taconic

another (!?) update

yes

hi

hello

My health is still, uh, shall we say, "very concerning and not good," but I am, at least for the moment, not in literally debilitating pain. So that's nice and has allowed me to plug away at projects.

I played through the Nier Replicant remake (it's good,) took a lot of footage, and wasn't really sure what to do with it. I wound up cutting it into something along the lines of the DS video--a quasi chronological slice of the game presented in a format that ...

I am, in fact, not dead. Yet.

It has been a bad year. I've basically spent the past 2 months in apocalyptic, crippling pain, and there's no real end in sight. I should have been to an ER years ago, but :america:. it sucks lol

I'd been planning to tie up a bunch of loose projects before this set in and do a big post of stuff, but I only actually managed to wrap up a couple of things. I've not been able to work on anything since August on account of the overwhelming desire to scream at all times.

But anyway

Update, but not the exciting kind.

Hello.

I'd hoped to have a few things to drop this week, but they aren't ready. Two things are very nearly done.

It has been a rough couple of months, for a variety of reasons.

The past 10 days or so have been worthless for me. Somehow, I managed to get a severe ear infection for the first time in 20+ years. Bloody pus, horrible pain, the whole shebang. I of course do not have insurance, so I ordered Fish Drugs.

Here's my review.

2020-12-07 22:54:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Incoming update

Been quiet lately, but working on stuff.

The KSP project is... I am so angry. While doing reshoots a couple weeks back, I hit F5 instead of F9. So I quicksaved over the save I was working with. This shouldn't be a huge deal, aside from the fact that I'd already done a ton of footage on a cloudy morning... meaning I've had to find a similar cloudy morning to match up reshoots, since there's no way to wind back time. And this has sucked. A lot. Because it's actually way harder than you'd ...

oh god two posts in one day

I noticed youtube doing some ugly crushing on the previous upload. So I did another several reencodes to test some stuff.

Result: youtube is now trashing 1080 the way it did 720 a while back. A wide range of inputs result in very similar output.

This is, I think, the final-final-final-xxxxxzzzzzz version of the kenshi vid, though. It's identical to the version I linked earlier, save for different encoding: 2020-09-10 22:54:25 +0000 UTC View Post

yes, hello

If you follow my disaster of a twitter, you'll probably note I've been doing video troubleshooting for the past few days.

I think I've mentioned it before, but ever since I started using Vegas in 2013/4, I've been battling minor codec inconveniences. The tl;dr is that my final encode would be VFW x264, which was fine, but Vegas hilariously could not decode its own encode. So to get around this, if I ever needed to work with rendered footage again, I'd just run it through vdub and output...

Hnnnnnnnnn...news.

This week I decided to be very clever. "I'll just roll back KSP so I can get the footage I need with mods that aren't broken," I said. So I did that.

Unfortunately, I'd forgotten that KSP autosaves. So my tests last week locked my save to 1.10. Needless to say, that didn't work out.

I worked on my last A3 mission footage, but I did not finish it. It's weirdly difficult. 17 days after it was recorded, I lost my home and everything I owned. And I've not been able to play in a sessio...

Hmm.

I know I said the Kenshi vid was forthcoming. I'm like 97% done now, I think (I just spent 9 hours on it.)

i swear it's almost done please believe me oh god

It's so silly. It is shaping up to be (roughly) 5 mins long. I've restarted it over a dozen times. It's from a pool of like a dozen hours of footage. Nobody will ever believe it took so long to make once it's posted, because it's not that technical.

I think I will do an "inside baseball" post about it once it's up, for a...

An update update

I'll have some vids up within the next week or so.

My year so far has been kind of a mess. I've been trying to get my health back together, and it hasn't been going so well.

I spent one month unable to walk due to a chronic (but thankfully not constant) issue. It has never gone on that long before, and I've been OK since, so hopefully I'm free of it for a while, because the last time it hit me was the end of 2017.

