Hi everybody. This is is the first of the new live streaming series I am doing for our second channel, called Stratosphere Studios, which you can find and subscribe to here.
I’ll be posting them here as well for a while until they can get on their feet.
From now on, Stratosphere Studio will deal exclusively with animation and pop-culture topics, and The Stratosphere Lounge will return to political only status.
Look for The Stratosphere Studio on Monday nights at 9ET/6PT and The Stratosphere Lounge at its regular time slot, 9ET/6PT on Thursdays.
—Bill Whittle
https://youtu.be/Ohmldwra-8E
21 replies on “The Stratosphere Studio | Episode 1”
The bit starting at 1:27:00 is very interesting. Seems like a solid technical leap in VFX and animation could be made if we could articulate exactly what the problems are, beyond “Restrain the urge to over-detail”
One thing I might be noticing is that when we look at the weathering visible at 1:29:00, it looks like it was generated with a procedural noise map in a single pass.
It has a certain regularity to it that registers somewhere in the viewer’s brain, even though it’s not a tiled texture with an easily describable pattern.
I understand this is being redone, but one way to deal with this type of issue would be to take a second noise map, scaled larger, and subtract it from the first, reducing the overall amount of weathering but also breaking up the pattern.
For some reason I find it extremely fun playing with different ways of combining 2-3 procedural textures.
Here’s the GOOD NEWS… The Stratosphere Studio is on Mondays 9pm EST…here’s the BAD NEWS…There are NO LINKS to the Stratosphere Studio nor are there any instructions on HOW TO ACCESS IT. Very frustrating experience with this new program so poorly launched.
Same problem here. I may e-mail Scott and see if he can fix that.
You’d THINK it wouldn’t be something that doesn’t need “fixing”…pretty basic stuff when launching a new channel…just like no posting of links to BW’s interviews and appearances… One just gets tired of asking after awhile.
I share the information I have.
Understood. No problem. You have a lot on your plate. Your work on this site is appreciated.
Where are this week’s regular shows – Right Angle, Virtue Signal? I’m suffering from withdrawal, and it ain’t pretty.
I see that some RA’s are up now. But no Backstage?
Scott (or someone from the site) sent out an email earlier in the week explaining that the backstage episode had been accidentally deleted instead of being uploaded. The email said they were trying to recover it and would post it if they were successful.
Apparently they were not successful?
This can happen to anyone but it should never happen in an enterprise environment. Especially in an enterprise where video files are the main product and the bread and butter output.
If whoever is doing this work is trying to use a laptop, especially a Mac laptop, they need to stop doing that and get a real computer then implement a mirroring system so this can’t happen.
I say “can’t happen” but after decades in IT I know all too well that’s not precisely accurate. Anything can happen. Even proper backups on good hardware can fail. About all you can do is your best effort to lessen the probabilities but you can shave those odds down quite a bit.
Thanks for the explanation.
WHY THIS NEEDS TO BE ON YOUTUBE AND NOT RUMBLE
I guess if Bill wanted to go to the extra effort (and expense) he could post it to Rumble too but … That would be redundant and ineffective. If you’re going to fight a culture war you have to go where the enemy is. Which is YouTube.
The reason Bill gives for getting involved in this animation and gaming/game-like stuff is to reach people who might be agreeable to Conservatism but ‘don’t know it yet’. Bill is trying a new and as far as I’m aware novel approach to getting the Conservative message out. He’s said he’s observed that a lot of young people like to do “Conservative things” in the gaming environment so that’s the people he’s targeting.
YouTube is the place to go to find them, not Rumble. Rumble is a competitor to YouTube but it’s not even close when it comes to the number of eyeballs it reaches.
This is a tactic designed to use YouTube’s massive, free platform against itself. Using the resources of the enemy against the enemy is sound, effective tactical doctrine. This isn’t so much entertainment as it is a weapon being deployed. The idea is to entertain people via pop culture into seeing things our way. This is a tactic used to massive effect by the enemies of our way of life being turned around and used against them.
It is potentially far more effective and useful than a boycott or any other useless act of defiance. Boycotting has no significant effect at all on something as large as the Alphabet business complex which owns Google, YouTube, Mandiant, Looker, Nest, Waze and DoubleClick to name a few most people might have heard of. Boycotting an enemy like the Alphabet complex might make a person feel good but it has no hope of any real world results to change anything. I’ll be happy to explain this in great detail, just ask in a reply and we’ll go from there.
What Bill’s doing is the equivalent of a scenario where a dictatorship is unable to prevent it’s rebellious opposition getting all the air time on local media they wanted. People might tune in or they might not but no matter what, some will and the effort has a chance to grow when they do.
It is in effect a form of guerilla warfare waged against a tyrant. The challenge being addressed here is to find tactics that have a chance for significant impact.
I understand this tactical attack and enthusiastically endorse it.
Bothering with Rumble is a waste of resources and dilutes the effort. Rumble is not an enemy asset. There may be conservatives who find this entertaining and want to watch it but don’t want to use YouTube for whatever reason. That’s too bad, you are not the target here and your wants are less than tertiary to the main objective. If you want to overthrow a Banana Republic, which is what Google is in the virtual world and becoming more so in the real world, you don’t take out ads in Iowa and hope somehow people in the targeted dictatorship will see them. If you want to overthrow a foreign dictatorship you don’t send the Marines to Nebraska, you send them to the foreign dictatorship.
That’s not to say that Bill and Co. can’t or won’t put this new effort on Rumble but if they do, it’s not because it’s useful there as a weapon it’s for the benefit of friendly gawkers. It takes resources to split an effort like that. Bandwidth isn’t free and neither are man hours of labor. It would be the wisest course to just concentrate on YouTube because the YouTube audience is the real target.
