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Long Post: Did anyone check Putin's file cabinet?

Material From Russia Investigation Went Missing as Trump Left Office

A binder given to the Trump White House contained details that intelligence agencies believe could reveal secret sources and methods.

Material from a binder with highly classified information connected to the investigation into Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 election disappeared in the final days of Donald J. Trump’s presidency, two people familiar with the matter said.

The disappearance of the material, known as the “Crossfire Hurricane” binder for the name given to the investigation by the F.B.I., vexed national security officials and set off concerns that sensitive information could be inappropriately shared, one of the people said.

The material’s disappearance was reported earlier Friday by CNN. The matter was so concerning to officials that the Senate Intelligence Committee was briefed about it last year, a U.S. official said.

The binder consists of a hodgepodge of materials related to the origins and early stages of the Russia investigation that were collected by Trump administration officials. They included copies of botched F.B.I. applications for national-security surveillance warrants to wiretap a former Trump campaign adviser as well as text messages between two F.B.I. officials involved in the inquiry, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, expressing animus toward Mr. Trump.

The substance of the material — a redacted version of which has since been made public under the Freedom of Information Act and is posted on the website of the F.B.I. — is not considered particularly sensitive, the official said.

But the raw version in the binder contained details that intelligence agencies believe could reveal secret sources and methods. (The publicly available version contains numerous portions that were whited out as classified.)

It is not clear if the missing material comprises the entire original binder of material provided to the White House for Mr. Trump’s team to review and declassify in part before leaving office.

Among other murky details, it is not known how many copies were made at the White House or how the government knows one set is missing.

The binder has been a source of recurring attention since January 2021, just before Mr. Trump left office. At the time, Mr. Trump’s aides prepared redactions to some of the material it contained because the president — who was obsessed with the Russia investigation and believed his political enemies had used it to damage his presidency — planned to declassify it and make it public.

Officials made several copies of the version with the redactions, which some Trump aides planned to release publicly.

Mr. Trump’s White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, had a copy of material from the binder given to at least one conservative writer, according to testimony and court filings.

But when Justice Department officials expressed concerns that sharing some of the material would breach the Privacy Act at a time when the department was already being sued by Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page for having publicly released some of their texts, the copies were hastily retrieved, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Trump was deeply focused on what was in the binder, a person close to him said. Even after leaving the White House, Mr. Trump still wanted to push information from the binder into the public eye. He suggested, during an April 2021 interview for a book about the Trump presidency, that Mr. Meadows still had the material.

“I would let you look at them if you wanted,” Mr. Trump said in the interview. “It’s a treasure trove.”

Mr. Trump did not address a question about whether he himself had some of the material. But when a Trump aide present for the interview asked him, “Does Meadows have those?” Mr. Trump replied, “Meadows has them.”

“We had pretty much won that battle,” Mr. Trump added, referring to questions about whether his 2016 campaign had worked with Russia. “There was no collusion. There was no nothing. And I think it was maybe past its prime. It would be sort of a cool book for you to look at.”

George J. Terwilliger III, a lawyer for Mr. Meadows, said the former chief of staff was not responsible for any missing material. “Mark never took any copy of that binder home at any time,” he said.

A person familiar with the matter said, shortly after the court-authorized search of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 by F.B.I. agents looking for classified documents, that they had not found any Crossfire Hurricane material.

Adding to the confusion about the material and who was in possession of it, a set of the Russia investigation documents that Mr. Trump believed he had declassified did not have their classification markings changed when they were given to the National Archives, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

At the time, Mr. Trump was in a standoff with the archives over the reams of presidential material he had taken with him upon leaving the White House on Jan. 20, 2021, and was resisting giving back. So Mr. Trump told advisers he would give back those boxes in exchange for the Russia-related documents.

Aides never pursued his suggestion.

In the run-up to the 2020 election, John Ratcliffe, then Mr. Trump’s director of national intelligence, declassified around 1,000 pages of intelligence materials related to the Russia investigation, which Trump allies used to try to discredit the inquiry.

In 2022, Mr. Trump made John Solomon, a conservative writer who had been briefly given the binder before it was retrieved, one of his representatives to the National Archives. This allowed Mr. Solomon to see Trump White House records deposited with the agency. He later filed a lawsuit against the government over the binder, seeking access to what he said were declassified documents from the binder being denied to him by the archives.

A court filing he submitted in August described the binder as about 10 inches thick and containing about 2,700 pages. The publicly released version is 585 pages; it is not clear what accounts for the discrepancy.

The filing said Mr. Solomon had been allowed to thumb through a version of the binder at the White House on Jan. 19, 2021. The contents, it said, included a 2017 F.B.I. report about its interview of Christopher Steele, the author of a dossier of unverified claims about Trump-Russia ties; “tasking orders” related to an F.B.I. confidential human source; “lightly-redacted” copies of botched surveillance warrant applications; and text messages between the F.B.I. officials.

The filing said Mr. Solomon or an aide had gone back to the White House that evening and had been given a copy of the materials in the binder in a paper bag, and that separately a Justice Department envelope containing some of the documents had been delivered to his office.

But as Mr. Solomon’s office was scanning the larger set, the filing said, the White House requested that the documents be returned so certain private details could be removed. Mr. Meadows promised Mr. Solomon he would get back the revised binder, it said, but he never did.

When Mr. Solomon later tried to see the binder within the Trump White House records at the National Archives, he said, the agency denied him access to a box of 2,700 pages “with varying types of classification and declassification markings” that it said it was obligated to treat as highly classified. The agency also told him it did not have the declassified version of the binder that Mr. Solomon had briefly possessed, because the Justice Department still has it.

Maggie Haberman is a senior political correspondent reporting on the 2024 presidential campaign, down ballot races across the country and the investigations into former President Donald J. Trump. More about Maggie Haberman

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– where I can get myself a lei!Īnd if I go to Hawaii. Now winter is a dragging, I don’t really want to stay I want to see a volcano, and swim the ocean so blue I want a place where the weather isn’t always rotten cold (and it matches my clothes)Īnd you don’t have to use a shovel. You know I need a vacation, where the birds are gonna sing and get a ukulele tooĪnd if I go to Hawaii. I want to go to Hawaii, where it’s always nice and warm (NC in my song file text below means “No Chord”) “Hawaii” by Ralph Hamilton! Another ukulele-song that is little-known but great fun – and perfect for this time of year 🙂 I am going to recommend a song but it might get lost here so I will add a new comment. It’s “Panton”, but at least “Paton” is better than “Phantom” 🙂 I really admire your energy and commitment in publishing new editions of your songbook so often! Thank you soooo much for doing this!Īnd for setting up this website! I found it by accident as I never knew the best place to find your latest edition and Google Search found this for me 🙂 I think that might be easier and I am all for an easy life! One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to do the 10th Songbook, to make it a round 100 songs for Ukes4Fun, and then move to doing single sheets to collate and re-index annually. No more Here are some blank blank blank blank graphics and blank. From the really your enthusiasm to actually tap the song. If youve ever tried to sit and write your tongue for a song, you probably know how frustrating it is actually to make the 'staff'. This allows you to print or display song sheets with chord grids for these tunings.

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I like to make the font as large as possible for each song sheet, so one font size does not necessarily suit all the songs in a song book and I have to cludge extra pdf files into the original songbook and delete the ones that I didn’t like so much. Pdf free blank ukulele chord chart printable. Songsheet Generator comes with pre-installed chord definitions for guitar EADGBE and ukulele GCEA. It is a faff doing even the 10-page song books that I do for Ukes4Fun as individual “Songbooks” with Songsheet Generator. Now you have stirred me up enough to do my “Why I print song sheets in landscape format” blog post 🙂īeing serious, I use Songsheet Generator and I don’t think that it would necessarily suit producing a huge book like yours in landscape format. Yellow Bird (unchanged Ukulele Jim version) Welcome to My Morning (Farewell Andromeda) Nursery Rhymes – a few basic nursery rhymes Help anyone ?īeards, Time Travel and Catching Salmon (New Version) Below I list the songs I have so far - but would love to get ideas for a few more. I am looking at releasing the new songbook in January 2016 - just needing a few more songs to round it off.

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Friday Special #7

January 9th, 2021

So it has come to my attention that when people talk about RPG Maker the series, many aren’t aware of how far back the series goes.

Did you know that series dates back to almost thirty years?

That’s right, next year will be the 30th anniversary of RPG Maker!

So why don’t we have a history lesson into arguably one of the most important franchises in gaming history?

Alright, where does the story begin for this iconic series?

According to sources, there has been games similar to RPG Maker that were made by ASCII (the original company behind RPG Maker) and that were released as far back as 1988, with the following titles:

Mamirin (1988)

Dungeon Manjirou (1988)

RPG Construction Tool: Dante (1990)

Dante 2 (1992)

Chimes Quest (1992)

The very first official RPG Maker title came in the form of RPG Tsukūru Dante 98, released on December 17, 1992. This game, along with its 1996 sequel RPG Tsukūru Dante 98 II, was originally made for the NEC PC-9801 Japanese home computers at the time. It was originally made when ASCII pulled from other games (listed above) and combined them together to create a RPG-making development title with its own toolkit. The genre of RPG specifically was thanks to the rise of JRPGs in recent years like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy to name a few. 

The next major release of RPG Maker was in the form of RPG Tsukūru: Super Dante in 1995, which marked the very first time that the series has landed onto a console. The console was the Nintendo Super Famicom and it was later broadcasted a year later using the Satellaview service. While it did exhibit some restrictions in terms of content due to system limitations, it was famous for providing hundreds of character, monster and scenery assets with color swap palettes to save on memory in the cartridge as well as designing the stats of characters and monsters pre-determined by the player. It was said that the game was popular with players but sources are limited about actual reviews. RPG Tsukūru 2 is the sequel and it was released in 1996 on the Super Famicom as well. 

Windows saw the release of the third installment with RPG Tsukūru 95, which was released in 1997 and was the first of many RPG Maker titles for Windows. Unlike its predecessors, it boasted higher resolution in sprites and tilesets as well as higher screen resolution. It also has the honor of being the first version to have an unauthorized English translation and release due to demand. Also with this version, the number of party members was boosted to 8 people with the first 4 acting as the main battle party. RPG Tsukūru 95 Value! was released not long after with the added bonus of having Windows XP support, which was new at the time and very valuable. 

So when did the West finally receive an official version version of RPG Maker?

On November 27, 1997, Enterbrain released the following title RPG Tsukūru 3 for the original Playstation and chose to release the software simply as RPG Maker in the West three years later on October 2, 2000 under Agetec. This was the first time the West would finally receive a version of RPG Maker and experience the magic of RPG development, but it was reported that a limited run of copies were released outside of Japan. It was also one of thirty games that utilized the now-rare Playstation Mouse (which is usually an arm and a leg to import). Players got to customize their own assets using the Anime Maker that was also built into the game and, like the original Super Famicom versions, utilized color-swap palettes to save on memory. Another cool feature that was a first for the series was saving your created game onto a memory card so that you could share your creation with your friends.

