I love that metalhead.club exists as an instance

Hell yeah!

Halford has managed to improve with age in a way most singers don’t. Richer, better controlled voice.

And the rest of the band is so on point (as always imo).

You know, my favorite thing about that channel is that they both explain why something can’t happen, and then go into great detail about how horrible it would be if it did. They fully commit to the questions.

Did you comment in the wrong place?

Your comment is talking about resolution, and the post is about YouTube throttling speeds, not resolution of videos.

I suspect you were trying to respond to a comment instead of making your own top level comment, though I’m not certain.

In any case, if the comment is in the wrong place, now you know. If it isn’t, well, it may help to know that it’s out of place thematically.

Edit: I think this comment https://midwest.social/comment/18120563 is where you intended to respond

Well, when it comes to video games, despite being foundational, Mario Bros. At the time, it was mids, but there were a lot less truly great games, and less abysmal ones so it looked better than it was. The series got better, but that first one was kinda meh. It’s all timing jumps, which is fine as far it as it goes, but there were both better and worse options on that console.

Away from video game, Life is about as meh as it gets. No real strategy, no depth. But it’s a good time killer and you can play it with a table full of people drinking and not get bogged down or into arguments because of the game (unlike monopoly lol).

No worries :)

Have fun

You gotta stay relaxed and let it be above or below the vocal cords. I do below, but it comes out not sounding exactly right. I have trouble staying above the cords though.

There’s videos on how to do it that are better than what I can write, but the key is keeping the throat relaxed and open

It sounds like a scream, but if you watch Draiman do it, he stays really loose physically. There’s only the barest tension in his chest when he does it, enough to drive the air out from the diaphragm. It does seem like he’s pulling from there anyway, though he likely is also pulling support from the abdomen as well, what with the volume he gets without a mike.

For me, I start with some loosening up, warm up my throat, then start with a deep growl. A grrrrrr in my chest. Then I pull in some deep belly breaths and let the growl rise until it’s just under the vocal cords.

If you’re fine with it being deeper, you can stop there, because that’s where the barked “ah-ah” needs to sit anyway. But if you’re shooting for the higher version he uses, carefully engage the cords and do the wah-ah-ah without tightening them. Then move it above them for a few soft ones before pushing hard with the air. That’s when you let it rip.

All the shaping of the sounds is in the mouth. If you try to generate the ah parts in the back of the mouth, you’re likely to end up with them further down, and engage your cords, which is when they end up feeling abused as hell for a half hour.

I genuinely suck at doing it in the same pitch Draiman does. I can’t really scream at all without engaging my cords, and that shreds them. So I growl it out. Doesn’t even scratch if I stay relaxed enough.

What’s funny? I can’t actually sing for shit. But I can do stuff like that well enough. The basic techniques are the same as you use to project your voice when doing public speaking unamplified, or in a crowd.

Thing is, you might not be able to get the same effect no matter how you go about it. Everyone’s throat is a little different. If the false folds aren’t shaped similar to a given performer, matching their sound is essentially impossible. So you have to play around and find different parts of the throat to give the vibration from. I’ve heard people do that intro scream from their palate, just behind the uvula, where it sounds more like the usual metalcore screams. I tried that, and it just fucking hurts to me, and sounds like shit as well, instead of cool

I mean, us cripples aren’t all united in it being a slur.

To the contrary, there’s a growing number that embrace it because it doesn’t downplay how serious many disabilities can be.

I mean, us cripples aren’t all united in it being a slur.

To the contrary, there’s a growing number that embrace it because it doesn’t downplay how serious many disabilities can be.

Jfc, I can’t even calculate.

Music, if we say 10 bucks a CD, at least 10k. Probably closer to 20k, and maybe more because I haven’t actually counted in years because I didn’t see the point in trying to keep up. However, I just went and looked at the folder on my nas and it has 1k+ albums on it, and that’s way less than is on my main drive on my media PC. So even the 20k estimate is a lot lower than what’s actually there. Likely closer to the $50k mark if my memory is right. I tend to grab whole albums rather than individual tracks only, and I’m prone to grabbing an entire discography when I discover a new band. My music collection is around 2tb total, I know that without looking.

Movies, even at the same price, it would be around the 8k mark somewhere, though they aren’t all in one place, so I cant be certain. There’s a little over 1k files on the nas, but that’s only the ones that everyone wanted available on there.

