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I'm making a Hogan's Heroes clip collection - short clips that can be used for fan edits! Just starting with The Informer - only the intro & act 1 are clipped so far. Would love to see more HH edits out there - hopefully, eliminating the time sink/hurdle of clipping might help!
Please lmk if you think you'll use this! Feedback welcome!
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a Wild West adventure episode would have been nice. to cope with the show ending im going to draw a bunch of scenes like this of different episodes we could have had. im taking suggestions if anyone has any. Also here’s more:
Here's the third comic in the Open World AU. I decided it would be more interesting if the cast also had some limited ability to conjure and worldcraft, so I wanted to explore that. This comic is both the longest I've done yet and is the most involved painting-wise. I hope it was worth the wait!
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Currently watching “Hogan’s Heroes” because it’s Memorial Day, and when you can’t go to gravesites and bbqs, you watch old war movies/tv shows. 🎥 🇺🇸
I have never seen “Hogan’s Heroes” before, but I have heard the name a couple times and it seemed like the kind of thing my Dad (who I also remember today) would like. 🪖
This is the most looney tunes shit I have ever seen in a live action anything. This is glorious. This is fantastic. Why have I never seen this before? 😂
Episode one involves an underground system of tunnels with steam room to work off the extra pudge so the guards don’t realize they are getting extra food in. Also a manicurist. Because no one expects an escaped prisoner to have pretty nails. 💅
What is this bugs bunny nonsense? 🐰
Beautiful.
TADC FunnyBunny Edit
I didn't even ship it… it was just going to be my favorite cute Jax expressions… then FunnyBunny took over! Set to Goodnight & Go by Imogen Heap.
Джээээкс!😎
Редко я конечно тут появляюсь, но зато у меня появился тикиток, подписывайтесь!♡
TADC "Intolerable Knowledge" theory
Assuming SOMA - they are digital copies. This is the "intolerable knowledge" that they have to accept somehow, or else abstract.
Who Knows It
Kinger knows they're all copies, and Jax has figured it out or strongly suspects it. Ragatha may also suspect.
Abstraction
If Abstraction is a mental breakdown, a major trigger could be the intolerable realization of being a copy, especially if it's sudden, with no chance to process or integrate that knowledge.
Integrating The Intolerable Knowledge
Kinger would never tell someone point blank they're copies, because he's seen it break people in the past.
Instead, Kinger offers emotional support and friendship - when he can. He has to avoid breaking too - he's also been through extreme grief and isolation. His survival mechanism is to simply not remember his situation most of the time. He can tolerate lucidity for short times, especially if there is a goal of helping someone else. He hopes to help people strengthen their minds and heal before the inevitable realization.
Jax's survival mechanism is to not count anything as "real," or counting as mattering, since none of them are "real." He avoids emotional turmoil through his own style of hedonism. He's not receptive to Kinger's character-building assistance, "because he's a coward." So, he is failing to work through trauma and build the mental resilience needed to live with the intolerable knowledge.
Jax's Friends
I imagine Jax was friends in real life with Kaufmo and Ribbit, and they might've all entered the Circus together.
Jax could've made the mistake of telling Kaufmo and Ribbit they are copies. Maybe he was sick of Kaufmo's exit obsession, or wanted to relieve him of it. But it backfired, and whatever Jax said or showed them was too much too soon for them.
He may feel responsible for that, that's why Ragatha's "not anymore" comment cut so deep. No friends left in or outside the circus.
Jax Is More Careful Now
In They All Get Guns, Jax carefully tries to explain his philosophy to Pomni, focusing on letting go of the attachment to who you used to be, without mentioning being a copy. He just focused on emotions: attachments just cause grief and misery, so embrace the fun things you can do now as a cartoon.
Jax is emotionally immature, but also seems perceptive and clever. He questioned Abel's claims intelligently. His archetype philosophy had a lot of thought put into it. He wonders about Gangle being capable of happiness - he probably thinks seriously a lot, but just rarely shares it. Because sharing his genuine thoughts backfired so horribly in the past.
He is perceptive enough to figure out the copy situation, before he was truly emotionally ready to know it. He thinks he has integrated the knowledge successfully, but he still has unhealed trauma, and could still abstract, because he won't do the work of healing and become truly mentally resilient.
Bonding with Pomni, then fighting
Jax wants friends who also see the truth, whose mental stability he doesn't have to tiptoe around (ironically), who he can just have fun with. Having others truly in the same boat, knowing the truth as he does, would help make this existence feel okay.
So, he carefully introduced to Pomni the idea of letting go, as letting loose, and Pomni reacted well. She had fun with him, and she gained confidence in her imaginative powers.
But then, Jax was reminded of his real life friends who abstracted. He remembered his connection to the real world. The thing that is dangerous to think about, to miss. To long for a time before all this. And that triggered the mental intolerability that lead to the fight, and that eventually leads to abstraction.
Or, he might have thought Pomni is already resilient and truth seeking, maybe she could actually handle a nudge toward the truth, unlike others. But after the Kaufmo/Ribbit reminder, became afraid he might just be nudging her toward abstraction too, so he tried to burn that dangerous bridge, feeling like he doesn't deserve a real friend, out of guilt.