One of the most beloved and popular versions of RPG Maker is next on the list and it is RPG Tsukūru 2000 for Windows on April 5, 2000. Despite the popularity, it was Japan-exclusive and it featured a lower resolution for graphics and assets overall than its RPG Maker 95 predecessor. Despite this, it boasted more functionality with unlimited sprite sheets and tilesets.

The last in that trio was RPG Tsukūru 2003, first released only in Japan in 2003 before being released worldwide in 2015. Improvements to this version included the side-view battle system that was popular in Final Fantasy, and interchangeable resources. From this point, the development company Enterbrain would take over RPG Maker as it was part of the ASCII company. 

Starting with the released of RPG Tsukūru 5 on the Playstation 2 in 2005, Enterbrain was starting to look into developing the series for an international audience of players. They would beginning to craft titles that are now iconic in the RPG development community, with the first of these releases being RPG Tsukūru XP (RPG Maker XP as it was known world-wide) released on Windows in 2004. While many of the simplified features have been removed from this version, it was the first RPG Maker game to use Ruby, a type of programming language first seen in 1995, and it was the first title to distribute assets online amongst the community thanks to the rise of the Internet. It allowed greater control over sprite size other gaming aspects, which helped it become more versatile than previous titles. However, a drawback is the steep learning curve, which was intimidating to new players. It was released to Steam in 2015.

The next modern RPG Maker title was the release of RPG Tsukūru VX (RPG Maker VX as it was known world-wide) in Japan in 2007, world-wide in 2008. It has the one-up over XP for its more user-friendly layout and faster framerate of 60fps over XP’s 40 fps. The programming was completely done over to be more accessible in scripting and the battle systems were now similar to Dragon Quest with a front-view battle system and detailed text. Because of these aspects and other improved features, it became a popular choice for modern developers since release. However, one of the biggest drawbacks was the lack of support for multiple tilesets when mapping that frustrated players. It was released to Steam in 2016.

Right after that, RPG Tsukūru VX Ace (RPG Maker VX Ace as it was known world-wide) was a direct sequel to the version mentioned above. Described as an “overhauled version of RPG Maker VX”, it removed the multiple tileset issue that plagued players in the previous version and re-introduced battle backgrounds during battle scenes. Magic and skill systems were re-worked to have their own recovery and damage formulas in the programming, and a new set of music tracks were accompanied in the database files. It was released to Steam in 2012.

Having the distinction of being released by Degica for the first time world-wide, RPG Tsukūru MV (RPG Maker MV as known world-wide), underwent quite a few adjustments by introducing multiplatform support as well as side-view battles and high resolution features and assets. For the first time, JavaScript replaced Ruby as the default programming language. Players also saw the return of layered tilesets, which were missing from the previous installments. Not only was it released for Windows, but also for PS4 and Nintendo Switch (A XBox One version was planned but unfortunately scrapped), giving players new ways to share games. It was released to Steam in 2015.

The newest installment to the famous series is RPG Tsukūru MZ (RPG Maker MZ as known world-wide), and it was just released last year in August of 2020. Reviews for the game were mixed as players noted that the trailers leading up to release were very similar to RPG Maker MV. It did have some positively-received features such as autosave functionality and XP-style autolayer mechanics. It was released to Steam in 2020. 

So with the history side taken care of, what about some of the most iconic games ever made using the software?

Good question! Given the extensive list of successful games to come out of RPG Maker, that will be a separate Friday Special so I can cover them more in-depth. Maybe next week perhaps?

So there you have it, a comprehensive history of RPG Maker!

(Now, there were some older Japanese titles that weren't mentioned because of lack of sources, I do apologize. I also wanted to stick more to the major installments of the franchise itself.)

Thoughts From The Head

I was formally introduced to RPG Maker by some mutuals of mine on Discord a few years ago when I expressed interest in wanting to create scenes like a movie of sorts. My software of choice is RPG Maker VX Ace as it was suggested to me for being better at creating events than any other version. It's understandably intimidating at first, especially for newcomers, but there are hundreds of tutorials on Steam, Youtube and all over the internet.

I also have other copies of RPG Maker, including the PS1 version of RPG Maker and even RPG Tsukūru: Super Dante for my Super Famicom that I just received a few days ago! It's definitely wild how much the series has grown and improved upon over the years.

From what I have been recommended by friends who are long-time players of this series, either go for RPG Maker MV (if you're interested in mapping) or RPG Maker VX Ace (if you're interested in creating events). From what I have seen, those two are some of the more popular choices. In terms of platform, always go for Steam (and get them on sale when you can) because you will have better accessibility and it's more user-friendly than the console versions. The abundance of community-generated assets also help.

To end this post, here's some pics from RPG Tsukūru: Super Dante!

#been wanting to make this for a while #hope you learn some new things! #my voice! #friday special #gif #gaming #retro gaming #irl

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Translation Plans

Well... my break was pretty good. was finally able to download the clean fresh live version of the cxm secret mission that i had my eye on since i ranked up, saw the 1984 wonder woman movie (it was okay and I could write an essay on what didn’t sit well with me as a fan of the comics [im kinda of a comic book purist when it comes to the way characters think and their behaviour] but I really liked Lynda Carter’s cameo).... made a lot of progress on one of the hakumyu piano arrangements i’m working on (have now probably listened to certain parts of that song over a hundred times now), watched a bunch of the original hakuoki musicals in hd.... and I finally got my dad to play Batman: Arkham Asylum. My bro and I have been trying to get that to happen for years lol... especially since it has Conroy and Hamill doing the Batman and Joker voices (the animated series is the best!). super steep learning curve tho since it’s being played on the ps3 and the last console he used was the Nintendo Gamecube.    

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to stock up on translations as much as I would have liked to during this time on account of my hardware seriously acting up... to the point that I needed to send my laptop in for repairs and get a new one. Aside from how unresponsive my keyboard was and how hot it got, the laptop itself had become quite slow... though that might have been because my passport [external storage drive] took a bad fall which made a lot of my files harder to access since it was barely able to handle files being accessed/copied/moved off of it (this is after diagnosing it and repairing it via command prompt chkdsk x: / r), with the latter being what I spent most of my break waiting for as i avoided using my laptop since the majority of my drama rips and game capture videos were on it... To give you an idea of how long this took (and how long it is still taking), I went from being able to transfer my 50mb of files in a few seconds... to sometimes taking more than a day (tho other times i’d be able to get 4gb moved in >24 hours, making the timing super inconsistent. also i don’t have access to a cd drive now so i can’t just re-rip things)... which is why I haven’t been able to work on any videos since my last post (I have more than 1.3TB of stuff to move, so my new laptop isn’t exactly at its best right now and won’t be for a long while since I’m not going to be using a recovery service as waiting out the transfers for everything out will definitely be cheaper... the ballpark estimate I got was being anywhere from $500-2000, which is money that i am not exactly eager to part from just for the sake of saving time)... meaning I also probably won’t get to videos for a while since subtitling requires accurate timing and im not fond of things freezing on me while working on videos... ugh. i still have to do an insane amount of grinding later in warframe once my current batch of files finishes transferring... 

Anyway, below is a list of what I’ve mostly managed to schedule (anything with a “?” is something that I haven’t committed to) and a list of what I’d like to get done this year (can’t make any guarantees... however, im probably going to try and translate some things with souma this year cuz of hakumyu), while the stuff in bold text is on my shortlist of things I intend to prioritize (Saito’s Ginsei no Shou chapters and Shinsengumi Oni-tan are still being worked on though not as actively since they’re a lot longer...). 

Also, aside from December, the month that CNY falls on (February this year) and March (bday) will be the only foreseeable times when I put out less translations tho I’ll probably be playing video catch-up during that time this year since i’m not sure what i’ll be able to get done as i wait for my files to get moved.

oh well. I’m still aiming towards posting stuff on a weekly basis for the rest of the year... here’s hoping that it’s less volatile.... tho i unfortunately have non-existent expectations given what made the news yesterday. just glad i don’t live there.

YAISA!

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January

Yuugiroku 3 Saito Fall story today!

Chapter 7 of Saito’s route from Ginsei no Shou + 4-koma

Hakuoki Kyoka-Roku Kazama CG Character Perspective [no vid. havent beaten this game and im not sure when i’ll feel like speed running through it]

Hakuo Gakuen Q & A

February 

Stellaworth Hana no Shou After Story - Harada

Chapter 1 of Saito’s route from Ginsei no Shou

Web drama 8

March

Yuugiroku 3 - Short Episode #8 (Kazama/Amagiri/Shiranui) [still need to get video and screenshots] 

Yuugiroku Drama CD Thumb Sized Samurai Track 1-4 (4 is WIP)?

Char monologue?

April

2017 Otomate Hakuoki SSL April Fool’s Day

薄桜鬼 遊戯録 隊士達の大宴会 店铺特典「教えてください山崎さん！」 (completed yesterday)

Yuugiroku 3 - Short Episode #6 “Yukimura the page’s secret”?

char perspective?

Other

Hijikata Biyori (cuz these are short) 

Yuugiroku 3 Short Episodes (these are longer than the ssl cross and daily stories)

Kyoka Roku Conversation in the Rain - Okita/Toudou/Kazama

Kyoka-Roku CG perspectives

2013 Otomate Party Hakuoki drama “Ideal place for a disagreement”

Saito Ginsei no Shou Chapters

Shinsengumi Oni-tan

Stellaworth Hana no Shou After Stories - Souji, Heisuke (THIS YEAR FOR SURE DAMMIT!)

2011 Hakuoki Reimeiroku Otomate Party drama

Stellaworth Nightshade Kuroyuki CD

薄桜鬼 遊戯録弐 祭囃子と隊士達 A店特典「あなた好みの想いの形」

薄桜鬼 真改 ~風華大全~ 特典「稽古の痛み」

2016 Otomate Party Code:Realize drama* (this is almost 30 min so i will probably translate less that month if i get to it)

2019 ????????????? Halloween SS?*

????????????? Stellaworth Vocal CD (8 tracks)*

*have to check these 3 since I don’t actively follow these fandoms/tags tho im pretty sure no one has translated anything from the fandom for the last 2 items.

also, re:patreon goal - i am currently not able to access the files for the drama i am looking to get a translation commissioned for as it is in the process of being moved off of my damaged passport. 29gb  remains as part of that transfer, which is the result of me trying to move all 865 files from where i keep the majority of the hakuoki dramas i’ve saved all at once... ended up doing that because every time I access that hard drive, each time i open up a folder, and every time I highlight a file to move, the file explorer goes “not responding” for an uncertain amount of time, and have instead opted in doing something that would hopefully reduce the likelihood of something crashing.

