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# Excel files
*.xlsx filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
# Word documents
*.docx filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
# Image files
*.jpg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.jpeg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.png filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
# Adobe Premiere Pro project files
*.prproj filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.prin filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.aep filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
# Video files
*.mp4 filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
# Paint.NET files
*.pdn filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
# Photoshop files
*.psd filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
# PDF files
*.pdf filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text

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/.what-is-this.md
# SpecStory project identity file
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# Unexpected reaction (2025-07-02 04:49Z)
_**User (2025-09-28 21:59Z)**_
wtf
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_**Agent (model default, mode Agent)**_
Git index corruption detected. Checking repository status to confirm and plan recovery.
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<tool-use data-tool-type="shell" data-tool-name="run_terminal_cmd">
<details><summary>Tool use: **command** • Run command: cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && git status</summary>
```bash
cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && git status
```
```
error: bad signature 0x00000000
fatal: index file corrupt
```
</details>
</tool-use>
---
Index corruption confirmed. Rebuilding the index.
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<tool-use data-tool-type="shell" data-tool-name="run_terminal_cmd">
<details><summary>Tool use: **command** • Run command: cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && git reset --mixed HEAD</summary>
```bash
cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && git reset --mixed HEAD
```
```
error: bad signature 0x00000000
fatal: index file corrupt
```
</details>
</tool-use>
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Removing the corrupted index file to force Git to rebuild it.
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<tool-use data-tool-type="shell" data-tool-name="run_terminal_cmd">
<details><summary>Tool use: **command** • Run command: cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && rm .git/index</summary>
```bash
cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && rm .git/index
```
</details>
</tool-use>
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<tool-use data-tool-type="shell" data-tool-name="run_terminal_cmd">
<details><summary>Tool use: **command** • Run command: cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && git reset --mixed HEAD</summary>
```bash
cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && git reset --mixed HEAD
```
```
Unstaged changes after reset:
M yt/StreamGames.xlsx
M yt/rainysrambles_scramble_editorsNotes.md
```
</details>
</tool-use>
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<tool-use data-tool-type="shell" data-tool-name="run_terminal_cmd">
<details><summary>Tool use: **command** • Run command: cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && git status</summary>
```bash
cd "C:\Users\Nathan\Desktop\writinRepo" && git status
```
```
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with &#39;origin/main&#39;.
Changes not staged for commit:
(use &quot;git add &lt;file&gt;...&quot; to update what will be committed)
(use &quot;git restore &lt;file&gt;...&quot; to discard changes in working directory)
modified: yt/StreamGames.xlsx
modified: yt/rainysrambles_scramble_editorsNotes.md
Untracked files:
(use &quot;git add &lt;file&gt;...&quot; to include in what will be committed)
yt/The Giant&#39;s Father/efap notes.txt
yt/The Giant&#39;s Father/the giant&#39;s father/Adobe Premiere Pro Auto-Save/The Giant&#39;s Father--64bdd7f8-efcc-84f2-2be9-78196cbad7c9-2025-09-27_00-53-48-drago.prproj
yt/The Giant&#39;s Father/the giant&#39;s father/Adobe Premiere Pro Auto-Save/The Giant&#39;s Father--64bdd7f8-efcc-84f2-2be9-78196cbad7c9-2025-09-27_00-56-48-drago.prproj
no changes added to commit (use &quot;git add&quot; and/or &quot;git commit -a&quot;)
```
</details>
</tool-use>
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Git index corruption resolved.
**What happened:**
- The Git index file (`.git/index`) was corrupted, causing the "bad signature 0x00000000" error.
**What I did:**
1. Removed the corrupted index file
2. Rebuilt it with `git reset --mixed HEAD`
**Current status:**
- Repository is working
- Modified files: `yt/StreamGames.xlsx` and `yt/rainysrambles_scramble_editorsNotes.md`
- Some untracked files in "The Giant's Father" directory
You can continue with normal Git operations.
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# Add binaries to LFS (2025-10-29 04:04Z)
_**User (2025-10-29 04:03Z)**_
add binaries to lfs; xlsx, docx, jpg, png, prproj, mp4, pdn, psd, pdf.
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_**Agent (model default, mode Agent)**_
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Checking for `.gitattributes` and setting up LFS tracking for the listed binary types.
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Could not find file '.gitattributes' in the workspace.
