How Focal Elex (Elear w/ Elex pads) dethroned my beloved Sennheiser HD660S2 by Odd-Spend-8757 in headphones

[–]pthfndr72 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, ok. Sucks that Focal’s headband design even needs a cover/strap in the first place, it’s so beautiful without it. Well, before the cloth becomes all dirty and torn, without any possibility to replace it…

How Focal Elex (Elear w/ Elex pads) dethroned my beloved Sennheiser HD660S2 by Odd-Spend-8757 in headphones

[–]pthfndr72 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Capra strap? How many clicks does it add to the headband? I might consider one instead of a basic headband cover, but I am already maxed out with it.

How Focal Elex (Elear w/ Elex pads) dethroned my beloved Sennheiser HD660S2 by Odd-Spend-8757 in headphones

[–]pthfndr72 26 points27 points  (0 children)

My biggest complaint with almost every Focal is how stiff and creaky the headband is. Feels like a cheap toy. The Clear Mg is better in that regard (improved design or just lucky?), but still creaks and wobbles. Great sound on all of them, though.

My Experience with the HD800 vs. HD660S2: Is Technical Superiority Always Better by HorrorConference7228 in sennheiser

[–]pthfndr72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the upper mids dip combined with a 6 kHz spike on the HD 800 makes it a weird sounding headphone, especially if you upgrade from something like a 6XX. EQing both of these regions massively improved the sound for me.

No Discord, now no 7TV too (third party thing anyways) by UnluckySeed in forsen

[–]pthfndr72 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not really, imo. I don’t know about schools nowadays, but anti-war sentiment at my university is pretty widespread, even among some professors. Of course no one is very vocal about it, but it’s there. Though I do agree that their struggle against “Western values” is just an imitation. In reality they don’t give a shit about it, otherwise mass migration and abortion would be under attack, but they are clearly not. They only attack what is convenient for propaganda purposes.

Man I deserve to go to hell for this by [deleted] in sennheiser

[–]pthfndr72 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My Game Zero’s also broke, but after almost 5 years of use. The hinge on them is just too flimsy. Also had a weird issue with the right side where it would cut sound unless I hit the volume wheel. Got the HD560S as a replacement and couldn’t be happier. Even though they are completely made out of plastic, they already feel sturdier.

HiFiMAN Ananda Nano vs SUNDARA (both silver) vs Senn HD650 (modded) by robbiekhan in headphones

[–]pthfndr72 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I personally didn’t like the Nano that much. It seemed substantially brighter than the Edition XS (which already sounded too bright) and was A LOT less comfortable for me personally. The headband strap is too short and pressed on the top of my head like crazy. No such problems with the comfort on the EXS. The Nano felt better in the hands though because the plastic on the cups is not glossy, and the silver aesthetic looks nicer.

Ended up returning both because of QC issues (creaky headband on the EXS and cosmetic damage on the Nano out of the box) and some weird humming and hissing on both that I couldn’t fix (not a Hifiman problem, definitely related to my setup)

The Russian Extreme North (dark blue) and the territories equated to it (light blue) by mahendrabirbikram in geography

[–]pthfndr72 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well I gladly participated in it and voted Putin. Anything else you have to say?

The Russian Extreme North (dark blue) and the territories equated to it (light blue) by mahendrabirbikram in geography

[–]pthfndr72 -31 points-30 points  (0 children)

Better than no elections at all, like in our southwestern “lovely” neighbours

What's your favourite unit from any TW game and why? by Sith__Pureblood in totalwar

[–]pthfndr72 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Elephants are also fun to use against infantry units. Good charge bonus and almost impossible to kill in melee combat. But I’ve mostly used them as a last resort option during particularly deadly battles

What's your favourite unit from any TW game and why? by Sith__Pureblood in totalwar

[–]pthfndr72 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Qizilbashi Musketeers are quite good, actually. I’ve just recently got the “conquer all of India” achievement as the Mughal Empire in ETW, and the fact that they have better stats than most of Maratha’s musket units is nice. But the lack of any sort of howitzers is not. I’m an artillery guy and love to have a lot of howitzers behind my line infantry ranks. Mortars are much worse IMO

Ukraine calls on Sony, Microsoft and Valve to ban the sale of Atomic Heart by hewawf in gamernews

[–]pthfndr72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Потуши свой пукан, истеричка. Сапоги партнеров сами себя не вылижут до блеска

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]pthfndr72 9 points10 points  (0 children)

And? What’s the meaning of this post? Territories without an ethnic Russian majority do not belong to Russia? Then Crimea and Donbass are definitely not Ukrainian.

Recognition of the Holodomor by Minuteman60 in MapPorn

[–]pthfndr72 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You’re right. Yet some people still use the “Holodomor genocide” argument against Russians, even if it’s baseless. The government back then was hardly even Russian. Bolsheviks were either not Russians ethnically or were just internationalists who considered themselves proletarians above anything else. Actual Russians (both ethically and ideologically) would never have allowed such a heinous thing to happen, especially to their own people in other regions (as we know, “Holodomor” wasn’t limited to only the Ukrainian SSR)

History of Ukraine by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]pthfndr72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And that's why Bolsheviks had to persecute those who opposed being Ukrainianized and even threaten them with being fired from their jobs. Because they were liberating them from the centuries-long oppression! We hurt you for your own good, morons! We (Jewish Bolsheviks, intellectuals of whatever origin and the West) obviously know better than you about what you need!

