Oh I’m not even just talking about TVs. I’m talking about headphones too. I’ve had perfectly good headphones of decent quality that have experienced this issue with movies in particular. Everything else is fine. Games, videos, music all sound great, but some movies are just balanced so poorly. It’s a shared computer space so it’s not really the place for one person to have a whole sound system just to watch poorly balanced movies.

You looking for an excuse? No one else brought it up but if you need permission, go ahead. Thumbs up from me.

I shouldn’t have to invest hundreds of dollars into a whole separate sound system just because the sound designers of a movie can’t properly balance to audio for stereo sound, the single most common audio set up in the entire world.

Sometimes you gotta look at the context. It’s like the US civil war. A good chunk of the country will swear up and down it was fought over states’ rights and leave it at that.

States’ rights to do what?

Slavery.

Yes, women’s “rights” to be transphobic essentially. The J.K. Rowling Women’s Fund, the organization she is founding, uses TERF dogwishtles in their mission statement right on their page. “Overly inclusive policies”. Come on.

Makes it harder to spot the homeless people living in their cars that might want to park there for the night.

While nice in theory, that’s not how partisan politics works in practice. What’s going to happen is that the absurdly large proportion of judges from conservative states will simply shout over opposition like they currently do in all other branches of government and stonewall any attempt to compromise. Gods forbid you try to push progressive ideas.

How does that apply to cameras used as deterrents? They’re present the whole time.

Giving each state equal representation without a population distribution that is exactly equal across every state inherently devalues the representation of those in population centers, giving disproportionate power to a party that is outnumbered but is spread out over the much emptier land. Equal rep must be based proportionally off of population to avoid devaluing individual voter influence.

How dare you make a perfectly reasonable point? 😡

Why use bottled water when you have a reusable 3L pouch?

You can’t call them that dude 😳

My golden cloud bimbo baby Skye!

Nearly free? I’d tell you to tell that to my dad, but he passed away after getting thoroughly drained of most of his savings thanks to his “nearly free” health care while dying of cancer.

But also the vibes are totally different. In the original there’s a palpable eldritch terror despite the absurdity, helped along by the difference in scale and the unknowable malice in Ribbonthulhu’s expression. In the ai generated version it just looks like a phoned in political cartoon with a shocked Pikachu MAGA looking mildly alarmed at a rather underwhelming baby Cthulhu with ribbons attached.

At a certain point, a wrong note is just a new scale being born c:

I replied to the wrong person but you are right!

Then literally just say “could be better”. It’s the truth, and phrased in such a way that a stranger you’re exchanged pleasantries with doesn’t have to feel awkward about it.

Well if we want get technical it’s roots are in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands.

Old English would like to have a word.