netflixonyourcouch

[netflixonyourcouch]

I ain't gon hold you, but...... yeah.

So the feeling I get when I wake up in the morning and I'm tired and need coffee - can that be a word too? Cuz.... lmao

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by The Soul Coach⚡️ (@vontelligent)

Now is it me or do we NOT need a word for every single "human emotion" lol

This kind of video would have been fashionable on a Tumblr post 15 years ago, except it would also have been filled with super obscure foreign concepts. The shit would be like, "There's a word for when your mom brings you breakfast in bed and you feel her protective and nurturing spirit." Back then I would read that shit and be like... Okay, that's called having an awesome mom, but when people take these concepts of human emotion and nail them down to a word, it can have the effect of false impression.

In other words, it's a party trick. The first part of the trick is to find a human emotion that many people have experienced. Let's say you were leaving the house and you pat your pockets and you can't find your car keys or your wallet. You search frantically throughout the house until you find them, and after some time you get them.

Some Tumblr ass fuck gonna tell you "Actually the feeling you just felt was PLONDER, the panic you feel of losing an important possession that you rely on every day"

And then you embrace in the novelty, "OMG, I didn't know that there was actually a WORD" for that!

We don't need a word for every damn thing tho.

Parents know when their children are lying to them. There doesn't need to be a WORD for the feeling parents get when they know their children are lying to them.

Human concepts can exist without having to make words for them and I'm not impressed that you came up with a word that describes the joy you feel when you find a $20 bill in your pants pocket. It's all party tricks.

[netflixonyourcouch]

I shall boil some beans

[netflixonyourcouch]

Going back to DHV after quitting for 2 years. I loved just doing tincture and not inhaling anything, pero, I don't always want an edible high so that got me thinking about vaping again.

First of all, why vape anything? Why not just smoke?

Traditionally, we were just torching our bud with flames, either in a joint, or bowl or bong or bucket drop or like.. whatever. People used to smoke out of apples like that shit was cool.

The problem is, you're inhaling all of the plant matter, instead of just the good stuff, the THC.

Vaping is a revolution. Now, all you have to do is inhale the THC and leave the plant matter behind. This is by far more healthy than combustion and I will never look back when it comes to smoking ever again.

The vape scene has had some stellar advancements in the last 2 years. I've been having a blast learning about all the new technology.

Here's a rundown:

Ball vapes. This is the new kid on the block, and likely the final word on vaping for a while. Definitely raised the bar across the board and has the whole vaping community in an absolute frenzy.

And for good reason too. Now, I'm a little hesitant to try it myself just because of the strength of ball vapes, but I can't lie, the concept itself is just stellar.

So you would pack a bong just like you would if you were going to use it normally. But instead of using a lighter, you're using a device that looks like a tiny little oven on a stick. That little oven device contains some kind of spherical gems, like rubies or sapphires, like in the Ruby Twist.

Once you inhale the very hot air being drawn into the heating element, your herb gets baked, and then in turn, you get baked. 😜

But the fact of the matter is, you need to be very careful using these devices. They can get hot in excess of 500 degrees, so if you're not careful you're gonna actually burn shit.

Now, I think I'll try it eventually but for now, I'm gonna stick to my portables.

The most exciting portable on the market right now, and one I think I'll go in on, is the Tafee Bowle 2. Now, if I ever had this device when I was starting out vaping, just know that this is probably the last vape I'd ever buy.

The problem with traditional vape devices is how long they take to heat and extract vapor from your herb. The reason why the ball vapes are so popular is that they can extract in 2 hits. Well, I'm hearing you can do the same with this device.

It has a double function as a cup, and you could absolutely keep it on your desk when you're not using it because, well, it just looks like a cup bro lol.

Inside though, is the best heating technology ever seen in a portable. Only the Tinymight 2 comes close, which we'll talk about in just a second.

