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Why does everyone hate TV Tropes so much? I just discovered it a year ago and I love it. I've been talking to people about all these things forever, and used to make my own poorly organized databases of examples of these tropes. The articles on the site are also pretty well written. I've never seen anyone here explain WHY they hate it so much, but there is a lot of side admonishments toward the site.
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Is there something like a comprehensive somethingawful timeline somewhere? I've been reading through the SAclopedia, some writeups on wikipedia and knowyourmeme, various rants on reddit and other places, but I am hoping maybe there is just a singular, simple list of significant events that brought somethingawful to where it is today. I was a member here from somewhere around early to mid 2000, back before we even used these forums. I was only a 15 year old reclusive introverted angry kid then, and somethingawful really helped reinforce those attitudes and led me to become the reclusive introverted angry adult I am today. Anyway, in late 2006 I had myself a little vacation and didn't get to see the Internet again until about a year ago. A lot has changed during that time (youtube is no longer solely serving videos of college kids vomiting, for instance) and it's going to take me a while to figure all that out (Facebook looks just like myspace except I can't embed my Guns n Roses music on my profile so I don't get why it's popular) but I thought -- well, foolishly, I thought SA might not have changed. But gently caress, a LOT has changed. SA was this hyper elitist group of angry nerds who had severe standards for grammar and post-posterity. It was a place where I would read funny stories and look at funny images that my non-SA friends would forward to me from ebaumsworld two weeks later. Even during my vacation, I started seeing SA creep into the real world. Chuck Norris jokes, the white Impact font with the black border that I always associated with SA (I know SA didn't own the font or anything, but I generally assumed -- correctly, most of the time! -- that if I was forwarded some dumb picture with that font/color combination, it originated from SA) and other things. Since my old account used an e-mail address long since defunct, I can't log into it anymore, so I forked over the  finally and got a new account. And poo poo, everything has changed. Well, some of the old familiar names are still here. But the tone has changed, the strict, almost fascist standards have fallen, it all seems to be made up of in-jokes and esoteric gibberish...I guess THAT hasn't changed, really, except now I don't know any of it. But I'm also reading some other weird stuff...like, a moderator raped an 8 year old girl? Lowtax got "weird" after Uwe Boll beat him up? Wars with reddit and tvtropes? FYAD is for some reason still here.Can someone catch me up? 
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Sep 16, 2016 13:38
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Namarrgon posted:Nothing of any significant consequence happened. This is just an internet forum. This is not JUST an Internet forum. This was my refuge as a teenager. I skipped going to my mom's funeral because there was some Bigpeeler drama going on.
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Does anyone know what kind of legalities are involved in creating a third party supplement to an existing product? Specifically, a friend and I have created this wonderful plastic overlay that you place over a Monopoly board. It adds a bunch of new property and some new gameplay elements, but it scales perfectly. We've played about thirty games on it and after a few tweeks we feel that it runs as well as if it had been there from the start. We're thinking of getting a bunch of these made and sold. They would be really cheap, since the only thing being manufactured is a plastic screen and a small handful of cards. But I'm wondering about the copyright issues. I'm thinking about Rifftrax, how the MST3K guys don't have to pay royalties because they're not selling any part of the movie -- they're just selling a vocal track you play OVER the movie. That's essentially what we're doing, but with a board game. But I don't know, sometimes these things are handled differently.
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Oct 4, 2016 11:42
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The Moon Monster posted:Do lots of people actually find clowns inherently scary or is it kind of like slenderman where they put in the effort to make themselves scared of them to fit in with a group? People have accused me of being afraid of clowns because of my reaction to them. I'm not AFRAID of them, but they do make me very uncomfortable. It has to do with the juxtaposition of real facial features with artificial expressions superimposed on them. It's different than, say, someone wearing a mask, although those make me uncomfortable, too. I am really, really bad at picking up on social cues, nuances and subtleties, though. Like, so bad that some people assume I'm autistic. So maybe it has something to do with my innate struggle to perceive normal facial expressions combined with this extra layer. I am probably more sensitive to most when it comes to this, but I suspect a great many people have varying degrees of whatever conditions surrounding this cause me discomfort, and for many some people it's so strong that it turns into an all-out fear. I should say, it's really only clowns that have a specific facial expression that make me uncomfortable. It has nothing to do with their outfits or the colors; it's strictly the big smiles or sad frown or whatever exaggeration the makeup causes. I'm not afraid of juggalos, for instance.