I hope this works out the way Bill has planned but it needs the largest possible audience on the broadest possible venue to have any real hope of succeeding. That does not describe Rumble. It’s a numbers game and Rumble just doesn’t come anywhere near the numbers of potential converts that YouTube does. Plus the fact that Rumble is much more conservative in viewership than YouTube and preaching to the choir is ineffective when it comes to proselytization. If it’s going to work it has to go up on YouTube and anything else is secondary or redundant.
If you go fishing and want to actually catch fish, you have to go where the fish are. You can bait a hook and dangle it in your kitchen sink but you’re not going to catch any fish that way.
Would have never found this except I looked for recent comments. Not on shows by date (even after I subscribed) and not on home or under Stratosphere lounge. If anybody has a solution, let me know please. Otherwise I need to contact Scott. Using a kindle; that’s all I have.
It’s on the home landing page. If you’re using a Kindle then I presume you’re using the Amazon Silk browser. If that’s the case, load Chrome if you can and that might fix the display issue. Otherwise it’s just an issue with Silk/Kindle.
There’s a way to sideload Chrome on a Kindle Fire. If you’re using some other permutation of the Kindle platform I can’t help you because I only use Kindle Fire’s now. I use a different reader that I bought at a local auction for like $2, I think it’s a Nook but it doesn’t matter, I hacked it as soon as I got it home and loaded my own stuff on it. I very, very rarely leave home so … that’s what I use if I need to be somewhere there’s no electrical power and have to rely on battery alone. Kindle Fires don’t have the amazing battery life that the regular Kindle readers do. They’re basically just cheap Amazon tablets and do the same stuff any other tablet will do once you jailbreak them so you can load Android apps besides just the stuff from the Amazon store.
This is a new feature too. The Stratosphere Studios is a fresh launch. So it could be that your browser just isn’t letting it display because it’s caching older content and just updating changes. Which it should display this too but hey … If it doesn’t it doesn’t. You might try dumping the cache and restarting before loading the browser.
One other thing you might try is changing the screen orientation from whatever it is to the other one. Like from portrait to landscape or vice versa. That might give you the pixel width to display the whole home page, this stuff is on the far right.
Thanks. C!earing cache and turning sideways doesn’t work. For some reason when I try to download Chrome, it wants a credit card, and it won’t accept any card I have. Going from memory on card, and will check, but I doubt that’s it.
Second follow up reply.
Can’t get download to work. Credit card issues. Can’t contact apkmirror, which is what I tried to use to get Chrome. Looking for other solutions.
You shouldn’t have to pay for Chrome, and I’ve never heard of anyone ever having to use a credit card to get it. There are some other weird things that do that, but not Chrome.
Which makes me wonder if you’ve got something living on your Kindle that shouldn’t be there?
I use apkmirror too, and I’ve never been asked for a credit card there either. That doesn’t mean they didn’t start doing that, it’s been a couple years since I used that site. So …
I just went there and downloaded the latest Google Chrome apk to my PC and it didn’t ask me for anything including a credit card.
Something smells fishy there, Harry.
Thanks again. But….
1) Got Chrome on tablet. Still can’t find Stratosphere studio. Bookmarked right now.
2) Credit card was not needed for Chrome. It was needed (but supposedly not charged) to create apkmirror account. You probably have an account already.
3) Same day i tried to do it, got fraud alert on one card I tried to use. Getting new card. Checking all other cards daily for 2 weeks, then back to checking at least once per week. Card that got fraud alert has this happen twice before. Can’t drop card until paid off, and that can’t happen quickly.
4) Suffering withdrawal with no Right Angles.
No, I checked and I’m not logged into any account on apkmirror.com. I’m not downloading to a tablet though, I’m downloading to a PC.
Did you check to be sure Javascript is turned on in the browser you’re using?
Are you running a VPN? If so, try a straight connection to the site. Some VPN software tries to ‘guess’ what is an ad or undesirable script and block things they shouldn’t. If you’re not running a VPN but have one turn it on and see if that makes a difference. If it works on a VPN but not otherwise see what I said about non-transparent cellular proxies implemented by the cellular provider below.
Try updating Android System Webview, it’s a component of the android OS. You can search for it on Play Store or download the latest APK.
Come to think of it, make sure all your stuff is updated by not only going to Play Store but also run the update settings in Amazon’s OS too. That’s in “Settings” somewhere, I’m sure you can find it.
Dump and reload your network settings. Clutter or corruption in the networking stacks can cause erratic behavior. Go to Settings > General management > Reset > Reset network settings; or whatever corresponds to that on your device and reset the network. You’ll have to sign onto your own wireless again and you’ll lose any other WAP data too.
Make sure ‘Lite Mode’ is turned off in Chrome settings.
Are you on your own wireless router/AP WiFi or are you connecting through a cellular signal? If you’re using something like LTE, 3G, 4G etc and not a local access point on your own internet connection to an ISP like Cox, Comcast, UVerse etc. then the problem could be non-transparent proxies at the cellular provider. To check this if you don’t have your own wireless network and are using a cellular system go to someplace with free WiFi like a friends’ house or Starbucks and if you connect OK through that network that’s diagnostic for a failure caused by non-transparent proxies at the cell provider.
If none of that works it could be the media query settings on the site itself but … So many people use tablets and phones that there should be others having the same issues and I don’t see anyone saying they do.
JavaScript is turned on as far I can tell. I am not on and don’t have VPN. Running own network and own router (Apple airport) Running via Spectrum. Android version is the latest one out there. Disconnected network and reconnected. Android system webview installed. No difference.
Would I be correct in assuming this won’t be on Rumble?