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My grandmother played on it a lot before she passed away. It's well out of tune now but I still remember some of the old ditties she'd hammer out while I was trying to study, haha.

And eh, aunt gets a piano and we get a place to live. Asian families. Woo.

I used to work at Gibson and used to hear the calls from the guys next to me from customers calling about pianos. Don't worry about getting it in perfect tune. Just get it in tune with itself to not stress the soundboard.

I'm showing my ignorance but youcsnyou can stress the sound board (looked it up) that way? Yikes. Might have to call in a pro to help with.

So not just 2 hours of people abusing a mentally ill man? The trailer makes the movie look depressing.

@PTS the movie definitely has a lot of that. I'm in the psych field so was leery about gratuity there as well, but putting the fact that I'm easily irritated by how mental illness is often portrayed in cinema aside, the film was just great at pulling on the right strings to keep me on seat's edge.

The movie is definitely a downer by the way, so if you're the type who has strong empathy definitely stay away from this one.

I just happen to have a thing for films that take an effort to watch. They do a better job drawing you in, counterintuitively enough.

I like Violator from the 80’s/90’s era but their last album “Spirit” from 2017 is really good too.

Sigh. Fine I'm queueing them up on Spotify now. Will probably wait til I get home though, just so I have the decent system at hand. GBuds on loan to a friend so I'm stuck with cruddy IEMs on the go.

In other news, about to watch Joker. Hyped!

@DigMe - 4 decades and still churning out excellent albums.

Add: when you use the micro iDSD for the first time in ages and mistake the gain switch for the filter toggle.

Holy shit my ears. Good thing it was just a second or two but wow.

Hot cocoa weather in the Philippines... does that mean under 30C? :)

26°C, good call! But yeah humidity is at 87% which is miserable. Also two blackouts i.e. unscheduled DAC power cycles today so far. Woo.

Weird system. In the US it's so different depending on the state.

Seven. Fucking. Hours. There goes Saturday.

Book is Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. I'm still a fan of this books even though they're kinda junk food as far as literature goes. Went wtf and teared up in public at some parts. I get attached to (... or Invested in) fictional characters way too easily.

Nope seems like things are completely fubbered. Shit.

I'll keep that in mind if I start feeling under ill. Thanks for the heads up @Syzygy!

Your scar will bring you more ladies, if you know what I mean...

Badass facial scars are one thing, but these are literally just five (I recounted) puncture wounds. Could have been in an altercation with a lola in the middle of stitching a hem for all anyone knows :))

Not I...mobile. or PC

Was probably cruddy wifi earlier. Back home and all's well.

... I might have gotten my magazines mixed up but eh, still makes for a good laugh at the end of it :))))

LOL! May you one day achieve your dream job.

I have to admit I walked right into that one. Not my fault I got those dumpster-stuffers you old coots salivated over mixed up cuz they have similar names :P

Haha, Ch1 was at least better at building tension IMO. This one, not so much.

I thought it was a real letdown. The club just wasn't very interesting as adults. Except Bill Hader.

It wasn't a great film but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get some genuine laughs out of me. Specifically referring to the shower scene at the hotel.

The gang grew up and grew old, I think it was a realistic portrayal considering what's been established.

SBAF compensation pending minor tweaks. Bass is a bit muddier, but not enough to make me hate it. Still damn good quality. Bit of heavier rumble in subbass makes it fun. Doesn't actually sound this elevated though. Used a weak glue stick to adhere felt disc directly onto driver mesh, 6.5kHz elevation does stick out but is less painful than stock sizzle where everything >6kHz was hot.

[measurement extremist]: Define 'small'. Measure with AP555.

Missed the thread, and not sorry it's closed, but one reason that the A man probably hates SBAF is that we refused to engage with him. He could troll hydrogenaudio easily and horribly, but SBAF just said, "No thanks, go away."

I doubt that he forgives easily.

Don't you mean "a pee-pee 555"?

What happened to your name, man? I want the old one back

Sorry man, I kinda really like this one and it's at least consistent elsewhere (and doesn't sound like... liar).

Just kiddin, mate. Love the new name lol

3:25 into this one, minor throat catch/gasp. In hindsight it sticks out like a sore thumb. No change to gear sans a big Win10 update (lol): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFLMHPRoTcA

Or it could just be I actually notice more minutiae when I'm not forcing myself to focus. Happens surprisingly often, especially with stuff I've been listening to for ages. My attention is weird.

My teeth look like Tom Waits

I'm imagining the dentist looking into @Wilson's mouth and a bunch of Tom Waits heads singing back, "Hey, there! EYEBALL KID!"

Butt tattoo of the flag was probably a bad idea, in hindsight. Get it? Hind sight? Yeah.

Hah! There's an idea, cost of dental work is bad enough I'm actually tempted XD

Same exact reaction as DigMe, that... is nightmare fuel, Wilson :))

How could they improve it? I dunno...they're the wizards. Not me :P

Just realised I was unclear. I meant, like what aspects of performance might need fine tuning, haha. Not gotten ears on one yet, but reports of grainy treble might be most worrisome?

Yep, it was just a hair too dry for me, but the somewhat holographic soundstage was something special compared to the rest of their amps.

It's also currently ruled out for me because I'm tied to the balanced outputs on my Gungnir Multibit. But that could change with the new Bifrost...

Grazie! Happy to report I'm not as dumb as I'd suspected, haha.

Congratulations nerdy pickachu!

Thanks, philosophising Cheshire!

Hah, as expected of a good parent :)

Honestly, with the exception of Miyazaki, Hosoda, Shinkai, and a few others who make "classics", every anime I like almost always has to have trope or fanservice-related caveats tacked on, it sucks. Notable example, I love Grimgar but hesitate to talk about it for the creepy sexualisation.

I miss the days of Kino's Journey, Wolf's Rain, Ergo Proxy, Yugo the Negotiator, etc.

@Lyer25 Haha I see, my dad and I talk stuff out like that all the time so maybe that's why I don't find anything weird about it.

@obsiCO haha, depends on the family, yeah. I get along with my parents but seldom delve into topics like this so it came off as a bit hammy, but makes sense to me that it's par for the course for others.

For the record no potatoes were purchased recently and the family needs to exhaust other ingredients first. I am sad because I've been craving taters for weeks now :((

I'm sorry to hear you can't get your carbohydrate fix yet :(

Hah! I mean, there's rice (there's always rice), but rice isn't potatoes. You can quote me on that.