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02 May 2025, 3:03 pm

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The same can be true for music.

Blasting some tunes is often better than having them on low or at a moderate volume.


I don't know, I can listen to songs I enjoy at any volume, but if it's not viscerally loud I don't get much enjoyment out of FPS games. Same reason I don't enjoy them though headphones or with speakers that struggle to reproduce bass frequencies.

Meanwhile I usually prefer headphones for music.


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02 May 2025, 3:06 pm

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No the cinema experience is fantastic
It's the only time I can sit through a film and concentrate

It does help the focus doesn't it? My mind wanders with the telly. I have trouble when there's more than 3 characters anyway, and can still lose the plot easily, but a well-designed cinema helps. Headphones are also helpful for the telly. It all stops the mind from wandering. But I don't use them much because I'd trip over the cable when I got up, and I haven't got one of those bluetooth TV sets. My son's into home cinema and surround sound, so that feels a bit like the "real" cinema. I had a bit of fun making surround sound mp3s (or whatever they were) and playing them on that. I made one of a fly buzzing round the room.



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02 May 2025, 3:10 pm

You can get a Bluetooth adaptor..just to say

I very rarely know what the characters are called in movies
Even on shows I've watched for years I struggle with this

My daughter on the other hand is the complete opposite. She knows the characters, what they're called in real life and everything

It's because I'm a bloody space cadet


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02 May 2025, 3:12 pm

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Meanwhile I usually prefer headphones for music.

I like them too, except that it can seem a bit odd in stereo when it's like the band is performing between my ears. I've heard some experimental things where they make some of the sounds seem like they're outside your head. Don't know how they do that, but sometimes they work. I'd have thought it was impossible with just two speakers, but I've "heard" sound coming from behind me. I was gobsmacked.



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02 May 2025, 3:20 pm

babybird wrote:
You can get a Bluetooth adaptor..just to say

I very rarely know what the characters are called in movies
Even on shows I've watched for years I struggle with this

My daughter on the other hand is the complete opposite. She knows the characters, what they're called in real life and everything

It's because I'm a bloody space cadet

Yes I should try to get a bluetooth adaptor. I've got bluetooth headphones with a USB thingy for my computer, and they're quite good, but I think I'd need something specially for the telly.

I wish they'd do a list like they do at the front of Shakespeare play books, where they tell you all the characters and a bit about them before they hit you with the play. I could probably get a lot more out of some films and TV shows if I studied those for long enough before I watched the video. I got through a novel once by taking notes about the characters for the first chapter or two. I had to learn them all by heart and then suddenly everything clicked and I was away. Before that I couldn't follow any of it.



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02 May 2025, 3:23 pm

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funeralxempire wrote:
Meanwhile I usually prefer headphones for music.

I like them too, except that it can seem a bit odd in stereo when it's like the band is performing between my ears. I've heard some experimental things where they make some of the sounds seem like they're outside your head. Don't know how they do that, but sometimes they work. I'd have thought it was impossible with just two speakers, but I've "heard" sound coming from behind me. I was gobsmacked.


I've noticed this when sim racing, I can hear where the cars are behind me/how they move around relative to me.

It's nice because the spotter doesn't give me much information; like it'll say 'car on the outside' but not 'bumper' or 'door' so I know if it's safe to block or not. The only way I can tell if it's safe is by listening for where the car is relative to mine.


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02 May 2025, 3:29 pm

ToughDiamond wrote:
babybird wrote:
You can get a Bluetooth adaptor..just to say

I very rarely know what the characters are called in movies
Even on shows I've watched for years I struggle with this

My daughter on the other hand is the complete opposite. She knows the characters, what they're called in real life and everything

It's because I'm a bloody space cadet

Yes I should try to get a bluetooth adaptor. I've got bluetooth headphones with a USB thingy for my computer, and they're quite good, but I think I'd need something specially for the telly.

