thenomad

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by thenomad 9y ago
"No one died regretting time no spent at work" Citation needed. Here's one example of a situation where I could very easily see someone regretting not spending more time at work. As a professional creative, I'm betting
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by thenomad 9y ago
It's intent and emotion that I'm really interested in - which to the best of my knowledge, computer generation still isn't good at. (This is for VR games, so high quality voice acting is a priority) Hence, if I could find a p
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by thenomad 9y ago
Is voice conversion via ML possible yet? I know we can create vaguely convincing synthesised voices, but I've not run across a program which can take my recorded voice, and convert it to a celebrity, or even shift apparent pitch or gen
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by thenomad 9y ago
I suspect I'm one of the few readers here (@cstross being another) for whom this is genuinely important professional information. And it's fantastic. Sadly no mention of license there, though - kinda vital if one is intending to u
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by thenomad 9y ago
It's also extremely good for RPGs and MMOs, neither of which are unpopular genres. We haven't seen a lot of either yet, because both require considerable investment, but the first VR MMO, Orbus, is going very well, and Skyrim VR o
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by thenomad 9y ago
This approximately describes my approach to game development, too. It works exceptionally well there as gamedev is all about crafting a fantasy and an experience.
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by thenomad 9y ago
My Dark Souls inspired VR horror/RPG, Left-Hand Path, which exited Early Access last month: http://store.steampowered.com/app/488760/LeftHand_Path/ It's held at mid-80s positive reviews after that,
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by thenomad 9y ago
Dumb question - what's CPL?
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by thenomad 9y ago
This is a deeply unfair, unreasonable and arguably abusive comment. It's entirely reasonable to talk about yourself and your achievements on your resume, and Mr Mayes' site is rather a good example of doing so.
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by thenomad 9y ago
This is good advice, but one question: why is the default assumption here that I'm the only person I ever record? I'm pretty good at not um-ing too frequently (20 years of public speaking will do that), but I can't exactly re
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by thenomad 9y ago
On the subject of "ums" - does anyone know if there's a tool out there to automatically remove ums and uhs from spoken audio? Seems like it'd be a useful and comparatively doable problem to solve.
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by thenomad 9y ago
You might find looking into this question interesting. It's not universal, but a surprising number of the greats in all fields work less, not more.
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Are VR eSports going to become a thing?(antipope.org)
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From Here to the Holodeck(antipope.org)
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by thenomad 9y ago
I just discovered https://trint.com . No idea if they're any good, but they're certainly cheaper than Rev.
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by thenomad 9y ago
I've said this a few times but happy to say it again: I will very cheerfully pay for a good podcast -> transcript service. I speed-read. I don't speed-listen. And my lifestyle has zero podcast-compatible travel time. So there&#
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by thenomad 9y ago
Goddamn, that really does sound sinister as hell.
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by thenomad 9y ago
Hah! That's an interesting idea. I might just think about doing that for an April Fools' or similar...
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AMA: Hugh Hancock, Founder of Machinima and VR Developer(reddit.com)
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by thenomad 9y ago
If people enjoyed this post, you might be interested to hear that the author (me) is currently doing an AMA over on Reddit, too - https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/7c1y9q/im_hugh_hanco...
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by thenomad 9y ago
OP and writer of the article here. I'm embarassed to say that I wrote Postfix when I meant Sendmail! I might just go ninja-edit that now :)
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Burn the Programmer(antipope.org)
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Show HN: Left-Hand Path, a terrifying gesture recognition-based VR experience(store.steampowered.com)
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by thenomad 9y ago
That will change now that it's at the top of HN, but I agree - it's currently very obscure to search engines. My guess is that it's a new site? Only a few articles, and Open Site Explorer reports a Domain Authority of 18, whi
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by thenomad 9y ago
Because they'd have to talk users through allowing direct APK installs, complete with all the scary warnings. That's going to reduce the number of customers they get a lot more than a redirect to the Play Store.
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by thenomad 9y ago
You might like Eurasia Group's "Signal" - https://medium.com/signal-geopolitics-made-simple/saudi-andr...
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by thenomad 9y ago
I would pay $5 to get a text transcription of any podcast. My life doesn't support podcast-listening particularly well, and yet I know there's a lot of good info out there in the audio world.
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by thenomad 9y ago
A quick Google tells me that Andre's currently at the #2 position on Google (at least in my search bubble) for "The Web dying", #4 for "The Web is dying", and so on. And of course he's at the top by a country m
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by thenomad 9y ago
This is absolutely standard in the UK in all the supermarkets I'm aware of. If a member of staff doesn't know where the item is, they'll go and find someone who does.
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by thenomad 9y ago
Are there non-default ones? I also don't love Hugo's template engine.

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