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Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



baldurk posted:

Switchover is done, DNS propagation seems to be pretty much sorted now although there's always a handful of slow holdouts.

Let me know if something is busted.

I know it is now about a month later, but I'm having trouble resolving lpix.org and so do those dns lookup websites.
My phone still manages to when on mobile data, but maybe that's going on cached data?

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Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



baldurk posted:

Dreamhost is being DDos'd leading to DNS resolve failures.

You can hosts file it temporarily to 209.133.211.153 but remember to delete it after things are back to normal.

Thanks for the update!

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



POOL IS CLOSED posted:

What's going on? Project Wonderful won't place ads with lparchive anymore?

They're shutting down.
https://www.projectwonderful.com/thanks.php

:rip: The only good ad network. :smith:

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



lurksion posted:

I think most of the embedded youtube links in https://lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Radiant-Dawn/ are broken.

Videos are still there, the embed link is just broken, e.g.
Broken link/embed is
code:
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/nSh8xvG08J0&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6
While it still exists at
code:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSh8xvG08J0

My friend is also seeing this in the Quest for Glory LP. He said "probably because the old LPs use http, but YT now uses https." And sure enough, if you change it the embed to https through the element inspector it shows up.

Should be a simple matter of search and replace whenever Baldurk finds the time.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Considering how much it leans on silly animations, music ambiance and immediate emotional reactions, I'd say SSLP would be a pretty bad choice for the game.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



corn in the bible posted:

if you're pulling screens from a video already virtualdub can just copy whatever the output is and you can paste it somewhere, i guess

If you can open it with virtualdub, you can probably also open it with AvsPmod (or write a quick wrapper to do so). And then set up the hotkey to save the current frame. This cuts out having to swap back and forth between your video editor and your image editor.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Sometimes a less active SSLP thread will have several updates on a single page. This is fine, as long as it doesn't become too excessive. It is also fine to ask readers to leave a bunch of replies with the purpose of pushing to the next page.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Also they couldn't figure out how to make them work on mobile. They will hardly be missed.
Sucks for the people that actually used them properly, though.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Have you considered clarifying your post? All I'm getting after reading it 5 times is that you want to see what Steam games are 15 cents and you don't want to put your face on screen.

You don't even give an example of the sections you say you've written up. But if they're as disjointed and incomprehensible as your post, maybe give them an editing pass?
Slap what you've got into the test poster and give us something to work with.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Comedy option: start a new thread for every poll.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Namtab posted:

Insanely off topic but geemer it's epic that you're still rocking a version of that old avatar.

What can I say, it grew on me pretty fast.
I honestly still can't believe Adelheid gave it to me way back when. Also holy poo poo it's been 7½ years since that happened. Time flies.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Baldurk last tweeted like two weeks ago. Running the archive and lpix are side projects at best, especially since they're basically money sinks. Maybe hold off on worrying until the sites actually break.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Hi Baldurk, since you're here I'd like to bring this to your attention again. Hopefully I'm right about it being a simple fix.

Geemer posted:

lurksion posted:

I think most of the embedded youtube links in https://lparchive.org/Fire-Emblem-Radiant-Dawn/ are broken.

Videos are still there, the embed link is just broken, e.g.
Broken link/embed is
code:
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/nSh8xvG08J0&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6
While it still exists at
code:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSh8xvG08J0

My friend is also seeing this in the Quest for Glory LP. He said "probably because the old LPs use http, but YT now uses https." And sure enough, if you change it the embed to https through the element inspector it shows up.

Should be a simple matter of search and replace whenever Baldurk finds the time.

E: Also I'm guessing I'm poo poo outta luck on LPs that had their videos on Viddler, like the Yume Nikki one. And the personal email link in your post is broken.

Geemer fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Apr 5, 2019

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



baldurk posted:

Broken youtube links can probably get fixed automatically but I've already got enough on my plate with catching up on queued archives, let's see if that can get sorted first before adding more work to my pile. There's also the issue of all the tindeck links across all LPs that need to be fixed at some point.

I didn't mean to rush you or pile more stuff on, so I'm sorry if I came across like that.
I genuinely appreciate all the effort you put into the archive, lpix and now also working on being a tindeck backup. And if it weren't for the archive, I would've missed out on some amazing LPs that directly lead me to becoming a huge fan of a couple of game series.


