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The Zoq2
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The page is mine

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budokaiman
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Quote: "EDIT: Aaron Miller trolled us all. Have you guys seen the edits he's done to the first post?"

Yes, he did those quite a while ago too and never said anything.

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 10th Nov 2014 23:55
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Has anyone seen Aaron Miller lately?

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budokaiman
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Posted: 11th Nov 2014 00:29
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woah!


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MrValentine
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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 11th Nov 2014 03:15
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Look guys, a video I made!



It's nothing fancy, just some basic movement tests with a tripod that I later added film grain too.


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Indicium
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Posted: 11th Nov 2014 03:50
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Very nicely done. I'm not sure at all, but don't a lot of films have the camera completely stationary to start the shot, then accelerate it to a certain speed then maintain that speed. Like this:

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MrValentine
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Posted: 11th Nov 2014 04:04
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You not using a hydraulic pipe clamp?

Get one of those rocker cages!

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 11th Nov 2014 05:21
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Quote: "Very nicely done. I'm not sure at all, but don't a lot of films have the camera completely stationary to start the shot, then accelerate it to a certain speed then maintain that speed. Like this:"


Thanks! And it totally depends on what the director is going for. Lots of shots can be started right in the middle of the movement, or some directors will choose to start it stationary and move the camera along with the action. It really just depends on what they're going for.

I didn't want to have a lot of boring static shots leading into up and down movement, so that's why I edited them down to just the moving parts. That, and anytime I started to move the camera the tripod jiggled and everything shook pretty badly. I have to find a way to solve that little problem!


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Indicium
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Posted: 11th Nov 2014 16:03
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Regardless, I thought it looked really good.
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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 11th Nov 2014 18:29
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Why thank you good sir!

My ultimate goal is to be able to look a lot like Philip Bloom. I'm not sure how likely that is to happen though haha


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Clonkex
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Posted: 12th Nov 2014 02:41
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That's pretty cool! I've been wanting to try some simple cinema-style shooting/editing recently, but I just haven't had the time. Plus, like you, I only have a tripod as a stabiliser.


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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 12th Nov 2014 04:07
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Thank you Clonkex!

It is indeed challenging to only have a tripod for a stabilizer, but I didn't let it stop me!

I plan to do another shoot just as soon as it snows. I should be able to get all kinds of interesting shots then!

I uploaded a better edit of the footage here on MediaFire. I recommend you download the footage in order to see it play in top quality!

I had to upload it in 720p though, otherwise the file size would have been at least 2.5x greater than the 697MB!


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Posted: 12th Nov 2014 13:33 Edited at: 15th Nov 2014 14:09
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[mod edit] I don't like to step on other moderator's toes and remove something they didn't, but this is not appropriate for these forums[/mod edit]
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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 12th Nov 2014 16:14
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Yes indeed.

I really don't understand why bona fide companies make it so difficult for their customers. Every time I buy a new bit of equipment, e.g. digital camera or external disk drive etc etc, I have to watch very carefully to ensure it doesn't install some completely unnecessary additional software when I first connect it.



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TheComet
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Posted: 12th Nov 2014 16:39
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Rosetta is landing on me in a few minutes.

http://rosetta.esa.int/

Due to the 30 minute delay we'll see it in about half an hour from now.

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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 12th Nov 2014 23:56
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Quote: "Rosetta is landing on me in a few minutes."


Sounds good. Any chance of a selfie?



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The Zoq2
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Posted: 13th Nov 2014 00:00
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The points are mine

An unknown error also occurend

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TheComet
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Posted: 13th Nov 2014 01:32
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"philae"? "rosetta"? Really? Who thought up these names, they're incredibly suspicious.

Anyway, I ate a rosetta today. It was pretty tasty.

If you translate that into Swiss-German and back again, you get: "Anyway, I ate ass today".

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 13th Nov 2014 02:17
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Quote: "Anyway, I ate ass today"
Oh, that's where mine went... I hope you enjoyed it..

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Posted: 13th Nov 2014 02:58
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when you unsuspectingly see your best friend at the store



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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 13th Nov 2014 06:28
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I have (finally ) tallied the votes from the banner voting thread! I will publish the results tomorrow. There are a couple groups where two banners tied.

Here are the individual banners, with the corresponding number of votes against them:



What shall we set the limit to? I am thinking any banner with up to 2 votes shall be placed into circulation, and any banner with more than 2 votes shall not be.

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Posted: 13th Nov 2014 08:23
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that's good


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Posted: 13th Nov 2014 15:40
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Interesting number!

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I have such a giant, throbbing election right now.
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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 13th Nov 2014 15:49
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That's pretty cool. What position are you running for?

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It's gonna be hard for you to get a solid lead
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Seditious
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Well I'm quite in the behind right now, but I don't mind it at all. I must say it's tighter than I expected.
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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 14th Nov 2014 00:31 Edited at: 14th Nov 2014 00:33
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Here are the results of the banner contest! All of the banners listed either received the majority vote for a group, or received 2 or less votes in the individuals category, and will be placed into circulation.




