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/dev/random / Re: UFO SPACECRAFT CONFIRMED BY USA

« on: June 11, 2023, 11:56:20 AM »

I've seen plenty o' them god damn aliens.



Your tax dollars are paying for free smart phones for them. Pat yourself on the back, you didn't know how good and caring you were, did you.

(p.s. - loaded on the phones is an app registering them to vote... because there's nothing weird about that)

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/dev/random / Re: UFO SPACECRAFT CONFIRMED BY USA

« on: June 10, 2023, 03:14:53 PM »

Color me skeptical. It's still more likely that Richard Gere had a gerbil in his ass. And Richard Gere has said many times he never put a gerbil in his ass. Richard Gere is an honorable man and would never misuse a gerbil by putting it in his ass. Richard Gere would only use gerbils for legitimate purposes, such as petting them and watching them run on little wheels. On behalf of Richard Gere, I'd like to ask everyone to stop talking about Richard Gere putting gerbils in his ass. It simply isn't true. So stop saying that Richard Gere put a gerbil in his ass. I mean it.

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dm / Re: mymap changes on dm server

« on: June 09, 2023, 05:07:31 PM »

how many people are mymaping this then leaving when the map starts just to grief the people who don't like it (i have certainly seen this happening)

 

mymap slideways_dm 

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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....

« on: May 30, 2023, 08:06:10 AM »

Probably gonna finally watch Cocaine Bear tomorrow.

Cocaine Bear -
Kinda funny, kinda dumb. Worth watching if you have nothing else, but probably not something I'm gonna want to watch more than once.

Sisu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2k4QAItiSA

this Finish film got an imdb rate of 7.1 and got a 94% Rotten Tomato rating.  Saw the trailer and said to myself "hmm seems damn good".  So I tried watching it.

What the fuck did i just saw!

This guy is 10000x better than Rambo and not even a tagteam of Rambo + the Terminator could prolly kill him..

Damn, cant trust ratings nowadays even if its from Rotten Tomato.

Does that mean you did or didn't like it?

It was pretty good. Reminds me a little bit of 70's grindhouse kinda movies, which is obviously what they were going for... or they were kinda borrowing a bit from similar movies by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, which used the same font and colors as this movie did for all the titles. I guess the idea was to either blatantly rip off a Tarantino/Rodriguez movie, or to pay homage to them. It was pretty good though - it was unique enough that I wouldn't call it a "rip-off". The gore-factor was pretty high, but could've been a lot higher. Would've been nice to see the girls doing some super-graphic horrible gruesome shit to the one guy that he left begging for his life in the road. I mean why be realistic with the blood, go insane with it. I mean why not, it's not like anyone will call the movie out for being "unrealistic" - they already have him using a pick axe to swing from the underside of a plane.

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?

« on: May 25, 2023, 03:23:19 AM »

Stumbled upon this on youtube. Never heard of him before. Pretty cool. Other videos show the guitarist dressing up similar to Mork from Mork & Mindy and painting his face like a mime. Yeah. Dunno what that's all about, lol. But the sound is pretty good.

Alex Harvey Band - Midnight Moses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rplbRDu76wo

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art, music, etc. / Re: Hell's radio station

« on: May 25, 2023, 02:59:13 AM »

Sometimes at night I'll turn on the 70's Vevo channel on the PlutoTV app (music videos of songs from the 70's... although sometimes it seems like they sneak in some early 80's shit too). Saw this one on there a week or so ago when I got up in the middle of the night for a piss. It's awkward awfulness was spellbinding. I had to stop and stare at it like a car accident. The choreographed kicks, the awful off-key singing, the masterful microphone hand-toss trick he does during the chorus, and... MY GOD, THOSE MAGNIFICENT HAIRDO'S!

better version - won't embed here, must watch on YouTube 

The Lords - Poor Boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj3BbyXNBlw

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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....

« on: May 24, 2023, 11:44:13 PM »

They had John Wick 4 on there so I watched that the other night.

