stupid first world problems you're dealing with

  On 9/24/2016 at 9:12 PM, usagi said:

spent half the day trying to get HEVC working nicely in Premiere Pro to no avail.

 

Are you still holding your poo?

 

  On 9/24/2016 at 8:03 PM, Danny O Flannagin said:

 

  On 9/23/2016 at 12:56 AM, Braintree said:

 

  On 9/21/2016 at 10:41 PM, Braintree said:

 

  On 9/21/2016 at 10:35 PM, Danny O Flannagin said:

 

  On 9/21/2016 at 10:21 PM, Braintree said:

Got a ticket in SoCal yesterday for not having current registration for my car. It's my own fault, whatever, but the ticket says I have to appear in court near Anaheim. I live in NorCal. Goddamnit.

 

I think you can just pay the fine online. You need to appear if you want to contest it

 

 

 

There is no fine on the ticket. It just says that I have to be at a certain place in November...

 

 

 

Fucking hell. This is getting more ridiculous. The phone number on the ticket leads to an info service that will not connect to a person. They've done a fantastic job of fucking over out of towners. I don't care if I have to pay the ticket, I just don't want to have to travel back to fucking OC to do it!       

 

 

edit: Apparently, what I have to do is contest the ticket and request a trial by written declaration. Their website is a giant mess and it's not explained well on the ticket itself. Anyway, I hope this works...

 

 

Try calling the courthouse or the DMV

 

 

 

I called every pertinent number on their site. Same automated shit over and over.

  On 9/24/2016 at 9:27 PM, Braintree said:

 

  On 9/24/2016 at 9:12 PM, usagi said:

spent half the day trying to get HEVC working nicely in Premiere Pro to no avail.

 

Are you still holding your poo?

 

 

no, I pooed, thanks. I just moved slowly and carefully and kept Thor asleep on my lap the whole time.

welp... I spent half my weekend experimenting with A/V shit and I'm not sure what I've learnt, other than how much of a pain in the botty it is getting a nice tradeoff between quality, size and computational effort. after recording, transcoding repeatedly, editing/manipulating, rendering repeatedly, and finally uploading a clip of me playing Doom 2016, Youtube still makes it look like pewp compared to the source.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x_pQ-leOQ4

 

- PP still doesn't play nice with HEVC, which wipes the floor with H.264 in terms of quality and size

- forgot to convert to 16:9

- wtf has Youtube done with the gamma/colour tones, it's lightened/muddied everything

- uploading a 1.5GB file on Australian internet, lol

- still not enough bitrate for 1080p, which means it needs to be even bigger

The only upload of Rawhead Rex I can find on Youtube is 360p and I don't feel like finding a place to download it in better quality.

 

 

Life is hard.

watched episodes 9,10,11 mr robot 2 but partner crashes out before the final

 

 

 

fml society

  On 9/25/2016 at 2:19 PM, usagi said:

welp... I spent half my weekend experimenting with A/V shit and I'm not sure what I've learnt, other than how much of a pain in the botty it is getting a nice tradeoff between quality, size and computational effort. after recording, transcoding repeatedly, editing/manipulating, rendering repeatedly, and finally uploading a clip of me playing Doom 2016, Youtube still makes it look like pewp compared to the source.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x_pQ-leOQ4

 

- PP still doesn't play nice with HEVC, which wipes the floor with H.264 in terms of quality and size

- forgot to convert to 16:9

- wtf has Youtube done with the gamma/colour tones, it's lightened/muddied everything

- uploading a 1.5GB file on Australian internet, lol

- still not enough bitrate for 1080p, which means it needs to be even bigger

 

looks good man.

 

also you've played that game how many times? You are pre-aiming at enemies and shit haha

Met a friend for happy hour, drank a bunch, now I'm tired and it's only 7:25.  This always happens when I drink in the day.  Turns the night into bullshit.

  On 9/26/2016 at 1:41 AM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

 

  On 9/25/2016 at 2:19 PM, usagi said:

welp... I spent half my weekend experimenting with A/V shit and I'm not sure what I've learnt, other than how much of a pain in the botty it is getting a nice tradeoff between quality, size and computational effort. after recording, transcoding repeatedly, editing/manipulating, rendering repeatedly, and finally uploading a clip of me playing Doom 2016, Youtube still makes it look like pewp compared to the source.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x_pQ-leOQ4

 

- PP still doesn't play nice with HEVC, which wipes the floor with H.264 in terms of quality and size

- forgot to convert to 16:9

- wtf has Youtube done with the gamma/colour tones, it's lightened/muddied everything

- uploading a 1.5GB file on Australian internet, lol

- still not enough bitrate for 1080p, which means it needs to be even bigger

 

looks good man.

