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[Moonface]

I haven't watched this entire thing, but I did see a small clip of it which is what led me to discovering this exists. So there's this really, really bad bootleg version of Star Wars Episode III that has Chinese-to-English subtitles, and someone dubbed the entire thing:



If you don't want to deal with that whole video and just want a brief glimpse of some of the stuff from it, this is the clip I initially saw: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/co...a_pirated/

[Mr EliteL]

Oh, OH it is the entire movie, thought perhaps it would only be dialogue with action and non-dialogue moments cut out so yeah I went with watching the clip version. Ah, direct translation is always brilliant.

[ShiraNoMai]

Obi Wan saying "-sigh- I was old." idk why cracks me up so much

Saw this a week ago and forgot to share. It's wild how accents evolve and differentiate from each other, especially so when you learn that our "southern/country" accent comes from British accents

[Moonface]

I'm watching Food Wars right now and a moment in the episode reminded me of this super old video that @ShiraNoMai had somehow never seen or heard of before which surprised me.

[ShiraNoMai]

Yeah I'm surprised I hadn't either, that video goes pretty hard

[Moonface]

So apparently this blew up on social media recently when someone discovered that in Chile they placed ads within Star Wars because they didn't want to do ad breaks or something like that, and the video above is the result.

It's also what my entry in the Finish The Game Dialogue #5 contest is referring to for anyone who sees that.

[Maniakkid25]

Ah, from the days when Youtube had 240p, and you appreciated that. Seriously, though, this is an epic cover of a difficult song. I already know this song sucks to play on guitar, and I don't want to think about the string skipping sections on a goddamn violin. Hats off to the player, and goddamn does it sound incredible.

[Moonface]

@Maniakkid25: I don't really recall how the original version goes but I could still hear/see how impressive and tough that was just watching his hand that wasn't holding whatever the stick is called.
I wonder whether the guy made a career out of that or not since he never uploaded anything since that video was posted 16 years ago.


Speaking of videos posted a very long time ago, I forget how but I got reminded of this absolutely massive blunder that Channel 5 had in the UK where a particular ad was very poorly placed right after an ad for a Whitney Houston documentary:



I don't think any ad placement in history could be worse than this one is, and somehow the incident isn't mentioned on the Wikipedia pages for either Channel 5 or Wonga.

[Maniakkid25]

That is absolutely terrible juxtaposition, but I think it never made it to Wikipedia because it was a one-off. If that happened repeatedly, then we'd see an entry about it on Wikipedia.

The "stick" is called a bow. And also, you were watching the EASY part! No, seriously, the easy part is the frettings. The hard part is actually hitting the strings, because the song uses a technique called String Skipping, which is exactly what it sounds like: skipping over a string to hit another. But in this case, it goes so fast that, on guitars, you have to use a technique called "Hybrid Picking", where you are both picking and strumming with a finger at the same time. On a violin, though? You can't do shit about that; you're stuck with the bow, have fun! So, the parts like 0:27-0:31 and 0:35-0:45 are UNREASONABLY difficult, I can only imagine, and he makes them look easy!

[ShiraNoMai]

Eric Johnson is a legend, I love Cliffs of Dover. Fantastic violin rendition, holy shit.

[Maniakkid25]

I can't stop laughing.

Okay, you know the meme "But can it run Doom?" And how it's about getting Doom running on anything that could conceivably run it. There's a similar meme in video processing: Can it play Bad Apple!!? Bad Apple!! [sic], for those that don't know, is a remix of a song from fan-favorite and beloved Bullet Hell series Touhou. It has a music video that features cutouts of various characters throughout the series, as well as iconic transitions. So, the meme is to try and run the video on whatever visual medium you can possibly get it to run on. And I do mean whatever. My favorites are the Stop-Motion one and the mechanical flippers.

And then this came to my recommends.



What you are watching is a TAS that, using Arbitrary Code Execution, is reading controller inputs as code to display graphics and play audio to the resemblence of Bad Apple!! It uses the SMB1 graphics palette and the actual NES audio to make this happen (if you listen with headphones, you can actually tell the difference because the sampling rate is about half of what the original audio is).

Now, the keen-eyed among you will see that this is an April 1st video, so how do we know this isn't an April Fool's Day prank? Because the TASer uploaded an explanation to Youtube, as well as uploading it to an actual TAS website to be verified and, more importantly, replicated by anyone who downloads the inputs.

I love everything about this. This is The Algorithm working as intended. I can't stop laughing.

[Moonface]

I'll have to make a note to watch and learn about all the stuff in your post above this one @Maniakkid25.

So no one we watch is on Twitch right now so Shira and I are just randomly trawling through YouTube and this video came up: 



I've always wondered what would happen doing this, and although they get to the result very quickly the video goes into a lot of interesting directions about different falling things and where the line actually is for something to probably kill you.

[Moonface]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hololive/s/MLozbzg7f2

I can't say I expected to see a video of Gwar Gura singing the old ball game song on the big screens at an American baseball game this morning but here we are.

[Dragon Lord]

I wish I could have been there for Hololive Night, would have been a really fun time (as long as I wasn't waiting in the merch line for 6+ hours like some people were). Great to see Hololive finally doing events and collaborations with organizations in the US. They've had Gura do lots of things for places in Japan and other Asian countries, but this is the first major thing they've done in the US like this.

Great to hear the crowd singing along and having a good time with it too. Huge difference to six years ago when one of the Late Night shows had Hatsune Miku on (as a promotion for Miku Expo that year) and the reaction from the host and crowd was awkward as fuck.

The drone show was pretty cool to see as well. Hope to see Hololive do more stuff like this in the US. While it's understandable that they care more about doing events like this in Japan, being a Japanese company and all, it always felt like a waste not having the Holo EN girls doing stuff in the US/Western markets to get more exposure out there.

Though I do wonder why they only had one of the EN girls. Gura was obvious being the biggest vTuber in the world, but having Pekora and Suisei there instead of any of the other EN girls seemed a bit odd. Especially since neither of them are very fluent in English. Then again I suppose it was for the draw of bringing Japanese fans to the game, since both of them are two of the most popular girls in Japan, and this move by the Dodgers was clearly to try and get some better footing in the Japanese market (especially since they have Ohtani -- who will likely go down as the greatest Japanese-born player to play in the Major Leagues -- and another highly skilled Japanese player in Yamamoto (starting pitcher).

Anyways, win-win for both organizations for sure. The only negative of the night was that apparently the Dodgers really scuffed the merch sales. They only had one tent, manned by three people, to sell merch and some people waited in line the entire game and ended up being kicked out of the venue by security around 11 PM. Apparently both the people selling the merch and Dodgers security made comments that the amount of people in line to buy the merchandise was by far the biggest line they've ever seen. One employee specifically saying they had never seen so many people waiting to buy merchandise in the 20+ years they've been working at Dodger Stadium. So the Dodgers definitely underestimated the popularity of Hololive (especially when Gura is involved). If they decide to do this again next year, hopefully they'll be better prepared for that.

[ShiraNoMai]

Sent really came into his role this year, I think, as the prize promoter for GDQ. This moment really got me for some reason