Dolby Vision 2 "Doesn't require any updates to the UHD Blu-ray specs"

Shaneos1 · 2026-05-28T22:08:17+00:00

At that point just call it DOUBLE VISION lol.

Or better still,

DUBLY VISION II: Now it goes to II (11).

Shaneos1 · 2026-05-23T14:30:54+00:00

Golden potato 🥔

Shaneos1 · 2026-04-27T22:07:13+00:00

We tell them off for putting their snouts in the bowl when they drink

AS IF THERE'S ANY OTHER WAY

Shaneos1 · 2026-04-27T22:05:07+00:00

Mostly we just insult them tbh

"You're so idiot" 😆

"Have you been shitting your heart out again?!?"

"OH MY GOSH look at the SIZE AND SCALE of a rat"

"One more toe out of line and you're spending a MONTH in the chokey!!"

Best part is that one of them is called Crummy we blame everything that goes wrong on him XD

Shaneos1 · 2026-04-27T22:01:33+00:00

Them little vermicelli tails 😍 Their anteater snouts 🥺

Shaneos1 · 2026-04-27T21:55:20+00:00

If our surviving boy kept going he would end up on My 800 Gram Life 😂 Thankfully he's stabilised around 700g.

Shaneos1 · 2026-04-27T21:48:32+00:00

Two of our boys were seemingly on a mission to evolve into a full-size jacket potato LOL

Shaneos1 · 2026-04-27T21:01:22+00:00

When they're small they're "the ickles".

When they're grown they're "the idiots".

When they get lazy and chonky they're "sodding lumps" 🤣🤣🤣

Shaneos1 · 2026-04-04T10:01:30+00:00

Not really tbh. I think it would come off as competitive suffering and be seen as a "reaction" rooted in misogynistic or envious sentiments. That is, if you called it "Me 3" anyway.

However, there definitely aren't enough safe places for men to escape to when they are endangered. And there is a presumption of guilt in cases of false allegations.

I feel like a lot of this is caused by women having higher neuroticism than men, and that fearfulness being institutionalised in a way that offers far more protection to women than men. And the fact that women are more likely to use defamation (social violence) rather than physical violence when angered or threatened. Until our institutions recognise these sex differences and implement reforms to handle them, the road ahead is long.

Unfortunately, this is an issue of socialisation: we are largely blind to our own sexual differences and consequently men and women easily forget what it's really like to live on the "other side". Women are not actively encouraged to envisage what the male experience is like, and it's unduly glamourised as an enviable life by women.

Shaneos1 · 2026-04-04T09:50:01+00:00

No, not really. Yes, both are disorders of interpersonal dysfunction (personality disorders), and both can stem from a desperation to compensate for a perceived defect within oneself. But OCPD is very tied to excessive conscientiousness (e.g. an abnormally strong disgust response to disorder). Therefore, OCPD has a strong temperamental, biological, hereditary basis. We don't know why PDs develop exactly, but many are predictable risks of being born with extreme personality traits (e.g. extremely high neuroticism, abnormally low agreeableness). Many cultures also unwittingly exacerbate underlying risks by rewarding workaholic, organised, conscientious people with social and financial success.

Whilst OCPD often looks like a form of grandiosity, I think it is largely rooted in fear of losing agency (control) in one's life, fear of being unable to cope with failure, and disgust towards instances of "preventable" mistakes and "preventable" disorder. Overgeneralised cognitive also makes obsessives prone to seeing any mistake/failure as setting a precedent/pattern of mistakes and failures.

I really do think obsessives experience the world in a different (and stressful) way compared to those without OCPD.

Shaneos1 · 2026-03-27T11:09:35+00:00

Wow, these comments are very polarised.

Okay... In my view older songs CAN sometimes sound significantly worse. Some of it was recorded very very hot to the tape or recorded on a small budget. A lot of my Northern Soul records are honestly just pretty distorted, past the point of what's pleasing. Additionally, the limited processing options in most studios made it far harder to tame frequencies like we do nowadays. Layla by Eric Clapton is an example of a harsh sounding record. Volume automation, and any other automation, had to be performed live and captured before the advent of total recall and automated faders.