The Tafee Bowle 2 has an unprecedented 1 second heat up time. That means you press the button, and after one second, your vape is hot enough to hit. This is on-demand, flame-like performance from a device that looks like a Smart Cup. I don't think the vaping community has ever seen anything this fast before. Hell, I thought a 20 second heat up time was decent. But this is next level.

If you want to cash a bowl in 2 hits, this is your device. And I will have one.

Now, the Tinymight 2 offers similar performance in a different form factor. This is more your traditional vape - still on-demand heating. I'm not sure if it's 1 second fast, but I think it's safe to say that it can get you going in about 5 seconds at least.

It's flask-like appearance is deceptive enough, but if you look at it hard enough, if still definitely looks like a vape. I watched videos on this one, and it will hit as hard or as soft as you want it. I watched a video of this guy absolutely ripping a bong with it, with vapor that looked like milky-white smoke. It's a very impressive device, and I want one just to say I own one.

The Arizer Solo 3 builds on the device I've owned for quite some time now, the Solo 2. With an updated screen, bigger bowl, USB-C charging, and a new "on-demand mode" (basically a 10 second timer, not true on-demand), it has enough new features that made me want to upgrade.

The Solo 3 is primarily a sipping vape, though. If the other vapes are like taking a shot, the Solo 3 is more like having a glass of wine. It's designed to be consumed in 10+ minutes, with a long glass stem that resembles a straw, where you're just pulling a little bit of vapor at a time, enjoying yourself and getting progressively more high. It's my ideal experience. The Solo 3 also comes with included water pipe attachments, so you can use it with your bong for even more cooling.

This is a great vape for beginners, though it's not gonna blast you to the moon like the others.

The Fury 3 just released, which is a successor to the first vape I ever owned, the Fury 2. Healthyrips makes the best portables in my opinion. This thing fits in your pocket, and easy to hit inconspicuously from your palm.

It's also a session device, but with a shorter stem, and can also be used with a water pipe adapter. I will probably own one at some point, since they are so cheap and easy to use.

There are other portable vapes of note - The Storz and Bickel lineup (Mighty, Crafty, and the new Venty) but they are apparently harder to clean, contain a lot of plastic, and some are even erroring out, no thanks. Planet of the Vapes also makes a Healthyrips clone called the Lobo. It does have a removable battery, but I prefer and trust the Healthyrips brand more.

Moving on to manual vapes (you thought I was done?!)

Manual vapes require an external heating element - usually a butane lighter, but there are ton of electric heating options too - to heat up a chamber of weed without burning it.

I think the Dynavap was the first manual vape to hit the scene. Indeed, it was pretty revolutionary in its own right. You would torch the tip (ouch) until you heard the cap "click" and then you'd inhale. This offers the most "joint"like experience to vaping, and has a lot of fans.

There have been many advancements on this design since then, all with additional parts that make the vapor much cooler than a standard Dynavap. The Tempest is now the gold standard, although, I'm interested in the Terpcicle, which features an all-glass stem.

I'll stop here. As you can see, there are many options to choose from, and many different options to fit your style of play.

Do you want to get on a rocket to the moon? Get a ball vape like the Ruby Twist, or one of the quick extraction devices like the Tafee Bowle 2 or the Tinymight 2. Do you want to take your time and sip, with the added versatility of bong use? The Arizer Solo 3 and the new Healthyrips Fury 3 are good options. Do you want a more manual, farm-to-table vaping experience that doesn't require charging a device? You can use any of the Dynavap type devices, some of which have offered huge advancements from the original.

That's all I got here, and I will be exploring some of these devices soon

[netflixonyourcouch]

This is why I don't fall in love in Springtime.

[netflixonyourcouch]

I'm tired of staying silent about this:

I hate Pink Pony Club, lmao.

Red Wine Supernova? Phenomenal song. After Midnight? Fun and catchy. Casual? Her best. My Kink is Karma? Absolutely scathing.

Pink Pony Club sounds so generic, boring and lifeless by comparison.

