morp

good
so, I just did a bunch of math
with music playing
and I can now further confirm that music helps

Towards the evening:

I'm using iMovie to concatenate video files

Things aren't supposed to need iMovie, of all the programs, but ffmpeg refuses to concatenate two mp4s for whatever reason

iMovie won't work because it's going to mess up the aspect ratio.. ugh

Oh, I know!!! I'll just make an iPhone recording of me playing the videos in order!!!!

Fifteen minutes later:

It would appear to be that SDL 2's library name is apparently the same as SDL 1

So, #include <SDL.h&rt; does not make it clear whether you need SDL 1 or 2

Unless SDL 2's name is actually different and I somehow missed that

what even
has this become your "software sucks blog"?

^basically me, the entire time of figuring out how to concatenate these two video files

o_O
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7333232/concatenate-two-mp4-files-using-ffmpeg ???

did not work™

all of the answers?

none of them 🎉

could you, uh, transcode it to ogg and concatenate those and transcode back?
:p

(I didn't try the video filter one because I'm too lazy to write out a big long terminal command a bunch of times/copy paste/store in a file)

heck

I tried encoding it in various formats, none of which worked

transcode to a raw format onto a ramdisk
and literally use cat
and transcode back

Hmm, that sounds clever, how would one do that
can I just do magical magic ffmpeg foo.raw???

dunno

./src/video/quartz/SDL_QuartzVideo.h:94:5: error: unknown type name
      'CGDirectPaletteRef'
    CGDirectPaletteRef palette;            /* palette of an 8-bit display */

HAHA I QUIT,
this rabbit hole is too deep

me too thanks
what even are you trying to do?
and why won't ffmpeg work?

build SDL -> build 'melt' command line video thing -> join videos
Who knows \:D/

was there an error or smth?

Outputted video only plays the first video in the concat list
I converted it to mpg, and that worked, but..
..the outputted video was way too low of a quality

what about avi
avi is uncompressed
there's literally no way that can break
probably

I'll try!

(apparently. Internet Says So (TM) )

PNGs are always easier to use than jpegs, so,
that would theoretically apply for AVIs vs mp4s too?????

o_o

works! Hmm, how funny, the VLC window resizes when the actual video size changes

cute

Maybe the fact that the videos were physically different sizes messed with things

....why did you not mention that the beginning fam

because I'm not a video editor /shrug :D

me too thanks

Whelp, it's supper time and people are stealing my computer; I'm off for now 💨

bye?

bye! 😛

Two hours later:

help
it's 5pm
and i'm in bed
and i don't want to get out of bed
but my battery is about to die
#firstworldproblems

interestingly, your status is currently offline
did your battery die??????????
:grave:
i'm going with: Yes

no i just closed the window :S

Well, my laptop isn't even portable
My newly-gotten/really-old one, anyways
I don't get to use it in bed because its battery discharges and it's tethered to an ethernet port!

REGARDLESS,
that does not help your situation
There is only one solution,
to get out of bed ☀

no thanks i'll just turn down the brightness
no quiero estar
oh i suppose they don't do spanish on your side of the border
um
je ne veux pas etre

i don't speak french :):):)
or spanish.
hmm, i can't remember what "ne" means
also i can't remember what "veux" means, something like "want" maybe????
I DO NOT WANT TO etre
wait, if "ne" and "pas" both act as negations
why are they both in "je ne veux pas"

[Screenshot of Google translate: I do not want to be]

welp,

hi
ne is a particle
umm
It's like the phrase "not only... but also"
technically you only need the second one
You can say foo but also bar
You can say not only foo but also bar
hm
"pas" means not
"ne" doesn't mean anything
but it just has to be there
in casual conversation, "ne" is rarely included
("je sais pas" is casual)

yeah, i think i've heard 'je veux pas' more than 'je ne veux pas'