 

also you've played that game how many times? You are pre-aiming at enemies and shit haha

 

 

I've played that particular level 3-4 times. tried to get through it as quick as possible to keep the filesize down.

I'm flying from Asia back to Europe and I developed a diarrhea last night. So, my stomach is making weird noises, I'm slightly nauseous and I'm pretty tired because I didn't sleep that well. But when I managed to sleep I had vivid erotic dreams so I'm horny as fuck also.

 

Fml

  On 9/26/2016 at 1:16 AM, RSP said:

The only upload of Rawhead Rex I can find on Youtube is 360p and I don't feel like finding a place to download it in better quality.

 

 

Life is hard.

I've got it on VHS! But don't despair, I'm sure it doesn't look much better than you're seeing it there on YT. 

  On 9/26/2016 at 5:01 AM, mokz said:

I'm flying from Asia back to Europe and I developed a diarrhea last night. So, my stomach is making weird noises, I'm slightly nauseous and I'm pretty tired because I didn't sleep that well. But when I managed to sleep I had vivid erotic dreams so I'm horny as fuck also.

 

Fml

Just fap through the poos

 

Come out stronger on the other side

 

 

 

Just bring some Gatorade

  On 9/26/2016 at 7:01 AM, Audioblysk said:

 

  On 9/26/2016 at 5:01 AM, mokz said:

I'm flying from Asia back to Europe and I developed a diarrhea last night. So, my stomach is making weird noises, I'm slightly nauseous and I'm pretty tired because I didn't sleep that well. But when I managed to sleep I had vivid erotic dreams so I'm horny as fuck also.

 

Fml

Just fap through the poos

 

Come out stronger on the other side

 

 

 

Just bring some Gatorade

I managed to get a transit visa to China so instead of waiting for 10 hours in the airport I'm now drinking beer in central Beijing.

 

The stomach seems to have settled so far..

Just had me top wisdoms out. Walked home afterwards lol.

 

That was 3 hrs ago though, anaesthetic is wearing off now

Several years ago I had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled at the same time I had mononucelosis, So yeah grow a pair will ya?

 

 

 

 

 

So Lil Miss Dobalina the elder is in Pre-K now and it's birthday party season, christ almighty we went to two of them this weekend and I need an enema.

 

- They're all usually lunch time events with pizza and cake (as they should) neither of which I can have being celiac.  So I usually end up eating salad and if I'm lucky like yesterday, some cheezy poofs

 

- It's hard enough making small talk with all these other 'rents - most whose names I can never remember since we rarely see them except for these things - never mind the fact the I burned all my material at the Saturday party.  There I got into a convo with one of the parents that I know a bit better (my wife & his work together, nice guy, smart, has his doctorate in film studies which I didn't know was a thing until I met him).  Anyway we get talking about our kids interest in legos, bemoan how most of the creativity's been sucked out of it with all of these cross-promotional bullshit like lego-batman, how back in the day we'd have to use a little something called our *imagination*, games in general, etc.

 

I make one offhand remark about, how as a kid, all of my neighborhood friends would play dungeons and dragons, but that since I was younger than everyone else most of it went over my head.

 

Big Mistake.  Turn's out dude is a hardcore into it and starts telling me about the weekly D&D group he's in, and now I'm getting groomed like Corey Haim into the world of role play adventure I'd been missing.

Edited September 26, 2016 by Bob Dobalina

they're blatantly going to drug n rape you

Is that what dungeons & dragons is like nowadays?  As i said it's been a while and I never really caught on to it in the first place

Not really. That's LARP.

I just saw a video entitled "why you won't get a full scholarship to Berklee" and I had a massive pang of regret, because when I was 16 I got a full scholarship to Berklee and didn't end up going for various reasons (I virtually never mention this because it sounds like something a self-aggrandizing pathological liar would say).

 

In some ways, at some times, I feel like a fucking failure. Like I've squandered opportunities handed to me on a golden fucking platter. Like all I needed to do was show up and I couldn't even do that.