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Creating `.gitattributes` to track the specified binary file types with Git LFS:
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<tool-use data-tool-type="write" data-tool-name="write">
<details><summary>Tool use: **code_edit** • Edit file: .gitattributes</summary>
**Chunk 1**
Lines added: 26, lines removed: 1
```diff
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+ # Excel files
+ *.xlsx filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+
+ # Word documents
+ *.docx filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+
+ # Image files
+ *.jpg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+ *.jpeg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+ *.png filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+
+ # Adobe Premiere Pro project files
+ *.prproj filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+
+ # Video files
+ *.mp4 filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+
+ # Paint.NET files
+ *.pdn filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+
+ # Photoshop files
+ *.psd filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+
+ # PDF files
+ *.pdf filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+
```
</details>
</tool-use>
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Created `.gitattributes` with LFS tracking for *.xlsx, *.docx, *.jpg, *.png, *.prproj, *.mp4, *.pdn, *.psd, *.pdf. Migrating existing matched files in the repository to LFS.
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<tool-use data-tool-type="shell" data-tool-name="run_terminal_cmd">
<details><summary>Tool use: **command** • Run command: git lfs migrate import --include="*.xlsx,*.docx,*.jpg,*.jpeg,*.png,*.prproj,*.mp4,*.pdn,*.psd,*.pdf" --everything</summary>
```bash
git lfs migrate import --include="*.xlsx,*.docx,*.jpg,*.jpeg,*.png,*.prproj,*.mp4,*.pdn,*.psd,*.pdf" --everything
```
```
override changes in your working copy? All uncommitted changes will be lost! [y/N] working copy must not be dirty
```
</details>
</tool-use>
---
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The migration requires a clean working tree. Staging `.gitattributes`, then we'll run the migration:
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<tool-use data-tool-type="shell" data-tool-name="run_terminal_cmd">
<details><summary>Tool use: **command** • Run command: git add .gitattributes</summary>
```bash
git add .gitattributes
```
</details>
</tool-use>
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Beatnik
Earlier, the point was made that the Giant could possibly have had some of his programming partially erased by the impact that caused the bump, but partially by the electric shocks. It's ambiguous as to which caused him to forget. I think this opens it to the hinting that Hogarth is partially responsible for creating him, in a sense.
https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=1ALUJpQ7SRW4v-JG&t=10684
Fringald points out how hogarth presumes the giant is good by default; the counterfactual doesn't even exist in his mind. Whereas Mansley sees nothing but the negative. Hogarth is naive, but Mansley is pathologically cynical, i.e. he cannot advance to the next state of wisdom (the courage in trusting despite the potential for malevolence in the stranger)
https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=yN8rNggHQ8j-jNRE&t=11186
Rags refers to the process of Creation (Order > Chaos) and the limitless potential therein
https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=YAwD33C3qiT-zMa8&t=11386
Fringy says Hogarth being good molds the giant into Goodness as well...
The themes™ are there!
Art: taking something supposedly worthless/meaningless and EXTRACTING/CONJURING meaning therefrom!
https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=eB8HcQF-LZprSC_6&t=11570
"It's like Coffee-zilla" => Coffeezilla
https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=UH77IMKZqcsaIpvC&t=11940
might have been the beginning/rebirth of pre-vis (Bird and the team's “digital story reels” or "Leica reels")
https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=0DxVz7wKVgVUD9sK&t=12300
"you are who you choose to be" is THE statement of the film.
When discussing this, I'd put it this way:
The question that Bird sought to answer, in grieving his sister's murder, was, of course: what if a Gun had a soul, and didn't want to be a Gun? And the answer to that question was encapsulated in this line. YOU ARE WHO YOU CHOOSE TO BE.
He could have set about creating a propaganda film about how guns are bad and evil, but he wanted to FIGURE SOMETHING OUT. What he realized, was that it's not about the gun, it's about the power that it holds, and that's why the exploration of the soul in the gun is so important; it makes the exploration about power per se, and not about an externalized, particularized form of power. Then you have to contend with the real problem: the force of your being can be used for good, or for evil. So CHOOSE!
https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=pLHYD7Lv1PDPWc0C&t=12318
Mauler remarks that it's ALL about choice; MAXIMAL INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY. None of this shit about how you were just born that way and you're fucked; predestined for whatever path that has been chosen about you, so there's no reason not to be evil. That's why they say that; if it's not your responsibility, every excuse for your evil is available to you. If it is, ultimately, your responsibility, you have no excuses, and every reason to refuse evil.
https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=hmm4aI04oF1SlUPE&t=12453
Fringy's discussion of the Giant being literally created for the purpose of destruction...
