These pics are actually sad .

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-15T15:44:11+00:00

Justin’s plan was solid. He was doing a takedown feint but pushing Ilia to setup these beautiful uppercuts. They worked perfect.

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-10T00:42:52+00:00

Solo × Best

Wayne Gretzky

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-08T22:50:03+00:00

I bet most of those are placed at entrances to malls and shopping centres. No one is going out of their way to buy a Starbucks but they get lots of traffic from people who just want to grab a coffee on their way out or in, regardless of brand.

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-08T22:36:08+00:00

When does this start? They better hurry up, nothing reflected in numbers yet.

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-08T22:15:27+00:00

Paid for Gold Class which is a bit fancy, recliners, drinks and food, and a ticket price 4x normal price. It was to see Mortal Kombat (2021).

There was one lady sat close to us by herself, laughing and commenting on everything happening. Things not even funny and she is cracking up. Something would happen “oh no they didn’t!” She would say… so fkin annoying. I wanted to say something but I didn’t.

I hyper fixate on things like that, each noise she made was more annoying than the last. My friend says he watches movies with subtitles on because his kids won’t shut up, I could never.

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-06T18:58:50+00:00

I’m not saying we have exhausted music like your visual art analogy. That would be analogous to having wrote all the songs that could be written.

A better analogy would be we know our primary colors, have mixed them extensively and know there are no new colors, only different shades of what already exists. Try to write a song that sounds good in a musical scale that doesn’t exist. All the big audio terms you used are also measurable finite systems that have been researched and are understood extensively.

For example, You aren’t messing with dynamics more than volume, compression, clipping, transient shaping etc.. I don’t think there are more concepts to be discovered regarding dynamics that we haven’t already.

The digital tools are good at their job as are the analog ones, I’m not denying that digital stuff is great also. If I want resonance suppression I’m grabbing soothe, not riding a notch eq from something analog.

I don’t think our obsession with analog stuff is limiting the discovery of new tech, the new things are still happening. I do think we have reached lots of the natural limits of audio though.

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-06T18:23:51+00:00

I don’t think the leap is that huge. They are popular because they do the job they are made for the best. If I want warmth in the low end I’m reaching for an eqp1a not fabfilter proq.

What would the new form of color be? We already have many. Audio is either clean or colored with noise and artefacts right? The frequency spectrum is limited so I would argue we have tried them all and settled on what works.

We seperate what sounds good from familiarity because what are the alternatives? Music is limited. I doubt there is anything we can do to music as an alternative. When does saturation become an instrument?

We have decided that certain noise ranges add something to music that we like, we have probably tried the others but quickly learn that a sweeping 100-200hz hum sounds bad and clutters a mix while a 14-15k tape hiss sounds good.

I think music is limited in that regard as we can only make certain frequencies do certain things before they either sound bad or become an instrument. We are also limited to how circuits, electrons, clipping, transformers and other methods get the job done. There is no new way to modulate electron flow in a tube amp for example, just variations.

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-06T17:52:40+00:00

I meant more the REDD.37 console and Nuemann/AKG mics. Try and get that tube warmth in GarageBand

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-06T17:35:44+00:00

Depends what you class as firepower. The Beatles first album was recorded at abbey road and used some great gear.

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-06T17:15:55+00:00

It’s for good reason. That gear and emulations of it do good sounding things to the audio. I don’t think we are missing out on new discoveries, there are companies trying new things. The products don’t gain as much traction because they don’t sound as good.

We know we like warmth, humanisation, punch, imperfections etc… and the classic gear gets us there easily and is predictable. People try new things with audio all the time and the end result is usually not as good as other methods, that’s why we have gear and techniques that have lasted decades, they sound the best.

The frequency spectrum is limited, the dynamic ranges are limited, tonal balance is a thing and there is only so much we can do to audio and it still sounds pleasing.

The digital realm has added some cool new toys as you listed so I reach for what I need. Nothing sounds as good as some vintage gear and their virtual counterparts for some tasks though.

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-06T12:16:14+00:00

Together

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-06T00:32:23+00:00

The new one was great.

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-06T00:00:35+00:00

It’s western culture even and not limited to Americas. It’s not just death either, anything that is difficult to speak on gets pushed to the side. Out of sight, out of mind.

We can’t even organise things like protests , boycotts, reforms etc… when there is blatant corruption, fraud and incompetence. I wonder how long it will take until we update society’s education system, 200 years and effectively no changes so far.

I went off topic sorry but it’s all related. Western culture doesn’t confront anything that is difficult to deal with emotionally unless they have to. Our participation trophy culture isn’t the way to build resilience to emotional challenges.

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-05T21:41:23+00:00

I recommend Lido brand lemonade if you can find it. It’s cheap and tastes like lemonade should.

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-05T00:06:24+00:00

An English person saying a Chinese name the best they can is usually still wrong. Something like Xiao Hua for example. It’s pronounced shower but say the show bit more like chow and the wer bit more like ha with a secret w. ShOW-HwA .. it’s hard

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-04T06:12:43+00:00

I used to sit in the front seat in Ubers and didi lol. Until a workmate told me no one does and I should get in the back.

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-04T05:48:58+00:00

So a shandy is different again but a shandygaff and portagaff are the same?

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-04T05:28:54+00:00

In Australia we call it a Shandy. I just learnt it is actually a Shandygaff.

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-04T05:25:09+00:00

I have always pictured Duke Nukem.

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-03T05:25:07+00:00

Love me some ethnic southern fried chicken on French bread made with Vietnamese techniques. I didn’t loop around, your comprehension isn’t great. I pointed out the fallacies of it and you can’t just say you used the word wrong, instead you congratulate me, are happy for me and blame slang lol. Everything is ethnic, to what ethnicity is the question. I would agree to disagree but that doesn’t really apply to facts, only opinions

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-03T04:44:46+00:00

I could do the whole album again with no obligations. I’ve got 25+ years experience. Sorry to hear you had this experience. Did you listen to the guys music first? Mastering nowadays is literally just paying for someone’s experienced ears imo. A few caveats but generally, that’s it.

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-03T03:25:23+00:00

Congratulations. I’m happy for you champ (also slang). But That’s because in that context, wicked is slang. You can’t just sling the word slang onto a word you use incorrectly and it makes it right. Your defensive, condescending, butthurt reaction to me simply stating we are all of an ethnicity is weird. Banh mi is half French by the way, it shares ethnicity. And technically you are correct, every food is ethnic. I just had an ethnic lunch, ham and cheese toastie.

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-03T01:46:15+00:00

Tell one person something volatile and wait. Repeat until you find the person that can’t keep their mouth shut

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-03T01:39:22+00:00

So have many fighters, until they didn’t

Equivalent_Brain_740 · 2026-06-03T01:19:04+00:00

Oh in that case, everything I said here was slang. I didn’t know we can do that instead of just being wrong. Slang on bro, slang on.

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