Dapat kasi higpitan pa nila lalo yung anti-scalping measures. Tipong kung bibili ka ng multiple tickets dapat yung names ng each additional ticket holder need mo na ilagay when purchasing and it should match the name of each claimant sa venue. Para hindi mo ma-resell.

Yun nga lang, may gana ba yung nagchecheck sa venue or basta na lang pinapapasok basta may ticket? That's the likely scenario actually, which would make any countermeasure moot.

This does sound like a suicide attempt. I think a lot of people attribute being hogtied to the presence of an attacker when those who commit suicide are known to tie themselves so that they won't be able to back out.

I thought he was going to be an inutile president at best, but he's alright so far. Parang P-Noy days lang wherein you can generally ride out the term peacefully, save for a few hiccups. Duterte era lang talaga yung so bad you have your butt cheeks clenched every day. Of course andyan pa rin yung mga hihirit na gusto daw "isanitize" yung memories ng Marcoses (as if naman what BBM does isn't independent of his father's transgressions) or calm before the storm daw, lmao.

Then again, I'm not one to lionize politicians. I give them props if they do something good and chastise them if there's anything bad, and I don't care what the name on the plaque says. That's why it's much easier for me to objectively look at Robin Padilla (who says a lot of stupid shit that doesn't endear him to an already hostile crowd) instead of saying intellectually dishonest sweeping statements like "WaLa NaMaN SiLbi" which isn't true at all. I like that JV Ejercito is willing to look at small scale nuclear reactors for alternative energy while Risa Hontiveros (who usually isn't wrong) gets a thumbs down from me for not even looking at the proposal and going "hurr durr meltdown bataan". Villar is correct that we should be putting as much attention to the ASF outbreak as the Guo circus.

"Preacher" is putting it lightly, haha.

Nope. I don't go to concerts. Well, isa pa lang sinadya ko (Explosions in the Sky) and the rest free sa mall (Cobra Starship, Twenty One Pilots, Walk The Moon). I prefer kasi to just stand/sit there and soak it all in, and that's seen as a no-no in concerts wherein they expect you to drown out the performer by singing along and behaving like you have ADHD. Plus I hate crowds.

as for the demographic I think gen z would be a prime target cause she’s young relatable

Yeah makes sense kasi she's young and entertaining, but musically jazz isn't something kids would appreciate. I can't even think of a modern interpretation of jazz na hindi niche. I remember 20 years ago, the closest comparison I could make to Laufey was Mika Nakashima and she wasn't exactly a household name.

Trivia: This makes an appearance on an episode of Succession, right down to the towel covering practice. That's how I found out about it to begin with.

Me!! Nagulat ako natuloy yung concert. Nagulat din ako sa mga fans na nagpunta (based sa pics). Wasn't expecting younger gen-Zs or alphas to be the demographic of that style of music.

On a related note, ang ganda ng what constitutes as pop music today. It's heavily influenced by 90s alternative rock and 2000s dreampop which were my jam growing up. Olivia Rodrigo, Maisie Peters, Lyn Lapid, mxmtoon, Girl in Red, beabadoobee, and so on. A far cry sa pop nung panahon ko that I still can't get into... yung mga Britney Spears and all that crap.

I've been recording since the 90s, so I don't think anyone inspired me to do what would later be defined as "archiving". The idea of digitizing and posting on the internet however, I credit to a guy named "fiscaplyder". He would share old commercials as early as 2003 in PinoyExchange, and you can clearly see a lot of his uploads being reposted as well as a bevy of impersonators. This inspired me start my own channels like this one from 2006 and then another called Marikinadono in 2007 which has since been shut down after I got busy and forgot about it entirely.

Then more than a decade later during the pandemic, I decided to open UndustFixation intending to do commentary on batang 90s antiques and old clips. The channel name is a play on the term "unjust vexation" with "Undust" obviously about uncovering and dusting anything old and dirty while "Fixation" comes from being "fixated" about something.