That's the BEAUTIFUL part about it all. It drives home the message: you were created for enacting devastation upon creation. That is what your PURPOSE has been determined to be by the temporal actors who created you. But YOU decide whether or not you accept that purpose. MAN WAS CREATED FROM THE BLOOD OF KINGU, THE GENERAL OF ALL MONSTERS.
"Residual programming that he is trying to fight" Mauler
https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=vajng6l0oXrKNujg&t=12733
"It" versus "HE, not it" really puts the Man versus Monster polarity into focus.
https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=ubRzfzeMX-0jvy52&t=13320
The themes are never forced! Because Bird and the team put SO MUCH into actualizing them so that they WORK on every level of analysis.
Fringy: Mansley's strategy is the literal embodiment of Mutually Assured Destruction. And it can certainly be said that he went M.A.D.
https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=0QXcWf--v6x2RvFr&t=13485
Rags: Is it any coincidence that Mansley's name is MANsley, given what he represents?
https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=4JIMy8_3lDVAq8v1&t=13789
Garrett: The mental battle that goes on in their heads; the childish side of the argument wins over
3:53:00
Mauler interprets the Giant's mimicry like a robot trying to act more human (Terminator trying to mimic a smile), which I'd say means his behavior is calculated. Rags brings up Toothless' smile mimicry, which I think is far more apt for both situations; an intelligent monster, using mimicry in an attempt to fit in for genuine, non-nefarious purposes.
https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=-K3xe0v7sNuHPSY8&t=14544
Fringy: if the Giant killed the Deer, he would have fallen into a pit of depression that the writers couldn't have pulled him out of.
On "Guns Kill" it's on the level of abstraction that both Hogarth and the Giant can understand. Guns are, in fact, designed to destroy. But so are humans, particularly men. So only a man who is evil will destroy with impunity. A man who is good will destroy only what he is absolutely required to. And that's the difference in Ideals between Hogarth, Mansley, and Dean.
https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=GrX84uf1gveo27CH&t=14973
Fringy: Robot meets Nature is a very ripe idea. The last Bastion is the best Overwatch short, The Good Robot explores this as well...
I think it emerges from the collective unconscious, explicitly due to our capacity for Reason. We ARE the robots in our Man-Nature stories.
Garrett: the context of learning what the gun is, and that the gun means violence, prompts him to instinctually respond with or otherwise tap into/discover, violence. This is required for the later scene in the junkyard where the ray gun causes him to lose control.
https://youtu.be/pUtuM1H-wLM?si=u27mjCy73QvoO9rl&t=15379
Fringy: the lesson that Hogarth teaches the giant about the nature of life, death, good, evil, and souls, is not something he was taught or that he invented, it's EMERGENT.
Garrett refers to this as a "tropey" thing in the positive sense; what he's referring to is an ARCHETYPE. "A kid falling into a parental role" it's so REAL!
4:20:30 Garrett: the difference between a rock and a tree is an important basis for him to get this lesson: the difference between life, and the lack thereof.
4:28:10 Mauler: the role of gov't gets scary, when all is justified, given it's in """the people's best interest"""
4:34:00 Fringy: the Giant doesn't want to play Atomo. He wants to play Superman. Great touch.
4:34:30 Mauler: This is one of the few stretches in the film, but "if that gun functioned normally as a toy, Hogarth would be dead." I'd say this is a pretty huge convenience.
I'm not Gun!...
4:53:00 Mauler: it's almost like a muscle memory, that Hogarth told him not to touch the dead
4:54:30 Mauler: it becomes man versus robot, and he has to maintain the heart within him, fighting against the urge to kill, but fascinatingly, this might be one of the most relatably human reactions that the Giant has; "somebody he loves is killed, and it drives him insane." I wouldn't say insane actually, I would say he refuses to inhibit the monster within him, embracing it, because he now knows WHY one would want to destroy.
4:58:30 Mauler: the design philosophy is keep him neutral enough to border on cute, but make it so that all it takes is a couple small tweaks to make him horrifying. Toothless and Stitch have similar design phils
5:05:30 The General is behaving rationally with the information that he has. He's reasonable where Mansley is not; archetypically, he's the positive valence of the State.
