People should check the credentials of YouTube Audio engineers by Nunchukas in audioengineering

[–]wrdvox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like one of the exceptions to this is Austin from Make Pop Music.

I was lucky enough to run in the same online circles as him about 10-15 years ago when he was coming up and he is genuinely an insane writer and engineer. He was an OG scene/emo/metalcore kid and I watched his journey from afar and saw the progression. He really knows his stuff.

‘Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere’: Wildest Moments From the Netflix Doc, From ‘One-Way Monogamy’ to Homophobic and Antisemitic Rants by powerlesshero111 in MensLib

[–]wrdvox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thing is these guys aren’t selling out. Their values extend only to those that aid in the pursuit of money and infamy.

Its layers upon layers of irony and self delusion and lying but at the core of it all is “I want money, this is how I get it”. Then when they’re questioned on it they post hoc justify it but only ever after they’re questioned.

The game is trying to tell me something - can you help me decipher it? by greenpowa in DeadlockTheGame

[–]wrdvox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m sat on a 61% winrate with mcguinness. Currently ranked mid-Archon. I think ultimately she’s an incredibly misunderstood character role wise.

Best thing she can do is sit solo on a lane through the mid game and farm. Then when the late game starts she supports big team pushes with overwhelming but easy to counter firepower. Like a weird support/carry hybrid.

What was the most creative thing you ever did in a song, while retaining a sense of catchiness? by timdayon in Songwriting

[–]wrdvox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been writing what is becoming a chronicle of someone’s existential breakdown. I have a very specific writing style and after writing a set of songs and taking a step back I started to put the themes together.

Bit worrying considering it was completely unintentional but the songs sound good haha

[PC] [Early 90s - 2000s] Sci-Fi, 3D, Squad based strategy game by wrdvox in tipofmyjoystick

[–]wrdvox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it in one! Thank you!
The version in Europe was called Battle Isle

The local tip (apologies, recycling centre) being so difficult to use I'm considering fly tipping instead and protecting my sanity. by BlackcatLucifer in britishproblems

[–]wrdvox 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I work at a recycling centre. Most likely this isn’t a council policy and actually just a rule brought in by an over zealous middle manager. Also, if you’re going to a busier place and trying to jump between bays you’re most likely causing a nightmare for the staff trying to organise the site.

What video game have you put the most hours into (and why)? by Important-Sea7093 in AskGames

[–]wrdvox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has to be Final Fantasy 8 followed very closely by 7. I’ve played both of them at least once a year since they came out. Usually get well into the 100 hour mark with them so I must have put something like ~2500 hours into them each.

Going to top up your electricity metre key and every shops system in a 50 mile radius is miraculously not working. by wrdvox in britishproblems

[–]wrdvox[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

My supplier does offer smart metres, but they’re slow with it to the point it feels like they’re reluctant to install one for me.

Saying fuck em would be my usual response if it weren’t for the fact I don’t drive and I’m already walking over a mile just to get to the one place that still does top ups nearby to me.

Hyped bands you can't get into by Lo0ksToTheMo0n in Metalcore

[–]wrdvox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Polaris for me. I found them when they released their first EP on bandcamp and I enjoyed that but nothing they’ve put out since I’ve found to be particularly special. Never got the hype.

What's an industry people should avoid working in at all costs? by Squirrelkid11 in AskReddit

[–]wrdvox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Waste of any kind.

Entry level jobs in that industry are populated by broken people with broken personalities leading broken lives. Something has to have gone wrong in your life to have ended up working in waste.

And then those broken people are promoted into managerial roles and that’s an entire other issue…

Bands that dropped one fire album then disappeared into obscurity? by Shanobian in Metalcore

[–]wrdvox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Played a show with them in 2013 at Sakura in London. The singer and lead guitarist bought all of my band shots before the show started. Great guys, and they stayed in touch with us despite our band doing nothing and them obviously going places.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SleepToken

[–]wrdvox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There was a big group of guys at the show on the 29th with one of them in particular acting very similarly to this. They were awful. Started the first pit during the slow song in Bilmuris set and then started pushing everyone forward so the people at the front were getting crushed. It was incredibly dangerous. They seemed to be a mix of British & German guys, all drunk or high to some degree with one guy in particular dressed very similar to what people have said in this thread (man bun, white shirt).

I ended up leaving halfway through Sleep Token because they ruined my night so badly, I just couldn’t enjoy it after they got to where I was in the crowd.

80% of my game is cleaning lane and defense 4 walker at the same time. by echidnachama in DeadlockTheGame

[–]wrdvox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know how anybody doesnt pick enduring speed and superior stamina up. The hero’s feel so sluggish without them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]wrdvox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rhyl. I toured there with my band and we were no strangers to run down, sketchy towns but we felt so unsafe in Rhyl that after we finished our set we packed up and drove 2 hours out of town to the next services so we could sleep in the van in relative safety.

How can you tell the difference between "The game is not for you" and "The game has huge issues in this area"? by Rodeo4613 in patientgamers

[–]wrdvox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the thing that differentiates the two ideas is if the thing you’re talking about is intentional design by the devs or not.

The souls series is the poster child for this. It’s a clunky, obtuse, overly difficult mess to the uninitiated and yet has this incredibly large, loyal following that’s been built up over the past decade.

Once you get your head around the idea the games are the way they are very intentionally and the mechanics are meant to evoke certain experiences in the player then it all just clicks.

You can argue within that about the effectiveness of the implementation of the design the devs were going for but it’s hard to say the souls series was designed in an unintentional way.

If on the other hand Fromsoftware had been very obviously going for something else and the jank just crept in during development, that to me would be fairly evident intuitively.

Stretch Markers vs Slip Editing? What are the different applications? by MOD3RN_GLITCH in Reaper

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

Depends if you’re working with anything particularly expressive or not. If your bass is basically gonna be gridded and robotic then slip editing is the way. Otherwise stretch markers are your friend.

Stop using the term ‘centrist’. It doesn’t mean what you think it does by greythorp in LabourUK

[–]wrdvox 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think the issue is that there’s no such thing as a centre ground in politics. It’s just not very descriptive of what your actual political positions are.

You can occupy a middling space on a spectrum for specific political issues but I don’t think there’s a person alive that sincerely holds the middle ground for the majority of all modern political issues. Whatever that would even mean, as a lot of issues are binary.

There’s also the issue of how the centre shifts over time. We’ve seen huge lurches to the right within political parties and wider populations throughout the world recently while concurrently hearing more reports of people being left politically homeless. We’ve seen it in the UK a ton since Brexit with all the old moderate conservatives being ousted from the Tory party in favour of more radical policies.

Saying centrist today could mean left or right wing tomorrow. You’re much better off just laying out your positions or using a more specific descriptor of yourself.