Charles Robinson (1870-1937), 'There Is A Great Ship That Ever Cometh', ''The Tatler'', Vol. 110, #1431, 1928
gonna start saying insane shit like fpreg and girlpussy just to normalize it
Liking character is fun until you think about them and you just have to stare at nothing for a few minutes because of how tragic
And mauybe you are almost crying but you are having fun
Nooo i just saw a TikTok of someone calling their mom a hoarder cause she has a CD collection and going "i can play these faster on an app" and telling her to throw them away BITE BITE BITE BITE KILL KILL KILL KILL if someone said that to me i would rip them apart with my teeth i would burn them alive the violence that would take place would be unimaginable i would be an unleashed demon hungry for blood and meat. unimaginable horrors. death and destruction. killing. maiming. no one could survive that. it would be a nuclear apocalypse. leave the fucking CDs alone
Okay but if you have an extensive CD collection you need to back it up into digital/new CDs!
And it's not about apps or digital being faster, I'm all up for physical media, but commercially produced CDs from the 90s and early 2000s are reaching the end of their functional lifespan*, and are starting to fail.
If you have a lot of CDs, it would be a good idea to rip them into high fidelity digital audio, to preserve them.
*CD/DVD lifespans are tricky. Some estimates in peak, perfect conditions and maintenance go for almost 200 years. Others calculate between 20 to 30 years in "normal" use, though no one can agree what normal is.
I recommend buying a cheap DVD reader/writer unit -I bought mine for less than 20 USD - and then batch ripping stuff. Surprisingly Windows Media Player works out of the box, just make sure to save things in the correct format (mp3 or MP4) so you're not limited in playback.
You can of course find more robust options online, including VLC, to rip your files. Ripping a CD will not damage it or prevent it from working, it'll just make sure you have the option to burn a new one if your original happens to fail. This is 100% legal and ethical (and would be ethical still even if illegal, because piracy is always ethical in late stage capitalism and corporations are not your friends.)
I recommend redundancy for your backups (remember that time Apple fucked up with people's files by replacing them with itunes shit? Yeah) and if you're really techy, set up a NAS by your router, with your backups.
If your rips are high quality you can feed it to your computer/tablet/phone/any device in your network and always have access to CD quality audio no matter where you are.
Sources!
might have been said in another comment already BUT
if you are saving digital audio for long term use make sure to use a lossless file type like .WAV
yes it’s a lot larger of a file but it won’t degrade over time
you can use .mp3 files for daily/casual use on a playback device but they won’t keep their quality as they get compressed
If you're using gen AI because "you want to make art but don't know how/can't learn/it's easier/whatever"
You don't want to make art.
You want someone to make art for you, but you don't want to pay or exchange anything of equal value for it, and also you want it right now, in whatever style you fancy that moment, and in whatever quantity you want. You're greedy and entitled and it is just that simple. You don't want to make anything.
impossible for me to give a shit about arkadian when andred is also a going concern in these audios. hydrogen bomb v. coughing baby
you can keep your sleazy quip factory con man character. i'm circling back to the twitter anarchist cop who died and was isekai'd into the body of the nearest racist
[ID: two digital drawings and a tweet featuring Jon and Basira from the Magnus Archives. Jon is pictured as tall, slim brown man with greying black hair drawn back in a ponytail, and Basira is a shorter, stocky brown hijabi woman. In the first drawing, Jon is pictured saying “can I extract a statement on the way home?” and Basira replies “No Jon, Melanie has some archived statements for you back at the office.” In the second drawing, Jon has turned away and is crying out of five eyes - two on each cheekbone and one on his forehead - and saying “I hate this fucking work environment” while Basira looks on, unimpressed. The following tweet is a transcript of the same dialogue. End ID]
It's really funny being obsessed with a character who isn't from a visual medium (podcasts, books, radio dramas, what have you) and thus doesn't have a canon design so you can't post screenshots or anything of them. What do you do then? Post excerpts from the text? Screenshot the waveform of them speaking? It's not like you can just steal art and post it without credit or anything sooo....
[ID: a waveform of someone speaking. /end ID]
Honestly I should talk about the ace experience more. I don’t see enough. Like–obviously it’s dehumanizing to be repeatedly compared to robots or aliens but uh…sometimes it feels like that??
My husband will get all horny while I’m, I don’t know, changing out of sweaty gardening clothes. And I’ll be like, “But we have to make lunch?? I stink? Now is not a good time?? Logic?” And clearly it’s not about logic to him. He is experiencing the entire scenario very differently. And I’m here like,
Or the times where you realize that like, having an actual physiological reaction to attractive people is not some enculturated metaphor, and people are actually doing that all around you all the time, and you’re like, Ah, clearly my studies of human culture have been incomplete. I have missed a critical psychosocial component. Many things now appear in a different light. *takes notes on holopad*
The notes on this post are just a shitload of aces going…I don’t get it. Or sometimes for a bit under very special circumstances I get it, or almost get it, and then I’m like “Wow this is a huge energy drain; you guys live like this?” Or just, “Totally baffling truly an alien species why would you lick someone?” And I am feeling the kinship in this here post.
a friend of mine once said “Wow! You must get so much done!”
to which i replied “No, no, I still have depression.”
I made this post two years ago and this is maybe the funniest addition in all that time.
