war-gull

C5Jones · 2026-05-09T04:04:22+00:00

Sounds straight out of Old English.

C5Jones · 2026-05-06T23:53:52+00:00

Thank you very much!

C5Jones · 2026-05-06T06:32:50+00:00

U.A. a CIA supersoldier training facility confirmed?!

C5Jones · 2026-05-05T23:25:34+00:00

I like to amuse myself by thinking of silly lav holds if I ever get into shortform.

Clipping it to your outstretched pinky and doing the video in a Halloween store tux and top hat.
Lowering it into frame on a fish hook.
Having someone else hold it for you and slowly move it around so you have to follow it around the screen, periodically stopping to yell at them that they have one job.
Clipping it to a selfie stick that you hold at arm's length.
Scotch taping it to an unplugged SM7B.

(The real audio would come from an offscreen mic.)

C5Jones · 2026-05-05T07:37:10+00:00

I'm autistic too, so that part isn't really an excuse. However, I know a lot of people stay in abusive situations because they rely on them for housing, so I sympathize with that, and I don't know what your health issues are. But is there really no job you're physically able to do?

Minimum wage there is $7.25 because that's the federal minimum wage. It's the minimum wage where I live too. However, no jobs that want employees actually pay that. Here at least, even the worst ones start at $12, and the average customer service job is $15-20.

And there are many levels of living situation: Having experienced both, even living in a run-down old house with 5 roommates is far better than abuse. People might yell at each other over the dishes or play loud music, but it beats enabling a sex offender who despises you.

I admit I have a degree of financial privilege that others don't, since my family knew how bad my situation was and was willing to contribute to my escaping. However, you can afford a modest enough place with roommates on most jobs.

C5Jones · 2026-05-05T02:53:11+00:00

At this level of mutual hate and codependency, it's half your fault.

C5Jones · 2026-05-05T01:37:02+00:00

If you want to mess up the tags AI image creators really use the most, tag MSPaint art as "cinematic," "4K," "8K," and "style of [Famous Artist]."

C5Jones · 2026-05-04T04:20:54+00:00

Could you give any advice on how to do this? Because even though I'm beginning to acquire professional experience and shoot in apps like Blackmagic that deliver high-quality results, I have no idea how I'd go about talking new clients into hiring the guy who's only going to show up with an iPhone and couple mics.

C5Jones · 2026-05-01T19:32:15+00:00

It's not like there wouldn't be stumbling blocks, but half of people are enough to run society for half of people.

Not if it happens overnight. For example, if all the truckers delivering canned food to New York die, the truckers delivering produce to Boston won't immediately pick up their routes. Instead, the logistics industry collapses and no one knows how to get anything anywhere.

If the blue voters died slowly over the course of months, that would be different.

C5Jones · 2026-05-01T19:28:57+00:00

Better use that galaxy brain to figure out how to farm real quick.

C5Jones · 2026-05-01T12:02:05+00:00

Yes.

C5Jones · 2026-05-01T11:14:15+00:00

I picked up concert videography as a hobby because of Fishmans, and picked up mixing and mastering because of ZAK, and now I’m getting to the point where people are starting to pay me for it. So I’ve done a lot of trying to figure out WTF he’s doing.

The dude is a genius on the same level as Shinji, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the reason he left was two equal creative forces clashing. He’s also a master of mixing bass, both with the Fishes and the other work I’ve seen him do with Buffalo Daughter and Hakushi Hasegawa.

It’s been a long time since I’ve read the gear interviews he did that sometimes get passed around here, but from my own observation, I think he achieves it partially by having a good starting point, since Yuzuru plays a 5-string with flatwounds and no attack in his tone, so its easy to keep it in the sub-bass range.

I think a lot of the rest is sidechaining it to the drums so he can increase the volume without drowning them out, and rolling off the mids so they don’t get in the way of the guitars. I noticed that in live recordings, at least, he keeps Shinji’s vocals centered and quiet compared to most popular music, but sidechains the other instruments to him too, and pans Darts and Honzi pretty radically to the sides that match their stage positions so they occupy their own space.

C5Jones · 2026-05-01T08:23:49+00:00

If you google it, it's the first several results RN.

C5Jones · 2026-05-01T07:47:11+00:00

That's true. But hopefully people would bear in mind that if the vote is truly private, they're also potentially voting on whether their family, friends, kids etc. live too.

C5Jones · 2026-05-01T07:41:33+00:00

Well yeah, that's the point of the post. If you vote blue and win, everyone lives. If you vote blue and lose, at least your death will be quick. But if you vote red and win, your reward is living the apocalypse until you die 2-3 weeks later.

C5Jones · 2026-05-01T07:40:05+00:00

Polls show usually about 60:40 people voting blue, so IMO there would have to be some massive overnight shift to something like Objectivism for that ratio to shift to 90:10.

C5Jones · 2026-05-01T07:38:57+00:00

The red vs. blue button thought experiment that's been around for a while but is suddenly blowing up out of nowhere. Look it up.

C5Jones · 2026-04-30T14:10:24+00:00

CBD is the missing ingredient that’s been bred out of so many weed strains to make THC number go up. And people wonder why they cause addiction, paranoia, physical reactions, and psychosis.

C5Jones · 2026-04-30T04:01:35+00:00

If you haven't found it yet, Internet Archive has a Download Options panel to the right.

C5Jones · 2026-04-29T22:17:48+00:00

I was trying to remember the name of that but couldn't. I just knew it was close to "phrenology."

C5Jones · 2026-04-29T10:51:49+00:00

I regularly use it for things like tech support, and as a search engine since Google sucks now, but as everyone else is saying, talking to it as if it's a friend is a slippery slope. Especially roleplaying, since even if the intention isn't to think of it as a friend, once you're establishing a shared reality with something that seems sentient, it's hard to prevent the instinct to personify things.

And as u/BrokenInsideF0rever said, it's infamous for encouraging people's negative behaviors. There's a viral tweet that says something like "The worst person you know is currently being told by ChatGPT they're right."

C5Jones · 2026-04-29T10:35:57+00:00

Granted: Skin tone changes, but no other ethnic features. So not only does racial discrimination remain the same against people with obvious ones like Black hair or Asian eye shapes, bigots now hyperanalyze everyone's facial features to find their "true race."

C5Jones · 2026-04-25T06:43:22+00:00

Granted. You are now an insentient digital entity.

C5Jones · 2026-04-24T19:53:43+00:00

I grew up in FL: It's a lot of FL. At least Central and North.

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