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- NineInchNall
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*head asplode* (Aside: Why isn't there an emoticon for that?)
So I'm looking for headphone reviews and such for a friend and stumble across stereophile.com. Ah, this should be useful. I begin reading a review of some beatsbydr.dre 'phones and get to the second page when I read mention that only lossless formats are suitable for listening - my stomach begins to tighten. Finishing the review, I realize that four pages have gone by and not once has the reviewer said anything objective about the sound quality of the product.
Then a memory tickles my brain. Didn't I read an audiophile article a long time back that said something to the effect that objective, double-blind testing was flawed in evaluating sound equipment - on the basis that after the test, the participants were told which sources were which and were then able to discern differences? Oh, gawd. A quick site search turns up all these articles and forum topics with the word 'blind': My brain liquifies.
So creatard thinking dominates everywhere. Hurray.
So I'm looking for headphone reviews and such for a friend and stumble across stereophile.com. Ah, this should be useful. I begin reading a review of some beatsbydr.dre 'phones and get to the second page when I read mention that only lossless formats are suitable for listening - my stomach begins to tighten. Finishing the review, I realize that four pages have gone by and not once has the reviewer said anything objective about the sound quality of the product.
Then a memory tickles my brain. Didn't I read an audiophile article a long time back that said something to the effect that objective, double-blind testing was flawed in evaluating sound equipment - on the basis that after the test, the participants were told which sources were which and were then able to discern differences? Oh, gawd. A quick site search turns up all these articles and forum topics with the word 'blind': My brain liquifies.
So creatard thinking dominates everywhere. Hurray.
Current pet peeves:
Misuse of "per se". It means "[in] itself", not "precisely". Learn English.
Malformed singular possessives. It's almost always supposed to be 's.
Misuse of "per se". It means "[in] itself", not "precisely". Learn English.
Malformed singular possessives. It's almost always supposed to be 's.
Ow. I do think there is actually a detectable difference between MP3s and loss-less formats, but it's honestly not very noticable and probably doesn't even exist for older people.
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
Why older people?name here wrote:I do think there is actually a detectable difference between MP3s and loss-less formats, but it's honestly not very noticable and probably doesn't even exist for older people.
I think what I've seen on the subject isn't anyone disputing the difference, but that it's been observed that younger people prefer the sound provided by formats such as mp3. Essentially, they hear that sound quality so much that they use it for their preferential baseline.
My son makes me laugh. Maybe he'll make you laugh, too.
The hearing range of a person degrades with age and loud noise, and the mp3 format slices stuff off stuff beyond the ends of the standard hearing range.
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
- Josh_Kablack
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"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
Did anyone else just innately get that article in a stoned hipster voice in their head? It started at "are performed not by disinterested experimenters on a quest for the truth but by partisan hacks on a mission to discredit audiophiles." and continued from there.NineInchNall wrote:Didn't I read an audiophile article a long time back that said something to the effect that objective, double-blind testing was flawed in evaluating sound equipment
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
- Stahlseele
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bwahahaahahahahahahaaa ^^[Redacted] Guy is the resident Single Guy writer for Lemondrop. As a teenager, he invented a brilliant new grope called "The Short-Stop" (halfway between second and third base) that made him more popular than DVR, chai and Genesis combined. He sleeps diagonally in bed, because he can.
Also, dunno if it's been posted yet but:
SUPERMAN IS A DICK!
http://superdickery.com/index.php?Itemi ... w=category
Srsly![/url]
Welcome, to IronHell.
Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
best one I've ever seen:sabs wrote:http://damnyouautocorrect.com
That site has me practically peeing in my pants it's so funny.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Are your pets going to be left alone after the Rapture? Fear not! Guaranteed atheists left behind will make sure they're OK {OK, Pets, Post-Rapture World, Is Your Area Covered?}.
My son makes me laugh. Maybe he'll make you laugh, too.
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- Duke
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http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=51
It's like a forum for people trying to give virtual BJs to anyone that's touched an RPG. They even have a whole subforum where they've collected Gygax's responses.
It's like a forum for people trying to give virtual BJs to anyone that's touched an RPG. They even have a whole subforum where they've collected Gygax's responses.
I couldn't bring myself to read these. Anyone bored enough to go find interesting gems for us (me?).K wrote:http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=51
It's like a forum for people trying to give virtual BJs to anyone that's touched an RPG. They even have a whole subforum where they've collected Gygax's responses.
I stumbled across Sex in Christ today {NSFW, Sex, Sexuality, Bible Passages, No Pictures}, and couldn't stop laughing.
The site includes such informational articles as Anal Sex in Accordance with God's Will, Bondage in Christ - BDSM in a Christian Marriage, A Proposal for a Christian Pornography, and Fisting and God's Will.
The site includes such informational articles as Anal Sex in Accordance with God's Will, Bondage in Christ - BDSM in a Christian Marriage, A Proposal for a Christian Pornography, and Fisting and God's Will.
My son makes me laugh. Maybe he'll make you laugh, too.
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Maj wrote:Fisting and God's Will.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
That site is hilarious and disturbing in equal measures.Maj wrote:I stumbled across Sex in Christ today {NSFW, Sex, Sexuality, Bible Passages, No Pictures}, and couldn't stop laughing.
The site includes such informational articles as Anal Sex in Accordance with God's Will, Bondage in Christ - BDSM in a Christian Marriage, A Proposal for a Christian Pornography, and Fisting and God's Will.
King Francis I's Mother said wrote:The love between the kings was not just of the beard, but of the heart
Slashdot linked to pics from the Detroit Maker Faire.
My favorite pics:
RC red shell.
making d4s even more deadly caltrops. What. Could. Possibly. Go. Wrong.
My favorite pics:
RC red shell.
making d4s even more deadly caltrops. What. Could. Possibly. Go. Wrong.
- Josh_Kablack
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"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
- Count Arioch the 28th
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http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-innocent- ... lame-wars/
Also, the last time I had a cat declawed it died from complications afterward, if you don't believe in tipping you can make your own goddamn food, 0.99999999... is close enough to 1 for government work, my mom requested I not get cut when I was born but they did anyway and threatened to sue her if she didn't sign the release afterward (it didn't work), the idea of vegan farts is just grody, and don't let your dog shit on other people's property.
Also, the last time I had a cat declawed it died from complications afterward, if you don't believe in tipping you can make your own goddamn food, 0.99999999... is close enough to 1 for government work, my mom requested I not get cut when I was born but they did anyway and threatened to sue her if she didn't sign the release afterward (it didn't work), the idea of vegan farts is just grody, and don't let your dog shit on other people's property.
In this moment, I am Ur-phoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my int score.
Definitely funny, especially the vegan part. I think I can vouch that my fellow barbershopper - a Vegan (for health puspoes only) Jewish Medical Doctor - doesn't stink whatsoever. (And his wive makes the best lentil soup I have ever tasted.) Did I mention he sings bass?Count Arioch the 28th wrote:http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-innocent- ... lame-wars/
I kept expecting half of those forum quotes to be attributed to the den...
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
http://godsmouse.com/
Basically a huge thing of all of Google's map of earth.
I found my house on there.
Also:
A zombie-proof house!
Basically a huge thing of all of Google's map of earth.
I found my house on there.
Also:
A zombie-proof house!
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
I'm putting that on my Amazon wish list. You know, just in case I win one of those things where you get everything on your wish list.Maxus wrote: A zombie-proof house!