"je ne sais" is intuitive to english and spanish speakers but is not only wrong but also doesn't mean what you want
on the street you might be super lazy and just do j'sais pas
or whatever
but hey
....i think i might be missing the point >_>

i can't remember what the point was, but i think i get the concept of ne and pas a bit better

upon doing some G o o g l i n g,
"ne" doesn't mean anything in the same way "to" doesn't mean anything? (i'm going to eat – well, "to" doesn't really mean anything there, it's just always stuck between "going" and [verb])

oh
yeah
that would've been way easier to explain :p
sorry it's late
i mean it's not
but i'm undersleeping

it's late, somewhere ✨

chronically
me_irl

i'm not sleeping enough, either, i think. but people say teenagers are meant to sleep for like twelve hours, so

lmao

11:30 (23:30) is a frequent bedtime at this point, and i usually get up around six or seven. that's around sevenish hours of sleep??? is this good??????????????help

it's not 12 hours, so i guess it's Bad

eh

8 to 10 hours according to one site. that's nearly as bad as 12 hours

(..resists urge to type "nearley"..)

me too thanks
i shoot for 8

also, apparently people sleep longer on weekends. on the one hand, i can't see why, but on the other hand, i can

i suppose they're the people who stay up until super late, do homework, and then, instead of complaining about being tired, sleep 25 hours on weekends?

o
i'm the kind of person who stays up until super late
does my homework
and then does the same thing on weekends
and feels like a dog shit by the end of the semestre

pathway to general success 🌈

🏳️‍🌈

semester is in my dictionary, semestre isn't, and centre is??????
whatever, computers are the worst

o htat wasn't a british thing

btw, i don't know the concepts of School™, are there breaks between semesters? er, are semesters the entire school-year..?hmm

um
some schools are on semester systems
which more or less are from:
"septemeber to christmas" and "christmas to hune"
others are on quarter systems
which are, like,
"september to thanksgiving"
"thanksgiving to christmas"
"christmas to easter"
"easter to june"

"thanksgiving" is weird here/in the us:D

or sth
yeah i dunno

no, keep studying romance languages, language is more important than sleep

okay, anyways, i was asking because

for the boys, you mean?

hm?

between semesters, how long does it take to Recover™ from not sleeping for the entire semester

oh. language is good in general

Je veux faire l'amour avec toi, monsieur --Romance languages

,/socialize

and who knows
this has been my worst semester in history int erms of sleep
too many god damn classes :p

>int
it has been the worst in terms of sleep 🎊

me irl

i am morally against any language with gendered words, which is half the reason i haven't learned french, even though french would be super practically useful (in theory)

kek
i've seen non-ugly spanish RFCs for gender neutrality
looking something like

¡Hola! Soy [snip], une estudiante inteligente ubiquade en los EEUU. Me gusta estar con mis amigues y juntes todes estamos contentes

ew
that hurt to type
versus

¡Hola! Soy [snip], una estudiante inteligente ubiquado en los EEUU. Me gusta estar con mis amigos y juntos todos estamos contentos.

er
ubiquada

that doesn't look too much different or abhorrently horrible! i don't speak spanish, though, so i wouldn't really know :p

meh
ugh
sleep vs discord vs work

all three,no,wait

me_irl

discord <-> work+music
(ignore the lack of sleep)

doing like an hour of math, then checking discord, then doing more math worked surprisingly alright today

normally distractions are really bad
but i think i was kinda tired of math after my first batch of it, so i used discord as a break

it's not that kind of day
if the problem were me not working enough, okay

(i did two activity-things; discord between activities.)

but the problem is more "I have a headache and a stomach ache, I have god too much work and I'm overstressed, I'm lonelier than ever, and I just want to die."

je ne veux pas etre!

exactly

okay, no exception
you need rest

yeahh

sleeping is the worst when you've been not sleeping all day

i mean, i've been getting like 7 hrs
it's not horrible
sometimes upwards of 8
it's not a quantity issue really
i wake up natlly in the morning
it's just a.... blarg

oh, that kind of day. those are the worst
stress and loneliness are really not my strong suit, because, frequently i'm kinda stressed and lonely and have not found a solution

