Listen up fuckers, cause none of this applies to anybody on this site specifically and I'm just bitching.

I don't have to accomodate neurotypicals who say horseshit like "I don't want to keep a tone tag reference sheet open to have a conversation though", that has officially stopped being a me problem. Similarly, if your response to that is "Communication is a two-way street, so a communication issue is often also a two-way thing", that doesn't sound like I have to accomodate YOUR misunderstanding of MY words, however you have decided to read them. If you decide even in spite of tone tags that I'm being an asshole, frankly get fucked and go decide someone else's emotional state for them. Hell, even if I didn't use tone tags, I shouldn't be required to fucking defend myself from your literal spurious accusations. I've had enough of your disingenuous assertions.

I'm pretty understanding about misreads, just ask me what I meant instead of fucking assuming the absolute worst in people all the time, and also do not go around expecting neurodiverse people to accomodate whatever YOU read into their words all the time. Your fucking problem. It's not their job to sort out your preconceptions and accept whatever emotions you decide for them, which was the point of what I was saying anyway. Ableist shit.

This type of thing has become pretty traumatic over the course of like ten of exactly this type of bullshit, so I don't have the will to cause problems and fight about it but I'm also not willing to constantly cede ground for free to neurotypical expectations.

Gravity Rush is a disorganised hot mess with a bad excuse for a story, but it fucks!!! Discuss.

I'm not fuckin' sorry, no you may not debate this objectively correct headcanon.

Male, Female and Other. Very inclusive, also props for including "fuzzies" as a race. Gaming was woke before most of these pathetic Gamergate 2 losers were even born. Maybe even before YOU were born!!

Every time I'm on the character creation screen of a cRPG now, I say "Where are my three genders! Gaming has fallen!!"

But it won't work. I will NEVER adjust my posting

Don't think this needs content warnings. Thanks, Cromalin!

I have either high standards or low tolerance for queer manga I guess, it's uncommon that I finish them. At first I figured this one was just another for the pile, because I loaded up the first chapter and it was like

"Aw for fuck's sake, cmon, you fuckin' loser manga. Do better!" Thankfully it actually does do better.

So yeah, it's the usual "he got turned into A GIRL overnight!!!1!" appropos of nothing setup, and the first couple chapters almost rolled my eyes out of my head. At times I was getting hints of transmasc-ness from it, protagonist Akira is so averse to being a girl early on.

Sorry dog, cannot fucking relate. A lot of it is taken up with the kind of goofy "golly gee girls have it hard! I'm bored I wish I was doing BOY THINGS", super painfully obvious gender-binary observations, standard issue stuff. It also does that thing where because Akira LIVED AS A BOY he UNDERSTANDS THE OTHER BOYS SO WELL or whatever, invoked here when a guy in class gets mad and tries to fuckin punch Akira. Wild, I almost dropped it a couple times, even if it is good for screencaps.

What makes this one worth it is the genuine trans positivity that comes through about ten chapters in. Not even subtextually! Skirt do be going spinny, and I had a tough time not enjoying watcbing Akira get used to skirts and get comfy having girls as friends, stuff like that.

It's the little things, the small and quiet affirmations that stand out from the mess. I remember this, I recall what it felt like. Extremely good feeling. The doctors Akira goes to, for her magical overnight transsexualism condition(PLEASE), are all enthusiastic and accepting of her deciding that Actually, being a girl is rad. Her family even is too!!

It's charming and fluffy and made me smile, which made it well worth the hour or whatever I spent reading it. Some of the school-social stuff I find unpleasant but it's par for the course when a ten year old magically becomes an gril. Every other gender-bender manga I've read has ended up on my shitlist, but this one's okay actually. Very nice!

Warlockracy's nice guided tour to the best game ever made, pretty much. Watchin this video and nodding along like a dipshit. Hearing the Fallout voice acting and saying "MAN..."

Tbh I think spotting & deciding new taglines is a sort of art. I never woulda earmarked this comment for it, but the out-of-context "Shut up bidet gang, I know" is peak comedy.