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Age in Korea

While in KCS or enjoying media from Korea, you may have heard of “korean age” and “international age”. But what exactly is this?

International age is how we calculate age - you are zero when you are born, and each year on your birthday your age increases by one year.

International age is also referred to as legal age since this is used in courts, hospitals and public offices.

Korean age starts at one on the day you are born, then on the 1st of January every year your age increases by one year. 

While Koreans still celebrate their birthday on the day they were born their age does not change until new year. 

This means a baby can be born on the 31st of December and turn two the next day despite only being two days old in reality.

In 2019 a change was considered to drop the Korean age system in order to match the rest of the world.

So why does Korea have a different age system to the rest of the world?

The method of Korean age has its origins in China and was at one point used across Asia. However, today South Korea is the only country to use this system.

One theory is that the time a baby spends within their mother's womb is taken into consideration into their overall age and nine months rounds to one year.

Another theory is that some ancient Asian numerical systems did not have a concept of zero and therefore had to start at one.

The concept of everyone aging up at new year is thought to originate from ancient Koreans using the Chinese 60-year calendar cycle but because regular calendars did not exist the exact day of their birth was ignored and one year was added on the first day of the lunar calendar.

This then shifted to January 1st as Korea began to observe the western calendar.

How to ask about age

It’s funny that you have to guess someone’s age in order to have to ask them their age.

Age in Korea is spoken about using native Korean numbers (하나, 둘, 셋 /  hana, dul, set…).

Asking how old someone is:

Formal : 연세가 어떻게 되십니까? (yeonsega eotteoke doeshimnikka). 

Standard (from most formal to least) : 연세가 어떻게 되세요? (yeonsega eotteoke doeseyo), 나이가 어떻게 되세요? (naiga eotteoke doeseyo), 몇 살이에요? (myeot sarieyo).

Informal : 몇 살이야? (myeot sariya).

Replying with your age - in this example I have put the person as being 20 (스무 / seumu) : 

Formal : 저는 스무 살입니다 (choneun seumu sarimnida)

Standard : 저는 스무 살이에요. (choneun seumu sarieyo)

Informal : 나는 스무 살이야 (naneun seumu sariya) 

Korean Birthday Celebrations 

General birthdays

Nowadays birthdays are heavily influenced by the western tradition of cake and a party.

However eating seaweed soup (miyeokguk - 미역국) is a tradition that has remained.

Mothers ate seaweed soup after giving birth as it is rich in nutrients believed to heal and boost milk production and so to eat it on your birthday is a reminder and an appreciation of your mother’s pain and care for you.

돌잔치 - Doljanchi

A celebration of a baby's first birthday.

Historically important since many babies would die before they reached their birthday and therefore to do so was a cause for celebration

For the celebration babies will wear a hanbok with a traditional hat - jobawi (조바위) or gulle (굴레) for girls and fujin (복건) or hogeon (호건) for boys.

Family members pray and give thanks to the gods Sanshin (mountains) and Samshin (birth) for the child having been born and for the child to have a prosperous life.

Rice, seaweed soup (miyeokguk - 미역국), fruit and rice cakes are placed on a table, stacked high to symbolise a life of prosperity for the baby.

The main part of the celebration is the doljabi (돌자비) ceremony where a variety of objects are placed before the baby and the one they choose foretells their future. There are no set rules for what items are presented, though many parents choose to keep them traditional.

Examples of these items include:

Pencil or book - education

Money - wealth

Food - won’t go hungry

Thread - long life

Needle - talent with the hands

This is followed with singing and playing, and often gift giving.

환갑 - Hwangap

The celebration of someone’s 60th birthday.

A tradition from when life expectancy was much lower makes this a celebration of longevity and it also marks someone entering their second cycle of the Chinese 60-year calendar cycle.

Children of the person celebrating, starting from the eldest, bow and offer wine to their parent.

Gifts and poems may also be presented to them.

It used to be common for the sons/daughters of the person celebrating to dress in children's clothing in order to help them feel younger, though this is rare now.

The celebration itself is also becoming less popular due to medical advances and the widespread use of the western calendar

How to say Happy Birthday!

The basic word for birthday is 생일 (saengil) but if you are referring to the birthday of someone older than yourself you should use 생신 (saengsin).

The word for celebrate or congratulate is 축하하다 (chukahada).

So happy birthday as a whole phrase is:

Formal : 생신을 축하드립니다 (saengsineul chukadeurimnida).

Standard : 생일 축하합니다 (saengil chukahamnida) or 생일 축하해 (saengil chukahaeyo). The first one is slightly more formal although they are very similar. This is also the phrase that best fits the happy birthday song.

Informal : 생일 축하해 (saengil chukahae).

Researched and posted by Leo :)

Please note some of the formal and informal sayings may be inaccurate, the committee only know basic Korean and this is the best we could figure out. If you do know the correct versions please message us and they will be corrected!

Bibliography

https://www.90daykorean.com/korean-age-all-about-age-in-korea/#:~:text=It%20is%20always%20one%20or,age%20on%20New%20Year's%20Day.&text=Your%20Korean%20age%20will%20change,Day%2C%20not%20on%20your%20birthday.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/02/south-korea-mulls-ending-arcane-age-system-to-match-rest-of-world

https://qz.com/745825/korean-age-explained-why-a-baby-born-on-dec-31-turns-two-years-old-the-next-day/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_birthday_celebrations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doljanchi

https://thesoulofseoul.net/2016/01/04/a-babys-first-birthday-korean-style-vs-american-style/

https://koreancultureblog.com/2017/07/02/korean-birthday-celebrations/

https://www.hostelsclub.com/en/magazine/korean-birthday-celebrations#commento-login-box-container 

https://www.90daykorean.com/happy-birthday-in-korean/ 

https://www.90daykorean.com/how-old-are-you-in-korean/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zTQkH5mJfA

#dmu #dmukcs #ksoc #kcs #Koreanculture #Korea #Korean #Culture #Age #Birthdays

[clement1668]

Crowdsourcing & Crowdfunding

What is Crowdsourcing?

Crowdsourcing includes the aggregation of work, information and opinions from a wide number of individuals who use the Internet , social media and smartphone applications to contribute their data (Hargrave 2019).

What is Crowdfunding?

Crowdfunding has collected a small amount of money from a vast group of people to fund a new venture, according to Smith ( 2019). Crowdfunding offers a high degree of access to social networking and crowdfunding sites for people's networks. Hundreds of thousands of people have been motivated by popular crowdfunding sites like kickstarter to invest in the next important thing. More than 160,000 projects have been funded on-site since 2009 and Kickstarter projects have raised more than $4.2 billion in donations.

Where can Crowdsourcing be applied?

Crowdsourcing is used through both corporate and social experiences. The way people are hiring, working, assembling and selling is changing. In addition, politicians are using crowdsourcing to create a platform for people to voice their views. Parliament & Public, for example, is an online website used in France by politicians and residents for political and legislative discourse. The final report will provide guidance at the end of this time as to when and how public feedback is used in the draught regulations (Opinion 2018). Useful clinical data can also be produced by crowdsourcing in the health and science industries. One example is Harvard's Eliot Van Buskirk Multi-Source Diabetes Project. InnoCentive opened two years ago at the School of Clinical and Translation Sciences, where people can ask questions about diabetes and experts can answer questions. Money prizes give the best responses and questions (Continuum n.d.).

What is the difference between Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding?

Crowdsourcing is basically a process in which people search information together, while crowdfunding means that people make voluntary contributions to support start-ups, organisations or even individuals (Harvard 2019). (The Harvard 2019).

Let 's find the example of Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding

'Ushahidi' is a good example in the field of crowdsourcing. Ushahidi is a website that lets users transfer text messages or news items to a Google Map and it means 'testimony' as it is translated to Swahili. This website was set up by David Kobia and 20 other Kenyan entrepreneurs living in the USA to relay news to more than 45.000 Kenyans about death, abduction, theft and other abuses. Many that want to share their stores could post reports through SMS or the site itself, which makes it a valuable tool for people with silenced media voices. The app was successful in alleviating conflict in Kenya, prompting developer teams to invest more money on the initiative and upgrading the software by adding Twitter , Facebook and the most up-to - date on the web to display overtime crowd-sourced images of events on a single map (Ford, 2012).

The Starbucks Cup Design Rivalry is also an example of crowdsourcing. The cups used by Starbucks coffee, rather than the Starbucks white logo, are white in colour. This inspired the Starbucks baristas to qualify for the White Cup award in the spring of 2014. Starbucks consumers had to prepare their cups with their own original designs, take a snapshot of the cup and upload it on social media via the hashtag # white cup competition. There were four thousand separate ideas over the span of a few months, and the selected versions that were won were used for the 2014 recycled limited edition cup. Every year, reusable cups come in different types. Each cup costs $1 and is available 30 times before disposal. For those who have used these recycled cops if they buy Starbucks products, a discount of 10 cents is issued. This is Starbucks' effort to become greener and more eco-friendly and to encourage more creative individuals (Speier 2016).

Indiegogo is a very good example of crowdfunding. In 2008, Indiegogo started to become more flexible and expansive with the financing of different forms of projects, such as charities and start-ups, as a crowd-sourcing network that raises money to support independent films (Smith, 2019).

Patreon is another example of this. Patreon is a website set up by authors, musicians and others. Artists, dancers, or even others who teach how to make kitchen stuff like chairs and tables. These developers can learn advanced tutorials in which expert and frequent users can pay extra money to access the tools they want while at the same time financing their content creators.

Effects of fake news on Crowdsourced information

What information is correct online can be difficult to understand. The exponential growth of "false news" and its propensity to spread through traditional news will make a rather confusing distinction between accurate evidence and inaccuracies (Carufel 2019). However, a recent investigation has shown that crowdsourcing is the key to avoiding the danger of misleading news. The approach to combating fake news was based on public opinion polling to assess the level of public trust in 60 news sources, including 'hyper-partisan' networks, as studied by MIT scholars David Rand and Gordon Pennycook. After analysing the results , the researchers concluded that the implementation of classified news coverage scores could help to remove incorrect data (Gaszcz 2019).

List of References

‘What is Crowdsourcing?’ 2019, Crowdsourcing Week, viewed 1 November 2020, <https://crowdsourcingweek.com/what-is-crowdsourcing/>.

Smith, T 2019, ‘Crowdfunding’, Investopedia, viewed 1 November 2020, <https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/crowdfunding.asp>.

Hargrave, M 2019, ‘Crowdsourcing’, Investopedia, viewed 1 November 2020, <https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/crowdsourcing.asp>.

Carufel, R 2019, ‘Fighting the spread of fake news- why crowdsourcing is effective’, Agility, viewed 1 November 2020, <https://www.agilitypr.com/pr-news/public-relations/fighting-the-spread-of-fake-news-why-crowdsourcing-is-effective/>.

