Oh yeah I had a few.

• That the moon you see during daytime is actually Mars (I then repeated that to my big sister and she believed it for an embarrassingly long amount of time)
• That the “up” arrows on traffic lights were for planes

When you’re born, Pantone checks your skin color and charges you. You need to get a license before you get tanned or they fine you.

I started dating someone and then realized pretty fast I didn’t like him that way.

The dude was already pretty depressed as a baseline, and I feel like giving him hope and then taking it away like that has dropped him pretty deep into negativity.

I’m a big fan of fake brands/products in anime. I don’t know why, but they bring me joy.

Interesting! I didn’t know there was a movie. The version I saw on stage was even more over-the-top (very stereotypical gay coded)

People have tried to get me into Monster Hunter several times, with little success. There’s just a lot of work involved.

Lots of crafting and farming, and once you’re ready, the fight itself is a lot of work. It takes a long time due to large HP pools.

There are a zillion builds, and the story isn’t exactly deep enough to engage me despite the shortcomings. To me, it’s basically Elden Ring, but with the aspects I don’t like turned to 11.

Reviewers were really happy they swapped the optical one for an ultrasonic one on the latest Pixel.

Cheering because they gave us the slightly less bad version of something terrible.

No one asked for this, you dimwits!

I’d have expected ad providers to catch on pretty quickly that there’s cheating involved, no?

My TV is the LG CX. It’s cool in some ways, but overall I’m not too impressed. Some days I think maybe I should’ve splurged and gotten a Sony.

Hmm, then the issue I could see if going by EQ is if there are several voices at the same time (say, background characters taking indistinctly behind a conversation), depending on how crap the mix is, trying to enhance voices might enhance the background ones as well.

That’s an edge case, but a more common one is when there’s music with sounds in the same frequency range as human voices over a scene and the music competes with the voices. Then playing with the EQ might distort the music in such a way that it still kills the voices while making the music inaccurate.

That’s why I really wish we had several channels whose volumes can be individually changed like in video games. That would be the ultimate tool to adjust things. Even if you don’t know anything about what the hell “hertz” means and equalizers confuse you, you could do a lot without distorting anything. And if you do understand how equalizers work, you could combine both to get a really fine-tuned experience.

The music tip isn’t bad, but on my TV the answer is “you can’t really do that” lol. There are various ways to distort a piece with sound profiles, but none that I know of to keep it accurate.

What I usually do is always use subtitles, and switch between “OLED Surround Pro”, “Standard” and “Game” to see which sounds the best. Then if a movie/show stands out as having incredibly bad sound (ahem Christopher Nolan ahem) I either bust out the French dub or “enjoy” the tinny sounds of “Clear Voice IV”.

I think that’s right for a website where you accidentally clicked an ad and now it’s trying to convince you you have a virus and you need to download their virus to remove it. Or maybe for an ad pop-up where annoying you might increase the chances that the content makes it into your brain.

But for a news website i have trouble seeing the logic.

My TV is insulting like that. It technically has an EQ, but it makes no perceivable difference no matter what I do in it.

But assuming it worked, wouldn’t doing that strictly with sound frequencies cause issues? Like, okay, most voices are louder because I boosted their frequency, but now that one dude with a super low voice is quieter, plus any music in the show is distorted. Or something like that.

I wish they just provided separate tracks that you could control. One track for dialogue, one track for music, one track for sound effects, and maybe one track for less important voices. Then let us adjust the volume of each. That would help so much. And they basically HAVE to do it at some point in the process anyway if they want multilingual dubbing to work.

Speaking of dubbing: recently I’ve taken to watching more content dubbed in French strictly because it’s almost always intelligible, contrary to the aRtIsT aCcUrAtE volumes of the original. Pretty sad that I have to do that though.

I’ve always wondered. Is there really a benefit to a ton of redirects like that? Like, do they gain anything by making it harder to back out?

Or is it just extremely incompetent website programming?

Ugh, don’t remind me of how the transition to LEDs was handled. Should we use yellow LEDs to make it non-obnoxious? Nah, just blast everyone’s eyes with cool white LEDs.

As a pedestrian often struggling to see what the heck I’m doing when walking along a road at night, I’m not sure I agree with it being not such a big deal. I mean, true, I can’t really cause an accident that big considering I’m not a multi-ton death machine, but…

As for brighter = safer, I’m not sure either. Wouldn’t people see better in the inevitable area outside of their headlights if headlights weren’t so bright as to set their eyes up into “daylight mode”?

I thought it would be simple: just make the mono/stereo/etc mixes easier to understand, and leave the advanced stuff to people with a million speakers.

I guess that’s too simple?

Interesting. I didn’t know. Maybe my glasses will explode one of these days.

Although as long as it doesn’t turn into tiny knives that I’ll still occasionally find under my feet months later, I wouldn’t mind much.

I’d be worried about microwave compatibility, as well as a metallic taste in my water. How are things, really?

For glassware, try buying tempered glass. It’s more resistant, but most importantly, when it breaks, it tends to break into cubes rather than into a million little sharp knives.

Advertisements should always say what the thing is and what it does.

Disney + show ads on YouTube are like, two dialogue lines, and then “Stream now on Disney Plus”. Only thing more annoying than an ad is an ad where you don’t even understand what the hell they were trying to sell you.

Would you allow long dates?

For example, Jan. 11, 2022, or 7 September 2010.