MIDItheKID
@MIDItheKID@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 3 weeks ago:
I have a sister in law like this. She’s really cool and we generally get along but God damn is she hard to deal with sometimes.
There was one instance where it was our niece’s birthday and we had made this shitty balloon arch for pictures. When it came to the end of the party and we needed to break it all down, I knew that a bunch of the balloons had like confetti in them. She was helping with the breakdown, and I had dealt with these before so I was like “watch out for the confetti balloons, try to cut them open near the know and let the air out slow, and do it over a garbage can incase it pops. They will shoot confetti everywhere if they pop and it’s a pain in the ass to clean up” and she just turned at me with tho most vitriol “ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO MANSPLAIN TO ME HOW TO POP BALLOONS?!” and I was like “Okay jeez, was just trying to help”
Not two minute later I see her with a pin just popping the balloons off of the arch. Fucking confetti everywhere. I turned to my wife, who saw the exchange and I was like “yeah I’m not helping clean that up”
This is the same woman who screams about body shaming etc, and when she expressed interest in one of my friends who is Japanese said “He’s hot but it’s too bad he probably has a small dick”. Like… That’s racist AND body shaming.
We agree on a lot of things socially and politically, and like I said generally we get along, but she also complains very loudly about how she can’t keep relationships sustained and it’s like… Yo, all you do is vocally complain about how men are the source of all problems. But you also want to be with one?
Like, look… I’m all in support of feminism, but it should be about rising women up, not chopping men down. I didn’t choose to be born with a penis. Why am I automatically an enemy? I’m an ally.
Fuck.
- Comment on Anon gets scammed 3 weeks ago:
When I was 19 I was in a band with this really strange kid. He was super charismatic though, and just seemed to make friends with anybody he met. One of those people happened tk be this 40 year old bus driver. We went over his place one time to smoke a joint, and he showed us his grow room. This was in like 2005 or so, so all very illegal. He got in my face about not telling anybody and how I better not be a narc. Anyway… Then we ate some pot brownies and watched a movie. The brownie I ate wasn’t doing anything so I ate another and learned a very important life lesson about edibles. If you’re not feeling the first one, don’t eat the second one. I was high as fuck. Banished to the shadow realm, some light say. Took a few hours to regain my composure and walk home. It was a weird fuckin night.
So yeah. Probably anecdotal but “what do school bus drivers do when not driving a school bus?” - grow weed, and eat pot brownies with teenage punk rockers and watch movies.
- Comment on I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years. 3 weeks ago:
Joints look good! I would maybe look into cleaning the contact pads on the bottom of the cartridge though. It may work fine now, but those things can corrode and it looks like yours may have already started. A liitle preventative maintenance could extend the life by quite a bit.
Side note on soldering - isn’t it crazy how easy people make it look in YouTube videos and what not? Like, they always just heat up and flow so perfectly and so quickly on the first try every time. I guess it comes with experience. It took me a long time to get the hang of it, and I still can’t do what those folks do. Anyway, your solder looks great. Proud of you, too.
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers 4 weeks ago:
Farquaad lineage.
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 1 month ago:
I always got more of a middle-eastern vibe from Gerudo Valley. Their clothing has kind of a belly-dancer thing going.
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 1 month ago:
An of course their logo was on the ammo crates for the nail gun. Because if you have an automatic nail gun, nine inch nails make the perfect ammo. You’re not going to kill shamblers with 23ga pin nails.
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 1 month ago:
Yeah this is pretty forward on the Acid Bass, made famous by the TB-303. While that track doesn’t sound exactly like a 303, definitely reminiscent of it, and the 303 finds its way into a lot of industrial. This track is pretty cinematic, which fits it right into that “video game soundtrack” vibe that doesn’t exist much outside of games. I’m bored right now though, so I’m going to go down some rabbit holes and maybe find something for you to listen to. This type of music is right up my alley, so I might discover some new stuff to listen to myself.
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 1 month ago:
Oohh oh oh… Check out “The Algorithm”
I think that might be the closest to what you are looking for that I can think of. It’s a little metal on the drums, but it’s got way more synth lead stuff.
