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Comment on What private companies are you happy doing business with? in ~talk
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Comment on What's something you're "in too deep" on? in ~talk
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentOh that reminds me! I have a "Radio Disney" channel that intermixes archived talk shows from old Radio Disney. But I've actually thought about doing the same basic thing for music so I might...Oh that reminds me! I have a "Radio Disney" channel that intermixes archived talk shows from old Radio Disney.
But I've actually thought about doing the same basic thing for music so I might actually look into that and hitting you up!
I like the idea of "stations" or "channels" in that it helps discover content and sometimes you're in the mood for a genre and not like a specific song or playlist.
I do think there is something lost with services like Spotify or Netflix where content discovery has taken a hit in favor of immediate access to content. Like with streaming you have to know what you want to listen to or watch, instead of just tuning in and finding things you didn't even know you'd enjoy.
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Comment on What's something you're "in too deep" on? in ~talk
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentHonestly, the logistics of something like that sounds like a nightmare. I did a small stint working with licensing back when I was working for Disney, and there are so many rules and regulations...Honestly, the logistics of something like that sounds like a nightmare.
I did a small stint working with licensing back when I was working for Disney, and there are so many rules and regulations around licensing things to make sure everyone gets paid their royalties, that it would be unrealistic logistically for what I've set up.
Not to mention the nostalgic commercials are for products and companies that don't even exist anymore and uses licensed music who's licenses for use expired ages ago.
The best case scenario that I've had in my head is that if streaming companies release a feature for 24/7 streaming "Channels" similar to Pluto.TV but just for their services, ones that kind of pull from their older 90s content that people might have forgotten about or wouldn't otherwise actively seek out. I think it'd be great for content discovery and solve the whole "spending 30 minutes looking for something to watch" dilemma for a lot of people.
The other thing I've thought about is talking to a nostalgia museum and allow the content to be played under a legal loophole of "educational content" and have a legal team prepared.
As of right now, since I'm not comfortable sharing access to my server, the only thing I'm comfortable doing is building a comparable server based on my progress for someone else to have and do with how they please.
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Comment on Flexoelectricity: Constant motion of living cells could be a hidden source of electrical power in ~science
CrypticCuriosity629 LinkAnd my first thought is that Dune's Stillsuits are possible. hahahaAnd my first thought is that Dune's Stillsuits are possible. hahaha
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Comment on What's something you're "in too deep" on? in ~talk
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentHaha You have no idea. The other day I was stoned watching The Rugrats on the Nickelodeon channel when it occurred to me that, at least to my knowledge, I might be the only person on earth...Haha You have no idea.
The other day I was stoned watching The Rugrats on the Nickelodeon channel when it occurred to me that, at least to my knowledge, I might be the only person on earth experiencing 90s Nickelodeon like I did when I was a kid.
It's just nice having the option of being able to watch TV like I used to, as opposed to it being a memory.
I wish I could share it with others, but I don't want to put a target on my back.
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Comment on What's something you're "in too deep" on? in ~talk
CrypticCuriosity629 (edited )LinkSo in true fashion of the topic, I started writing a comment that's taken me around 2 days to put together before realizing that it might be a bit too much for a passing topic like this! hahaha...- Exemplary
So in true fashion of the topic, I started writing a comment that's taken me around 2 days to put together before realizing that it might be a bit too much for a passing topic like this! hahaha
This might interest some millennials.
I've created my own personal IPTV server with over 40TBs of movies, TV Shows, and faithful re-creation of US TV Channels from the 90s & 00s, along with era accurate commercials that change with seasons. All this is locally hosted, so not something I share out except to like maybe 2 friends who have limited access to my local network via VPN. It's just hooked up to all my apartment's TVs using TiviMate.
