::: spoiler sad, I guess? No, maybe its happy... I just checked my email and it turns out that a former roommate and long time friend that I haven't seen since I left the city bought me some games. I'm not crying you're crying :::
oh my gooooddddd this is SO GOOD wtf?!! why did I pick anyone else? i need to get through Orange Book so i can get back to this lol
I'd never thought much of my name before, but now it's suddenly become the most intense thing in the world.
i have felt this feeling before. it's a good one, i'm big on my name tbh, maybe because i chose it myself.
I've been cautious of it because it is overwhelmingly popular however.
yeah, I'm usually cautious of anything that is popular too. most popular stuff really isn't for me, sometimes I do like something popular, but for weird reasons.
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Sorry for the slow reply,
no need, it's totally ok, it's np if you want to respond the next day or whatever or if it's too much to respond to to just say so
I think about this kind of stuff a lot honestly so it's nice to speak to someone who also does (Ash does too, I think a few others do too)
yeah, you are my people for sure
It can be difficult, but it's really not that common for me to even get to that stage really. But yeah it turns into possibly years without any friends and waiting for it to come around again so to speak.
;_; that sounds super awful. i don't know if i'd be really good at being a friend, but i'd be willing to try :)
This sums me up succinctly, I do consider how the other person will react and feel, but I don't let the worry become too much and all encompassing.
yeah, that's awesome! I gotta learn this
Your partner sounds very similar to myself, I can get upset but takes a lot to do it. Most of the time I'll let things just wash over me for the most part.
honestly, I have been telling him all week how much you and him should talk. I feel like the two of you are similar in some ways. We're not sure if he's ND, but he certainly has some traits of it haha.
I don't think you're annoying, Ash would be like that to me too "I'm annoying" or whatever she'd say and I'm the one telling her she's not.. shush you're being silly, that kind of thing.
thank you. lol so funny how similar Ash and I are in some ways...
I think it's more like if I'm not doing much and sitting with time to think about stuff it can creep in then and depending on mood can affect me somewhat but I do busy myself quite a bit to not really have time to dwell too.
Yeah, that makes sense. Kinda like the ringing in my ears, when it's really quiet it starts to get painful, but a bit of background noise and it's suddenly gone?
Well the goblin is my self, me my id so to speak, the spiders are just the other kind of sides to it where the goblin will read off a list and the spiders will debate amongst themselves for the goblin to write down. (this is all metaphorical, it's my self talking with various questions posed) I find it funny the image of a nest of spiders in deep conversation with themselves to answer to a Goblin who will eventually formulate the list ^^ it's just me having fun also because of the "two wolves meme" my side of it is the goblin being my self, but there's more that goes on inside with a debate hence the spiders..
Oh! Actually this reminds me of some of the parts stuff Cool Therapist talks about. She talks about a core energy that is us, and a whole bunch of parts that can be various ages and temperaments (I'm not sure I spelled that right). These parts get created to protect us generally. I have a few parts, I'm getting to know them. One of them is oppressive over-rationalization and stunted emotional expression, another is internalized shame about my gender from my mom, one of me is internalized feelings of being trapped in a job from my dad... that kind of thing.
But I like your image better, haha. I like it! :::
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Ok so first I thrifted my Denon a number of years ago, so my headcanon is now that you ended up with it somehow. This is probably extremely unlikely. Partner is rating it at 0.5%. Uh, if you did, sorry I forgot to bundle the mic with it ... I thrifted a lot of stuff that day, and I found it later IIRC and was like "fuck." It might have also been the remote I forgot to give, memory fuzzy lol, I know I forgot something... But the headcanon!!
Waow me too, plus it's a Class A amp which is rare now... perhaps?
I only just read about the classes. I understand the idea of them I think, how does that affect the sound?
If fit's your issue I can't recommend the T2s, though generally soft memory foam tips may help.
Yeah, might try again next time I'm feeling brave. Not soon tho.
For two uh, yeah they're pricier on amazon, but for $160 they're a steal. Planars are so good, you won't go back.
damn, so these are the good kind eh? it is my birthday ... I should buy something ... and the pads...
