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  3. Posted · Edited by colorful人生

    • Plunderer
      • I read this a long time ago and have it stalled. Since it's back in the limelight, I might have to pick up the manga again. The plot with its central "count" system is pretty unique and leads to interesting scenarios. There are other developments that are likely to be adapted here that'll take you for a spin.
    • Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei Shite Mita.
      • This leans more comedic than anything. It uses the intelligent but boke trope with weird science/techno-babble. 
    • Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T
      • Index 3 a shit, but Railgun seems to pick up the slack every subsequent airing. Canon manga plot covered here is good, so I expect an amazing first half of episodes followed by weird filler... Unless they pull an Index 3 and rush the shit out of it.
    • Heya Camp
      • S2 Yuru Camp. It's fun, what can I say.
    • Koisuru Asteroid
      • Read a few chapters of this. It's cute, lighthearted stuff. 
    • Runway de Waratte
      • This is actually really interesting. Has to do with an unconventional pathway to a modeling career. Drama is actually good and not forced melodrama.
    • Ishuzoku Reviewers
      • LULW ecchi trash dealing w/ prostitution, but if that's your style, then you might like it. Fits are already being thrown by the Western Twitter peanut gallery, but was this series really a surprise to anyone?

    • Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica Gaiden

      • This keeps being framed as a sequel or continuation to Madoka, but this is definitely more of a spinoff. It's animated well, so I might bite. Largely the same sort of content.

    What I find interesting is that Dorohedoro and Majutsushi Orphen Hagure Tabi  (reboot from the 1998 ~ 2000 anime) have source material from 2000 and 1994, respectively. So, I might check those adaptations out. 

     

    I might check out Somali to Mori no Kamisama and Kyokou Suiri. I've read some of the latter like 3~4 years ago, but I've forgotten the plot by now.

  5. Posted · Edited by colorful人生

    So, Topaz Labs has had an artificial-intelligence (AI) image software suite for a while now, including Gigapixel AI which is meant for upscaling photos. Well, videos are comprised of still frames, so it was only natural that users would try and apply this AI upscaling to video. In the past, this process had to be done manually using FFMPEG to extract all the frame images. You then had to upscale in batch with a limit of ~2000 images per session which would take forever. After all that, you had to put the whole thing back together.

     

    Within the past month Topaz Labs has now automated this process with Topaz Gigapixel AI for Video and it's a free beta at the moment. While the hardware requirements are 32 GB RAM + an Nvidia Graphics Card with at least 6 GB VRAM, for the time being, you can have them render a 60 second comparison test for free or pay for a full video up to 10 GB (the longer the length, the pricier it is.)

     

     

    You can see here I shelled out $7 for ユナイト - 約束 [MV] since I wanted to see how the upscale treated the variety of camera shots, effects, and CG (also it's ultra-fucking slow on my PC.) I also used SVP to transcode the upscaled product (by 200%) w/ 60fps frame interpolation for the last video. I assume Dailymotion hasn't fully processed these b/c they're stuck at 1440p, so for that and compression-sake I included the original files in MEGA.

     

    I find this particularly interesting for Visual Kei music videos b/c unless they're on YT, we're kind of stuck with DVD rips @ 480p. While you can't magically conjure up quality from thin-air, I find this process really promising for older media.

     

    ユナイト - 約束 [Original YouTube Rip at 720p] | https://mega.nz/#!ySwymCbK!2qXUGErT4oeTfsNlU4tSIzJifAE3iuS-9yTLPtx_vKg

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    ユナイト - 約束 [FFmpeg Upscale to 4K using LANCZOS filtering] | https://mega.nz/#!KTpiDaxD!bVww7YeTW94ue8_dg5ISm6BkP7m0qwsQh5eqyny2w2k

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    ユナイト - 約束 [Gigapixel AI Upscale to 4K] | https://mega.nz/#!OahCWCwD!DOxcV4hEC-HESVFdd2Rgn_Ftw7nYCCkfsXs6osVQog8

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    ユナイト - 約束 [Gigapixel AI Upscale to 4K + SVP 60fps Frame Interpolation] | https://mega.nz/#!6LghhDQL!Z6e52yGO5hML1ZryUKqc1uXu6LIFV3HDzP2qY5H4nWc

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    Programs:

    https://videoai.topazlabs.com/beta

    https://www.svp-team.com/wiki/Main_Page

     

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    Adding on here:

     

     

    This doc. covers the whole transition between Yukimi and Sana w/ an additional convo. w/ the two (and LiN) at the end. On a side note, I would love to see the documentaries translated, but it would take forever ;;.

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    2 hours ago, CAT5 said:

    Holy shit, I might actually have to watch this now. This was one of those events that the U.S. likes to pretend didn't happen.

     

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    https://decider.com/2019/10/20/watchmen-premiere-tulsa-1921-massacre-race-riots/

     

    Not a huge TV person, but that's piqued my interest too. While I was vaguely familiar with the Tulsa Race Massacre, I only learned of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898 (which happened in my own state) this year from the Vox video below:

     

     

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  20. Posted · Edited by colorful人生

    Just cassettes 😎

     

    Vaporwave/Future-Funk:

    • Flamingo Funk Vol. 2 (White Shell)
    • Luxury Elite - Blind Date/Rose Quartz
    • waterfront dining & 猫 シ Corp. - With Love 愛を込めて
    • PowerPCME - Kmart 1989-1992 (Translucent Blue Shell)
    • Midnight Television - Self-titled
    • Diskette Park - Reading Room
    • Saint Pepsi - Empire Building

    If everything goes smoothly, I should have 中原めいこ (Meiko Nakahara)  - HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOVE FOR YOU. It's a bit more of an obscure release, b/c it's just a ballad compilation and it's not on vinyl. I'm expecting the tape to be in rough shape as it's 30 y.o, but I knew going in. I have a couple of 30+ y.o tapes myself that still function, so I'm cautiously optimistic. 

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