‘A hundred places where governments are using tech to crowdsource policy’ 2018, Apolitical, viewed 1 November 2020, <https://apolitical.co/solution_article/a-hundred-places-where-governments-are-using-tech-to-crowdsource-policy/>.

Thrope, D 2018, ‘What is crowdfunding?’, Forbes, 26 June, viewed 1 November 2020, <https://www.forbes.com/sites/devinthorpe/2018/06/25/what-is-crowdfunding/#19ad30e965c5>.

Speier, K 2016, ‘4 Examples of Clever Crowdsourcing Campaigns’, Main Street Host Digital Marketing Agency, 7th January, viewed 1 November 2020  <https://www.mainstreethost.com/blog/four-examples-of-clever-crowdsourcing-campaigns/>

Nations, N 2019, ‘What Is Patreon? And How Does It Work?’, Lifewire, 18th November, viewed 1 November 2020 <https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-patreon-4145695>

#mda2009 #week8 #crowdsourcing #crowdfunding #starbucks #patreon

[andrewologist]

My Antisepticeye Theory

Notes

“Lore Seán” is Jack, and Seán is “real life Seán.”

While I tried to find as many videos as possible, most social media posts will be excluded. Many of the captions have since changed, bios and avatars have gone back to normal, and posts are buried deep. Many of them are irrelevant at this point.

So everything is easy to read, things originally in zalgo text will be bolded.

This is the longest post I’ve ever made. I’m so sorry. It’s all under the cut.

Some of this probably sucks. Feel free to prove me wrong.

It’s a long shot, but I’d love to hear @therealjacksepticeye‘s opinion on this stuff.

2016

May 1

Reading your comments #90

In a reading your comments video, someone asks “What do you think of antiseptic?” and Jack says “WHERE?! Don’t joke about that!”

While this is a joke, it’s also the first acknowledgement of Anti.

July 10

Welcome to the Game #2

Jackieboy Man’s first appearance.

August 11

Title: The Jacksepticeye Power Hour - Marvin’s Magic

Marvin the Magnificent’s first appearance.

September 15

Title: The Jacksepticeye Power Hour - Dr. Schneeplestein

Dr. Schneeplestein’s first appearance.

October 10

Anti’s first official appearance.

Title: THE START OF THE NIGHTMARE | Five Night at Freddy’s Sister Location #1

The bottom of the description reads “You’ve waited a long time, now I wake” and in the source code, one of the keywords is “snooping.” (I think that the keyword was added at a later date, but it is still significant)

The description suggests that Anti has been watching us for awhile, or at least knows that we created him. He’s calling us out in the source code, or maybe just observing.

A lot of this first video is Anti testing us, seeing how we react. He’s new at this point, so he doesn’t know much about the community and how we work.

October 13

Title: THEY HAVE AWOKEN | Five Night at Freddy’s Sister Location #2

Description says “follow the signs, release me.” In the source code, one of the keywords is “curious I see.”

Again, Anti is testing the waters, seeing what we do, how far we go for clues. He’s seeing if we obey him, if we are willing to “release” him out of pure curiosity.

When he says “release me” he’s asking us to follow him. Us believing in him/obeying him gives him power, which would help him escape.

As far as where he is trapped, I think that is Jack’s computer. This is why the face-cam can still glitch without Anti having a physical form. He’s manipulating the camera itself.

October 17

Title: BE THE BAT! | Batman Arkham VR

The whiteboard behind Jack says “I’M HERE.”

October 18

Title: SOMETHING INSIDE | Five Night at Freddy’s Sister Location #3

At 5:26, the glitch has Anti saying “I am near.” There is also multiple glitches that include Anti laughing.

In the description there is “I see you understand now, keep watching” and a keyword is “stronger.”

Anti has learned that we will still watch, even if it hurts Jack, because we are curious. This following has made him stronger.

Also in the description, there is a link to a video.

Title: SOON

In this video, there is general static, creepy music, and children laughing. Text that says “I’M HERE” shows up. The description says “Very good, you may be worthy” and Jack also left a comment that says “I’m glad I have your attention now.”

Anti now has the strength to make entire videos. He doesn’t have a physical form yet, but he is able to all of this from within in a computer. He has figured out how far we go for clues, and is taking full advantage of that.

The next video of the 18th also includes a small appearance.

Title: Temple of No!

At 11:10 Jack says “We all know about Anti don’t we?” and there is a slight glitch. This is important because it is a direct acknowledgment of Anti.

October 19

Tile: TOO MUCH WEIRD | Accounting (HTC Vive video)

Whiteboard reads “SOON.”

Title: PLEASE DON’T KILL ME | Hello Neighbor #2

9:45, the game glitches and then crashes, and Anti is seen in the face-cam.

The way Jack reacts to Anti messing with him is important. He almost pointedly ignores it/plays it off.

October 22

Title: MERGED TOGETHER | Five Night at Freddy’s Sister Location # 4

At 1:19, Jack complains that his eye is itching. This is the first time that Anti influences Jack’s body.

7:32, Anti says “I’m here.”

10:06, intense glitching, and then Jack slumps in his chair.

The end clip is Jack saying “I don’t feel so good.”

Description says “We are merged together now as one in Five Nights at Freddy’s Sister Location” and at the bottom it says “It’s almost time, I grow stronger.”

Jack becoming sick/weak happens after Anti says “I’m here.” This is implies that Anti has “merged together” with Jack, and is presenting as a virus.

Keywords, which were added in 2017, are “The doctor” and “can’t save.”

October 24

Title: SWIMMING IN POOP | Pipe Job (HTC Vive)

The end clip has Jack super close the the camera saying “Hi there, my name’s Jack” with a glitch after.

This glitch and the slight laugh he does suggests that this is Anti imitating Jack. Almost like he’s getting used to piloting his body.

October 26

Title: MEET THE YANGS | Guts and Glory #5

6:57, Jack coughs and there is a slight glitch. This suggests that Anti was the one to make Jack cough. He is making him sick.

October 28

Title: ALONE AND AFRAID | Layers of Fear #1

22:08, Anti laughs, and Jack acknowledges it. He says “The hell was that weird sound? Just came from my gully hole.” Again, he is pointedly ignoring Anti. He doesn’t say talk about it beyond this. More importantly, Anti is laughing through Jack.

The description says “It’s time to say goodbye” which emphasizes that Anti is taking over Jack’s body.

October 29

Title: SORE FROM LAUGHING | Stuntfest #2

2:19, there is a glitch when Jack coughs. Again, Anti is presenting as a virus.

So why is Anti presenting as a virus? Well, if he is a demon, then he is “possessing” Jack’s body. I think that the way he takes over his body is systematic. He takes over the immune system first so Jack is weaker and can’t fight back. Then he takes over the nervous system, which we will see in the following pieces of evidence. Simultaneously, he is a virus in Jack’s computer. He corrupts camera footage, crashes games, and screws up text.

October 30

Title: SCARIER THAN IT LOOKS | The Cubicle (HTC Vive)

White board says “DON’T WATCH.” This is generally out of character for Anti, who gains power from a following. So is it Anti who wrote this? While many people think it was Jack, I think it was Anti. He’s testing us and mocking us. He wants to see if we follow everything he says, or if we’re just curious enough to want to see what happens next. He knows that we are powerless.

3:47, Anti appears standing behind Jack. This is not an actual physical form. Instead, Anti is glitching the camera footage to make himself appear to be there. However, it is still significant that we see a full shot of what Anti looks like. He sees himself as a version of Jack.

7:24, the screen goes black and we hear “1, 2, Anti’s coming for you” and reversed audio of “and he’s dead.” This is Anti mocking us again, because he knows that we will continue to watch, even as Jack dies.

In the end clip, Anti stands in front of the camera saying “I have come” and when it switches back to normal, Jack looks genuinely scared and says “I could have sworn I just heard something.” Jack is really starting to notice that something is amiss.

The description says “Tomorrow ends him.”

Title: THE SIGNS ARE THERE | Layers of Fear #2

13:03, Jack talks about foreshadowing, and Anti glitches in to wink at us. Not a whole lot of significance, just one of the communities favorite gifs. ;)

The description says “It’s almost time.”

October 31

Title: SAY GOODBYE

Because there are so many glitches in this video, and because Anti is in a good chunk of it, I will only be discussing the parts that I find the most important.

4:21, Jack comments that the smell of the pumpkin isn’t making him feel good. There is intense glitching, and his nose starts bleeding. This is Anti affecting his immune/respiratory system. When he appears on screen after Jack leaves, that is him glitching the camera.

6:34, this glitch includes Jack twitching/yelling. It also has Anti reaching out and touching Jack. This is both aspects of Anti’s power shown at once. He is affecting Jack’s nervous system (rather severely), and the camera.

8:28, Jack hears banging/walking around in his apartment and walks off screen to investigate. Anti glitches himself in. The auditory allusion for Jack is Anti messing with his head, and for us it’s Anti messing with the audio.

10:37 starts Anti’s first major appearance. We all know what happens here, but my explanation is that Anti gained full control of Jack’s nervous system.

During this appearance we hear Jack say “help me” which means he is still alive, but is unable to escape and defeat Anti. Anti tells us “you could have stopped me, but you just watched as this happened.”

In the description it says “you wanted me so here I am.”

We all watched this video despite the warnings we were given, and Anti grew stronger because of this.

In the keywords, which were added in 2017, it says “I’m back” and “good puppet.”

To summarize 2016, Anti was brought into existence by the community. He grew stronger through that following. He infected Jack’s computer, then Jack himself. He presents as a virus because he attacks the immune system first. He eventually took over Jack’s body and trapped Jack in a place where he couldn’t fight back.

2017

January 25

Title: I’M SO SORRY | Detention #2

3:45, face-cam glitches and audio distorts as Jack reads “forgotten, or just too afraid to remember?” In this glitch, Anti is pointing at the camera, like he is accusing us.

The description says “forgotten, or just too afraid to remember.”

This phrase suggests that Jack has suppressed the events in October 2016.

February 4

Title: BROKEN INSIDE | Detention #3

There are two glitches in this video, but, more importantly, the description says “broken spirit, let me out” and one of the keywords is “antisepticeye.”

The fact that the description is in zalgo, and that a keyword is antisepticeye leads me to believe that Jack somehow found a temporary way to suppress Anti. This angered Anti, and he now wants to be let out again. Remember, all he has to do to get more strength is gain a following.

February 16

Title: BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS | Detention #4

The title itself is again pointing a finger at us for Jack’s defeat.

27:49, as Jack reads “memories are like a mirror, reflecting the true likeness of your soul” there are glitches and audio distortion. This is more of Anti blaming us and mocking us.

28:01, Jack reads “maybe you still want to forget, maybe you’re still afraid” in his Anti voice. Anti knows that he scared us and that we underestimated him.