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I think this would go better in SH/SC but there isn't really a thread dedicated to it, it's too menial of a question to ask, and there's no general question thread, so I guess I'll try here? I finally got a smart phone. It's an Android somethingorother and it has a pedometer, I guess to let me know if there are pedos around. But it also counts my steps and the GPS knows where I've been. I was wondering if there were any fun "apps" that use this software in creative ways, like a game or something, something I can earn via just walking. I know Pokemon Go is the go-to for encouraging nerds to get out and walk, but Pokemon isn't my thing, and I walk everywhere anyway. I just want...I don't even know. Something more than just the calorie counter and step tracker the device came with. A kind of game would be best.
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While at work I was trying to find a free image hosting site that doesn't require an account (imgur for some reason doesn't work with Firefox on this computer) and I was almost fired when my search results came up with a slew of pornography. Has my computer been bizarrely compromised? This comes up with any browser, but ONLY in search engines Bing and Yahoo if I click on the "images" tab and have safe search off (Yahoo, I guess doesn't have safe search, and that's what I used the first time, and Bing only popped up with porn when I turned safe search off.) Google doesn't assault me with pornography. Does Yahoo remember your past searches and thus assumes any future searches are probably related to the same thing? Like, oh, you're looking for IMAGES, hmmmm? Images like THESE images? But I don't even use this computer for porn OR is this the Internet's secret stash of porn, cleverly hidden behind the facade of legitimate searches? I searched specifically for "image host," by the way. I guess I'm just wondering if other people get the same results, and I don't want to ask my girlfriend.
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That's good. I mean, good that nobody's been using my work computer for such purposes. But that's bizarre, anyway. Edit: Jesus loving Christ. credburn fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Dec 2, 2016 |
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Can someone recommend me a good alternative to Microsoft Excel that isn't cloud-based? I really love Excel, but I am no longer in a place where I can use it, thus I'm seeking out free alternatives. Open Office is a loving trainwreck. I'm having problems with certain functions and when I try and resolve them by looking them up online, I'm seeing people as far back as 2009 having the same problems which have yet to be patched out, yet. And Google Docs might be okay, but this computer is kind of a shitheep and doing things online is a chore. I can run applications installed to the computer just fine, but online poo poo (Google Drive, Mapquest, whatever) brings it to a crawl.
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Hey, I have a silly Excel question? Maybe? I'm trying to do something that I recall being very simple, but I learned on Excel 2007 and I'm using Excel 2003 now...I suspect this is still available, but it isn't in the same place, and I don't remember what it's called. I've written a script for a kind of play, and I've put it into Column A the names of the characters and in Column B their associated lines. It's written chronologically, but I want someone to be able to, via a drop-down menu at the top of the table select, say, Character A and it will display only lines for Character A. I swear this is simple. Help? EDIT: Neeeeevermind. This is a fancy feature from later Excels. credburn fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Jan 10, 2017 |
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Jan 10, 2017 13:56
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In Windows, I need to make about 138 subfolders. I have the list of what these names are in an Excel spreadsheet. Is there any easy way of saying, Hey you, computer, look at this loving list and make me a subfolder for each name?
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Jan 26, 2017 14:51
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Flipperwaldt posted:I'd basically make a new column prefixing the folder names with md (and put the folder name between quotes probably) and copy the contents of that to a batch file. Worked perfectly! Thanks for saving me from an hour and a half of tedium!
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Jan 27, 2017 05:25
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What does computer code look like in Japanese? And for that matter, what about in other languages? Does computer code transcend language?