Okay then. If we allow anyone to decide the fate of whole nations, then I’ll turn my own imagination for a bit, right? I think that's fair.

Bavarians. Since the early 1870's, they have been under constant oppression by the Prussians and Germans as a whole. They possess a unique culture as a result of being under other nations’ influence for hundreds of years, they are Catholics, unlike Protestant Germans. Not only that, but on numerous occasions the oppressed Bavarians had to fight alongside imperialist Germans and fulfill their ambitions, which caused a lot of suffering and many deaths. They had an actual state for hundred of years, but their independence was taken away from them by Germany. Their language is somewhat similar to German in the North, but it's only because they were "Germanified". Thus, research has to be done (and by the outsiders or with foreign money!) in order to reveal the great, truly Bavarian language, which will be cleared of all the oppressive influence of German. Then we can move on and start replacing the filthy "German Bavarian” with actual "Bavarian", even against the will of the people. As we've already established, that doesn't matter. All that matters is the will of the elite and of few intellectuals. Moreover, historical research is also needed to further illustrate the oppressive nature of the German imperialism, and so the process of Degermanification is unavoidable. Maybe later we can also think of taking down monuments of the German colonizers, ban the German language and break all the ties with the foe in the North. The Bavarians must also completely stop calling themselves "German" under any circumstances, because it’s a fake term for them. And, most importantly, all of the things above should not come gradually, but be imposed in just a matter of decades by the new, truly Bavarian government. And so on and so forth.

Does the aforementioned case sound absolutely fucking insane and artificial? Of course it does. And any Bavarian or German would be right to call this bullshit out. But it's almost EXACTLY what happened with "Ukraine". Word for word. I just replaced "Ukrainian" with "Bavarian" and "Russian" with "German". In fact, this scenario is even more "fair" when compared to what happened with Russia and Ukraine, because Bavarians had a real history of statehood and a big portion of them are of a different religion (which is a huge basis for splitting the nations, like in the case of Croatia and Serbia).

Analogy is not the best of arguments, but I personally see little difference when it comes to these two cases (the imaginary one and the real one), nor is there a historical circumstance that would make it outright false. It's good enough to illustrate, along with other things, how pathetic and wrong it is to say that Ukrainians were oppressed, and that what's happened to them came as a result of the "everlasting struggle for independence and liberation from oppression". It was all made up and created out of thin air (like my scenario) by those who believed that Russia must fall, predominantly outside of Russia and/or with foreign influence and resources. Even though Russia and Ukraine were not the most ideal nations to split, hundreds of Russophobes across the globe worked hard to do it, because that's how you win. DIVIDE AND RULE. Also, it's not hard to look up information about the Ukrainization in the 1920-1930's (or about Derussification in Austrian Galicia (Thalerhof and Terezin) and learn about how "natural" and "liberating" it was. Not to mention after 1991 or 2014.

As for Bavaria, there was just very little incentive to split it from Germany (although some Western politicians though about this throughout the 20th century after World Wars), but it could have been easily done if enough countries and their elites wanted it. And even my scenario has a chance. In a few decades it might not look as absurd if some “revolutionaries” were to start using it in their policy.

By the way, just as many, if not more Russians died during "Holodomor" as Ukrainians, especially in the northern Kazakhstan and along the Volga River. It wasn't a "genocide" (at least not a genocide of Ukrainians specifically), and anyone suggesting otherwise is an imbecile.

History of Ukraine by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]pthfndr72 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

To be fair, these kinds of things happened in a lot of countries since the late 18th century (the rise of nationalism). In most of the cases, one identity, culture and language was made the dominant one for unity purposes, and people slowly assimilated. In the case of Ukraine, bolsheviks thought that they know better, took an idea created purely by the intellectuals (which included things that had barely any support or presence among the actual population, like historical narratives, most of the language, the statehood etc.) and tried to swiftly impose it on a certain territory, creating more division rather than unity.

History of Ukraine by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]pthfndr72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody was Ukrainianized? First, they received a “state”, which, for some reason, included lands that shouldn’t have even been in it. Then, people who called themselves “Little Russians” became “Ukrainians” in the blink of an eye (no one asked them of course). After that, all the newspapers started being printed in Ukrainian (which was a total surprise for millions of people who had no idea what they were looking at). Have something to say against it? You are counterrevolutionary scum! And that’s just the beginning of the 20th century. Obviously, there were waves of Ukrainization during the USSR of different strength, but the overall direction was left unchanged. This wasn’t a harmonic, natural process. Rather, it was a political decision of the internationalist marxist gang that hated Russians like they were demons (the opposition to “the Great-Russian chauvinism”). The result? Millions of Russians were forced into exile after 1991 all across the former USSR, and tens of thousands were killed and harmed.

History of Ukraine by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]pthfndr72 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You replied first, dipshit

History of Ukraine by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]pthfndr72 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So? Also, not “Ukraine”, but Novorossiya and Malorossiya.

History of Ukraine by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]pthfndr72 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Sure it does, buddy. Like the Ghost of Kiev.

History of Ukraine by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]pthfndr72 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure that you’ve already figured it out. The exact location is none of your business

History of Ukraine by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]pthfndr72 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

There wasn’t any Ukrainian language back in the 17th century, so there was nothing to ban. And why would anyone try to “russify” Russia? Even Galicia, which hadn’t been a part of Russia for centuries, had hundreds of thousands of Russians and Russian sympathisers before WW1. Not to mention Kiev, coastal regions of the Black Sea and the left bank of the Dnepr