Eh. I dunno. I don't really remember precisely how part 3 ended, but part 4 kinda seems like it doesn't fit... or like it was forced to fit. It's still the ultra-violent and insanely complex action scenes the franchise is known for, but the ending is... I won't spoil it. I'll just say it was kinda flat. (Just my opinion) (And I still think the antique weapon store fight scene from part 3 is the best - there's NO topping that, it's a masterpiece of action movie choreography. That kinda plays a role in the high expectations I had for part 4.)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHXejJq5vr0

Tonight I watched 65 starring Adam Driver. He's a space traveler from another world and civilization that existed long ago (at least 65 million years ago as per the movies title). His ship crash lands on earth at the end of the Cretaceous period. He has to evade and fight dinosaurs on his way to the dislocated escape pod. Sounds simplistic. It kinda is. But totally worth watching. Sometimes I like movies with simple accessible plots that don't try to over-complicate things. Won't spoil the ending but... if you know what happened at the end of the Cretaceous period, then yeah, that's one more element of danger added to the plot. UGH, WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN!?!


Probably gonna finally watch Cocaine Bear tomorrow.

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art, music, etc. / Re: Stewart Copeland focused The Police performance

« on: May 24, 2023, 06:04:03 PM »

I am hoping that the following have never used pitch correction:

• Tool
• Geddy
• The Police - whoops!
  
• Judy Garland
• Karen Carpenter
• ABBA
• Stevie (either one)
• Glen Campbell
• Tina Turner - RIP
• Mister Claypool, who can boss out on bass at the same time as singing perfectly odd
• Britney ... hah

Tool early days, no. Now? I dunno. Perhaps. I'm sure in the studio they do some pitch adjustment here and there while they're doing volume envelopes on the various layered vocal tracks. If you don't, you don't get as tight of a sound in your harmonies. These days, EVERYONE records on software now. Normalizing, editing out the wazoo, pitch correction, all the shit that is technically "cheating", it's all standard practice now.

As for the rest, no. Pitch shifting didn't really start happening until probably about 1989 when companies like Digitech started first producing the WH-1 Whammy pedal. Other companies like DOD were also making octave pedals, but those only generated a note one octave down, and really only sounded musical when playing single note leads (it was monophonic pitch shifting, so it didn't do chords worth a shit). It wasn't until IC chips and digital (not analog) circuits started happening in audio - all that was in the 80's. Hell, if I'm not mistaken, Tom Sholz (Guitarist from the band Boston, also inventor and owner of Rockman audio) might "technically" be the first person to have used pitch shifting in some form when he created the Rockman chorus/detune/doubler effects that is basically the "Boston sound". Tons of other people used it too - Def Leppard, Kenny Loggins (guitars on Highway to the Danger Zone), etc.

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art, music, etc. / Re: Stewart Copeland focused The Police performance

« on: May 24, 2023, 04:45:12 PM »

Auto-tune works in realtime. It's a digital signal processing system with sub-millisecond lag.

Yeah, it just rounds the tone to the nearest neighboring tone in whatever tuning it's set at. I'm not really sure how the pitch correcting stuff works though, but you never hear it stepping up notes like auto tune does.

It's kinda hard to find anything about this pitch correction crap though. I know it's a real thing and definitely being used though, because I can totally HEAR it. Quite a few country singers these days are using it too, both live and in the studio, which in my opinion is pretty shitty. Country music has always been super competitive, and when you have a one-of-a-kind super talented voice like Reba McEntire, it's not only years of WORK that went into developing her singing voice, it's also just plain old "born with it" talent. Meanwhile, you've got all these modern pop country dip shits pitch correcting their voices (even older ones like Trace Adkins) when there are TONS of other great starving musicians working the clubs in Nashville with REAL HONEST TALENT.

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art, music, etc. / Re: Stewart Copeland focused The Police performance

« on: May 24, 2023, 04:08:12 PM »

I can't tell from it but he does sure sound on pitch.

Being in tune/on pitch is the point though. Part of what makes it noticeable is in the sustain of the notes. There's usually not enough vibrato and it sounds a little lackluster. The effect does seem to add it's own very slight vibrato to kind of disguise the generated tone better, which I imagine is user adjustable to tailor the effect to the singer better.

When singing naturally, most singers hit the note, then as it sustains and trails off, they add in some vocal vibrato. But when using a pitch correction effect, one that also supplements the voice with a computer generated matched tone, there's really no way to gate the intensity of an additional vibrato effect for the generated tone unless you were to use something like an expression pedal (like how a wah wah pedal is used for guitar). ANd even if you WERE to use an expression pedal to gate the amount of vibrato, it would probably sound very obvious and unnatural, because the note would likely shift at a smooth logarithmic frequency rather than whatever frequency the human voice normally does.

And if you're already singing AND playing another instrument (like a BASS, like Sting), it would be far too difficult to play the instrument AND control the vocal effect. I suppose it could be done, but it would take TONS of practice for a musician to get used to it. The problem is that you've already trained your limbs to control effects for the INSTRUMENT, not for your voice.

