#so give the newie a follow!
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Stepped Down
[X]
Welcome home
I'm gonna make you wish that you'd stepped down
Say hello to a new status quo
Everyone knows that there's a brand new station
Turn the TV on!
CAMERA MAN: Camera speeds
Rolling in three, two
Top of the hour, and we're discussing a certain journalist
Who has been spotted cavorting around town
IROHA: (welcome to the show)
After a six year absence Did anybody miss her?
Did anybody notice?
IROHA: (Welcome to the show)
More on tonight's program
So, Masa Esumi is back in town
Why is she hanging around?
What does that mean for your family?
Well, handily, I've got good news
She's a bitch, cold-hearted
And I don't mean to sound hostile, but that women is a coward!
You can take that as gospel
Pulling my viewers? Impossible
I'm visual, she's barely pays attention
Stop giving her the time of day, don't listen to a word she'd say! I hope she had a nice vacay, but she should've stepped down!
NIKEI: While she hid herself away, we pivoted to video
Now her medium is getting bloody rare
NIKEI: The World's been better since she split
Where's she been? Who gives a shit!
Greetings all!
MASA: Good to be back on the air
Yes, I know it's been a while
Since someone with experience treated world to a broadcast
Please rejoice!
How damn outdated!
Instead of a clout-chasing mediocre insecure glory hound!
Come on!
Is Nikei insecure and overcompsenting with superiority?
Trying to meet up with the time, is nothing working?
Ignore this bitch!
Every day, he's trying to prove something!
You shouldn't trust this bitch, I'm the better of the 2!
Is Nikei as strong as he purports?
Or is it based on his support?
He'd be powerless without the other Three!
Oh, please!
And here's the news for you all
He asked me to follow some silly rumor can you believe it!
H-hold on!
I said no, and now he's insecure and petty
That's that news for ya!
You good for nothing bitch, I'll show you suffering!
Uh-oh, seems your losing attention!
I'll destroy you, you little-!
I'm afraid your done here, Newies boy! See ya next week!
#dr#danganronpa#dtfa#despair to future arc#fs:rw#future side: re write#fs ep 9#sdra2#super danganronpa another 2#nikei yomiuri#masa esumi
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Trampolinist - Part Two
Part summary: You encounter a few strange teenagers, discover blown-up ruins, and find out about who caused them.
Warnings: mild anxiety, thoughts of murder, blood, threats, lots of swears
A/N - I got a good few requests asking for a taglist for Trampolinist, so here it is! Just ask and you shall be added!
@lemonmochitea
@dad-ee-drea
@victoria-a567
Also, this is non-canon compliant, but only by a bit. I may change a few small details.
Hope y’all enjoy!
(Also, if you can find the movie reference I put in here, then kudos to you!)
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A lingering curiosity sits in the back of your head for the rest of the week, not quelled by any amount of Bedwars or Skywars, which leave you exhausted in the evenings.
Even your dreams hold inquisitiveness.
How lovely.
Eventually you have to go back to your home world to check on your animals, repair your tools and the like. It’s tedious work, but nothing you can’t handle.
Boredom eventually sets in.
It’s unnerving. You never get bored of combat, of competition between your fellow players and teammates, but here you are, eyeing the list of servers on your grid.
Only two people are on the server at the moment, their names not available for whatever reason. You’d prefer to pop on when there were no people online, mostly to scope out the server, but you’ll take only having to deal with two people.
Hopefully they’re adults and not kids that recently learned to use portals.
You stick your pointer finger out, curl it like you’re dragging it down a wall; a ripple starts where your finger lands, slowly following its path downwards. It rips a hole through the fabric of woven servers, creating a direct link to the Dream SMP. You just hope that no one attempts to close the portal, as opening one in the first place takes a good deal of energy and effort.
A sight of spruce trees and misplaced dirt greets your vision through the rip in reality.
An odd spawnpoint, but whatever. You’re not one to judge.
In the corner of your eye, where chat normally sits, a message pops up.
TommyInnit: who the fcuck
TommyInnit: what
TommyInnit: NEWY PERFHSAON
Ranboo: ah yes, perfhsaon
TommyInnit: shut the fuck n up
You chuckle at the messages rapidly crowding the chat, watching them fade idly while trying to find a way out of the really weird spawnpoint, which is, for some reason, walled off by a combination of dirt, wood and stone haphazardly placed down, as if in a hurry.
