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Ever put some double-sided tape down and found it a goddamn nightmare to remove the liner? Put a bit of sticky tape on it, with a bit overhanging the edge of the liner. When you pull the tape up, the liner will come with it. Just discovered this by accident because my box full of old sticky tapes is a mess and feel like this is something I should have worked out on my own thirty years ago.
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Phy posted:There's also this sound effect for children playing that has this distinctive laugh that gets used a lot. Are you thinking of the laugh at the beginning of this video? (at the Rare logo, not Diddy) https://youtu.be/Hln2z7MCsUQ I learned recently that the laugh is EVERYWHERE but first appeared in Diddy Kong Racing. I thought it was an old one like the various screams. Inzombiac has a new favorite as of 07:00 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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Feb 17, 2021 06:58
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sticklefifer posted:The red-tailed hawk stock sound is also used for pretty much any high altitude shot of any landscape. It's synonymous with height, basically. Similarly, this sound is used synonymously with "The north/wilderness."
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Feb 17, 2021 07:09
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Ever put some double-sided tape down and found it a goddamn nightmare to remove the liner? Also if you accidentally write on a whiteboard with a permanent marker you can 'erase' it by scribbling over it with a non-permanent whiteboard marker and then wiping that away Sucrose posted:Similarly, this sound is used synonymously with "The north/wilderness." There's also that one "cat yowl" noise they always throw in whenever there's a tense scene in an alleyway in crime/detective shows. And there's also a very specific cicada sound effect that is used in Japanese TV + movies which is synonymous with "summer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJe9obkzf7g It's all part of the cinematic shared language that's developed over a century of production, I wonder if you brought a person forward 100 years and showed them a modern show whether they'd get distracted by all these weird 'random' sounds that get thrown in
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Feb 17, 2021 07:24
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I just found out that Anthony Fauci is not, and never has been, the US Surgeon General.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Ever put some double-sided tape down and found it a goddamn nightmare to remove the liner? You can also fold and unfold a tiny bit of the end before you stick it down to create a tab that sticks up and is easy to grab later.
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Feb 17, 2021 08:39
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Sucrose posted:Similarly, this sound is used synonymously with "The north/wilderness." Thanks for reminding me of camping in the Adirondacks as a kid. I used to be able to imitate the laughing -> sad crooning sound of a common loon. When we camped near a body of water I could do my fake loon call in the early morning and hear the actual loons respond with the same call, echoing off distant hills. It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I was very sad when puberty removed this bug/feature from my vocal cords. I can't do it anymore.
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Feb 17, 2021 08:41
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What if someone were to say, punt you in the testicles
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Feb 17, 2021 09:51
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He'd know by now.
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Sucrose posted:Similarly, this sound is used synonymously with "The north/wilderness." Also, the sound of cicadas is used so often to indicate "heat/the summer" in media that I think as a kid I mentally thought that the sun made a sort of sizzling noise sometimes.
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Sucrose posted:Also, the sound of cicadas is used so often to indicate "heat/the summer" in media that I think as a kid I mentally thought that the sun made a sort of sizzling noise sometimes. Yeah I grew up in Ireland which has no loud insects, and when I first went to the US in summer I definitely had a "wtf this sounds like TV" moment
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Feb 18, 2021 14:48
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the sound of cicadas and the smell of cut grass are the harbingers of the bad hot times in TX
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Sucrose posted:Also, the sound of cicadas is used so often to indicate "heat/the summer" in media that I think as a kid I mentally thought that the sun made a sort of sizzling noise sometimes. I was always near power lines when I heard them in real life so for awhile I thought that's just what power lines did when it was hot.
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TV also doesn't exactly convey how loud and freaky even one cicada is, and how you can barely hear yourself think over them when it's hot sometimes https://twitter.com/Beabosaur/status/1117286347964858370?s=19
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Inzombiac posted:Are you thinking of the laugh at the beginning of this video? (at the Rare logo, not Diddy) Yeah that's the one Regarding the use of cicadas to represent summer in anime, when I watched Evangelion (a couple fuckin decades ago, holy poo poo where does the time go) I was unaware of that trope and how they were using it to show that Japan's climate was turbofucked by the events preceding the show, so instead I associate the droning of cicadas with psychological and emotional trauma! Get in the goddamn robot, Shinji.
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Cicadas can cause permanent hearing damage more easily than you'd think if it's a year where there's a lot of them and you have to be outside for more than an hour or two.
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I once had a cicada trapped in a tent with me on a Girl Scout camping trip. It screamed at me for hours and I still have nightmares about him actually being 15 ft tall and eating me while eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhheeeeeing. I get a weird inner ear pain when I hear that noisee. I had forgotten about all of that until now. loving cicadas.
