#OGV

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The James Hetfield OGV Electra Flying V

The James Hetfield Electra OGV is a fan favourite guitar. In a recent interview with Metallica’s frontman James Hetfield’s guitar tech, Chad Zaemisch, some fascinating details about James Hetfield’s old Electra Flying V guitar came to light. James Hetfield Electra OGV Notably, they acquired a few more of the same model, shedding light on a crucial chapter in the history of rock and roll. This…

[ogvfwc]

Ver "O.G.V - EP SadBoy Part Two Vol 1 (FULL EP) #fwccrew #epsadboy @ogvfwc#ogvfwc @FWCCrew" en YouTube

Apoyen el ep que lo hice con mucho amor 😍 🤝

[pkuncewicz]

Reaper’s Rum

From the makers of Pilgrim’s Gin, now available at #OGV Taproom in #Aberdeen.

Small batch AF

[fugu-in-f]

hey, tumblr, why is that

i have four-second audio snippets i want to share

[itsmarjudgeloveclassicrock59]

James Hetfield's 1980 Electra V - OGV

[hydralisk98]

Just letting you know Maze War belongs, in my opinion, to this category. At least to some degree...

By the way, I will make one of such along my game making journey some when, probably when I get enough confidence and feel bored enough of generating top-down perspective layouts. Because as I really am into emulating (or at least try to) historical progression with tweaks from innovative games / engines and a couple of my own on top. My ideal aim is to make a custom-built derivative of BUILD2 with some Lisp dialect, much borrowings from less recent engines and unique additions of my very own, because I am all in for software toys like that.

Part of such will be SVG sprites, markup game description system, OGG/OGV support, custom programming language, custom stylesheets and the like, but don't count that as coming very fast. After all, I have alot to practice/earn, first in Unity sadly. Especially as I should try F#, practice my C# & making a world with MegaOCEAN AI personalities before going down the rabbit hole towards custom hardware and custom first person software toy engines...

Also got many other cool things planned, prototypes, write-ups and asset packs. But I do take my time alot these days (mental health issues still being processed) and as far as I can tell, I am looking for a job too (my efforts are also for my creativity + developer portfolio, albeit I keep waiting for ideas to some... SQL video rental store database being one I haven't done anything much at all yet)

[newspdm]

Cartoon: A Day At The Zoo, 1939

A Day at the Zoo is a 1939 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon supervised by Tex Avery. The short was produced in 1938 and released on March 11, 1939 and features an early version of Elmer Fudd. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/83/A_Day_At_The_Zoo_%281939%29.ogv/A_Day_At_The_Zoo_%281939%29.ogv.360p.webm Tex Avery, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Info

[very-gay-alkyrion]

ooh if you like analogue photography, and you have the materials to take black and white photographs, and you have a laser pointer and some optics, you could try taking a holographic photo as described in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IntroductionToHolography1972.ogv

Unfortunately I don't have any black and white film.

Black and white does work well for photoshoots and stuff that looks good regardless, but for the slice of life stuff I have my cameras for, color film is a lot better.

Also somehow all of my film cameras are broken at the moment :/

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Arrows vs Ogv corruption.

[bugkrumch]

Physical media discourse on here feels... weird (this is a long post)

I agree on a fundamental level that the move towards drm-based streaming licenses is bad, and that the perpetual-personal-content license (read: the license most DVDs are under) is a thing we should maintain, at least as a stopgap until the vanguard of communism empowers us to rewrite IP law.

That said, the language positioning Physical vs Digital, the insistence that anything other than physical media is bad, and the upholding of DVDs as a gold standard, all read to me as kinda tech-iliterate, and thus ignorant of the real issue at hand.

The primary issue with streaming, which folks on Tumblr *have* correctly identified, is to do with Access control.

The primary issue with streaming is that it requires a regular subscription payment, to exclusively view content under a license that can be revoked at any time for any reason.

This is the mechanism by which Netflix can kick you off your friend's account, this is also the mechanism by HBO can scrub Infinity Train from existence as a tax write-off.

This system is unequivocally bad, and the reason it's bad is because of DRM and Access Control. This may seem pedantic, but is an important distinction.

Let's take a look at DVDs now. Most DVDs are distributed under a license that grants you perpetual access to view in a private setting, but not to redistribute the content.

This is what that FBI warning that plays at the top of every DVD is trying to tell you, and is why ripping a DVD, while simple, is technically illegal.

Because the video file is hard-encoded into the DVD, and its proliferation largely predates the IOT zeitgeist, *most* DVDs don't contain any access control measures beyond that legal text, but this is not universal.

This is a great video outlining FlexPlay, an ill-faded technology that used a disk with light-sensitive material, that over the course of about a week or two, blacked out the disk rendering its contents un-viewable.

I bring this up because it highlights two issues.

One, DVDs aren't a physically resilient technology.

Disks are fragile, and even moderate scratches or damage can render a disk unreadable. This is a point of contention retro gamers have had for years, because while their NES cartridges still work, their PS1 disks don't.