The description reads “betrayal neglect mistake.” This can be taken as Anti saying we betrayed Jack by making the mistake of neglecting him. By neglecting him and paying attention to Anti, we gave Anti more power.

A keyword is “antisepticeye” again.

March 8

Title: ALWAYS WATCHING

At Jack’s Pax East panel, he played a video before he went on stage. As we all know, Anti appeared in this. Here are the things that I found important.

@broadway-of-life deciphered the beginning audio that was spliced together from previous videos as “Haha. Jack is dead. You’re too late.” I think Anti is bluffing. However, he did take over Jack’s body again.

“I’ve been here this entire time, keeping an eye on things.” This is significant because it confirms that Anti was never truly defeated, he was at least lurking in the background.

After Anti says “I’m always there, always watching” you can hear Jack say “help me” very faintly.

The description of the actual video says “you thought I was gone. Tried to replace me. I’m always here.” By “replace” he means that we tried to go back to Jack.

April 11

Title: The Jacksepticeye Power Hour - Chase Brody

This is Chase’s first appearance. In this video we learn that his wife, Stacy, left him, and that he has two kids.

June 12

Title: SPREADING THE SICKNESS | Epidemic

8:40, when Jack says “laughter is the best medicine for death” there is a glitch and Anti’s laughter.

June 24

Title: TRUST ME, I’M A DOCTOR | Bio Inc. Redemption #4

In the keywords, “cracks.”

July 31

Title: TOUGHER THAN EXPECTED | The Escapists 2 #2

Description says “need a doctor?”

August 3

Title: KILL JACKSEPTICEYE | Bio Inc Redemption

This video has the most individual glitches, so I will again only analyze the important parts.

0:36, Jack gets sick and runs off screen. Dr. Schneeplestein takes over the video. This confirms that Shneep knows who Jack is.

2:57, Schneep says that Jack has mood swings where he’s like “a completely different person.” This suggests that Anti and Jack inhabit the same body, and they alternate control.

4:20 (HA), Schneep confirms that he saved Chase’s life after his suicide attempt.

6:51, Schneep says that he ALMOST lost Jack once before. This further confirms that Anti didn’t actually kill Jack.

7:14, Schneep’s voice distorts as he says “system failure” and at 7:26 he says “once one goes down, they all go down.” This is more evidence for my theory that Anti takes over bodies systematically.

8:05, Schneep begins to acknowledge Anti’s existence. This makes him the most knowledgeable ego so far.

8:42, Anti’s appearance begins.

Anti says “they all follow me” and “we’ve always been in control.” This is basically Anti stating that he has control of all of the egos, and that he can get them to do whatever he wants. Furthermore, he calls them “my puppets.”

The description says “so concerned for your little boy, pay attention next time, who’s next?” and the keywords include the following “save him, virus, no, puppets, no strings on me.”

October 31

Title: The Jacksepticeye Power Hour - Jameson Jackson

This is JJ’s first appearance. However, the end of the video features an appearance from Anti. I actually do not believe JJ was ever good. He’s separate from Anti, but he was created by Anti.

Text appears during Anti’s appearance that says “still here, still watching, puppets, watching, smile” and JJ rips off his mustache while smiling.

November 22

Title: MEMORIES OF UNDERTALE | Heartbound

It is important to note that this is not an official appearance, but the audio distortion while Jack reads lines is really important. Here are the stand outs.

“I was like you once.”

“He’s not coming back. You did this.”

“What kind of person are you?” The original line is “What kind of person you are,” but Jack’s audio is glitched.

“You can’t stop me.”

“You’ll get your chance.”

December 17-18

Title: Overnight Watch

So this is one of the biggest events ever. I do not have a video of the full night, and therefore I cannot analyze it properly. If you have a video like this, please send it to me so I can update this section.

2018

May 4

Title: THE DOCTOR IS BACK | Gastric Bypass, Liposuction Surgery

18:56, Schneep bursts into the room and Jack says “Who are you?” This tells us that Jack doesn’t know who Schneep is, even though he saved Jack’s life.

May 5

Title: WATCH THIS WITH THE LIGHTS OFF | Stories Untold Chapter 1

“You are entering a realm that is unusual.” (See May 14)

22:06, Jack’s door opens behind him and he glitches into the TV.

May 6

Title: Barry Has A Secret

12:36, a first person sequence where Jack (or maybe Anti) catches us and presumably attacks us. My vote is that this is Anti catching us snooping. And we weren’t supposed to know that he’s back yet.

Title: THEY ARE LISTENING | Stories Untold Chapter 2

“This door leads to a place unknown to you before.” (See May 14)

30:29, floating cameras that look like eyes are watching the camera.

May 7

Title: THEY’RE HERE | Stories Untold Chapter 3

“You take a picture of a man. When you check the film, you realize the man is not in the picture.”

40:58, we hear “Jack. Jack. This is Chase. You need to wake up.” There is also morse code that translates to “where am I?” Obviously, Jack has been defeated once again by Anti. This happened during KJSE. However, Jack is unaware of his defeat this time.

May 8

Title: IT WAS ALL CONNECTED! | Stories Untold Chapter 4

“You see a man in front of you. This man looks strange, not like any man you have seen before. Suddenly, you realize you were looking in a mirror.” (See May 14)

45:07, Jack wakes up from a nightmare and says “I remember what he did to me.” This means that he either woke up from his coma, or just remembered what happened and is dreaming about it.

May 9

Title: Try to Fall Asleep!

3:33, Marvin is seen in the TV static.

11:15, Marvin is in the static.

11:20, “Jack you have to” in static. This statement mimics Chase’s from Stories Untold Chapter 3. 

11:42, Jack’s lighting turns red.

16:41, JJ in static after Jack says “can a doctor revive me?” This is JJ mocking Jack.

17:34, Marvin in static. These appearances are Marvin attempting to get through to Jack.

May 11

Title: TIE - A Game About Depression

In this video, the most important thing is that Chase confirms the fact that Jack is currently in a coma. 

“Foreshadowing” is a keyword. Not sure what to do with this. It could just relate to the game.

May 14

Title: Dark Silence

“You are entering a realm which is unusual” Chase is seen walking through hallways, confused and lost. There are lots of strange sounds.

“This door leads to a place unknown to you before” Chase obviously doesn’t know where he is.

“You see a man in front of you. This man looks strange, not like any man you have seen before. Suddenly, you realize you were looking in a mirror“ Chase sees Anti at the end of a hallway. He doesn’t know who he is, and is confused when Anti turns around. Chase sees himself at the end of the hallway. We know that it is Anti in Jack’s body, but Chase doesn’t.

In this sequence, we hear children crying and screaming. When Chase see’s Anti, he asks “Where are they? What do you want from me?”

At this point, we do not know the status of Chase’s kids. It is easy to assume that Anti took them.

The video ends with Anti running at Chase.

May 16

Title: EXPLORING AN ABANDONED HOSPITAL | Exiles

Jack wakes up confused and playing a game about being in a hospital. 

14:30, Jack’s eyes are bleeding and there’s whispering that is repeating “it’s all your fault, you did this.”

This video is Jack waking up after Chase’s disappearance. Anti comes after him again.

May 22

Title: I AM SO CREEPED OUT BY THIS! | First Winter

Two glitches with Jack bleeding out of his eyes.

26:02, there is a glitch as Jack says “let me out.” This is Jack asking to be let out again.

(Note: I am skipping Akinator and Transference. I do not find them important)

October 14

Title: 3 SCARY GAMES, 1 VIDEO #7

30:43, face-cam glitch and audio distortion as Jack says “time to take off the masks.”

Anti is tired of “playing pretend.”

October 22

Title: THIS GAME SCARED THE **** OUT OF ME | Watson-Scott Test #1

The end clip has Jack asking “are you playing a game right now?” In my opinion, this is Anti. He’s asking us if this is all a game to us, if we take him seriously or not.

December 1

Title: TIME IS BROKEN | Umfend

The title itself references a twitter bio of Jack’s on Halloween 2017 (JJ’s appearance).

End clip, Anti asks “do you remember?” Accompanied by a glitch. He’s mocking us once again.

December 16

Title: QUIT THE GAME TO WIN

Anti stares at the camera and comes off as unsettling and creepy with out a single glitch. His eye twitches in FUCKING MORSE CODE that says “Anti.” 

The end of the video has Anti saying “you passed the test, now let’s move onto the next phase” which tells us that Anti is toying with us again. He’s testing us further, because he already knows so much about us.

December 18

Title: Take Your Eyes Off The Screen

The title was originally “Simulacra Pipe Dreams.” Anti changed it.

The thumbnail had “2019″ in the corner very faintly. It has since changed.

By giving us a vague date, Anti has made us want him to appear, has made us excited to see him. He’s going to have a lot of power during his next appearance.

#anti theories #long post #I am so sorry for how long this is #antisepticeye #jacksepticeye #jacksepticegos #golly gee

[twentyghosts]

Earlier @fourteenacross wrote this post about our experience of getting to see the dress rehearsal for Rent Live (which I guess turns out to mostly mean that we saw the actual performance of Rent Not-Live) and I wrote this mess of feelings about my 20 year history with Rent the musical as well as the online and IRL community surrounding the musical. I’m depositing it here beneath a cut. (If you’re friends with me on Facebook: it’s the same thing I posted there.)

I've lost count of how many times I've had to awkwardly explain to someone, "I used to be into the musical Rent. No, like….REALLY into it?" Just in case I've never had to explain it to you: I used to be REALLY into the musical Rent. My junior high school chorus sang "Seasons of Love;" I adored it and eventually purchased the 2-disc CD set at Best Buy. I listened to it, oh, let's say 525,600 times. I convinced my mom to take me to see the tour for my 14th birthday. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, a 6-hour drive from our home. I loved it; I spent hours hogging our dialup internet connection to talk about the show with strangers. My friends at school didn't get the obsession. I'm not entirely sure I get the obsession; I was a 14-year-old straight cis white girl from the Midwest hung up on mostly-queer starving artists in New York. (I note this because I know for a lot of Rent fans, part of the excitement was seeing themselves represented in a way that they weren’t often repsented in the media in general/musical theater in specific; I know that wasn’t my situation.) The closest I can come to identifying the source of my obsession might be the line "connection in an isolating age." Loving Rent brought me into a whole community of people who, in some way or another, didn't quite fit in a lot of places. I met new friends waiting overnight in rush ticket lines to see the tour (bless my parents for indulging my quest to sleep outside of every theater in the Midwest; I think my mom in particular understood that something about this was giving me a place to fit in).

But mostly I talked to my Rent friends online. We talked about the musical, our favorite songs and actors and characters, but we also talked about our lives. At first I was one of the younger ones on the boards and mailing lists, and in retrospect I'm pretty sure I was a monster, but I felt so empowered to talk to cool adults who were like, IN COLLEGE and stuff. I learned about their lives and what was possible outside of my rural hometown.