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Jul 20, 2017 12:15
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Is there a way to see what new files have been added to my hard drive? For the last four days, it's just been filling up. It's a 220 GB hard drive, and I've got a few games on it, but when I tried to install a 20 GB game, it said I didn't have enough room. I freed up 20 GB, but when I tried to install the game, I had dropped below 20 gb again. I freed it up again, and opted not to install the game, and over the last four days my ~20 GB of free space has dwindled steadily until it's at 18 MB. Now most programs won't run, and I can't find anything new anywhere that explains why I'm losing hard drive space. It's an SSD; could it be a hardware failing? The drive appears to function otherwise.
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fishmech posted:Get WinDirStat, then tell it to look at your SSD. https://windirstat.net/download.html You'll get something like this: That is a fantastic program. It actually didn't help me in this problem, but I know of ways this is going to help me in the future. Figured out why my hard drive was filling up: Path of Exile needs to download itself all over again for a new updated. Rather than just delete itself and download the new version, or patch the old version, or just overwrite the old version, it needed to clear a 20+ GB place for itself, even though there wasn't 20 GB free. Blagh. Ah well.
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Have I been raped? For context: When I was about 17, I was working for a department store and lived about three miles away from it. One very cold December night, I was getting off work at about 11:30 PM, and a female friend wanted to give me a ride home (I wouldn't drive for like six more years). She drove us way past my apartment and we ended up way out in the middle of nowhere. She had this sort of crush on me, which I guess I kinda knew about but am usually oblivious to it...that's not really relevant, I guess? Anyway, she basically told me that she was going to suck my dick or I was going to walk home. At the time, I should say, I wasn't a virgin but I was going through a sort of identity thing and wasn't sure how I felt about people, male or female, and though I wasn't a virgin I definitely wasn't sexually active or interested. Anyway, I let her; all I had was a coat a vague idea of where town was. It would have taken hours to get home. At the time, I'm sure she was serious -- she later did some very weird stuff that indicates a kind of instability, so in retrospect I think she absolutely was serious and it was either this or walk. Yet how weird is it to say that, as a man, you've been raped because at 17 you let a hot girl suck you off?
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Is there a thread or place around here that might be appropriate for us autistic goons to uh, I don't know. Talk about numbers and poo poo? I'm desperate to talk to people having the same spergy shitfit over inconsequential things that I am.
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Many years ago, I took Spanish for a year with the full intention of learning it. Uh, I didn't. There was a question that always bothered me back then that still bothers me now and I just never really got around to asking it. When conjugating verbs to refer to the first person in present tense, you drop the yo ("I") and change the verb around so it ends in an O. So like, comer which means "to eat" becomes como which means "I eat." The question I have is that since you've conjugated the verb that way, yo is superfluous. I've never not had an instructor tell me to leave out the yo if I'm using first-person conjugated verbs. The problem is, I've lived with many Latinos and while I have a lot of trouble keeping up with what they're saying, I can definitely overhear them saying yo when it isn't needed. Okay, so I guess my question is this: how strict is the rule? Are these people adding yo because it's just lazy speaking? Is it a form of slang? Or was I wrong, and it's okay to add yo, even though it's redundant?
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Ras Het posted:You can use it for emphasis or clarification (since some subjects share some verb forms) and a ton of other reasons that they couldn't cover in your Spanish basics class Oh, right, emphasis, yes. That's one reason I thought would work. I speak some pretty rudimentary Spanish, but almost all my coworkers don't speak any English so we often get by with my vocabulary of twenty-five words and their vocabulary of a hundred words. One thing, I'm never comfortable just saying "se" (conjugated from "saber" or "to know") because it's a single syllable and that sound shows up a lot in Spanish. I always say yo se even though I'm not really emphasizing anything. Is that correct to do, or must I appear kind of silly? I'd ask my coworkers, but I'm not kidding when I say none of us are speaking the same language.
