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  1. eugene
    yes, suspiria is uninspired, messy and totally unengaging mucking about for 2 hours just to reach a sole decent climatic sequence.
  2. eugene
    saw a cat fucking a dead cat yesterday. and he was really into it too because he didn't even react to my attempt to shoo him away. still bummed about this scene today. luckily neither were those that i feed.
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    lol
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    to counter that stupidity that RSP posted: http://seanolive.blogspot.com/2009/10/audios-circle-of-confusion.html
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    it's pretty amazing really, he quotes both toole and olive but simply doesn't understand the core of their arguments regarding proper sound reproduction. it seems he doesn't even understand the goal of a sound engineer.
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    idiotic. comb filtering is an issue but definitely treatable. even relatively inexpensive modern avr do a decent job fixing many issues at multiple positions.
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    lol
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    the sisters brothers - my reaction to it when it ended was "ummm, ok?". felt kinda hollow, lacking ambition or some kind of forward motion. it was going for something different with western as a genre being a sort of a vague form to fill in with different ideas about stuff, and not being too concerned about sticking to the western canon, but it just didn't work at all, those ideas simply didn't converge into a good film, lots of potentially interesting and amusing parts but no whole. it's also kinda hard to disentangle john c. riley from dr. steve brule, and his average-at-best acting didn't help in that regard.
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    yeah, if you like to tweak your sound then do it with all kinds of dsp and eq, but don't get an permanent facial tattoo of sorts with some kind of screwy speakers or a tube amp that might sound fun in some very particular context and with some very particular record, but otherwise will trash your music.
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    subjectively people tend to prefer accurate gear when they are put in controlled blind test conditions, ie when only the speakers are the only thing that's being tested, so taste isn't really a factor here. (see research by floyd toole and sean olive for details) there's only one way to properly reproduce the recording, and it's via gear that doesn't distort it. if you don't like how something sounds via accurate gear (assuming the recording was made using such gear as well), then you simply don't like the artistic choices made, and this becomes a different issue entirely, and not a technical one. i mean you wouldn't go to a gallery wearing pink tinted glasses or something, so why distort the records of your favorite musicians using shitty gear..
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    actually jbl's lsr305 and the bigger lsr308 monitors are probably the best speakers for their price ever produced, they come very close to perfection and only cost a few hundred bucks.
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    regarding spl, 105db spl peak is a common and acceptable thx standard. you DO want your speakers to reach those peaks without falling apart and crackling and clipping. live concerts, even classical music ones reach even higher levels. also, don't fetishize and romanticize old gear, it's mostly shit. audio reproduction is an exact science, and the path to high quality reproduction is picking out gear that performs well (=as linear as possible) objectively. that's unsurprisingly also the type of gear people prefer in blind tests (jbl/harman people do a lot of research in this field).
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    use this first: http://myhometheater.homestead.com/splcalculator.html make sure you get about 110db spl at your listening position, it's unlikely that you'll need more than that. then, seek out a flat measuring (on and off axis) speaker that can reach that and an amp or a receiver that can provide the juice (the latter is usually cheaper while offering more due to being positioned in a different and a more competitive market). ignore all reviews that do not measure the stuff they allege to review, they're payola or just talk out of their ass (for example whathifi, cnet). some brands to pay attention to (not saying that everything they produce is great, but it's likely to be good): jbl, revel, genelec, neumann, adam, nht, canton, selah, psb, kef (though overpriced) shit to avoid: modern b&w, modern klipsch used speakers are also a very good idea, because decent speakers can last decades without any degradation.
  14. eugene
    the house that jack built - a lot of it went over my head but nevertheless it's still a lot of fun to watch von trier go wherever the fuck he wants with his ironic misanthropy and depravity and juggle lots of interesting ideas along the way.
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    Titski
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    like all hi res formats it's completely pointless and simply a waste of space. lel. K. that wasn't a lel post btw, it's comepltey true. hi res audio is indistinguishable from regular cd format and is simply a new(ish) marketing shtick. this a good writeup on the topic from one of the makers of FLAC: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
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    like all hi res formats it's completely pointless and simply a waste of space.
  18. eugene
    The Filth Estate
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    i'm doing some hardcore mega time intensive premium deep european pc gaming recently. crusader kings 2 - this game is simply a masterpiece, immense depth and breadth within a living and highly complex and interconnected medieval world. for those unfamiliar with it, basically you manage a dynasty within a feudal system, grow and develop your character and the descendants, conquer and rule lands in many different ways to deal with very different situations, deal with religious stuff, diplomacy and court intrigue. all of those elements affect each other, your reputation and many other parameters. it's sandboxy in its nature but very rich in content. currently i'm busy kicking musulmans off iberian peninsula, but my vassals are getting strong and often exploit my righteous wars to try to take over my kingdom or secede. one of my ruler characters got her face torn off by a sneaky vassal who pretended to take care of her cancer, she died shortly after and a pretty big civil war ensued during the regency that almost screwed my whole dynasty. some of the manners you lose in this game are extremely fun. x4 foundations - this is what elite dangerous was supposed to be, where the world is actually a world. it's very busy and there's a very well developed economic system. there's a lot of shit to do, from exploring the galaxy in a tiny scout, trading (which is very dynamic and interesting due to the economic system) to managing massive industrial complexes and leading wars with huge fleets. the sense of scale is really awesome in this game. it's pretty clunky and buggy at the moment and some design choices are pretty weird (there's really no reason for those massive and hollow stations you can traverse on foot), but the developer is very reliable when it comes to fixing and stuff as it was evident in previous x games.
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    The Glue Lagoon
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    Knobing
  22. eugene
    a typical fallout nv animal - a dog with its eyeballs floating beside it.
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    agree with Turb. despite the nostalgic nerdism around fallout 1 and 2, it was actually new vegas that was the best in series. it was vast and very well written all around. the quests, the locations, the nps, the setting and the atmosphere...all great, that is about after a year of patching or so, because i remember it being buggy as hell at the beginning.
  24. eugene
    Last Mango in Paris
  25. eugene
    would be mental if only 10 days earlier
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