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Man it sucks when you have the window open at night and a cicada parks itself right outside. Either lie there listening to it or get up and go outside to chase it away at 3AM.
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Honestly on the list of reasons not to move to the US for me it's like - lovely healthcare, - lack of fresh varied produce, -guns, and - every 13/17/ E: fun fact, the eastern seaboard is due for an appearance of the Great Eastern Brood, coming Summer 2021 Failed Imagineer has a new favorite as of 19:41 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Honestly on the list of reasons not to move to the US for me it's like Just think of it like a bunch of lovely posters coming off probation and then getting another 13 years on the rapsheet.
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Ugh. You all just reminded me that 2021 is a Brood X (17 year) year.
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hawowanlawow posted:the sound of cicadas and the smell of cut grass are the harbingers of the bad hot times in TX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Km-jtXueTw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11l8JRe5F3c
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Failed Imagineer posted:TV also doesn't exactly convey how loud and freaky even one cicada is, and how you can barely hear yourself think over them when it's hot sometimes That's just Zorak.
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Phy posted:Yeah that's the one Yep. Same here.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Honestly on the list of reasons not to move to the US for me it's like Hey! We have pretty good fresh varied produce.
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Failed Imagineer posted:E: fun fact, the eastern seaboard is due for an appearance of the Great Eastern Brood, coming Summer 2021 I prefer to call them the far more  name of Brood X
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Memento posted:I prefer to call them the far more I learned about that name in this thread, it is indeed enough to outweigh any sympathy for folks on the east coast
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Failed Imagineer posted:Honestly on the list of reasons not to move to the US for me it's like Here in CA we've mostly only got the lovely healthcare, but we make up for it by being so unaffordable that service personnel have hour-long commutes or live in their cars or campers parked along the road. No cicadas here 
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One cicada is annoying. Seven thousand cicadas are soothing. And the 17 year thing is a bit misleading because cicadas do not share a calendar and those busters pop out every year to some extent. Any “mass cicada brood emergence apocalypse”, for me, tends to be unnoticeable compared to background noise.
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Beachcomber posted:Here in CA we've mostly only got the lovely healthcare, but we make up for it by being so unaffordable that service personnel have hour-long commutes or live in their cars or campers parked along the road. And plenty of fresh varied produce!
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SLOSifl posted:One cicada is annoying. Seven thousand cicadas are soothing. And the 17 year thing is a bit misleading because cicadas do not share a calendar and those busters pop out every year to some extent. Any “mass cicada brood emergence apocalypse”, for me, tends to be unnoticeable compared to background noise. It goes beyond sound around here (west suburbs of Chicago). We aren't talking thousands, but many millions (and possibly billions) of the fuckers. The last time Brood X came out in Chicago, everything was blanketed in cicadas and cicada carcasses. I mean everything. Trees, lawns, sidewalks, roads. They'd rain from tree limbs bouncing off your car as you drive down a road. It was gross, creepy and above all LOUD SO VERY LOUD. Collectively they can hit up to 100 dB.
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Proteus Jones posted:It goes beyond sound around here (west suburbs of Chicago). We aren't talking thousands, but many millions (and possibly billions) of the fuckers. The last time Brood X came out in Chicago, everything was blanketed in cicadas and cicada carcasses. I mean everything. Trees, lawns, sidewalks, roads. They'd rain from tree limbs bouncing off your car as you drive down a road. It was gross, creepy and above all LOUD SO VERY LOUD. Collectively they can hit up to 100 dB. Well, it's happening this summer I think so get ready!
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https://twitter.com/barry/status/1362520729305112576 A byproduct of the latest Mars landing, but somehow my mind never ingested the fact that we have surface pictures of Venus  I somehow had it in mind that it just instantly melted landers or something back in the day and that was why we switched to doing flybys.
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Assistant Manager Devil posted:https://twitter.com/barry/status/1362520729305112576 Look at that draw distance.
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Look at that draw distance. Lex Luthor got there first 
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Assistant Manager Devil posted:https://twitter.com/barry/status/1362520729305112576 "The lander had cameras to take pictures of the ground and spring-loaded arms to measure the compressibility of the soil. The quartz camera windows were covered by lens caps that popped off after descent. By mischance Venera 14 measured the compressibility of the lens caps instead, as these had landed in just the place where the probe craned down to measure the soil."
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They could have taken that measurement here on Earth.
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MariusLecter posted:They could have taken that measurement here on Earth. The Soviets used a Venus.
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Ages ago I saw a gif of an African American gentleman making a face like "man, I really dunno about that" and someone referred to it as "conceited reaction". I was like, what's conceited about that? His name. The rapper's name is Conceited.
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