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I have a question about Alex Jones...but maybe the question applies to a more broad confusion I have regarding what people believe. I'm not political at all, and try to stay out of all that because it's just frustrating and makes me angry, but occasionally people send me clips of Alex Jones and the wacky things he says. At first I thought he was something of a Colbert Report satire of a Rush Limbaugh-type character, but I guess he's pretty legitimate? I mean, by that I mean, it's not meant to be a joke. Which is fine, I guess; I'm sure a lot of people think it's silly I watch my own left-leaning news sources. My question has to do with the very high volume of easily verifiable false or outrageously impossible claims, the bombastic way he delivers it, and the...well, the whole production of it. Like, even if, say, 30% of what he says is accurate (which I'm just picking a number at random but I think it's probably lower)... like, if I was watching something I watch that is left-leaning, like, Last Week Tonight, say, and John Oliver was just sweating and screaming and making claims that Trump rapes and eats babies but this was not accompanied by laughter or any indication he was joking, I don't think I would take anything else he had to say seriously, either. I hope I'm not offending anyone. I'm really not meaning to. I know the majority of goons here don't care for Alex Jones, but maybe there's someone who does and can explain this to me.
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Hey guys, I'm trying to figure out how to isolate a sound from a video game recording. I have some experience with Audacity, and I can find a lot of tutorials regarding vocal isolation and/or removal, but I'm trying to isolate sound effects -- I'm specifically trying to remove the music in the background. I think this can be done through some kind of subtractive editing -- I have the music sample, and I have the music sample I recorded with the sound effects. But I don't know how this is done, the tutorials I've viewed online aren't really that helpful or if they are they only talk about vocals which don't seem to work the same way as the weird Sega Genesis sound effects I'm trying to get. I know this is probably a complex problem, so maybe someone can at least point me to a resource or subreddit or something that I could find more information? The Audacity subreddit is pretty sparse, and other places get way into some serious understanding of sound waves and frequencies. I mean, maybe this is so complex one needs that level of understanding, but. But goddammit this is frustrating.
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Apr 29, 2018 19:57
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Earwicker posted:It's not a matter of understanding necessarily, so much as tools. Audacity is a fairly limited program. Adobe Audition has a "noise reduction" tool that does exactly what you are looking for, you can select a sample of any sound file and use that as something you want to remove from any other sound file. There are other editors and DAWs with similar tools. But most likely it's something you'll have to pay for. Well, you're not the first person who has recommended Audition over Audacity for some things. Maybe it's time I looked into it.
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Flipperwaldt posted:That really, really, really doesn't work a drat with anything but constant hiss or hum. I did see a video where this theory was put in practice. So, my only real concern here is that I don't know if the sound output of, say...oh, how can I explain this? Imagine you have a two second block of sound. One is the music, right? Doo dee doo dee, but then the other is identical, but it also has a sound effect. On an SNES, often times one of the eight sound channels used for music is used instead. On the Genesis, I think the process is even more bizarre, but my point is, the music track and the music track with sound effects I don't think CAN align because...it's not like one is the same sound but without this other sound, it's like, genetically a different sound. God I suck at this kind of ... words... Anyway, one would think someone has done the work, but I can't find it. If anyone else can, please let me know! The music is easy to find. The game itself has a sound test but it just plays the music, no sound effects. Interestingly, one can import the ROM into Audacity as raw data and you can find sound samples that way. Like, hidden at the end of a bunch of white noise. But it seems this particular game (Phantasy Star IV) only use four or five samples, and the rest generated in the synthesizer itself. Edit in case anyone is interested: I did manage to pull off the inverted double-track thing. I'd be interested to know what the science is behind that, but I think it's over my head. Unfortunately, the trick didn't really work. The music was almost silent (percussion still kind of crept in) but when the sound effect occurred (in this case, the sound of walking down stairs) it was like all the music came back with it. credburn fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Apr 30, 2018 |
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Dudes, what is this thing from the beginning of the SNES game, Illusion of Gaia? This is along a series of obvious mysterious real world whatevers but this one I can't figure out. Is it Stonehenge? A really awkward angle of the Arch de Triumphe?