Included is faithful re-creations of programming blocks like
- TGIF Fridays, The Wonderful World of Disney, and One Saturday Morning on ABC
- New Tuesdays on The WB
- TeenNick, Snick, & Nick@Nite on Nickelodeon
- Ani-Monday, SciFi Fridays on The Sci-Fi Channel(2000s)
- Cartoon Quest / The Animation Station, multiple full day marathons for The Sci-Fi Channel(1990s)
- Boomerang, Toonami, Adult Swim, Cartoon Theater, and Cartoon Cartoon Fridays on Cartoon Network
- Zoog Disney, Toon Disney, Disney Channel Original Movies for The Disney Channel.
A lot of these have intros if you catch them at the start, so it'll play like the Cartoon Cartoon Friday intro, or one of many Toonami Intros, or the Wonderful World of Disney Intro or One Saturday Morning, or the Disney Channel Movie intro.
These specific programming blocks contain shows that play in order every week. So if you tune in every week at the same time then you'll watch it in order. These blocks are separate from the random daily shows that play throughout the day.
Those are just the ones with custom programming blocks. I've thought about being even more authentic and having the kids timeblocks like Nick Jr. or Playhouse Disney, but frankly I'm a single male in his 30s with no kids and while authentic I don't need to have like toddler shows playing on this thing.
The closest I have to kids programming is PBS which plays Mister Rodger's Neighborhood, Dragontales, Arthur, Bananas in Pajamas, Magic Schoolbus, Zaboomafoo, The Big Comfy Couch, Lambchop, and Barney in the mornings, with Eyewitness documentaries, nature documentaries, Antique Roadshow, Magic Schoolbus, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and Mr. Bean at other times. But that's just because that is how I remember PBS when I was a kid.
All nostalgic re-creations have era accurate commercials and network idents for the era. This is an ongoing project since in order to inject commercials into the middle of a show you need to have chapter marks in the video file at the exact spots where the commercials go. The software I use will automatically distribute commercials evenly to round up to the nearest 30 minutes except for HBO that fills the end of a movie or show with commercials up to the nearest 30 minutes.
I had to write a piece of custom software in python that can batch scan video files for black frames and allow you to delete or add them, then re-encode the files with chapters, but this is very tedious and has to be done by hand due to false positives and some shows not having black frames where commercials are supposed to go.
I WISH I had a small committed group of people like me to systematically put chapters in all these files, as if there are no chapters it just pads a large commercial block to the end of the show. Haha if anyone is interested I wouldn't mind sharing some of my library to get that done!
Oh, also for some of the channels, commercials are seasonal between Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter, so the type of commercials change from like summer break type commercials, back to school commercials, Halloween commercials, and Christmas commercials.
I even have back to back Girls Gone Wild infomercials that play on Comedy Central after 10pm, and some channels resort to 90s infomercials between 1am-5am, except for Cartoon Network which plays the satirical Adult Swim infomercials and shorts.
MTV plays about 2 hours of shows, then 2 hours of music videos, with an occasional live concert that I pull from a bunch of live show footage. The shows range from Beavis & Butthead, Pimp My Ride, Daria, Viva La Bam(which is a hard watch nowadays), Jackass, The Osbournes, etc. Right now the music videos are random from a custom playlist, so it'll play both modern and old commercials, but I'm working on a tagging system so I can start making themed genre and year blocks.
Some channels have shows that play at certain times of day, for instance on weekdays Nickelodeon plays Hey Arnold! at 7pm, then KaBlam! while ABC plays Home Improvement at 8pm on Mondays, and these are in order. Zoids & ReBoot! on Cartoon Network at 6am & 6:30am respectively.
The rest of the time the channels play a randomized assortment of shows that played on that channel, but all shows are randomized but the episodes are in order.
I also have a multitude of channels that play shows back to back 24/7 from King of the Hill to New Girl.
I have a Futurama channel, then next to it I have a channel that plays Everybody Loves Hypnotoad, which is just Hypnotoad looping forever.
I have franchise channels that play franchises, so Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings play the movies back to back 24/7, Star Trek randomizes all the shows and movies(again, shows are randomized but episode order is not). Marvel Studios plays all MCU movies in order back to back, Marvel plays all movies containing Marvel Characters outside of the MCU, DC does the same as Marvel but with DC characters.