Those plans fell on the side for a couple of years until I revisited it in late 2023 after a few days in the hospital led to me discovering BuKo Channel. I was like a kid on a candy store seeing episodes of shows that I used to watch or never fully appreciated as a child. I realized, hey, I have tons of this shit just sitting at home. Kind of a waste to let it rot away. The rest was history!

I'm not in this for personal glory. I don't even use my real name! When people say thanks, they say UndustFixation or Undust and not the person/pseudonym behind it. Those who personally know me are well aware of my anxiety with attention and getting praise. When I make donations, I do it anonymously. Of course, I kind of went against what I'm saying by posting here — but it had to be said just to underscore my point. Because this idea that I'm some fameremoved that demands credit is just patently false.

I'm also not in the hobby out of some phony platitude about saving the industry or anything like that. Most probably are (and kudos to them for that), but not me. I'm into archiving because I want to be able to enjoy what I used to see (or missed) at my own pace. That's it, plain and simple.

Uploading it is optional and secondary, as I want others to chime in on what they think or know about the clips. I am not obligated to provide the community with non-watermarked videos and no one is forcing them to watch. I don't care if your viewing experience is ruined. If it's too bothersome, no one is stopping you from going out there and doing your own archiving. In fact, you'd be doing the community a huge service by dipping your toes in instead of whinging.

Maybe "archivist" or "preservationist" is not the right label for me, and you probably should stop referring to me as one to avoid setting the wrong expectations. I guess, curator??

The bulk of my content come from VHS. They are surprisingly robust and last many years as long as you store them properly. If you lose your digitized copies, you can just go back to the tapes and re-convert. Due to the age of the technology, you're also almost always guaranteed that the content is going to be old.

I use a Panasonic AG-1980p S-VHS player to get the best possible quality out of the tapes. I also have a backup Sharp S-VHS player hooked up to a Panasonic DMR-ES18 to serve as a line TBC passthrough. I recently acquired a working Sony betamax too, but I don't use it as much due to fear of breaking it. All tapes are captured losslessly through Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle so I can upscale it a bit using Virtualdub to 960x720 and retain the 4:3 aspect ratio. All videos are then compressed for storage using Handbrake.

While my uploads purport to be 60 FPS (as seen on the screenshot below), this is merely placebo and the default setting on my encoder that I didn't bother to change as it has no bearing on the filesize anyway. The broadcast standards in TV before 2009 is 29.97 FPS, so my records are 30 FPS at best. Anything above that is unnatural and is not how it was intended to be viewed back in the day. Your definition of "smooth" is just you being used to all the 4K/60 HDR10+ quality videos today.

Around 2006 or 2007, I stopped using VCRs and transitioned to TV tuners. It was the worst decision of my life, but had no choice as my VCR broke down and it has fallen out of favor with the rise of DVDs. On one hand, this was the peak of my recording years as I recorded all kinds of channels from the usuals to something like early boring QTV, TV5Monde or RAI International, lmao. On the other, hard drive space was expensive so I had to capture at 240p and burn them on DVDs. Little did I know that discs had a astoundingly bad lifespan, leading to several recordings being lost.

I completely stopped recording after 2008. Therefore, you won't see me post anything beyond that date. It would be inauthentic and clearly not from my collection. I did have one short clip from Balls in 2011 as I was still watching volleyball during those years, but that's it.

Implying that watermarks mean I'm claiming ownership of the videos is such a dumb malicious takeaway.

The owners are the networks and the copyright holders — an imbecile could see that, and it goes without saying. I don't even use the term "my videos" to describe anything I post, but rather "my uploads". I also stopped using 'thieves' and opted for "reposters" so my displeasure is more plain and less open to interpretation. Retorts like "NiNaKaW mO rIn NaMan YaN" won't apply because no one is accusing anyone a thief but rather for reposting — I'm the direct source of what you posted, not the networks/ad agencies, even though they created it.

So, with semantics out of the way:

The reason for watermarks is to track sources.

