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Alex Trebek, host of my favorite game show passed
today. (because, 2020 right?)
This isn't a tribute, those just make me kind of sad but
I'll
support anybody else who wants to do that.
This is an idea to take a new technology that up till now
hasn't be used for anything other than making
people say
creepy things they'd never say in real life and uses it for
something positive, keeping a great game show running
with the host we've all come to love.
Shot live in the studio, the impersonator would wear a
mask and makeup to get the illusion as close as possible,
but in post editing the deep fake of Alex would be
applied and his actual voice would replace the actors Siri
style. We have decades of him speaking, I'm sure we can
find every word in the dictionary and with a little work
create a program to put them together to convincingly
replace the dialog of the actor playing him at the studio
shoot.
We watch dead actors all the time and there's been talk
about making movies with Humphry Bogart, John Wayne
etc, but I suggest we keep this great gameshow going
with
its great host. This would give the illusion of Alex
interacting with real people in real time.
Watching Jeopardy, you actually WOULD be watching and
listening to Alex Trebek.
And this can be a tribute as well. I think he'd get a kick
out of it.
Just one memory of many similar ones.
https://twitter.com...1325543646343663620
(upbeat music) [jutta, Nov 08 2020]
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[-] better to encase that worthy in lucite, and have him stood up next to the podium. |
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On that note, I wonder if Trump - after they send in the Navy Seals to forcibly extract him from office, in a couple of months - will get a public statue : it would be a revenue-positive investment for the news media, as long as whatever city it's in has to pay for maintenance. |
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kdf, that's legit but FT, wait... with all due respect, what
does Trump have to do
with Alex Trebek's passing? |
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Wonder if we're going to need a "Days Since Trump's Been
Mentioned" post. God I hope not. |
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Yeah, we've needed that for a while, sigh. |
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RIP Alex Trebek. I don't think the genuine smarts he
brought to his role can be deep faked just yet. |
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Probably right. I just wanted to say something about the
guy with an idea as the premise. |
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I have fond memories of mom and dad watching this show
for decades at the designated broadcast time every day. I
set them up so they could easily watch recordings of it
and my dad knew how to use it (and indeed he did for
other shows) but they preferred to make it a daily routine
at a specific time to watch this together. And know what?
I get it. |
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It was fun to watch dad get so many crazy answers right.
I'd say like "How the hell did you know who wrote Thus
Spoke Zarathustra?" and he'd just shrug. |
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Richard Strauss. And we didn't have to google that ... it's part of the incidental music to "2001: A Space Odyssey". |
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We particularly enjoy the opening scenes where [xenzag]'s immediate family are seen on a recent picnic, capering round the Black Monolith. |
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Heheh, you'd think I'd know, but my kneejerk guess was Copland (indirect reference : Emerson, Lake & Palmer, "covered" both composers) |
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//FT, wait... with all due respect, what does Trump have to do with Alex Trebek's passing? // |
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Well, if you put it like that... it tied in with "encase AT in lucite" (ie: cheap statue). Also, I'm avoiding the Trump threads : too formulaic. |
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According to somewhere on the 'net, AT shaved the 'stache off in 2001. Since most of my Jeapordy... Jepordy... Jepoardy... what the hell... memories feature that (watching with my mom/dad), I hereby proclaim that any future hosts should be likewise adorned. |
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I would have answered "Nietzsche". |
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Corrections and edifications: "Also sprach
Zarathustra" was composed by Strauss; "Thus spoke
Zarathustra" was written by Nietzsche. |
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