[netflixonyourcouch]

Stoners writing their first pro-marijuana legalization essay in college lmfao

[netflixonyourcouch]

The best part of believe is the lie bro

[netflixonyourcouch]

I honestly had an amazing build experience. I think I'm gonna start a tradition of stepping up my PC every four years. First build was completed in 2016, such a humble build but necessary to say "EYE DID THAT."

This time around, I opted to buy a newer case. Now, cases are important, but at the end of the day, it's just metal and glass, no need to overspend on it. I figured *any* case on the market in 2024 has got to be better than my case from 2015, so I just closed my eyes and picked one. I landed on the NZXT H7 Flow (2022), which I was able to snag at a discount because of the updated 2024 version. Depending on preference, the 2022 case is actually better than the 2024 anyway. I was very happy with this case.

I had a tough time getting in my motherboard, the Asrock B650 PG Lightning. After a lost package and 3 customer service calls later, I finally received my motherboard, unwrapped mind you, with the box torn. I feared the worst, but once I got it in the case, I had no issues!

Building in this case was a dream. Honestly, the longest part was installing the 6 case fans, which had to be held with one hand flush to the case and screwed in with the other. The second longest part was getting the CPU heatsink mounted. I have a gigantic fucking heatsink, lmao, and I'm questioning why I went that big since I'm not overclocking! No matter, I'll get it swapped out soon and I'll save it for when I step up my CPU later on.

Cable management was lovely. The whole backside of the case has velcro straps build in, vertically, to contain the mess of cables you have for power, front panel and fan control. The motherboard has every single connector I needed, from two M.2 drives that feed back to the CPU, to enough fan and ARGB headers to start a rave, and just barely enough SATA (4) for most use-cases.

I'm very satisfied with this build and it should be good for years to come.

[netflixonyourcouch]

Nah the way this just happened to me is crazy tho.

Gotta enjoy it while you can!

[netflixonyourcouch]

The best part about a mutual breakup is not having that lingering longing for the relationship after it's done. She ended it with me Sunday afternoon; by Sunday evening I was enjoying myself at a concert. Went to work this morning with absolutely no loss of pep in my step. Everything is good over here and I wish her the best. 🥰

[netflixonyourcouch]

Lol why when a cool company decide to lay off some people you got people claiming that company is dead and it's such a big blow to culture etc. Saw it twice with Bandcamp and Pitchfork. Yo, don't listen to the disgruntled employees that got laid off lol, of course them niggas gon poison the well. It's like bro, I'm sorry yall lost yall jobs but you don't gotta pin 500 word essays about how music journalism is dead because Pitchfork is reducing staff lmao. Yall should have seen the thinkpieces that came out after Pitchfork announced that shit, it was GRIM. The funny part is that Pitchfork kept on business as usual, they're still reviewing shit and it's not wildly different than the shit they usually put out, which you need to keep in mind changed a full decade ago anyway. So while it's not the heyday of 2005 Pitchfork, it's still very on-brand for 2015 Pitchfork. The Bandcamp thing was slightly different but more of the same. They got sold or whatever and people were literally crying that there's no more platforms to release independent music anymore, this is such a huge loss lmao, guess who's still alive and kicking? Bandcamp, and it's STILL the preferred method for indie artists to release music. Literally nothing changed.

So what the FUCK were yall idiots crying about? This is how I know I'm black cuz the white tears just won't phasing me lmao

[netflixonyourcouch]

There is no way that the idiots in the basement of Pitchfork and whatever basement Fantano crawled out of heard "I Believe in Magic" and still rated the album less than a 5. Criminal behavior

[netflixonyourcouch]

I'm of two minds of this:

Yes, I completely appreciate that teachers went into their own pocket for the pizza parties that we grew up with. As a child, these were some of the fondest memories, even if the pizza was cold and it was like 1/8th of a slice. But...

Would it have hurt to buy double the amount of pizza tho? I mean damn, I don't want a pizza ration out here, it should at least be double that slice LOL.

