Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

I just went off the vasodilator today -- wish me luck that the pulmonary hypertension never returns. :)

I was among the first to use it when it became available in 2013, releasing my new videos in 720p60, the best my dSLRs captured at the time; unfortunately, after ten years it appears they've been resampled or frame-dropped to 30fps, so they'll need a re-release at some point when I'm able.

Or the adjustment/transcoding process, anyway; best to keep masters in original format.

This problem is so widespread that it allowed a relatively early online mass-media use of 60fps to create a *retro* effect combined with letterboxing: that of the music video for "Finesse" by Bruno Mars. By jumping into a 4:3 frame from 24p to 60p, it instantly transported you back to the 90s watching In Living Color on a tube television, and yet also taking advantage of a relatively new feature of YouTube.

It's a shame what a massive proportion of archival video is marred by drop-field deinterlacing. The age of interlaced television captured and presented up to sixty fields of unique motion per second, and yet so much will be preserved in only thirty progressive frames per second, often with half the original vertical resolution. Today, digital bob filter and even motion-compensated interpolation (such as yadif=1) have become computationally trivial steps in the ingest process.

Illness has prevented maintenance on my very low-traffic (single-user?) instance for quite a long time, so I won't take it personally if you need to take countermeasures such as blocking it. I doubt anyone will be joining it to spam you as SSO signup is actually broken. Hopefully I'll be more able to use a computer properly in a few weeks and get things up to date. I wish it wasn't the case but I can still barely sit or stand upright for brief periods to eat.

A friend of mine needs a new animated scene transition for their stream and their prior artist is doing other work now; if anyone I know here is in the business of making them, please reach out!

the absolute wildest shit happens to me, i am a walking medical drama. it's fascinating and exhausting and terrifying! i can't deny i wish i could have normal problems! but i am grateful to be as fortunate as i am, and i am shockingly fortunate

I have returned from the hospital once again, with news! We have no idea wtf my problem was yesterday, and they chalked it up to benzo withdrawal (wrong!), but the right side of my heart is no longer super-sized. This bodes extremely well for my pulmonary arterial hypertension, and offers great hope for an exceedingly rare case of full resolution.

Hey Stampede... How about a poem?

https://peertube.hellsite.net/w/i8VRsfotKgGjsr8cugiik1

LB: Xerox commercial digital presses were already doing this over 15 years ago, when I was still working at a print shop. If you have any vital interest in forensics, you should know by now that most, if not all, modern printers produce documents that are optically traceable at least to the point of sale.

Been through so much in the last year that I see the first gray hair in my beard at age 35 lol

I don't put it on unless I'm prepared, because if I hear even just that opening chord, that's what's happening for the next hour. I recommend it highly but warn anyone that it's a wild trip through some very, very desperately dark places in memory of a clearly beloved friend, and they lost another, their sound designer, just before release. need to put my mind somewhere else now.

Just got surprised with a rendition of the most devastating moments of De-Loused in the Comatorium. RIP Julio and Jeremy. Gonna have to cool down in order to sleep now. whew. I do a pretty good job of forgetting that I have PTSD.

If you're unfamiliar with pulmonary hypertension, read up on it sometime: it's a trip through many fascinating and very important processes in the body -- many of which are only recently discovered, and still pushing the frontiers of medical science -- that everyone should know about!

Excellent news from my pulmonologist: on today's stress test they observed good vascular gas exchange. Repeat echocardiogram next month will verify whether right side cardiac hypertrophy has resolved; if so, we'll repeat right-heart catheterization testing and try discontinuing medication. I am deeply grateful for everyone's support and very hopeful this incredible good fortune will continue and allow me to actually beat this thing ❤️❤️❤️