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So, I wasn't planning to record today. Monday is one of the few reliable times I have the house to myself, but for various reasons (mostly my regular counselling sessions), I don't generally feel like recording.

But, things conspired to inspire me to record regardless, and you my dear listener, are the (hopeful) beneficiary of that. :P

I Wasn't Intending To Record Today.... - A Ramblefap

I hope you enjoy it, and that you take my suggestion of grabbing a toy yourself. :)

-transcribed from the reddit post here -tags from the reddit post as follows: [M4F][Ramblefap][Toys][JOE?][Man Noises][Moaning][British Accent][18minutes49Seconds]

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So, I saw a post on here yesterday that... Inspired me to thinking. That thinking lead to a short script, one of teasing.

I present the audio recording of that for you here. :)

"You Got This Wet Just For Me?" - A Short Script

I hope you enjoy it. :)

The script can be found here, the reddit post is here.

Tags transcribed from the reddit post as follows: [Teasing][Narrative][Mirror][Short][Sensation Play][Voyeurism?][British Accent][4minutes34seconds]

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Dead Money

Having just finished a replay of the Dead Money DLC for Fallout:New Vegas, I figure I might as well link to these recordings I did of various bits of that one. 

Sierra Madre Radio Broadcast - The Grand Opening

Dead Money Ending - Performed by Helion

Sierra Madre Radio Broadcast - Final Message

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I think that there are two key things about Dead Money (the Fallout New Vegas DLC for anyone wondering) that are worth saying:

The first is that it absolutely holds up, over a decade later - the storytelling and atmosphere are perfectly judged, the pacing the same: The Villa feels so... utterly unworldly, so profoundly wrong, and yes, hostile as anything, while the Sierra Madre itself sharply juxtaposes that just enough to make it feel like once those doors are close behind you, the wrong is locked out, even as the Suites give this... undefinable air of desperately holding out against the nameless, formless, inevitable Void in the form of The Cloud.

The second thing to be said is that the sound design and voice acting both are unfathomably good: In particular the Police Station bell, the banging sounds in the Clinic, and for that matter the bell tower at the north of Salida Del Sol are... so profoundly unsettling and chill inducing, while Dave B Mitchell really brought his A-game as Dog/God (and Laura Bailey is always on point).

And I suppose the third, is that the writing really was superb. :P

Frederick Sinclair believed one's life could be made anew every day, that fortunes were more than the wealth in your hands. Love. Life… Family, those to care for, and those who will care for you. To those who know these joys, the Sierra Madre holds little they don't already have. Out in the world, beyond these walls, that is your chance to Begin Again.

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So, I had the opportunity to record, and after recording a sfw thing, I then thought I'd deal with some of the frustrations of this week in the most classical of fashions.

But then I thought maybe I should record it? And maybe I should use my new Tenga Spinner again, but try it this time with my normal lube rather than the maker's own brand. And then... well, this was the result.

Spinning With Frustration Chapter 2 - A Ramblefap

I hope the show was as enjoyable for you as for me. :)

-transcribed from my reddit post found here -Tags from reddit post as follows: [Ramblefap][Stroker][Man Noises][Edging][Breeding][Watching Each Other][British Accent][15minutes15seconds]

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So, some of you may be aware that this time last week, I actually bought a game at launch for... the first time in years quite frankly.

And having played it to death much of the past week in amongst all the other life things, I have a ramble about it for all you lovely people who may choose to listen. :)

Gaming Ramble - Frostpunk 2

Also, because I quite enjoyed it as a gimmick/conceit on my last gaming ramble, I once again opened with a short excerpt from a song, this one about the game and found in full here.

Enjoy. :)

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You can take my heart Hold it together as we fall apart Maybe together we can make a spark in the stars we embark And keep us together as the lights go dark

So... This one is a bit different. I'm not making this ramble just after finishing the game, or even having recently played it.

But for various reasons, this morning I ended up really wanting to talk about it.

Gaming Ramble - Death Stranding

And as a bonus, I also read the song as a poem, not just as bookends to the ramble either.

Death Stranding by CHRVCHES

I hope your day is kind friend, and that you hold those you love perhaps a little closer. :)

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So, after last Mondays's audio was reasonably well recieved, I thought that I should get myself more toys, and realised that I had a chance to record coming up this Monday, and so I obtained a new toy, specifically a Tenga Spinner.

And then my life kinda imploded into a hell of a lot of stressfulness over the last few days - and so that nice chill thing I'd been planning on kinda went out the window, but I was *going* to try out my new toy damnit!

This was the result. :P

Spinning With Frustration - A Ramblefap

I hope you enjoy. :)

-transcribed from my post on reddit found here -Tags transcibed from the reddit post as follows: [Ramblefap][Stroker][Toy Test][Man Noises][A Bit Switchy][British Accent][24minutes22seconds]

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So, I was feeling a touch... feral this afternoon, and, having the house to myself, I decided I wanted to break out my stroker and get off.

