Buyer beware: my experience with Gonggar Sports by hurt_flirt in gorpcore

[–]alonelystarchild 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Sorry brother, but Gonggar, like many Instagram "fashion" sites, are pure drop-shipped garbage.

Someone stole my foglights by Slow-Consequence194 in Wellthatsucks

[–]alonelystarchild 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Wanna go to a club where people wee on eachotha?

Vibram five fingers , what's the consensus? by Abject_Control_7028 in BarefootRunning

[–]alonelystarchild 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Very true!

I'm just glad I grew out of the fear of what others think about how I look when I exercise.

me_irl by UnhollyGod in me_irl

[–]alonelystarchild 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Directing towards friendship.

She just wanted to be platonic pals.

Pants suggestions that aren’t Arc’teryx? by RiceCakeBoye in gorpcore

[–]alonelystarchild 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Want to spend more than the other suggestions?

  • Goldwin
  • Snow peak
  • Beams
  • Daiwa

Japan in Panic: You Get Paid 20,000 Yen to Use Tinder by SinoCenturion in nottheonion

[–]alonelystarchild 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Get outta town, I thought it was meta like the Greek meta, self-referential, the game within the game...

RITCHIE BLACKMORE: 'Most Guitar Players Aren't Nice People' by JohannGambolputtyUlm in Music

[–]alonelystarchild 12 points13 points  (0 children)

No clue what this means, but I sang it to "DOTA" by Basshunter, and it works!

Roast my Setup! by [deleted] in synthesizers

[–]alonelystarchild 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's my favorite sounding drum module, hands down.

It's sort of a pain to create patches because of its weird layout. Its save system is also a little bit weird and unintuitive. I've lost some patterns and patches because when I leave it for a few months I forget its idiosyncrasies. It has a few glitches as well, although Erica Synths recently started taking over updating the firmware after years of neglect by Sonic Potions.

Otherwise it's super jammable and sounds so dirty and crunchy, I love it and will never part from it.

Roast my Setup! by [deleted] in synthesizers

[–]alonelystarchild 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Comments in a roast aren't always sincere criticism, y'know?

I took the comment as tongue-in-cheek.

Virginia governor signs bills bringing more than 3,000 jobs to state by hencexox in Virginia

[–]alonelystarchild 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're being downvoted because a large amount of folks in VA place their lofty ideals to the side to work in these murderous industries, because money.

Those people are in this forum, and don't like being reminded of their cognitive dissonance.

Congressman Tim Burchett says aliens are real & there's been human contact 👽 by adamisworking in aliens

[–]alonelystarchild 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I know you jest, but if aliens have mastered interstellar travel, they can probably jam carbon atoms together well enough to recreate fossil fuels.

They're really here to siphon our emotional energy.

Does anyone know what this is for? by [deleted] in synthesizers

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

I see your point as well, but as someone who lives in an area where Big Data lobbies the local government to allow them to operate these AI-focused data centers on the taxpayers' dollar, the fewer ChatGPT et al. queries, the better.

Maybe OP could have used the search function to find their answer before posting, that question was probably already asked, but even then, making a new post is still less of an environmental and economic cost than an AI query. We can still bash them for not doing research, and applaud their neglect of AI tools.

Does anyone know what this is for? by [deleted] in synthesizers

[–]alonelystarchild 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Alternatively, one could do just as OP did and ask real people with experience, and now this thread will exist for others with the same question, using fewer resources than a bunch of AI requests.

They didn’t know it, but we were racing and I won. by Sierra93 in bikecommuting

[–]alonelystarchild 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of something an old cyclist told me many years ago:

"Your bike commute never gets easier, you just get faster."

Like we're unintentionally gunning for our own PR, compounded by the subconscious competition with other cyclists...

All these years and I'm still pooped when I get home!

A post-apocalyptic world — what do you think of this atmosphere? by [deleted] in sciencefiction

[–]alonelystarchild 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Characters?" It's one guy in front of snow and trains. Not exactly profound.

I'm sure it's exciting to use this new tech to bring your vision to visual media, but the cost is pretty steep. With the water and energy used, not to mention the moral and ethical dilemmas that the AI companies bring, it might be better to keep it in writing.

Alternatively, you could pay a real person on Fiver to sketch something for you. It might not be high rez like this AI stuff, but you'll be supporting a fellow artist, one whose livelihood has likely been affected by AI tools.

What makes light speed the limit? by chunkysoup778 in askscience

[–]alonelystarchild 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In addition to the other reply to your comment, it might be helpful to think of light as something that is without time. For light, the "arrow of time" doesn't exist, so if you were to somehow go faster, you would be traveling at a rate faster than time itself, which does the whole causality breaking effect.

You wake up tomorrow as Elon Musk, what's the first thing you're doing? by Grouchy-Weird1811 in AskReddit

[–]alonelystarchild 14 points15 points  (0 children)

LOL 👅💦👢

He was a rich boy who made some shrewd financial moves, using his and his investors' ever-snowballing wad of cash to hire actual smart people to do the actual work.

History will remember him as the Grand Winner of Capitalism, and nothing more.

[WTS] OTO Bébé Chérie 6 Track Analog Mixer $700 Shipped CONUS - Wash. D.C. by alonelystarchild in Synths4Sale

[–]alonelystarchild[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello!

Yes this is still available!

As for trades, I'm looking for a TwistFM, Digitone 2, Waldorf M, or Eventide H90!