Video Games In East Germany: The Stasi Played Along | ZEIT ONLINE https://www.zeit.de/digital/games/2018-11/computer-games-gdr-stasi-surveillance-gamer-crowd
Girlfriend Roleplay videos are racking up millions of views on YouTube, here’s why - i-D https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/gy7v9w/meet-the-whispering-girls-of-youtube-who-pretend-to-be-your-girlfriend?utm_source=idtwitter
Video Ethnography of “ICARUS ” on the Xerox Alto - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BauuOoB6EIU
One of those cult cinema distribution companies owns an actual video store – and it’s only like an hour or two from my house. I’ll have to make a trip out there at some point…
Bad idea of the day: An algorithm that creates textual descriptions of images watches TV, creating a description from each frame, which is then used to generate a new image & the video is resynthesized
Reality TV: Anatomy of a Genre | Video Essay - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS90rgLsb24
Bad idea of the day: A video game adaptation of Lethem’s Gun With Occasional Music in the style of the Monkey Island series, with a mechanic involving mixing custom blends of forgetol/regretol/etc & replacing people’s stashes with them.
Sam Raimi - How Does Horror Comedy Work? (video essay) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwcjToDEsUY
Hot take: only buy video games made by personal friends.
The Color of Pomegranates: A Failed Video Essay - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MXjUf05HVE
Bad idea of the day: A video game called ‘infodump’ where the primary mechanic is literally using a wiki/world bible to research lore.
The Dying Art of Anime Music Videos - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qcuJM1H_lQ
Video: Grand Central’s Hidden Sub-Basement Has A 102-Year-Old Computer: Gothamist http://gothamist.com/2015/10/15/grand_central_computer_video.php
Akiyuki Shinbo - The Director of Studio Shaft (SCRAPPED RCANIME VIDEO) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqBZ4yxigpA
‘Babylon 5’ is great, so why does it look so bad? https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/22/babylon-5-digital-video-quality/
Attention knitters: (n) the ad-tech people who make sure your recommended youtube videos smoothly transition from lets-plays to people who are very angry that the lizard people refuse to inflate the flat earth with ghosts
Inside the Songs of Our Lives: ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’ http://www.realclearlife.com/music/video-killed-the-radio-star/
70 Long-Lost Japanese Video Games Have Been Discovered in a 67GB Folder of ROMs on a Private Forum - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3anja/labyrinthe-japanese-game-discovered-on-private-forum
People who have been to Japan: what kind of food (if any) is served in/around japanese video arcades? Does american arcade fare like curly fries or nachos exist? Is it japanese-style junk food like takoyaki? One-handed/clean stuff like stuffed mochi, rice balls, meat buns, stuffed bread?
Incognitube :: Random videos with less than 100 views https://www.incognitube.com/
No Views: watch unwatched YouTube videos | Randomly Inspired! https://www.randomlyinspired.com/noviews
Life hack: find the video in your youtube recommendations you’re least interested in watching, click on it, turn off your speakers, and leave your house for a week.
Googleâs Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy
Bad idea of the day: a system for sharing playlists of things that aren’t audio or online video, like themed triple-features or reading lists, so you can curate or browse that kind of human recommendation
The Strange World of 1950s Propaganda | Video Essay - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPdP80BnZfE
The rise of the ambient video game | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4181/ambient-video-game-legend-of-zelda
Video Ethnography of “ICARUS ” on the Xerox Alto - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BauuOoB6EIU
Good Game Well Played: The Story of the Staying Power of âStarCraftâ - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/2018/3/30/17179036/1998-video-games-starcraft-turns-20
Bad idea of the day: video theramin
We Don’t Need New Laws for Faked Videos, We… https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/we-dont-need-new-laws-faked-videos-we-already-have-them
GitHub - Zulko/moviepy: Video editing with Python https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy
Wikipedia Day 2018 NYC on Livestream https://livestream.com/internetsociety/wikidaynyc/videos/168540333
Ted Nelson on What Moder… https://spectrum.ieee.org/video/geek-life/profiles/ted-nelson-on-what-modern-programmers-can-learn-from-the-past
A video game that doesn’t click until you let go of t… https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/9/16851376/everything-best-games-2017-year-in-review
“A Sloppy Machine, Like Me”… https://wearethemutants.com/2018/01/09/a-sloppy-machine-like-me-the-history-of-video-synthesizers/
AI Is Dreaming Up New Kinds of Video Games - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609482/ai-is-dreaming-up-new-kinds-of-video-games/
Dancing in the Street // Silent Music Video - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkhIjG0DKc
Weird Kids‘ Videos and Gaming the Algorithm - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKp2gikIkD8
POLYBIUS - The Video Game That Doesn‘t Exist - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7X6Yeydgyg&t=0s
These trippy videos are designed to entice you to purchase eyewear / Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2017/07/16/these-trippy-videos-are-design.html
Land of Lisp- The Music Video! ⌘ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM1Zb3xmvMc
@kas@enotty.dk Heh, cool video but it sounds like a bug? https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/5yeefj/alexa_are_you_connected_to_the_cia/depeufn/
@kas@enotty.dk Interesting video, i just watched the first ten minutes and bookmarked it for later.
Decode It Like It’s 1999
A few years ago I started to work on an MPEG1 Video decoder, completely written in JavaScript. Now, I finally found the time to clean up the library, improve its performance, make it more error resilient and modular and add an MP2 Audio decoder and MPEG-TS demuxer. This makes this library not just an MPEG decoder, but a full video player.
In this blog post I want to talk a bit about the challenges and various interesting
bits I discovered during the development of this library. You’ll … ⌘ Read more
sigh “Unfortunately, this video is not available in your country”. What would i do without #youtubedl and #tor. #Ashnaia
@kas@enotty.dk Nope, creepy here too. Dont know what asmr is? http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/02/asmr_videos_autonomous_sensory_meridian_response_and_whispering_videos_on.html
There’s no feeling like laying on your back and watching youtube videos
FOSDEM talks
Domen Kožar gave a\
talk at FOSDEM about NixOS ( video).
Also, Ludovic Courtès gave a talk\
on\
Guix, the Nix- … ⌘ Read more
FOSDEM talk about NixOS
Sander van der\
Burg gave a talk about NixOS at the CrossDistro\
track of FOSDEM
( video, [slides](https://web.archive.org/web/20160829182544/http://www.st.ewi.tude … ⌘ Read more