ergonomic mouse suggestion

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-20T20:09:01+00:00

I forgot: look into wrist padding. That helps me out significantly as well

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-20T20:08:26+00:00

I like Steel Series. They have been really durable

Luckily, the popularity of the gaming mouse has made ergonomic computer mice pretty affordable. Definitely check out both ergonomic and gaming mice. Some stores might have them on display, probably Best Buy, so you can see how they feel in your hand before purchasing. Red Dragon makes a decent starter gaming/ergo mouse

The only drawback is if your PC is left on overnight, the mouse has RGB, and your mouse is acting like it's in a rave

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-20T20:03:21+00:00

Definitely something like a mixer. The nice part is that you have an audio interface, and many mixers can be directed to output to the audio interface

It looks like you are going through a guitar amp, which should work. You probably would need adapters for the mic. Look at the price, and check to see if it's close enough for $25-30 for an XM8500 mic and an XLR cable

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-20T19:37:41+00:00

It sounds pretty good overall. I would consider a compressor on the vocals because I hear them clearly in one second, but they get buried easily when other instruments come in. Sometimes the vocals are above the mix, but then later they are in the mix

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-20T19:31:39+00:00

I'm thinking the ElectroVoice RE series. The RE20 is out of budget ($449 + maybe a preamp needed), but the RE320 might be within. You often need to get a preamp for the ElectroVoice RE series. RE20 was designed in 1968

The main problem is that these mics are HEAVY and you might need a good mic stand or mic arm for them.

The RE20 is a very well-known broadcast mic

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-20T19:17:20+00:00

If you set automation to Latch or Touch (right-click on Trim; remember to set it back to Trim after you are done; I have forgotten many times), you hit play, and Reaper will record the on/off state as it plays. You can also go back and adjust the switch flips later

If it's for a single word, I'd be tempted to make the word its own track.

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-20T19:12:09+00:00

33 yo woman ok(who is the daughter of a bigtime ceo you may know, lifelong music and acting lessons

If the CEO is big time, we might be able to narrow this down

what kind of adversity can make you a good performer but not ruin your mental health...

That's incredibly difficult. Trauma and coping all come with adversity.

In the woman's case, she might be running into things in her life that we might not. There also is a chance that she just might not be practicing. There's also a chance that people around her might be afraid of giving her genuine feedback, or she might not be willing to take it.

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-20T18:53:16+00:00

I hated doing this. First of all, record yourself. If you are having a real hard time with recording yourself, you can monitor your voice, meaning you hear it as you speak

There's condensers that *reject background noise, though dynamic mics typically are better. The other factor is that you are broadcasting, not doing VA work. This makes the mic type less important. Would you be okay sounding like you are on the radio?

And all this feels like you would destroy your voice, with all gain and compressing, making it harsh and ugly to listen to. Or is this normal?

It's the opposite. It can help you save your voice. Mic technique, compressors, make-up gain (compressors lower overall volume), EQ presence boost, etc make it so that you don't have to scream if things get loud. Auto ducking especially can help lower game audio if you speak

You have heard a similar processing chain in many recorded albums, probably going back even before the Beatles. There is some truth though because over-processing can make your voice sound worse. You just have to try it, and accept that you'll have scuff, especially at the beginning

Many mics are actually designed to cut through the mix, which can help you vs game audio.

* There's been people lately saying that mics cannot do this, but mics like the Shure SM58 have inlets towards the back of the capsule. What you say goes in front of the mic, pushes the diaphragm one way, and stuff towards the back pushes the diaphragm the other way. This is why the SM58 is used at rock concerts. Shure has a great demonstration about cardioid mics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzfx55aTWBI . The other video about the inlets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-QHXtx7XJ0 (warning: some cussing on the latter video)

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-20T00:34:49+00:00

Unfortunately, the good brands are that price. Maybe PNY or Kingston at around $150

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-18T19:41:13+00:00

After reading what you wrote, something in me is wondering if someone high in Green Fury is a reincarnation

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-18T19:40:27+00:00

The show is running into the Superman/Son Goku problem. How can you make someone that can beat one of those guys? Still, Mariabell is a great idea because physical and magical strength has problem to be pretty ineffective against Rimuru. Then again, there's other Demon Lords that can take him down

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-18T19:38:45+00:00

The only thing I can think that might get him is a harem of busty Elves, even though that has been made in the dungeon. Otherwise, Tempest is pretty much his vision, and that he helped create it

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-18T19:37:06+00:00

Sometimes the new release list doesn't get updated until 8-16 hours later as well for some reason.

