yhwx

The script is disengaging.

TV’s Frink said:

You haven’t given me a reason to do so.

Listen for the people.

Possessed said:

By “pretty green” do you mean “attractive green” or “very green”?

The latter.

I’m just A1.

DuracellEnergizer said:

TV’s Frink said:

Eye colour unknown my ass.

Those eyes look pretty green to me.

He’s [BillionareHobo] eventually going to have to get his own taxes thread.

Well, I guess you have to learn how to live being on the list.

Lord Haseo said:

yhwx said:

I searched ‘pron’ on Google Images and got porn.

I just looked it up on youtube and got the same thing. There were fucking tons of those videos in 05 and 06. I’m glad they’re gone.

EDIT:

Now “pron” is in my youtube search history. Fuck me lol

You can delete it. Probably.

Ric Olie picture

I searched ‘pron’ on Google Images and got porn.

I think most of us are firmly in the ‘Original Trilogy purists’ camp.

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Westboro Baptist aren’t terrorists.

Well obviously they’d have a low ranking.

they shouldn’t have any ranking. They haven’t killed anyone. As far as I know, they haven’t committed any acts of violence. What they do is commit acts of extreme offence.

I think you might have missed the joke.

You haven’t even listened.

I am going to push another link:

https://overcast.fm/+EtBrfxFRw/31:04

The discussion is more of one about anime and cinema in general, instead of a specific film.

One ban and that’s all.

Discussion from the Random Thoughts thread continues here.

Darth Id said:

Possessed said:

Nostalgia of things that came out before I was born? I don’t think so.

Yes. Sounds like it’s your father’s audiopheelie fetishism rubbing off on you, so nostalgia-by-proxy.

Correct. Most audiophile stuff is absolute BS—newsflash, most people can’t tell the difference between a 128kbps MP3 and a 320 kbps file—check out this test for the evidence.

I’m saying most vinyls that come out are superior to their CD counterparts.

You are obviously saying that. And you are wrong, objectively and quantifiably. Because your subjective impressions are colored by the placebo effect and expectation-confirmation bias.

This is why ABX tests are important—you can unpurposefully affect one’s opinion by saying what something is.

Well this the only appropriate thread.

It’s all just nostalgia and placebos.

Darth Id said:

Possessed said:

True. But my dad has a huge vinyl and CD collection. Lots of titles on both. Haven’t encountered a single instance where the vinyl didn’t blow the CD out of the water. Played on the same receiver and speakers. A good turntable and receiver with good receivers is going to sound better, you can quote as many articles if you want but until you’ve heard vinyl on the proper setup you haven’t heard recorded music.

Hahaha no.
The last third of EVERY side of EVERY record suffers from audible Inner Groove Distortion. It is a fundamental, inescapable limitation of the vinyl medium. As a partial ameliorative measure, the cutting engineers painstakingly REMOVE higher frequencies from the waveform gradually as they move into the center of the disc. This is a measurable, audible, undebatable LOSS of information and fidelity. And it HAS to be done on EVERY record.
And it sounds, frankly, like goddamn shit.

I say this as a compulsive vinyl collector.

Then, there is the unmistakable, rhythmic THWIP that happens, to some degree, on a significant minority of records due to minor disc warping, which happens during manufacture. Watch a record. Except for a very few lucky flat pressings, the tonearm will almost always bob up and down to some degree. This causes audible WOW on nearly every disc, and frequently (I’d estimate a quarter of new pressings that I buy) you get that nice THWIP as the tonearm takes a moment too long to dip back down into the groove.

Wow. I wholeheartedly agree with this. What has happened in this world?

JohnySasaki said:

yhwx said:

TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

People with screen readers need the title.

I guess that’s true but it’s also true that I’m too lazy for that.

And what are the archivists going to do 200 years from now when they get around to this site?

can i have invite to myspleen please?

Well, you asked, so no.

I think I’m the extreme perfectionist.

I’m supported by facts.

Except for how he said that vinyl is better than CD.

LexX said:

Tyrphanax said:

The algorithm more or less “listens” (there are a lot of different ways to do this, but it works similarly to how Cortana or Siri work) to the file and then matches what it “hears” to the sound of words it knows.

It seems to swing towards political and news stuff, so those are probably things it hears a lot so it favors those.

Off topic, but how on Earth this kind of algorithm helps anyone? If you were deaf you’d be better off just guessing by yourself. It’s just a ridicilous thought that someone has actully published the entire system and been serious.

It might not help anyone directly, though it can be used as training for future development.