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Silly Newbie
Jul 25, 2007
How do I?

nurmie posted:

lmao how is this so bad on so many levels

recording quality aside - and yeah it does sound like it's been recorded in a living room on a zoom from a distance of 5 metres, which *can* work with some songs/genres/vocalists but certaintly doesn't with this one - she's just not a very good singer. what's worse though, she runs headfirst into an issue that plagues many a musician with mediocre technical ability (full disclosure - i'm also a musician with mediocre technical ability :v:) - i don't think she *knows* she's mediocre. at least that's the vibe i'm getting from how she flaunts her vibrato, drenching every single note in what amounts to musical mud

like, she doesn't even try to work around her limited technique, or actually use it to better express the emotional content of the song (as many brilliant singers with limited technical ability can do). there isn't much dynamic range or nuanced expression going on - she just belches out every single note in all caps, full vibrato, because as we all know the louder you sing the more EMOTIVE you are. it's just not very tasteful, imo


Outside of tortured vibrato, it feels like musical poisoning. Like live musicals. Not understanding that you have to really belt that out to be heard and understood unmicced across an entire theater, and it's not good for any other kind of performance.

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SurreptitiousMuffin
Mar 21, 2010
I'm having high-school musical theatre flashbacks, she's got eponine in a mediocre local production of les mis written all over her, she got the role because she's the only one who can hold That One Note and for no other reason

Pookah
Aug 21, 2008

🪶Caw🪶





One of those YouTube voice coach/singer reviewers did a video about Abby Shapiro, and while the reviewer did go out of her way not to be mean, she basically said that vocally, Abby does pretty much everything in the most awkward, voice-straining way possible.

lobsterminator
Oct 16, 2012





Silly lady. If you want to talk smack about the nordics, don't say the houses are poorly heated. Northern houses are built for cold. What we suck at is cooling in the summer.

Very few houses have AC unless they are really new.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer
You freeze every winter and the population is only maintained by survivors crawling to bad inefficient national health care facilities that have blankets (bad cheap ones)

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Regarde Aduck posted:

You freeze every winter and the population is only maintained by survivors crawling to bad inefficient national health care facilities that have blankets (bad cheap ones)

Enough about my Frostpunk city

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Oh no the worst thing I can imagine, small houses.

No really we all want to live in one of those horrible yank mcmansions with massive empty spaces full of poo poo nobody uses.

lobsterminator
Oct 16, 2012




OwlFancier posted:

Oh no the worst thing I can imagine, small houses.

No really we all want to live in one of those horrible yank mcmansions with massive empty spaces full of poo poo nobody uses.

I've lived in smallish homes my whole life and even when I play Sims I end up making a cozy small house. Which makes the game a bit boring after a while because the general progress they assume is that you make more money and build a larger house. But like what do you need space for? It's just more rooms you need to clean.

The actual things you use and need in life fit in a pretty small space.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Exactly, bedroom, lavvy, kitchen, that'll do me fine.

Fishstick
Jul 9, 2005

Does not require preheating

OwlFancier posted:

Oh no the worst thing I can imagine, small houses.

No really we all want to live in one of those horrible yank mcmansions with massive empty spaces full of poo poo nobody uses.

But how will you cope if not every single member of your household has their own bathroom?

gbut
Mar 28, 2008

😤I put the UN🇺🇳 in 🎊FUN🎉


Does living American dream count if you have a full bathroom per adult, but only a half bathroom per child?

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness

RatHat posted:

https://twitter.com/ff14forums_txt/status/1468309351320498186?s=20

Technically it’s only on Twitter by proxy but still can’t not share this hot take
cspam crosspost because someone else did the "going to the lodestone" work but I can't not post it

dimhue posted:

Even this dude's character reeks of libertarian


seriously look at him, he made the most libertarian looking idiot imaginable

acyclicity
Oct 27, 2008

A curious little mouse!
When I was living in Denmark, not only did I have a bathroom all to myself, but it actually had a heated floor. Such decadence!

The US might be a nice place to live if you're rich, but so many basic necessities (medicine, education, transportation internet, etc.) are priced like costly luxuries that having slightly lower taxes than the more "socialist" European countries doesn't nearly make up for it.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

acyclicity posted:

When I was living in Denmark, not only did I have a bathroom all to myself, but it actually had a heated floor. Such decadence!

The US might be a nice place to live if you're rich, but so many basic necessities (medicine, education, transportation internet, etc.) are priced like costly luxuries that having slightly lower taxes than the more "socialist" European countries doesn't nearly make up for it.

School. (Even if you're not going to school yourself, you have to LIVE IN A SOCIETY where people have gone to school.)

Seth Pecksniff
May 27, 2004

can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

DACK FAYDEN posted:

cspam crosspost because someone else did the "going to the lodestone" work but I can't not post it

seriously look at him, he made the most libertarian looking idiot imaginable

Lmao I want to find him in game and just yell at him constantly about how he looks dumb as poo poo

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo
Having been poor on both sides of the Atlantic, central cooling and not having to share a bathroom with someone you aren't loving are nice. Necessary, no.* Nice, yes.

*climate change is kinda loving with this- heat waves in Europe and the north american north killing loads of housed old, as well as homeless of all ages, people every year is not going away in our lifetimes.