Like I said, no shade because they bought the pizza with their own money and they did that just to give kids something to be excited about. Every kid loves pizza! But you gotta admit, them slices of pizza were objectively small lmao. Am I wrong or can I just state the facts here? 😂

[netflixonyourcouch]

So much has been made of the Halsey response

Thank you Halsey, first and foremost, for an amazing album. I don't want that point to get lost by discussing what is admittedly the NOISE surrounding this album.

The main culprits: Pitchfork and Fantano. The long and short of it, for those who are unaware: both Pitchfork and Fantano cruelly and unfairly attacked Halsey's intentions, accusing her of essentially milking their illness for the album and exhibiting "main character syndrome" or some shit. There is no way around it, these were personal attacks, and designed to shock and make a statement against her instead of engage with the project in good faith.

So many people have come out on both sides to either support Halsey or defend Pitchfork/Fantano's right to criticism.

Let me tell you something. You white-washed, hipster ass, elitist ass motherfuckers who think indie music is so superior to pop music (and liking Charli's BRAT doesn't count, you bandwagon bitches) need to get a life. All of you. You're NOT the smartest in the room, you're not smarter than Halsey fans, you're not more cultured, more correct, or even more logical. You pride yourselves on that because you've already made up your mind about pop music and refuse to bend, and I'm here to tear down that smug sense of superiority.

You fucking chumps have the gall to say, "What? People aren't allowed to criticize music anymore" Blah blah blah. Stop going to one end of the extreme every fucking time someone wants to put your bullshit "criticism" in its place. You all sound like fucking Republicans lmfao, ignorant as fuck. Republicans cry about "free speech being cancelled" because they can't say racist shit anymore. Yall cry about criticism being "dead" because you can't openly denigrate pop stars anymore.

You can't say ignorant, close-minded, sexist, rockist bullshit and act like nobody is allowed to call it out. Genuine criticism ISN'T THE ISSUE. Petty, personal and short-sighted attacks on Halsey's character IS THE ISSUE. Until you stop at the stop sign and ACKNOWLEDGE THIS FACT, I don't wanna hear anything else about defending the "right to criticize." Present criticism in good faith and then we'll talk.

I can talk about this shit BECAUSE I'VE BEEN THERE. I used to run in the same little cliques as yall. I'm so glad I'm no longer like you fucking pricks anymore because you are all insufferable people. I feel frankly embarrassed that I was ever that pretentious and condescending and I pray that all of you wake up and understand the error of your ways. THERE IS STILL TIME, the irony is that your refusal to keep an open mind about pop music means that you're NOT the so-called "music experts" that you think you are. If you were true music experts you'd be experts about ALL MUSIC not just white people with guitars. Again, CHARLI DOESN'T COUNT. CARLY RAE JEPSEN DOESN'T COUNT, YOU SOUND LIKE THE WHITE PEOPLE THAT SAY THAT SAY THEY CAN'T BE RACIST BECAUSE THEY HAVE 2 BLACK FRIENDS. It's the joke about being US sports teams calling themselves "World Champions" when they are only playing in an American league. You're not an expert on "music" while simultaneously ACTIVELY IGNORING A BIG CHUNK OF MUSIC.

You're also attempting to outsmart all the backlash by saying "Just because Halsey talks about their sickness doesn't make it a great album!!!" Let me address that claim and then I'm done with your faux-intellectual fucks, who again I'd like to remind, are not as smart as yall think. Some of you cobbled a few more brain cells together, I'll give you that, and think that this is the ultimate "gotcha" but it's not. Let's start with the elephant in the room: 1. Many of you who are saying all this shit against Halsey HAVEN'T EVEN HEARD THE ALBUM YET. So until you listen to it, I'm not even entertaining any of your fucking arguments because it's coming from a place of literal ignorance. You don't even know what the album sounds like!! 2. If you DID listen to it, it's a strong chance you didn't digest it. NO I'm not saying it's this ultra challenging piece of work that's difficult to understand, I'm instead arguing you skimmed it, didn't listen closely enough or went in with a strong bias to where you're not even in the position to hear its greatness.