The vast majority of devices I have connect with SBC, I do have a set of Anker Q35 with LDAC and my Fiio player supports that. To be real I can't really hear a huge difference, they all sound pretty similar I guess, slightly worse than cabled?
You know, I think I know what you mean. I've tried aptX Adaptive, and SBC-XQ, and AAC, and all sounds the same ... but ... slightly worse than cabled is right. It's "good enough" most of the time, when I'm not 100% focused on listening, or when I'm listening to compressed audio like YT vids or whatever.
Good, the SH people are so fuckin annoying...
oh, and by "absorb opinions" i should have said "read casually and try not to be as hardcore as them" lol. Some of the crazy opinions about country of make on there is wild too.
Prior to that I was just rawdoggin' it, PC headphone jack from onboard audio to receiver.
Damn, I always have the worst luck with PC ports, they're always so noisy, I can hear the computer thinking with all the beeps and buzzes. It's probably the way I build PCs or something, running the audio cable next to a power cable.
CD, DVD and Bluray machines all have their own reasonable DACs but I run everything through the SU-1 now because I am wildin. Idk how you got your hands on a Magni or Modi with the prices here but grats, lmao.
sick, that's awesome. Honestly, I don't know why I really went that direction, this was back when I was a lib and I didn't have anyone to ask about which ones were good, so I just read some Reddit posts. I remember them being $99, but that was probably USD, and then add to that "brokerage fees" from shipping companies and tax and tax2, yeah it was probably a lot more. Immediately dropped the headphone amp trying to get it out of the box, of course, now it crackles when I turn the knob, but it does work fine otherwise.
The pair was like £400 back in the day, they are super legit. The SU-1 just uses USB power, these have a whole thing. I don't use the XLR because I'm also a pleb but they are great. However I think a Douk U3 + SU-1 produces similar results, they are a few years old now.
that's sick. so i can have pretty headphone amp and still it'll sound good? this is good news!
(from your post) I was nodding along with all that. I still have bluetooth for like meetings and hotswapping for work, but this week I learned these instanely priced noise cancelling headphones fucking drop my voice sometimes!!!!! so friendship fucking ended with these unless the neighbour is drumming (they are still nice, just missed my hd600 set, although i would roll over the super long cord a lot lol)
Ugh. I got them for flights after flying a province over to visit my parents this year and the other BT headphones I had sucked. I started using these because they had an integrated mic and I wanted more room in my office without having a C-stand holding a shotgun mic lol (or, you know, a tripod, I didn't like the way I look on webcam :( )
Phones and laptops without 3.5mm jacks should be considered war crimes, trust me. No I do not care if it's about IP67 water protection, do better pls. No excuse. I despise this trend.
YES. YES. FUCK. I HATE THIS SO MUCH, UGHHHHH. i bought a pixel 7 for graphene os because i was sick of not having adblock on my phone, and i knew going in there was no jack, but i was still upset about it.
It's cool that the Gamecube scene has come up a bit in recent years, used to be stone dead lol
The retro game store downtown here was offering a super deal for people to trade in their GC games for a while, actually. I did not trade mine in, not even the duplicates we have lol.
Fuck that shit! I paid $80 for my Sounddynamics R515!!! Cop shit!! Glad they're good at least...
yeah, idk, I don't have the mind for remembering speaker models etc. I can hear whether I like/dislike the sound, but only on familiar music and after my ears get used to them, so it's tough for me. My dad eats this shit up even more than me, oh well. I like headphones :3 I find them easier to understand than speakers.
Yeah my three all have that but I never had the mic, I got the Denon from the thrift, my Pioneer from the garbage and a modern Harman Kardon from the pawn, lmao.
sick
You might still not get anything out of it but Idk, helps wifey and I at least...
totally, makes sense.
This is a good habit, I only do tweaking right at the end or beginning of the output chain. If I have to mess with it a bunch, it might not be good.
yeah, exactly. i did a bit of hobbyist musicmaking and that's usually the recommended advice for making music too, just to tweak at the end.