As I got older, I grew apart from Rent. I stopped listening to the cast recording so much, then entirely. I got embarrassed about how obsessed I'd been. I knew the general consensus was that Rent was cheesy and overwrought. Ha ha, yes, of course, Mark and Roger should just get jobs. Benny's just trying to follow his dreams of real estate ownership. Ha, right, what even IS a "season of love"?

Then in 2009, my best friend Megan, who I'd met through Rent--who co-ran a Rent website with me, who waited in Rent lines with me, who had simply the stupidest inside jokes in the world with me….died suddenly. I was devastated, obviously, and for a long time after that, Rent was just ruined for me, simply too emotionally overwhelming on every level. Some department store started using "Seasons of Love" in their commercials and it was like a kick in the face every time I heard even a few seconds of it.

In 2012 I took a trip to New York and decided to go see the Off-Broadway production of Rent. I went by myself and wasn't sure what to expect--I knew the staging was different from what I was familiar with. I honestly don't remember a fucking thing about that production except that I cried for pretty much two hours straight, at varying levels of intensity, from the very first opening note through the finale. It was emotionally overwhelming and really just a reboot to my system.

2016 marked the TWENTY YEAR anniversary of Rent, and with it, a new tour. I saw it in 2017 with another dear friend I'd made through Rent fandom. Again: I remember nothing of this experience except crying. Well--and talking to people in the lobby while waiting for lotto to be drawn; other people with very fond memories of having seen Rent years and years ago, people who remembered the message boards and the drama.

Last year, they announced one of the upcoming live TV musicals would be Rent. "That's wild," I thought. Rent was now mainstream enough to be broadcast on network television, like Grease. But hey--I'd watch it.

At the beginning of this year--2019, 10 years (5,256,000 minutes) since Megan died--I saw a posting for an online raffle to win a trip to see the dress rehearsal for Rent Live. I entered it of course, not thinking anything of it.

And then 2 weeks ago I got an apparently legit email--I'd WON this drawing. It didn't seem possible--so many people must have entered, how on earth would I win? (Like: I'm not saying that the ghost/angel of my Rent-obsessed best friend somehow rigged this online contest for me, but I can't prove that she DIDN'T.)

The rules of the contest didn't allow me to publicly announce it, and I was scared to talk about it anyway because I was not fully convinced that it was real. Still, I asked Kait, one of my other best friends--who I also met because of Rent, twenty years ago, and who remains a hugely integral part of my life to this day--if she'd want to be my guest on this trip, proving it turned out to be real.

It was real. We went. I felt very stressed and uncertain about it all, but on Saturday, January 26th we turned up at Fox Studios and they accepted my paperwork and gave us paper wristbands and made us wait in a long line and eventually? They let us sit down on chairs in a big studio, and some actors performed Rent in that studio. It was an amazing experience; there were 1300 other fans in there with us, all so excited to see this show that must have meant something to us--it wasn't easy to get tickets to be there, everyone there wanted to be there. While we were waiting for the show, all around us we heard people reminiscing about seeing it on Broadway, meeting the cast, hating the movie version.

There were changes made to the script and staging--of course we noticed, of course we all of us had the entire full text of the original show preserved in amber in our brains. For the most part, I didn't mind--most of the changes I thought were good, or at least okay. A few annoyed me but mostly...it was Rent! I cried, of course, the minute the lights went up and Mark began his familiar monologue. Eventually I stopped crying and I laughed and screamed and just enjoyed the songs; enough time had passed that I could experience the show in a new way. It felt like coming home.

(Years on Broadway message boards have made me aware of how unprepared I am to actually discuss theatrical performances; I don't know musical or theatrical terms, I can't tell if things are off-key unless it's very drastic. I am overall a very forgiving audience member; I want to like shows and performers and generally I do, though of course sometimes I have critiques. As I type this it's been a day since Rent "Live"--which turned out to mostly actually be the dress rehearsal that I saw, due to Brennin Hunt's injury--and plenty of people have plenty to say about how low energy it was, how so and so couldn't hit the appropriate notes...and I don't know about any of that. I just know that when I was there, watching it, I felt every moment and fell in love with every character, even though yeah they should totally try to get actual jobs or whatever.)

And then--we'd already known, from the internet, from some of our old Rent friends, that the Original Broadway cast was there that night too. We suspected they'd make an appearance for us; surely they wouldn't be there just to observe. And indeed...after the finale, they bounded out on stage and sang a reprise of "Seasons of Love." If that had happened to me when I was 16, I think I might have literally passed out. I'd listened to them on the cast recording so so many times, but of course they'd all left the show by 1999, when I got into Rent. (I've been lucky enough to see original actors in other projects since then, but not Rent.) Seeing them, hearing them...honestly I felt like I had full-on Beatlemania, I was literally shaking. I couldn't believe I was so lucky to see that and hear that and feel that.

And then the next day, I got home from LA in time to watch 2/3 of the show on TV. I livetweeted it and chatted in a group chat with a bunch of my Rent friends, people from all around the country. And that's what Rent is about, really--it's about the power and importance of community, and I'm so grateful to be a part of this one. #CompulsiveBowlers #FriendshipIsThickerThanBlood #NDBT

Anyway that's why I was in LA last weekend.

#dumb stuff i make up #my emotions

[kaialone]

Yokai Watch News: Forever Friends

Doing my monthly summary of recent Yokai Watch news once again.

Like always, information is taken from various website updates and Corocoro, and translated by me.

Beware of spoilers, naturally!

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We got news about:

5th Yokai Watch Movie - Forever Friends

Merchandise (showing off some new characters, too)

A bit of Puni Puni and World

Like with the past few times, I’ll only show information from Corocoro if it’s not shown anywhere else.

And due to time reasons, I won’t be doing full translations for everything, especially if it’s just repeated information that I already covered.

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Yokai Watch Movie 5 News:

The official website for the movie has gotten some updates again.

I’ll go over the minor ones first.

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The main page got this new cover image that we had previously seen in Corocoro:

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The general information page now also uses this image as a background for the “story” section, but the text seems unchanged.

It also has an added bit about Enma in this movie, among other things, but it doesn’t have any new information in there.

One thing of note is that the added cast list finally seems to confirm the name of this Whisper-like character:

Previously, it was unclear if he is supposed to be Whisper or not, since it was hard to understand him when he said his name. But now it seems confirmed that his name is 臼田さん/Usuda-san, so he’s probably not Whisper.

(Which makes sense, considering Whisper should be sealed up around this time.)

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The character page had some characters added, but no new information about them.

They did fix the apparent typo in Itsuki’s bio, so he’s no longer called a “yokai” here. Seems like it really was a mistake after all. I mentioned that typo in this post here, back in July.

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The design contest page now shows all winning entries. Note that, as far as I know, this information especially isn’t documented forever on these pages, so back it up if you’re interested.

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Now, onto the actual news page of the site.

There’s been a comment by TVXQ, the band behind the movie’s main song 大好きだった/Daisukidatta (”I loved you”) . But it doesn’t really have any notable information in it, so I won’t cover it unless I see people who really want me too.

Same with the short interview videos that Corocoro’s youtube channel did with Chiemi Blouson and Shun Oguri, which you can see here and here.

They all talk about the basic points of “this movie is about friendship”, and “please watch it with your parents”, which is nice, but something they went over before, like these comments from last month.

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Actual news is this section, where they introduce ”Yasha Enma”, a character that was name-dropped before, but we hadn’t fully seen him yet.

(Check out this post about the news from last month if you want to know the context of that.)

Here’s what they say about him:

"Yasha Enma", the ultimate king who controls fire and ice, unveiled!

The "Great King Enma" is a super popular character of the Yokai Watch series. His ultimate form, "Yasha Enma" which no one has ever seen yet, will appear in this work!! Wielding the strongest weapon, the "En Ma Rod" (1), and using the "Dragon of Ice" and "Dragon of Fire", he displays power like that of a fierce deity! Will fierce fights unfold at the "Enma Butōkai" where the next Great King Enma will be chosen?! Please look forward to the battles of the coolest Great King Enma to date!!

"Yasha Enma" Enma, bearing the name of fierce deities that appear in mythology, the "Yaksha" (2). In his hand, the strongest weapon, the En Ma Rod. He won't just appear in his regular form, but also forms in which he controls the "Dragon of Ice" and the "Dragon of Fire".

Notes:

I had previously translated the name of his weapon 炎魔棍/Enmakon as “Enma Rod”, but I decided to spell it as “En Ma Rod” now, to make it more clear that it’s not spelled the same as the name “Enma”.

“Yasha” is the Japanese spelling of “Yaksha”. I use the Japanese spelling for his name, since we also spell “Enma” like in Japanese, rather than calling him “Yama”.

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Corocoro has some more information on Yasha Enma that the website hasn’t covered yet. So I will go over those next.

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Corocoro introduces Yasha Enma with this two-page spread:

(image source)

In addition to his regular form, it also shows the two other forms that the website only hinted at.

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悪の妖怪と戦うシンとイツキたちは妖魔界へ行き、 次の閻魔大王を決める 「エンマ武闘会」に出場。 そこで夜叉エンマと出会うのか！？ Fighting evil yokai, Shin, Itsuki, and the others participe in the"Enma Butōkai" where the next Great King Enma will be chosen. Will they encounter Yasha Enma there?!

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夜叉エンマ 最強の武器・炎魔棍をあやつる。 右目に特別な力を秘めている！？ Yasha Enma He wields the En Ma Rod, the strongest weapon. There's a special power hidden in his right eye!?

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羅雪 氷の龍を宿し、 すさまじい冷気を発する！！ Rasetsu Harboring the dragon of ice, he emits terrible cold!!

絢爛・羅雪!! Shine brightly, Rasetsu!!

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紅華 炎の龍を宿し、 紅蓮の業火を巻きおこす！！ Benibana Harboring the dragon of fire, he creates crimson fireworks!!

乱舞・紅華 Dance wildly, Benibana!!

Note that last month, I had mistakenly romanized “Benibana“ as “Kōka”, since it was really hard to read the furigana for the names.

It also seems that “Rasetsu” and “Benibana” are supposed to be the names of the two dragons themselves, so it’s a bit confusing about how those names also seem to refer to these two forms of Yasha Enma.

Notably, the merchandise I’ll go over in the next segment seems to call the forms “Yasha Enma Rasetsu” and “Yasha Enma Benibana” instead.

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Yokai Watch Merchandise News:

Boys Toy Web has added two new Yokai Watch items to their list.

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First we have the “Yōseiken Series 04: DX Ashura Goen-maru Yōseiken & Yōkai Ark Set”.

In other words, the 4th Yōseiken toy, and as always it comes with a special Yokai Ark.

The Yōseiken in question is of course the Ashura Goen-maru, which has actually been in the Shadowside anime for a long time, where it’s wielded by Dōketsu.

