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Meep the Changeling


Channeling insanity into entertaining tales since 2015-01-19.

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  • 20 weeks
    New Story out now!

    Hey everyone! Remember that thing I said I'd be doing a while back? Well... Here it is!

    TEvergreen Falls
    A group of mares in a remote Equestrian town uncover some of history's most ancient secrets.
    Meep the Changeling · 218k words  ·  26  0 · 438 views
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  • 28 weeks
    Hey guys! What's new?

    So, I haven't been here in a good long while. I got the writing itch a while back, specifically for ponies and my old Betaverse fics. I might have something in the pipeline. I've got a few questions I'd like to ask the general pony-reading audience if you don't mind. Just so I can see if my writing style should be tweaked a bit for the modern audience.

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    15 comments · 330 views
  • 100 weeks
    Stardrop's Lackluster Ending

    Hello everyone. I know I've been away for a while, but that's due to me deciding to finish stories before I post them to revise, edit, and alter them to give you all better stories to read. I don't feel free to do so when I post stories live. This results in me getting frustrated with how a story is shaping up and then dropping it. That wasn't a problem when I was younger, but it's become one as

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    17 comments · 763 views
  • 105 weeks
    Anyone know artists who do illistrations for stories?

    I'm low key working on a story which I intend to complete before posting. I'm enjoying being able to go back and improve, tweak, and change things to make the best possible version of the story, and it's nice to not feel like I am bound to a strict schedule of uploads.

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    4 comments · 283 views
  • 127 weeks
    A metatextual analisis of "The Bureau: XCOM Declassified" to show how it fits in the series timelines

    A lot of people like the rebooted XCOM series, and a lot of people also insist its lore is bad/nonexistent. This isn't true in my opinion, but is the product of the game that sets up the world for the series having been released a year after the first game in the series as a prequel, and also it sucks ass to play. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is not a good game. At all. The story is really good,

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    18 comments · 450 views
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... dial-up modem at the end there.

Anyone want to translate the Hex title into ASCII or UniCode?

5505431
It’s Chrysalis if anyone wants to know.

Don’t know what the sounds in the vid are though.

That's one earworm that won't fade soon enough. Memories of my first computer class, back in MCMLXXVII.

Meep, why do you do this to our ears?

I was half expecting that you'd done something to make the dial-up tones simulate something that could be called musical.

At the limit of what i know know how its been a few hours and im out of things to try to look for. Someone smarter then me let me know what you did and how you did it cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/373339965968482307/835573488718315590/Capture.PNG

sounds like it should be a image trough audio (SSTV or FSTV) , tough i haven't yet been able to decode it .-.

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Would've been funny if it was in something odd like EBCDIC or something, though. :derpytongue2:

As for the audio, it's some sort of picture encoded in "Robot 72" SSTV encoding. No idea what the picture *is*, since I don't happen to have a decoder installed, but it's definitely some sort of image. Maybe I'll install MMSSTV sometime and check it out, though.

5505623
i've been trying with MMSSTV, but nothing seems to come out

5505402 5505432 5505508

5505623 Is correct. This is an image converted into audio form. There are plenty of free programs which can convert it into an image... the trail doesn't end there, however. 5505624 Try that thing the Five Nights at Freddies guy makes people do do very dark images on the output.

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ugh, a game i never played becouse i dont like scary stuff XD, lemme see if some google-fu helps, becouse i'm not playing that game :P

5505755 Yeah turns out most scanners lack a denoiser :/ See my next blogpost for a valid source. Sorry about that. I ran everything myself and it worke don my equipment. Thought a de-noiser module was standard ><

5505627
You trying to pull some kind of Sorceress Adel kinda shenanigans or some shit? :rainbowhuh:

5505755
I used Color -> Auto -> Equalize in GIMP on the (known good) SSTV output image they gave in another post, used the color picker to turn any blue color the same pink as the code, used the Color -> brightness/contrast dialog to turn the contrast to max and brightness down until it looked good, and manually cleaned up some of the green bits, mainly around the edges and around the targets. Then I set the image color mode to grayscale, because Barcode Scanner much preferred it that way, and it scanned in pretty quickly after that.

5506165 A little elaborate. You only needed to bump contrast up untill the gray becomes black. But good job!

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Well, the auto-equalize turned the pink image you posted into a magenta-pink-on-white QR with green and blue junk all over it, even with tweaking brightness/contrast after the auto-equalize. The couple shades of blue were all where pink should be, but the green was just all over. So after replacing the blues with pink, I manually cleaned up the edges and the targets on the QR code to help the app find it (and turned it grayscale because the app apparently didn't like magenta on white, either, though some of that could,ve been from all the green noise still left on the image.)

I actually tried all the "auto" options, and auto-equalize seemed to be the one to give the closest to a usable QR from the image given, so I went from there.

I suppose the other main overly convoluted bit I did was that the barcode reader program (does all sorts of 1D and 2D barcodes, not just QR) is on my phone, so I scanned it from my computer screen with my phone, and rather than typing the whole long URL in on my desktop, I just told it to open the URL in Kiwi Browser (after turning on WiFi, since my phone has no data connection for reasons). then downloaded the file there, and transferred it to my desktop over bluetooth so that I could actually open it in WinRAR.
Really neat video, btw. :pinkiehappy:

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