The image numbers in this image do not correspond to the image numbers in the contest.

I will put these all in a zip file, and email them to someone... Who should I email the images to?

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Clonkex
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Posted: 14th Nov 2014 00:39 Edited at: 14th Nov 2014 00:43
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Watch it, Seditious. You're pushing your luck (again) with what you're posting on here. You don't want the post-comp to end up locked again, do you?

EDIT:

Quote: "Here are the results of the banner contest!"


Awesome! I'm pretty happy with the results, too! And only slightly disappointed that the second "patrolled by the mod squad" didn't get in


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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 14th Nov 2014 00:48 Edited at: 14th Nov 2014 05:28
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Quote: "And only slightly disappointed that the second "patrolled by the mod squad" didn't get in"
Yeh, banner A won 6 votes to 1.

EDIT My mother has lost her job. Stupid corporation decided that renewing the lease on the store she worked at wasn't economically worth it. Bummer.

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Quote: "Watch it, Seditious. You're pushing your luck (again) with what you're posting on here. "


What, pray tell, are you referring to?
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Emp neh cren vlosempt ner blouch nach.

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So in other news, I'm upgrading to 16BG of RAM from 8GB.

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Quote: "So in other news, I'm upgrading to 16BG of RAM from 8GB."


I never thought I'd ever need 8 GB, but I've hit that limit quite a few times. I should upgrade to 16 as well.

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Quote: " I never thought I'd ever need 8 GB, but I've hit that limit quite a few times. I should upgrade to 16 as well."

When I started hitting 6GB usage with a normal working load(Firefox, 1 VM, Thunderbird, LoL) I decided I needed to upgrade. Now I can give my VM 2-4 GB no problem.

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points[/b][b][b][/b][u][/u]

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I recently upgraded to 32 from 8. Well worth it, as I was at 6-7Gb most of the time.

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Quote: "16BG"
16 betagigs?

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Posted: 15th Nov 2014 00:50 Edited at: 15th Nov 2014 00:59
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Quote: "What, pray tell, are you referring to?"


Quote: "throbbing election"


...and the Oatmeal comic.

Quote: "So in other news, I'm upgrading to 16BG of RAM from 8GB."


I'm hoping to do that soon as well. So much for those who insist you'll never need more than 4GB. It's really easy to use it all up just with Chrome, and then if you try to open a game as well...

My brother bought an SSD a week ago, and now I have the money so I've bought one as well (same as his - Samsung 840 Evo 250GB) if only because I'm so sick of waiting for BF4 maps to load (now that I own BF4). Should've been here yesterday but wasn't... Now I have to wait 'til Monday...


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If someone is young enough to be offended by that, chances are they are also too young to understand what it means, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Quote: "...and the Oatmeal comic."


Ahem?
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The problem is not whether they are offended by it or even whether they understand it. I generally say that if an innocent/naive child were to read it out loud within earshot of a parent, and said parent is likely to be horrified/upset by what they hear, it should not be on here. The fact that I've allowed them to remain should tell you that they're just borderline.

Quote: "Ahem?"


Not sure why you're saying that...?


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Quote: " Ahem? "

The Oatmeal comic in question borderline encourages piracy(I know it doesn't but it makes a legitimate(to some) case for it). TGC takes a pretty strict stance on that kind of thing.

Quote: " I'm hoping to do that soon as well. So much for those who insist you'll never need more than 4GB. It's really easy to use it all up just with Chrome, and then if you try to open a game as well..."

Ha, I used up 4GB with Firefox and VS open at the same time much less anything like a VM or actually running a complicated compile. I wish I was on W7 back when I was on 4GB, I'm curious just how many page faults a second I was causing due to lack of RAM/cache.

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Posted: 15th Nov 2014 06:30
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There is also a certain C-word in the strip. Not a word that offends me, it's a word I use daily. I also know people in our part of the world find it less offensive than others (that said, people find it offensive). Of course not so much a case that people may find it offensive but that the forum is meant to be, I suppose, like a PG-13 movie due to the range of audiences attracted and it supposed to be accommodating in that respect.

I would argue the exception would be where there's reasonable warning (this link contains swearing) and it still fits in with the AUP. This way, to my mind it puts the responsibility on the user and not the poster.

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Yodaman Jer
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Ugh, I went back in time on the forum to look for some old threads I posed 5+ years ago.

Oh, what a n00b I was, using improper grammar, posting multiple threads a day and generally looking like I just didn't give a darn about it all.

Those were the days


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Quote: "Ugh, I went back in time on the forum to look for some old threads I posed 5+ years ago."


You do know how to use the Profile button and page below your posts right? [I assumed you did not use that method when you said "... to look for some old threads ..."]



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You know how to use that points button below your posts right?

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