I've got Director Channels that only play movies from those directors. Wes Anderson, David Lynch, James Cameron, etc. Also actor channels in the same vein, so Brendan Frasier, Nick Cage, Adam Sandler, etc.
I have decades channels from 1930s-2010s, and a 2020-Present movie channels, which play only movies from those decades, each channel will play about 10 minutes of high quality movie trailers of movies released in that era before playing a random Movie Theater policy trailer, bumpers, and feature presentation also from that era. Most of the older ones are cool Drive In Theater ones.
I have some sub-decade ones, so I have an 80s Drive In channel that plays cheesy 80s/early 90s horror and teen romance movies.I also have genres and sub-genres. This is non-exhaustive but a good example:
- Horror
- Retro Horror
- The Channel of the Living Dead(Zombie movies)
- Vampires & Werewolves
- Demonology
- HHTV(Haunted House TV, plays horror movies involving haunted houses).
- Found Footage
- Science Fiction
- Cyberpunk
- Dystopian Future
- Space
- Fantasy
- Swords & Sorcerers(70s-80s high fantasy)
- Modern Fantasy
I don't watch sports, but I have a Battlebots channel, as well as a FishCenter LIVE channel.
I also do a couple funny things like the Documentary channel has some found footage horror movies mixed in. haha
I have a Horror Anthology channel that plays Tales from the Crypt, The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Beyond Belief Fact or Fiction, Monsters, Are You Afraid of the Dark, & Goosebumps, Freddy's Nightmares, and Friday the 13th the show.
And there's a couple other random channels in there, one that plays educational YouTube videos, another that plays Storm Chasing videos from YouTube, another one that is CatTV so it plays videos for cats. Another one that plays TED Talks, etc.
I still have a lot to do though, and this is kind of my list:
- Tagging system for Music Videos to separate by genre, artist, and release year to create separate themed music video hours.
- Adding seasonal blocks, so like the 31 Days of Halloween lineup in October, or Shark Week.
- Adding "events" so like Kids Choice Awards/MTV Music Choice awards monthly. I'm debating this, I think it'd be a fun thing to see every month a random thing like that since it's nostalgia based.
- The never ending task of adding chapter marks to and re-encoding around a 100,000 episodes/20TBs of shows.
- Creating a program that creates TV Guide like PDFs that automatically takes in the IPTV M3U/EPG/XML data and creates a weekly "TV Guide" document that goes over what's playing and when during the week.
- Adding more show specific timeslots.
Ooof, now that took me an hour to write, can you image the other post I had written? haha And to be honest, this doesn't even feel exhaustive. Yeah, definitely in too deep, probably sounding like an insane person.
Edit: Probably should have also mentioned why I've done all this and put so much work into it.
So around 2019 I fell down a rabbit hole of watching old commercial blocks on YouTube and realized that those scratched a nostalgia itch that I didn't realize I had. I didn't even realize it but those 90s and 00s commercials left an impression on me, it was the stuff I'd listen to in the background as I went to the bathroom or got dinner.
Like 90s & 00s commercials were creative, colorful, and had a sense of optimism about them, this feeling like things were awesome and the future was going to be awesome, something that today's commercials lack, everything now is just bleached corporate bullshit.
Eventually that wasn't enough so I used the PseudoTV plugin with my Kodi install, which allowed me to roughly play some commercials between shows in a TV guide like format.
Kodi updated, PseudoTV did not get updated, so I was forced to move that to another software called ErsatzTV. This software had a LOT more features and options, and I dove in.
And from there things just kind of expanded as I was unhappy with the lack of accuracy. What started as a nostalgia project turned into a full blown media project.
I have found I actually quite enjoy consuming media like this as opposed to streaming. I find myself watching movies and shows I wouldn't have otherwise sat down to watch and enjoying them.
Allows me to watch a show here and there without committing to the entire season.