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art, music, etc. / Re: Stewart Copeland focused The Police performance

« on: May 24, 2023, 03:06:12 PM »

No, he's definitely using it. It's not the same auto-tune like that tacky shit that all the rappers use that make them sound like robots, and "auto-tune" probably isn't the actual name of the effect they are using, but they are definitely using an effect to correct their pitch (probably called "scaled polyphonic pitch correction"). It's use is somewhat new and not everyone really knows about it... and some of that has to do with the fact that artists kinda want to keep it secret - they don't want everyone knowing they're using it. Basically it's an effect that is probably pre-programmed to a particular scale for the song, and it shifts the pitch of the voice in real time. I'm not really sure, but it also seems like it's adding it's own electronically generated tone that is matched to the vocal tone. Seems like it might also be adding a bit of a vibrato or detune effect to the generated tone. For the stuff I've seen of Geddy Lee using it, it seems to only kick in when he's doing higher notes, which you can program it to do. He also does a peculiar thing where he over-annunciates the higher phrases, probably something he's practiced to prevent himself from "bending" notes which would probably make the effect bounce between the notes very noticeably.

In the studio vs live is a little different. In the studio you can do more things with software to polish it off and make it less obvious (like in the video below). In fact, these days it's entirely possible to use a 100% computer generated voice to create convincing vocal tracks. I've seen a video where someone used a program to synthesize Ozzy Osbourne's voice and at times it sounded very real.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS1YDAc-f5I

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art, music, etc. / Re: Stewart Copeland focused The Police performance

« on: May 24, 2023, 03:50:14 AM »

The auto-tune stuff Sting's using for the vocals kinda ruins it. And strangely enough, I guess he's using it because his natural and now old-as-hell singing voice probably ruins the music too. Geddy Lee was using the same kinda shit on the last tour Rush did before Neal Peart passed, and it sounded even worse. Hell, I think I heard a clip of Vince Neil of Motley Crue using the same shit too.

Ya know... just DON'T. If your singing is that bad, then don't. Either DON'T tour, or get someone else to sing.

I agree, Stewart Copeland is definitely an incredible drummer. A lot of the Police stuff is deceptively hard to play correctly.

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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....

« on: May 22, 2023, 12:52:33 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2k4QAItiSA

this Finish film got an imdb rate of 7.1 and got a 94% Rotten Tomato rating.  Saw the trailer and said to myself "hmm seems damn good".  So I tried watching it.

What the fuck did i just saw!

This guy is 10000x better than Rambo and not even a tagteam of Rambo + the Terminator could prolly kill him..

Damn, cant trust ratings nowadays even if its from Rotten Tomato.

I'm confused. You saying it sucked or it was good? Been watching a couple movies on a "123movies" streaming website. Saw this one on there and was planning on watching it sometime this week.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJXqvnT_rsk

Last night I watched The Pope's Exorcist, starring Russell Crowe. He's one of my favorite actors, and I usually love anything he does. He's done some really good really serious roles, but this one felt a little B-rate and hokey, like it borrowed way too much from The Exorcist. It's not terrible,... HE played a great part, as always... it's more just the screenplay itself feeling like it's kinda beneath an actor like Russell Crowe. I'd like to see Crowe getting back to playing better roles, but that's Hollywood's job I guess. They need to WRITE something WORTHWHILE. So sick of rehashed remakes, Marvel movies, and 500 Fast & Furious sequels.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqO9Nt_bq4o

Tonight I watched The Covenant, with Jake Gyllenhaal. Really good. Definitely worth watching. About the US war against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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Quake / Re: M. the big liar

« on: May 07, 2023, 07:56:48 PM »

I will spell it out. 

Yes, As will I...

not strictly "illegal".

...

... it's not against the rules.

...

I don't know what is so hard to comprehend about it

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Quake / Re: M. the big liar

« on: May 07, 2023, 05:20:15 PM »

Did you know the laws of the old testament were specifically for the jews and not really for the gentiles (us)?

Did you know what Jesus commandments were? they were as follows... Love your neighbor as yourself and love your father in heaven with all your heart. that's it

So the 9th one about not bearing false witness against your neighbor... DOESN'T APPLY... because Jesus only mentioned 2 things. 

If you're gonna proselytize, maintain your integrity a little better. ...Unless your intent is to give people MORE reasons to mistrust religion.