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Neuralblastoma



Joined: 19 Feb 2002
Posts: 109
Location: Ottawa Ontario Canada

PostPosted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:04 am    Post subject: What other newsgroups do you frequent? Reply with quote

I can't really make a poll for this since there are over 40 000 groups, so just list them.

Excluding porn, what other groups do you...

Download from?

Post to?

Read? (discussion groups)

How often do you check them?

I'm subscribed to 87 groups, but the only ones I check on a daily basis are ABMA and alt.binaries.sounds.jpop.

ABSJ is also the only other group I post to on semi-regular basis. I'm posting some videos there right now. I'll post music videos(PV's), live performances that I get from WinMX, Bit Torrent and Soulseek and MP3's that I make myself from CD's I buy through YesAsia.com.

I check ABM.japanese every few days and I've posted there a few times, but not in a long while. I love Japanese movies, but most of what is posted there are TV J-Dramas which I'm not into.

The other groups I'm susbscribed to I'll check anywhere from once a week to once every few months.

During the TV season I like reading the discussion groups for The Simpsons, South Park and Futurama after new episodes air. Sadly, Futurama is finished so I guess I won't be checking that group anymore.

Anyway, I've been curious for awhile about what other groups you guys like so satisfy my curiosity and reply.
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Keikai



Joined: 18 Feb 2002
Posts: 178
Location: Miami, FL

PostPosted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't contribute anywhere else. And since I don't believe in offering opinions or asking for things in a group where I don't contribute (personal quirk, not something I push on others), this means I'm a completely silent lurker everywhere outside AB(M)A (lucky them, no? Cool ).

I very occasionally watch AB.games.anime and occasionally check the manga and comics groups. I've really never been into either, though, as I'd rather read a book or watch anime. Mainly I like to look at the art. Since I've always been proficient in sketch art and deficient in line art and coloring, there's a certain mystique for me there. I never was into comics growing up, but some modern comics have really good art, which I like to see. I used to check AB.sounds.anime but don't anymore, for no particular reason.

I read several binaries groups, including audiobooks groups for sci-fi/fantasy/suspense books as I have poor eyesight and the cost to buy or even rent unabridged audiobooks is HORRENDOUS, although I still buy and rent some to assuage my guilt (and still buy and read print for really important books, of course, as there's no true substitute). I also like emu groups, particularly for Apple ][, Atari 2600, MAME, and VPinMAME emulators.

AB(M)A I check daily, often multiple times daily, of course, everything else once every few days if I want to keep up. The remainder, though, I get lazy or busy and ignore for long spurts at a time. AB(M)A is enough of a handful. Shocked

In the non-alt hierarchy you'll only usually find me in the programming groups or other computer technology groups. I occasionally ask questions there, and then try to answer one other person's question so as not to be a complete drain on the community. Rolling Eyes
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Futurama is finished so I guess I won't be checking that group anymore.
I didn't know that was coming. The little intro snippet said something like "See you on another channel" and I chuckled for a sec before a chill went down my spine and I realized what it meant. Honestly, I thought it would have dropped off the air after 1 or 2 seasons like The Family Guy, and was pleasantly surprised when it continued on, as it just didn't seem like it would have a large general populous following. Since it lasted past two seasons, though, I thought it'd keep going awhile longer. I feel the writing is much fresher than The Simpsons which I still enjoy somewhat despite it showing it's age. With all appropriate respect to the venerable Simpsons, if I had to choose, I'd have rather kept Futurama. Of course, after having two of the better written and performed shows I've even seen be cancelled last year (Firefly and Nero Wolfe) and many other great shows over the years, I've gotten a bit of a tougher skin about these things. It's a shame The Family Guy never got a chance to show it's age. Sad Oh, and back on topic, I've never read any of the groups discussing these or any other TV show, for that matter. And the only time I've grabbed American TV eps off usenet is if my TiVo missed an ep of something I really liked following.
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xo
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Joined: 09 Feb 2002
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Location: Los Angeles [comcast]

PostPosted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Download from:
a.b.sounds.anime - mmm, sugar
a.b.s.jpop - mmm, sugar. Actually, I've found some really cool music here that isn't the typical Ayumi/Musume cookie cutter stuff. Supercar and Yukari Fresh come to mind.
a.b.sounds.mp3.1980s - relive my teen years
a.b.punk - relive my college years
a.b.sounds.mp3.indie - relive... no, wait, that's now
a.b.svcd - my video "rental" service (it's from my cable co, right?)
a.b.m.japanese - HAPPY FAMILY PLAN!!! best game show ever
a.b.m.cartoons - I was collecting Looney Toons for a while, now Spongebob for my nephews
a.b.southpark - I'm too lazy to watch on Comedy Central's timetable

I check daily (ever since my news server went to 24 hour retention), before bed, takes me 15-30 minutes.

