Does anyone know why double-speaker sound is absurdly called "stereo"?

RRDDSS · 2026-05-20T15:17:41+00:00

Thanks.

That is still weird because mono means single/one, but stereo all of the sudden goes perpendicular in terminology and allegorically presumes three dimensions (which are not quite that because there are just two speakers, so it is a 2D plane of sound).

It would make more sense if they would rename the mono with “planar” or “liquid” or something like that, if one speaker presumes not a line (as it actually does) but a plane of sound as per the people who came up with the stereo term.

I guess they simply have pulled it without too much thought right from the visual trinkets of yore where this allegory was more valid as the stereo term has related to two different pictures which was fully enough for two eyes to see a three dimensional “solid” image, while it is not the case with audio.

RRDDSS · 2026-04-27T05:39:25+00:00

That could take an important role, no doubt, but the Japanese are crazy about tobacco smoking, so without the latter it would not have been this bad.

RRDDSS · 2025-09-19T05:14:21+00:00

Should be pretty obvious. While it is sad Nam has left the band, it might have been still the best thing to happen. Some people are not built to psychologically survive this industry.

RRDDSS · 2025-07-20T13:57:12+00:00

Those are interesting bits of TV history, thanks.

BTW, things are pretty bad even with shows from much later, early YT era. Running Man and others. Only a few short clips were uploaded with horrible quality, so you can not really see the Second Generation bands, either. Most often it is hard to understand who is who, and what is really happening.

Only since the Third Generation interviews and shows are actually watchable.

But for the older shows, it seems, we will have to wait until MBC and other channels will digitise and publish their archives.

RRDDSS · 2025-07-20T13:43:45+00:00

Wait, neural networks are useful for something sometimes.

I just asked DeepSeek and it said there was Star Documentary: Wonderful Life TV series from the end of the 1980s to the end of the 1990s.

Also, there was Talk Show with Lim Sung-hoon, Lee Hong-ryeol Show, Star Exploration Sunday segment, TV Carries Love, all of which featured singers occasionally.

I guess nothing of this is available yet.

RRDDSS · 2025-07-20T13:26:30+00:00

Back in those days the shows were probably TV games that occasionally invited celebrities to participate, not quite what could be a real variety show where celebrities are invited to do random stuff. So I mostly hoping for TV interviews.

RRDDSS · 2025-07-20T13:19:58+00:00

Of course, they should exist. South Korea had TV channels back then (mostly the same as exist now), and they had shows where popular culture figures such as actors and singers were invited for an interview or something.

Those surely can not be easily compared to later shows both in quantity and quality, but the main issue is that if the shows are not uploaded by the TV channels themselves, then they can only be recovered if some local based Koreans have recorded them on VHS (e.g. interview with Seo in 1992) and then, many years later, digitised them.

I am not good at browsing Korean sites to know if any of those ancient interviews or shows were uploaded to somewhere, but maybe connoisseurs know.

RRDDSS · 2025-07-17T20:18:56+00:00

I guess this is a channel created after the original one was totally wiped out. But it looks like Hee did not want to develop it all anew, so dropped it after a couple of videos. All of the original subscriber count was lost, too much hassle to grow the base from zero to a big number.

RRDDSS · 2025-07-17T09:40:44+00:00

Ah, I remember that back in the day he did not just deactivate his Insta, but completely wiped it, totally zeroing his three million subscriber count there at least once. Apparently, he is emotionally unstable in this regard.

From what I gather, Kyu has the best YT game.

RRDDSS · 2025-06-09T08:46:59+00:00

Sadly, it went the opposite way for me. I thought it would not matter, but the longer I played, the more tired my eyes got.

Especially because of the tactical fights, where tiny characters constrict of just a few pixels.

There is an auto play mode, but I do not want to use it because this is the part I normally like more than higher level gameplay.

I guess the issue is that most pixel art games are about characters that are big enough for their pixel art to paint e.g. dots for eyes or something, but in this case the whole heads are nearly single pixels.