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Well, this is a game that was made for, I think, Japanese/American kids or young adults. The rest of the images are of things I can recognize (the Sphinx, Ankor Wat, Moai statues, and what is later in the game to be revealed as the Tower of Babel) but this one is so awkward. I should think that this would be an image recognizable by most people in the 90s. And the other ones are so specific.
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May 6, 2018 05:10
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I've now written almost a million words in a book that is, say, three quarters done. It's a memoir pertaining to ten years of my life and it's an incredibly boring book. I want to sell this. How the hell do I sell this?
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May 10, 2018 14:16
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RCarr posted:Please tell me you have done or are someone who is incredibly interesting. I wrote a million words over the course of four years about the ten years that came before that. Spoiler alert: it ends with this book being published. The book is about basically going through a weird situation followed by trying to put my life back together and writing about it. I don't know how to really pitch it, because all I've been doing so far is recounting the events -- I'm not a bad writer, despite how rambling this is -- but publishing this tome is itself the cathartic resolution to the memoir that is required for it to conclude happily. The alternative will be that I might just turn it into a weekly podcast and read my own story, and post the whole thing online. I don't intend to become a sensation with this and retire. I want it to be read, though. I want a lot of people to read it. And if I could also make money from it, that'd be great.
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There is a document I want to work on at home on my main computer but also on my laptop while I'm at work. It's a script I'm editing and is about 300 pages. I'm trying to use Google Docs but... I don't understand why, but it's slow as gently caress. It seems to re-save the file every single keypress, and each save seems to take five or more seconds. I don't know that that's what's happening but it feels like it's that way. Girlfriend says she says Google Docs gets laggy with big files, but that can't be right, right? What do you guys use to work on large documents cloudly? Edit: Thanks guys. Well, an easy solution was just to copy+paste it into a WordPad document, then copy+paste it back when I'm packing up for the day. Google, why are you so goddamn credburn fucked around with this message at 14:48 on May 15, 2018 |
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May 15, 2018 14:00
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Hey, you know those old Ultima style multiple choice moral character tests? They're kind of like the Voight-Kompf test about seeing a tortoise in the desert. Something like this: You come upon a starving man. Do you: A) Feed him B) Kick him C) Eat him D) Flee from him This is a dumb example, but I guess it explains what I'm talking about? Anyway, my problem here is that these are a kind of thematically specific questions, something that I think could be categorized, but I have no idea how they might be categorized. I'm working on a silly card game and I need a slew of these to test out the general theory of the game's mechanics. Is there an online place where some of these things might be stored? Like, a repository of these? I feel like some people might classify them as riddles.
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Hello, friends, I have another question about social nuance that I don't understand. I'm autistic but not an idiot; I can understand things and can infer things in a kind of pragmatic, logical way, but social stuff is almost never, ever logical or pragmatic so it's all just a loving kaleidoscope to me most of the time. I can learn things about social nuance if they're taught to me, but a lot of things I think people just catch on to organically and there's never a need to explain it to anyone. Well, drat it, I need some help. Years and years and years ago, I used to hang around on SA because it was sort of this hipster counter-culture (maybe even counter-counter-culture) place that fit my interests better than real life. Back then we did things we called "image macros," another thing that always confused me because I'm not really sure what that is supposed to mean, exactly, but these were basically easily recognizable images with quotes on them to help emphasize something (like, say, in the event of a thread about to turn toxically dramatic, someone might post a picture of Arnold with the caption GET TO DA CHOPPA) or maybe they were just little jokes, like a misquote (like, Aragorn badly cropped into a car with the caption, "one does not simply drive into Mordor.") Okay, well, for about a decade I've been more or less absent from the social media scene, and now I have a Facebook account and I'm trying to understand Twitter and all these other weird things, and one thing I've noticed, a lot -- like, a LOT -- is people post gifs or sometimes images (this is mostly on Facebook, for whatever that's worth) that just contain an image, or a seen from the movie, but