Quote from: PhantomCatClock on March 29, 2025, 07:43:49 PMwait no he was a normal dude. hadn't heard a bell yet. that was the plot.

good post

Quote from: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on March 28, 2025, 03:43:42 PMI forgot the official release censors when shikamaru starts smoking, among other things.

hey so you all remember how pharrell was like "let's do a biopic about me, but as a lego movie?" if you're like me, maybe at the time you thought "that's ridiculous" and thought maybe you'd go see it ironically but then never got around to it

anyway I borrowed it on DVD because I don't play around, and the censorship is kinda wild. most of the dialogue is taken directly from interviews done for the movie, so it'll be somebody1 saying that somebody2 said something, and then on screen, somebody2's character's mouth is moving in sync with somebody1's soundbite

since there's no video of the interviews to contend with, they can just edit the audio to swap out words when necessary, as if for radio. but they were obviously fine with doing that instead of re-recording bits. so like there's this bit where someone's talking about how a high school-aged pharrell is working at mcdonald's and maybe selling nuggets out the back door. man those were some good nuggets too. or later in the (as-seen-in-trailer) bit where he's talking about doing the "drop it like it's hot" beat for snoop dogg, he's like "so I made that beat [silence] out of my mind." then there's this other interview where someone uses the word 'shit' and they kind of bleep it out and put a poop emoji over his mouth, but then later someone absolutely says 'shit' a couple of times with no bleep. was that not in the theatrical cut?

anyway it's a real odd movie because you're like "ok it's cleaned up for the kids. kind of? but that stuff isn't really for kids and neither is the movie? what would a kid even get out of this? are we making a lego movie for adults?" there's basically no message or moral or takeaway (other than to rub elbows with a major producer when you're in high school and trust God). the career points where our hero is in peril are like "due entirely to the influence of demonic corporate suits WE WILL NOT NAME, pharrell fell the fuck off for a few years. but then he randomly collabed with daft punk, so he recovered. but could he keep it up??? o shit he made the minion song."

fun watch. bring your girl

if we had ever figured out how to make blogs smell, we would've

the ddr routine is impressive

general respect button press for people who *really* learn dance skills and employ them/teach them in social (not formal performance) settings

like you 100% didn't have to do that and I don't know if it really opens as many doors for you as we imagine, but it's cool that you put time into it and you look cool doing it

Quote from: k9 on March 24, 2025, 05:34:18 AMdid people actually listen to midis alot back in the day? i always assumed it was like more of a 50/50 creator listener engineering artists community rather than a substitute for what would one day be MP3

I think it's a format, like SWF, that happened to catch on in a low bandwidth world

my family's first computer that connected to the Internet had a 160 MB hard drive, and if you had to move more than 1.44 MB of data, that was going to take multiple diskettes. internet was 56 kb per second. MP3 compression didn't exist.

I think .mid, besides its basic functionality as an instruction set for digital instruments, became a quick reference format for music. midi playback was never really about sounding true to life (or even, really, synthesis/experimentation/pushing the limits of hardware like the Commodore demo scene), but merely audibly reproducing what X is supposed to sound like, in a format that doesn't take too long to download, so I don't have to call you and play you an instrument over the phone. all the while, compression of actual audio recordings was becoming more sophisticated, and transmission thereof somewhat more feasible (see: RealPlayer) so I imagine only a few people felt that making MIDI sound better was important

so this midi ecosystem exists, the hardware and software support exists to play it from your browser... that's where we get into people just downloading midis other people created and using them as unsolicited, autoplaying auditory decoration on their websites. we'd invent this all over again in the myspace era

actually listening to music? use your tape and CD collection, of course. heck, put the CD into your computer's read-only CD drive (sold separately) and it may be an Enhanced CD with bonus multimedia content from the artist!!

Quote from: PhantomCatClock on March 21, 2025, 10:57:44 PMRegarding Yngwie Malmsteen's 1986 album, "Trilogy":

where dragon middle neck go from????

ai generated

yeah you're right that does look like it would hurt, unless the middle head is actually emerging from another dragon, obscured by clouds top right, that just had to get his 2¢ in between the other guys

or, it's one of those dragons where the neck connects to the center of the back like a submarine

why play powerball when you can just buy every combination of numbers in a state lotto and win every time?

if you don't have the cash upfront try asking your bank for a loan. you'll be good for the money once you win

mister owl, how much succ does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?

