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Do you have a YouTube? I feel I bit bad spam rebloging all the banners I’ve missed so I can find them later—
well,
never feel bad for spam reblogging things! I love it when people reblog stuff from me! that is the point of tumblr! reblogs are what keeps this horrifying hellsite ticking
but also
2. I do have a youtube channel! I almost never update it, but it is here
#asks#the-cactus-taco#I keep saying to myself that I'll add more of the songs to youtube#but then I just. don't#in my defense. I have edited so many songs#it's a huge undertaking#esp because I want to make weird WordArt or something for each of them if I do#idk. it's a someday project#like many other things
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tumblr is the only place that im honest, how do you tell your instagram followers that you just saw a bird that changed your life? they are soulless on that app, they dont give a fuck
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hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious
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One massive, legitimate way to improve as a writer or artist or in any creative endeavor really, is to become absolutely obsessed with something and to allow yourself to be weird about it. Genuinely mean this btw.
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Callout post where it becomes more and more obvious that the person writing the call out has a massive crush on the problematic individual
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“Caramelldansen” with every second beat removed
#afsd;jksaf thanks prev tags#author of the only book I have ever fully reviewed on this blog#a book that I desperately need to reread so I can read the novella#(tho I need to look up how all the names are pronounced this time)
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“lol but why is this actually good” because i made it in earnest?? because i loved it??? because i love you??? because quality and humor are not mutually exclusive???? hold my hand. it’s okay
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“Two Trucks” with every second beat removed
(this is for everyone who thought the first one should have this title)
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Neil Banged out his tunes today, on a train you have the comfort and relaxation to bang out your own tunes
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my condolences today to Neils both Gaiman and Cicierega, who will undoubtedly be asked repeatedly if they plan on banging out the tunes
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everyone make sure to set out cheese & crackers for neil tonight <3
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oh sure! the cameras are wireless, but whenever they show the clips of Truman when he was a kid, or really any clips that are of the show itself, you can see a film grain over it, instead of the type of color distortion you'd see from tape, or the pixelation of a low-res digital recording.
so somehow, despite the video signals being recorded digitally and broadcast live through the monitoring station, they were also recording the feeds onto film. I don't know why or how they were doing that, but that's what was going on.
and for fun, I'll even say that when you watch the movie The Truman Show in HD, all of the clips in it from the in-universe Truman Show are also in HD, therefore technically it is canon that the show was recorded in a way that allowed it to be saved in a higher resolution than the one in which it was broadcast.
If you consider the fact that The Truman Show was released in 1998, and in universe they're celebrating the 30 year anniversary. The US introduced HD broadcasts _in_ 1998, so we could assume 30 straight years of SD video. An hour of SD video takes ballpark 250-300MB in a modern mp4 with H264 and AAC.
Which means you could store the entire truman show in about 80TB
(And that's before you wrap the torrent in a .rar)
ah but you see, based on the clips of the show that they showed in the movie, they were (somehow, don't worry about it) shooting on film! which can be scanned to many higher resolutions!
and my in-universe commentary assumed that someone (god help them) decided to scan all of that film in HD for the streaming and blu-ray releases. and when I go looking for TV shows, my ideal is at least 1GB/hr to get it in a decent bitrate (to avoid pixelation in darker scenes, or where there's a lot of motion).
so a bit over 30 years of scanned HD film footage, in a decent enough bitrate, would be at least 263TB, probably 300+ depending on who's doing the encoding, and what else they include (different audio tracks, subtitle files, etc).
(oh god. can you imagine the nightmare subtitles would have been for the truman show? 30 solid years of live captioning. horrifying.)
anyway, that's what I was basing my calculations on when I made the post
#the truman show#I mean. it is basically a science fiction film#so we don't really -need- to understand their high-tech-for-the-90s setup#but it is interesting to think about#also you don't have to reference the wedding ring deleted scene (though I know it well)#his wife's necklace was a wireless camera too#and his alarm clock#so those are other good examples of that#xD I rewatched The Truman Show very recently specifically so I could fact-check my in-universe meta post#so I may have you beat when it comes to remembering details#because it's so fresh in my mind#but still#:)#also yeah if anyone else is reading this. we're not fighting! this is for fun!#actually. lemme tag this#unreality#just in case#we are fully discussing the movie#but my meta post was very in-universe and related to this#so. just to be careful
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If you consider the fact that The Truman Show was released in 1998, and in universe they're celebrating the 30 year anniversary. The US introduced HD broadcasts _in_ 1998, so we could assume 30 straight years of SD video. An hour of SD video takes ballpark 250-300MB in a modern mp4 with H264 and AAC.