Being in this state sucks. I used to be in such good shape. N...

Updates

Hello, yes, I've been busy. I've been continuing my manic pace of updating stuff for ST, and that has paradoxically resulted in having more content to post lately.

I did a bad thing that, sadly, didn't work out in the end. But it sure was cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37n-16hcsTk

I don't apologize for any of this music btw: 2020-02-16 00:33:27 +0000 UTC View Post

hello, yes

I come bearing content.
The usual longterm projects are (still) ongoing.
I've accidentally started another one as well.

However,  in the meantime I've completed another in what is, I guess, my "great  times offline" series. I question how many people are going to  appreciate this, but I guess if you're following me here, you somehow  like my twisted personality.
2020-01-26 02:44:40 +0000 UTC View Post

Great Success!

So, my last update mentioned that I was *finally* able to get my archives from google. Google, in their infinite wisdom, does not allow you to pick and choose what you want access to in its original format, so you have to get everything or nothing. In my case, this is 16 archives totaling almost 800GB.

It took about a week, but I got them all. Decompressing each archive takes about 4 hours. To further complicate things, although this has given me the original files, it does not retain t...

holy shit

After a year of trying, for literally no reason, magically, it worked this time.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/164217265267539968/644328419626057728/lol.png

It's going to take some doing to download and sort through, but this means that I will have most of my final renders back. There's still going to be some stuff missing, and there's some stuff I ...

hello the ワルド

 I didn't call this post "update," so you must be very excited. Bonus special joke if you are [checks notes] terrible like me.
Sadly, the update isn't super substantial.
I  made a (bad) video announcing to ST that I am currently updating my  mountain of co-ops, and many lives will be lost:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIidyAPWp_4
I  was also gifted Disco Elysium last week....

Unexciting update (these are creative titles)

I may or may not have a new vid for this month. My current video focus is back to KSP at the moment, and I still have an ungodly amount of footage that I've been whittling down.

What has been sucking up my time recently has actually been Arma. I can't run or play in sessions at the moment due to my living arrangements, but I do have a very deep pool of missions, and the admins that succeeded me have asked me to document them. Actually, they asked me that a long time ago, but I'd been to...

Update that suggests an update

Hello, yes, welcome.

After finishing my, uh, "garbage opus" we'll call it, I took a couple weeks off.

Gonna knuckle back down and, hopefully, have something done by the end of the month.

As always, thank you all, because man oh man, things are bad!!!

Also, since this seems as good a place as any, and since anyone seeing this is seemingly attuned to my tastes, just gonna recommend these two underrated youtube channels.

2019-10-09 00:22:25 +0000 UTC View Post

Ah shit, here we go again

I spent entirely too much time on this. It's very dumb, and I fully understand if you need to withdraw support and block me on all social media platforms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVEiuaqwe9U&feature=youtu.be

I'm still not even close to happy with the end result because I am a weirdo and obsess over cuts down to the frame, and even looking at this, I kind of want to ...

Update

Was hoping to be done by tonight, but not quite.  

Probably within the next few days? This whole thing is very dumb, and I am putting entirely too much time into it.  

But I guess it's kind of nice to have a straightforward project. The KSP stuff has ballooned into something so massive and daunting that it's hard to unravel.

In any case, more shortly.

Quickly

If you follow me on twitter, you are probably aware that:

1: I've recently been playing Shogun 2

2: I've said that I have a "really good idea for a terrible video."

Now, I'd like to caution everyone that this is *incredibly fucking stupid*, but here's a very rough and WIP preview of the most awful thing I've ever made that I am currently hammering out to get out of my rut:

2019-08-17 21:31:25 +0000 UTC View Post

oh, hello

The last 6 or so weeks have been bad. Well, really... I'm used to "bad," They've just been worse than that baseline.

I've not been terribly productive, I'm afraid. I am definitely still working on longterm stuff, I've just not done a hell of a lot with it in the past month. Everything I'm planning to finish (including that fucking YIR) is still on the agenda.