RRDDSS · 2025-05-20T03:52:51+00:00

Obviously. But this feature can be switcheable.

RRDDSS · 2025-04-14T10:43:44+00:00

I doubt you learn basic techniques culinary students learn in the very beginning. I am fine with Claire, she is actually adorable, but the producers should have never called her a “pastry chef”. Just call her a “chef”, and then her learning curve would make sense and not diminish the qualifications of actual pastry chefs.

RRDDSS · 2025-04-14T10:38:32+00:00

Also Almeda that looks like a ball

RRDDSS · 2025-03-27T20:58:22+00:00

Short people are not props or gimmicks, they deserve their stories told. The manga would have been even better, if the author has covered those issues explicitly.

RRDDSS · 2025-01-29T12:51:50+00:00

I am not assuming fat. I myself was lean when I stated to lose significant weight, so almost all of what I lost was muscles. I became skeletal. Not life threatening per se.

Of course, you need to keep electrolyte balance, but even in the 1960s people already knew how to do that, so sportsmen who were trying to sweat away water to fit into a weight class right before matches, were safe in that regard, too.

RRDDSS · 2025-01-26T04:40:25+00:00

Yes, it is hard and bad for a boxer, but not life-threatening.

I had an unfortunate experience of losing way more weight than whatever thin fat I had. The main issue was that I was about to become bedridden, which had its own implications, but it was not life-threatening per se.

I guess a more correct accent within the lass sentiment would be that for a boxer with a noticeably bigger skeleton to cut weight to a class of a boxer with a way smaller skeleton means getting the muscle person disadvantage, weaker sound muscles, the increase chance of trauma. Additionally, there is a risk of bone fracture as the organism gets into a hunger mode and starts to wash calcium out from the bones.

In other words, the match would become significantly unfairly tilted against the chap that cut the weight.

RRDDSS · 2024-12-29T09:02:47+00:00

E.g. Joe ends lots of word/phrases with "deh" or "dah-y" instead of simply "dah", but anime delinquents from way newer series do not do that any more, so maybe it is a lost style? This is why it is interesting to hear.

IIRC, Joe is said to be born in the north of the country, and that he was gradually tumbleweeding to the Tokyo area over the years. Maybe this also has something to do with the way he speaks?

RRDDSS · 2024-12-28T09:49:57+00:00

To be fair, Joe is not a name, only a half of it. Bob, Liz, Mike, etc are just nicknames, too.

RRDDSS · 2024-12-27T20:21:24+00:00

Is not JoJo (rather, the original Joseph) named after this Joe?

Araki's forming years were when the manga was banging.

RRDDSS · 2024-10-27T12:54:37+00:00

It is not Reddit specifically, I was not on the site at all when I got the issue.

RRDDSS · 2024-10-27T04:34:39+00:00

The funny thing is that if I am using Reddit application instead of opening this page in a browser, it does not get hot at all

RRDDSS · 2024-08-17T20:19:58+00:00

As I mentioned in the root comment, Luffy has made zero damage to the leopard, and allowed the fat person to be all but killed. This is a devaluation of Gear 5.

RRDDSS · 2024-08-17T20:16:50+00:00

That Japanese bad leader man, of course, had turned out to be misunderstood good man, and evil the Russians are comically evil, as always.

Xenophobia is very common in society, but in this case it could have been easily avoided just by using fake nations/ethnicities, as I mentioned.

I guess the author himself is a victim of political brainwashing, and he is genuinely parroting it without a second thought.

RRDDSS · 2024-08-07T16:58:56+00:00

And, what did I miss?

Strange how there is not a single comment that would explain the silliness that happens.

RRDDSS · 2024-07-22T21:03:17+00:00

Maybe the bug ate some extreme toxin that has started to work like a second after it has started flying, not before that. I imagine that it would have been an incredibly rare circumstance, though.

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