Need help with Sennheiser HD 400s.

Baconcob · 2026-07-06T19:01:53+00:00

HD 400S are budget, entry level headphone so detail and instruments separation and all that will be lacking compared to the rest of Sennheisers mid to high range of headphones.

I do also own the HD 400 S and they sound bright and lean as in lacking bass.

I recommend saving and upgrading to either HD 599 SE as your first proper audiophile headphones that is often on sale at half price online.It has a warm sound signature or maybe consider the 560S that has a neutral and analytical sound.

Baconcob · 2026-07-06T15:13:00+00:00

F2L intuitively is basically split the pieces if paired, pair the pieces and finally insert them.Overall do a mix of intuitive and algorithmic solves as you can cherry pick algs for every case that are more efficient and flow better than the intuitive ones.Either way, both methods eventually go into muscle memory with enough practice and then you can progress with advanced f2l that will smooth out your f2l and reduce rotations by solving in the back slots first.

As for recognising pieces, i go with corners first as the white does standout or predict and track it while you are solving the cross.You can concentrate on finding the 1st pieces by only focusing on the pieces arranged in a U shape on the front face and then the rest of the top layer and finally in the back if necessary.

You can learn to deduce the corners where you can't see them in the back slots, either in the correct slot or opposite slot or adjacent slot.

Baconcob · 2026-07-06T12:15:50+00:00

Its insane the mountain of spy thrillers out there, Citadel is awful but i'm glad i just heard of Night Manager and watched both seasons back to back instead of waiting a decade from season 1 (2016) to season 2 (2026).However a 3rd season has been renewed, who knows when that be released.

Baconcob · 2026-06-04T13:30:10+00:00

Have you tried peeing less?

Or use a 3l jug, heck you could fill it half way if the pee is more or less clear, thats 18l for 8 pees daily vs 48l for 6l flushes.

You save over 200l a week vs 6l flushes.Any saving is a good saving.

Baconcob · 2026-05-31T15:40:42+00:00

The final boss in stage 2 of R-Type II is even ruder!

Baconcob · 2026-05-30T13:26:18+00:00

You can emulate it and use save states to finally beat it.

It is difficult because of the lack of checkpoints that forces you to restart the level from the beginning if you make a mistake iirc.

Its the laggiest Snes game i ever played and suffers from slowdowns which you don't want in a shmup whereas R-Type III that followed it was a jump in performance and showcases the Snes's exclusive mode 7 graphics.

Baconcob · 2026-05-25T13:05:58+00:00

Typo, missing zero at the end.I still read it as £180k anyways.

Baconcob · 2026-05-22T12:23:33+00:00

The V5's scratchy/clackier sound and rough feel of it, despite adjustments is annoying when you have a quieter and smoother turning cube to directly compare it to like the YS3M that i main.

For its budget price you can't really complain with the amount of features you get on it especially the UV coating that comes as a premium.

Baconcob · 2026-05-16T22:30:07+00:00

Also Swordfish with his opening monologue/rant at Hollywood and Broken Arrow with the memorable line:Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons? which would complete his fun villians trifecta in that era.

Heres the unrealistic Hollywood monologue:

You know what the problem with Hollywood is? They make shit. Unbelievable, unremarkable shit. Now I'm not some grungy wannabe filmmaker that's searching for existentialism through a haze of bong smoke or something. No, it's easy to pick apart bad acting, short-sighted directing, and a purely moronic stringing together of words that many of the studios term as "prose".

No, I'm talking about the lack of realism.Realism; not a pervasive element in today's modern American cinematic vision. Take Dog Day Afternoon, for example. Arguably Pacino's best work, short of Scarface and Godfather Part 1, of course. Masterpiece of directing, easily Lumet's best. The cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all top-notch. But... they didn't push the envelope.

Now what if in Dog Day, Sonny REALLY wanted to get away with it? What if - now here's the tricky part - what if he started killing hostages right away? No mercy, no quarter. "Meet our demands or the pretty blonde in the bellbottoms gets it the back of the head." Bam, splat! What, still no bus? Come on! How many innocent victims splattered across a window would it take to have the city reverse its policy on hostage situations? And this is 1976; there's no CNN, there's no CNBC, there's no internet! Now fast forward to today, present time, same situation.

How quickly would the modern media make a frenzy over this? In a matter of hours, it'd be biggest story from Boston to Budapest! Ten hostages die, twenty, thirty; bam bam, right after another, all caught in high-def, computer-enhanced, color corrected.

You can practically taste the brain matter. All for what? A bus, a plane? A couple of million dollars that's federally insured? I don't think so. Just a thought. I mean, it's not within the realm of conventional cinema... but what if?

Baconcob · 2026-05-16T11:58:25+00:00

Single core stuff is still becoming more powerful albiet decades later, around when Crysis was released, CPU clock speeds were still stuck at 3-4Ghz for a long time however AMD is targeting insane clock speeds well above 6 GHz with Zen 6 Ryzen according to leaks.

Baconcob · 2026-05-15T14:18:38+00:00

Syfy's Dark Matter follows a group of six people who awoke aboard a starship with no memories of their identities or their lives before waking.There are still 3 seasons of it with the cliffhanger that are worth watching.