While a bit different from what your asking for, you should also check out Master Boot Record - it’s a bit more chip tune metal. It’s fun though
I think you were asking about the genre of music, and I don’t have an answer for you off the top of my head, but if you want to go on the journey of electronic music genres and sub genres and sub sub genres and learn about types of music and artists you might like, strap on your ear goggles and head on over to Ishkur’s guide to electronic music:music.ishkur.com
I have lost hours of my life there before.
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 1 month ago:
So like… MDFMK maybe?
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 1 month ago:
I dunno… According to this, Gerudo Valley should have a sitar and zurna flute, but instead the flamenco jam comes in hot with the Spanish guitar and trumpet.
- Comment on Red, White and Blue 1 month ago:
Yeah it’s so fucking backwards. I should be considered a patriot. I want Americans to have access to Healthcare and education. I want Americans to thrive and do great things. But no… Apparently the definition of patriotism over here is “I don’t care about other people, I only care about me, and also, kill brown people in other countries”
- Comment on a special message from our sponsors 2 months ago:
They left out the apostrophes and dropped an “L”
It’s about a crisis that America has been coping with for a while.
Fent an’ y’all
It’s a TV show about a dog named Fenton (or Fent, as they call him) who is also a cowboy that is a hero of his community. It’s a spinoff of the show “Heroine” which was about a female superhero who had the ability to save people by miraculasly removing any pain that they felt. But it got kind of too dark when people started depending on her to be there and couldn’t survive without her. The public didn’t respond well.
Anyway, there was another spinoff of the show Heroine called “Purdue and You” about a similar hero named “Oxy”, and it was basically just the same plot of Heroine but a little bit more family friendly and the audience seemed to accept it more even though it was the same thing.
So now “Fent an’ Ya’ll” is kind of building on the popularity of both of those shows, but it’s just got much more impact. It’s like each episode feels 100x stronger. You’ll feel love, you’ll feel joy, and it might just leave you standing there doubled over. People are hooked.
- Comment on Two sides to every story 2 months ago:
“If it smells like shit everywhere you go, check your shoe” sums it up pretty nice
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 2 months ago:
Lots of callous to Postal 2, but not a lot of talk about the GTA series? Weird. Postal 2 was “3 edgy 4 U” and all, there were definitely some hilarious and violent things you can do. I remember pissing in somebody’s mouth and they started throwing up, so I hit their head off with a shovel, and the vomit continued to shoot out of their neck into the sky. But once you get past the shock value the game is pretty bland. I played the hell out of the demo back in the day, and eventually got my hands on a copy and I remember thinking “oh, it’s just the same thing but with more levels”…
Anyway. The GTA series are actually good games. Like the controls, physics, story, comedy, etc etc… But also, you can go into a boutique clothing store in a affluent part of the city and murder all of the patrons and then when the cops show up - shoot rockets at their cars. Then pull somebody out of a high end vehicle and beat the shit out of them with a baseball bat and escape a high speed car chase. You can even play it in VR. Never done it myself but I remember seeing videos of beating people with blunt objects while they attempted to put their arms up in defense but succumbed to the blows and went unresponsive on the ground and though “holy fucking shit, that was really violent”.
Anyway… That also lost its shock value pretty fast, but at least the games remained fun when playing the objective.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 2 months ago:
And a chain mail glove.
Not joking. You can get them cheap and they will save your finger tips.
Mandolins usually come with those plastic things to hold the food you are slicing, but I always find them to be awkward and kinda sketchy. Like they can slip off the track and send your knuckle down on the blade etc.
Chain mail glove.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 2 months ago:
If you’re willing to spend the money, get a Ken Onion knife sharpener. It’s a belt sander specifically designed for knives and tools. You plug it in, adjust it to the angle that you want, and pull your knife through while powering it. It’s way faster than any sharpening stone, and has almost no learning curve. You can put higher/lower grit on it depending on what you need. Got a chip in a knife? Hit it with low grit and grind it down until the chip is gone (yeah you will lose some knife, but as far as I know there’s no way to add metal back to a blade). Want to just touch up your knives? Use medium-high and then high grit. Shit, you could sharpen a butter knife to a razor if you’re so inclined. It’s a bit of an up-front investment, but it’s a great fool-proof way to sharpen knives really fast.