I wish I had a copy of the BRC soundtrack ngl
I had to ask Partner what this was, I haven't heard of it, but he said he wants to play it. :::
PS2 softmodding is a little convoluted at times but I understood it eventually. Some things I wish they would explain better.
glad to hear it tbh,
Miku is pretty funny, I think as a teen it was a combination of genuinely liking weebslop and gender envy, lmao.
damn that's cool as heck
The PS1 is a 2X disc drive at best so it makes sense you would have issues with 16x, by god you need a slower drive. I have many that go as low as 1X... Discs burn better slower...
ah that makes sense. yeah I gotta get an older one, this one is in an enclosure and has MakeMKV support (so I wouldn't get rid of it), I don't have a single case in the house with space for a CD drive tho.
Absolutely, you just use OpenPS2Loader, OPL. It's pretty easy to set up, I did it twice. Memcard ports are slightly slower than disc (5.5mb/s vs 3.5mb/s) so some games might load a touch slower but it's nothing like the stutters you get on USB1.1 for instance.
Oh yeah when I was looking into this briefly and read about the USB slowness yikes lol. This sounds fun actually, Imma save your post for the next time I feel like making an executive cry.
ok so this is a disaster for cables, I know... but yes, like you said, I'm using a switch.
Oh I wrote a post about this!
oh fuck me, i want to play on that crt so bad. we don't have a spot for one (not even a place to store it really) so i haven't looked into getting a CRT for us. damn, what a cool post!! that sounds like a cool setup, i want to see it all working tbh
You could use a Wii U, and even PCSX-R on Retroarch there, but I use it on an original Wii running component to my CRT. Gotta have true 240p.
agree, this 65" TV is fine and all, but like you said, CRTs are better OLEDs. well put
Lol for PS2, really? To me PS2 games are so close to modern (widescreen, Pro Logic II multichannel, progressive scan sometimes) that upresing them just makes more sense Idk. I do play them on original hardware a lot but Idk, PS2 enhancements pay dividends compared to N64 where the textures and UI will always be ugly...
Oops, typo, I meant PSX here. I haven't even thought about upscaling PS2 games, that does seem like it could be good. Usually the big thing for me is if the models look sharp and the background blurry I don't really like that. So games with 2D background like FF7 etc I don't like upscaled, in 240p everything feels like it fits in the world (you know, fits better in the world, he's still got toaster hands)
and yes on N64 too like textures and UI look even worse at higher res to me. sometimes it's an ok vibe, like if I'm watching someone else play. but if I'm playing I want as close to the original as possible. it's weird lol i like chunky pixels and nearest-neighbour filtering.
How does an everdrive makt the dpad hard to reach..?
In randomizers, usually they add functions to the N64 d-pad, so when using a real N64 controller, you have to reach back with your thumb to do things like equip/unequip hover boots, or transform masks.
Ah the bad old days... now you can hook the real controllers up to a PC lol
honestly I did this back in the day too, got waaaay into DDR and had a full-on Stepmania setup with a PS2 pad and an adapter hooked into my PC with like a thousand songs.
Now my setup is native USB and has 5k,,, it's too many.
Yeah I play with scanlines on flat displays too.
yeah same, can't do without tbh, it's too bright and harsh imo
For phosphor sim I have seen some amazing 4K stuff...
I have heard of this! I haven't really tried it myself.
I guess that was my first bear site hot take.
I kinda agree, honestly. There's a charm to the janky redstone mechanics, and it can be a fun puzzle to solve. But like, I play with cheats enabled because there's always so much BS. I skipped horses forever until Sevtech, and realized that I need to carry a fence post and lead around with me at all times or else they will go absolutely missing.
There's some basic stuff which just baffles me every time I go back, a lot of mod packs work around it though. Like the ender pearl thing.
it's keeping them playing for more than 1-2 days
true, I would unfortunately be this person, I lose interest in it these days pretty quick.
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Aw cmon, be a snob with me,
that's all i needed, i'm in.
