Thankyou, automatic upvote w/o even seeing it..but I am right now

In reply to your comment:
“Ah, danke! Found this by accident today, thought it a shame for it not to fall under the appropriate collective :-D

In reply to your comment:
“Of course


In reply to your comment:
“Hey there! Think I could get an invite to zhe collective?”””

Yeah it took me a while to backup all 70ish. But now that I've caught up, I just post two three videos at a time, and do backups of them at the same time I post em. Its routine now

Theres many websites that let you download the actual video file, like http://www.videodl.org/ .. But I just use a python script to fetch em. No difference, just makes me feel cooler

Then theres those people who like disabling embeds, like the tiger squirt video. Don't really know whats up with that. Like you said, it must be some kinda silly arrogance. Its stupid if you ask me

In reply to your comment:
“Oh right, yeah that was probably Silvercord, sorry. A lot of users seem to be providing "third party" services to VS lately, hehe.

Anywho, keeping backups is probably a good idea, but do you really have copies of your 70-ish posts? If so, yowza(!). I just talked to Farhad the other day about what kind of stuff was removed by Viacom, and some of it is just unbelievable. He mentioned an Uzbek music video he posted; gone done disappeared. WHY?!

In reply to your comment:
“Well, I think that was Silvercord, but I can't be too sure, who posted in SiftTalk. He was offering some sort of free for all youtube account where you could upload yourself. Anyhow, I tend to keep backups of all my videos in case Viacom goes insane. You know that pizza baseball video got taken down? It just drives me nuts that I didn't make a backup of it! gah””

Well, I think that was Silvercord, but I can't be too sure, who posted in SiftTalk. He was offering some sort of free for all youtube account where you could upload yourself. Anyhow, I tend to keep backups of all my videos in case Viacom goes insane. You know that pizza baseball video got taken down? It just drives me nuts that I didn't make a backup of it! gah



In reply to your comment:
“Ah excellent! Didn't you post about that in Sift Talk a while ago? Anyway, a great service to keep in mind. In this case I was lucky enough to find an exact duplicate of the YouTube video on GVid which didn't have the embed disabled.

Fun note: the GVid version was published September 2006, while the YouTube post was upped November 2006, and it's THAT post which is now getting attention around the web. Just feels like the YouTube poster was being a little arrogant in disabling the embed on it. Whatever, in this case, I suppose :-P

In reply to your comment:
“if you need to upload the videos on youtube that are disabled embeds, just give me a holler. I'll download the flv and reupload it into my own youtube account and enable embed with little or no quality loss

The YouTube post had disable embed code, but the Google Video version did not. However, the YouTube version had the above + more.

Additional info here.””

if you need to upload the videos on youtube that are disabled embeds, just give me a holler. I'll download the flv and reupload it into my own youtube account and enable embed with little or no quality loss



The YouTube post had disable embed code, but the Google Video version did not. However, the YouTube version had the above + more.

Additional info here.

There's some cool stuff at MARP, but i think it's mostly high score stuff rather than speed runs.

In reply to your comment:
“Btw, as much as I love tool-assisted runs, does anyone know of a site that collects speed runs done without tools?”

Hey Pyrex,

The invitation is yours. Come as you are. And . . . as to why I put "Sc" at the bottom of my posts . . . just an old letter writer trying for a bit of a personal touch.

Sc



In reply to your comment:
“Hey there! Might I get an invitation to yer fine collective?

Also, and this is a personal query, why do you sign your posts? It's just that I've seen this on so many boards & sites, and always wonder why it's done when usernames are already automatically connected to a user's posts.”

"We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us...."

In reply to your comment:
“'Ey there! Think I could get an invite to the collective? Never know when I'll feel like sharing some tasty scifi..”

Hey man, fix B'owl! I posted a link to a replacement video for you on the page!

Hey, no problem. Thanks!

In reply to your comment:
“Since I'm something like 2 weeks late (yes I suck at checking the SiftTalk) I thought I'd congratulate you on the 250 face-to-face. Well er.. kinda. :-P”

well alright!

In reply to your comment:
“*points to kinda-shiny-thing beside name* :-D

In reply to your comment:
“Two more post for the bronze, get ur hinder in to sifting ””

Two more post for the bronze, get ur hinder in to sifting

The swedish chef arrives!