Quote from: PhantomCatClock on March 09, 2025, 09:06:14 PM

ok yes the lines from this commercial do happen to be seared into my brain, but the crazy thing that they DON'T tell you about nickelodeon magazine is that many of the cartoonists you read in Nick Mag are in fact underground cartoonists of note who have cool work intended for the sophisticated mature comics reader. a few seconds of montage in this commercial feature Sam Henderson's strip. Kaz also appeared pretty often. Both wrote for SpongeBob. (This is my first time hearing about "Behind Closed Doors," lol check that out.) James Kochalka was in there. Definitely the first place I saw Emily Flake.

Probably some real fine people doing stuff other than comics for that magazine, but I wouldn't have appreciated it at the time. Anyway, it sucks that the internet took so much wind out of print magazines. I think we've lost some advantages of that form of collecting/reproducing/disseminating ideas, that we still haven't recouped. What's worse is that when people DO get the idea these days that a print magazine would be cool, it's like a panda trying to remember the ancestral skill of eating eggs, and it comes out bad and overpriced.

Quote from: PhantomCatClock on March 06, 2025, 01:16:42 PM

Quoteindelible imagery

Hello guys, vcrclock here to explain the copywriting. "Indelible imagery" here means that they have used a permanent ink to print the comic book, so unlike cheap comics on newsprint you will not be able to remove the art from the paper with an eraser! Hope that helps.



Next week I will tell you all about music journalists who use shape words like "angular" or "prismatic" to describe a sound that you can't see. You might think they are referring to how waveforms appear on an oscilloscope, but you would be wrong!

when I die you are going to be so glad that Mozilla Firefox harvested my posts to create the vcrclock AI chatbot

Quote from: Slurpee on February 27, 2025, 06:07:06 PMa note on my notes app called "stuff I probably shouldn't post anywhere"

having a note for this puts you in an extremely narrow percentile at the top of human intelligence

"hey Brother I'm a Linux user how do I install the driver for my printer"
"huh? oh. uh, driver. yeah well we've got one, but like you don't really need it, CUPS will figure it out. bespoke drivers are going the way of the horse and carriage anyway. let bygones be bygones. the future is now"

"hey Brother I'm using Windows, why is this Avery label template I printed not lining up with the labels on the sheet"
"did you install the driver"

what is Tyler Moore so goddamn happy about

no it's cool you can trust me all my facts have citations

(the citations are AI-written books I purchased on Amazon)

Quote from: PhantomCatClock on February 04, 2025, 04:18:31 PMI do doot doot DOO doo DOOT DOOT doo

i can see how you'd end up doing that, phantomcat, based on where the digits of the number you personally dialed most often as a young person land on the musical scale



you know the 7-digit phone number experience is also specific to growing up in a particular time and place

i have an old phone book from a small Texas town that was still using four digit phone numbers in the 1970s

me, growing up, maybe half the phones I used regularly were rotary, so sure I get doot DOOT DOOT, doot DOOT doot doot, but then it's also whuuuuuh whuuuuuuuuh whuuuuuuuuh, whuuh whuuuh whuuuuuuuuuuh whuuuuuuuuuuh

dont even gtet me started on europe what the fuck is this shit

I am here checking ccbt to find out if robclock posting a meme in discord corresponds to a caption written to support an existing image, a media property with which I am not familiar, or an infuriating real life event

linking all of my standup friends (don't worry not really this post is a joke) not to slurpee's post but to pcat's post in reference to it, and asking "is this anything?"

thank you for the update it is nice to hear from you

the clockcrew received notice of seedclock's passing in may 2020

hey why am i getting targeted ads for a model train show

Quote from: RobClock on January 10, 2025, 07:23:18 AMI did the RAADS-R test and scored a 136 which it tells me is "strong evidence of autism"


I guess it's time to get really into Sonic the Hedgehog or something

my somewhat retrogressive take is that if you're a reasonably functional adult, the most important thing a soft or hard autism diagnosis can do for you is identify potential avenues of investigation to better understand how your own brain functions -- like if there's something you've never been able to get right, and now you know it's an autism thing, then you at least understand why

as for adding "probably autistic" to how one describes themselves, I think there are some people for whom the "autistic" label generally helps people understand how to get along with them, and there are some people who use the label to excuse themselves both from judgement for behavior that they know very well people don't like, and from any obligation to work on not doing the unpopular thing. not that the latter group is not in fact autistic, but I think they make a bigger deal of reminding people that they're autistic

I just scored surprisingly low on the RAADS-R, which means that my time-consuming, repetitive, solitary record-collecting hobby, which most of my friends would likely not care to hear too much about, is actually now certified 100% neurotypical. can I tell if someone is flirting with me? of course! nobody is flirting with me