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Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

Please leave the room if you think this might offend you.
Grimey Drawer
Well hello there! Yeah that was my thing. I'm currently working on another one based on Dan Carlin podcasts.

It's the story of the 2020 election, in which Trump declares himself to be the messiah and destroys America. It's a slow burn for the first few chapters but by chapter five there are going to be mandatory congressional orgies which break down into cannibalism along party lines. Not sure how it ends yet but I'm thinking nukes will be involved. Chapters 1and 3 are the only ones with rough drafts of Mussorgsky far. 2 and 4 have nearly final words music to come shortly.

Chapter 1

Chapter 3

Mussorgsky was supposed to be "music so", but it's weird enough that I'm just going to leave it.

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syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Trig Discipline posted:

Well hello there! Yeah that was my thing. I'm currently working on another one based on Dan Carlin podcasts.

It's the story of the 2020 election, in which Trump declares himself to be the messiah and destroys America. It's a slow burn for the first few chapters but by chapter five there are going to be mandatory congressional orgies which break down into cannibalism along party lines. Not sure how it ends yet but I'm thinking nukes will be involved. Chapters 1and 3 are the only ones with rough drafts of Mussorgsky far. 2 and 4 have nearly final words music to come shortly.

Chapter 1

Chapter 3

Mussorgsky was supposed to be "music so", but it's weird enough that I'm just going to leave it.

How much of the sound engineering do you do vs. writing the script? Any illustrators in mind?

Charles Bukowski
Aug 26, 2003

Taskmaster 2023 Second Place Winner

Grimey Drawer
Did you know you're brilliant Trig? Because you are.

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
Ahahaha, in chapter three at about 3:45

I'm dying

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

Please leave the room if you think this might offend you.
Grimey Drawer

syscall girl posted:

How much of the sound engineering do you do vs. writing the script?

Not sure exactly what the distinction is, but basically I just start by taking thousands of samples based on how easy they are to clip out cleanly. Then once I've got a decent sample pool it's like assembling magnetic poetry, except with more trial and error based on the sound of his voice in the different clips. Once the story has sort of told me where it's going, I'll do a much more targeted round of sampling for the rough bits or links I just can't make.

I've taken so many samples for Dan Carlin that I'm almost certainly going to do more than one project with him. There's just hundreds of hours of source material, and he talks about so much violent and weird stuff.

syscall girl posted:

Any illustrators in mind?

Oh man I have no idea. I'd like to get some people working on it before long, though. I'm thinking I'm going to start putting this thing out in the public eye after maybe chapter five or six is done, because honestly I'm worried about the context changing so much that it's no longer as relevant or funny. I started this before Trump was even the nominee, and the fact that he's actually president now makes it come off considerably less farcically than originally intended.

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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Grimey Drawer

syscall girl posted:

Ahahaha, in chapter three at about 3:45

I'm dying

I'm glad you like that bit, as that's one of the parts I was least sure of. I felt like it was overdue for some silliness at that point, but the wife was ambivalent.

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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Grimey Drawer

Charles Bukowski posted:

Did you know you're brilliant Trig? Because you are.

Awww thanks! It's such a weird hobby that I'm always questioning my own sanity so it's very nice to hear good feedback.

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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Grimey Drawer
Oh hey while I'm at it, if y'all have ideas for a title I'm all ears. I was originally thinking Death To America: The Musical, but I would like to be able to fly in and out of the USA without being strip searched soooooo you know. Right now the working title is just 2020, but that is bland af.

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

this shall be humorous
Deaf to America?

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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Grimey Drawer
Nice! The Trump of Doom also comes to mind but it feels like it needs something more.

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
just call it profit and loss.jpg

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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Grimey Drawer

syscall girl posted:

just call it profit and loss.jpg

Prophet, surely

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
It's got to be a title that would fit as a hardcore history title.

Lunchmeat Larry
Nov 3, 2012

Hindsight is 2020: Of Trumps and Disparate Men

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.


syscall girl posted:

How much of the sound engineering do you do vs. writing the script? Any illustrators in mind?

I haven't even listened to the things but I'm going to suggest Brad Neely

purple death ray
Jul 28, 2007

me omw 2 steal ur girl

my dad posted:

Deaf to America?

Def 2 America

Blue Footed Booby
Oct 4, 2006

got those happy feet

Debt to America

Edit: The Rebirth of a Nation

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

Please leave the room if you think this might offend you.
Grimey Drawer

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

Hindsight is 2020: Of Trumps and Disparate Men

Dang I might jack the first half of that if nothing else, maybe combining it with the trump of doom thing.

Inspector Hound
Jul 14, 2003

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Trig Discipline posted:

Prophet, surely

yeah but if they see a file name as boring as what i suggested they'll assume it's porn and delicately sell you a story about some nebulous supervisor and then offer to swap you infrared nipple pics

Abongination
Aug 18, 2010

Life, it's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come.
Pillbug
MAGA 2020: Prophets and profits

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
Did you consider getting Kirk in on this?

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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Grimey Drawer
In what capacity? Does he do arts? I mainly know him from the cat thread.