It's also nice to have a routine around some of the time schedules. So it helps with routines in a way. Like if I have Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network on, I know it's time to get ready for bed when the Happy Days theme song starts playing or Adult Swim comes on. Or being up early on a Saturday morning and putting on Saturday Morning Cartoons.
Often I have it running in the background while I'm working or cleaning and will tune in/out as I want.
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Comment on I am kinda curious about the demographics of Tildes in ~talk
CrypticCuriosity629 Link30s, Male, US, I work in the creative industry but I have close ties to software development and project management and integrate both into my career.30s, Male, US, I work in the creative industry but I have close ties to software development and project management and integrate both into my career.
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Comment on How do you report an entire topic? in ~tildes
CrypticCuriosity629 (edited )Link ParentI get it, but unfortunately I've found not everyone has the emotional intelligence or self awareness to understand the difference and sometimes you have to read intent and see if there's space to...I get it, but unfortunately I've found not everyone has the emotional intelligence or self awareness to understand the difference and sometimes you have to read intent and see if there's space to correct them and move forward with the discussion or if it's a lost cause and they're just acting in bad faith.
If they're acting in bad faith, I 100% agree with you delete it.
I spend a lot of time deliberately exposing myself to right-wing discussion spaces and echo chambers to keep an eye on right-wing narratives, and occasionally drop in to them when I see an opportunity to create a bit of dissonance with their narratives. And I'm not defending them but the fact is people get stuck in that informational pipeline and that's literally their only exposure to the left or leftwing ideology is through those kind of disrespectful representations.
And also unfortunately, being silenced is their #1 rallying call to each other, and it's one of the gateways they use to indoctrinate people further, often because these people don't have the tools or context to even understand why what they said was disrespectful, the only thing they see is themselves being silenced.
I've seen it happen many times, when someone says something right-leaning and it gets deleted, there are often more extreme right wingers ready to swing in on that person and point to the left as proof that they're trying to censor them and is out to get anyone who doesn't agree with leftwing ideas, and they end up bringing those people deeper into those spaces promising to not censor them.
Again, not saying I think any of that is actually true or I'm agreeing with them, but it's what happens a lot in these conservative informational pipelines.
With that being said, I'm not saying allow them to be disrespectful, I'm saying find the difference between an earnest attempt at conversation even if it comes from a place of ignorance, and actual bad-faith and disrespectful discussions where they continue to be deliberately disrespectful.
However I'm sure Deimos will axe the thread because of the potential of political argument, which is his right too.
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Comment on How do you report an entire topic? in ~tildes
CrypticCuriosity629 LinkAs someone who is firmly on the left, I would highly recommend finding ways to keep a discussion and conversation open and respecful as opposed to trying to shut the entire conversation down. I'm...As someone who is firmly on the left, I would highly recommend finding ways to keep a discussion and conversation open and respecful as opposed to trying to shut the entire conversation down.
I'm not sure what your intent is with this, but I am just putting this out there.
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Comment on Looking for Backroom games with something to do in them other than walking in ~games
CrypticCuriosity629 LinkI've always wanted a puzzle like backrooms game that mixes exploration with Eldritch horrors and puzzles needed to move on. Like my interpretation of the Backrooms is it's like an open ended maze....I've always wanted a puzzle like backrooms game that mixes exploration with Eldritch horrors and puzzles needed to move on.
Like my interpretation of the Backrooms is it's like an open ended maze. Meaning in order to progress you need to move through areas in a deliberate way, and if you don't then you end up going deeper.
And you have to contend with Eldritch and unknowable horrors throughout, so it's not like monsters but more like areas that lure you in like a trap so you either need to avoid them or go through them a certain way to remain undetected.
Unfortunately I've never seen anything that treats the backrooms like that. I guess walking simulator games are just easy to make.
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Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative
CrypticCuriosity629 LinkI've been super into Dungeon Crawler Carl lately and decided to design some things. https://imgur.com/a/BB5kUZF I want to make more character artwork, I've got ideas for Mongo, Samantha, and Carl....I've been super into Dungeon Crawler Carl lately and decided to design some things.
