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TheMightyBoops posted:This seems like a relevant place to ask this: I've had a pair of raycon sport for just about a year and the right earbud is basically as good as new and the left earbud has about an hour of battery on a full charge. I'm looking for new ones but I guess no wireless earbuds are designed to last more than a year.
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Apr 21, 2023 15:45
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Ghostlight posted:they were originally one of those channels that debunks mlms, which i watched a few of, but after that well dried they pivoted to just general commentary, which they are not very good at. i watched their one on the nz gloriavale cult because i'm from nz and it was just terribly researched, total surface-level commentary below even that you'd find in a local newspaper, and very obviously just trying to take advantage of it being in the headlines at the time; which i know because it is titled "the cult that preyed on children" as the headlines were about historic sexual abuse allegations but the cult was not only active and still abusing people when the video was made, it's still active and generating abuse allegations to this very day. true, I remember when she tried branching out into weird interesting places around the world, and just completely whiffed it. her bermuda triangle video was the dumbest poo poo, but her approach at research (none) made the video great comedy, at several points for eexample she brought up stories her "research" couldn't find a mundane explanation for, and her final conclusion was basically "forget everything I said, the Bermuda triangle is a scam, gently caress you for watching" like fair enough, but why would you leave poo poo in your video that violently conflicts with your conclusion? that entire video seemed like a parody of these kinds of essays, the ending was basically like an unintended copy of the joke reviews Spoony would sometimes put into his videos  after that clunker, I slowly stopped watching her videos, since after that, what other dumb poo poo is hidden in her other videos where I don't know as much about the subject matter?
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Apr 21, 2023 16:00
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rodbeard posted:I've had a pair of raycon sport for just about a year and the right earbud is basically as good as new and the left earbud has about an hour of battery on a full charge. I'm looking for new ones but I guess no wireless earbuds are designed to last more than a year. I had some Altec Lansing ones I lost that were surprisingly good.
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Apr 21, 2023 16:09
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I've had really good luck with BeatsX and now the Beats Flex. My Flex last a whole day of podcasts and conference calls and a quick to recharge to a usable level if I forget.
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Apr 21, 2023 16:31
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IShallRiseAgain posted:New Ahoy Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4EFkspO5p4 about pixel art of a burger. I love that this didn't come out April 1st so you know it rules
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Apr 21, 2023 17:05
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TheMightyBoops posted:I had some Altec Lansing ones I lost that were surprisingly good. Yeah I have one of their speakers and the battery is still pretty good and it never lets me forget what the brand name is when I turn it on lol.
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Apr 21, 2023 17:31
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Pachylad posted:The Michael Moore school of documentary editing? Lance, noo  I guess a lot of people really will defend their associates from pretty much anything, irrespective of if they're actually right.
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Apr 21, 2023 18:42
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YouTube recommended me this pretty good deep dive on the infamous Peter Molyneux Project Milo demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUL8UDVVJSA
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Apr 21, 2023 18:45
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IShallRiseAgain posted:New Ahoy Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4EFkspO5p4 about pixel art of a burger.
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Apr 21, 2023 19:35
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Also about that meal kit thing. If a company sponsors a youtube ad, you can pretty much assume the product is poo poo. (except for maybe a VPN, but even those are pretty misleading). Most of the VPN's that sponsor videos are at least actually VPN's and if you buy them will function perfectly fine as a VPN, but yeah their marketing is super deceptive and implies you can make yourself totally anonymous just by toggling on a VPN, as if data scraping only operated off your IP address and nothing else. In a non-enterprise context you really only need a VPN for two things: spoofing your location to access geo-blocked content, and if you're torrenting copyrighted content. I use exactly one of these advertises on Youtube services, and it's Trade. Costs $15-20 bucks a bag and every 3 weeks I get sent freshly roasted bag of third wave coffee, often from roasters I'd never have the chance or means to go visit. Also key: it's really not that much more expensive than buying similar coffee directly from a roaster, since they generally charge $12-18 per bag. rodbeard posted:I'm looking for new ones but I guess no wireless earbuds are designed to last more than a year. Yeah it sucks, I'd legit pay a premium for decent quality wireless earbuds but all of it is cheap low quality crap. I guess AirPods are supposed to be nice but I'm on android and apparently while you can get them to work it's kinda finicky.
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Apr 21, 2023 19:38
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Sydin posted:Yeah it sucks, I'd legit pay a premium for decent quality wireless earbuds but all of it is cheap low quality crap. I guess AirPods are supposed to be nice but I'm on android and apparently while you can get them to work it's kinda finicky. I've put my Sony buds through hell (so many drops into puddles) and they still sound great 3 years later. not a bad alternative to AirPods imo https://electronics.sony.com/audio/headphones/truly-wireless-earbuds/p/wf1000xm4-b
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Apr 21, 2023 19:59
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Famethrowa posted:I've put my Sony buds through hell (so many drops into puddles) and they still sound great 3 years later. not a bad alternative to AirPods imo Cheers, I'll give them a look.