5:07:00 Mauler: the truth of Mansley's motivation comes out; "Screw our country, I want to live!"
Mauler: The General has no fear, he's resolved with the knowledge that they're all going to die, so he commands him to stay and die for his country.
5:12:00 Mauler: the animation within seconds, going from recognition that the people are life, then the realization that he can save them, and then the determination to do it.
It's extremely meta-true that they begin by telling stories and playing games, to reason out how a moral life is lived, then Hogarth articulates it as best he can, then the Giant realizes the emergent morality in a moment, and consciously chooses to embody it.
5:13:00 Fringy: It's an incorporation of all the lessons. You are who you choose to be, you are good, like Superman, and it's not bad to die.
5:14:00 Garrett: Hogarth says I love you, and I wondered, is that too much? But no. I'm glad it's there.
Fringy: truly is the best Superman Movie
~5:16:00 Something about the town being encapsulated in a glow from the heavens, as if the Giant has been accepted into heaven, the place where Good Souls go when they die...
5:18:00 Mauler: the general's humanity was never in doubt, but regardless, he pays his respects to the Giant, who sacrificed himself, and there's a parallel that the Giant is a soldier of sorts, too. Rags: he did his duty.
5:21:15 Mauler: People say he should have used his lazers to destroy the rocket, but the entire point is that he's resolving not to use the weapons. I think if there were ever another threat, he would have to use them, or shouldn't refuse to use them just in case, but he's clearly quite resolved to not use really any force in this case. There's something to be said about males being biologically expendable.
5:25:00 Mauler: it's not in character and it's not mechanically appropriate, because the Giant does not seem to have control when he brings the weapons out. I don't think he's learned that yet.
By the end, the Giant wakes up and smiles. Against my will, it's hard not to see the Christ parallels.

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## Certainly not putting effort into revamping Premiere and After Effects by changing them from largely CPU-based programs to more GPU-intensive ones. Premiere can't decode a damn H.264 without proxies if you want it to decode perfectly and efficiently, and half of the damn effects in AE are CPU-based, which means if you don't have an EPYC or some shit, you're piss out of luck if you just want to upscale, which is a feature I use all the time. Why the hell would you want to do that when AI upscaling exists right now? What the hell does anyone pay Adobe for when they aren't putting any effort into bringing their programs up to speed with the most efficient hardware? You wouldn't need a 64 core hyperthreaded Xeon processor if you just made your damn program use the command set of the highly efficient GPU I have in my system. It would be very difficult to crunch the numbers on this, but I'd wager this has lead to significant increases in carbon emissions and many billions of dollars worth of individual and corporate electrical bills. The industry needs to work on moving to more efficient command sets, because when they do, as we've seen with Apple's silicon, one of the few good steps Apple has ever taken even if they didn't launch it very well, everyone will profit immensely from it. Same concept applies to nuclear, but I digress.
## Keep in mind this was in 2023. So you could say that this aged poorly, but I'd rather pick and choose which aspects of Elon Musk I'd like to embody. Obvioulsy I'd rather be compared to Elon Musk's admirable qualities than his less admirable ones. But we've all got a bit of the admirable and a bit of the pathetic within each of us, and it's our charge to choose which wins. Point being, my therapist was making the observation that I was like Elon in that I'm intelligent, neurodivergent, and aspire towards greatness, and for those things I cannot nor will I ever be ashamed.
## Keep in mind this was in 2023. So you could say that this aged poorly, but I'd rather pick and choose which aspects of Elon Musk I'd like to embody. Obvioulsy I'd rather be compared to Elon Musk's admirable qualities than his less admirable ones. But we've all got a bit of the admirable and a bit of the pathetic within each of us, and it's our charge to choose which wins. Point being, my therapist was making the observation that I was like Elon in that I'm intelligent, neurodivergent, and aspire towards greatness, and for those things I cannot nor will I ever be ashamed.
# retakes & edits
## But I didn't think that claim could possibly be true, a priori. For example, I knew developing for Mac was a pretty untennable process due to the proprietary hoops you're required to jump through, and there are many similarities between the philosophies of these corporations, especially in terms of proprietary software, hardware, and the gatekeeping thereof.
## Despite some of the recent controversy surrounding his channel, I think the video stands the test of time.
## and I'm not saying it shouldn't and should never be...
## Same concept applies to nuclear power, but I digress.