Your efforts do not go unrewarded as you spot a section of the wall that sits lower than the rest, low enough to climb over if you try hard enough.
Perfect.
Feet hit the ground rapidly as you get a running start towards the wall, scrambling upward after you jump. You fall almost immediately off the other side.
“Ouch.”
“That looked like that hurt.”
You glance upward to meet heterochromic eyes, red and green contrasting with the curious face split in half by its black and white sides. A tail flicks behind the person as their crown slips a bit down their head.
“Wh—the fuck?”
The figure laughs at your reaction, offering a gloved hand out to help you off the ground. Hesitantly, you accept, being pulled up easily, and that’s when you realize that he’s a lot taller than you thought.
“Jesus, you’re tall,” you comment idly, brushing yourself off. “Thanks, by the way.”
“No problem. I’m Ranboo.”
You introduce yourself with your tag, which elicits a hum of recognition from him, much to your pleasant shock and surprise.
“You’re the person that Dream invited, aren’t you?”
“In the flesh.”
He laughs at your quip at him, smiling with sharp fangs exposed to the midday sunlight. No point in judging a person on their (potentially, anyway) monstrous features.
“Well, you probably need a tour—“
He’s quickly interrupted by a loud “hey!”
“Oh great,” you mutter, crossing your arms. Ranboo looks a bit sheepish at your cocked eyebrow and slightly irritated expression, scratching his bi-colored hair.
“That’s Tommy. He’s uh… well, Tommy.”
A teenager wearing a red and white shirt and jeans with battered sneakers comes sprinting out of the nearby forest, coming to a halt just in front of you.
“New person!”
“Yeah, and what are you, the gremlin that got fed after midnight?”
The kid sputters out a few protests against being called a gremlin, sprinkling a good few swears in his jumbled sentences that mostly consist of rambles.
When Tommy gets his bearings, he eyes your tag, squinting at it suspiciously before his eyes widen in recognition.
“You’re the bastard that beat the shit out of me in Bedwars! Get ove’ here—“
One of Ranboo’s arms shoots out to grab the lanky teenager with ease to stop his potential assault on you. You just brush your nails off on your shirt.
“Oi! Lemme a’em!”
“No, Tommy, remember what Tubbo said?” Ranboo lectures, tail flicking in annoyance, eyes trained on him. “Remember?”
“You’re one to talk about rememberin’.”
Ranboo cocks an eyebrow.
“No punchin’ people we don’t know unless they’ve hurt us…” Tommy grumbles. “Can ya lemme go now?”
Ranboo agrees, letting go of his shirt and summoning a journal and quill to write something down in, muttering that he’s almost out of ink.
“Anyway, how about that tour now?”
You smile at him.
Maybe you’ll like this place.
——
“...and this is L’Manburg… or what’s left of it, anyway. It’s still being rebuilt.”
“How’d it get destroyed?” you ask him. “It takes a lot of TNT, Withers and dedication to destroy a city this big.”
I should know.
Tommy eyes Ranboo.
“Hey, it’s your city. I’m not explaining it,” Ranboo defends against the wordless accusation. Tommy exhales with a groan and begins his explanation.
“Wil-Wilbur, my brother, went a bit insane a few months back, blew it all up with Technoblade’s help. Wil’s… well, he’s dead.” Tommy sounds indifferent about the death, much to your surprise.
You nod absentmindedly, setting your eyes on a slightly obscured poster that flaps in the wind. When you get close enough to pin it down it reads:
Wanted: Dead or Alive. High Treason, Inciting Violence, Unlawful Use of Explosives, Extreme Terrorism.
Reward: See Authorities
Below that is a well-painted picture of a man you somewhat recognize, wearing a red cape, a crown, full enchanted Netherite armor and carrying an axe that seems to shimmer in the light.
Technoblade. You’ve had a few run-ins with him playing Bedwars and Skywars, even teaming up with him a few times. He always seemed nice enough, and certainly a damn good sword fighter. He always knew when to run and when to stand and fight, when to attack and when to defend.
“What did he do?”
Ranboo starts to speak, but Tommy interrupts him.
“Blew the rest o’ this place up. Bastard ran after that.” Tommy all but spits the words out of his mouth, like they’re acid or venom. “Fookin’ coward.”
Well, I wouldn’t call ‘knowing when to run’ cowardice, but we’ll pretend I agree, child.
“No one knows where he is now,” Ranboo adds. “Except Phil, of course. But he’s pretty much silent about it. Won’t give up a word of information.”
