I told my friends I invited Taylor Swift, Zohran Mamdani and the pope to my birthday party

The fucking hypocrisy of it all stings. Years of everyone being told not to copy that floppy or Lars Ulrich takes your girlfriend because you wouldn’t download a car, would you? Turns out when Microsoft and Softbank bankroll you for billions to download all the warez the internet has to offer, Mickey will not only let you off scot free but gives you a warm sloppy pat on the back as a bonus. With enough doubloons you’re not a pirate anymore, you’re the navy.

People who dislike C’thlaglthorp tend to come in two camps: the ones that prefer significant whitespace and the ones that don’t.

What he got wrong is that the emotionally stunted boss man in charge of executing the plans of the shadowy elite conspiracy was a grieving widowed wife guy and not just the most divorced man in the world.

We need to fight capitalism with giant mechs modeled after wealthy white leftist intellectuals. Here’s my proposal for project Friedrich Evangelsion Unit-00

To answer the question, the most unintuitive part of that is YAML.

Critical support for comrade DeVault in his struggle against western imperialism?

The real problem with leftist infighting is that if you call a different type of leftist a mean word, some ignorant liberal is going to call you the same word. And then a reactionary will call a liberal that.

I don’t think he ever cared that much about Harry Potter in the first place. Much of HPMOR has these odd little uncommented contradictions with the original books that seem to result from skimming or basing your info on fan wikis.

Fucking anti-khaganate propaganda. Real ones know this is the true version of that progress image.

Okay daddprofessor. Most of us were agreeing that Trump admin trading gold reserves for cryptocoins is a stupid idea. This seems to have attracted people who agreed for the incorrect reason, namely that they think inert yellow metal is the fundamental source and measure of wealth, which David called out. After that it could be one of three things:

a) You misunderstood what David wrote and rudely insinuated he is unfamiliar with the concept of speculative investment.

b) You correctly understood what David wrote and — being a goldbug yourself — took issue with it and proceeded to make the aforementioned rude insinuation.

c) You’re flirting with me a bit too aggressively and it’s activating my brat instincts, professor~

You probably felt really smart when wrtiting that comment, and that’s totally normal and valid. Everyone has lapses in reading comprehension sometimes.

If you’re cleaning up the audio separately, I don’t know if you’re really winning much by having a mic that plugs into your phone directly (unless you are actually planning to shoot outdoors).

If you’re going with a condenser mic (and stick to recording at the desk), I recommend skipping the battery power shenanigans and getting a proper USB audio interface. Focusrite Scarletts are popular. I have a Behringer U-Phoria UMC404HD and while Behr gear can be a land of contrasts, I’ve been very happy with it. The 2-port UMC202HD is about 50 quid from Thomann. Both the Scarlett and U-Phoria work fine on Linux if you’re into that kind of thing.

Worth checking out the T-shop’s store brand t.bone mikes, too. The Shure SM57/58 clones are perfectly cromulent instrument/singing mics, so while I haven’t personally tried the “MB 7 Beta”, it seems like the thing I’d try if I were in your shoes. Half the quality of the venerable Shure SM7B for quarter the price is probably not a terrible deal. I’m not a paid shill of Thomann, caveat emptor etc.

At our student radio we use Røde NT1-A mics, which sound great, but you have to talk to them from a very close distance, which is not ideal if you want your mug on the video. Also while they’re very reasonably priced for the product category, they are still about 200 reichsmarks a pop.

USB mics used to have a pretty bad rap a few years ago, but they might or might not have gotten better since Røde and other companies what know what they doing started peddling USB dildos for podcasters. Would still recommend the XLR route for a tried and true approach.

I’m not going to tell you to splurge hundreds into gear. You sounded passable with the Jabra. Angela Collier’s videos are straight up fire despite teetering just barely on the edge of listenable when I’m wearing my shitty work headset. Saying good words is obviously more important than the words sounding nice.

Clap your hands at the start of every take to get a sync point for audio. Edit it out so you don’t look like a poser. Do not hold the microphone in your hand to try and look like one of the cool kids. You’re not too old to be cool but you’ll want to be too cool to be a kid. Talking head shows aren’t my #1 jam, but they can be alright as long as you’re not emulating TikTok zoomers.

Keep the audio from the phone microphone as a reference and emergency backup. It will probably save you trouble at some point along the way.

My Lisp is not a nazi. It might be a neoreactionary, a turing tarpit, a bootloader, and a nazi, but it is not a JavaScript.

Her political views were probably common knowledge to many of you, but I only learned Milkshake Duck was racist in a stubsack thread a few months ago.

If it’s any consolation; sectorlisp might be written by a literal self-described neoreactionary, impractical, written by a cryptofascist, computer scientific masturbation, written by a politically incoherent and confused person, pointlessly constrained, written by an obvious cryptofascist and written by a fascist; but it’s still cooler and more practical than Urbit.

Sounds like a straight (derogatory) version of homoiconicity.