For a while it’s been unclear if Dōketsu was its Kenbumajin, but now it seems that he is not, and that it’s actually Ashura (Asura).

The special Yokai Ark that comes with it is an Extreme Rare-ranked one of “Sekka no Fubuki-hime”, following the trend of these bonus Arks seemingly always being a special form of a yokai who debuted in the original series.

This set will be released in December.

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Next is the “Yōkai Arc Zero ~The Other Side of the Silver Screen” pack.

This is a special Yokai Ark booster pack related to the upcoming movie.

As always, each pack has 1 random Ark in it. There’ll be 13 Arks included in this series:

We got 3 Ultimate Rare ranks: Nekomata, Kappa, and Zashiki-warashi.

This time around, their backsides feature their Godside forms: Cat King Bastet, Kappa King Sagojō, and Tengu King Kurama.

Then there’s 4 Extreme Rare ranks: Yasha Enma Benibana, Yasha Enma Rasetsu, Shien, and one that’s secret.

We got 2 Rare ranks: Kukuri-hime and Karasu-tengu.

Karasu-tengu was seen in the most recent trailer, but I don’t think Kukuri-hime has been shown before. She is presumably based on the mythological Kukurihime, but her name is spelled differently.

And 3 Normal ranks: Yamata no Orochi, Tamamo no Mae, and Yamambā.

Interestingly, Tamamo no Mae is just referred to as “Tamamo” in her Lightside form here.

Yamata no Orochi is a legendary dragon, whom Orochi/Venoct seemed to be slightly based on, but we had never seen the real deal in Yokai Watch. Yamambā is one of the names of the yokai Yama-uba.

Curious that these guys are all Normal-ranked, Tamamo no Mae especially seems like she should be more special, right?

This booster pack will also come out in December.

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Corocoro has also shown off a black Yokai Ark of Yasha Enma, and announced that they will be giving away 10000 of them in their January issue.

I think, because of how the issue naming works with this magazine, that might actually be the issue that comes out in December, but I am not sure.

Corocoro mascot/employee “Kaa-kun” made this tweet, showing off the Ark in question:

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With the three Yasha Enma Arks, and the Ark of Shien, we’ve been shown a new tribe symbol, resembling a sun:

It seems reasonable to assume that this symbol could possibly represent the Enma Tribe, but it doesn’t seem to have been confirmed as of me writing this.

But it is reminiscent of the moon-like symbol of the Izana Tribe that Kaira belongs to:

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And lastly, Yoroz Mart is going to release plush toys of Junior, Nekomata, and Yasha Enma in December, as seen in this tweet.

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Yokai Watch Mobile Games News:

This is just going to be really minor, but I wanted to go over it in some form regardless.

Corocoro revealed that the Great King Enma, in his original, young form that first showed up Blasters, will be added to Yokai Watch World soon.

And, you have probably heard of it already, But Yokai Watch Puni Puni is currently having a crossover with Dissida Final Fantasy, adding many characters originally from the Final Fantasy franchise as puni.

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The offical Level-5 youtube channel has also re-uploaded their trailer for the mobile game “Yokai Daijiten”, which you can see here.

Though they still haven’t added a proper release date for it, in fact, it only seems to say “release date to be determined” now.

In case you don’t know, this game was first announced back in 2016, I believe, alongside a smartphone version of the first Yokai Watch game.

If I recall correctly, they were scheduled to be released in 2016, but when that year came and went, the release date was updated to 2017, and now, as 2018 draws to a close, many people thought they got cancelled, but this re-upload implies that Daijiten is still being worked on in some form.

The official website for Yokai Watch 1 for smartphone says that it will be released in 2019 now, but I haven’t seen anyhting else from it.

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And that’s it for the general Yokai Watch news in November of 2018.

As always, I hope you’ve found this to be interesting and/or helpful!

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#yokai watch #youkai watch #yo kai watch #yokai watch movie 5 #yokai watch forever friends #yokai watch news #corocoro leaks #yokai watch translations

[loginload815]

Motion 4 For Mac

MotionDeveloper(s)Apple Inc.Stable release

5.4.6 / August 25, 2020; 2 months ago(1)

Operating systemmacOS 10.14.6 or laterSize2.3 GBTypeCompositing/Visual Effects/AnimationLicenseProprietaryWebsiteApple: Motion

Motion is a software application produced by Apple Inc. for their macOSoperating system. It is used to create and edit motion graphics, titling for video production and film production, and 2D and 3D compositing for visual effects.

History(edit)

Mac Motion Chairs With over 35 years of experience in the Home Furnishings Industry and several successful motion seating inventions, Mac Motion Chairs ensures quality comfort and style. With a focus on providing an innovative seating experience to North America, Mac creates European inspired designs. This is the reason that the industry still. Carbide Motion is the machine controller software for all of our Carbide 3D machines. Get Carbide Motion Here. Carbide Create is our 2D CAD/CAM program designed specifically for Carbide 3D machines. Get Carbide Create Here. If you need to download MeshCAM, click here. Carbide Motion V3. Carbide Motion V3 for OS X 10.8. Www.StanislawRobertLuberda.com Free tutorials, Professional Training. In this free tutorial- you will learn a general overview on how Apple Motion works to c.

The original product, codenamed 'Molokini,' was previewed at a NAB event on April 19, 2004.

Version 1.0 was made available on August 11, 2004.(2)

At a pre-NAB event in April 2005, Apple released Motion 2 along with new revisions of the other Pro applications, optimised for the Power Mac G5 and Mac OS X 10.4.Features introduced in Motion 2:(3)

32-bit Rendering

Replicators

New filters

MIDI behavior

After Effects integration

In January 2006 Apple stopped selling Motion as a stand-alone product. Introduced at NAB in Las Vegas on April 15, 2007, Motion 3 was included as part of the Final Cut Studio 2 suite.Features introduced in Motion 3:(4)

3D multiplane environment - 2.5D compositing

3D text behaviors

Vector-based paint strokes

Point tracking and match moving

Image stabilization and SmoothCam

Synchronized Audio behavior

Dynamic retiming behaviors

Advanced Keyframe Editor - keyframe pen tool, transform box

Final Cut Pro integration - Motion 3 master templates

Motion 4 was introduced on July 23, 2009.(5)New features included:(6)

Motion 4 For Macbook Pro

3D Shadows

3D Reflections

Depth of Field

Credit Rolls

Adjust Glyph tool

Parameter Link behavior

Camera framing

Improved Sequence Text behavior, plus new presets

New text generators

New graphics generators

New filters

Multi-touch gesture support

ProRes 4444 support

Background export

Motion 5 was introduced on June 21, 2011.(7) It is available through the Mac App Store at a reduced price of $49.99. Motion 5 is now sold as a stand-alone product.New features:

Final Cut Pro X plugin generation

Parameter rigs

New keyer

64-bit architecture

Motion 5.2 was released on April 13, 2015.New features:(8)

3D text

New generators

Improved shapes

Improved keyframing

Motion 5.3 was released on October 27, 2016.(9)

Wide colour

Improved Link parameter behavior

New Align To behavior

Improved 3D text

Motion 5.4 was released on December 14, 2017 with new features:(10)

360 VR motion graphics support

The ability to switch a current Motion document to be a Motion project, Final Cut Pro generator, Final Cut Pro title, Final Cut Pro effect, or Final Cut Pro transition

New Overshoot animation behavior

New filters for different photographic looks

Import, playback, and editing of HEVC video clips and HEIF photos.

Faster optical flow analysis

Motion 5.4.1 was released on April 9, 2018.(11)New feature:

ProRes RAW

Bug fixes

Motion 5.4.2 was released on November 15, 2018.New features:(12)

Advanced color grading

Comic filter

Tiny Planet filter - for displaying 360° spherical video in non-360° projects

Bug fixes - including use of Core Text engine for improved display of non-roman text

Motion 5.4.3 was released on March 21, 2019.New feature:(13)

Post-macOS Mojave media compatibility checker

See also a release history in context with the rest of Final Cut Studio.

Market position(edit)

Motion is a motion graphics and compositing application similar in some ways to After Effects and Nuke. With version 3, Apple added 3D compositing, vector paint, and motion tracking to Motion's toolbox. This added power, plus the GPU accelerated nature of Motion, allows it to be seen as an alternative to those packages for titling and simple animation projects.

Features(edit)

Features of Motion include the ability to create custom particle effects (as well as using pre-built ones) and to add filters, effects and animations in real time. Motion has the ability to address up to 32 GB of RAM and GPU acceleration at 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit float color depths. Motion 2 can also integrate with a MIDI keyboard, so that parameters can be controlled by keys or faders; this opens up the possibility of real time parameter input into Motion. In addition Motion 3 now allows for complete 2D and 3D compositing in a multiplane environment.

Behaviors(edit)

As well as supporting traditional keyframe animation, Motion introduced a system of pre-set 'behaviors' which can be combined to create realistic animations. For instance, the 'throw' behaviour will move an object across the screen. Combined with the 'gravity' behavior, it will simulate a realistic arc of motion. The effects can be tweaked utilizing various parameters, varying the strength of the bounces, the amount of gravity to apply and so on.

This is very different from traditional animation software, which requires the use of keyframes to determine the position of an object at any given time. Such software then automatically creates motion to fill the spaces between the keyframes. This makes it easy to know exactly where objects are on the screen at any given time, but it is considerably more difficult to create realistic animations that build up on different, conflicting forces.

The Replicator and Particle Emitters(edit)

In Version 2 a new 'replicator' function was introduced, which allows an object to be replicated to create a repeating pattern of a specified size and shape. With this tool, it is possible to create animations in which the elements of a replicated pattern move in sequence.

'Particle emitters' allow the user to set a pre-drawn shape to rapidly generate copies of itself and emit them across the screen. The direction and intensity can be adjusted, and combined with behaviors to create very complex animations quickly and easily. For example, a particle emitter used in conjunction with a star shape and the 'vortex' behaviour would animate a circle of swirling stars.

The H.U.D.(edit)

Motion features a floating semi-transparent window ('heads-up display', or HUD) which displays the most commonly altered parameters of the object or effect currently selected. This allows the user to make quick adjustments without having to search through palettes and menus. However, exact numerical values cannot be entered in this window. For more precise editing, consult the Inspector window.

Tools(edit)

Motion has the following tools available for the creation or manipulation of graphics on the canvas:

Anchor point - each object has an 'anchor point' that acts as the centre of rotation or enlargement.

Four Corner, which changes the perspective of objects.

Bézier curve adjustment

Rectangle, ellipse, Bézier curve and B-spline creation tools.

The text tool.

Rectangle, ellipse, Bézier and B-spline masking tools (which define the part of an object that is visible).

These tools can be accessed from the toolbar at the top of the screen or with keyboard commands.