Then I had the bright idea of putting my headset on, and this happened. :P

Just Feeling A Touch Feral - A Ramblefap

I thank you for listening, and hope you enjoyed yourself. :)

-transcribed from my reddit post here -tags from the reddit post as follows: [Ramblefap][Man Noises][Moaning][Stroker][Using A Toy][Creampie][Filling You Up][British Accent][9minutes35seconds]

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what accents are you good at? terrible at? Irish? French? How about American Deep South?

So, I figured I'd principally respond in audio form, but the short tldl is that I have my natural accents, but beyond that about the only one I can *kinda* do is a northern irish accent (which now I think about it is a bit odd given how my ancestors were from somewhere on the west coast).

All the rest is just nope sadly - though maybe with enough practice and effort I could get there.

EDIT: Oh! Entirely forgot - american accents are more possible when singing along - but good luck getting me to sing most of the time. :P

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Who’s the person hiding behind this blog? (intrigued by your voice)

I somewhat take issue with the concept of hiding - I mean... I've probably been more open about the ups and down of being me, not to mention the most significant moments of my life in the past several years in this space than I have basically anywhere else, with the debatable exception of talking to my counsellor. :P

But the honest answer....

-pauses for a minor existential crisis-

I'm just an introverted, nerdy/techie, neurodivergent bloke who spends more time gaming than he probably should, who enjoys long walks, working wood, recording audios, and learning things from youtube and podcasts (also a bit of a politics junkie).

Physically, the inactivity of the past few months since I moved away from Home has taken it's toll - am definitely thicker around the middle than I should be, and weaker in arm and shoulder, but I am working on that again now.

I wish the world was kinder, better, and more befitting the future we all expected/hoped for growing up. Against all the noisome evidence of recent years, I still believe that the fundamentals of humanity tend towards goodness, towards the lights of reason and liberty, even if my rational brain does tell me that it'll be a while before those beacons truly burn away the darkness trying so hard to smother them.

I don't read as much poetry as I should - honestly, don't read as much as I should just in general (news articles online and tumblr posts don't really count) - new (to me) films and TV just stress me out. Metal and rock and folk are preferred musical forms, but most things tends to occasionally throw up something or someone I like.

Sexually, I'm a switch who's IRL sex life remains blighted by his introversion, social anxiety, and by presumably having something very wrong with his tinder/feeld profile given the total lack of matches, but hey, audios are a nice outlet when I can actually record, and I do have a few online play partners which is also a nice outlet.

Anxious mess? Nerd with a scary memory for random factoids? Gamer? Techie? Hopeless romantic who probably will be alone for a long time yet to come?

Yeah, all the above, and probably plenty more, but I figure this is going on too long at this point. :)

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So, I have at long last rebuilt/updated my links bin and put it onto scriptbin, and I present the link to it here for anyone who cares to follow it.

Master Links Bin

Contained therein you will find links to all of my audios, across both of my soundgasm profiles, including ones recorded on the old MaleSexyAudio thread on 4chan, those posted here on tumblr, and those posted on reddit, all sorted into broad categories and presented in reverse order of posting date (i.e. the newest stuff first).

Maybe one day I'll really go through and throw everything into a searchable spreadsheet or something, but as I'm sure you can appreciate, with getting on for 700 audios to so process (not including the ones on clyp obviously) that's ah.... a huge task that I'm not really up for at the minute. :P

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So, this morning I woke up, and, scrolling the new tab on my phone while my brain was booting up, I saw this article from PC gamer talking about how the RTS genre's great revival has flamed out and is never really going to come.

And I chose violence.

Upshot though is that I recorded a half hour ramble on how to fix the RTS genre, and maybe return it to significance.

Gaming Ramble - How To Fix The RTS Genre

Enjoy. :)

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Two thoughts dominate my mind today: Heat, and hunger....

What's this? Two new audios from Helion in one week? :P

Yeah, well, I got the chance to record, and kinda wanted to for various reasons - but 1) I was hungry, 2) it is very hot today, and 3) some tumblr people got me very much contemplating certain other hungers.

And this was the result.

Heat And Hunger - A Ramblefap

I hope you enjoy it, thank you for listening. :)

-transcribed from my reddit post here -tags from reddit: [Ramblefap][Nipple play][Oral (giving)][Kinda MDom][Mentions of Breeding and Overstim][British Accent][14minutes34seconds]

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I think there is... some degree of inaccuracy in saying that we haven't lost technology from the Gemini or Apollo missions - we have, quite demonstrably, notably the F1 engines of the Saturn V simply can't be built today without a long and expensive program to essentially redesign them from scratch. Why?

Because the skills used to make them were... if not exactly lost (a lot of it is still known atleast in principle), they were superseded by other methods, skills and technology. As such, a lot of the machinists' tricks and minor alterations/tolerancing changes made to the blueprints by the phenomenally skilled machinists who made the parts are just... Not there any more. They were things like "oh you're making that part, just err on the side of too much with that one, it makes it work better" - do that on every component of an engine as large and complex as the F1, and the actual, real world working engine isn't actually the one in the blueprints.

