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(07-19-2013, 08:45 AM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: [ -> ]So verizon suspended my internet service. Not a really well thought out idea by them considering it only redirects port 80 http traffic to their walled garden page. As I mentioned before I can access secure websites such as this forum, Facebook, Gmail, Outlook mail etc.. basically any website that listens to traffic on another port than port 80. I found an ssl proxy (proxyssl.org) that allows me to bypass their walled garden and access websites normally. I need someone to find me secure ssl proxies I can use until I can pay the bill. Either post here or message them to me. Otherwise I won't be able to acess anything than a few select websites. I tried to reason with Verizon and work out a payment plan but they won't turn me on until I pay the past due balance of $207. They won't turn me back on and accept payments of $35 per week which is all I can afford until I get a check next month and can pay the rest of the back balance.

Edit: A proxy that is safe to use to log into websites and services. Thank you.

If I were you I wouldn't pay and keep bypassing it/change ISPs. I suggest getting an addon, first user agent switcher to see if it lets you bypass when you act like a phone/google spider. Then try an addon that changes every webpage to https/different port, like https everywhere addon or something.

I've decided to start uploading videos to youtube. This will be done weekly or biweekly. Most of them will likely be me playing TF2 or CoH with steam friends. I'm still playing around with different video encoders and capture software but here is a test video I did with garrlker last night:


The gamma is noticeably lower and it's grainy most likely due to the poor downscale filter (probably nearest neighbor) that dxtory uses. I might setup a RAID 0 array with my two 10k HDD just to do 1080p raw capture. Getting youtube videos to look good is surprisingly hard.

I purchased Earthbound on Wii U VC today. I'm gonna wait till tomorrow to play.

Edit: Also, while were talking about youtube. I have tons of footage on my hard drives. Would anyone be interested in seeing them if I uploaded them?

You haven't told us anything about the footage.

I can't believe my eyes
This is unbelievable

(07-19-2013, 11:01 AM)omarman Wrote: [ -> ]

(07-19-2013, 08:45 AM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: [ -> ]So verizon suspended my internet service. Not a really well thought out idea by them considering it only redirects port 80 http traffic to their walled garden page. As I mentioned before I can access secure websites such as this forum, Facebook, Gmail, Outlook mail etc.. basically any website that listens to traffic on another port than port 80. I found an ssl proxy (proxyssl.org) that allows me to bypass their walled garden and access websites normally. I need someone to find me secure ssl proxies I can use until I can pay the bill. Either post here or message them to me. Otherwise I won't be able to acess anything than a few select websites. I tried to reason with Verizon and work out a payment plan but they won't turn me on until I pay the past due balance of $207. They won't turn me back on and accept payments of $35 per week which is all I can afford until I get a check next month and can pay the rest of the back balance.

Edit: A proxy that is safe to use to log into websites and services. Thank you.

If I were you I wouldn't pay and keep bypassing it/change ISPs. I suggest getting an addon, first user agent switcher to see if it lets you bypass when you act like a phone/google spider. Then try an addon that changes every webpage to https/different port, like https everywhere addon or something.

Yeah I can't really afford it atm with me moving within the next month or two. I have twenty five days until they shut me off completely. The only options for high speed internet where I am moving is either satellite or Verizon Home Fusion so I am going to look into the latter for service. If I disappear for a while you guys will know why, it looks like no network around me is suitable as all are low signal and most being WPA/WPA2 secured.

The problem with https proxies is they won't let me log into anything. It also has to be a web proxy else I get the Verizon walled garden page. :/

Shonumi Wrote:One of the defining faults (aside from this glasses and stupid jeans, and the hats too) of a hipster is that he/she is into something without actually knowing why it should be liked, especially when it comes to all things "retro". As long as I say it's good, retro, or hell, even both, I can fool potential buyers. Hipsters aren't known for their breadth of knowledge regarding whatever "retro" fad they're into. Never overestimate a hipster.

Go look at some ebay prices. Regular CRT monitors won't sell unless they're dirt cheap. Good ones like trinitrons sell for very high. This is true pretty much everywhere online.

Shonumi Wrote:I see these getting used a lot as opposed to the good ones (first two from lamedude's link). It's not like Blargg's NTSC filter is some unheard of dark magic; quite the contrary, he's got it well documented and even has workable C or C++ code that (I assume like his Blip Buffer) you could use straightaway in a project, so it doesn't really seem to be matter of effort (unless you have to convert the code to another language).

If it isn't built into their favorite emulator they're not going to even know it exists. Only the really serious enthusiasts will actively look for and go through the hassle of installing these filters.

Shonumi Wrote:It's like, we have something that's better looking and extremely easy to implement, but people keep using lesser, inadequate CRT filters. And it's been this way for years. Out of all the emulators I have installed that can emulate scanlines or "TV Mode", SNES9x is the only one with Blargg's NTSC filter.