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Apr 21, 2023 20:17
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Angryhead posted:Great idea, great execution. Ahoy still the top voice in the game.
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Apr 21, 2023 20:23
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TheMightyBoops posted:I think the pyramid YouTuber is good at choosing topics, and I don’t think they’re a bad person, but based on their scripts they’ve always come off as kinda dumb. My rule of thumb is that if a product or service has to consistently hammer you with advertisements, well after it's been established, then you're paying for the costs of those advertisements and not the quality. The best stuff usually has no need to hire a small army of influences to hawk itself.
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Apr 21, 2023 20:27
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:There's no arguing that he has a great voice in the videos, but you can do a lot with a good microphone and even the tiniest amount of post-processing. Very true. I've used NVIDIA Broadcast for this a fair bit. When it works it's great but there seem to be a lot of weird bugs with it that either drop my volume or add weird gaps. Hopefully it will get better in time. Audacity works fine for most things as ever.
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Apr 21, 2023 20:27
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Famethrowa posted:I've put my Sony buds through hell (so many drops into puddles) and they still sound great 3 years later. not a bad alternative to AirPods imo I have the xm3 and they are still going strong a couple years later. Still hold a good charge with both the buds and case.
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Apr 21, 2023 20:33
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Sardonik posted:Very true. I've used NVIDIA Broadcast for this a fair bit. When it works it's great but there seem to be a lot of weird bugs with it that either drop my volume or add weird gaps. Hopefully it will get better in time. Audacity works fine for most things as ever. If you're any kind of a computer toucher with a bit of audio experience, you can do a much better job. Processing audio at realtime is not very computationally expensive.
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Apr 21, 2023 20:48
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rodbeard posted:I've had a pair of raycon sport for just about a year and the right earbud is basically as good as new and the left earbud has about an hour of battery on a full charge. I'm looking for new ones but I guess no wireless earbuds are designed to last more than a year. When I was looking for some earbuds, I went asking on Reddit of all places and got recommended some Samsung Galaxy Earbuds and those have been working for me for 2 years now. But I got those for like 50$ off a Walmart deal and they're all like 200$ now so I assume they're either somewhat discontinued or outdated by a new model or something.
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Apr 21, 2023 21:27
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Nvidia broadcast is mostly a gimmick about making it easy for the average gamer. 
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Apr 21, 2023 21:35
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Sardonik posted:If I asked you for your 'plugin' would you accuse me of plagiarism? 
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Apr 21, 2023 22:27
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gently caress all that talk about bad videos, there's a new bobbybroccoli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ett_8wLJ87U e: yessss it starts with the george bush human cloning speech
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Apr 22, 2023 00:03
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Sardonik posted:Lance, noo He deleted it. What was there before hand? What lovely take did Lance have that he realized he probably shouldn't have?
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Apr 22, 2023 00:58
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Wait, I had a bad video question. Is this guy anything special in the conspiracy sky mystery side of youtube or is this like, the top of the pile? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpftQ0G-4nM
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Apr 22, 2023 01:04
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nine-gear crow posted:He deleted it. What was there before hand? What lovely take did Lance have that he realized he probably shouldn't have? The one in my post was Lance going "love you as a fan but this is some shady poo poo". He apparently had an earlier tweet he made that prolly similarly took illuminaughtii's side as well but deleted that before this one. Guessing he deleted this now that people are catching on to it too lol. And retweeting her tweets on his feed like it's no big deal, guessing their PR method is now "pray that everyone forgets the big fuckup here"
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Apr 22, 2023 01:13
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nine-gear crow posted:He deleted it. What was there before hand? What lovely take did Lance have that he realized he probably shouldn't have? He went in defense of the actual plagiarist, calling the rebuttals "a bad look" Edit: I guess there were two!
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Apr 22, 2023 01:13
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Pachylad posted:The one in my post was Lance going "love you as a fan but this is some shady poo poo". He apparently had an earlier tweet he made that prolly similarly took illuminaughtii's side as well but deleted that before this one. Only saw that one you mentioned first, thought it was a bit like 'Wow, dude can't believe you just stole their poo poo like that. Zoom in on a bookshelf in the back of his room Wow, you have a bookshelf too? How much do you have to steal from this poor small time youtuber smh'
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Apr 22, 2023 01:28
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RareAcumen posted:Wait, I had a bad video question. Is this guy anything special in the conspiracy sky mystery side of youtube or is this like, the top of the pile?
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Apr 22, 2023 01:39
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Sydin posted:Yeah it sucks, I'd legit pay a premium for decent quality wireless earbuds but all of it is cheap low quality crap. I guess AirPods are supposed to be nice but I'm on android and apparently while you can get them to work it's kinda finicky.