Hi c/technology, I'm agitated about a specific topic and the 'normal' queers on discord are not really tolerating my rambles so I hope it's ok if I post em here. Prepare yourself for one embarrassing boomer-ass take

I have two sets of bluetooth headphones. One is the Sennheiser BT4.50 which I got on a firesale($40) when they were clearing stock, and one is the Anker Q35. They're both terrible!

There are the practicality concerns of course, like that it's yet another battery to charge, which also means most bluetooth headphones have limited lifespans and are guaranteed e-waste. It's yet another 2.4GHz signal on top of the pile of them coming from [old 2.4G wifi devices/2.4G wireless peripherals/etc], and yet another wireless thing that refuses to sync randomly. The Android apps that these things try to use are teeeeerrible shovelware that barely works (the Soundcore app took like three re-connects to pick up my Q35). It's a lot of trouble that could be fixed by just running a cable down my shirt.

I get that there's a niche for this stuff, though. If I'm watching Youtube or a movie or whatever on a computer box hooked up to a TV, nobody wants to run a 3.5mm cable ten feet or more from that box to the couch for headphones. I use little Bluetooth 3.5mm receiver/transciever hooked up to headphones (Fostex T50RP mk3) for this purpose. And the sound quality isn't even that bad; the difference between a flac over a cable and a flac through SBC codec is pretty small. AptX is hard to tell apart at all.

That's on a $250 (CAD!) set of planar magnetic headphones though. The BT4.50s and the Q35s? They are dogshit. I thought that the ability to run a cable to these things might remove the problem of their limited lifespan, but in the case of the Q35s they sound atrocious wired without the EQ built into their goofy app. The Sennheiser just sounds like trash period. Curiously both of them have pretty much no high end, and probably worse sound stage than fully closed-back headphones like the Audio Technica M40x I have.

It feels weird that the bottleneck in sound quality for wireless headphones is not the BT codec, but the actual drivers. That's the short and long of it though; I feed them stuff like the Killing Joke selftitled or Big Generator by Yes, basically any of my really high dynamic range CDs as well as some 24/48 vinyl rips (Face Dances by The Who, Dreamboat Annie by Heart) and then some more modern crushed stuff for fun, bits of Black Dresses or some math rock and whatnot. None of it sounds any good on the BT4.50 or the Q35 without EQ, and even with the Q35's EQ it can't really hold a candle to even a middling set of cans like the M40x. I guess this makes sense, because you're paying for the battery and the bluetooth stuff and the amplification and the mics/noise cancelling? But damn, your wireless options are the same price as wired for way worse sound, or maybe theoretically more costly for the same quality? Pls hmu if you know of any bluetooth headphones that would measure up to classic cans like the Sennheiser HD600, Fostex T50 etc. tyvm

For what it's worth, that noise cancelling is probably worth the money on its own - the ability to just block out the sound of the neighbour's kids shrieking or the annoying bass-pulse of an air conditioner is really rad. Both of these bluetooth headsets do a pretty good job of blocking out background sounds, and that's rad for autism gang & anyone else who has sensory processing troubles. But that is pretty much their only niche imo! If I wanna watch junk on Youtube and there's a jackhammer going across the hall, I grab a wireless set and hope the bluetooth will pair automatically.

But if I actually wanna listen to anything in non-vomit audio quality wirelessly, I'm strapping one of those little bluetooth re/trans-ceiver things to my real headphones and pairing that(which has a better hit rate for pairing than the Q35, lol lmao) to my PC or an android box.

To be real though, in 99% of the cases I use headphones, a cable is easier & more convenient & results in the best audio quality. Using headphones on a PC at a desk? Wired. Hooking headphones up to the phone for a Youtube clip? Wired. Fiio M7 for music? Wired. If distance isn't a factor, bluetooth is a huge hassle for a worse experience overall.

I just hate with a passion that this at-best niche product category that performs worse than the established counterpart (remember how badly stuff like the ~~Bluebuds X~~ Braggi Dash were for disconnects?) seems to be replacing wired options in the popular conscious?? Phones and laptops without 3.5mm jacks should be considered war crimes, trust me. No I do not care if it's about IP67 water protection, do better pls. No excuse. I despise this trend.