Did ABS-CBN create the 1982 City 2 station ID? Absolutely. But they weren't the ones who made it possible for you to see it again after 40+ years, and it actually remains to be seen if they had a copy at all. It's kinda like Halley's Comet — Edmond Halley wasn't the first to discover it, but it was named after him for reintroducing it to the world. Besides, if I'm doing my thesis or a media person working on a piece about archiving, I want to be able to talk to the person who found it and how, not some kid with no meaningful knowledge or contributions who just snip away on a cellphone using Clideo. It's also preferable that all discussions about the discovery happen in one place and not spread across a dozen copies.

But I hear you. I understand the frustration with the watermarks. I said it before last year that I hate them for precisely the reasons mentioned by some viewers, and then some.

In fact, my first few months of uploads didn't have watermarks.

Unfortunately they ended up being reposted and the wrong sources were being credited. Celebrities like Giselle Sanchez, Heidi Hocson, Jay Manalo, Ryan Eigenmann, and others would end up thanking the wrong person. Heck, even Radyo 630 (who technically own TV Patrol by virtue of being an ABS-CBN subsidiary) credited the guy who reposted my first iPhone upload.

The double whammy here is that these pages are eligible for monetization and been making money from the traffic it brought. I'm not earning from this, never will be, and haven't made a cent. The stars from FB given to me in kind (roughly equivalent to about P23) remain in stasis. I'm fine with that as this was never intended to be a cash cow anyway — but at the same time, I don't think it's fair that I'm doing the hard work of finding/buying/cleaning tapes and digitizing them while others profit or reap praise from it.

As for the "obnoxious" watermarks, that's a recent development and is typically used only with select uploads. Some pages have been using AI erasers to "remove" the logo. Here is one such page doing it:

This necessitated using moving watermarks to counteract it. I thought that was a decent compromise than the big permanent text in the center that others use. Not surprisingly, reposters were upset with this move as it made it difficult for them to repost and so resort to astroturfing the comments section. Hence why I laugh at them. Most of the followers sympathize with the move while there are some legit gripes from those unfamiliar with why I do it.

I'm not selfish. 99.9% of those who ask for permission to repost, I almost always say yes. I give copies of my rare anime to a local team that does remasters of lost tagalog dubs. I even promote pages or — at one point when I temporarily retired my YouTube channel — allowed them to post my uploads on theirs and I didn't bother to reupload it when I eventually reopened the channel.

The only requests I turn down are those who want to repost as is — mostly because I don't see the point of it. If they're going to watch the same thing, why not just do it on my page? But those types of requests are rare, since they just go ahead and repost it without notifying me. Often the requests I get are the ones listed below, and I have no problem with any of them and its gleefully encouraged:

• For use with recreations
• Only certain parts are needed from the long clip
• The actors/artists/relatives of those that are featured asking to either repost it or an unblemished copy
• Attempts at remastering at a higher quality (AI upscaler megalulz)
• Listicle compilations
• Making reels (like this one although they didn't bother to seek or give credit but its alright, the watermark is there anyway)

Let me make one thing perfectly clear:

WE DON'T HAVE EVERY SINGLE VIDEO IN EXISTENCE!

It would be foolish to assume that we do. So many shows and events are happening during the "free time" we're recording and there's only one VCR and TV. Although there is evidence of people (usually rich) that have several VCRs recording on different TVs at the same time, that's an outlier — and even then, they're still bound to miss a large chunk of what's out there.

What archivists personally have is typically dependent on what interests them. I don't want to speak for Jojo Bailon, but I could surmise from his uploads that he's into musicals, variety shows, and PBA games — and, not surprisingly, his uploads are commercials, bumpers, idents, before, around, and during any of those programs. Dann Garcia is a 24 Oras/GMA superfan and the bulk of his content are of that show and its surrounding commercials.

I wouldn't expect VOTIII to have, say, Dragon Ball or Yaiba, as anime don't appear to be in his purview. Nor would I pester Dann Garcia to release Epiderm A or Fake Doomsday ad as it predates the year he began capturing.

That said, the issue with requests isn't so much that we have or don't have — it's more like requests are annoying and offensive in general. It shows a lack of appreciation (whether existing or imagined) of what the archivist is doing for free and out of their own schedule and convenience. Imagine uploading an ultra-rare clip that the internets spent years finding and you finally put an end to the quest by putting it out there and the comments you get are "BoSs SaNa StAiNeD gLAsS NaMaN". Yes, we could always hide and ignore it, but it's done. We've seen it. And there's like 200 more comments and messages like that. And then some would handwave your reactions as being sensitive or childish and it just compounds things even further.

