#so so much tinnitus

[literallyaflame]

while I agree with the sentiment of the post i think it also needs to be understood that someone getting irritated at not being heard (when they don't know you're hard of hearing) is not something that needs to be vilified either. it's normal. its a clash of needs - their need to heard because I mean i have to communicate something at work so I'm gonna need to make sure you heard, and your need to not have to explain that you're hard of hearing for decency. a clash of needs doesn't put wither party at fault. you realistically can't expect someone to call your name 5 times, not realising you're hard of hearing or d/Deaf, and be politely on their merry way without feeling a tinge of annoyance. these things really aren't that black and white

here’s the funny thing about this—you’re right, you can’t control your annoyance. that’s an involuntary response.

however, you are in control of what follows. meanness is a choice, condescension is a choice, cruelty is a choice. yelling at someone you’ve never met before? that’s a choice—but kindness is a choice, too. you could choose to educate yourself about human differences. you could choose to look up some simple, visual ways to get someone’s attention. hell, you could choose to learn sign language! you have the freedom to choose all sorts of things, my friend, but i cannot choose to hear you any better

[martyrbat]

batman: shadow of the bat #0

[ID: a flashback of the outside of Wayne Manor at night. A narration box (unrelated to the scene) reads, “Ya think he's got a guardian angel, or somethin'?” Inside the manor, Leslie Thompkins and Alfred Pennyworth are talking in regards of young Bruce Wayne. They sit in a magnificent library at a small table as Bruce sits at his own desk that's across the room and has his face buried in a book. Alfred reassures her, “— Worried about him, Doctor Thompkins? I can assure you there's no need! Master Bruce has the manor to live in — myself to look after him — the best education money can buy—”. Leslie cuts Alfred off before he can continue rambling out more examples. She tells him, “It's what he doesn't have that bothers me, Alfred. Friends — hobbies — the kind of life a normal teenager looks forward to. He spends all his time in the gym, or here reading. I don't think he ever recovered from his parents' death.” We're shown Bruce, now in a close-up and able to see the book he's reading is titled ‘Lip Reading For Beginners’. Bruce peers over the book intensely as Leslie continues to express her rightful concern, “He almost seems obsessed!” END ID]

[jsluvtzu]

well!

[simplydnp]

hi char! so i've watched the video about a million times but can't seem to figure out what dan says at 1:17, 4:12 and 13:10. Any ideas?

hullo!

1:17 - it sounds like he says 'is this a fromsoft game? what is going on?'

fromsoft (aka fromsoftware) is a Japanese video game company that's made dark souls, elden ring, and bloodborne. He's making the lore and dark atmosphere comparison.

4:12 - it sounds like 'can't spell succulent' and then 'i'm bad at lent. what are you going to give up?' gotta love a catholic lent joke 😂

13:10 - "are you saying horn lord looked like an ahegao face?"

thank u for making me look up proper spelling 😔 but yes he's saying phil was making a post-orgasm face joke

[kangaracha]

i'm moving house but queenmaker will be updated by the end of next week at the absolute latest (i'd like to say the end of this week but that feels dangerously optimistic)

[rohirric-hunter]

Gee thanks Google

Anyway I think this is a good example of the less funny and more insidious ways the AI overview can be wrong or confusing or offer information without necessary context. Essentially what the AI overview is saying here is, "Yes you can do it but also it's dangerous," which to be fair is what its sources are saying. The problem is that the sources are saying completely opposite things, and I need to be able to see that and also what the sources are in order to make an informed decision. Thus rendering the AI overview completely useless at best and potentially dangerous at worst

[msburgundy]

i probably should have added that i kinda don't like metal 😔

[zyrafowe-sny]

So 11 days until I get to see an ENT. And in the meantime I can't reliably understand my own family members unless they are a foot away and I can see their faces as they talk.

[ziodyne-amax]

i went through a couple stages of grief when i saw that uh. you'd eaten the sandwich. then it was okay because it looked like you knew about the cure. then i freaked out again because apparently you were crying? but you seemed pleased?

i. are you okay. with being irrevocably changed by the sandwich?

@gotta-pet-em-all

I was irrevocably changed by the car crash... I thought I'd never be able to exist without my headphones again. I've prayed for this to happen for a decade. And it finally has! I can hear again!

[waywardsalt]

Hi! I hope you’re doing good in life.

