into the abyss we go
1. Backup Blu-ray and DVD discs to digital storage.
1.1 DVD will be saved as ISO files
1.2 Blu-ray will be saved as their unencrypted directories
2. Extract just the movie file and all its tracks.
3. Encode the movie in HEVC.¹
4. Put Blu-ray/DVD backup and extracted movie on cold storage, upload encode to private streaming.
¹Encoding:
ffmpeg -hide_banner -hwaccel cuda -i "$MOVIE" -map 0 -c:v hevc_nvenc -c:a copy -c:s copy "$HOME/$MOVIE"
The WordPress classic editor really doesn’t like the British spelling of “theatre”. Or maybe that’s my Firefox.
Anyway, I’m a movie guy now. I’ve been more times to the theatre this year than ever before. And this will continue, I have already decided.
I just need a good way to keep my tickets.
I haven’t watched Die Hard yet. I am disappointed in myself. But in fairness I’m with family and was unable to convince them that this would be the correct thing to do.
I did bring about 3kg of cooked rice, though, that was nice, very nice.
The other food was fine, too.
Can’t really complain much.
I’ve setup two more blogs again. Nothing will come from this.
[Update 2024-11-16]
I shut down one of the blogs. As it happens, the original url to this blog, that I reinstated when I put up this post there.
I own too many things. This has really bitten me in the ass in the past. I wish I had the willpower to sell nearly all of it. Not only would I finally have some money again, but also my apartment would not be so cluttered.
【スイスの変態紳士が演じる】五条くんに測ってもらう喜多川さん (full version part 1) pic.twitter.com/OaXVL22oVb
— Melonpan????スイスの変態紳士???????? (@MeidocafeR) February 8, 2022
【スイスの変態紳士が演じる】五条くんに測ってもらう喜多川さん (full version part 3) pic.twitter.com/DJ8GqZyVmd
— Melonpan????スイスの変態紳士???????? (@MeidocafeR) February 10, 2022
I do not remember any of my dreams. Haven’t for years at this point. I sometimes wonder what cruelties my subconscious comes up with that it has to repress it real bad. I’m sure I do unspeakable things in my dreams.
The solution clearly is not sleeping. If you’re awake for long enough you’ll start hallucinating, and that is a kind of dreaming. Sort of. Maybe. Let’s just do it and not worry about the health concerns.
A website that dreams are made out of (nightmares especially) is nhentai.net. I love indulging in it at work.
I like watching anime. I started to follow it regularly this season again, with a few shows. A select few shows. One that I wanted to watch anyway. One that I found myself scrolling through MyAnimeList. Two that were recommended to me because they both feature huge perverts as MCs, and I’m into that.
MyAnimeList has a native app now and so my Plan-to-Watch is just filled to the brim with recommendations I get on my phone. Good feature.
I barely have any storage left tho so I need a solution and I need it quick. And temporarily switching to streaming sites is not an option. I will have to see how much I can afford. Single drive life is over, I might have to build a new NAS for all the anime I’m gonna watch.
Podcasts are a great way to fill the empty dead space in your head after coming home from work. And you can still blankly stare a the wall while you listen, but at least you won’t hear the voices in your head deriding yourself. I like two podcasts at the moment. They are very similar and very different at the same time. One is QAnon Anonymous, your one stop solution for all things Qanon. The other is Knowledge Fight, which focuses just on Alex Jones and Infowars (although they occasionally go offbrand a bit by covering Project Camelot).
https://qanonanonymous.com
https://knowledgefight.com
Now that I’ve written the url out I just noticed, for the first time, that the names have the same amount of letters. Coincidence? Probably (not). QAA has 134 episodes on their feed (plus 115 on their patreon). KF has 541 episodes on their feed, and 10 bonus episodes on their patreon that are publicly accessible because Dan and Jordan aren’t shills.
I like to play NES Tetris (PAL) while listening to my boy Travis give the Q News, having Jake tell me a fun and gory story about rich elite pedophiles in the British monarchy, and Julian find new ways to threaten death upon the aforementioned elite.
I love walk around at night aimlessly through my town listening to Dan explain the intricacies of Alex’ stories, complain about Harrison Smith and Captain Mark Richards, and rate novelty beverages and candy on a sliding scale.
This is what is nurturing me and keeping me alive. This is what is sustaining me. This is what will finally pill me, probably.