Those simpler filters are more widely available and are less demanding.

Shonumi Wrote:But cheap CRT filters predate so-called "retro" hipsters.

I disagree.

Shonumi Wrote:In the beginning, it was more or less genuine people who wanted to see games emulated as if they were playing on their old displays or TVs (as NV mentioned).

Yes and both sets of filters do that. One set happens to do it better than the other.

Shonumi Wrote:The cheap ones were bad back then and still are now, so I don't know why anyone would use an inferior filter, even before hipsters came onto the scene.

The good ones didn't exist back then.

Shonumi Wrote:If I were into CRT filters back when I first started (2003) I honestly would have just waited until better filters came out (or just played games on my CRT TV if it were that important, since it was in the same room as my computer back then).

Well you're not them. They wanted it more.

Shonumi Wrote:Hipsters I can understand, but why purists or enthusiasts would bother with some of the lesser CRT filters I've seen is something I just don't get, since they were really far away their intended effects, imo.

Some purists don't. As for the others, see above.

Eat it Verizon.

Purchased vpn access for $6 since I don't currently have the full $207 they want. Works like a charm and smoking fast too.

NaturalViolence Wrote:Go look at some ebay prices. Regular CRT monitors won't sell unless they're dirt cheap. Good ones like trinitrons sell for very high. This is true pretty much everywhere online.

Go look back at my last two posts. Note the lack of seriousness. You're being way too analytical over what was supposed to be just a side-joke :/

NaturalViolence Wrote:If it isn't built into their favorite emulator they're not going to even know it exists. Only the really serious enthusiasts will actively look for and go through the hassle of installing these filters.

That's missing the point I was raising. It doesn't matter if the end-user knows about it, my comments were aimed at those making emulators (who in turn build people's favorite emulators). Blargg's NTSC filter isn't one of the harder filters you could implement in an emulator, yet it seldom gets used in emulators. They instead rely on ones that just draw black lines every other scanline (the same ones that have been around for quite a while). I've gone through all of my emulators; only SNES9x and Mednafen use Blargg's NTSC filter. The rest draw black lines. I just don't see why programs like Desmume would almost literally give you every major 2D scaling filter, even a custom one like HQ2Xs, but it still uses a shoddy scanline filter. Though, to be fair, I can't imagine a lot of people are demanding to see what their DS games would have looked like on a CRT display.

NaturalViolence Wrote:Those simpler filters are more widely available and are less demanding.

And what's uncommon about Blargg's NTSC filter? The code's available on his site for years now, and it's not like it's been kept a secret from everyone interested in programming an emulator. As for it being more demanding, I would only imagine performance is a concern if you have seriously underpowered hardware. My T3400 runs SNES9x like a champ, even with Blargg's NTSC filter, even when downclocked to 1 GHz. Would it kill my Raspberry Pi, a modded original XBOX, or a basic run-of-the-mill smartphone (from yesteryear)? Probably; everything else shouldn't even be a concern nowadays. Fwiw, most of the more advanced filters like the HQx are more demanding than Blargg's NTSC filter, but we've had entry-level OEM hardware that can run that just fine for years now. I've even had older hardware (P4 around 2 GHz paired with a 64 MB Nvidia GPU) hold its own with HQ2x.

NaturalViolence Wrote:I disagree.

Explain. As I said, I've been in the emulation scene since 2003, and I'm certain bad scanline CRT filters were present in emulators before even then. In my personal life experience, I never met any one I would define as a hipster who was specifically into "retro" gaming until at least 2008, right after High School and I started going to college. I sure met people who were into emulation and older games (even all the way to systems like the 2600), but I wouldn't have called them hipsters. Your experiences, of course, may vary.

NaturalViolence Wrote:The good ones didn't exist back then.

NaturalViolence Wrote:Well you're not them. They wanted it more.

If I were one of them and I wanted more, wouldn't waiting be the better option rather than forcing myself to use a filter that poorly emulates the look and feel of a CRT display? Waiting for a good one to exist, although annoying on one level, seems like a sensible thing to do, especially given the quality. If I really wanted the look and feel of a CRT, stuff like this isn't going to cut it. There's always the argument that it's better than nothing, but why use something that mediocre if it's going to fall that short of expectations. I guess the only better option than waiting (aside from complaining to emulator developers) would have been to research making a better CRT filter oneself.

NaturalViolence Wrote:Some purists don't. As for the others, see above.

The ones that do must be out of their minds (or desperate) to use them. Cheap CRT filters irk me even though I'm pretty much ambivalent when it comes to playing games with as much authenticity as possible (I do it from time to time).

Sleep helps solving problems, usually....

I just figured out my problem. Like I assumed before, I had to delete Vec2Ref's copy constructor (I realized implementing it to be less dumb is not possible and wouldn't make any sense anyway). Additionally I need to have two copy constructors in Vec2 though - one for Vec2 objects and one for Vec2Ref objects.