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
He did this RAZER thing, which may or may not be your style I guess

Field Mousepad
Mar 21, 2010
BAE
Just go whole hog and get everdraed on board. Is he still around?

funmanguy
Apr 20, 2006

What time is it?
When you said Kirk I immediately thought of William Shattner. Now I'm imagining all of that read by Captain Kirk

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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Grimey Drawer
Oh yeah I remember that Kirk freakout, it's a classic. This stuff isn't something where you can just sit down and write something and expect it to work, it's seriously a whole other set of skills. I'm probably not going to farm out any of the audio stuff anyway; I have a pretty strong vision for how that's going to go and am anal enough about the compositing of the audio clips that I would almost certainly drive any hypothetical collaborator insane. I might ask some people if they want to try out writing alternative scores, though.

Mainly I need to get artists to illustrate it for YouTube; ultimately I only got illustrators for three chapters of Strelka and I'd like to do better for this one.

GodspeedSphere
Apr 25, 2008
The Obama oak, Trump orb, Zach Parsens (every loving thing) and Kirk's Razer party are my favorite things from S.A. bar none. Trig, am I right in reading that you're responsible for Son of Strelka? Because I ended up listening to that on repeat for like a month.



Holy loving poo poo Trig you're my E-Hero.

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Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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Grimey Drawer
Yep! And that's awesome!

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
Are you doing this through Markov fuckery or [other skill]?

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




Make America the Great Satan Again.

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007
Hindsight 2020: Prophet & Loss.

I like that combo of the two personally.

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

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Grimey Drawer

Karate Bastard posted:

Are you doing this through Markov fuckery or [other skill]?

Manually built from thousands of short clips. It takes a while. The time consuming part is building the library, but I'm pretty far into that already. The part I'm currently doing, where I actually assemble and score the story, is relatively quick and most def the fun part.

e: I should make a YouTube of the process because I always get this question and I'm never sure I even convey how it works properly.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Trig Discipline posted:


Oh man I have no idea. I'd like to get some people working on it before long, though. I'm thinking I'm going to start putting this thing out in the public eye after maybe chapter five or six is done, because honestly I'm worried about the context changing so much that it's no longer as relevant or funny. I started this before Trump was even the nominee, and the fact that he's actually president now makes it come off considerably less farcically than originally intended.

The only suggestion I have is maybe looking at bandcamp once you're done, because soundcloud's impossible-to-disable autoplay is pretty annoying.

As for the tracks themselves, they're really well-done, along with the animatics

poisonpill
Nov 8, 2009

The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.


Trump of the Will

SaltyJesus
Jun 2, 2011

Arf!

Barudak posted:

Dude isnt ignoring red flags so much looking at red flag factory, feeling unfomfortable, and then buying a pair of red wavelength canceling sunglasses.

Your Gay Uncle
Feb 16, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Trig Discipline posted:

Oh hey while I'm at it, if y'all have ideas for a title I'm all ears. I was originally thinking Death To America: The Musical, but I would like to be able to fly in and out of the USA without being strip searched soooooo you know. Right now the working title is just 2020, but that is bland af.

2 Punch Drunk Boxers Fighting On The Beach From Planet Of The Apes

goethe.cx
Apr 23, 2014


Trig Discipline posted:

Well hello there! Yeah that was my thing. I'm currently working on another one based on Dan Carlin podcasts.

It's the story of the 2020 election, in which Trump declares himself to be the messiah and destroys America. It's a slow burn for the first few chapters but by chapter five there are going to be mandatory congressional orgies which break down into cannibalism along party lines. Not sure how it ends yet but I'm thinking nukes will be involved. Chapters 1and 3 are the only ones with rough drafts of Mussorgsky far. 2 and 4 have nearly final words music to come shortly.

Chapter 1

Chapter 3

Mussorgsky was supposed to be "music so", but it's weird enough that I'm just going to leave it.

That typo is destiny telling you to use "Pictures at an Exhibition"

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Long Wang posted:

If I had a pole that was 1 light year long and I pushed it, how long until the other end moved?

fishmech posted:

It would take a minimum of 1 year for your poke from this end to reach all the way to the other end, and it would then take you an additional year to be able to see that it had in fact moved.

Depending on the material the pole was made of, it could take longer than a year to transmit the force of the poke to the other end. Or your poke might never make it all the way through because the mass of material in the way would absorb the force before it has time to make it all the way.

Long Wang posted:

Well, that's assume that the type of material isn't an issue, ie. it won't absorb, won't change shape even though I guess that might not be possible for such a long piece of material. It kind of confuses me because it means the length of the item is no longer one light year.

fishmech posted:

Yeah if it's a material that somehow stays in one piece when it's 1 lightyear long, and doesn't attenuate the force at all, it'll take exactly one light year for your nudge on this end to reach the other end.

Namarrgon posted:

There are no 'objects'. Movement of an 'object' is just the movement of its constituent atoms. Moving the light-year-rod requires movement of all the constituent atoms. This is accomplished by atoms physically pushing others when pushed. In small objects (small as in not relevantly light-time sized) this also applies, but is not a realistic concern. For large objects such as the theoretical light-year rod, it does matter.

The "won't change shape" clause doesn't make sense. If you push this end of the rod, you push the physical atoms into other atoms and so forth. This deforms the rod.

Flipperwaldt posted:

Is this building up to some username/post combo joke?

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The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Al Borland Corp. posted:

Uncle Ben runs an appliance store in this one and is still alive, just divorced from Aunt May. Peter is inspired when he turns on the television and says "With great power, comes great savings!"

"Yes", he says to himself, "I should be savings people"

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