Shouldn’t be that hard to find one man, you muse to yourself. Bet I could.
“Well, I’ll let you know if I find anything out,” you lie with a smile plastered on your lips. “Y’know, as a sort of gift to you as the newest member of the server.”
Hah, as if.
“We’ll hold you to that.”
You nod and say your goodbyes, walking towards the central nether portal while keeping an eye out for an ender chest so you can get some of your stuff. You know the admin will take your elytra away if it so much as comes into contact with the server’s air, so you decide not to risk it.
Spotting one, you make a small noise of triumph and dart over there, grabbing the shulker with your stuff in it, transferring it to your inventory with a practiced ease.
Armor adorns your figure, enchanted Netherite striking an imposing silhouette against the blackstone beneath your feet. You twirl your sword with a grin.
Now to find Technoblade.
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Turns out, finding a piglin hybrid is not easy.
You scoured the Nether for any sign of him, any trace of fabric, of a broken pickaxe, hell even a piece of iron he may have held. The ability you hold as a Jumper not only allows you to jump servers, but also allows you to find people if you have something of theirs.
Nothing. Zip. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Nil. Absolutely jack shit.
How can one man be so difficult to track down?
Just as you’re about to give up, a barrage of curses at the tip of your tongue, a glint of iron catches your eye.
Odd.
Hopping over a cluster of Netherrack and scaring off a few baby Striders, you see a small circle of iron sitting in a pile of red dust, looking dented and beat up.
You huff and brush the dust off of it, titling your head to the side when it reveals itself.
A compass, pointing in one direction, working even in the Nether.
Standing up, you pocket it and head to the nearest portal, jumping through to the other side only to grab the compass out of your pocket as you walk to who-knows-where. It still points in the same direction as before, only moving when you do.
An irregularity in the metal against your hand inspires you to flip the compass over to look at the back.
What lies there makes you smirk.
Technoblade’s cabin. Phil’s compass.
This might be easier than you initially thought.
:)
#ura!#mcyt x you#mcyt x reader#technoblade x reader#dreamwastaken x reader#x reader#reader insert#Trampolinist: Series
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Autechre - Milder, Kinder Beatz?
I was listening to the car radio last week, and an electronica track was played, one that left me expostulating to Mrs. Barre (who was driving), to the effect that this sort of digital easy listening gets on my nerves. It turned out to be the third number on the latest Autechre outing, ‘si00′ (idiosyncratically described in this month’s Wire magazine as “electronic xylophone bongo bounce”), being a typically snappily oblique title by the Rochdale duo. “I thought you liked Autechre?” Jackie helpfully pointed out. “I do”, I responded, “but I’m a bit baffled. This sounds very middle of the road for them”. I later described the album on YouTube, after a couple of cursory listenings, as “Popul Vuh for Generation Z”, not a particularly accurate summation, however, since they’ve been giving us their work for nigh on 30 years (they’ve seen us through both Generations X and Y.)
My overall impression is that it is a continuation of a direction that Autechre have been gradually taking, that of a smoother, less fractured soundfield. The peak of their work, for me, is the album ‘run’ of Tri Repetae, Untilted, Chiastic Slide, LP5, Confield and Draft 7.30 (1993-2003), certifiable classics that explored ‘fucked-up beats’ to their, and our hearts, content. The new one, SIGN, seems to acknowledge their legacy of cubist dance music on a few tracks, but ‘expands’ (or ‘contracts’, even?) into a more keyboard-washed sound (hence the Popul Vuh comparison.) If I was subject to a ‘blindfold test’, I’d probably have it down as an offspring of Cosmik Music/Krautrock, to be honest. No bad thing in itself, but a far cry from their canonical 90s material. I have to admit to not having really followed Autechre since 2013′s double, Exai, as Rob and Sean seem to have decided to monumentalise their output through gargantuan projects such as elseq 1-5 and the NTS 8-discbox-set, as well as ambitious streaming projects, which demand many hours of commitment from the listener, for even a single listen. The tyranny of choice writ large.
Now they are back in a more easily digested form, in 2020, with apparently another disc coming out in November. Their huge output remains impressive, and contrasts with the relatively minimal release schedule of their contemporary duo, Boards of Canada, and we are lucky to still have them. I can’t see me realistically listening too often to SIGN, but I have just ordered a copy of William Basinski’s newie, Lamentations, which I think, very curiously, seems not a million miles away from Autechre’s new environments. Whatever and all, for me there have been so few recent recording milestones since Covid-19 (Rough and Rowdy Ways, Run the Jewels 4?), that it is just great to have a few to discuss and/or fulminate about. It would be nice to have a new Richard Dawson, to take but one from my Xmas wish list.