Almost everything I upload come from my personal collection or something I've recorded in the past but discarded during the "Great Tape Purge of 2007" (in which I threw out over 70% of my tapes during the home renovation) but have since rediscovered.

The type of shows we record run the gamut of tagalized anime, pro wrestling, cartoons, musical performances (usually of the rock genre), sports, lifestyle programs, local sitcoms and dramas, technology, news, and travel. Incidental commercials and IDs are also part of those recordings. You rarely would see me upload anything that I (or someone in the family) wasn't watching.

I do procure tapes from numerous sources, but 80% of the time there's nothing meaningful in it. I've wasted so much money gambling on mysterious tapes that I usually ignore any leads that require payment these days, mostly to boycott archivist tax.

100% of my lost media discoveries are entirely by accident. I play tapes without knowing what's inside, let it run in the background, and capture anything interesting I hear. It's not like "oh I want to see Caritas Gutom!" and all of a sudden I have it. It takes a lot of luck, often times money, and more luck.

I'm not really into what many consider as the lost media iceberg. To me, everything old is of equal importance. I do have my own personal "white whales", and have stricken off a large chunk from the list like Buddy 'En Sol, i Channel, Early Myx, and Karne Ka Lang sa Hazing, this year alone.

So far, only six videos remain on my list:

• ABC 5's "Don't Let This Happen To Your Children" PSA (1992)
• Big Bobs TVCs - Whammos, Fat Fingers, Zingies (1994)
• MTV Asia 1998-era with Donita Rose
• Channel [V] Philippines 2000s era
• ABC 5's Beatles documentaries (1991?)
• Uncle Bob's Lucky 7 Club (the eps I was able to catch as a child, as in late 80s to early 90s)

Community will remain open. I just won't be starting anymore monthly chat threads or talking to myself.

On paper (no pun intended), the author profile at the end of the book is common. But it doesn't have verbiage like this. Lumalabas tuloy na the book is about her. Not surprised of course, given what we know about Sara or the Duterte's in general, just that there's no going around that.

Did this inspire "Talk To Me"? lol

Hindi pala reliable yung community notes sa Twitter. People could easily prop up and upvote an incorrect dispute.

The point of decriminalizing it is that you don't have to do jail time while awaiting trial. Sure you can post bail, but it's 1) anti-poor, 2) libel is not a heinous act wherein the safety of the public is in jeopardy if the accused is allowed to wander, 3) it inconveniences the accused for something that the courts would likely trash, and thereby 4) make it prone to abuse and as a tool for harassment.

If you want to teach someone a lesson to be responsible for their actions, then the fine and/or jail time after they're proven guilty should suffice.

But whether or not people understood the joke or it's funny is irrelevant in the context of the lawsuit. In libel, you need to prove that the guy had malicious intent. Clearly he didn't and was just trying to be funny. People are all up in arms defending guys like Ressa and Bello for their cyber libel lawsuits when there's wayyyyy more justification there than this one. Heck, Ressa was 100x more of an asshole when the complainant reasoned with her than Ileiad's "Is this a threat".

Confiado is yet another proof why cyber libel needs to be decriminalized. It's all good when the case has merit, but it's too open to abuse. No one should be detained just because someone got butthurt.

Daming nagsasabi na Maya is dominating GCash when it's the exact opposite. Just because the app is always down and is a haven for scammers has no bearing on its status as the country's ubiquitous digital payment system. Kahit taho vendors yan gamit.

tl,dr: Mon Confiado is suing someone for using him as the placeholder on the grocery store copypasta.

It's a stupid lawsuit and why I hate cyber libel. It's a meme! It's unfortunate that many took it literally (that's Filipinos on the internet for you), but to say the guy had malicious intent is ridiculous. What does he hope to gain by deliberately ruining your reputation?