Books, I’m fucked. Call it 5 bucks for a cheap paperback, and I’m close to 10k, if not over. Hard to be sure because I do have duplicates in multiple formats. I’ve whittled down to only “borrowing” epub files and converting on my own if someone borrows an ebook from me and wants a different format, but I’ve never gone through and deleted mobis and whatnot. But it’s around 3k files on my boox reader, plus more on my nas drive that I really only keep because I like having access to some reference materials but don’t use them often enough to justify keeping them on devices. So 15k there, at that price.

I just checked because I was curious. Almost 18k files of ebooks. That, however, does include classics that I only read occasionally, copies in multiple formats, stuff that isn’t for me (kid, wife, etc), and probably some stuff that I read once and never will again, but didn’t delete. So, over 50,000 bucks at 5 bucks each.

Comics, that’s easier because a scanned version doesn’t really have a monetary value at all, and most of my collection is of OOP stuff. So, depending on how you look at what a price should be, it’s $0, maybe 600 bucks at $1 each, or you’d have to track cover prices on all of it, and I ain’t doing that lol.

Tbh, I can’t think of the last time I pirated a game. I just don’t game that much on my desktop any more, and I know I haven’t in the 10 odd years I’ve had that specific hard drive.

If I tried to factor in stuff that was higher priced at some point (and CDs used to be pretty expensive), numbers would go up.

Shit. Even if I wiped out the stuff I have physical copies of, it would still be in the 100k range I think.

Shit, I down voted you for whining about down votes.

Generally, you’d want to check if it’s on a streaming service you already have access to. That’s the fastest way.

Then, check your library.

If both of those fail, you run into choosing to hunt a copy down, or sail the seven seas.

Stuff like Kurosawa has a big enough fan base that you’re very likely to be able to find used copies fairly cheap. The more obscure the movie, the harder it will be to find, and prices can vary depending on how much of a cult fan base it has. Sadly, eBay really is the best option in that regard. So you don’t always have to pony up for the more expensive editions.

Since you don’t like accumulating plastic, you can always resell, or donate to your library, depending on how willing you are to lose money on the swap.

You can check local message boards too. Sometimes folks will give stuff like that away. Pawn shops still occasionally have DVDs around. If you can find film buffs in your area and make friends with them, you may be able to borrow stuff, or have a movie night. Those of us with big collections do tend to like hosting movie nights to share the fun, though you have to rely on making connections with people that happen to have stuff you’re interested in.

And, yeah, there’s file sharing options as well.

Well, how about a cock pic?

This is my favorite game, ever.

Well, video game anyway.

Why? It’s just silly enough, just simple enough, but also just challenging enough for that perfect casual gaming range that I prefer.

It’s almost like a game developer went looking to make something I can play even when I’m not in the mood to play.

What’s kinda weird is that the first few times I played it with my kid and wife, I didn’t like it. I’ve never liked first person play at all. But after a while, I got used to the and could actually kick back and enjoy the vibe.

Besides, there’s a quest in one section where the first half is all a set-up for a Sepultura reference. How the fuck can I not love that? Like, you know that whoever was working on that part was high as fuck, listening to the specific track, and went “heh heh heh, this is gonna be awesome”, and drops in the punchline that’s so subtle you don’t catch it unless you know the band and are paying attention.

It’s basically a game built good borderlands fans that are also d&d geeks.

Ngl, I’ve been tempted to find one of those things and use it on a picture of myself just to see how accurate they get.

But it would have to be totally offline, and even then I wouldn’t actually do it

Active vs passive voice. It’s a thing

You know, I don’t necessarily like the song. Don’t dislike it, but it doesn’t do anything for me.

But I’m damn glad you shared it, and I dig the idea of what the band is doing, and respect their talent.

It’s cheating, but there was a track in need for speed carbon that was catchy as hell. Love me or hate me, by Lady Sovereign

Not technically video game music, but it’s one of the few tracks in any video game that I went out of my way to find outside of a game.

They are.

They’re certainly not the kind of purely creative art most people think of as ART, and it’s definitely a crossover kind of art. But if memes aren’t art, then pretty much nothing Warhol did was either. Yeah, that’s not only an argument people have made, it’s also an interesting debate about the essence of art. But Warhol did memes. To an extent, Basquiat did too.

All visual art is a form of shared consciousness, and that’s what memes are at the core.

I would even argue that making a good meme, one that actually becomes widely shared because it transmits an idea, is a very difficult form of art. There’s skill involved, and thought. It’s only partially about the format/template (in cases where that’s the expression of the meme rather than it being less formalized). There’s an element of writing to it, some design craft, and you have to find the right audience.

Memes are an art form with a low barrier to entry, but that doesn’t invalidate the form any more than cheap digital cameras invalidate photography as an art form.

It’s a damn good track for sure.

I’m hit or miss with the band, but when they hit, they hit hard for me.