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The Who Ready To Hit You With New Ideas
Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 28 October 1967
AFTER six weeks with “the last Schmaltz” it is good to find the Who back in the charts with a new single, ‘I Can See For Miles’, in their old “knockabout” style. It is also good to have Pete Townshend back for interviews, employing his brain like a well-oiled lawn mower that clacks around and around, spitting out ideas and attitudes as it churns up the Scene.
Is there a new approach from the group, perhaps, following their successful American tour and the beginning of what almost unbelievably is their first British tour tomorrow (Saturday) with Traffic?
“Yer, what we’re gonna do is hit ‘em wiv it,” monotoned Pete, in his voice for swinging morons. “Punch ‘em in the stomach, kick ‘em on the floor and sock it to ‘em!”
But our story really begins (for those who like to sit comfortably) in the Who’s London offices, where I met manager Kit Lambert, who shook hands in a detached manner and wandered away to take a phone call from agent Danny Betesh.
Mistake
Twenty-five minutes later he returned to ask his secretary whether Keith Altham was meeting him here or at a restaurant. Noticing me asleep in one corner, he immediately realised the mistake and banged a fist against his forehead. I was greatly mollified to learn that he recently failed to recognise his own mother as they passed in the street.
We ate an excellent lunch, at which I was under the impression that Pete might appear. “No, rather my fault,” admitted Kit. “I forgot to tell him. However, we’ll go down to the recording studio in Kingsway and provoke them there.”
It was 2.45 when we arrived at the studio, but no one else had arrived as yet.
“When should they be here?” I asked
“Forty-five minutes ago,” said Kit, resignedly.
Roger Daltrey was first to arrive, wearing yellow sweater, with a large silver cross round his neck on a chain—and trousers as well, of course, as it was a cold day.
Roger said: “The kids in America are very much more together than in Britain. They have something to rebel against. No one wants to be killed at nineteen fighting in Vietnam.
“We’re more a stage group than a recording group…when we play intricate things on stage we explain them…don’t write what I said about Graham Nash…our fans are broad-minded—they have to be!”
John Entwistle arrived with Keith Moon and John said: “Shall we tell him about those school kids who mobbed us in the Blue Boar cafe on the M1 and began stuffing baked beans and tomatoes from our plates into their pockets as souvenirs? All those meletrons aren’t good for your health.” He also did an impression of David McWilliams by holding his nose and singing ‘Days of Pearly Spencer’!
Hurricane
Keith said to me: “Where’s yer sixpence for yer cup of tea?”
Then hurricane Townshend arrived, rumbling about how he thought it was 3.30 p.m. they were due to start and picked up a packet of sandwiches. “Pig food,” he yelled and threw them back into a carton. Pete likes throwing sandwiches.
“See this?” He indicated a suitcase full of tapes. “That’s the Who’s dustbin!”
Eventually the storm subsided and he sat in a swivel chair, swinging from left to right as he talked about the new single.
“We were making records for record reviewers before,” said Pete. “They were too flimsy, to poignant, too prissy. They were factory-made. We’ve gone backwards in order to go forward.
“The further forward you move, the more you confuse the fans. We wanted to do something that would be unexpected. Something that would demand something of the public. ‘I Can See For Miles’ was the answer.”
Then, being Pete Townshend, he neatly injected into his lengthy explanation: “And besides which, we had nothing else suitable to release at the time!”
As an established group, the Who have a hard core of supporters and they might find the tour with the groups like the Tremeloes and the Herd confusing.
“We’ve tried this semi-intellectual approach,” smiled Pete. “We did it at the first house of the Saville concert last Sunday and died a death, because we were following an overwhelming act like the Vanilla Fudge. We were like a cream tea!
“Kit was so worried he tried to way-lay all the journalists in a pub over the road so they would only see the end of the show, but we put things right in the second house. We did a Brian Poole routine—Roger split his trousers, Keith wore a Jester’s hat and knocked his drums about and I kept falling over. They loved it.
“I’ll tell you who is going to be big next year. Groups not afraid to make concessions and mock the whole process. The Bonzo Dogs, for instance, and Dave Dee, because he is not frightened of being commercial!
