Although I've read a lot of Discworld novels, I've never played any of the Discworld games that existed in the 1990s; I watched Let's Plays of two of them, though, and thought that the theme song from the second one was spot-on:



Whoever managed to enlist Eric Idle as the voice actor for Rincewind - the protagonist of both games, and the ( Read more... )

It's exactly what it says on the tin:



Impressive - just wish it was longer. (H/t to canisrufus_uk BTW.)

"GIF" has become a bit of a misnomer in recent years, with various services referring to any animated image as a GIF even when it's not in GIF format (Telegram, looking at you) - if you find yourself having saved a "GIF" that's really an MP4 and you want to convert it to an actual GIF, ffmpeg can help you, assuming you know how to use it:

$ ( Read more... )

If you're finding yourself wanting to save a video that's available on the web, but only served in the form of a bunch of TS files over HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), you may want to take a look at m3u8downloader. It's a command line tool, but you really only need to have Python installed, and it also works on Windows just fine, though you may have ( Read more... )

It's easy. To only recode the video stream (using HEVC/H.265/libx265 in this case), do this:

$ ffmpeg -i infile.mp4 -c:v hevc -c:a copy outfile.mp4

To also encode audio (using AAC), do this:

$ ffmpeg -i infile.mp4 -c:v hevc -c:a aac -b:a 192k outfile.mp4

In either case, “-c” stands for “codec”, while “-b” stands for “bitrate”. To find ( Read more... )

Mostly for my own sake, though I suppose it'll also be helpful for others trying to download videos - there's a host of sites for downloading Twitter videos, but the only one I found that actually worked for this one was savefrom.net, so if others are failing and claiming there is no video in a tweet, try this one.

Also, in order to download HLS ( Read more... )

That's CBT as in cognitive-behavioral therapy:



And really, it really IS that easy … if you want to.

More True Facts, courtesy of the inimitable zefrank1 - first, the majestic wacky giraffe:



And as a bonus, the little-known oppih, a.k.a. the stub-nosed anteater:



Isn't nature beautiful. :)

Thanks are due to Mitch Benn for creating this song and video, Fuck All, and to canisrufus_uk for bringing it to my attention. :)



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It's been a while, but Madness Combat 11: Expurgation is finally ready. Watch it here on Newgrounds, or here on Youtube.

If you're not familiar with the Madness series, you may want to watch the other installments before this one, just so you'll have some idea of what's going on. (The earlier ones are sillier, and the art style's more primitive, ( Read more... )