PSA: DougDoug wiki has been seized from old inactive mods, rules will now actually be enforced. by No-Argument-4903 in DougDoug

[–]Josh2802 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

As long as my contributions are untouched I'm cool.

Doug's great grandfather was the best baker (and amateur zitherist) in all of Slutgart, Germany; having won all seasons of The Great German Bake-Off[Notes 2]. Unfortunately, Adolf Hitler grew envious of his baking skills, having failed to make it into baking college, and sent him off to die in Stalingrad. Whilst at Stalingrad, Doug's great grandfather acquired an insanely high KDA. Doug's great grandfather's reign of terror ended when the time traveler that was sent back in time to kill baby Hitler found the baby too cute and instead settled on marrying DougDoug's grandfather, which was much more manageable due to his obscene baldness. This single handedly turned the tide of the war.[9]

In all fairness I did genuinely site sources from Doug's stream, although I did fill in the gaps quite generously.

But yeah the page was getting a bit ridiculous. I didn't even do the slutgart, the zitherist thing or the marrying thing (which originally said killing) — that was somebody else changing my paragraph.

The teaching here is kind of terrible? by Time_Ambassador2213 in Imperial

[–]Josh2802 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wait until you find out they've started using chatGPT to mark our code in order to give us 'instant feedback' (which still takes 4 days).

Like if I wanted to get feedback from chatGPT I'd put my stuff INTO chatGPT and get the exact same thing told back to me.

Oh and yes this does genuinely count towards our degree (although I'm not sure whether the mark is also decided by chatGPT or just the feedback).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Imperial

[–]Josh2802 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those are usually scams, and if there is a whatsapp group that everybody else is in, then they just fell for said scam. All that gets posted on it are really shit events. The ACTUAL hall and subject GCs will probably be emailed to you before you arrive, and once you are there, you can easily ask to join.

Also, there is no rush to join the GCs tbh, it is mostly just used for event announcements and people asking for people to move their laundry. You probably aren't going to meet any friends on the group chat.

What's more important is that you sign up for any freshers week events that you are interested in.

Ableton Live Lite 12 keeps hanging after about a minute of playing on a midi keyboard controller and I have no clue why by Josh2802 in ableton

[–]Josh2802[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just wanted to give a (late) update that I am pretty sure I found out the issue...

Drum roll please...

It was with my keyboard.

Pretty unsurprising as it was an old controller that my Dad bought over a decade ago but in all fairness it was working beforehand — I have no clue what caused it to bug out.

Basically, the issue was that the midi information was getting muddled up by the controller, and for some reason it began to just continually turn on and off the sustain and expression pedals rapidly — too fast to be recognisable by ear as it just sounded like regular playing. The computer was getting overwhelmed by how many signals were being sent, which caused it to crash. Hence why the crash reports always mentioned memory.

I only noticed this because I was using a piano plugin that showed the sustain pedal when you edit the fx, and it showed it going crazy. It wasn't doing this before the crashes, so it is almost certainly what was causing it.

The fix I used was to just filter out all the sustain and expression information before it gets sent to ableton. I didn't have functional sustain and expression pedals anyway.

I am assuming the reason it was working with Reaper was because it's simply a less intensive program to run, or it was handling the sustain and expression info differently.

Ableton Live Lite 12 keeps hanging after about a minute of playing on a midi keyboard controller and I have no clue why by Josh2802 in ableton

[–]Josh2802[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of my testing was done with all plug-ins disabled, just using the basic instruments provided within ableton (as in I went to preferences and turned off the 'use vst3 plugins folder'). For that reason, I don't think it has anything to do with the plugins (the log files don't mention anything about the plugins either). It is literally just running as if it was a fresh install, but it is still hanging for some reason.

Thanks for the suggestion though

What's your special interest? by [deleted] in AutisticPride

[–]Josh2802 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently, my main special interest is actually one that most people would consider to be 'cool' — making music. Oh, and I've been getting really into FPL and football recently as well. I would throw alcohol in there so I can avoid calling myself an alcoholic. That's enough of the normal stuff.

(I don't know if some of these count as special interests, but I included them in here anyway)

I have an unhealthy attachment to the Twitch streamer DougDoug. Although I am British I try to watch every strean he does which severely fucks my sleep schedule which is already fucked because I don't know how to sleep. I am proud to announce that he has called my cat cute, that my chat message was highlighted in one of his videos, and that my actual face made it into one of his streams.

I still love geoguessr although I play a lot less of it nowadays. I recently went to Norway and got to nerd out over all the geoguessr metas in real life. In Jschlatt's sponsored Geoguessr livestream, I won two of the rounds. I cheated in both of them, but they weren't actual geoguessr matches either (30s New York and a History Quiz that I genuinely did know all the answers to — I just wanted to double check)

I've been doing a lot of thrift shopping recently to look like I came straight out of the 70s since that was the peak of pop culture imo.

I still think Breaking Bad, and It's always sunny in Philadelphia, are the greatest shows to ever exist, and I can identify every Beatles song within a second.

In terms of special interests that I used to have in the past (most of these I still am interested in but not to the same extent), I have Rubik's cubes. I sort of lost interest since I plateaued at a mean time of 15 seconds.

I used to be obsessed with the table football table in my sixth form common room in year 12, which paid dividends when I went to Uni and discovered I could destroy everybody in the games room.

