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Screaming into the void

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Well, crap.

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@Kathrynlena I can't tell from the video, but maybe it's a quinceañera? Would explain the lack of a wedding party while still accounting for the giant dress.

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Used my lunch break to replace some speaker wire the cats chewed through an indeterminate time ago. Now I have treble on both sides!

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That said, "listen to a substantial proportion of all music ever recorded without getting up from the couch" does have its charm.

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Just did a comparative listening test for streaming vs CD using the Fellowship soundtrack.

It's kind of wild how much streaming has normalized bad audio quality. The dynamic range *alone* of my 23-year-old CD beats the pants off streaming.

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This is yet another reminder to myself that I need to stay far away from audiophile-level equipment, as I know it's a hole I would all-too-readily throw all my money into.

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(Methodology: I used one audio system with each version on a different input source. Streaming was played via YouTube Music on a Chromecast connected via HDMI. CD was played in a Blu-ray player connected via HDMI. No changes were made other than selecting input source)

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@FadeToBlack1183 @CalebDMTG I stopped by an old-school butcher shop a while back and the butcher was just bandsawing a slab of bacon into slices. Made a lot of sense once I saw it.

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@caesararum There was a web series I read for a while where magic was explicitly non-scientific. It worked and was real, but each person interacted with it differently, and trying to reproduce another's methods basically always failed. Can't remember the title though.

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@Kathrynlena Perhaps the banthas are invasive, and tatooine used to be a wide grassland before the banthas are too much and caused all the erosion and sand to spread everywhere.

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@Kathrynlena Plus, who wants to go on a long road trip in a sports car? They're good for like 2-3 hours max, not 2 weeks!

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@Top8Games Just as delicious (and dangerous) as advertised. Broiling the marshmallows is perfect. Thanks for sharing the idea!

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Alright Starbucks, if you have to offer an iced version of your cozy cuddle season drinks, that should tell you it's too soon.

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Ok, this comic is amazing.

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@DemilyPyro Example of what similar powers can do in a fight, from the Imbattable French comic

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@Kathleen_LRR Gotta be similar to how I felt when watching the gymnastics floor routines:

"Hey, this music is finally good, not that old person fuddy duddy music they used to play."
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"Oh no."

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@VVBellerose A version of this used to exist in a lot of cities. They were called Automats, and you'd buy meals like it was a vending machine (put coins in, open window, take plate). Wikipedia suggests they declined in the 70's in the US with the rise of fast food places.

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The biggest issue with Google search is that search itself never actually made anything; it just had the best indexing of what other people had already made. As content got locked behind logins and paywalls and private discord servers, it's just a fast index of slop.

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I think the reason Google "got worse" is basically just because forums died off. Forum posts were preserved in amber and easily crawlable. Now conversations are stored ephemerally and in walled gardens like Discord.

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@Kathrynlena @akafacehots I used one to buy peaches last time I was at the farmer's market.

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@NikonPunch Jealous! Have a great time.

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