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 For a good time,  https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/ Seedance is the latest & greatest video generator, but very expensive.  Output is still disjointed scenes to nowhere because they're diluting a minimum amount of text.  Lions still imagine one day generating statue dance.  It was originally an impossible vision of manual 3D modeling in 2019.  That could be a good application of disjointed scenes to nowhere.    What lions can afford is a generated still frame, still very non deterministic & low fidelity.  --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lions started on Backrooms, the movie.  We got to finally see the back rooms as we originally imagined they were, a vast complex built with practical sets, in HD.  It's a bit slow.  1 intro scene was enough, but it kept repeating the intro scene long after we got it.  What's intriguing are the visuals & the parallel real...
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  https://www.instagram.com/trifarahtops/  Hottie alert.  Her husband looked like a simp & shows up as a 3D artist.  Suspect she'll kick him out after the kid.  Went off grid in 2024.         Biceps of steel from rock climbing.  She looks incredibly conceited like Ego Monger.  --------------------------------------------------------------  Dreamed Russian Heroine & her sister were evading some zombies with guns.    They were in a big house with lots of doors, getting chased from the front to the back.  Was watching them emerge in the distance, from a hill.  Was feeling guilty over not feeling any more of the once grand love with Russian Heroine or caring about anyone anymore. At some point after 2020, asked heavenly mother to not fall in love anymore & it seemed to have worked.  Helas, it always seemed to be her intention for 2009 to be the last time.  Could only imagine hooki...
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https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d  There is finally a software decoder for AV1, after many years of only hardware decoding.  It's very difficult to compile, requiring yet another large build system, specific versions of nasm, yasm.  It got stuck on some kind of checkasm.asm file.  Upgrading nasm & yasm to the latest versions, deleting & recreating the build directory got it to compile.   Av1d seems to be funded by alphabet corporation which requires them to use no less than a certain number of academic dependencies.   ffmpeg has simply https://www.ffmpeg.org/general.html#dav1d  --enable-libdav1d     It requires package_cfg so you have to run 'ninja install;ldconfig' in dav1d-master/build.  There's no local library option.  The latest dav1d actually compiled with ffmpeg 5, but couldn't output any frames to Cinelerra.  The standalone ffmpeg transcoded properly.  It's proven easier to use ffmpe...
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 1 week later with the junk camera, caught the last bit of the tower coming down.   Trying to breathe through the shirt, got a face full of 90 year old highschool concrete, undoubtedly excavated near Stanley Blvd. No wonder they had to finish during summer.  The shirt smelled like cringy memories all day.         Slowly, the claw dug into those cringy memories.  That claw didn't mess around.     There were just a few names left inside what remaned.  Undoubtedly many more fell during the work week & many more were hidden under plaster, never to be seen again.    Paul Mehlin 1937 could be related to the 19th century piano maker.  They seemed to be all boys, wood shop carpenters, sound technicians. They seemed to peak in the stagflation 70's & drop off by the late 80's economic boom.  As the town became affluent, perhaps students became more preppy & didn't do such things anymore.  The section vis...