“In the old days an ‘Emily Scruggs’ used to come into a recording studio, bleat into a megaphone and there it was for ‘posterior.’ Now we get all hang up on six track systems, multi-recording devices and electronic side effects. Electronic music is infinite in variety and eventually you’ll lose yourself and everyone else experimenting with it.
“On our next LP, The Who Sell Out, we’ve got a number called ‘Rael’ which should have been the next single. It’s all about ‘overspill’ when the world population becomes so great in years ahead that everyone is assigned to their one square foot of earth.
“We played it on stage in Manchester and Scotland and everyone just looked at us with their mouths open—the complication was too much.
“I don’t want to lose personal contact with people. We want to do longer personal appearance spots, for example.
Identity
“I’d rather do longer to give the audience time to identify with the group and get involved with the music. We’re deliberately overrunning our appearances at present.
“It’s like reading a Kingsley Amis novel and wanting to meet the author after you’ve read the book. You meet him, say ‘Hello dear’ and that’s the end of the involvement.”
And so the mowing machine clacked on with blades awhirling: “Stevie Winwood has a legion of fans; it’s inhuman for him to lock himself away like that in the country and detach himself…I’ve heard all I want to of the Beatles’ last LP; now it’s a memory…people aren’t jiving in the listening boxes in record shops any more like we did to a Cliff Richard ‘newie’…’Paper Sun’ wasn’t a hit record, it was a best seller…’Lily’ and ‘Happy Jack’ had simple tunes people could remember.”
“Something you could hum over a lathe,” chipped in Mr. Moon.
When last seen Mr. Townshend was leaping up and down the corridor of the Kingsway studios shouting, “I’m beautiful, I’m beautiful,” and Mr. Lambert was almost visibly counting up studio fees.
#the who#pete townshend#keith moon#The Who sell out#nme#music journalism#interview#roger daltrey#1967#1960s#sixties#60s
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Buying a Smart Battery Charger - What You Should Know
Smart Battery Chargers & Maintainers have always been a staple in every household. You can use them to maintain their lifespan, keeping the charge at a high level, so that you can keep your smart battery charger running longer and allowing you to extend the life of your gadgets and electronic appliances. Sometimes though, there are unforeseen events and it will be necessary to replace your battery chargers and the smart battery maintainers with new ones.
Buying an electronic appliance:
It is not difficult to recognize a good manufacturer of these battery chargers and smart battery maintainers, because they should be able to declare that their products have the following three qualities: protection, safety and durability. If the product has neither of these, it will not be of much use to you. So when buying an electronic appliance or electronic equipment from any manufacturer, look for a product that has all these qualities.
However, the best thing about Smart Battery Chargers is that they are very easy to maintain and if they are not properly maintained, they could lead to the manufacturing failure of the entire device. They are a necessity for a domestic appliance or an electronic device. If you don't maintain them, they could give out electrical shocks that could cause your furniture or wall to catch fire.
Battery chargers:
The best thing that you can do to ensure that your battery chargers remain as good as newis to regularly check the port and see if it is free from corrosion. You should also have it checked every month. If it is a dry port, you should clean it every three months. It is imperative that you clean the port completely every time.
In order to have quality batteries chargers, you must take care of it. However, you should also consider that you cannot maintain the quality of the product all the time, as a lot of things can go wrong at the most inopportune times. Therefore, if you are in a hurry to buy your battery chargers and smart battery maintainers, then you should invest in it only after reading a lot of consumer reviews online.
At this point of time, the best thing that you can do is to compare the prices of the products that you are considering to buy and find out the products that are available at the cheapest price and which may serve your purpose the best. If you have done this, you can easily locate the company that you will be using to make the purchase of your products. There are many options to choose from, as long as you know what you are looking for.
Conclusion:
A Smart Battery Charger is essential for your electronic devices, especially those that use batteries to run. However, if you want to make sure that you are buying the right product, make sure that you read the product specifications and find out the different types of batteries here that can be used in it.
#4 stage battery charger#Smart battery charger#multi stage battery charger#lithium battery for caravan#12v lithium battery#Automatic satellite tv for caravans#Best sattelite dish for caravans
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percy jackson ocs or the maze runner ocs (or thominho/nalby)
I don't think my past ad submitted, so I'm going at it again! If it turns out it just took a bit to go through, apologies for going at it again. I'm Avery, fell into my old middle school fandoms over quarantine and am looking to pass the time with some roleplaying. I'm 22 - nearly 23 - and live in CST. I write multiple paragraphs, the lengths of which vary - 3-5 on average, but I have an extensive history in novella writing so I can go upwards of 10+ depending on your preference.
