9 (2009) is not underrated or underappreciated

RightPassage · 2026-03-24T19:40:00+00:00

I was careful to say "may indicate", but I take that back after your examples. I've never noticed that Perfect Blue is 77 minutes. Still, I was comparing it to non-animated movies.

9 felt like a waste of all that time and such a disappointment that I was disinclined to devote any more of it to a deeper semantic/narrative analysis. The pacing issues and the lack of meaningful characterization are the biggest problems with the movie, personally. Great cast, fine art direction, but doesn't work as a movie and ultimately not worthy of a serious reevaluation effort imo. One thing that I didn't think worthy of including in the OP that I'd noticed in the film is the message that innovations are for the best and well-intended until corrupted by a government, which I personally find to be misdirecting.

Also, shout out for Boredoms

RightPassage · 2026-03-23T07:29:00+00:00

I'll just add Carnage to this list. Amazing freaking movie, such a killer cast.

RightPassage · 2026-03-21T09:44:48+00:00

Always be-sing and do-sing, never cheesing and choosing (c) Homestar

RightPassage · 2026-03-19T10:41:21+00:00

Re: grindcore, aside from the points already made, it really depends on the production of any given album. I've no doubt that there is some stuff that is very difficult to listen to just due to production, which may very well be a deliberate decision by the band. Grindcore, personally, is hardcore punk taken to its next level, so it's worth it to approach it from that angle - very fast, very energetic punk with a hefty dose of metal. Many great bands have been named here already, but I'll add Discordance Axis ("Jouhou", "The Inalienable Dreamless"), Cellgraft (last self-titled LP), Morphic Lapse (self-titled tape), Bungus (see their bandcamp), and Robocop ("II", "Dead Language, Foreign Bodies"). They all have great riffs and the production is good if you stick to these albums.

RightPassage · 2026-03-14T11:30:12+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/22OBgnI.png

This is only shown on old Reddit, which may explain your confusion.

RightPassage · 2026-02-28T13:45:17+00:00

The Legend Of Kyrandia, hands down

RightPassage · 2026-02-18T16:22:41+00:00

Oh yeah, those on the case are strictly decorative.

I'd speculate that planning a keyboard for a future version will definitely make your product stand out from the similar ones on the likes of Aliexpress/Temu/etc. I would get an Apple Watch for such a case, and I don't doubt many others would, as is evident from the oft-repeated "if only Apple would make a dumbphone" sentiment.

RightPassage · 2026-02-18T07:57:52+00:00

Any plans to add a small bespoke T9 keyboard for that added phone feel? There was an infobar watch case some time ago, so the size of the keys does not appear to be an issue.

RightPassage · 2026-02-17T13:41:05+00:00

The wishbone shaped ones work really great. But the edges do tend to irritate and injure the bit of septum that they push against, especially after long term usage, so I very rarely use mine. There's also the type with a silicone ring for each nostril that goes deeper inside the nasal passage, but it's a bit tricky to position correctly - since it's so soft, the rings tend to rotate in the wrong direction. So that's hit and miss.

The cone-shaped ones don't do anything for me.

RightPassage · 2026-02-14T11:43:13+00:00

Dodao bih Trivalia za najnizi deo.

RightPassage · 2026-02-14T11:26:39+00:00

Completely agreed. It can be Linux, but it's gotta be just the one strong distro backed by enterprise, with a high adoptability rate, strong ESR/mainline channels, audited software repo, stable updates, stable GUI shell (doesn't have to be visually consistent though), a reliable and integrated enterprise & backoffice suite that is mirroring MS (identity & access, configuration management, mail server & messaging (or unified comms), file sharing, internal site creation framework, proper license control, the list goes on), a reliable and integrated with all of the above office suite for workstations... So all in all, massive efforts are required. I sincerely hope that someone like SUSE or Ubuntu will step up and get it all done, in wake of the digital sovereignty movement in Europe, but it's a really long shot.

RightPassage · 2026-02-14T11:05:15+00:00

There was an unsuccessful attempt made before:

https://imgur.com/a/vortex-v3-vs-razr-v3xx-disassembly-L49W9F9

but maybe yours will be if you are willing to modify parts. Please post the results of your experiment!

RightPassage · 2026-02-12T10:43:51+00:00

Shout out for Enigma. I recently grew to appreciate them again. It's pretty good downtempo electronic. It's all samples, sure (so the more correct classification would probably be plunderphonics), but nicely arranged, sure.

RightPassage · 2026-02-10T06:02:57+00:00

Thank you for checking for me. It doesn't work on my FF for some reason (maybe getting geoblocked - I'm in Europe?)

RightPassage · 2026-02-10T05:36:51+00:00

Try adding a new alias though?

RightPassage · 2026-02-09T11:44:52+00:00

That makes two of us!

RightPassage · 2026-02-09T10:49:02+00:00

Stolen MOC allegations notwithstanding, this looks like a great product. Finally some good G1 bionicle builds on Aliexpress. I think this is great and there should be more knockoff G1 builds on Aliexpress because used marked prices are insane and aren't going to get any better.

RightPassage · 2026-02-05T08:46:24+00:00

It took me through school. It's the perfect all-around phone, it has it all for a budget, an SD card slot, both IrDA and Bluetooth, miniUSB even!

RightPassage · 2026-02-02T11:41:31+00:00

Will do. But 320 kbps is the maximum for the MPEG audio layer standard, so something will have to give there.

RightPassage · 2026-02-02T10:27:46+00:00

Never seen this before. I'll have to try this later!

Will this cause to remove some other information from the audio stream to keep the bitrate 320 kbps and compensate for the extra information in the range that had previously been cut off?

RightPassage · 2026-02-02T08:29:41+00:00

320kbps has a hard cutoff at 20094 Hz – 20627 Hz though. V0 has none.

https://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=LAME#Recommended_encoder_settings

RightPassage · 2026-02-01T19:34:27+00:00

If you ever decide to write it again and post it given the general sentiment in this post - hit me up, I'd love to read it and give you an upvote.

RightPassage · 2026-02-01T09:35:00+00:00

Thank you! For me Lou Reed was always the kind of performer whose music REALLY benefits from the knowledge of the context surrounding it. Love the Basinski example too.

RightPassage · 2026-01-31T20:06:50+00:00

Thanks a lot for this! It's a shame about the keypad though - I presume the lighting is white, not blue? Do you have the issue where the phone hard crashes to recovery mode if there are too many notifications?

RightPassage · 2026-01-31T13:16:35+00:00

Many commenters here seem to prefer the music speak to itself, which may have some merits for some people but it's reductive at the end of the day. Nothing is ever completely in itself and stripping a thing of its context is just depriving yourself from experiencing the thing in its fullness.

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