yukichigai

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I loved their first album, listened to it a lot. Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja and The Fake Sound of Progress are both amazing tracks. Unfortunately they're both vocalized by a literal baby rapist, so it's hard to rock out to them now. Asshole wrote the tracks too, so I doubt No Devotion will ever cover them.

As for Guns N' Roses, a friend pointed out something that's been living in my head for months now: Axl Rose is the Starscream of Guns N' Roses.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Rolled Japanese style, aka tamagoyaki. That is really difficult.

Over easy is as easy as the name though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Zero. Every time I've been on the verge of blocking a community (or instance, since kbin can do that) it winds up vanishing anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Naw he's off at RenFaire.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Beast Wars. My wife and I both remember loving it when we were younger and wondered if that was just nostalgia and being a kid. It was not, the show is legitimately good.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You say, I feel that, and yet every time another poll about the economy comes out its like I live in a different universe entirely.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The upcoming Fallout series on Amazon Prime. This is a screencap taken from one of the most recent trailers.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

The other guy is worse, so we really don’t have to listen to a damn thing you say at all and you have to vote for our guy, get that through your poverty addled brains.

I mean I hate to say it but this is unironically true. As bad as things are now The Other Guy absolutely would make things worse. Neoliberals may be a scourge but MAGA is cancer. One of the bad cancers. Not even prostate cancer, like pancreatic cancer.

 
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also, don't put all your eggs in one basket: diversify, diversify, diversify. Make a main account, but have more on at least one other instance. Instances go down for maintenance, software gets updated, owners change moderation policies, so on. If you can't get to Lemmy through your main, use your secondary.

Personally I use lemmy.sdf.org as my secondary. It's run by a bunch of retro-enthusiast Unix nerds who more care about the functionality of the tech than anything else. No blocked communities there, and AFAIK they haven't defederated from any instance outside of ones that were hacked/compromised. That does not mean you can just go there and be a shitbird though, they do have standards.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Good as that is, I gotta endorse the Utah Philips version. It comes with context and a story, and also he's hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, though I am honor-bound to point out that Sandbox6 has been maintaining YUP for the last several years now. Doing a great job, too.

AFAIK they're not on Lemmy or I'd tell you to thank them more directly. Still!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I didn't check literally every one, but I did a few spot checks and none of them had problems.

 
 

I'm getting rid of an old Hi8 camcorder and figured I'd throw in the tapes with it, but I want to wipe the contents of the tapes before I do. I don't have a huge magnet or anything I can use to quickly erase the tapes, so the only option is to record over them using the camcorder. Instead of being boring and just muting it and leaving the lens cap on I figured I might put something vaguely interesting on there.

The camcorder is one of those fancy units where the audio/video outputs can be used as audio/video inputs when the thing is in tape playback/recording mode (VTR). I do have an HDMI -> Composite converter, so I can actually record video and audio together, albeit at 480i with bleeding colors. Alternatively I can leave the lens cap on and pipe audio directly into the microphone jack, which is stereo.

As for what to record, my spouse and I have come up with a few ideas:

  • Vaporwave (generally)
  • Weather Channel Vaporwave (specifically)
  • ~2 hours of the Lo-fi Girl stream
  • Everywhere at the End of Time (broken across 3 tapes)
  • A public domain serial radio drama (Have Gun Will Travel is my vote)
  • Public domain films (Laurel and Hardy or maybe some Charlie Chaplin)
  • Steven Soderbergh's silent black & white recut of Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Analog horror of some kind (e.g. Backrooms, Gemini Home Entertainment, Local 58 except it's way too short)

Aside from that, generally anything that might look better with proper analog distortion is an obvious win. The camcorder can only record at full speed, 2.5 hours per tape, so no way to add extra distortion that way.

Also I do have a capture card and can turn around and re-record whatever I put on these tapes, so if you want to see the results I can show you.

Anywho, what's your suggestions Lemmy? What treasures can I leave on these Hi8 tapes?

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