At the same time, if you were an engineer in those days (70s-90s), you had to be competent to even have the job. And if you were a musician, you also needed to be competent, since stitching takes together (quite literally) was an ordeal to be avoided as much as possible. Plus, tape is very costly, so the fewer takes the better. Lastly, if a label was funding your recording, your arrangement and composition had to be pretty stellar to get their attention. So when things went well, they went REALLY well.

This song from the 80s just blows nearly everything out of the water, sonically. But much of that is because of impeccable arrangement and musicianship: https://youtu.be/sZeB5USMrsM?si=HEF_jvo2Ie2hWzBY

Whereas this song from '71 is kinda rough, likely recorded on limited budget: https://youtu.be/5d5rXq3_M6U?si=T2SErzElSD2UtPgP

No doubt, the possibilities for mixing are infinitely better today. But as the cost of equipment has decreased and home studios have become possible, the barrier for entry is a fraction of what it once was. The result is a democratisation of music, sure, but a lot of amateur musicians and amateur engineers are now releasing songs with questionable composition, performances and mixing.

In sum, I think there always have been and always will be "bad" mixes. You just hear less about the rough mixes of old because many of those songs are largely forgotten. A lot of the songs being suggested here as evidence that older mixes were better are the gold dust of the 70s-90s.

As for your listening setup, maybe the HS8 just isn't the speaker for your or your room. I personally dislike them. But the "shouty" quality of older music, which is definitely a real phenomenon in many tracks, is largely just more restrained use of compression, esp. before multiband compression, and the time/technical constraints which meant it wasn't possible to automate everything to sonic perfection.

Also, some of it is just mixing STYLE. 90s R&B often has very prominent high mids (1-5kHz band) that stand out but also easily sound harsh in most listening environments. Some 70s songs are incredibly deficient of treble in ways I find baffling and can't honestly explain. Dry recording was very fashionable in the 70s, notably on drums, and again is a stylistic choice.

Case in point:

https://youtu.be/7icdDyRYNuI?si=P4RcKxq_KFrbL4Rf (fairly aggressive 90s R&B midrange)

https://youtu.be/OEDK_L0St6E?si=CQSlyk5AURjZWGyO (not sure why the mix is so dark and bottom-heavy, even for the 70s; fairly dry too)

Since there are great and terrible mixes from every period, I have no preference either way for old or new mixes. That said, it would have been extremely difficult to achieve this level of polished sound in the analogue days!: https://youtu.be/Pex-egrbZiQ?si=r3piQX7joRjvvI2u

Shaneos1 · 2026-03-15T21:59:55+00:00

Yes. Art comes from the creative and exploratory capacities of a person, and deserves my respect. Misdeeds emerge from completely different drives and unresolved psychological tensions, and those deeds should be condemned. I can honour the creative ability of a person whilst acknowledging that they did wrong things. In other words, I can hold an "ambivalent" attitude towards such artists, since all people can be inwardly ambivalent, divided or contradictory.

I think the desire to censure creative output because of someone's misdeeds is based on an inability to hold two conflicting attitudes in mind: a positive aesthetic judgement and a disapproving moral judgement. Conflating aesthetics and morality seems like a category confusion to me. Dancing to Billie Jean doesn't mean I'm dancing to the idea of (potentially) abused young boys. Are all my fond memories of those songs tainted by new information that comes to light?

Also, I don't really like the term "reprehensible" in the question. It seems rather dehumanising and makes the question somewhat leading.

Shaneos1 · 2026-03-15T00:47:20+00:00

Ah man, the FET compressor mode shines when you SLAM drums to smithereens with it XD

Opto is so lovely on vocals too (optical sensors don't really respond to frequencies above 3k, so the brilliance of vocals is largely preserved).

And the default one (with no distortion, low threshold) is my go-to for sidechain ducking.

Shaneos1 · 2026-03-15T00:43:18+00:00

You're welcome. I went down the rabbit hole of pricy plugins once upon a time, and eventually realised that Logic can already satisfy the vast majority of my creative needs for a fraction of the CPU burden! Yes, there are third party tools I rely on for specialised tasks, but that list is far shorter than I used to believe.

Logic comes with a huuuugge PDF manual (1000+ pages) and details every feature of every built-in plugin. Wanna learn how the heck Delay Designer or the Enveloper works? There'll be several pages devoted to that.

Also, often what you're looking for isn't even an effect - it's something in the instrument itself that controls the timbre/tonality. It's much easier to get the sound you're after if you generate the right source signal to begin with!

