omg let’s pleeeeeease have some sort of narratively-relevant sentient cat pleeeeaaaaaaseeeeee I ask for so little
Can you think of a cat that’s a pet, but also some sort of distrikt tool?
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@hugi mentioned some toxiplasmo-something? Cat is carrier of something that makes people docile and serve it while also having important conflict resolution/social harmony enhancing properties like Adele in that SNL skit about thanksgiving (everyone loves kittens)?
Do we need the final name (not-Extremistan) for the video?
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“Brother Chinhua’s team has made another breakthough with developing the closed-loop ecology onboard the Saint Cristopher! We could go much faster, but the Superiors want us to develop the first prototype on parchment, and run the computation by hand.”
“They are wise, Brother. Too easy access to the Order’s AIs would tempt us into arrogance.”
BREAKING – The Heron of Alexandria Cooperative, based out of the Lothlorien Distrikt Minor in The Assembly, has rolled out a cocktail of microorganisms that, once ingested, allows animals (including humans) to efficiently digest previously indigestible materials, including cellulose. “It’s not for sale – Coop spokeswoman Vittoria Alata De Robertis told this reporter – As always, we open sourced the protocol to make it; on top of it, we have started our own production, which we offer the members of our cooperative as a benefit. This will make us very popular, and practically unkillable: being able to eat practically anything future-proofs as against any imaginable supply chain breakdown.”
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This is purrfect! 
just started some imagery experiments this morning and used a cat as my base vid
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Hhhmmmm though that would be good, I’ve figured a way not to give too much detail, so we don’t have to make this decision right now
Apologies for the delay. My first attempt was garbage. Upgraded my camera and mic. Here you go: 1080p, as requested, 5000kbps bitrate on the video. I’ve used a rudimentary noise gate in OBS to clip out some of the background noise and record only when speaking.
5 seconds of ungated silence included, all separate files. Hope this can be used.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uDRS4JK8UwFtd2GI_sk-JdV0JYP-JGFd?usp=sharing
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Biscotti approves of cat gods
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Wonderful, Yudha! Thank you so much!
I’m finding my way around the content =)
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HE’S BEAUTIFUL!!!
I wont add my own here 
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hey @IvanC could you send me all those logos I should use at the end of my video?
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Alright everyone! Here’s my “Introduction to the project” video!
I hope you like it! It was certainly a labour of love 
Relevant tags: @nadia @MariaEuler @alberto @yudhanjaya @IvanC @hugi
And here’s a couple of notes about it:
An un-crunchy request
In the end I had to give this video a lot or priority these last few days and I’m late with everything else in my life 
it would be nice, in case you request any changes, that you don’t request anything too structural. But if needed, I’ll find a way.
A couple of apologies
— I’m sorry I didn’t include any cats. I tried to, I swear, but couldn’t fit them in any work/economics scenario, so I ended up cutting the cat I had already prepared. Thought the scenes I included were more relevant to set the tone
— I showed up too much in the video, and the real reason is that I failed at properly briefing Alberto and Yudha. I realise now I should have been far more specific. In the end I had to record a bunch of things to ‘fill the gaps’ that I myself created. I hope that’s not too much of a bother, but if it is, I volunteer to create a new version with a more balanced division if you folks provide me with more scenes (but not before Monday, please, these things take time)
The last seconds
The last 15 second of the video are the way they are to take advantage of the end card function on youtube — which is powerful, and should be used!
I know a bunch of youtube optimization tricks, so to whoever is gonna upload it: if you wanna jam, I’m up for it!
(I know you folks like Vimeo, but the audience is not there. Strongly recommend you surrender to our Kapitalyst overlords just this once)
Would be nice to include
In the description of the video, if would be cool if you included something like:
Video by Joriam Ramos
Check out his worldbuilding series: https://tinyurl.com/worldbuildingt
Mandatory to include
This one here is absolutely mandatory, just so we’re legal with the content I used:
Extra media provided by
Train footage by Machinist Stefan
Cab Ride NL Den Haag CS, Under CC-BY
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I like it!
Of course we will include it. Who does the upload? @IvanC?
It’s fab! And also, I have subtitles for it (Descript is really good for this) - where do i upload them for you?
I was expecting cat wrath from you Nadia
I’m not very versed with subtitles, but I think you need to upload it in the video platform after you upload the video itself
I guess just keep it in our drive folder for now?
my cats are catty enough for 7 people so we’re good.
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Love it!
The train was an awesome idea and I like the iceberg concept more and more.
I have a request though.
Please add in the beginning a silent black (or white) fade in with the EIT Climate KIC logo.
They are pretty strict about their branding and it is necessary.
No problem, I will upload the video as soon as the webinar is over.
Et voilà les subtitles.