- Comment on I wish I knew of Lemmy earlier. I've wasted too much time on 'mainstream' social media. 2 months ago:
Oh the terminal doesn’t scare me. I’m a Powershell junkie, so the terminal is warm and inviting. I just haven’t had the time to do it. Im also a windows admin by career so I like to be tuned into Microsoft’s bullshit to some extent, it’s part of my job. One of these days I’ll get around to it.
- Comment on But the Canadien stock market is over 33,000! 2 months ago:
Wait, like all the time?
In the US, every time the Winter Olympics come around there is this temporary curling craze where everybody gets super into it and you would swear it’s their favorite thing and then the Olympics end and it disappears out of everybody’s mind instantly. Like a spell being broken or something. It’s weird.
- Comment on I wish I knew of Lemmy earlier. I've wasted too much time on 'mainstream' social media. 2 months ago:
It’s pretty great! I miss some of the smaller communities on Reddit, like I still go back there for /r/Intune while I am working, but it will be a cold day in hell if I ever install the reddit app on my phone.
There are some side affects of Lemmy though. I’m pretty close to installing Linux on my computers. Just haven’t found the time.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 2 months ago:
I like spicy things. I eat spicy things all the time. One time maybe 10 years ago I ate a “stinger” pie from a pizza place. It was a pizza with hot peppers and hot pepper oil. It was so spicy and so so good.
The events that occurred in the next 24 hours were something to behold. I was sitting on the toilet, sweating, shaking, and making my peace with God. It was an all day event. Full throttle.
Since then, my intestinal fortitude has been severely diminished. I have to be careful about eating things too spicy or it will mess me up. It’s like I built up a thick intestinal lining over years and years, and this one event tore down the walls. They were blasted out.
Life has not been the same.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 2 months ago:
Who the fuck has you keep your shoes on? I keep mine on, but if somebody comes over and asks if they should take their shoes off I just say “whatever makes you comfortable. On or off, doesn’t matter to me”
That’s weird.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 2 months ago:
I’m not the person you are responding to, but I am a fellow shoes-oner. I find the soles of my shoes to be way more comfortable than walking on the ground. Like I go to shoes-off homes and they have these foam mats on the floor in their kitchen and it’s like “imagine those foam mats were on the bottom of your feet and went with you everywhere”. Additionally I live in a place where it gets cold. Cold feet suck.
Now before the “well then wear slippers” gang comes in. I have tried that. The soles of slippers pale in comparison to whatever the fuck my Allbirds are made out of. Additionally, slippers are often TOO warm. I don’t want cold feet, but I also don’t want sweaty feet.
If I have to wear boots or larger/warmer shoes because of snow/rain, I will absolutely take those off at the door. But when I take them off, I am putting on my Allbirds.
For me, ultimate foot comfort is my sneakers. I’ll take my shoes off if you have a shoes off home, but I’m not going to enjoy it.
- Comment on Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre 2 months ago:
Everybody is entitled to an opinion. And that certainly is one.
- Comment on Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre 2 months ago:
Blackpink kinda slaps though.
- Comment on Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre 2 months ago:
And then came AI generated music…
- Comment on Bears or no bears? 3 months ago:
Interesting. There’s also no penguins in the arctic. But there are penguins in Antarctica. I wonder if the was penguins in the north originally, but the bears ate them all. And the only reason the continue to exist in Antarctica is because there aren’t bears to eat them.
- Comment on I can still smell them 3 months ago:
I think there was even one more evolution where the plastic caps came in a strip instead of a ring. The strip was put in a magazine that slid into the bottom of the pistol. Most of them just moved the strip up as they fired, but if I recall correctly there were even ones that cut each cap off individually after firing it and ejected it like an empty shell. Awful for litter, but pretty cool for cap gun technology. I am pretty sure all of this stuff has been banned where I live.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 4 months ago:
Right there next to the poop knife.
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 4 months ago:
Lobsters and Crabs are 100% giant sea insects. Shrimp are basically giant sea gnats. They are tasty and provide nutrients. No problem there. Plenty of cultures eat land insects.
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 4 months ago:
I’ve learned recently that “Vegetable” is kind of like that too. Like most vegetables are fruits, seeds, leaves, roots, etc etc. Vegetable is a culinary term, not a botanical one, and it’s still foggy. It’s basically a plant that isn’t sweet, but they also call sweet corn a vegetable so whatever.