I want to make more character artwork, I've got ideas for Mongo, Samantha, and Carl. And one for Mordecai.
Also designed a Dungeon Crawler World logo, not super happy with it so it might be back to the drawing board, but this was just and exercise. I want it to be a mix of gaudy and flashy game show logos and World of Warcraft/fantasy RPG logos, with some shady overly monetized mobile game logo styles thrown in for good measure.
And created my interpretation of the Syndicate government logo.
I threw in a screenshot of Photoshop to prove it's not AI because apparently I have to do that now. Lol
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Comment on I feel that Destin (SmarterEveryDay on Youtube) is straying from the path in ~talk
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentMy interpretation is that his mission isn't to convince anyone to be religious and has no interest in debating his religion with anyone, but is happy to explain the best he can. Basically as a...My interpretation is that his mission isn't to convince anyone to be religious and has no interest in debating his religion with anyone, but is happy to explain the best he can. Basically as a person he has nothing to prove to anyone.
I'll start by saying I'm not religious and in a lot of ways pretty against the pantheon of organized religions, so I'm not defending religion, just trying to provide a different perspective.
And this is definitely not the case by any means for all religious people, TRUST ME I get that. haha But this is what I've gotten out of some people I know who are religious but are also very logical and scientific and what I would consider rational, which I always thought is contradictory.
At least some of these people I know are somewhat aware that religion to them is a structured system that regulates their overall life. While they certainly could have a moral compass without religion, religion is just a framework to help them stay aligned with that. Prayer acts as affirmations to achieve personal goals or practicing regular gratitude, the concept of God acts as a comfort that sometimes you have to simply accept life events, Church acts as a community and support system, psalms act as inspirational quotes that represent guiding principles, etc. Like remove religion from a lot of these things and you've got psychiatrists trying to tell their patients to do these things to be happier. And because those systems are already in place and they were raised on that system, they continue to use it and genuinely have no interest in trying to over-think a different system.
One of them mentioned how Douglas Adams' created a similar concept about flying, how the key to staying afloat is to not think too hard about it or how impossible flying is.
Personally, I think that's a very privileged way to look at it, and I told them that, because at that point it stops being about the logic of religious beliefs, and more about the harm that organized religion has caused to many people, how it's used as a tool for control, and how predatory people use religion to shield themselves. Great that religion hasn't harmed them personally, but man take a look at a history book or the current state of the world.
But at the end of the day at least these particular people I'm referring to, and probably Destin too, embody the positive aspects of religion and not the mindless obedience, projection of massive unresolved trauma, delusionally literal interpretations of the bible, and puritanical insecurity.
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Comment on I feel that Destin (SmarterEveryDay on Youtube) is straying from the path in ~talk
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentI'm from Texas originally, and the whole sir/madam thing is more connected to a particular subculture in the south not tied necessarily religion but to families heavily involved with blue-collar...I'm from Texas originally, and the whole sir/madam thing is more connected to a particular subculture in the south not tied necessarily religion but to families heavily involved with blue-collar work cultures, which also tend to be tied to religion.
Most of the people I know that use sir/madam came from a family that had a family business, heavily tied to blue collar work, or families that generally valued strong work ethics with chores or activities.
They also happened to be religious a lot of the time but not always.
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Comment on Her daughter was unraveling, and she didn’t know why. Then she found the AI chat logs. in ~tech
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentUnfortunately most AI is trained on online and internet sources, and there's a lot of that crap from humans too, so it just runs with that.Unfortunately most AI is trained on online and internet sources, and there's a lot of that crap from humans too, so it just runs with that.
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Comment on What are your Windows 10 post-install and crap removal procedures and recommendations? in ~tech
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentOh that actual seems really cool. I'm a fan of repurposing software like this for personal use. I dual boot Windows on my Linux daily driver I know I might have more questions, but these are the...Oh that actual seems really cool. I'm a fan of repurposing software like this for personal use. I dual boot Windows on my Linux daily driver
I know I might have more questions, but these are the first off the top of my head:
- Do IoT Enterprise LTSC versions of Windows lack Microsoft's tracking and data analytics?