What do you think of a phantom hourglass remake? Tbh I don’t know how they could remake it without basically remaking it from the ground-up. It would probably play more like windwaker, which I see as a both a good and bad thing. On the one hand, if it was more like windwaker a lot more people would probably play and it would be more popular since I know the touch controls were a turn off for most people for both Spirit Tracks and Phantom hourglass. But on the other hand, remaking it to be more like windwaker would make the game lose some of it’s previous identity. Like, Phantom hourglass was so unique because of the touch controls and the puzzles you can make and solve by having two screens and touch controls. And it was so nifty and handy to be able to write notes on your map. Idk, I still would like it to be remade in general even if it ends up a basically different game, but I wouldn’t change the story or the characters, especially Linebeck. The only other change I would make is the music. Phantom hourglass had rather weak themes, mainly because they re-used the same theme for the islands and the dungeons. The only songs that were really good were the few orginal tracks made for the game, so Linebeck’s theme, Oshus’s theme, both Bellum boss battle themes and the and that music that plays when you first follow the Ghost Ship. But what would you want out of a phantom hourglass remake?

Hey, I’m doing good, and I hope you are too!

I’ve thought a bit about a possible Phantom Hourglass remake, but not too much recently. I don’t really know if I’d want one, since you’d lose a lot of what really makes it special, and you can still play it through other means. I’m personally fond of the graphics and the music- yes, even the dungeon theme has grown on me- so I don’t really want a remake too badly, especially since I fear any additions/changes they might make with story or characters in a remake. The touch controls make it, and playing it on pc recreates that feeling decently well, but I don't think it'll be just the same if you had to control it with joysticks or anything.

Not to mention, there's so much emphasis on having the two screens, too, not just for map stuff, but almost every single boss had a mechanic related to the top screen! I have no fucking clue how you'd replicate that very well on something like the switch without just fucking with the mechanics altogether.

I would kill to hear some of Phantom Hourglasses tracks be orchestrated or otherwise rearranged in a higher quality. I wouldn't want any of the more notable themes altered in any way, no adding or removing of melodies and only very very small changes to the instrumentation, but I think it'd be neat to see what could be done with dungeon themes. I think a while back I had a fleeting desire to write some short tracks for each dungeon, with some ideas like mostly using instruments heard in Bellum's themes for the dungeons while each individual one gets a leading instrument unique to and reflective of the dungeon, while the Ghost Ship maybe gets a song that's a bit of a expanded version of the fog theme, while the Temple of the Ocean King could have slightly different themes the further in you got, starting with instruments more common to Oshus's theme or the great sea theme, while the further in you got the more instruments from Bellum's theme would be heard, plus some harpsichord thrown in for the hell of it.

Leave the original dungeon theme for stuff like the minor pyramids and some larger cave areas, idk. It's grown on me.

I think the only story rearranging I'd want is mayyyyybe unfridging Tetra? You could very easily shuffle some things around with her and just not damsel her for the whole game and honestly it'd still go off perfectly without a hitch. But you'd still have to deal with the World of the Ocean King being a whole other world, so either bring her and her crew in and have them as wandering ship npcs (the better idea) or just leave them out (not a good idea) but either way it's better than what they actually did. I just don't think I'd want it to switch to Tetra being a major reoccurring character tbh, the main character dynamics in PH are good as they are.

I think I like Phantom Hourglass too much as it is to really want a remake at all. I'd rather we get something like an anime adaptation. That's what I think about more. Give me animated Phantom Hourglass with some fun takes on the dungeons and fights and some fun slice of life stuff with the group between the islands what I want is a Phantom Hourglass anime

[gristlegrinder]

a fun(?) fact about siya is that their burn scars on their face and forearms are from scarlet! they were living in lion’s arch when she first attacked and were pulled out of the wreckage of their apartment by the lionguard. they’re incredibly lucky to have survived, all things considered, because it was not looking good for them.

they also have scarlet’s rattle from the miasma damage to their respiratory system, which is one of my favorite little details of worldbuilding.

[trainingdummyrabbit]

besties im gonna be real i think the mental problems are starting to become physical ones

[rivalsilveryuri]

What did you do to dirty freak .....

Im sorry.... it had to be done

[parseolegacy]

Yoinked This meme from @lanabenikosdoormat Indecisive Bitch Ver. because I have an easier time naming what I don't like rather than the other way around because I have a strong baseline 'like' for almost every one of these mfs and multiple go above that

I'm a lover not a fighter 😔

[bending-sickle]

not me panicking at 2 am about my poll because i just remembered it might read ambiguously at people might answer thinking i meant ejaculate (verb) and not ejaculate (noun) which is what i actually meant

[pristine-starlight]

Experiencing my usual despair over having had to move to windows, this time bc i just wanted a damn ambient noise maker and it means i need to wade through AI written articles and microsoft app store pages waxing poetic about productivity and in-app purchases. I miss the simple little open source noise box (Blanket) that i used to use on linux