aphlamingphoenix

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[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago

I really dislike superhero movies in general, especially this non-stop Marvel/DC stuff, and a primary reason for that is the way they tend to go in and out of live action and animation. There's an uncanny valley thing that happens in that transition, and you can obviously still tell that large portions of the live action stuff is shot on a greenscreen. It all looks fake as a result. My suspension of disbelief is shattered.

But when a movie like this admits it's animated, things improve a lot. I watched the first Spiderverse movie the other day with my kid, and I absolutely loved the art style. I had other problems with the movie, but the visual style was not one of them. I wish there were more animated movies targeting older audiences with unique art direction like that.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Lol, I'm sorry

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)
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[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago

Actually, Pythonscript is a whitespace-sensitive Python-to-perl transpiler.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

Never had a beer that I liked. There are some I can tolerate, but none of them are actually enjoyable. So I usually go for cocktails, either a gin and tonic or a Moscow mule.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It was used by Hilary Clinton to describe Trump supporters. A "basket of deplorables" I think was her term.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you recommend a particular instance?

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that was the dominant form of music distribution at the time.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So you haven't seen, for example, Cowboys From Hell by Pantera or Weathered by Creed, then? I don't think Vs is a particularly bad album cover, especially by comparison to those. The photography is fine. Maybe it's not your average Hipgnosis cover, but it's ok.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that's a really weird way to finger a G major. I will play it with my second finger on the third fret of low E, first finger on the second fret of A, third finger barred across B and high E at third fret. If I'm playing a song that requires certain chord changes (like the way Wonderwall drops from G major to a G/F# to an Em7 to a Dsus to an A7sus) I will use third and fourth finger on the high strings instead of the barre because it's easier to move the root notes around that way.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Anything from Neutral Milk Hotel's album In an Aeroplane Over the Sea. The whole album is Guitar 101.

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago

It's very, very costly, both but the hardware and the electricity it takes to run it. There may be a bit of sunk cost fallacy at play for some, especially the execs who are calling for AI Everything, but in the end, in AI doesn't generate enough increase in revenue to offset its operational costs, even those execs will bow out. I think the economics of AI will cause the bubble to burst because end users aren't going to pay money for a service that does a mediocre job at most things but costs more.

 

Hey everyone. After inheriting a bunch of old records, I started dipping my toes into this whole vinyl thing and... I think I'm hooked. I'd like to step a bit farther into this, but the deeper I get the more there seems to be to read up on. I'm beginning to get a little paralyzed by it, so I thought I'd ask for some direction from more wizened vinyl-loving elders.

I initially had one of those little suitcase players with the garbage tinny speakers. Then I got some self-powered speakers that greatly improved my willingness to use the device. Especially for old records that haven't been particularly well cared for, when I was already accepting some pop and static, that made me start using it more. Then I upgraded the turntable to an Audio-Technica one - one of their entry-level budget-type devices - and that made me go all in.

So at this point, I have a collection of over 200 records, new and old, and I almost exclusively listen to them these days when I'm in my office. The stylus that came with the turntable wore out, so I bought a new one, upgrading to a microlinear stylus. Sounds fantastic.

But now I want some passive speakers that I can control through my receiver, and I'm finding that to be a more expensive item with a lot of options I don't really know how to parse through. So that's a good place to start. What's a good set of small-ish passive speakers (to fit on or near the shelf I have the turntable on) that a guy can buy on a budget?

I have also noticed a lot of static and pop and... "sparkle"? on even brand new records. This I attribute to static electricity. I live in northern Colorado, the air is exceedingly dry here, and I can hardly walk across a room lately without picking up enough static to power my house through the winter. I have some anti-static inner sleeves that are nice, but they don't really get rid of the charge on the records. There seem to be a ton of different products for taking that out, but it's hard to know what the best thing is to buy, and some of it gets quite expensive pretty quick.

What else am I missing that will improve my vinyl collecting and playback experience? Best ways to clean old records? Take the warp out? Things I don't even know I need to know yet?

 

The Colorado State Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump cannot appear on the 2024 presidential ballot.

 

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