the text isn't a joke or a reference, but rather just what the person is saying. Like, it's a picture of Spongebob Squarepants and the text just says "I agree." I don't THINK that's a joke (I've never seen the cartoon) but there's enough of these very similar, entirely mundane things that I think they're just...posts. So, okay, here's my problem. I don't understand this. If I say on Facebook, "Wow, it really sucks that all these kids are being locked up..." and people respond with images of Spongebob, an image of a rapper, an image of Jesus, and an image of Trump, all that have text that isn't actually anything any of them said...I just don't know what these mean. These responses mean nothing to me. They're in an entire other language. I'm an atheist; if I posted a picture of Jesus saying something, it would probably be ironic or irreverent in some way, so by that thinking, someone posting a picture of Jesus in response to something I said, it seems like it would have to be in like intention, right? But what if it just says, "Jesus loves all the children." Is this a joke about Christian double standards? Is it a serious thing? What about all the other posts? Are they ironic? Are they jokes? Ultimately, this is the question I need to know before I can really try and understand what people are trying to tell me: If someone DOES respond with a COMPLETELY LEGITIMATE response, but opts to use a gif of, uh, I don't know, a wrestler or something... WHY? Why not just write the message out and say it? Why does it have to be accompanied by a message? To the people that respond with messages but not ironically or jokingly: why don't you just write out the message and post it? What does the image accomplish? Do you write out the message, then use an image editor to put the text on the image? Do you use an ap to do it? Do you just type in your message in an image search and hope someone already has put the text on there? Oh my God all this post seems so...nauseating, but I can't think of how to ask this question and I'm so sick of not understanding this nuanced communication the rest of the world seems entirely comfortable in.
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Hey, thanks for all your responses to my question about memes and reaction images and stuff. I know I must seem either ridiculously behind the times or intentionally obtuse, so I usually don't bother asking these questions and instead wallow in my confusion. When I think about the way people post images on social media as a sort of analogue to body language, it actually makes a lot more sense now. One of the biggest hurdles to an autistic person (or "person with autism" or "neuro-atypical" or "neuro-divergent," honestly I just learned the whole Aspergers community is all up in arms over what should be the appropriate term; incidentally, for those who may not know, the term "Asperger's" is being weeded out because Asperger was actually not the hero we thought he was and also it implies that it's different than autism which isn't really true since autism is all a big spectrum) is interpreting body language. I've read several books that specifically deal with body language, and if there's anything I've learned from these it's that there is no common "body language" because it changes from culture to culture and also even then it's always subjective. Almost all of them also seem to indicate that if a woman does anything then it's probably a sign she wants to jump you. Anyway, long story short is body language is almost meaningless to me because it relies on too many factors that I can't parse simultaneously. Like: Body language: Man looks at me, touches his wrist, looks at his watch, glances back at me. 1) This seems like it could be flirtatious. 1a) I'm a male, he's a male; is he gay? 1a.1) How can I tell if a man is gay? 1a.1a) Queer indicators... (and that goes on for some time, but ultimately, let's resolve that he's probably not gay) 1b) I'm a male, he's a male, but he's probably not gay. He COULD still be being flirtatious, though, because this might be some kind of ruse... So, like, all this stuff are things that I think a neurotypical person can just absorb and deal with all at once. The brain can do things really, really quickly, so even if I list a bunch of stuff, this all pretty much takes place in a fraction of a moment. The problem though is that where I think normal people don't even think about this, they just sort of absorb it unconsciously, I need to run through a list of checkboxes. At the end of it, I might have something like this: The man is gay and flirting with me: 20% chance The man is not gay, but is trying to steal my money by flirting with me, even though I'm not myself gay, so this will ultimately end in some very awkward fist fight: 1% The man wants to know what time it is; his watch is broken so he is indicating that he wants me to come and tell him the time: 5% The man isn't even looking at me: 14% The man is simply checking his watch: 60% So that's body language. Now, someone posts a gif, say that one of the wrestling guy falling down. So, I recognize that he's the wrestling guy, but I don't know his name, and I don't know anything about wrestling, really. SO if someone posts that, I have to go through a similar checklist: This is an image meant to mock me for my ignorance regarding wrestling: 2% This is an image meant to convey that, like the person in the gif, he was metaphorically blown over: 40% This is an image meant to convey that, like the person in the gif, I should be metaphorically blown over: 20% This is an image that is actually a reference to this particular moment that is widely regarded as significant but I'm simply ignorant of its significance: 38% This image was posted by accident: 2% Or something like that. Anyway, that's all a lot of stuff that is kind of irrelevant. I just wanted to say, thanks for helping me understand that this is basically online body language and that's probably why it baffles me! :V
