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ajroach42

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Trying to reshape the future of television.

I write and build stuff.

Est. 1990. (He, Him, Etc.)

http://andrewroach.net

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We must destroy the growth death cult

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I have no intention of advertising on Facebook, but Facebook notified me a few days ago that I was no longer allowed to.

I appealed, curious as to the reason.

They said it was becuase of sensitive political content.

We got banned from advertising for producing The Hastening for @newellijaytv

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I was invited (on the strength of my roku channel the book I wrote on the topic) to speak at a satellite campus of the local community College about working in media and entertainment.

I'm on the technology, media and entertainment panel.

I uhh....

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Well, I'm probably the most qualified person in the county to talk about the modern tech industry.

I'm in the top 10% on M&E, becuase of my professional history (record label, director of technical operations at an M&E startup, technically award winning filmmaker, etc.)

But I'm willing to show up, so it doesn't really matter that there are more qualified people.

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I was invited at the last minute. I dontnhave anything prepped. I assume the other folks who are tabling will have displays and things.

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Regardless, this should represent my reentry in to full time New Ellijay Television after nearly 9 months just treading water and working on the bookstore.

Maybe I can convince some college kids to volunteer with us.

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You can learn mors about what I do from https://communitymedia.network and https://newellijay.tv

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That was a really delightful event. I talked to a bunch of 14 - 16 year old kids who had no idea what they wanted to do in the future, and a few who absolutely and obviously wanted to do computer science.

I told the comp sci kids that the most important things for them to learn were empathy and compassion for other people, and that if they could learn that and figure out how to communicate, the computer skills they already have and can develop in the next 4 years plus that empathy and communication will make them better engineers than half the people I worked with professionally.

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I offered them gig work on upcoming projects. I hope they take me up on it. They will learn a lot working with other people.

No one else knew what they wanted to do, so we mostly talked about NETV. They asked lots of really weird questions that I wasn't expecting.

The adults all had questions for me too? i guess tech and M&E are just kind of unknowns for a lot of people.

I told everyone that the rules are fake, and we can build whatever we want and no one will stop us.

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One kid told me he wanted to be a cop.

I couldn't help myself. I said "Wow, that sucks. I've known a lot of cops, and every one of them was an asshole who needed a hobby."

He ... I mean he looked like a cop, tbh. But when I said that, he kind of looked sad for a minute, and then he said "my dad's a cop"

to which I replied, "Yeah, mine too. He's also an asshole who needs a hobby. All I've ever wanted to do was be less miserable than my dad.

What do you love?"

and he went bugeyed for a second and then proceeded to talk to me about video editing and film production for like fifteen minutes.

During our panel session, he was one of the most talkative, asking questions about the process, about the classes, about the programs we offer.

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I've met several people who went to ivy league schools. I've known a few of them pretty well.

They were no better than me, or you, and in many ways they were worse.

Meritocracy is a myth. The rich built a system that favors themselves and pretended it was based on merit.

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Dungeons and Dragons:

https://archive.org/details/dungeons-dragons-1983

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Galaxy Rangers:

https://archive.org/details/the-adventures-of-the-galaxy-rangers-1986

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Centurions:
https://archive.org/details/the-centurions-1986

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Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars (this one needs to be split in to individual episodes. )

https://archive.org/details/bucky-ohare-and-the-toad-wars

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Dark Shadows (1239 episodes, at an average of 600MB/each, for nearly a TB of a horror soap opera.)

https://archive.org/details/dark-shadows_202210

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COW Boys of Moo Mesa: https://archive.org/details/wild-west-c.-o.-w.-boys-of-moo-mesa-complete

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Police Squad: https://archive.org/details/s-1-e-1-a-substantial-gift/S1E1+A+SUBSTANTIAL+GIFT.avi

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@Rycaut It's great.

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@Rycaut There aren't many of them, the jokes come very quickly, it's well done.

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@Rycaut Give it a shot.

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I was watching a show earlier, and they did a flashback to the 1980s.

And when they did it, they went to 4:3, better lighting, proper saturation.

This was supposed to indicate a flashback, but ... it just made me wish they'd shot the whole thing like that.

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Have you heard this?
https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelic-ghost-stories

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(I'm not associated with it, I just thought it was neat.)

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@etherdiver oh, I bought it a while ago.

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Got a CRT telly with a HDMI input a couple years ago as a Goodwill impulse buy for 99 cents. Works and everything, tested it in the shop.

It's sat under a pinball for two years while I find room to set it up, I never once tried plugging anything into it

Anyway I've found somewhere for it to live and started making plans for a stand and figured I'd test it and found out it's a piece of shit lol

ajroach42,
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@ifixcoinops is Sony the only company that made a decent HDMI CRT?

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