Anthony DeanThey Brought Back The Super Mario Bros. Cartoon And Sloppified It With AI
Wouldn't it be the show's owners that ran it through AI, rather than MeTV? The latter has mostly been airing HD prints of various old cartoons (thus why we're getting Blu-ray sets of stuff like "Huckleberry Hound"), so might've asked the show's owners for such prints... with unfortunate results.
myrmepropagandistAre my memories faded and hazy or does the past decay? Mutilated memories.
I was not allowed to watch TV as a kid, but I found an old TV and fixed it and hid it in the attic.
I could watch TV for 30min when I was home alone before mom got home from work. In the attic hiding. The only cartoon I could find was this one. I didn't like it very much but I was determined to watch TV. LMAO. How could they make it worse? It was so bad...
Look what they did to my boy:
I'm really glad my mom isn't on the fedi... I could still get in a lot of trouble for this.
Yet another Josh 
Honestly, your mom sounds like a hyper-religious piece of crap.
I knew only a scant few who had to hide TVs. They were the hyper-christian-fu damentalists where everything was the devil.
Fuck all of those types.
No, my mom is a hippie. She just thought TV was a big waste of time.
Weird. We had to smuggle our friend (whose parent fucking chained the TV) away and teach them how it is to have friends and stuff.
My only experiences with abject TV haters were the extreme religious Christians.
suzanne@crankylinuxuser @futurebird @dtgeek
I have quite a few mom friends in Montessori or Waldorf school circles who had severe restrictions on TV and computers for their kids. It never made sense to me. I mean, I made sure my kids did other things, too, but it always seemed like the restrictions would just make them want it more.
I have quite a few mom friends in Montessori or Waldorf school circles who had severe restrictions on TV and computers for their kids. It never made sense to me. I mean, I made sure my kids did other things, too, but it always seemed like the restrictions would just make them want it more.
potentially hazardous object@futurebird @crankylinuxuser @dtgeek my mom let me have full tv liberties (as long as i went to bed within reason, showed up for dinner and my grades didn't slip) and i'm still slowly picking out reactionary corpo nonsense i've fully internalized over the years
@apophis @crankylinuxuser @dtgeek
My mom gave up when I was about 16 and that summer I watched MTV 24/7 for two months.
Then I started to realize I didn't like TV as much as I thought?
Kim@futurebird @dtgeek @crankylinuxuser Well, she taught you how to fix TVs I suppose. Useful life skill, like the teenagers with the VPNs.
@futurebird @dtgeek @crankylinuxuser Well, she taught you how to fix TVs I suppose. Useful life skill, like the teenagers with the VPNs.
Nazo@futurebird @dtgeek It really was terrible. The only reason I watched any of that stuff was because it was themed after games, lol.
I recently tried to watch some of that stuff (without "AI" resizing or etc) and honestly just couldn't sit through it.
I'm sad I couldn't even sit through the Zelda one.
Even as a 8 year old I knew it was bad. But it was "cartoons" the most fun and forbidden kind of TV, so I endured it until I heard mom's car in the driveway and it was time to hide the old TV and run down the stairs.
"Why are you out of breath?"
"Mother my experience of easy commercial happiness has fallen far short of my expectations.*"
*I probably said something more like "I was doing very serious homework."
@futurebird @dtgeek Yeah, they can be fun when you go in with the right mindset really. I still enjoyed them a little back then. I just can't today.
It's sad you missed out on the experience of getting up early on a Saturday morning to watch everything that came on inside a quiet household while everyone else was asleep. It's hard to explain how that felt for me. It didn't even matter if the cartoons were good or not as I lay there on the couch wrapped in a blanket. IMO your parents robbed you of something there.
Oh I could watch 1 (one) cartoon on Saturday. And that was She-Ra ... obviously. Unless there was a cartoon movie on.
@futurebird I had the most amazing ability to just miss the movies. Usually the rare few anime movies allowed to be showed to a western audience because how dare something from outside the west exist or whatever. Like I caught the very tail end of a Dragon Quest movie one time (yeah, apparently that's a thing) and then another time the tail end of this really dark Sonic movie. I got up earlier and earlier and never once caught a full movie. 😆
I was very good at reading the TV guide and planning due to the "one show" rule.
@futurebird We had no such rule — but also no TV guide. And, of course, no Internet.
(I suppose it may have been possible to look things up on one of those intranet services. Compuserve or AOL or whatever we were on back then, but I wasn't allowed to use those because apparently they were very expensive — by the minute I think even...)
Oh I'd go and read the TV guide at the grocery and not buy it.
This sounds like something out of a Dickens tale. LMAO.
I remember hoping "Super Mario" would be anime since Nintendo was from Japan... noooope
That TV had a chunky dial and there were 3 channels that worked. But here was Mario on one of the channels that worked... and in the tiny window when I could watch...
I thought I was going to at last find out what the deal with anime was...
I was so excited the first time I tuned in.
The first time.
@futurebird Hah, I didn't know what anime was at the time shows like Mario came on, but yeah they... definitely weren't... I mean wow...
It always feels weird to me someone writing for another person's characters. Even if it's dully licensed and such, it's weird.
Cecelia@futurebird @dtgeek Aww. That’s a precious story.
looks at picture
What the—‽
No. Uh-uhn. That’s so wrong.
@dtgeek I do want to point out that good resize algorithms for videos have long existed and the choice not to use one and instead opt for something much more computationally expensive is... really weird to me. I guess it's because they could offset the computation to some online service? It probably cost them even more in total though...
The algorithms I'm talking about can be done usually in or really close to realtime on a modern processor... No specialized GPU or anything needed.
They just... didn't even bother to look, did they?
Heck, even lanczos3 would have produced exponentially better results without even dipping into specialized algorithms...