This is not even to mention how the plastic of every broken disk still exists somewhere in the world, and will for centuries.

Two, it shows that IP conglomerates, have been at this for years, and won't be stopped in putting Access control into DVDs.

This means that buying DVDs of new shows forever is not an end-game solution. Unless you are content to stop consuming new media, eventually you're going to encounter a DRM protected disk.

To use another more recent example, remember when the Xbox One came out? They had this giant controversy over how playing a game locally on the disk still required online access to Microsoft's servers.

Your physical media could be locked right up for any reason by the platform itself. How can we trust that if DVDs or Blu Ray made a comeback that they would not suffer the same fate?

So where do we go from here, if physical media isn't safe?

Let's consider what digital video *is*. It's a file, same as any other. .mp4 .mov

Some, like .mp4 support DRM-encryption (although don't always contain any). Others, like .ogv exist free from DRM, thanks open source software developers.

Likewise, with a DRM encrypted digital file, because all of the data is hosted locally, just encrypted, there are ways to remove or bypass that encryption, because the VAST majority of cyber-security depends on a lack of knowledge.

This website has a number of very good resources both on drm-free digital storage mediums, and the process of removing certain types of DRM from digital files, (and was my primary resource for this paragraph)

https://www.defectivebydesign.org/so_youve_got_some_questions_do_you#:~:text=To%20avoid%20DRM%20and%20other,webm)%2C%20or%20Daala.

Storing your media as unlocked files presents the best of both worlds.

You have full control over access to your media, you own those files just as much as you own the hard drive you store them on.

You can buy media online, so long as the distributor gives you a media file instead of a streaming portal. You can also choose to obtain media files through other means, that's none of my business.

And you can do some really cool stuff like setting up a self-hosted media server, allowing you streaming-like remote access to all of your media, without ceding any ownership over that media. (Jellyfin is the most popular open-source solution but there are others) https://jellyfin.org/

And absolutely none of this is to mention the ways in which you can SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY, WHO MOST LIKELY HAS STREAMING OPTIONS.

In the US most public libraries maintain Kanopy and hoopla memberships, allowing you to access streamed content from your local library.

This has the added benefit of keeping the library's usage statistics up, which often helps them with securing more funding.

While you don't own the media, you also don't have to pay for it, and you crucially don't have to give your money to streaming services and IP hoarders.

It requires 0 technical background, and presents a more sustainable and equitable view of what streaming can look like.

So in conclusion:

Make sure you own the content you're paying for, and accept nothing less.

Don't be convinced that your DVDs are immune.

Learn some basics about networking, filetypes, cyber security and self-hosting if you really care about this stuff.

Support Open Source Software

Support Your Local Library

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Messengers: The Guitars of James Hetfield

Messengers: The Guitars of James Hetfield is a new full-color book full of iconic guitars. James Hetfield, the legendary frontman, guitarist, and songwriter for Metallica, offers a captivating insight into his treasured guitar collection, each with its own unique story and significance in his illustrious career. Messengers: The Guitars of James Hetfield From the iconic Electra OGV that defined…

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Noodleheads (Video, 198?)

A public access TV comedy show from Somerville, MA. You can watch it here (or watch the small-filesize .ogv version here).

[theoneofwhomisblue]

THIS BIRD HAS PASSED THE MIRROR TEST, LOOK AT IT

[tcmusicnyla]

"Invincible" OGV Award Winner Best Original Song DJ Michael Gray featuring Tatiana Owens

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Persepolis English Dub w/ Subtitulos en español

In light of the murders, attacks, tortures, rapes and imprisonments of Iranian, Kurdish, Persian, and other ethnicities living in Iran and the protests against the lack of women's rights and freedom and against the current Iranian Republic regime that has been in place since 1979 after the Iranian Islamic Revolution.

If you are interested in learning more about the Iranian Islamic Revolution from someone who had lived through it - I highly recommend Persepolis.

The movie and books, written and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi, is a memoir to her childhood, growing up during the peak of the revolution. Born in 1969, Marjane grew up and experienced a loss of freedom, innocence, religious and political freedoms.

Since it is hard to find the movie, which is hand drawn frame by frame, I will link a Google Drive folder with the movie as two versions (MP4 and OGV) watchable file types.

This is an English dub, compared to the original French audio (where Marjane moved as an adult) - but has subtitles in Español.

Download and watch Persepolis here

(please DM me if there is any issue with the files or if I made any inaccuracies in my post - I did my best to point out that people of Kurdish backgrounds are STILL experiencing genocide)

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Cartoon: Doggone Tired, 1949

Doggone Tired is a 1949 cartoon short directed by Tex Avery. Doggone Tired is one of three MGM cartoons currently in the public domain in the United States. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/db/Doggone_Tired_%281949%29.ogv/Doggone_Tired_%281949%29.ogv.360p.webm Tex Avery, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Info