I'm looking for 18+ partners to write either Percy Jackson ocs or The Maze Runner ocs! The only thing I'll write with canon characters is Thomas/Minho or Newy/Alby from TMR.
I do write smut (with all characters 18+, obv) but I write vers/switch characters and really hate having to be shoved into the "top" role: if you're someone who only writes bottoms, sorry, we won't be a good fit! To go off that, though, I also don't mind if you don't want to write smut. I'm a flexible person. I don't write pedo/underage stuff, incest, noncon, bestiality, mpreg, so on and so forth. The basic limits one would expect. I can handle writing violence and would be open to discussing character death, so long as it's not our mains lol.
My wants for PJ: Half-bloods past their teens! The only way I'd write characters who aren't adults is if we're doing something with campers growing up together and getting to the good stuff when they're adults. I've got plot ideas, but I don't wanna muddle this ad. But basically I'm really intrigued with the concept of life outside of camp, the realities of being a half-blood in the modern world, and high stakes/action/drama! I want to do a prophecy/Chosen One plot, like some world-ending stuff. It's tough when you grew up a child soldier and your parent is a god. Maybe your character is a child of the Big Three - maybe mine is. I'm into mixing and matching and superficial power expectations, like a Big Three child hanging out with an arguably lamer/weaker god's child or even like a nymph or minor mythological spirit. Maybe we go with our own trio or group of demigods to follow. (Also my kingdom for best friends to lovers. If you give me that I'll love you forever. But I'm also open to any and everything<3)
My wants for TMR: Pretty basic set-up, we work with our own maze or control group. We can go along with the canon storyline or put our own spin on it. Work with our own coming-of-age sci-fi apocalypse stuff and our own characters trying to piece out their maze and the twists and turns (sometimes literal) we put them through at the hands of a corrupt corporation. Or if you're gearing toward canon, I'd be open to Nalby or Thominho! An AU, canon, our own spin: I'm good with whatever.
My line's always open, so don't be afraid to email me if you've found this ad a while after it's been posted! <3 My email is [email protected]. Let me know what you're looking for. I'm down for moving to Discord to talk OOC, but I roleplay strictly through email and initial correspondence is done there.
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Final Code
To begin the code I need to tell processing that I will be using a live stream video, ‘import processing.video.*;’. I have to declare all of the variables I will be using. They are float variables which means they can be a decimal number or a whole number.
I then label Capture as ‘video’ and this is what the Capture will be referred to for the rest of the code. In order to work with the live stream video pixels directly, I have to create an overlay PImage which is labelled as ‘destination’. This PImage basically takes the pixels coming through the live stream video and puts them onto another layer that is identified as an image, giving me the ability to manipulate the pixels as if they were an image. For my skill level and knowledge of coding, this makes the code easier for me to understand and write.
In ‘void setup’ I will insert all the parts of the code that only need to run once. The size of the display screen is ‘displayWidth, displayHeight’ because this means that whatever computer screen the code is run on it will occupy the whole screen, regardless of size.
The x to j variables have been given their initial position on the display screen at the centre by halving the width or height. It does not really matter whether width or height is halved, but for argument's sake, I am assigning width and height to the variable depending on whether it represents a horizontal or vertical direction.
Next, I give ‘video’ and ‘destination’ parameters so they can exist on the display screen. ‘video = new Capture(this, displayWidth, displayHeight);’ tells the code that a new video is being captured, and that it should capture ‘this’ aka what the camera can see right now. ‘video.start();’ instructs the code to start the capture. With ‘destination’ I am telling the code that every time ‘destination’ is mentioned it is referring to the new ‘image’ that is being created over top of the video stream. ‘(video.width, video.height, RGB)’ tell the code that the destination image is to be made at the same size as the video feed and that it should use RGB colour.
‘void eventCapture’ has been used so that the camera continues to capture video and feed it through to the screen as soon as a new frame is available. ‘video.read’ is used to instruct the code to continue processing the video images and feed them through. It is not a part of ‘void setup’ because it does the action more than once through while the code is running.
In ‘void draw’ I will put all the elements to the code that will be continuously repeated and/or read. I have loaded the video pixels as well as the destination pixels into ‘void draw’ because the pixels will be changing as the video feed is read and so they will keep updating to display the current image.