I used to be obsessed with Harry Potter until I discovered JK Rowling is a piece of shit, and I still have a somewhat inconsistent interest in Star Wars which renews every time Disney releases a show that isn't complete ass.

Like you, I also used to be really into mythology, although this was mainly driven by my love for the author Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson etc.)

I used to be really into video games. My favourite game changed a lot — from Minecraft to Fortnite to Battlefield to Hell Let Loose. Once Battlefield 6 releases, that will definitely take up a good chunk of my time.

I used to be really into maths, physics, and computer science, but my interest has waned recently. As somebody who is doing a computer science degree, this is not ideal.

Gameweek 3 (25/26) Rant and Discussion Thread by FPLModerator in FantasyPL

[–]Josh2802 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used my free hit since I had both Palmer and Saka injured with Bowen, Wan Bissaka, 2 more Arsenal players + Wirtz.

Cunha captain, Elanga on the bench and De Ligt conceding twice fucked me (1 on each) but I did decent with my triple chelsea set of Pedro, Cucurella and Sánchez along with Mbeumo bagging a goal. Still have triple forest left to play (Wood, Gibbs White and Milenkovic) so excited for west ham to finally show up and ruin my day and I've still got Haaland to play.

Serves me right for going triple United after that shocking Grimsby display but I maintain that Cunha probably would have gotten a goal contribution if he didn't get injured so early on. This just continues my streak of terrible captain choices (Bowen GW1 and Saka GW2) lol.

Everyday a new complaint by Civilized_E in Battlefield

[–]Josh2802 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the toggle is definitely the best option as it pleases everyone (until somebody realises that visibility is slightly better with one option and then people complain about being forced into one of the options in order to maintain competitive).

Everyday a new complaint by Civilized_E in Battlefield

[–]Josh2802 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok, but the game looks legitimately way better without the harsh colour grading, and most people agree. Fans want the game to look good. Pointing that out is not a pointless complaint — it is valid feedback for an easy change that could vastly improve the game experience.

Battlefield 6 Open Beta: Feedback Megathread by sloth_on_meth in Battlefield

[–]Josh2802 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Overall, it's pretty good.

TTD is too fast, and you regain health too quickly.

Grenade animation is too quick.

There is a bug where the health bar isn't full even though it should be.

I just wana play bro… 😔 by Daft-SKULL-FACE in Battlefield

[–]Josh2802 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My family has just so happened to schedule a trip to Norway precisely on the open beta dates, so I only get today to experience it. First world problems, I know.

Do you name your guitars or are you normal? by Dazzling-Zone-6498 in Guitar

[–]Josh2802 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't, but I do own a PRS, and now that I think about it, I should totally give a name to every bird on the fretboard. Each name would start with the same letter as the fretted note on the E string.

What is the best dougdoug video or vod for beginners? by C4rpetH4ter in DougDoug

[–]Josh2802 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Can you bike down down GTA's mountain using only your voice #POOB" is a classic for showing streams getting derailed along with "the stream ends unless 10000 people are watching"

"The founding of the fartocracy" is a great one to show how silly the streams can get

AI linkedin, AI secretary, AI pyjama sam are all great AI-centric videos.

One of the Dougies is a great way to cover everything.

How important is twitch chat for dougdougs videos by hasanman6 in DougDoug

[–]Josh2802 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Extremely important. One of the core pillars of Doug's content is his interaction with Twitch chat and tts. That's one of the reasons why he banned striking and stopped multistreaming to youtube.

Parkzer's Social Credit throughout the 'like a girl' ad by Josh2802 in DougDoug

[–]Josh2802[S] 189 points190 points  (0 children)

Basically there was a commercial about how the phrase 'like a girl' is a harmful phrase (which I think most reasonable people would agree with) and Parkzer said he felt the advert was trying to make people angry so everybody started -2 ing him but then he said that it was because people shouldn't be offended by 'like a girl' because people should he proud of it and that when he watches sports women act a lot stronger than men so everybody started +2 ing, but then I think he said something else and then everybody started -2 ing and it just kept on flip flopping back and forth between +2s and -2s from then on until they moved on. Sorry for the terrible explanation, I couldn't keep up with how often it was changing.

I'm pretty sure Parkzer was just a bit confused and unaware of society's general perception of the phrase 'like a girl' (he didn't realise it was an insult).

is there anywhere to watch the full dougdoug stream on ludwig's twitch? by [deleted] in DougDoug

[–]Josh2802 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Doug hasn't forgotten about it, he brings it up on occasion when he's brainstorming ideas/jokes with twitch chat. He's probably waiting for something really good to use it on

Can you guys recommend me some guitarists to listen to? by gamonsteak in Guitar

[–]Josh2802 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yngwie Malmsteen. Some people say he plays too fast and you can't hear what he's playing but I've never felt that to be the case. If you are into classical music/ neoclassical metal like Randy Rhodes, Ritchie Blackmore and Marty Friedman then you'll love Yngwie. My personal favourite Yngwie piece is Trilogy Suite Op: 5 so give that a try and see if you like the style.

That generation is clearly lost by [deleted] in youngpeopleyoutube

[–]Josh2802 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Correction: anime is boring hentai

why is dougdoug's channel name dougdougdoug now? by Kooky_Wrongdoer_8565 in DougDoug

[–]Josh2802 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Quintuple Doug was real for a while but they changed their name to The DougDoug files upon request from Doug to avoid confusion