 

But having said that I've roundaboutly autodidacted my way into a pretty solid education, especially musically

  On 9/23/2016 at 2:01 PM, doublename said:

The mussulman shop round the corner has received a suspiciously large shipment of "Gatorade".

Was delivery man celestial or "Asiatique, other"?

  On 9/26/2016 at 10:59 PM, chenGOD said:

 

  On 9/23/2016 at 2:01 PM, doublename said:

The mussulman shop round the corner has received a suspiciously large shipment of "Gatorade".

Was delivery man celestial or "Asiatique, other"?

I can't help but point out that "Gatorade" spelled backwards is "jihad"

  On 9/26/2016 at 9:57 PM, LimpyLoo said:

I just saw a video entitled "why you won't get a full scholarship to Berklee" and I had a massive pang of regret, because when I was 16 I got a full scholarship to Berklee and didn't end up going for various reasons (I virtually never mention this because it sounds like something a self-aggrandizing pathological liar would say).

 

In some ways, at some times, I feel like a fucking failure. Like I've squandered opportunities handed to me on a golden fucking platter. Like all I needed to do was show up and I couldn't even do that.

 

But having said that I've roundaboutly autodidacted my way into a pretty solid education, especially musically

Damn, that's the sort of thing that always sticks with you though. I had a vaguely similar thing...I was on track to go to a school for maths arts and sciences, basically replacing my high school experience with a higher level education (they focused on college level stuff, etc.) and was given the choice when I was 14-15. It would've required me living on campus, about 1.5 hours away from my parents, for the semesters. Part of me didn't want to out of that fear of being away from family all the time, alone basically, but the real final decision when a stupid friend told me something, and I listened. He mentioned that there was a bunch of gay kids there, boys and girls, and I'd have to room with one or more guys of course, and so 'who knows what' basically was the implication. I wasn't stupid, but I heard that and got scared of not becoming gay, but like, being influenced or being around like weird uncomfortable situations and stuff...so I never took that opportunity. I ended up hating high school because I wasn't challenged or interested, didn't go to college until I was almost 28, and have had a pretty shitty run of retail jobs my whole life. Obviously going to that school wouldn't have fixed all my problems, but damn it could've been a truly different path to have taken in life, and the stupidity of the reasoning my 14 year old brain got stuck on, that shit kills me every time I think about it.

  On 9/26/2016 at 11:33 PM, auxien said:

 

  On 9/26/2016 at 9:57 PM, LimpyLoo said:

I just saw a video entitled "why you won't get a full scholarship to Berklee" and I had a massive pang of regret, because when I was 16 I got a full scholarship to Berklee and didn't end up going for various reasons (I virtually never mention this because it sounds like something a self-aggrandizing pathological liar would say).

 

In some ways, at some times, I feel like a fucking failure. Like I've squandered opportunities handed to me on a golden fucking platter. Like all I needed to do was show up and I couldn't even do that.

 

But having said that I've roundaboutly autodidacted my way into a pretty solid education, especially musically

Damn, that's the sort of thing that always sticks with you though. I had a vaguely similar thing...I was on track to go to a school for maths arts and sciences, basically replacing my high school experience with a higher level education (they focused on college level stuff, etc.) and was given the choice when I was 14-15. It would've required me living on campus, about 1.5 hours away from my parents, for the semesters. Part of me didn't want to out of that fear of being away from family all the time, alone basically, but the real final decision when a stupid friend told me something, and I listened. He mentioned that there was a bunch of gay kids there, boys and girls, and I'd have to room with one or more guys of course, and so 'who knows what' basically was the implication. I wasn't stupid, but I heard that and got scared of not becoming gay, but like, being influenced or being around like weird uncomfortable situations and stuff...so I never took that opportunity. I ended up hating high school because I wasn't challenged or interested, didn't go to college until I was almost 28, and have had a pretty shitty run of retail jobs my whole life. Obviously going to that school wouldn't have fixed all my problems, but damn it could've been a truly different path to have taken in life, and the stupidity of the reasoning my 14 year old brain got stuck on, that shit kills me every time I think about it.

 

at least your not gay 

 

 

 

jk

Lol ikr there's that at least cis white males ftw

Luckily, The Patriarchy just emailed me and said they were gonna fire a female music teacher and give me her job, so...The Patriarchy also said I could grab her ass on her way out the door...

pasadena will tax "video services" like netflix, hulu, HBO go. 

 

this is hilariously fucked up. next: oxygen tax.