A nested for loop has been used to identify all pixels in the video. A nested loop means the code is saying; for every row (width) and for every column (height) – basically, it is mapping the display image and accounting for every x and y coordinate within it. Location is being given as an integer as a pixel can only be a whole number, and the location is representing each pixel.
The ‘if else’ statements give the code options for the output. In this case, the code is saying; if the brightness of a pixel at the location is greater than 200 (it can only go up to 255 as it is RGB), then colour that pixel at that location white (255). The next statement says; otherwise (if the pixel does not fit these specifications) if the brightness of the pixel at the location is greater than 160, then colour that pixel light blue (201,255,237). The code will read through these statements for each pixel location every time void draw repeats. Once it reaches a statement that is true then the code will skip over the other statements. Therefore, the most exclusive statement must go at the top and descend to the most inclusive. Otherwise, the code would reach the first statement and skip over all the rest because the first is true.
Because I have manipulated the properties of the pixels I use ‘updatePixels’ at the end of the manipulation so that the code can update the properties of the array.
With ‘float newx’ I am creating a new variable for x. This is important to do as I want the x and y coordinates to be drawn continuously and in a random pattern but still stem from the previous location it was at. I have given the ‘newx’ a variable of ‘x+random(-3, 3)’. This means ‘newx’ can move anywhere from its current position ‘x’ to a position between -3 and +3 away. I had to use equal negative and positive values so that ‘newx’ did not start leaning to one corner as it would if the random min and max values were both positive or both negative. Constraints must be put on the ‘newx’ variable so that it does not try to draw itself off the screen. The constraint minimum and maximum have been put 3 pixels in from the edges to because it equals the number of pixels that ‘newx’ could jump to in its random movement.
I have created a unique ‘float new_’ variable for each float variable so that each ‘new_’ pair produces its own set of random coordinates aka no lines follow each other around. This is also why each ‘line’ has its own set of variables. If I had simply made lines that were staggered from x and y (ie: line(x+100, y+100, newx, newy); ) they would still follow the same path. By having unique variables, I get unique line paths and therefore unique drawing patterns.
The line of code that gives the colour value says; for every pixel at column newx and every pixel at row newy, look up the colour at pixel (newx, newy) in the destination image and colour the destination image with the found colour. I had to create individual colour codes for each of the lines, so the correct colours were being selected at the pixel locations where the line was drawing. Ie: if line a,b was using newx,newy colour coordinates then the line would draw using the wrong colour for the place it is and the resulting image would be unidentifiable.
The variables equate to the ‘new’ variables because I need to update the value for x, y, a etc every time the code is drawn. They need to update every time the code is drawn again so that the line continues to move from its start point. Basically, the x, y, a etc variables are the start position for the line to be drawn from. The end position, new, newy, newa etc, become the start position each time.
Lastly, the final bit of the code says, ‘if it is true that the mouse was pressed, then please clear the screen and reset the background to white’.
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I know that there are definitely ways that this code could be tidied up and organised better, such as putting the lines into object classes, but in all honesty, my skill level just isn’t there yet.
The only line of code that I am not 100% sure about is the for loop; ‘for (int i = 0; i < 400; i++){’ I know that increasing the value that i is smaller than makes the area where the lines are drawing much larger and the line appears to draw much faster as it is spread out more, but I am unable to fully explain it’s purpose.
The next step for this code would be to develop it so that a range of colour tints can be chosen. Currently, the image is drawn in blue every single time it is run. It would be cool to get a random tint selection each time it is run. I would also like to be able to develop the code so that each time the mouse is pressed and the screen is cleared, the current image is saved to the desktop, creating a sort of photobooth application.
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Finally. As the dark clouds of war gather on the horizon, the trumpets signaling the arrival of our mighty gladiators beckon us once again into the arena.
Enough of the wheeling and dealing. Enough of the dance rehearsals. Enough of the meet-and-greet. “Behold, ye merry mortals, your feast of fun and fury cometh. Let the games begin!!!” Thus spake the booming voice of our cage god.
Indeed, these are exciting times.
We watched in awe as big stars such as former champ Kyrie Irving shimmied and shuffled across the entirety of the NBA geography, engaging new dance partners, trying new dance steps. We marveled as fresh new faces such as Lonzo Ball gave us a glimpse of what the league would look like in the years ahead. We wondered if the chemistry would work among new dynamic duos or the even more compelling triple threats. And we asked how they can match up against Golden State’s fabulous four?