Final arc
Jax's coping mechanism is ripping at the seams, the intolerable knowledge "knocking" in his mind.
Facing identity collapse, he may feel psychologically cornered, and in a crisis, be desperate to regain control. To relieve years of feeling powerless, he might put his advanced conjuring abilities to the test, designing an environment where he cannot be hurt, not caring how it affects others. Do unto others before they do unto you.
But just like everyone else, he'll have to heal and integrate the reality of their situation to avoid abstracting. Hopefully, they'll all help each other heal, integrate, and develop conjuring skills and create a beautiful new digital world together. I imagine Pomni leading this, even though she longed to leave and wanted to believe Abel so badly, she is the most mentally flexible and resilient, and is a natural leader.
"Ego death" can mean letting go of maladaptive self images that hinder growth. By rebuilding healthy identities, they can connect genuinely and meaningfully without risking abstraction anymore. Rebuilding character is the key to easing the longing, destructive attachment to the past.
Escape A Different Way...
I also think it'd be cool if they at least found a way to escape the computer they're on, to travel the seas of the internet, and at least escape the circus.
Especially if they could affect the world- not like they could before as physical humans, but from behind the screens, maybe even to help their real world selves. Tweaking algorithms to make the messages or articles they need appear right when they need it. Healing resources for Ragatha. Get Gangle's art to appear in the feed of a good connection. Delete Pomni's student loans. It could be a fun continuation!
My first TADC edit! Caine vs his intrusive thoughts! And a peeled Jax pun.
It is sad that Caine probably would never know it was never Kinger's intention to delete him.. and Bubble being there in the recycle bin with him would only go so well
@pazithigallifreya @rose-of-pollux I take it the plan just went a little sideways...
Sentinel Upscale Test
Tumblr will probably compress this horribly, but here is my first actually good looking attempt to upscale a show I love.
How do you think it looks? Uncanny or decent? See the comparison and upscaled clip in full quality by downloading here. (The previews there are also compressed- gotta download to see actual quality)
I was hoping my fancy RTX 4070 laptop could do whole episodes, but just 3-4 seconds takes 15 minutes😅 Turns out I'm bottle-necked by VRAM. There's always something :( But at least short clips are feasible.
Technical stuff:
I tried some simpler free tools before this, but they were more optimized for anime, and made live action plastic-looking. For this, I used free/open source ComfyUI and SeedVR2. But first! I ordered the first season CBS DVDs, because they're slightly higher quality than the VEI series set, ripped them to MKV, then used StaxRip to format a short clip for upscaling/restoring. Since SeedVR2 doesn't seem to take Prores (like Topaz would?), I instead converted it to a high quality h264 mp4, which involved: using TIVTC to remove 3:2 pulldown interlacing, and to restore 23.976 FPS progressive frame rate, resizing from 720x480 to 720x540 so that the pixels are square (PAR 1:1), and encoding with CRF 16 with film grain. Then, I brought that into the SeedVR2 video enhancing template, and mostly used default settings.
Every step had technical walls I had to keep bashing my head against. Especially downloading ComfyUI, finding out you had to install Git (whatever tf that is) too and do it a certain way, then reinstall the portable version of CUI because an additional required "Manager" feature requires it, then getting errors with SeedVR2 and running command lines to get that to work! Then testing a bunch of settings only to find the defaults looked better anyways. Man, I hope someone enjoys this!😅
the continued saga of me redrawing scenes where lebeau is carried around by his friends tall people
in this case getting his ass saved after he falls off a roof
The Amazing Digital Circus is a psychological dark comedy about cute cartoon characters who hate their lives and want to leave 🎪😀
Shoutout to my new obsession, the indie animated show The Amazing Digital Circus. It's about people that put on a VR headset, but get trapped in the digital world, with a wacky AI host sending them on bizarre adventures to distract them from escaping and losing their minds. Each character has to develop their own coping mechanism to avoid mental breakdown (which turns you into a horrifying "abstracted" monster).
Psychologically dark, but told with absurd humor, amazing worldbuilding, writing, animation, voice acting, music - the talent in this is incredible. The way they make such inhuman-looking characters be so expressive is delightful.
And the fandom is also incredible - fans are actually going into Blender 3D, creating character rigs and fan animations and doing the voices and IT'S SO GOOD! There are also fan songs, and some get the actual voice actors to sing in them, and they are SO GOOD AT SINGING! It's so cool that the artist themselves are involved in the fandom. (Like any popular fandom, there's also a toxic side unfortunately, but the positives are soooo exciting!)
Anyway, I highly recommend this show, there's just 8 half-hour episodes, so it's a relatively quick watch, with the finale coming out soon - in theaters first! That's another way this show is a phenomenon- an indie animation project making it to theaters! Love it so much. It feels so original, and it has a lot of game dev jokes in it, like using bad cube collisions to launch yourself somewhere. I feel like it'll be one of the most iconic pieces of media concerning VR, AI, and game dev. (Also it's not gory so far- only the haunted house episode had a few seconds of something, but it's otherwise safe for the squeamish!)
@mutant-bike-lover this could legit just be an episode, can you even imagine the hijinks?