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Powered Descent posted:A lot of the time they literally are body language. Often it doesn't really matter who's in the picture, it's just being used as a way to convey an emotional reaction. Say in the middle of a discussion, someone responds with this: The things you say here are true and make sense in this context, but what I would struggle with, to use the example of the Michael Jackson picture, is that you say it doesn't matter that it's Michael Jackson, but sometimes it does. Him, in particular, has a lot of notoriety about him pertaining to children, psychoses, racial dysmorphia or whatever. So, yeah, my first inclination is that this is probably because it's about anticipating a fight or something, but I can't help but think that there may be another reason, because it IS Michael Jackson, and then I have to go over a dozen other factors like, how well do I know this person and does this person have any particular leanings toward or against this celebrity that might determine why they would use THIS gif as opposed to another...and of course that branches off to many other things, and ultimately I need to decide based on a lot of percentages which is the most likely correct one to assume. And because I may be wrong, the whole thing stresses me out so goddamn much. The thing is, I understand much of what you're saying on an intellectual level. Like, pragmatically, the things you say add up. I can understand things well enough that I'm not stumbling around, but it sure is stressful.
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Jul 15, 2018 02:25
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veni veni veni posted:They are goofing on you for posting huge walls of text on FB. The joke is that he is looking at his watch because he can't believe how long it's going to take him to read your post. Well, I'm not that concerned about stuff here. I'm just posting stuff. I mean, I would imagine the stuff I've written here might be insightful for some, and if not I don't think it matters a great deal. I'm grateful for those who responded to my questions. I do have ADHD as well, but people on the autism spectrum are like 80% likely to have that going on as well so that's not really a surprise. One last thing regarding the gifs: yeah, I would say that a picture of Michael Jackson from Thriller is most likely a Thriller reference of some kind, a movie reference of some kind, or a supernatural reference of some kind before it is a child molestation reference. However, that there is exists any realistic chance that it might be the latter, it will always be a constant thorn of anxiety and leads to indecision. But I feel a little more confident now, maybe.
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Jul 15, 2018 18:10
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God drat but I am sure this is an easy fix. Hey, in iTunes, if I don't download a podcast for like a week it just assumes I don't want to ever again and it stops doing it automatically. I can't find any setting that allows me to disable this. Help :
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Aug 2, 2018 14:31
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What is autotune supposed to accomplish? Okay, so, that's kind of a dumb question. I suppose it could be either to correct someone who is off-key, or to add "weird alien sound" to someone's voice. But besides this kind of Occam's Razor answer, there is something else that it does that I don't understand. Well, specifically, it is a good thing, and that is the thing I can't really understand. I have autism spectrum disorder, which is an annoying thing to say because it doesn't really provide anyone with any information except that I am weird-ish. Autism affects all of us differently, but there are many traits that kind of carry over, generally, no matter where you might fall on the spectrum. For me, autotuning is one of those things that causes me physical pain. I know an autistic guy who can't handle lights being turned on or off -- it has to be dimmed slowly, or his brain goes into a fit and it hurts him. My cousin is autistic, and he can't breathe if anything is touching his throat. These are things that are like, a little weird, but they have their foundation in neuro-typical biology. I mean, a stark contrast between light and dark could bother anyone; just moreso this guy. And having pressure on one's throat might cause them discomfort, but in my cousin's case it causes so much discomfort that his throat kind of seizes up. And for me, when I hear auto-tune, it is like... imagine, let's say, that you don't like the smell or taste of poop. And someone brings you a meal, and it's like, it looks okay