Granted, I'm a weird freak and willing to lay down a lot of convenience in pursuit of "shit sounds good". More than a lot of people, like I'm pretty sure the average person would look at you funny for suggesting that they carry a second device around for music. I didn't like MP3(or lossy codecs lol) as a premise, because don't decide what I can and can't hear(even if I can't hear a lot of difference lol), but I at least understand why MP3 was cool and rad. For one thing it predates flac, but also an album in MP3 is like less than a third the size of the flac equivalent, and big files would fill up your shitty 80GB IDE drive(or worse yet, your ipod) real fast. The tradeoff in sound quality which most people probably can't even hear for very small file sizes makes a ton of sense, even now with codecs like opus. I only fill big SD cards with flacs 'cause I'm a stubborn fucker.

But bluetooth audio in general seems like a niche technology with one or two cool uses(TV with headphones, and those embarrassing bluetooth earpieces executives used to have in the 2000s) that mainstream users are adopting with all its numerous faults, exclusively for the privilege of not having to take off the headphones before you get up from a desk. For the privilege of not having a cable running through your sweater? All this garbage just for that?

It's possible my myopic ass is missing some critical use case that normals have, and I know most nornals do not care at all for sound quality. I also know that people will have had both better and worse experiences as far as bluetooth goes, but maaan this shit sucks and it makes me buttmad that they wanna get rid of cables for pretty much no reason, grrrrr gonna go stare at the bits of vintage audio gear I have, rip

It WILL show me the funny anime emote I am after

I was snooPINGASusual around various cite notes and links at the bottom of Sonic articles on Sonic Retro, Sonic Wiki and plain ol' Natopedia, as one does. I like to do this sometimes to clarify things I don't know about Sonic, such as: gamertypes will frequently say shit like "Sonic Adventure started out on Saturn!" when in reality, it seems like Sonic Team started in April/May 1997 with Saturn as hardware and the Nights engine as their engine, found out that both were inadequate for the sweeping, story-based Sonic game they were cooking. Sonic Team was informed of the Dreamcast in June-ish 1997, at which point they stopped their work, compiled what they had (basically a tech demo) into Sonic World on Sonic Jam for Saturn, and presumably restarted everything with Dreamcast as target hardware in July 97. This makes a lot more sense, since Sonic World and Sonic Adventure have basically 0 in common :)

The last two days have seen me nosing around about Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 development & prerelease info, because Sonic 06 is such a classic. Most of it is stuff I knew about, because nothing new has been discovered lately. However I thought myself down a lil think train, to the tune of "What does the chronology look like for Sonic Team moving from the 2006 game to Unleashed?" Turns out it's messed up! See here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20081018182131/http://blogs.ign.com/SEGA_SonicUnleashed/

According to the game's own PRODUCER, the Hedgehog Engine that powers Unleashed was in development as of 2005. This raises so many questions: Did the team just chuck 2006's engine together all slapdash, then? What does Sonic 06 even run on, does it have any relation to Heroes and the RenderWare stuff? How many teams did Sonic Team have if Sonic 06, Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic Unleashed/Hedgehog engine were all in-dev at once? When Sonic Team was making both an ambitious, globally-illuminated next-gen engine and a hugely ambitious Sonic Adventure style game (06) on proprietary tech at the same time, what did that decision look like? How fucked was Sonic Team's development pipeline?

I ask my fellow Hexbears, if you have any info on this I'd like to hear it. I had always assumed that the Hedgehog Engine was a reactionary result of how bad 06's tech was and how poorly that game did, that they had planned on 06's engine being their main one going forward but scrapped it immediately and rushed the Hedgehog Engine into development. Knowing that the two were developed side-by-side is brain boggling.

Bonus: here are some Youtube videos of funny unused 2006 stuff

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NjYaqcVYAKU

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqhc1CmxBzQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8nTMdwf6LrA