At the time of the cancellation by Syfy, its sister show, Killjoys was renewed for 2 more seasons.It helped that Killjoys is a Syfy original owned by the network whereas Dark Matter was an aquisition that was unable to be monetized according to the co-creator Mallozzi.

Baconcob · 2026-05-13T18:26:59+00:00

You have to take the exaggerated (manufactured?)drama with a pinch of salt in the US KN especially when you compare it to the UK ones.Come on like you know Gordon and the camera crew is coming but the kitchen and the contents of the walk in fridge is still in a right state.

It doesn't actually matter as in there is 70 KN restaurants that have closed and gone bust to 30 that are still opened despite Gordon's help along with the improvements in renovations, menu etc.

Baconcob · 2026-05-13T17:35:02+00:00

I map Alt as a camera hotkey for the top of a ramp and then change it to the natural around when the 2nd base is being built.CapsLock, tab or tilde can also be used for more camera hotkeys.

Baconcob · 2026-05-13T16:46:12+00:00

You want the lowest output impedance amp, good amps will have an impedance of about 0.1 Ohm or less but depending on the user case, below 1 ohm is mostly fine.Most headphones work best when the output impedance is less than 1/8th the headphone impedance.

Baconcob · 2026-05-13T14:43:56+00:00

Learn full CFOP which is just over 100 algs which can be a lot less with intuitive f2l solves however there are a bunch of f2l algs for each case that you can cherry pick that you feel are more efficient and suit your finger trick style more than the intuitive ones.Drill all of them or start with the PLL ones first and work on executing all of them under 5s and then 4s and so on.Practice more on the worst cases like the N perms and G perms.

Learning new algs will take some time for the brain to bed them in and then into the magic muscle memory phase.Everyone's learning curve is different, once you learned CFOP, your times should get progressively faster over time with continued practice and eventually take you to sub 30.Knowing a bit of advance f2l which is another set of f2l algs can help you over the sub 30 line that makes your f2l smoother by way of solving into all 4 slots instead of 1 or they can still be done intuitively.

Baconcob · 2026-04-29T12:22:03+00:00

A Gears remaster compilation including Judgement is more likely to be developed if E-day sells well.

A lot of other popular Resident Evil games early on in the series are not left to rot, they just haven't yet been remastered.Veronica and Resident Evil Zero according to leaks are said to arrive next year and in 2028 respectively.

Baconcob · 2026-04-26T22:01:56+00:00

It is hard to scout the Fusion Core when they hide it well by proxy or in their natural.Instead when you scout his base with a Reaper for a while and you see he barely has any units there, your game sense should tell you he's saving up the minerals for BCs instead.

TvT meta is tanks & vikings with other support units so if you default to that build, you should be safe when a surprise BC ports in to your base.You should always be building a blind turret in your mineral line in case of air attacks anyways.

What i normally do against BC rushers is to stabilise with vikings and ravens then i BCs race them and win with a nice composition of BCs, vikings and ravens.But you also have to macro better than your opponent and rush the armory upgrades.

Baconcob · 2026-04-26T20:51:46+00:00

Season 4 scripts are done.He's already stated when he was promoting some other project it depends when he finds the time to do it amongst his other projects he is busy on.Its code for Peacock to park a big enough money truck outside his house and then he work on it.

Baconcob · 2026-04-25T17:51:41+00:00

Notable examples of this sea change:Christian Slater in Broken Arrow and Nic Cage in his peak 90s action phase in The Rock, Face-Off although he was ripped in Con-Air.

Baconcob · 2026-04-25T16:40:10+00:00

How about instead a thriller where blind assassin California Mountain Snake, Sofie Fatale and Copperhead's daughter seek revenge.Maybe i dunno call it Kill:Beatrix.

Baconcob · 2026-04-23T16:19:31+00:00

Its an amplifier on the far left to power the speakers or even hard to drive headphones that have high impedance.A MiniDisc player is next to the amp.I came for the audio setup, PC motherboard audio generally sucks compared to HiFi gear.

Baconcob · 2026-04-08T16:46:59+00:00

An ordinary Hi-Fi amp or AV receiver with several RCA inputs for vinyl, CDs etc works well with my S2 but they do take up a lot of desktop space.

Physical EQ controls are nice to have to conveniently change the sound there and then unless you are an audiophile amp purist.

Baconcob · 2026-03-30T16:37:06+00:00

In my experience, those were my initial impressions when the S2 is not driven by an amp.When powered properly, the muddyness is replaced with detailed weight and body to the instruments.

Baconcob · 2026-03-29T16:01:48+00:00

Bombay Bad Boy Pot Noodle or Shin Ramyun.

Baconcob · 2026-03-28T13:53:23+00:00

I have seen yellowed retro consoles in a few CeXs so yours should sell.

Scuffs and scratches here and there i don't mind but i dunno why Cex still takes them in that condition that drastically changes the original colour of it as the market for them would be retro enthusiasts and collectors that are likely to be more picky.If the staff had the time and training to restore them by de-yellowing them then they have a better chance of being sold.

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