At the same time, dude should have read the room and saved himself the trouble by just deleting it. Unlike Maria Ressa who could afford to be arrogant and pay legal fees because she can recoup those costs from the ego strokes she's getting and being martyrized, you're just some guy with a pseudonym and lacking in allies. Take the L and live another day. Too late for that, though!

Deadpool and Wolverine just crossed the 1b mark in less than 3 weeks. Unfortunately, they're not the first R film to do that but the pitiful Joker, lol.

This kinda makes sense. I've seen her performance and you can tell that she can lift the weight easily, but struggled with concentration and having the right attitude approaching the area.

Only 20 though. Still have a couple of Olympics appearances in her future.

The Caloy-Angela Yulo tiff in a nutshell: A "minor" in a poor family gives his parent unfettered access to his bank account once he started making money. To no one's surprise, maraming withdrawal. Nagkaroon ng falling out, made worse by the mom disliking yung girlfriend (who she sees as a gold digger) and someone he met only because she slid into his DMs when he was already a star.

It's a tale as old as time and literally the story of most high earners in a poverty-stricken family. Not sure why people are reacting to it like personally affected sila or alam nila saan napunta yung pera, and that they're celebrating the mom being cut off the winnings.

Personally, I'm more bothered by how we treat our Olympians. The road to the Olympics is hard, iilan lang nakakapunta dun. Manalo matalo they should be well-funded and compensated. Incentive na rin yan for more kids to get into other sports. But we only seem to care pag nanalo na sila ng gold medal. EJ Obiena, Hidilyn Diaz, Carlos Yulo, lahat sila kailangan dumiskarte sa training. Pati nga si Alex Eala (not an Olympian but related) pinabayaan, pero since mayaman siya she had the luxury to tell the government "fuck you" nung saka sila nagpapansin kung kailan nananalo na.

While it's true that the previous president had a drug war, he did go on record (as reliable as the word of a drunk is) that he supports medical marijuana citing his personal experience with abusing fentanyl to treat injuries.

Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation

Legend

A lot of people hated the film adaptation but I think it kind of paints them sympathetically (well, Euronymous mostly) as kids that were just trying to be too edgy for their own good.

Can't say the same for Varg, though. He's still a dick to this day.

Pacquiao was terrible at his job anyway. He gave housing to his constituents, but never did anything that helped the poor in general. Tulfo, through his program, at least functioned like a small claims/petty court. He also files bills that are actually helpful to the poor like this, this, and especially this.

Carlos Yulo is the man! Go get that gold/s, brother!

I kinda expected Cena to retire since he's had quite a successful Hollywood run but still sad to see him go kahit hindi ako fan. He's the wrestler I've seen the longest with Undertaker, Triple H, all retired. He's had some banger matches although mic skills niya was always annoying.

The problem I have with history teachers (at least from my experience) is that they tend to have a bias on how they teach it. I'd prefer that they just explain everything as is and let the students decide.

A good example is this, the Marcoses. I'm so sick and tired of the Marcos era being taught in such a black and white way. Puros na lang human rights this, Voltes V that. Or if you're pro-Marcos, infrastructure this, heinous crimes punished that. No mention at all of his complex relationship with the Americans or lord knows what else was buried because the narrative is always drastically on either side and walang middle ground.

Jeez, triangle pa rin pala system ni Tim. Some old heads have modified their coaching styles (Pop most notably) to keep up with the times, but he's still clinging on to an archaic system. I remember that one of the reasons why Phil was ousted as NY GM is because he wants the team to still run it... and that was in 2017.

But it works, so good for him and Gilas.

Josh Howard was canceled back in 2008 for saying he doesn't celebrate the Star Spangled Banner because he's black... 10+ years later and doing that is cool.

Parang MLM lang, lmao.

Lots of school shootings way before Columbine and for some reason it's credited as the one that started it all.

Wearing a trench coat to conceal the rifle he was carrying

Ang mahal pala ng .ph domain pag nirerenew. That's the trap I wasn't able to read up on. Not a problem anyway kasi wala ako balak irenew lemmy domain.

This protest was beyond a joke, it's a farce. lol.