But good lord, living in a cheapo apartment in Toulouse, built for 1800s med climate, I spent the whole summer in my underwear fanning myself like a southern dandy and sure missed lovely Texas apartments that have central cooling because otherwise all the renters would die in their homes. It's liveable, being young and allowed to go naked around my own apartment, but still.

Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 13:49 on Dec 8, 2021

gbut
Mar 28, 2008

😤I put the UN🇺🇳 in 🎊FUN🎉


Would trade my frozen ballsickles for sweaty Mediterranean ballfigs any time.

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?

DACK FAYDEN posted:

cspam crosspost because someone else did the "going to the lodestone" work but I can't not post it

seriously look at him, he made the most libertarian looking idiot imaginable

I bet his character brags about being in whatever that game's version of MENSA is. Also nice empty Trapper Keeper you got there, pal.

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020

Okay, deal!

Cleretic
Feb 3, 2010


Ignore my posts!
I'm aggressively wrong about everything!

Scratch Monkey posted:

I bet his character brags about being in whatever that game's version of MENSA is. Also nice empty Trapper Keeper you got there, pal.

The expansion is partly about going to an island that basically is the game's version of MENSA.

Dynastocles
May 29, 2009

"If you'll excuse me, my dinner time is six o'clock. Only gangsters eat at 9 o'clock, after some bootlegging and a hot game of craps."

https://twitter.com/StefComedyJam/status/1468401083005513739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Danaru
Jun 5, 2012

何 ??

Oh wow it gets way worse and way transphobic the further down you go :gonk:

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

🤗YOU'RE WELCOME🤗

Danaru posted:

Oh wow it gets way worse and way transphobic the further down you go :gonk:

Not gonna lie I read it as "trains" the first time

Dynastocles
May 29, 2009

"If you'll excuse me, my dinner time is six o'clock. Only gangsters eat at 9 o'clock, after some bootlegging and a hot game of craps."

Idiots on Social Media: Taste MY Rainbow

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo
I had the brainblast as soon as she suggested she could identify a latina woman by looks, I'm not clicking, I don't want to see how much worse it gets

Tenebrais
Sep 2, 2011

"Are you calling me racist just because I'm white?" I say, at the end of my ranked list of races by fuckability

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?

iwentdoodie posted:

Not gonna lie I read it as "trains" the first time

Understandable. Trains is a hard job

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
You call me racist but some of my favorite fetiishes are ethnic

Dr. Stab
Sep 12, 2010
👨🏻‍⚕️🩺🔪🙀😱🙀
What gets me is the "have not tried yet." It's not just that she has a fetish for skin colour, but that she is judging partners by sexual ability and then thinking "now I know how good all black women are at loving." It's way more dehumanizing this way.

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat
Sex partners are pokemon.

HenryJLittlefinger
Jan 31, 2010

stomp clap


Dynastocles posted:

Idiots on Social Media: Taste MY Rainbow

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I am the race mixing terminator except for loving, this is what progressivism looks like.

RoboRodent
Sep 19, 2012

Literally this:

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Danaru posted:

Oh wow it gets way worse and way transphobic the further down you go :gonk:

The bottom three aren't her least favorite races/genders. They're ones she hasn't been with but is open to being with one.

GreenMetalSun
Oct 12, 2012
Wanting to have sex with someone is not progressive, nor is it or any form of allyship - look at how many violent misogynists sleep with, date, and marry women, for example.

See also: fandom shippers who are like, ‘How can I be homophobic, all of my favourite ships are gay ones!?’

Kevin DuBrow
Apr 21, 2012

The uruk-hai defender has logged on.
I was about to applaud how not racist this lady is but I realized she hasn't had sex with any Pacific Islanders. loving racist.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

GreenMetalSun posted:

Wanting to have sex with someone is not progressive, nor is it or any form of allyship - look at how many violent misogynists sleep with, date, and marry women, for example.

See also: fandom shippers who are like, ‘How can I be homophobic, all of my favourite ships are gay ones!?’

Chasers loving suck

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

And not in a good fun way

flavor.flv
Apr 18, 2008

I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches




I got to see this rebuttal used unironically in the wild today



Never did I think I'd see somebody try to take the moral high ground after getting called out with bidoof's law

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Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


nurmie posted:

lmao how is this so bad on so many levels

recording quality aside - and yeah it does sound like it's been recorded in a living room on a zoom from a distance of 5 metres, which *can* work with some songs/genres/vocalists but certaintly doesn't with this one - she's just not a very good singer. what's worse though, she runs headfirst into an issue that plagues many a musician with mediocre technical ability (full disclosure - i'm also a musician with mediocre technical ability :v:) - i don't think she *knows* she's mediocre. at least that's the vibe i'm getting from how she flaunts her vibrato, drenching every single note in what amounts to musical mud

like, she doesn't even try to work around her limited technique, or actually use it to better express the emotional content of the song (as many brilliant singers with limited technical ability can do). there isn't much dynamic range or nuanced expression going on - she just belches out every single note in all caps, full vibrato, because as we all know the louder you sing the more EMOTIVE you are. it's just not very tasteful, imo

She's also really bad at changing registers, and her top voice sounds unlike (better than) her middle voice.

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