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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•A woman is a woman, period. But what does that mean for sexuality? (Good faith)
5·8 days agoit’s like, all arbitrary, dude
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Crazy Fucking Videos@lemmy.world•Dramatic video shows deck collapse injuring U.S. MarshalsEnglish
2·17 days agoHow far are they from my balls?
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Games@lemmy.world•Guess the game (#010) [Solved - See Comments]English
9·25 days agoBeat me to it! I was gonna guess it as well. Purely by the HUD
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cats@lemmy.world•My heart is broken again. V passed away tonight, and I don't know what to do anymore.
45·27 days agoGrieve. Feel it. That’s love. It hurts and it’s heavy, but that’s just the cost of them moving from a physical reality to one of memory and emotion. Don’t shut it out - mitigate it if you have to, bit by bit. But grief, to me, has never been about those you love leaving, that’s just them knocking at your heart’s door, asking to be let in.
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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Free alternatives to paid software
8·1 month agoIt’s figmover
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Crazy Fucking Videos@lemmy.world•More crazy Christians taking over a planeEnglish
421·1 month agoeating the guitar analy
i think the kids call this boofing
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Femcel Memes@lemmy.blahaj.zone•TFW you're asked your serious meeting thoughts but you were just fantasisingEnglish
19·2 months agoI think the second pic is from the new series, which is MUCH closer to the original manga. This includes a lot of the silliness and humour that was there. Most of the adaptations were very dark and serious, but the manga had lots of typical anime quirks and tropes.
“I don’t know, I was too busy thinking about you”
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Crazy Fucking Videos@lemmy.world•A bison tossed a tourist 2.5 meters into the air at Yellowstone National ParkEnglish
4·2 months ago“I’m sorry! I should’ve asked first!”
(Pre-amble, I don’t think the meme should be taken seriously and I do find it funny)
Horror is my favourite genre because it genuinely seeks to express the most primal and furious of all emotions: fear. From the goriest, straight-forward splatter fest to the subtlest discomforts of tense artsy horror films, the popular and cult favourite movies offer a fantastic reflection of that generation/culture’s deepest vulnerabilities.
Slashers like Friday the 13th were about the internalized self-criticism of modern, white Judea-Christian values (pre-marital sex, drugs, etc) and Nightmare on Elm Street was about parents, society, the government, etc, being unable and unwilling to help with the problems they created, problems that turn lethal. Suicide due to depression from repression, OD’ing from drugs because you need a way out, getting killed because you got mixed up with the “wrong” crowd at the wrong time, these were all things that happened to people because the “system” pushed you into a corner, and vilified any means you sought to escape.
Even “torture porn” like Saw was about feeling trapped and what extremes you’d take to “free” yourself. Terrifier, too, can offer a reflection of extreme violence offering some form of release.
Backrooms and Obsession are so relevant because they too talk about our fears of being trapped in the endlessly mundane, or attachments that we cling to beyond the safety of ourselves and others.
This is a really general rant so I’ve glossed over and even ignored so many nuances. Not to mention that I’m really not eloquent enough to really hit every nail on the head… and each person will pull their own unique experiences from horror.
I genuinely love it when people find something they can connect with in horror, regardless of what generation or subgenre they find.
edit: head not hand
He who controls the walks, controls the universe!
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Femcel Memes@lemmy.blahaj.zone•and because i have no money, i will never apologize (⁀ᗢ⁀)English
10·2 months agoFerengi rule of acquisition # 69 - an apology is worth its weight in latinum
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Uplifting News@lemmy.world•Awful practice and great job California!English
301·2 months agoOkay, so I have no idea about streaming services, but commercials on broadcast TV never had the volume increased but the compression.
(I love getting lost in details so apologies if any of this comes off condescending.) Compression works by making the quieter parts louder, without distorting the louder parts.
THINK of a SENTENCE where SOME of the WORDS are LOUD and OTHER words are QUIETER.
compression works by squishing down all the loud parts, then bringing everything back up to full volume, so the previous sentence would become:
THINK OF A SENTENCE WHERE SOME OF THE WORDS ARE LOUD AND OTHER WORDS ARE QUIETER.
Now, the loud parts didn’t become louder. What happened is that the quieter parts got louder. You lose the dynamic, but gain volume. If you think it would just be exhausting, you’re correct - even at low volumes, you can get a sense of ear fatigue when audio is heavily compressed.
Now, if you want to know why movies have quiet parts where you can’t hear shit and loud parts that are way louder, this is called dynamics. Artistically, you very much want this for the same reason you want quiet parts and loud parts in classical music. If everything is constantly loud, the dramatic moments won’t feel as impactful.
“But wait, I don’t enjoy that, I like having my TV at a reasonable volume!” Yup, me too. It’s fucking annoying. Mixing is done often on high quality speakers, loud volume, so you can get every detail. Most home setups dont have that nuance, and most people don’t care. Until execs can actually get proven that they’ll make more money by having consistent compression, you’re shit out of luck. You’ll probably have to get your own compression, either through software or hardware.
Source: used to work in sound engineering.
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Femcel Memes@lemmy.blahaj.zone•i wanna hear you girls outEnglish
10·2 months agoCapra Demon is just a hot guy in a mask. His abs are so firm you could grate CHEESE on them
We’ve said the word exploit so many fucking times they’ve lost all damn meaning!
I apologize for the exploitives.
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Technology@lemmy.world•I won a Pulitzer for explaining the Great Depression. The AI spending boom terrifies meEnglish
72·2 months agoGreat, that means were gonna fight mecha hitler in the 2040s
sometimes the pasties are too secure
the hands do look weird, but this is also a goose wearing armour
that explains my sterility. i always watched with my balls glued to the screen






Step out and sing as loudly as you can “every body and every where! Shit your pants and underwear! With a shake and a jiggle, wiggle that turd like a fiddle!”