but there's a big turd on it. Everyone else is eating it -- a lot of people bitch about there being too much poop, but we still all eat it. So this is all just to say that, auto-tune hurts me. It causes me physical discomfort to the point that I gnash my teeth, that I clench my fist, that I want to escape. So it's hard for me to personally relate to why anyone would like this, because I don't know that I can ever listen to it, especially not with any kind of critical ear, to really pay attention to it. But on the other hand, to be frank, I have never, ever, ever heard auto-tune that doesn't sound like absolute garbage. Even the first time I think I heard it, that Cher song from 1998, I was like, this is an okay song but utterly ruined by whatever they're doing to her voice. And whenever I happen to hear it now, it consistently sounds like... like, I never really hear it used in music I like, but even if it's music I don't like, I just feel like adding this weird electronic pitch fuckery ruins whatever chance the vocal track had at being listenable. I'm trying to find this out on Google, and I can find a ton of things about how autotune works, but nothing about like, what specifically it's trying to do. I mean, if I listen to a pop song on the radio and there is autotune, which changes the singer's voice to be slightly off-key, or maybe like, on-key-off-key weird vacillation... I'm not an expert on music theory by any means, but what I do know suggests that auto-tuning objectively harms music. So, does that sound good? Because objectively, it shouldn't. I mean, according to the way keys work, it shouldn't sound good. And it doesn't to me. But I guess it must sound good because it's used all over the place.
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Nov 26, 2018 13:19
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hooah posted:To expand on what tuyop said, the examples you seem to be sensitive to are where it's either used as an effect or when the singer is pretty far off the correct note. Almost all produced music has some autotune in it nowadays, but it's just to bring the note up or down a couple of cents (fractions of a half-step), so you almost certainly wouldn't notice it. It seems like it would be used to correct off-key singing, so yeah, I guess maybe it is used all the time and I don't notice it. So then, I guess all the examples I can think of are intentionally used for that "autotune sound." I guess actually, it seems kind of obvious that in a song that cost thirty thousand dollars to write, sample, mix, and record, someone who sounds like they're off-key is probably that way intentionally.
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Nov 26, 2018 15:34
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Lawnie posted:Analog and digital distortion effects have been common in music for a very long time. Does this sort of effect also bother you? Yeah. Partly it's because I don't "get" it and that bothers me, but also it isn't like, "this is displeasing to me." It is offensive, like... I mean, it's different, but like, just endless fart sounds. I mean, not accompanied by a smell. That's more than displeasing, you would (I am assuming) feel a kind of physical reaction to it. That's what a lot of the autotune does. But other effects generally don't bother me... well, to be honest, I get kind of annoyed by a lot of metal guitarists' tricks where they double the sound and harmonize it. I guess I feel bamboozled by the LIES
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Dec 2, 2018 13:50
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Is there any option in Facebook, or perhaps a browser extension that can disable me seeing posts that include nothing more than an image? I've discovered why Facebook is useless to me, and that is because most of the people I am "friends with" rarely actually type anything, but usually just post images with zero substance and it clutters the entire thing up. If I could get rid of 1000 pictures of actors from Big Bang Theory raising their eyebrows or whatever, I feel like what would remain would actually be very helpful.
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Jan 2, 2019 04:46
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When I log into my Windows 10 laptop, it rotates through some nice photography. I don't mind the photography, but I really hate the stupid text bubbles that appear. Because, like, if it just said "This place is in Moscow!" then that would be fine. Instead, it's all clickbaity bullshit, like "You won't believe how cold this place can get..." It sounds silly, but I've spent more than an hour trying to figure out how to get rid of the text things, and I'm not sure it can be done. There is a photography slideshow that it has, but that's just photos that are already here. I like new photos being rotated in. I just don't want the text bubbles.
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Feb 2, 2019 07:49
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Huh. Well, I can easily find a plethora of high-res images to just be rotated through the slideshow. I was just surprised that there didn't seem to be a way opt out of the text. But I guess it drives some ad revenue this way.
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Feb 2, 2019 12:55
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