Bleh. Day day.

[kiya]

The attempt to do a video screenshot out of Warcraft has thus far been a dismal but exceedingly frustrating failure, despite keeps's great assistance in trying to make it work. Well, of course, right after keeps went to bed I tried an obvious google search and made notable progress, and this is because the universe is perverse. (All reality reduces to Hail Eris eventually.)


Thanks to talking with jenett, I may have actually worked out what I'm doing for group ritual obligations. Have banged on the web a lot and come away with Notions.


Not sure what to do with myself; my mind is not working on a useful cycle, and I'm feeling kind of messed up about that. Meh.


Not making as much progress as I would like on this chapter. It's being remarkably tricky.


Okay, someone please explain this exchange to me (genericised, but frequently seen):

"This position is [unfortunate]." (Bigoted, plain doesn't work, etc.)
"Big Name Politician who holds that position must be [unfortunate], then."

I mean, "Well, yes, and?" The objection seems to be based on, "BNP is one of you. Repudiate your holy politician or repudiate your position! You bleep-wingers all look alike, anyway." Because apparently a position that something is wrongheaded can be challenged with sufficient Appeal to Authority fallacies.

(This is provoked by me not responding to someone on the SDMB who did this with, "Yes. And? Did you have a point, or did you just want to make sure that those people who were holding that position here didn't feel lonely?" Resembles being too tired.)

Comments

[netbard.livejournal.com]

That's so not true! You need lots more than Appeal to Authority to repudiate a position.

...

I mean, where would politics be without ad hominem?

[kiya]

. . . you know, it could have been an ad hominem, too, given politics these days, as the statement was, more or less, "You're like Hillary Clinton!"

If I go back to bed and pull the covers over my head, will it go away?

[linenoise.livejournal.com]

Fraps?

I know a couple of guildmates that do movies and such, and pretty much everyone agrees that fraps is the way to go.

[netbard.livejournal.com]

I wish.

I think the only answer is for us to act like sane people and to try to convince others to be sane.

[kiya]

It produces an .avi in a proprietary format -- the thirty-second clip I took, without sound, was over 100,000K. I cut it down to the lowest framerate it would take and got a result of 70,000 K. Which could not be read (due to the proprietary nature of the .avi) by anything that would turn it into something that was not fucking huge.

Eventually -- this is what I did after keeps went to bed -- I should note that he's a visual arts guy, has software I don't -- I googled on "converting fraps files" in a fit of pique, and got a bit of software that would save it as a non-proprietary .avi that was ten times the size.

But that, at least, DivX could convert into a .divx file that was only 3,665 K. One may be able to work from here.