I wish they'd do a list like they do at the front of Shakespeare play books, where they tell you all the characters and a bit about them before they hit you with the play. I could probably get a lot more out of some films and TV shows if I studied those for long enough before I watched the video. I got through a novel once by taking notes about the characters for the first chapter or two. I had to learn them all by heart and then suddenly everything clicked and I was away. Before that I couldn't follow any of it.


You can also get a bluetooth transmitter/receiver which connects to a 3.5mm audio jack on your television or television connected speakers.

That would allow you to turn your non-bluetooth television into a bluetooth capable television, at least for audio streaming.

Normally, bluetooth adapters connect via HDMI or USB.



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02 May 2025, 3:30 pm

Yeah mines usb


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02 May 2025, 3:48 pm

blitzkrieg wrote:
You can also get a bluetooth transmitter/receiver which connects to a 3.5mm audio jack on your television or television connected speakers.

That would allow you to turn your non-bluetooth television into a bluetooth capable television, at least for audio streaming.

Normally, bluetooth adapters connect via HDMI or USB.

That sounds like the gizmo I'm looking for. 8)



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02 May 2025, 3:50 pm

Just a minute.......I only ever watch videos on the TV and I always play those in from a laptop, which has USB sockets. Looks like I've got what I want already 8) 8)



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02 May 2025, 3:52 pm

Yeah you're good to go mate


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02 May 2025, 6:54 pm

I've been thinking about expensive food lately. Every time I've eaten something really expensive, it's been a major disappointment--not bad, but absolutely not worth what it costs. (my parents always pay for the stuff but I'm still aware of what it costs) It makes me think that these things aren't actually better at all, people just think they must be better because they're so expensive, and they don't fool me because I don't believe any of that bulls**t. I hate how gullible most people are. I suppose I could charge $100 for a whole raw onion on a plate and become a millionaire.


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02 May 2025, 10:11 pm

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I think that's called premium pricing - people expect something more expensive that's presented in a lavish way will be better, and the expectations give a kind of placebo effect so that they still think it's great even when the objective experience of the thing should be telling them it isn't. I suspect pride comes into it as well. If somebody has shelled out a lot of money for a thing, they don't want to find out they've been swindled, and people tend to see what they want to see. Human psychology is weird sometimes, and man is not a very rational animal even if he thinks he is.

I knew somebody who bought some LSD and claimed it was good but subtle. I gather if you take LSD then it's anything but a subtle experience. I burst his bubble by suggesting it hadn't been LSD at all. He took the suggestion quite well, and soon agreed. And he wasn't averse to sticking to his ideas or contradicting people if he thought he was right.

I'm welded to practicality and can't afford to pay top dollar for anything, and nobody else buys me posh stuff, so I hardly ever experience costly stuff. I like to think I see what's there rather than what I'd like to be there, but it's hard to test.



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03 May 2025, 3:11 am

I've got a lovely gammon joint for the bank holiday


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03 May 2025, 3:29 am

The impulshitivity days are starting.
I'll be returning to go back to pills before this destroys my work and my following days.

It's rare for me to witness the subtle transition of hormones while I'm awake. Because it usually just happens while I'm asleep.

Last time I witnessed that downtrodden feeling into something more settled.
Now I saw the more settled state into something more unwantedly charged.


To witness and saw the sheer contrasts consciously; makes me hate it even more.



Oh? Impulsivity is bad? No, no...

There's me being impulsive on the virtue because I feel like it at the moment. And take all of it's consequences regardless.
Otherwise, my sense of judgment is still just as sound, just that there's a willful spontaneity.

And then there's impulshit because that's my fricking body giving me wrong messages, giving me cues to do things at the wrong time, at the wrong place; where I cannot trust myself anymore. :roll:
There's no sound judgment here, only stupid distortions.


I'm hunting down the latter.
Because I want the latter dead.


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03 May 2025, 4:30 am

Sometimes I feel like the middle child of society. Too naive to hang with the adults, too mature to be hip with the kids. And sometimes I think autism makes it so much worse because I can barely relate to people my own age.


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