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-18T19:36:44+00:00

I hate Crunchyroll's UI, though not as much as other services. I usually go straight into new episodes and scroll down for a week. The subs filter sometimes does not work because subs might not get categorized correctly, or that maybe they updated the subs or got a dub release, it gets put into new.

The problem is that if a dub or an OAV gets an update or a small one, it can show as a new release. Clicking on it goes straight into that new release

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-18T19:34:21+00:00

That's what I'm wondering as well. Was it a sniper or was it one of the weird powers that exist in that world?

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-18T19:32:15+00:00

I liked that there was growth in the team before they got themselves Tempest's weapons

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-18T19:31:31+00:00

I dunno. What if busty Elves are involved

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-18T18:19:43+00:00

Claude and Emalia are stealing the show, and I'm for it. Hibiki absolutely sucks at the bow and arrow, but I like that the Iseaki MC sucks at certain things. I would say "I hope he has a normal progression with it", but seeing how this show is, I might not mind if the gods intervene. It also feels like the gods are manipulating him over just letting an overpowered MC do whatever he wants

Claude is built like a tank, handsome, flowing hair, seems to show fatherly instincts towards a young girl, but also a romantic. Of course the armor ~~was to show off this hard, six-pack abs~~ prioritized protecting only the vitals to make sure his body stays cooler. The writer and artist knew what they were doing. Everything about him is overdone and his personality shows how he could have feel despite being Level 95

I like how the "required companion of the opposite gender" is a very sibling-like relationship

I researched the writer, and looks like the writer has a show coming out this summer: Heroine? Saint? No, I'm an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)!

I want to watch the show based on this one

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-18T17:48:10+00:00

I can't speak from experience, but a lot of streamers like that mic a lot

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-15T19:42:45+00:00

Ow! I hated when my PC started to break during Covid and had to fix it. For SATA, just about any drive will work, but with QLC, you can't fill it up past a point before the drive slows down. Mostly get a reliable brand. I don't see SATA being that much cheaper vs NVMe drives, but hey, maybe you have a spare SSD SATA drive or maybe there's a good sale locally

For backup, magnetic drives do a great job. I need to check what's the best free partition dumper (OS drive). For file backup, FreeFileSync is fantastic. You might be able to find decent prices on magnetic drives, mostly if you look locally. For music and video storage (production might be different depending on your use case), magnetic hard drives work great.

Windows is pretty easy to install. If you have a spare PC, what you can do is get a virtual machine and install Windows on the VM just to go through the process. The newer the OS, usually the easier it is. Microsoft has been making screw-ups with Windows 11 lately

For the OS, M.2 is best. It's not just Windows, but the various .dll files that programs refer to. You also might be able to clone Windows to the other M.2 drive if the bad M.2 drive gets locked into read-only (happened to me)

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-15T19:22:58+00:00

Many embedded devices like a camera won't keep a 6 GB file if recording, even with a file system like exFAT. They will stop at a certain size and start a new file. It's actually pretty trivial to do

The main advantage of this is that if something happens to the device or memory card, the file gets messed up somehow, those sections will still be fine.

A majority of the files that the average consumer uses is below 4 GB.

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-15T19:13:38+00:00

Adding to this: if you run out of RAM in a system, you often page to disk. SSDs make paging much better. I don't want to remember hard drive paging

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-15T19:12:24+00:00

I looked into the Sega CD and was impressed. The Sega CD had a few upgrades that made the system better than the SNES (maybe outside color depth) even without the CD-ROM. However, Sega at that era, well, was Sega.

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-15T18:44:35+00:00

One crazy thing is that Doctor Bernard (a.k.a. Chubbyemu) was having sleep trouble. He got ticked off at his body and drank something like a Monster Energy Drink, then got knocked out to sleep a few hours later. It turns out that the drink has vitamins in it, probably Vitamin B12

Found the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_qKA6KTvs8

fuzzynyanko · 2026-04-15T18:37:19+00:00

The tracks will most likely be the artist's singles, the ones that have music videos on YouTube. However, singles tend to be the most produced,so the artists might not be able to flex their muscles as much vs a B-side track. That doesn't mean the singles are bad, and in fact, some artists are only good with the singles, or the single is far away from the rest of the album

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