And I seem to recall a few years back, someone did a high-level simulation of the F1 based on the blueprints - and in those sims, the engines simply did not work, and this was tracked down as the reason why.

There are other examples - for instance, damascus steel - yes, we can make steel that looks like damascus, and we have modern super steels that absolutely outperform it - we also (to the best of my knowledge atleast) have as yet no clue why or how, in some damascus steel blades, carbon nanotubes formed and were laced throughout them.

Meanwhile, on the subject of Stradivari violins, those we know we can't make anymore, because their unique characteristics were the product of a mini-ice age - the techniques and methods can be replicated, but the exceptionally close grained timber was specifically the result of several decades of short, cool summers, followed by long cold winters. With climate change, that ah... that ain't happening again.

Happily though, if nothing else, there's been a lot of rumbling about people having cracked replicating roman concrete in the modern world. It's still not able to be steel-reinforced, and so will be weaker, but will likely still last much longer than previous modern concretes. :)

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The point about certain capitalist societies dis-incentivising arts education is fair and well taken, and we could certainly do with more of it, if only to provide kids with a break from a "must always be useful and productive" mindset, however, the broader point about modern art being good *actually*, I think misses the point.

A lot of modern art works, provided you have the context for that specific piece of work. Without that context, a blue square is just a blue square, a Jackson Pollock painting is just a load of paint dots, and even if you have been educated about past works, you won't necessarily have been for future works.

And in turn, a lot of modern art proponents take the deeply elitist and exclusionary view that people don't like it "because they're uneducated and so simply don't get it", when in reality, most people actually prefer art that stands up by itself. Art that works without the context, and then can be enhanced or extended by context for those inclined to look for it, without excluding people who aren't.

And we can see this in many genres and artistic forms - to pick a famous example, one of the principle reasons that the MCU dominated while other attempts at cinematic universes failed (despite the often vast production and marketing budgets behind them), was that (atleast in the early stages) the MCU films stood up and worked as standalone, self-contained films, while other attempts put the universe/franchise building front and centre to start with, and so didn't work without the rest of that franchise already existing (which it didn't).

To reach for another, more niche example, this gloriously silly bit of cheesy power metal works as a gloriously silly bit of well-made cheesy power metal - meanwhile, if you're familiar with Thomas Winkler's career and the tale of his split from Gloryhammer, it just gets better as a piece of art because a whole load of the lyrics suddenly have so much more meaning to them.

Is the context of a work's creation the whole meaning, or is context an extra layer of meaning to be enjoyed? That is the core question, and denouncing the majority of people who prefer the latter option as uneducated is the absolute height of snobbery as far as I'm concerned. It is exclusionary, and it is elitist, and it is simply not acceptable.

On the subject of context however, I do have to query the choice of Jackson Pollock and the abstract expressionists not being understood as examples of the evils of capitalism, given how the promotion of that particular artistic movement was heavily funded by the CIA as a counterpoint to both the social realism movement of the 1930s, and the socialist realism that was the official cultural doctrine of the USSR.

That's a context that says "ah, the meaninglessness of what I can see on the canvas in front of me is actually the point - to destroy and bury meaning so that no meanings contrary to the desires of capital can be found or transmitted" (and btw, if that concept sounds awfully familiar to any student of modern, post-truth information warfare doctrines then well... you're catching on to why they threw so much money at it back in the day).

Is it what Pollock intended? No, but if context is the whole meaning, then it's an entirely reasonable interpretation of the work itself, because he didn't bother to put any of his intention into the work itself! It's just a load of dots on a canvas!

Without any intrinsic meaning, art has no enduring strength in itself - context is always malleable, and generally isn't up to the artist either - it's almost always down to the person receiving/experiencing the art - for a blunt example, witness how many americans think Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture was about the War Of 1812 (it wasn't).

Don't get me wrong, if you like art that is entirely malleable in that way, you do you. But please, for the love of all that is sacred on this good Earth, don't go proclaiming that it's the only true art form, or dismissing those who disagree as snobs.

abstract and modern art haters are sooo snobby like klein literally Created an entirely new pigment and then painted a canvas in a way where the brush strokes wouldn't be visible. the insinuation that people with no skill could reproduce that is so annoying because unless you are skilled at color mixing and painting you definitely couldn’t lmao

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Y'know what's always the hardest part of these audios to write? The start.

Well, it's been a while since I last did this, actually writing a script and recording an audio, but here we are.

As so often happens, it started with a tumblr post, specifically one about someone watching themselves in the mirror while touching themselves, and then someone else added the idea of self-spanking along with that, I knew that I would have an opportunity to record something coming up, and I actually managed to write the script in time. :P

But I digress (again) - onto the main event!

An Audience Of One - A Mirror SI

The script can be found here

I hope you enjoy the audio, and the show. :P

-text transcribed from my reddit post found here -Tags from reddit: [Scripted SI][Guided Masturbation][Self Pussy Spanking][Nipple Play][Mirror play][Exhibitionism?][Good Girl][Praise][British Accent][28minutes51seconds]