The Minnesota Timberwolves started the post-season ‘Star Wars’ when it plucked Jimmy Butler from Chicago to baby-sit a potential group of juveniles led by Jeff Teague, Karl Anthony-Towns and Andrew Wiggins. This is a young combo ready to give the seniors some lessons in contemporary ball.
Will Butler and the new look Wolves step forward this year? (courtesy of NLSC Forum)
More teams followed suit as they stocked up on star power to try to stop that juggernaut in the west named the Warriors.
Kyrie Irving exchanged his Cavalier digs for the Boston green. He is joining Al Horford and Gordon Hayward, who unfortunately got injured on his very first game with the Celtics. It looks like Gordon will be out for the season, stunning the Celtics’ faithful, and dashing hopes for a great season.
Things were looking bright for the Celtics until Gordon Hayward took a fall in his very first game in green. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
Team go-to guys Carmelo Anthony of New York and Paul George of Indiana flew to Oklahoma to form a formidable triumvirate with current league MVP, Russell Westbrook. With steady big-man Steven Adams, this upgrade will outgun, outrun and destroy most other opposition in the land.
Oklahoma City Thunder forward Paul George (13), guard Russell Westbrook (0) and forward Carmelo Anthony (7) pose for photos. (Credit: Mark D. Smith-USA TODAY)
Over in Houston, James Harden goes back to playing shooting guard with the arrival of Chris Paul. With the vastly improving Eric Gordon, the Rockets could give the Warriors a serious run for their money. And this was put in full display in their shock upset over the Warriors on opening day last Thursday.
Chris Paul relieves James Harden of much of the ball-handling duties, making him a more potent scoring threat. (Photo from DD Prognostics.)
In New Orleans, veteran point guard Rajon Rondo will lead the charge with big men Anthony Davis and DeMarcus Cousins providing the demolition derby at the low post. Just a couple of snipers more and you’ve got a most dangerous band here.
If DeMarcus thrives from Rajon’s feeds, the Pelicans should be a power to reckon with. (courtesy of nba.com)
In San Antonio, a healthy Kawhi Leonard leads the veteran pack of LaMarcus Aldridge, Pau Gasol, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and newy-acquired Rudy Gay.
A healthy Kawhi Leonard and Tony Parker will always make the Spurs a serious threat. (Photo from Bleacher Report)
And then there’s the steady dynamic duos of Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum of the Portland Trailblazers; John Wall and Bradley Beal of the Washington Wizards; Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan of the Toronto Raptors. With better back-up support, any of these teams could go deep in the playoff action.
Jan 6, 2017; Washington, DC, USA; Washington Wizards guard John Wall (2), Wizards guard Bradley Beal (3), Wizards forward Markieff Morris (5), and Wizards center Marcin Gortat (13) stand on the court against the Minnesota Timberwolves in the third quarter at Verizon Center. The Wizards won 112-105. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports
But the biggest challenge for the Warriors’ fab four will still be the Cleveland Cavaliers. Isaiah Thomas replaced Kyrie as Lebron’s second-in-command. Joining them are old vets Dwyane Wade, another former MVP – Derrick Rose, and of course, Kevin Love. Add to that another Boston migrant, Jae Crowder, and voila! This team’s upgrade is so evident, it bumped off 2 erstwhile starters – JR Smith and Tristan Thompson – to the bench.
The Cavs’ starting line-up features 2 former season MVPs, 2 Finals MVPs, and 4 All-Stars. This doesn’t include Isaiah Thomas yet. (courtesy of nba.com)
Question is: will these star combinations work in total harmony? Will they be able to make music together as good as the league’s benchmark, the Warriors? For it is not enough to have superstars aboard, it is imperative to have them fit well together, be comfortable playing together, and share the ball unselfishly.
With their tested chemistry, their collective cage IQ, their vaunted skillsets, the Warriors are still the team to beat. (courtesy of Pinterest)
Indeed, this was by far the craziest off-season in league transfers. A total of 93 out of the 450 players in the NBA changed uniforms. That’s roughly a fifth of the league’s population. And there were too many big names that you could come up with an all-star cast from this list of hardcourt heroes, not to mention the bumper crop of rookies joining the league this year. Truly, it makes for a more fascinating season up ahead.
And so, enough of the appetizers. On to the main course. “Let’s get ready to rumble!!!!”
Let the Games Begin!!! Finally. As the dark clouds of war gather on the horizon, the trumpets signaling the arrival of our mighty gladiators beckon us once again into the arena.
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