Leal posted:

I love you Baldurk.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



As auteur of the CAAWTONLP (Critically Acclaimed and Award Winning Text Only Narrative Let's Play) of Pac Man, I can only say :justpost:

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



CJacobs posted:

Hey, MAGIX is an awful, awful company so I made a video about how Sony Vegas Pro has gone to poo poo since they purchased ownership of it in 2016. If you are interested in hearing about how the only way to get a refund is to send a form letter to germany via snail mail, please watch it. If you use Sony Vegas Pro to make your let's plays (like I have from 2011 until now), please do not give MAGIX any more money. Also this video has my face in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxKPgO9RZs

MAGIX really earned that one star rating on TrustPilot.

I got Vegas Pro 14 from Humble Bundle for €20 or thereabouts. Its GPU acceleration code is so ancient and bad that a driver update broke its ability to realize my GTX 1070 exists, easily quadrupling processing time when rendering a relatively simple video with some "effects" that claim to be GPU accelerated.
Apparently the solution to this is to either update to fork out for 15+ (lol no) or to install an additional ancient video card (apparently the gtx780 is the best one to get).

Extreme Humble Bundle sales are the only way you should buy Vegas.
And even then, it's probably not worth it. Because you will need to immediately go into your control panel and uninstall the Magix Communicator program that automatically gets installed alongside it, which is literal adware that pops up GIANT banners on your computer. And no, there's no checkbox to untick and prevent it from installing.
Also, every time you boot Vegas it'll display an ad for the latest version and the checkbox for disabling them is non-functional. The actual setting for it is somewhere hidden in the preferences window.

E: I'm a dumdum and got my versions mixed up. I got 14 instead of 15. Point still stands though.

Geemer fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Jul 19, 2019

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



CJacobs posted:

Ah, you're right, Vegas Pro 14 came out just after the MAGIX buyout. Like we're talking only a couple months. My mistake.

So, what you're saying is that I should hold on to my version 14 for dear life because they hadn't had enough time to gently caress things up too badly yet.

I should probably just fill out the dumb form and get the free version of Resolve.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010




Years ago I used Sony Vegas 9 which had an interesting quirk where it'd completely gently caress up footage ripped from youtube by whatever youtube video download plugin I had installed back then in a really interesting way that I'd actually love to be able to manually recreate.

With 14 I've had the weirdest issue that DebugMode Frameserver would work just peachy when I finally got it installed, then a week later it would 100% of the time crash immediately once it got done writing the audio to the file and started serving frames. Reinstalling the frameserver over itself fixed it for one (1) single encode job.
Then DebugMode suddenly released an update earlier this month and it's been working fine since I installed that. But I have no idea how long it'll last.

E: To clarify: It wasn't just the frameserver that crashed, but the entirety of Vegas and it popped up the completely useless crash reporter. If you looked through the data it was going to send with the crash report it basically boiled down to system specs and Vegas version with no real details on what was going on at the time of the crash, or even a list of loaded files or plugins.

Geemer fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Jul 19, 2019

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Keep in mind that if you want your LP archived, the archives have a hard limit of 900 pixels wide for images.

Readability is doable for me, from a "can I read this" perspective, on a 1440p display with the browser taking 50% of the horizontal screen size. But it's definitely in the annoying to read ballpark.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Set every movie and actor to Nudity: Yes if they don't specify that they're prudes.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Danaru posted:

Grace and I are planning to LP System Shock 2, and because the audio logs have a tendency of being drowned out by gunshots and screaming people swinging pipes at my head, I decided to subtitle the logs as we listen to them. I've subbed the first episode and could use some feedback on readability etc. (I didn't sub the UNN trainer because he has a billion lines that I can't just copy and paste like I can with logs. I had to do that for the intro cinematic and it sucked :negative:)


I'd say legibility is pretty good.
You weren't kidding about voices getting drowned out by literally everything, but I could keep track of all the stuff you subtitled just fine. Most of the stuff you didn't subtitle was nearly impossible to make out, though. But that's more on the game than you.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Horsebanger posted:

After some chats in the dune thread, I was going to do an LP of the Dune board game and hopefully show off this game, hoping to emulate the Twilight Struggle LP from 2014.

I did an OP, and was going to do a second post OP with the rules: https://lpix.org/sslptest/index.php?id=155979

any feedback would be good!

edit - and a rules post I was planning for the second post to be: https://lpix.org/sslptest/index.php?id=155981

Looks fun. The old LP of that boardgame is what got me to read the Dune books in the first place.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010




Help, I fell into a time portal and can't find my way back to the distant future of 2020.