Yes, it's a technically right statement that simply talking about a deep or emotional topic doesn't automatically make a work of art great. The reason why that doesn't apply here is that she DID make a great album. I like her last album more but there's no denying that this is right behind it, and in some parts even better. Not every song is my favorite, but there's no way around it, there are some PHENOMENAL songs on here: I Believe in Magic, The Arsonist, The End, Dog Years, Ego, Darwinism, and Lonely is the Muse are all better than your standard indie singer-songwriter stuff.

Finally, I've seen this over and over again: People like to overapply the rules to artists they don't like. I've seen it with Taylor too, who I admittedly don't like, but people tend to be super uncharitable toward her too. You'd NEVER disparage Sufjan for talking about his struggles with Guillain-Barre or try to say, "Just because he talks about Guillain-Barre doesn't make it a great album!" It simply wouldn't happen. So stop this rules-for-thee-but-not-for-me hypocrisy bullshit and try to get a fucking clue, please.

In short. I won't sit silently anymore as people in the indie community try to self-assure themselves that Halsey fans are the crazy ones for calling out cheap, personal attacks under the guise of "criticism." Yes, I'm sure you all are assuring yourselves that "stan twitter" is the problem and "people can't criticize music anymore" but I need all of you to wake up and get a clue, THERE IS STILL TIME, if you love music try actually opening your mind for a change and LOVE MUSIC instead of parading around your indie music bias as if it's the only correct take there can be. Try to get some more pop music in your diet before you criticize pop music. I wouldn't expect someone who likes two hip-hop artists to give good constructive criticism on hip-hop any more than I'd be able to give good constructive criticism on a jazz album just because I like Thundercat and Flying Lotus.

This was long-winded and aggressive but I'm sorry, I'm tired of pretending it's okay that hipster motherfuckers do this shit. I can't do it anymore.

[netflixonyourcouch]

I mean we are just scraping the bottom of the barrel content and memes.

The stuff on the early internet was dumb, but at least it was fun and novel. Every viral sensation felt like a *sensation*

Now I dread to see repost after repost after repost of low effort stuff, people spending all day addicted to silly stuff with no subtlety and no nuance.

And it's too late to change, this is the culture now.

I think I'm quitting Instagram again next year. I just can't take it.

[netflixonyourcouch]

Yep, found another one.

Yall need to go to hell!! Lol

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by The Soul Coach⚡️ (@vontelligent)

Now is it me or do we NOT need a word for every single "human emotion" lol

This kind of video would have been fashionable on a Tumblr post 15 years ago, except it would also have been filled with super obscure foreign concepts. The shit would be like, "There's a word for when your mom brings you breakfast in bed and you feel her protective and nurturing spirit." Back then I would read that shit and be like... Okay, that's called having an awesome mom, but when people take these concepts of human emotion and nail them down to a word, it can have the effect of false impression.

In other words, it's a party trick. The first part of the trick is to find a human emotion that many people have experienced. Let's say you were leaving the house and you pat your pockets and you can't find your car keys or your wallet. You search frantically throughout the house until you find them, and after some time you get them.

Some Tumblr ass fuck gonna tell you "Actually the feeling you just felt was PLONDER, the panic you feel of losing an important possession that you rely on every day"

And then you embrace in the novelty, "OMG, I didn't know that there was actually a WORD" for that!

We don't need a word for every damn thing tho.

Parents know when their children are lying to them. There doesn't need to be a WORD for the feeling parents get when they know their children are lying to them.

Human concepts can exist without having to make words for them and I'm not impressed that you came up with a word that describes the joy you feel when you find a $20 bill in your pants pocket. It's all party tricks.

[netflixonyourcouch]

Hell, at least your truck beats walkin'.