was inspired by a puppet that belonged to Tolkiens' son and the subject of a poem collection that was published years before the LotR-trilogy [I was wrong there]. I suppose he simply wanted it to appear in his opus magnum and maybe introduce a somewhat neutral-good, swiss like, party that exists outside of the factions. A little zen moment.

[6744d62439803Kolya]

According to Wikipedia Tolkien wrote several poems about Bombadil years before LOTR. Not a collection though.

After watching Rise of Skywalker and Mandalorian S02:

[6744d6243996eicemann]

Loved Mandalorian. Hate the new trilogy.

[6744d62439c6dvoodoo47]

well, you reap what you sow.

no matter what you do, no matter how smart you think you are, or how great your ideas are, do NOT piss the fans off - because they KNOW what they want. this seems to be rather hard to grasp

[6744d62439d99Kolya]

Sounding a large and elaborate fog horn. (Basically pre-internet nerd stuff.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHCmzvzCmhI

[6744d62439e98fox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ1XnrwIy7Q

[6744d6243a00bKolya]

retronaut.com has polished archive pictures of the past, like Harrison Ford working as a carpenter or these 70s rock stars and their parents. Cool stuff.

[6744d6243a183Kolya]

Title sequence of the film Walk on the Wild Side [1962]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI9Or8rE_Dc

[6744d6243a283Kolya]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1btDc5xJe0

[6744d6243a361voodoo47]

finally, a solution.

[6744d6243a465fox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvz3LRK263E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_BlNA7bBxo

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https://www.pcgamer.com/amp/elon-musks-neurotech-company-wired-up-a-monkey-to-play-pong-with-its-brain/

We actually took a look at Neuralink in March, saying that the interfaces it's working on "could revolutionize the way we live if we can figure out what to do with them." Cyborg monkeys may not seem like the most practical direction to take things (and could also conceivably stir up some unpleasant memories for System Shock 2 fans) but it's clearly a step along the way, and not the destination in mind.

Nerds.

And there were no cyborg monkeys in System Shock 2! 

[6744d6243a9bevoodoo47]

well, they are biologically/chemically enhanced, not cybernetically - for a casual gamer that has played SS2 maybe once, and only has a vague memory of evil monkeys and lots of cybernetics all around the place, this is probably easy to mix up.