I haven't posted to any of these groups. Hell, I haven't posted to the anime groups in probably a year.

-xo
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Gorunova



Joined: 10 Feb 2002
Posts: 318
Location: Burnaby, B.C., Canada

PostPosted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:38 pm    Post subject: Re: What other newsgroups do you frequent? Reply with quote

Neuralblastoma wrote:
Excluding porn, what other groups do you...
Download from?

ABMC and two MP3 groups - .remixes and .electronic.

Neuralblastoma wrote:
Post to?
Read? (discussion groups)

Secret. Let's just say it's a regional group. "Be vewy vewy quiet; I'm hunting mowons!"

I used to be a regular in racmx but I dropped out a few years ago because Marvel comics were pretty much totally crap by that point, and I couldn't afford to follow them anyway.

Neuralblastoma wrote:
How often do you check them?

Daily unless I'm really busy, then every two or three days. I'm pretty much tied to not being absent for more than two days because of my server's 3-day retention span.
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Neuralblastoma



Joined: 19 Feb 2002
Posts: 109
Location: Ottawa Ontario Canada

PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 4:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

xo wrote:
Download from:
a.b.s.jpop - mmm, sugar. Actually, I've found some really cool music here that isn't the typical Ayumi/Musume cookie cutter stuff. Supercar and Yukari Fresh come to mind.
-xo


I like Dir en Grey, Sex Machine Guns, Globe, MM, Zone, Sonim, Utada Hikaru, Mach(Maha)25, Sphere Of Influence amoung others. I like a good mixture of various styles.

xo wrote:

a.b.svcd - my video "rental" service (it's from my cable co, right?)
-xo


I use that group and a.b.movies.divx for the same purpose, though I do rent occasionally. There was a good deal at Blockbuster a couple days ago(rent 2 get 1 free) so I went for that and another at Rogers today.

I like making my own encodes sometimes. I always make 1CD XCD's. The best format for 1CD movies. I use Koepi's latest unstable XviD binary 24062003 for video and OGG for audio. With a good AviSynth script the results are excellent making a 2CD encode pointless.

I watch with TV-out.

If you've never heard of XCD's read this:
http://abm-mfaq.bbandit.dk/#s6

xo wrote:

a.b.m.cartoons - I was collecting Looney Toons for a while, now Spongebob for my nephews
-xo


I follow that only once in a while, but I've gotten some great stuff like Duckman, Family Guy, Invader Zim and Home Movies.

xo wrote:

a.b.southpark - I'm too lazy to watch on Comedy Central's timetable
-xo


I'm in Canada so I always get the episodes from there too. The Comedy Channel here carries it, but they're always months behind and I don't subscribe to it. I didn't mention it since I only check it once a week during the season. Can't wait for October 22!
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zanson



Joined: 08 Jan 2003
Posts: 41

PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Neuralblastoma wrote:

I like making my own encodes sometimes. I always make 1CD XCD's. The best format for 1CD movies. I use Koepi's latest unstable XviD binary 24062003 for video and OGG for audio. With a good AviSynth script the results are excellent making a 2CD encode pointless.

I watch with TV-out.

If you've never heard of XCD's read this:
http://abm-mfaq.bbandit.dk/#s6


What container format do you use? OGM? AVI? MKV? I've been meaing to mess with some of these crazy new things and thought maybe I should just do it all at once... ehe making an XCD containing matroska mkv files using rududu and speex... (um not really but I wanted to pick some random codecs...) Twisted Evil
rududu found here: http://www.ifrance.com/rududu/codec3en.htm
speex found here: http://www.speex.org/
Though kludge http://sourceforge.net/projects/kludge/ would be a good video codec for that too ehe.
The random things you can find on doom9 new av format boards are always interesting...
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Neuralblastoma



Joined: 19 Feb 2002
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Location: Ottawa Ontario Canada

PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 1:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

zanson wrote:

What container format do you use? OGM? AVI? MKV?


OGM, since it's the toughest container. AVI is the weakest.

In Ubik's Mode2CDMaker you have the option of keeping the .ogm extention, but by default it will change it to .dat.
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