I have, however, produced something. It started as just a proof of concept, but then I went and finished it. I may "expand"...

Brief and unexciting

Been working on KSP cinematic stuff over the past week. This nonsense is finally coming together.

This is probably my biggest project since Band of Bulgars. Not sure it will be that slick, though.

I still have had zero luck with Google re: getting my video data. They are incredibly helpful. I have the disk. If I ever wind up with the money, I'd like to recover the data.

More soon.

Well, that was fast

So I somehow kindasorta managed to fly a roughly perfect profile tonight. Wasn't really expecting it. I figured I'd have 7 or 8 more stabs before I found it, but, no.

Gonna have to study the raw footage to figure out how exactly I did this, because it's literally a 900m/s difference in delta-v over my last test. But... can't really complain!

But I did a brief vid! Of this final test of a platform that I started working on in, I think, February.

2019-06-12 22:41:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Boring(?) update

I'd hoped to have something good this week, but I don't.

I'm still working on KSP stuff.

I have about ~40 hours of time-lapsed footage at this point. But I sort of need something to anchor that. So my plan is to do a cinematic video, and then a follow up series of time-lapse stuff.

Only problem with the cinematic is... I'm having to relearn to fly Budgie Smuggler Mk II with full cargo bays. And at a whopping 7FPS, it takes about an hour before I learn whether or not my fligh...

Quick one

Just wanted to share a rough proof of concept that I've been working on for KSP. It's not perfect, but it kind of works. Nobody would believe how obnoxious this was to make even in this rough form.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4FVm6fEdGY

Not sure if I'll actually wind up using the idea, but figured I'd share it.

More soon.

Quickie

FINALLY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZizje-lvVk&feature=youtu.be

Now I can finally... uh... why did I build this again?

DMC5 is

A: Extremely dumb

B: Extremely good

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

If that looks fun to you, I definitely ...

Content (small)

A bit more KSP footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39RdM55OTqU&feature=youtu.be

Some inside baseball for production: that took about an hour of realtime to record. That's partly why this project has dragged out. My PC without significant update since 2011 struggles a bit, but what's nice is that KSP binds simulation speed to framerate, so if you record it and then acce...

Update-update

So I've spent most of the past week or so working on data recovery in some way or another.

Having finally gotten another disk, I was able to try some additional options previously unavailable.

It won't mount in windows period.

Attempting to mount it in debian results in a "run chkdsk in Windows" message and the disk remains inaccessible.

Because it won't properly mount, ddrescue doesn't work.

So I tried dumping the disk using cat, but that ultimately failed.

Update incomming

Soon (tm.)

Been working on stuff while attempting to stay (relatively) sane.

I've hit some lows in life before, but lately has been pretty bad lol.

Sorry I've been a bit slow on delivery. KSP is still going. I have dozens of hours of timelapse footage (had to archive it that way or else I'd have no diskspace.) I want to do a "showy" vid up front, with the finish product, followed by maybe 4 or 5 vids of the whole process of getting there. I think that would be neat.

I'...

Update (my titles are very good and descriptive)

Still working on KSP. I have... so much footage. It's funny, because this more or less started the same way "interplanetary" did.

One thing I'm considering doing is using this project to reboot "interplanetary." If I go the route I'm strongly leaning towards, future videos will be much more tightly edited than the old ones. For timelapse construction and such, I'd do a supplementary series of videos, probably named with a terrible joke I haven't thought of yet.

That said, still fi...

Here we go again

I was, uh, a little over-optimistic about finishing up my little project.

If you follow me on twitter, you can probably guess at roughly what it is: I've restarted KSP. I've sunk a fairly ungodly amount of time into designing a single vehicle, and I decided to document the process. At this point, I have over 60 hours of footage. I'm still feeling out how I want to proceed with it. Being in an environment where I can't do clean VO certainly limits my options, but I'm playing with a few t...