Which means you could store the entire truman show in about 80TB
(And that's before you wrap the torrent in a .rar)
ah but you see, based on the clips of the show that they showed in the movie, they were (somehow, don't worry about it) shooting on film! which can be scanned to many higher resolutions!
and my in-universe commentary assumed that someone (god help them) decided to scan all of that film in HD for the streaming and blu-ray releases. and when I go looking for TV shows, my ideal is at least 1GB/hr to get it in a decent bitrate (to avoid pixelation in darker scenes, or where there's a lot of motion).
so a bit over 30 years of scanned HD film footage, in a decent enough bitrate, would be at least 263TB, probably 300+ depending on who's doing the encoding, and what else they include (different audio tracks, subtitle files, etc).
(oh god. can you imagine the nightmare subtitles would have been for the truman show? 30 solid years of live captioning. horrifying.)
anyway, that's what I was basing my calculations on when I made the post
#asks#awkwardcontent#love the way you think though#in the universe I'm imagining there are definitely old 80TB piratebay torrents hanging around with a few seeds still#but the HD release gets more popular - just hard to store#the truman show#for context this is in relation to the last post I made/reblogged#which was in-universe commentary about The Truman Show#unreality
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agshjfsj you know what? sure. I can do this from an in-universe perspective too
for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to when it was on air.
firstly, you'd better hope it stays up on amazon prime, because it aired 24/7 for multiple decades, so the size of it is astronomical. there's a reason the other streaming services dropped it - the server costs alone are ridiculous. but even on prime there are ad breaks in it that it never used to have, because back then all the advertising was product placement, but modern advertisers want mid-roll ads, and they really break up some of the most emotional moments imo.
(and don't get me started on the music licensing btw - all of the changes are bad, but the song swap in episode 9775 killed me dead. awful)
not to mention that the vhs, laserdisc, dvd, and blu-ray releases have been out of print for years. and if you want to try torrenting it, to get it in even barely decent quality you're gonna need at least 300TB of free space, and that's not including the deleted scenes and director's commentary tracks, which are a whole other thing.
secondly, everyone has this parasocial thing where they feel like they grew up with Truman, because their mom kept it on in the house when they were a kid or w/e, and we need to just. get over it. I mean, he's just a guy. you're not special for liking him; everyone likes him.
like, some of you guys are worse about this than you were with Steve from Blue's Clues, and that's saying something. you've gotta move on.
and people need to be nicer to the actors who played his friends and family, too. like I know the ones who were adults at the start have a lot to answer for, but the kids were pushed into this by the industry just like he was! and they don't deserve to be cancelled on twitter just because their dad got them into acting as a 3yo or w/e. like. come on.
thirdly, because of the way the show ended, we need to actually address the fact that we don't know what happened to him? like, Truman wasn't some actor who quit, he was lied to about his whole life, and now nobody knows where he is! and after the SAG-AFTRA strike when the crew and extras were fighting to get paid for the work they did on that show, did fucking anybody think about Truman? if anyone's owed residuals, it's that guy.
I just feel like nobody's taking it seriously that he's not a celebrity? he's a kid who got shoved into a machine, and after what happened to him, it'd be completely fine if he never showed his face in public again.
(though personally, I want him to just so he can sue the shit out of everyone involved in his upbringing. but that's just me.)
anyway on a fandom level, if you want to help, the Truman Archival Project is looking for some eps that were lost due to corruption, and some scenes that got cut later. there's a list on the wiki, but there are a lot of gaps and old tape formats that need converting, so if you can help, go do that!
and Truman, if you're out there - I hope you're living a good life. whatever comfort and entertainment you bring to people really means nothing compared to the value of you getting to live a normal life. I hope you're having a good time, wherever you are.
when it comes down to it, what was done to you was awful. nobody deserves to have their most private moments shown to millions of people without their consent.
it's probably bad that we've normalized this experience.
for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal
before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"
and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"
#unreality#the truman show#sbs rambles#fiercestpurpose#ty for this opportunity to write in-universe meta :)#takes me back to the days of goncharov and ice pick joe
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