Idk I'm not against inexpensive stuff so long as it sounds good, like for example the Tinn T2 IEMs or the Douk U3 headphone amp
totally agree, I bought a Schitt headphone amp and it sounds good to me, but the Douk looks nice wow I love the brass colouring holy crap sdlkkdfgjk it's so cool second headphone amp time?!
unfo I am not sure I'm built for IEMs, the pressure on my ear canals leads to pain. Maybe it's a sizing issue, or maybe it's not.
I strapped a bluetooth receiver to my T50RP m3
ok first, COOL KEYBOARD i like the caps damn. Second those headphones (which I have not heard of until now). wait they are planars? holy moly, are they really $159?! wowwwwww I've wanted to try planars forever, i've heard so much hype, but the price (and generally the weight), your pads and strap look comfy as frick, damn.
so, tell me your experiences with bluetooth. what kind of codec do you prefer? thoughts on AAC/SBC/SBC-XQ/aptX/aptX Adaptive? I went down this rabbit hole with my BT headphones a while ago.
Takes me back to the Sbeve Hoffmen Forums.
haha I have never posted on any forum, I mostly absorb opinions from sites like that.
either an SMSL SU-1 hooked up to the R-X80
ah ha, I was wondering how you would have solved this problem, you got an external DAC, makes sense! I got the Schitt stack for my PC which is just the Magni+Modi, good enough for me. and of course, for living room I have the DAC in the A-S801.
SMSL SU-8/SH-8 stack bought for me by wifey.
wow, that stuff looks fucking sick, the SH-8 looks serious. I'm too much of a pleb to have XLR headphones, but I love the fucking full-size AC port on the back of it lol like it's a PC, that rules.
I tend to be angrily against bluetooth more on principle than against the actual quality tbh.
Yeah, agreed. I personally hate charging things, things being connected or not connecting when they're supposed to be, dropouts, latency, etc. But when it works I can't complain. I do feel something more with the HD600s hooked into a record player than I do listening to the digital version over Bluetooth though.
Also waow your gemcoob is kitted the fuck out, nice, the GB Player was always such a good idea but it really needs Swiss to function. Also Retrobit pad like the LegacyGC or is there another?
Yeah, Gamecube was my baby when I was young. Samus was kinda transition goals ngl. But yes, I use Swiss + Extrems' Game Boy Interface on the GDEmu. That's the Gameplay Player one (I bought on eBay a couple years ago, I think it's a Japanese Gameboy Player but they are not region locked. most of them don't come with the disc these days). And yes, that's the controller. I couldn't use the d-pad on the regular GC controller for playing more than a minute or two, it uh is too small for me.
The other GC is just standard lol.
Safe partner is a Goemon enjoyer, waow...
I like the music <3
The kit is supposed to make it CHEAPER! Death to amerikkka!!!!!!
I don't know much about speaker prices, but according to my dad I did save a ton of money, even with all that. It's just ... they were over $1k CAD... that's a lot of money. Luckily they sound good and we use them literally every day. (I move the record player back downstairs lol, sounds good)
got her some custom pads for them.
nice sick, I'm still using the standards.
I do understand the fun in cranking a system now and then but all of my stereos are kept pretty quiet honestly.
I'm very of bothering people with my noise (possibly because I am very sensitive to noise), esp when I used to live in apartments. Now I like in a full asshouse, so ... no excuse for keeping it quiet lol, but I still do, I feel like the only time I turn it up is if something is 100% my jam. Like Ristar.
I gotta tell you a secret though, while I calibrate my 5.1 speakers I only do it by ear and they're never matched. My surround setups are cobbled together from thrift store junk honestly. For cables I usually run em along the baseboards, and failing that I tack em to the ceiling lol.
Damn that's fucking sick actually. I always did it by "science," (I had a Denon receiver that would calibrate things based on the room and a mic) that was probably the issue.
I usually crank the center because the mixing on Amerikkkan shit in particular is soooooo bad.