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Apr 22, 2023 13:13
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tinaun posted:gently caress all that talk about bad videos, there's a new bobbybroccoli: The second half of this is already up on Nebula, if anyone has that and is impatient to watch the rest.
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Apr 22, 2023 16:35
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Mr.Radar posted:YouTube recommended me this pretty good deep dive on the infamous Peter Molyneux Project Milo demo: It's interesting to learn that it was actually a game that was under development. I thought that demo was a complete fabrication all these years, well it still was but you know. I completely missed that he demoed the game at TED and just assumed that the only footage of it was from E3.
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Apr 22, 2023 20:29
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One thing that I feel like the video failed to mention is that the Kinect (Project Natal) was a huge grift overall. Project Milo was kinda special in its bullshit but still not an apple falling too far from its tree.
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Apr 22, 2023 20:48
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As an update on a prior discussion, I went and watched that video Barely Sociable did about "The Dark Side of the Music Industry" and yeah it's weird. Like 60% of it is perfectly credible breakdowns of the history of organized crime ties to the music industry. Then he does a song and dance that comes just shy of saying every tragic OD or suicide was a mob hit to cash in on insurance payouts and music sale bumps, but close enough that you know what he's getting at. And also a frankly absurd bit of string-on-cork-board analyzing how apparently so many musicians talk about taking "deals with the devil" and "Faustian bargains" like those aren't exceptionally common poetic expressions used every time someone knows they're compromising themselves dealing with some corporation or shady group. It's like he had some pretty interesting but well-trod true crime research done around how the music industry is corrupt, but felt like needed to spice it up or pad it out a bit with some flimsy conspiracy stuff. It's not the worst thing but yeah it does wade way deeper into speculative crap than the other videos of his usually go. It probably does say something that he said he was planning follow up videos and none of those have materialized 10 months after that one.
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Apr 22, 2023 21:10
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Like, yeah, the 27 Club and related stories is an interesting *concept* but that does not belong in a serious retrospective on the music industry.
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Apr 22, 2023 21:16
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Symbolic Butt posted:One thing that I feel like the video failed to mention is that the Kinect (Project Natal) was a huge grift overall. Project Milo was kinda special in its bullshit but still not an apple falling too far from its tree. it was mentioned that by commercial launch the kinect was utterly trashed to cut costs
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Apr 22, 2023 21:30
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Mr.Radar posted:YouTube recommended me this pretty good deep dive on the infamous Peter Molyneux Project Milo demo: It's kinda eerie how the final version of Project Milo (presumably the closest Lionhead ever got the concept to a playable game) is basically a Telltale game. No, Kenny is not going to remember that, it's not going to mean poo poo.
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Apr 22, 2023 21:46
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Coney, the Smash commentator, did a thing about past E3s and talked about Peter Moleneux and described him as "the greatest trickster videogames have ever known" and it makes me laugh anytime I think about it
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Apr 22, 2023 22:12
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Macaluso posted:Coney, the Smash commentator, did a thing about past E3s and talked about Peter Moleneux and described him as "the greatest trickster videogames have ever known" and it makes me laugh anytime I think about it I remember really loving a thing in an old E3 thread here where a dedicated goon just went back through years of old E3 presentations. It was amazing how many presentations ended up being total vaporware or forgotten trash once you sat down and kept count.
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Apr 22, 2023 22:20
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Nuns with Guns posted:It's like he had some pretty interesting but well-trod true crime research done around how the music industry is corrupt, but felt like needed to spice it up or pad it out a bit with some flimsy conspiracy stuff. It's not the worst thing but yeah it does wade way deeper into speculative crap than the other videos of his usually go. It probably does say something that he said he was planning follow up videos and none of those have materialized 10 months after that one. Yeah, I think it didn't get the reaction he hoped, especially for the credibility hit he took. Most of his stuff usually lays out the mystery and then debunks how it's a scary mystery and you can just, like, call the hotel and ask about the room they're supposed to refuse to talk about. I was waiting for the turn on it, and when I didn't get it, it felt really odd. I almost felt bamboozled! Like I thought I'd be getting a look into the history around crime and music and instead got a conspiracy about musicians getting murdered on purpose.
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Apr 22, 2023 22:25
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:I remember really loving a thing in an old E3 thread here where a dedicated goon just went back through years of old E3 presentations. It was amazing how many presentations ended up being total vaporware or forgotten trash once you sat down and kept count. Any chance you remember which thread this was?
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Apr 22, 2023 22:31
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RatHat posted:Any chance you remember which thread this was? Quick Google search of the site isn't helping. It would have just been a pre-E3 megathread in Games from several years ago, sadly they didn't make it its own thread, it was just threaded in with other discussion. I also don't want to overhype it, I just remember a lot of stuff that was funny in retrospect. Like Haze getting a ridiculous amount of press in the run up to its release alongside pitches that just fell apart before release. The concept was doing a write-up of each segment of the presentations, then covering how the game was received on release and what features actually made it.
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