#cheap versus

[ewiscanon]

Isaac and Edward as bubblegum and marceline (genderbend). I was chilling with this song then i suddenly noticed how similar they are. (song link if any of you interested!)

[britneyshakespeare]

you know what i realized

is giving

[somecoolpigeon]

Lucilius ✨️

Drawn with a ballpoint dot pen tattoo cartridge

[betatrolls]

gonna say it. newer emos making it about being edgy and dark instead of about being expressive of your emotions and struggles in a society that deems emotional honesty inappropriate fucking ruined the subculture.

[sanguith]

I had to look up "causes for carbon monoxide inside home" online because I kept being reminded that CO detectors are common in america for personal home use but I could genuinely not think of a single reason why carbon monoxide could form inside someone's living space unless they had a fireplace on at all times and terrible ventilation, but then I remember how non-electric stoves are so common in america and everyone has cars in a garage that is directly connected to the house or whatever and it made sense

[audio-luddite]

Battle Lines.

Many conflicts occur from misunderstandings. Those lead to opinions and different opinions lead to taking sides. Criticism of what I think is criticism of me. Wanna fight? I just watched an interesting You Tube video on digital recording. (see below) They talk about sample rates and bit depth and well stuff which engineers deal with in audio. Interesting they relate bit depth directly to tape noise.

The consumer or audiophile listener has to take a side right? I mean I have said many times I prefer my analog source of LPs to Streaming and CDs. The fight between digital and analog is very similar to the solid state versus glass conflict. You wanna fight?

But recently I have gone on about how I have some really good CDs. There are true audiophile CDs even with the limits of 16 bit and 44 khz.

My CD player is good, but not high end. It costs less than my current phono pickup. But good can be pretty good.

I am beginning to lean on the idea that it is the recording and processing of the disc (either shiny clear, or big black type) that is the big difference. A poorly done recording and a ham fisted mastering will make a poor playback no matter how fancy and expensive your music spinner is. Or for that matter if it is digital or analog.

And there is a direct parallel between how a digital signal can go bad and how a solid state or tube amplifier can sound good or bad. Clipping is a word used when a signal exceeds the capacity of a medium to portray it. In a power amplifier tubes are always praised for how they clip. Overdrive them and they keep pretty calm and if you are a guitar player they make nice distortion sounds. A solid state amplifier reacts dangerously with nasty harmonics and even gobs of DC to blow speakers. Personally in audio I think if you are clipping an amp you have got something seriously wrong.

I get frustrated when people go on and on about how tubes clip nicely or better. Why clip anything at all? It can explain why a relatively small tube amplifier, say 60 Watt, can sound as good as a much bigger solid state one of 240 Watts. But generally clipping is something to be avoided. Don't do it!

In digital recording if you clip a signal it generates harmonic artifacts that sound very bad. So much of poor CD sound can be from bad recording or conversion from analog to digital at the front end of the process. Done right it sounds fine.

The debate about bit depth is also a distraction. A CD has much more Dynamic Range than an LP, but an LP is adequate for almost all music. Sound effects maybe not.

In one of my discussions with the Tube Guru he used the analogy of hearing a bee buzzing on the other side of the garden then it gets hit by a lightning bolt. That is about the DR that a CD is capable of. Need that much?

The real application is in the recording and studio mixing phase where more bits give you lower noise so layering tracks will not lose everything into hiss. Higher bit rates are to facilitate analog input filters of easier slope to prevent frequencies above the Nyquist limit from getting in. That is a problem at the front end.

I like reasoned factual discussion. You can still like this or that, but lets not fight. There still is no best, just preferences. Enjoy the sounds.

[miss-floral-thief]

mildly annoying that my hair still gets tangled despite its shortness

[ghoullnextdoor]

It's sad to know that I am outgrowing friendships I thought I'd have a for a long time.

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

resorts and the tourism industry are absolutely economically, politically, ecologically, and socially disruptive at best and destructive at worst and the preservation of traveling as a prohibitively expensive and thus elite experience is hardly a good thing………BUT. sorry travel influencing and “travel on a budget” culture is not really an improvement. and the increase in international air travel its led to is insanely environmentally destructive

[gwarden123]

I like how there’s this consistent theme of cultural legacies and practices being eroded by the Empire. The way it’s visually conveyed too, with their black and white colour scheme not being this sharp, piano key cleanliness of the sequel trilogy, but actually monochrome, completely sapped of colour.

[chryzure-archive]

“there’s nothing more important to me than her” says the man that has licked said girl’s lips and then touched her like twice

[afoolandathief]

There's probably some irony that my "kicking ass for the working class" socks cost $15

[artsybi]

heyyyyy reminder for other cane users.

don't forget that cane tips need to be replaced.

i've been using my cane for almost two years on a near daily basis and i JUST switched out the tip and

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the new tip versus the old tip. i'm not sure how clear it is but, YEAH, there's like. half a millimeter of tread left on the old tip, if that

the replacement was LITERALLY 2 dollars. i bought two to justify the four dollar shipping but. TWO BUCKS.

i had noticed that i was having slipping issues on linoleum recently, but i did not realize how bad the issue had gotten until the new tips came so. PLEASE check your cane treads and if they're notably worn out PLEASE get yourself a new tip they're SO cheap and the grip i get on the new one is INSANE

please don't forget to replace your cane tips!

[killbaned]

maybe had an exhaustion and hunger meltdown about fucking bandaids lads

[thevalicemultiverse]

(Meanwhile in England, a Tremere and a Hunter are having a debate on top of a moving train)

Kevin, the Tremere: YOUR BRAIN IS MADE OF BAD MEAT!

Big-D, the Hunter: NO, IT’S GOOD!!!

Kevin: YOU BLUBBERING BULBOUS BUMPKIN! YOU CANNOT BUY A BLENDER AT A 99P STORE!

Big-D: IN 1922, STEPHEN POPLAWSKI WAS THE FIRST MAN TO MOUNT AN AGITATING ELEMENT IN A SIMPLE GLASS CONTAINER.

Kevin: WOW, COOL!!!

Big-D: IT HAS BEEN 84 YEARS, KEVIN! YOUR HYPOTHESIS PRESUMES SUCH PLACIDITY THAT IT SPITS IN THE VERY FACE OF HUMAN PROGRESS!

Kevin: THE MARGINS ON A 99 PENCE BLENDER WOULD BE 29 POUNDS IN THE RED, YOU OIL BARREL!

Big-D: MARGINS! AND SUCH MARGINS SHOULD MARGINALIZE MY RIGHT TO BUY A BLENDER FOR 99P?!

Kevin: THAT’S NOT YOUR RIGHT! THAT’S NOT ANYONE’S RIGHT! GHOUL! READ HIM HIS RIGHTS!

DS Guy Graham, the ghoul, had been sipping on Kevin’s blood through a curly straw during the entire conversation:…Can’t you just crush things with a spoon?

Both: SPOON!?

(Big-D and Kevin start screaming at Guy as he goes back to slurping Kevin’s blood)

(Now back in LA as Alice continues to find the Ankaran Sarcophagus)

Alice: . . .so what you're saying is that my life could always get weirder and, arguably, stupider. That being said, Big-D may want a cheap blender, but I personally would be deeply suspicious of any blender that showed up in a 99p store. That thing either does not work at all or has eaten some fingers.

[miss-floral-thief]

Doesn’t have a self

Checkout but gas station is closer