Recording(edit)

Recording is used for adjusting an object over a specific amount of time by placing and manipulating keyframes. The recording button is a red dot button adjacent to the play/pause features. When the button is selected, it lights up red and the dot turns white. Any adjustments made when the button is selected are saved as keyframes. Keyframes act as placeholders that solidify an object's characteristics at a single frame (anything from position and rotation to cropping and size). Using multiple recordings, an object shall reorient itself between the two keyframes to match each set characteristics. Recording can act as an alternative to movement behaviors that allow more in-depth adjustments.

How Motion works(edit)

Motion uses pixel shaders which move the processing of video effects to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) of a modern graphics card. Motion is also compatible with Apple's Core Image technology, allowing one to use the Image Units that come standard with Mac OS X Tiger. Like pixel shaders, Core Image 'stacks' various effects, allowing a number of effects to be combined together without slow-down. A faster graphics card improves performance. Motion is also the first Pro App to introduce FxPlug Apple's plug-in architecture that allows for GPU acceleration.

In Motion, users import their own graphics files and use pre-prepared graphics such as text and shapes. Objects can be grouped into layers, but they always retain their own distinct identity. These various parts are then grouped into a single layer. Selecting that layer permits moving all of the objects as a single body..

Similar products(edit)

Nuke – The Foundry

Combustion, Toxik and Smoke – Autodesk

Fusion – Blackmagic Design

Boris RED – Boris FX

While not dedicated to compositing, the open source software Blender contains a limited node-based compositing feature which, among other things is capable of basic keying and blurring effects.(14)

References(edit)

Wiggins, P. (August 2004). Motion 1. First review of Motion'.(1)

Lindsay, A. (November 2004). Motion. DV, 12, 54 – 58.(2)

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Dragon NaturallySpeakingDeveloper(s)Nuance CommunicationsInitial releaseJune 1997; 23 years agoStable release

15 / September 2016; 4 years ago

Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, macOSAvailable in8 languagesTypeSpeech recognitionLicenseProprietaryWebsitewww.nuance.com

Dragon NaturallySpeaking (also known as Dragon for PC, or DNS)(1) is a speech recognition software package developed by Dragon Systems of Newton, Massachusetts, which was acquired first by Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products and later by Nuance Communications. It runs on Windowspersonal computers. Version 15 (Professional Individual and Legal Individual),(2) which supports 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, 8 and 10, was released in August 2016.(3)(4) The macOS version is called Dragon Professional Individual for Mac, version 6(5) or Dragon for Mac.

Features(edit)

Dragon NaturallySpeaking uses a minimal user interface. As an example, dictated words appear in a floating tooltip as they are spoken (though there is an option to suppress this display to increase speed), and when the speaker pauses, the program transcribes the words into the active window at the location of the cursor. (Dragon does not support dictating to background windows.) The software has three primary areas of functionality: voice recognition in dictation with speech transcribed as written text, recognition of spoken commands, and text-to-speech: speaking text content of a document. Voice profiles can be accessed by different computers in a networked environment, although the audio hardware and configuration must be identical to those of the machine generating the configuration. The Professional version allows creation of custom commands to control programs or functions not built into NaturallySpeaking.

History(edit)

Dr. James Baker laid out the description of a speech understanding system called DRAGON in 1975.(6) In 1982 he and Dr. Janet M. Baker, his wife, founded Dragon Systems to release products centered around their voice recognition prototype.(7) He was President of the company and she was CEO.

DragonDictate was first released for DOS, and utilized hidden Markov models, a probabilistic method for temporal pattern recognition. At the time, the hardware was not powerful enough to address the problem of word segmentation, and DragonDictate was unable to determine the boundaries of words during continuous speech input. Users were forced to enunciate one word at a time, clearly separated by a small pause after each word. DragonDictate was based on a trigram model, and is known as a discrete utterance speech recognition engine.(8)

Dragon Systems released NaturallySpeaking 1.0 as their first continuous dictation product in 1997.(9)

Joel Gould was the director of emerging technologies at Dragon Systems. Gould was the principal architect and lead engineer for the development of Dragon NaturallyOrganized (1.0), Dragon NaturallySpeaking Mobile Organizer (3.52), Dragon NaturallySpeaking (1.0 through 2.02), and DragonDictate for Windows (1.0). Gould also designed the tutorials in both DragonDictate for DOS version 2.0 and Dragon Talk.(citation needed)

The company was then purchased in June 2000 by Lernout & Hauspie, a Belgium-based corporation that was subsequently found to have been perpetrating financial fraud.(10) Following the all-share deal advised by Goldman Sachs, Lernout & Hauspie declared bankruptcy in November 2000. The deal was not originally supposed to be all stock and the unavailability of the Goldman Sachs team to advise concerning the change in terms was one of the grounds of the Bakers' subsequent lawsuit. The Bakers had received stock worth hundreds of millions of US dollars, but were only able to sell a few million dollars' worth before the stock lost all its value as a result of the accounting fraud. The Bakers sued Goldman Sachs for negligence, intentional misrepresentation and breach of fiduciary duty, which in January 2013 led to a 23-day trial in Boston. The jury cleared Goldman Sachs of all charges.(11) Following the bankruptcy of Lernout & Hauspie, the rights to the Dragon product line were acquired by ScanSoft of Burlington, Massachusetts, also a Goldman Sachs client. In 2005 ScanSoft launched a de facto acquisition of Nuance Communications, and rebranded itself as Nuance.(12)

As of 2012 LG Smart TVs include voice recognition feature powered by the same speech engine as Dragon NaturallySpeaking.(13)

Versions(edit)

Dragon Naturally Speaking VersionRelease dateEditionsOperating Systems Supported1.0April 1997PersonalWindows 95, NT 4.0.2.0November 1997Standard, Preferred, DeluxeWindows 95, NT 4.03.0October 1998Point & Speak, Standard, Preferred, Professional (with optional Legal and Medical add-on products)Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0.4.0August 4, 1999Essentials, Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical, MobileWindows 95, 98, NT 4.0 SP3+.5.0August 2000Essentials, Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, MedicalWindows 98, Me, NT 4.0 SP6+, 2000.6.0November 15, 2001Essentials, Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical7.0March 2003Essentials, Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, MedicalWindows 98SE, Me, NT4 SP6+, 2000, XP.8.0November 2004Essentials, Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, MedicalWindows Me (Only Standard and Preferred editions), Windows 2000 SP4+, Windows XP SP1+.9.0July 2006Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical, SDK client, SDK server,Windows 2000 SP4+, XP SP1+.9.5January 2007Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, Medical, SDK client, SDK serverWindows 2000 SP4+, XP SP1+, Vista (32-bit).10.0August 7, 2008Essentials, Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, MedicalWindows 2000 SP4+, XP SP2+ (32-bit), Vista (32-bit). Server 2003.10.1March 2009Standard, Preferred, Professional, Legal, MedicalWindows 2000 SP4+, XP SP2+ (32-bit), Vista (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows 7 (32 and 64-bit). Server 2003.11.0August 2010Home, Premium, Professional, LegalWindows XP SP2+ (32-bit), Vista SP1+ (32-bit and 64-bit), 7 (32 and 64-bit). Server 2003, 2008.11.02011SDK client (DSC), SDK server (DSS)Windows XP SP2+ (32-bit only), Vista SP1+ (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows Server 2003 and 2008, SP1, SP2 and R2 (32-bit and 64-bit)11.5June 2011Home, Premium, Professional, LegalWindows XP SP2+ (32-bit), Vista SP1+ (32-bit and 64-bit), 7 (32 and 64-bit). Server 2003, 2008.11.0August 2011Medical (Dragon Medical Practice Edition)Windows XP SP2+ (32-bit), Vista SP1+ (32-bit and 64-bit), 7 (32 and 64-bit). Server 2003, 2008.12.0October 2012Home, Premium, Professional, LegalWindows XP SP3+ (32-bit), Vista SP2+ (32-bit and 64-bit), 7 (32 and 64-bit), 8 (32 and 64-bit). Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012.12.5February 2013Home, Premium, Professional, LegalWindows XP SP3+ (32-bit), Vista SP2+ (32-bit and 64-bit), 7 (32 and 64-bit), 8 (32 and 64-bit). Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012.12June 2013Medical (Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2)Windows XP SP3+ (32-bit), Vista SP2+ (32-bit and 64-bit), 7 (32 and 64-bit), 8 (32 and 64-bit). Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012.13August 2014Home, Premium, Professional, and Legal.7 (32 and 64-bit), 8.1 (32 and 64-bit). Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012. Mac OS X 10.6+ (Intel Processor)13September 2015Medical (UK, French, German) (Dragon Medical Practice Edition 3)7 (32 and 64-bit), 8.1 (32 and 64-bit), 10 (32 and 64-bit). Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012. Mac OS X 10.6+ (Intel Processor)14September 2015Professional (individual, and Group)7 (32 and 64-bit), 8.1 (32 and 64-bit), 10 (32 and 64-bit). Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012. Mac OS X 10.6+ (Intel Processor). Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012.15August 16, 2016Dragon Professional Individual; Dragon Legal Individual; Dragon Professional Individual for Mac (version 6)15May 1, 2017Dragon Professional Group (Languages: English US and German only)15January 22, 2018Dragon Medical Practice Edition 4 (Languages: English US)

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 is available in the following languages: UK English, US English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and Japanese (aka 'Dragon Speech 11' in Japan).

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^Sarnataro, Valerie (2012-11-08). 'Dragon NaturallySpeaking (DNS) 12 Review'. technologyguide.com. Technology Guide. Retrieved 2013-07-25.

^'Nuance Announces Major New Releases of Dragon for Windows and Mac OS X'. Retrieved 2016-08-22.

^'Nuance product support for Microsoft Windows Vista'. Archived from the original on 2009-12-15. Retrieved 2009-12-15.

^'Nuance product support for Microsoft Windows 7'. 2010. Retrieved 16 Aug 2010.

^'Nuance Announces Major New Releases of Dragon for Windows and Mac OS X'. 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-22.

^Baker, James K. (1975). 'The DRAGON System - An Overview'. IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. 23 (1): 24–29. doi:10.1109/TASSP.1975.1162650.

^'History of Speech Recognition and Transcription Software'. Retrieved 2013-07-12.

^'DragonDictate product information'. Retrieved 2010-02-03.

^'Dragon NaturallySpeaking 1.0 released'. Retrieved 2010-02-03.

^'Dragon Systems purchased by Lernout & Hauspie'. New York Times. 2001-05-07. Retrieved 2010-02-03.

^'Goldman Is Cleared Over a Sale Gone Awry'. New York Times. 2013-01-23. Retrieved 2013-01-23.

^'ScanSoft and Nuance to Merge'. 2005-05-09. Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-02-03.

^'Samsung and LG smart TVs share your voice data behind the fine print'. ConsumerReports. 2015-02-09. Retrieved 2016-06-10.

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