This is the kind of out-of-the-box thinking I need to hear in order to aid my relapse. lol. "You can just ... turn one channel up to compensate for how it's supposed to sound sucking??)" seriously why didn't I think of that
Well y'know u rite, it is extremely cool, I miss design like that y'know...
same
Helps it's great as an amp but the 5 band eq is actually really handy, if an album is bass-shy you can just do a quick and dirty fix.
yeah totally, I would do so much tweaking. I actually have the bass/treble knobs on my current amp set right to middle for some reason, haven't felt the need to change them. I guess I'm a bit of a Neutral Enjoyer.
I do have a Pioneer VSX522 in the bedroom and a Denon AVR 1506 downstairs, it's not all PAINFULLY old but most of it is older than 20 years tbh.
Wait, 1506... WAIT, I-I think I had that one! I defs recognize the back panel, and the number, but it was a few years ago now ... wish I kept it lol, maybe somehow you ended up with it
Also, I am glad you know 2 Mello lol. I wish I had a vinyl of Tokyo-To. :::
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Also SMH SMH, of COURSE I have rewritable DVDs 😤
sick and based, actually!
I made both of my FreeMcBoot cards with my own FreeDVDBoot disc.
wow, I didn't actually get that far, I just use the patcher on the isos. I haven't tried anything more than that, I honestly couldn't find a guide I understood. all the terms seem a little ??? to me, like they're random letters.
Rhythm games, yeah I wouldn't emulate Project Diva on PSP for example...
I've never heard of this (looks it up) OH i should try this. I basically have not encountered Hatsune Miku at all until watching a YT video about the appeal and being like "cool, I should check it out"
I would have a real PS1 but there isn't an easy way to load backups.
Yeah, I lucked out that I went to buy one from the retro game store downtown and they were like "we should warn you, this one has a modchip. We didn't know until after we bought it." I don't think they literally winked, but they should have. It works great, but burning discs is finnicky for the PSX because the laser is really weird. Slowest my burner can go is 16x, and usually one burn will be unreadable.
I have an MX4SIO for each PS2 I own lol
Oh, I just looked this up, that looks neat. I should look into this further... Does this work with FreeMcBoot?
north american scart...
we use scart for ps1, genesis, snes, saturn, ps2, and dreamcast. they are new cables, people are making them for some reason lol
ALL ORIGINAL NO ENHANCEMENTS which I usually use when playing games via Wiistation on a CRT at true 240p
damn, I didn't know the Wii could emulate PSX, that's cool, are you using Wii U for it?
Otherwise I'm not against enhancements, like wobble correction and high res can be cool, I'm not super fussed though. Dithering can stay, it's fine.
Yeah, sometimes I watch people play PSX games and the high res and wobble correction is fascinating and easy to watch, but I feel like wobble+dither+240p all together makes for such a vibe I just can't resist it. Like, it all fits together in my mind so well.
I get why people upscale N64/PS2 games too, but ... most of the time, I want to play it as original, I guess. We occasionally do a OOT randomizer seed (OOTMM is probably too hard for us casuals btw) and we defs load it on the Everdrive, even if that makes the D-pad hard to reach. there's something magical about it to us.
That being said, as a tiny enby I definitely played a ton of snes games in zsnes on keyboard, wow the platformers are hard on keyboard lol.
you could buy an S-video cable when the mega drive was new, so even back then not everyone was seeing the alpha blended " transparencies". If the devs' genuine intent was that RF or composite was the best video you'd see them with, those devs are fools, S-video was right there.
yeah, that's a good point!
I just think it's silly, like "yeah for the full experience pls use the video cable that makes it look like a scruffy video tape". For that I'd rather use a blaarg filter.
Yeah, I don't like the composite blur when I'm playing generally, even if it's like the Genesis. I do like scanlines tho, helps with the harshness of pixels, the retrotink 5x has like a bit of CRT phosphor sim, but it's basic, nothing as complicated at the shaders and simulations you can get with Retroarch, or various emulators (such as blaarg) :::
Yeah I agree. Once I get over the hump of re-learning the controls I bet I'd enjoy it too. I could modpack even on the SD, I bet.
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