- Does the IoT Enterprise LTSC versions of Windows typically have a smaller footprint and/or less memory requirements?
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentSure! I wouldn't mind taking a look. I'm actually very curious about it. I've been using Obsidian for the most part recently for my "mood" boards, but it's not great at the visualization and...Sure! I wouldn't mind taking a look. I'm actually very curious about it.
I've been using Obsidian for the most part recently for my "mood" boards, but it's not great at the visualization and imagery part, it's basically where I've just been saving links and images and taking notes on thoughts.
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Comment on Are you still using social media? in ~tech
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentNo idea. Never really been a concern of mine. If I was banned it probably wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. And I'd probably just create a new account anyways. Since it's based off an...No idea. Never really been a concern of mine. If I was banned it probably wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. And I'd probably just create a new account anyways.
Since it's based off an official development alpha build of Instagram, I'm guessing it's difficult to distinguish between official or cracked. The removal of ads in Instafel's case is a feature of the official alpha build's dev menu which has mindboggling amounts of settings to control like every under the hood setting of instagram.
But I'm not worried as I haven't had any issues in the years I've been using cracked apps to get rid of ads. So whether it's using ReVanced to get rid of YouTube ads, or ReVanced to get rid of TikTok ads and hiding live feeds and stuff, never had any issues.
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Comment on Are you still using social media? in ~tech
CrypticCuriosity629 LinkSo I just recently started using Instafel, which is a cracked Developer Alpha version of Instagram that removes ads. And while I originally installed it to get rid of ads, I've realized it has so...So I just recently started using Instafel, which is a cracked Developer Alpha version of Instagram that removes ads.
And while I originally installed it to get rid of ads, I've realized it has so many features unlocked that aren't available to the public in regards to algorithm control.
And I'm now on Instagram a lot more solely because I have fine control over the algorithm so that it gives me mainly the following:
- Metal music recommendations
- Creative inspiration
- 3d printing model ideas
- Mental health stuff
- Local events and local businesses
- Educational stuff
- Animal rescuing stuff
Completely filtered out political stuff and brianrot.
Also completely removed thirst trap content that Instagram pushed on me HARD because I was a guy even though it wasn't an interest.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
CrypticCuriosity629 (edited )Link ParentNot op, but to me creative mood boards are far more than words. It's everything from images and videos of things I can improve upon to textures, or things that inspire creativity. I do not think...Not op, but to me creative mood boards are far more than words. It's everything from images and videos of things I can improve upon to textures, or things that inspire creativity.
I do not think in words, I think in like holographic simulations, so like ideally outside of a digital mood board I'd have like tactile samples of things and textures and items.
I often struggle finding something I can use as a mood board. Pinterest was good until it kind of imploded into some kind of snootzy Goop like site. I regularly get emails that things on my Pulp Horror Art board keeps getting taken down.
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Comment on Fun winter holiday decorations? in ~talk
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentI will have to see if I can dig any of them up, this was 15+ years ago, and the only place I know the photos existed were Facebook which I got rid of a couple years ago. I might have a backup of...I will have to see if I can dig any of them up, this was 15+ years ago, and the only place I know the photos existed were Facebook which I got rid of a couple years ago. I might have a backup of my facebook in an old hard drive.
I mostly agree with you, however I do have a minor gripe that is kind of selfish.
So the company I currently work for used to do a lot of business for Valve, a lot of the packaging and marketing materials for everything from the original steam deck to internal valve initiatives.
However in recent years they moved all production to China.
I get the cost of going to China because I've worked in sourcing, licensing, and manufacturing, so truly I get it.
But for being a privately owned company and how incredibly valued Valve is and how much money they make, I wish they'd support their local and American owned businesses, especially ones like us that have supported them over the years.
Especially because we're also super passionate about Valve and their products. We genuinely looked forward to working with them and always pulled all the stops for them.