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[Yellow Pixel]

Tiny!

[hector13]

I don’t think cats are good for weighing things oh you mean size comparison never mind.

[scriver]

Happy Birthday!

[martinuzz]

That must be the most solid egg I've ever seen anyone lay on a cat.

Also, happy birthday LB!

[methylatedspirit]

I broke down and installed SoX to be able to apply some primitive form of companding (compressor-expander pair) just so that my databent audio won't sound like the quantized screams of the damned (the damned being the bits shaved off during bit depth reduction). It's about that project of mine to interpret audio as video and back, for reference.

After bashing my head against the frankly obtuse manual, I came up with this primitive construction. It's definitely caveman-era (a transfer function that's literally a single line segment? Hah!), but it's gotten the dynamic range of the output file up to an acceptable level. It seems to work by sheer coincidence.

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sox foo.flac -b 8 foo-compressed.wav compand 0.3,0.8 6:−60,-10 −5 gain -n -1

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sox foo-compressed.wav -b 24 foo-expanded.flac compand 0.3,0.8 6:−10,-60 −5 gain -n -1
And I'll probably do some experiments on the attack, release, and output gain parameters to determine the best settings for my stuff, but I think I've basically gotten the basic idea down.

I love having my cake and eating it too; retaining an 8-bit PCM input (since video codecs work in 8-bit color-component chunks by default), yet still having enough dynamic range to work with at the end. I'm ready to rewrite my script to include SoX in the chain. The processing chain in my head looks like:

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Original FLAC -> Use SoX to compress, reduce bit depth to 8-bit -> Use FFmpeg to interpret as raw video, encode with codec -> Decode encoded video back to raw data -> Use SoX to expand, increase bit depth to 24-bit for output file
Which I think is the pinnacle of working around your problems. It's so much of a hack. It's beautiful!

I can already imagine the infomercial: "Tired of having too little dynamic range in your audio, but still need to work with low bit depths? Use companding! With companding, your audio goes from this: [digital screams of the damned], to this: [perfectly-normal classical music]! Act now! (...)"

[Vector]

Feeling a bit better today. I really dig Persona 4.

(Note that there's some homophobic/transphobic treatment of an apparently gay and an apparently trans cast member, but I'm frankly just happy enough to be able to have a party with two LGBT people in it that I don't really care).

[ArchimedesWojak]

Passed my exams let's fucking go!

[TD1]

My supervisor called my essay superb and excellent

[JoshuaFH]

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It's been a while since I last played P4, so I'm grasping at my memory here, but I remember people thinking that the gay character was an amazing, revolutionary inclusion. Then the narrative backpedals a bit and is like "No homo, I'm just afraid of girls bro." so it's hard to imagine that the struggle of a young man's budding homosexuality was anything but a shallow and noncommittal inclusion into the game. Though that's kinda the problem with all the modern Persona games (3, 4, and 5), that they have some great concepts, but despite the games' long run times, they can't commit to them as hard as they should.

[MrRoboto75]

Feeling a bit better today. I really dig Persona 4.

(Note that there's some homophobic/transphobic treatment of an apparently gay and an apparently trans cast member, but I'm frankly just happy enough to be able to have a party with two LGBT people in it that I don't really care).

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It's been a while since I last played P4, so I'm grasping at my memory here, but I remember people thinking that the gay character was an amazing, revolutionary inclusion. Then the narrative backpedals a bit and is like "No homo, I'm just afraid of girls bro." so it's hard to imagine that the struggle of a young man's budding homosexuality was anything but a shallow and noncommittal inclusion into the game. Though that's kinda the problem with all the modern Persona games (3, 4, and 5), that they have some great concepts, but despite the games' long run times, they can't commit to them as hard as they should.

I remember recently noticing Twisted Metal Black was oddly forward for 2001.  Had both a lesbian character and an autistic one.

I mean, every character's some sort of criminal/person in an insane asylum, but still...

[Vector]

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There's a definite vibe of "still in denial:" there are also later conversations where other characters go "So are you really ... you know" and the guy in question loses it. He describes his dungeon explicitly as "coming out" to Yukiko ("So, did you come out, too?"). And of course, she says "sort of," given that she described her female best friend as her prince >_>

Also, his inner self is a dude covered in roses ("bara," which is slang for what in America we call "bears").

... I also kind of think his character model is partially influenced by Vegeta from DBZ (the blonde hair, green eyes, widow's peak combo), another famous "sleeper gay" character.

I dunno, look, to me this is pretty damn LGBT and given that all I want is games peripherally related to being about being queer in high school that aren't tragic, this is a very very low bar to hit. But my opinion can change as I play more, of course.

[ToonyMan]

I really like that character you're talking about Vector (plus another one later), but I won't say anything.

Last year I played P1 and P2 Innocent Sin on PSP and they were excellent. I'm looking forward to the English patch of PSP Eternal Punishment as the PS1 original release of EP here is...somewhat lacking. P4 was my favorite for the modern ones though yeah. I just prefer the more mainline feel of P1 and P2. Having played every mainline game I'm looking forward to SMTV as well.

[King Zultan]

Completely unrelated to what everyone else is talking about I have finally been given the item I've been waiting almost two years for my uncle to finally remember to bring with him, a Betamax player!

[Dunamisdeos]

I managed to pack squeeze crush Live and Learn from Sa2 into a couple of violins and a saxophone in FFXIV lol.

[Vector]

I really like that character you're talking about Vector (plus another one later), but I won't say anything.

Last year I played P1 and P2 Innocent Sin on PSP and they were excellent. I'm looking forward to the English patch of PSP Eternal Punishment as the PS1 original release of EP here is...somewhat lacking. P4 was my favorite for the modern ones though yeah. I just prefer the more mainline feel of P1 and P2. Having played every mainline game I'm looking forward to SMTV as well.

Interesting, I tried P1 and P2 a long time ago and didn't really like them. I really like the idea of psychologizing the enemy monsters into joining you, but P4G is scratching an itch that hasn't had any care and feeding since ... oh, idk, my last runthrough of FFIX like 10 years ago. I really want to play P5R when it comes out for PC.

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I was expecting a lot worse from the Kanji arc but his social link path so far makes me think that the people who complained didn't catch onto ongoing signals that he isn't suddenly ... not gay. Yosuke being a homophobic tool doesn't change that for me LOL.

. . . . Honestly, it's kind of embarrassing, but I feel like his story arc is helping me to accept myself. It's really good you guys ;_;