Psycho Knight posted:

In my mind it seems like it would be boring for people to watch because not much happens and it's all talking, but on the other hand I'm thinking about how a screenshot format would completely exclude basically the biggest selling point of the game (VN in VR). Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Find a way to shoot a 360° video or capture screenshots to tile together and put them on either Youtube (where you can use the mouse to pan around or move your phone around if you're on mobile) or one of them 3d panorama viewers a la google streetview.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010




:frogout:

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



nine-gear crow posted:

Though like them I also have some reservations about people potentially abusing the Patreon unlock tier function to create early access or bonus updates for their donors at the expense of the regular posters in the thread. While this was what Patreon was kind of structurally built for, when it comes to LPs we all consider it bad form, especially, as Fedule said, that the rules of the sub clearly state that LPs should be made for the LP subforum first and foremost. Although as conduct like that qualifies as off-site stuff, we can't really do much about it except strongly discourage it, so my modly advice would on that would be just use your common sense on it.

So what's the rule on people creating LPs for their patreon supporters first and then later releasing them publicly on here? For instance, ThornBrain's group has been doing that for a while now. They've always been transparent about it and stated it in their OPs.
While I like their content, it always seemed a little hosed up to me when there's a rule stating "create your LP for the thread, not the other way around."

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



I'm not calling for action being taken. I just wanted to know what the thoughts on it are.

I personally think it's a pretty garbage thing to do, having a thread where people respond to your LP that's already entirely after the fact, with no chance of their points being addressed in the commentary of the upcoming episodes. I might as well load up a YouTube Playlist.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Fedule posted:

That person later became a moderator.

Can you think of a greater punishment?

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



If you want to watch someone who knows way too much about OBS and all its quality settings explain very clearly what you should be gunning for, look up EposVox' OBS tutorials on YouTube.

For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ04pIcpMkM

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Does this work? Searching for longplay is your best bet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArlQ91tX2JU

The website is long gone, unfortunately.

E: Never mind, the video's the director's cut. Sorry.

Geemer fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Jul 1, 2020

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



I gave it a listen during my commute (which is where I listen to all my podcasts) and liked it. Would like to hear more.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Putty posted:

Bad news to everyone mirroring LP videos on PornHub, the site just took down all unverified videos including fan favorite "Halo 3 mad snipes"

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55304115

Now where will I go to watch the full entirety of Bee Movie?

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Llednar Twem posted:

I hope this is the right place to ask this, but...does anyone know what happened to this old D&D LP? All the links in the thread are dead, and it seems to be gone from everywhere that I remember hosting it. A conversation with some friends made me randomly remember it after I'm not sure how many years, but now that I've gone looking for it it seems like it has vanished from the internet entirely.

Check a look here: https://www.sixfeatsunder.com/campaign/lpdnd
The first link in the blurb seems to lead to a dropbox of at least all the audio-only versions. And below that are re-edited versions for podcast consumption, but the rate of posting those episodes is extremely low, so don't hold your breath waiting for all of those to be done.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



What kind of idiot would use the report button to ask for joke probations?

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



IGgy IGsen posted:

When I was an IK for one specific non-LP thread in LP for a while and I was somehow listed as an LP mod I responded within hours, no, minutes to requests regarding the forum I wasn't even modding. Step up your game mods! Your rear end belongs to this place.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

I had to see this beautiful art, now does everyone else.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Rocket Baby Dolls posted:

Is there an easy way to add censor bars to a video? I've spent far too long trying to get an extremely lovely adventure game to run knowing full well that this would be an issue and now I've finally found a way to get the game to run. I've watched several videos on how to apply censor bars in Vegas and they've been a convoluted, useless mess.

This game really isn't worth the effort but yet I'm here making the effort.

The easiest way I've found for stuff like that is using ms paint to create a black rectangle, insert that in whatever program you're using and then use image transform tools to move it around and keyframes for when you need it to change locations. If you want actual motion tracking, that's a bit more complex.

Pungry posted:

This month is the 15 year anniversary of the LP Archive. Thanks again to Baldurk and all the wonderful LPers who've made it possible.

Thanks for all the effort, Baldurk and all contributors!

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



I'm not sure if I like this new iteration of the LP curse....

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



That's a drat shame. I just figured he didn't want to bother trying to pick it up again after SE nuked all channels that had any of their music on 'em to put up their own Japanese-only version of a music channel.

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



vilkacis posted:

Unfortunately, it was only 65kb.

Is it too late to change to this one?

Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Awesome! Thanks to the admins for their great service and to Sally for their great sacrifice.

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Geemer
Nov 4, 2010



Pfft yeah right :cabot:

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