[-] doleo@kbin.social 59 points 9 months ago

The internet, as experienced by most humans today, primarily consists of ads, sponsored content, propaganda and spin. I don't really see how it's contributing to our development in a constructive manner.

[-] doleo@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

32% voted NASDAQ, huh?

[-] doleo@kbin.social 24 points 11 months ago

Oh, fuck. He's optimistic

[-] doleo@kbin.social 36 points 11 months ago

1 every 5 years?? Yeah, ok, Mr. Popular.

[-] doleo@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

He was more like that Bond parody with Rowan Atkinson. Bumbling and fumbling while bragging and shagging.

[-] doleo@kbin.social 56 points 11 months ago

Britain is not holding up its end here, producing the mega-shagger we need to save us all.

[-] doleo@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

I don't think that's the case, but I'd like to be proven wrong. You can use a free icloud account to temporarily sign apps for a week using Alterserver, but afaik you still need a paid account to sign them for a year.

[-] doleo@kbin.social 118 points 1 year ago
  • Makes a game about beating the shit out of people

  • Complains about offences to public order and morals

[-] doleo@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I kind of wish you'd posted this before your original post, though I appreciate it was significantly more effort to type. You've made a number of well laid-out points that I largely agree with, but I'm not sure your original post indicated anything other than teacher and/or union bashing, which was difficult to get on board with!

[-] doleo@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Principal Skinner meme:
Is it the state of the world and lack of credible future that causes mental health problems?

NO, it's the social media that is to blame.

[-] doleo@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

"including business founders, CEOs" - Oh, well, that's ok then. There was nothing to worry about, after all.

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Hey everyone, I'm a bit out of the loop with these pedals, and I'm trying to understand the ways people are using them.

I understand what they do, I'm just wondering why someone would use a pedal instead of just setting on an amp that has the gain or tone shaping characteristics that they're looking for.

In particular, because the pedal then (presumably) gets plugged into the amps preamp section anyway, which is going to colour the sound again. So then, would the optimum use be to plug into a really transparent, clean amp?

To be clear, I'm talking about pedals like the UA Ruby, Zvex box of rock, Benson Preamp. Not so much about Helix, ToneX, etc. I know the latter are more like an all-in-one recording solution, so you can DI and still get great sounds at home, but the former? I'm not so sure what they're best used for!

[-] doleo@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Am I suffering some kind of confirmation bias, or does Spock spend an unusually large amount of time expressing emotions, for someone who's supposed to never express emotions?

EDIT: By way of addressing some of the replies to this post, without replying to them all individually, I just wanted to add this:
I'm not critiquing the handling of Spock's character in relation to TOS or movies, Peck's a great actor and is doing a fine job at interpreting this role.
The point I'm trying to make is that Spock (and data, T'pol, Tuvok, etc. after him) gets juxtaposed so often, it seems more entertainment-oriented than story-oriented. Like, "wouldn't it be cool if they had to...". The classic sitcom trope of putting the awkward person in a public-facing position, with hilarious consequences. It just seems like these hilarious consequences are occurring too often to call it character development.

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