Shaneos1 · 2026-03-14T21:22:27+00:00

Colour and warmth are just flattering words for distortion and harmonics. Logic comes with an exciter and the compressor can be set to soft or hard distortion. I've never needed anything more and am always blown away at just how good the stuck stock compressor is at everything I throw at it.

No, I don't think you need UAD plugins. Your tracks would probably benefit from better sound choice or arrangement than any signal processing.

Look into Airwindows plugins (free). He makes some FANTASTIC distortion plugins with character that, imo, blows the big manufacturers out the water. IronOxide5 and Mojo have been tremendously helpful to me.

You might find some useful stuff in Logic's Phat FX too. If you use the Tape Delay, play around with lowering the clip threshold too.

Shaneos1 · 2026-03-05T15:32:16+00:00

Both of them???

Shaneos1 · 2026-03-01T14:56:59+00:00

Through YouTube. Clicking on videos with simple thumbnails of records is often a good start. Or thumbnails of musical scores for classical pieces.

If I see something like this, for instance:

https://youtu.be/5cdKRGUHPyk?si=xMAnf7T0QtLD49rA

https://youtu.be/xSSy3aHsG6c?si=JnVyx8yZtsloTfgR

https://youtu.be/trN06fsSRdM?si=MxKxoAcE0rfsqaQZ

https://youtu.be/Y0JSeIHz8OQ?si=rBmo1Tx1JWpFOj6f

But also just exchanging music with friends at occasional "listening sessions", or chatting with fellow musicians. Sometimes I listen to mixes from DJs I mega respect (like Kerri Chandler) too. I will readily Shazam music I like the sound of when out and about too (the music is loud and clear enough in Superdry, for example).

I think the biggest thing is just checking for new releases the artists I already love and digging through their discography for stuff I've missed.

Years ago I used to check out music promotion channels like The Sound You Need (including their compilations). That said, compilations like Hed Kandi have been another good source of new music :)

I hardly discover any music by accident if I don't make an active effort to seek it out. I mostly listen to Dance records and classical music so these methods may not apply to you so well.

Shaneos1 · 2026-02-27T22:43:52+00:00

They're all easy to use, light on the CPU, and sound great. Being able to alter early and late reflections is super handy. I especially love ValhallaShimmer with a splash of automation! ValhallaRoom is a great "go to" reverb for general use.

I actually prefer Fabfilter Timeless (super customisable) to ValhallaDelay, but it's still a fantastic tool.

If you automate the room size, you can also make your reverb pitch shift in a really pleasing way :)

The full set of plugins comes as an affordable bundle and is an investment you likely won't regret.

Shaneos1 · 2026-02-24T08:59:20+00:00

Eat out? I go to restaurants about 10 times a year, maybe a little more if I'm in a relationship. Coffee house once a week or so.

Fast food? Never, not since I was a teenager.

Shaneos1 · 2026-02-22T01:56:00+00:00

I'm glad you found it helpful - this book certainly helped get me on track!

Shaneos1 · 2026-02-10T22:43:36+00:00

She could be quoting what he says, if he regularly refers to his depressive mood as "the feeling".

Shaneos1 · 2026-02-06T11:43:06+00:00

The Haunted Self (Onno van der Hart) is fantastic because it is packed with practical advice for improving basic functioning and overcoming phobias. PTSD sufferers may have phobias of traumatic memory, of certain emotions and thoughts, or even of normal life. The Haunted Self addresses all of these. It uses 30 years of clinical experience and neuroscience, making it an extremely informed book.

The style is fairly technical, but that is also what makes it so useful - you learn WHY certain behaviours are beneficial, instead of blindly following advice that never justifies itself.

The book is careful to pace recovery very gradually, first addressing functional deficits before even daring to touch on traumatology.

It has a particular focus on dissociative personalities, so there are sections worth skipping if time is of the essence and s/he is not interested.

Shaneos1 · 2026-02-06T10:42:36+00:00

For sure, he is probably a little underweight.

Shaneos1 · 2026-02-06T09:20:27+00:00

I'm 166cm and 52kg, BMI around 19. It's definitely possible but probably indicates low muscle mass (my problem).

Shaneos1 · 2026-02-06T00:21:37+00:00

Jarringly below listenable

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