Sep 02 10:39:08 <proton> indeed seems like its just normal encoding shenanigans
Sep 02 10:39:21 <proton> not bloating just for bloating by encoding using handbrake to h265 or smth
Sep 02 10:39:33 <lucaz> oh proton you prob don't wanna know about what GJM is doing rn
Sep 02 10:39:44 <proton> lmao the comments on that upload
Sep 02 10:39:45 <proton> >The Temporal Lehmer Merge and its consequences have been a disaster for Vapoursynth. It has greatly increased the perceived quality of those of us who use “advanced” filtering, but has nigged objective video quality, has made the video unstable, has subjected encoders to indignities, has led to widespread psychological suffering (in the pixel
Sep 02 10:39:45 <proton> peeper circles, physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the encoding world. The continued development of such filtering will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human being to greater indignities and inflict greater damage in the encoding world, it will probably lead to greater nyaa shitposting and psychological
Sep 02 10:39:45 <proton> suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “jeet” countries. The encoding community may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of using only the store and only at the cost of
Sep 02 10:39:45 <proton> permanently reducing the encoders and pixel peepers to low value roles and mere cogs in the stalled fansubbing machine. Furthermore, if the encoders survive, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or denigging the video so as to prevent it from depriving encoders of dignity and autonomy. If the filtering breaks down the
Sep 02 10:39:45 <proton> consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the nigging grows the more disastrous the results of its stalling of fansubs will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later. We therefore advocate a revolution against the Vapoursynth encoding community.
Sep 02 10:39:47 <proton> >This revolution may or may not make use of hacking nyaa accounts; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few dozen mald threads. We can’t predict any of that. But we do outline in a very general way the measures that those who hate nigged video quality should take in order to prepare the way for a revolution
Sep 02 10:39:47 <proton> against that form of fuckery. This is not to be a FANSUB revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not groups but the encoding and filtering basis of the present workflow. In this article we give attention to only some of the negative developments that have grown out of the IEW discord server. Other such developments we mention only briefly or
Sep 02 10:39:47 <proton> ignore altogether. This does not mean that we regard these other developments as unimportant. For practical reasons we have to confine our discussion to areas that have ignorant malding or in which we have something new to say. For example, since there are well-developed DVD handling and proper descaling rants, we have written very little about DVD
Sep 02 10:39:47 <proton> SAR vs DAR vs PAR or the destruction of lineart via setsu nigscaling, even though we consider these to be highly important.
Sep 02 10:40:04 <proton> fucking nyaa comments, every single time