*hugs liam*
(your name is liam, right? i forget sometimes :P)

no, it's Florgington Joe Haerobottles

oh

yep :P

ok
fixed

(edited)
*hugs florrie*

florrie.
hah

ugh, now i have to write a character and give them the name florrie,

hmm, that's going in my backlog of Names for Future Usage

florrie is cute
<3

it's much better than tonix
tonix is not cute
it's sad;-

you can change it
i've changed handles n times

(disregards liam4)

me too thanks
umm
[snip]
[snip]
[snip]
[snip]
[snip]

darn, ninja'd me on [snip]
[snip]

[snip]abeth
(don't ask; person calling me that was hard of hearing)

it's just funny that they went with [snip] and not [snip]

no shit
ummm
online
the above
also, like, snip and [snip] and [snip] and whatever
also
[snip] on old stuff
[snip] from years ago { note: not my deadname lmao }
and github which i ditched

deadname, that's a fancy word

oooo
sec
quote time
from April

quotes!
🎉

It's called a deadname, because if you call me it, I'll kill you

what license is this quote under.

(updated. i have bad memory, so, just in case i forget)

lol
liam's a nice name

it's better than william, which is unthankfully legally what i'm known as

fun fact, hank, from vlogbrothers, is william

I see
will you virtapunch me if I call you bill ^_^

however i've always been known as liam in any non-legal area, thankfully

all of my memes are public domain --author of that quote

(saying "author of that quote" instead of the author's name makes that message just a bit funnier)

me irl

i've only actually rebranded once, actually
liam48D -> _nix; and, in general, liam4 -> towerofnix

i've done it god too many times

(case in point: your discord username)

i've tried a couple of other times, but not seriously. liam48D -> towerofnix on scratch, once, but that didn't go anywhere

oh, yeah, and at one point i was referring to myself as "aqua" all too much online

which i quit on after like a month

my discord username as not chosen especially deliberately
but
[snip] ANNE [snip]
and for about 2 hours when i first joined discord, i went by "anne" :P

hhah
did anybody guess who you were based on your username
or did something else give it away?
or did anybody at least make the connection between [snip] and your name

april got it in like 10 minutes
which was longer than i anticipated
since we're people who know a few vague things about each other and briefly but awkwardly met in person once upon a time and now just talk about nonsense online/ :p

well, that's longer than it'd take me to guess anybody's name, so

factually correct improvement

also i'm [snip] on wikipedia
as in

[snip], or?

[snip] [snip]--yeah

hmm, have i existed on any other websites..
towerofnix(RTL-unicode) on khanacademy, towerofnix on duolingo,

oh and i had a big ton of handles under my deadname which i ditched (edited)

wow, that's a nice way of writing big,,
i've gone by saith under a few games. idk why

sorry, my "f" key is write next to my "b" key and my "i" key is sandwiched between "u" and "c" and my "g" key is by my "k"
i'm a klutz

well, if that setup works for you 🎉
i think it mostly just helps having a protagonist that's not named after me

(I type with an American keyboard layout; it's different in Canada I imagine)

yes, in canada the question mark key is physically placed above "e" and "h"

lmbo/

hmm, i've always had "florg" used as the abbreviation for "florgington joe haerobottles"

(..interestingly, not "joe"..)

not florrie?

florrie is 128793478325938745710835 times better

me too thanks
about to play CaH with a bunch of strangers whoopee :P

i did that once. cah isn't particularly my style of game, but i can see how people find it fun 🎉

heh
it's been a long time

twooooish months? i don't have a sense of time
i feel like i've gone by more names
see, this is why keeping a log is good

like 2 years

oh boy, i just had a thought
an archive of profile pictures.

busy playing cah