Here's a short summary:
Jojo revealed in his most recent interview that he had talked with several members of the Lepus Alliance who were also supporting C's bunnies. They said that morale was high while the morale of 'that old kitty cat gang' was growing increasingly poor with every decision or step taken. Expenditures are also a problem, the gang is basically 'running on empty' and there is such a backlog that any funds are spent the second they come in.
According to Mr. Buns, a member of the Lepus Alliance, "Desertions and Defections are becoming increasingly common. While the cats continue to maintain their lavish accommodations at the expense of the gang, they are also increasingly dependent on newer kitties in order to replace those who have deserted since the troubles began. But from the way they treat them, it would be hard to conceive that. The new kitties are housed eight to a hutch, that is, eight adult cats housed together in a hutch that is designed for two adults and maybe a kitten or two. Nourishment and care are also quite substandard, if the owners don't forget to begin with, the cats may get a single bowl of dry food to share between the eight of them, and no other treats or anything like that to speak of. The cats are issued substandard equipment, and there simply isn't enough gear to go around (as many defectors and deserters have kept the gear they were given). In order to conserve the amount of gear that remains, new kitties are typically put into two or three feline teams, while being given only one of each piece of vital equipment like a single radio that they all must share. We are almost certain that, come this summer, the overall advantage that the gang had in terms of training and outfitting will have all but evaporated."
Mr. Sparkles said that several of the security volunteers who locally help the Lepus Alliance (in the absence
of the bunny brigade) are planning to hop on up north to join up with C's bunnies.
Defectors report that the upper leadership in the kitty cat gang is all but paralyzed and that Cat P is a weak and ineffective leader. "He prefers to sit around on his owner's lap and occasionally mewl out an order. However most of his underlings simply ignore him, they are doing their own thing and looking out for themselves or their own enrichment. Actual incidents of infighting are rare, but none of the cats in charge are on the same page either so it's rare for the whole gang to operate in sync."
On another note, all the small animal news posted on this topic so far is pretty well vetted. Granted you can never be completely certain when dealing with small animals. But by any measurement, it's up there, 95% or better.
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Her special item is an apple. Yes, she carries a WX5 in her pack, but that doesn't make it her special item. Any more than her pack or uniform is a special item.
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Mikey does not believe the incidents overall have been increasing, and I tend to agree. Yes, there are more in the news. But remember, it's basically a slow motion train wreck we're watching here. Much of what you see or hear irl happened several months ago, just that the news finally happened to filter out now. And, it's grown, so there can be more attacks, even with the overall percentage staying the same or dropping slightly.
When I say grown, two years ago it would operate maybe a fourth of the time, a year ago, about half to three fourths of the time, and by now basically all the time or every day. There is really no need to worrey about the attacks, it grows regardless and countermeasures have been in place as of more than several months ago. Every attack has not resulted in very much of anything.
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Load up the file in Handbrake and choose your desired profile. Typically I just use Regular->High Profile. Once you have the profile fine-tuned to what you want, in the text box at the bottom of the advanced tab, add the text ":keyint=NN" to the end of the text that is already there, where NN is some reasonable number of frames (ie. if you want edit points every second, set NN to your framerate).
http://mewiki.project357.com/wiki/X264_Settings has a rather comprehensive list of options that are available for the x264 encoder. Don't count on handbrake to re-encode the audio, it tends to mess up the a/v sync, just set it to passthru and use something like avidemux to re-encode the audio to AAC as needed for the final output.
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I should almost certainly be there, but I never formally announce these things before the fact.
There are just too many stalkerz out there. Stay safe, and watch for snakes. (Intelligence doesn't indicate any known snakes in this area at that time, but you can never be too careful.)
And in all honesty, if you are looking for [deleted], I'm probably not the person you want anyways.
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To me, it is nothing to complain about. Personally, I find this current structure better than before. Perhaps it's just the natural evolution of things.
On another note, Mikey's intelligence was right. Which is true most of the time. No snakes.