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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-02 12:08 [#02629650] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | - when i said i quit, i meant it - i have not signed on once since. not even a peek. i
 deleted it
 - if i was talking about EQ on 128kbps mp3s i was talking
 about trying to salvage something 15 years old that i can't
 re-export without a winXP machine
 
 thanks,
 mermaidman's worst nitemare
 
 
 
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         |  mermaidman
             on 2023-08-02 12:28 [#02629653] Points: 8488 Status: Regular
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 | lol who cares if you quit or not how many threads do you have to make about it it's non stop gayfest with this guy
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-02 12:30 [#02629654] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 
 
 
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         |  recycle
             from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2023-08-02 12:32 [#02629655] Points: 40933 Status: Lurker
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 | He’s not wrong, we like you a lot but it’s like the fruit flies that won’t go away. Have a good day.
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-02 13:02 [#02629656] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | oh, ok 
 
 
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         |  recycle
             from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2023-08-02 15:45 [#02629663] Points: 40933 Status: Lurker
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 | However it goes down is how richie would want tit
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-03 04:04 [#02629666] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | mermaidman, 4u. the 128kbps fing 
 if you'll bear with me for a moment -- i find my memory is
 tied to sense of place, e.g. where i physically was when the
 memory happened. like it's an anchor of sorts. always there,
 like a background hum. when it comes to something like
 discord, well, go figure, my brain goes: it was discord, in
 my office. with russel and indeks. it was a strange angle
 and... nm, that's enough.
 
 you were talking about me talking about EQ and 128kb and i
 got a flash of place, i must admit. i thot: shit, that means
 there very well could be an actual memory attached to this,
 and, well, no, i don't export 128kb ever, but... ugh, there
 was something? maybe?
 
 it goes off kind of like a flashbulb: discord, studio, but
 it's mostly overwhelmed by my mixer and
 
 can't hang on
 to
 it
 
 
 
 and i have it now. sort of. for no reason at all -- my brain
 says: here, it's solved. and
 
 it feels vaguely like i was mad at soundcloud and how
 everything is 128kbps online and i'd have said something
 like "if i have to live with this i want to understand
 better what it's doing to my track so i'm messing with the
 EQ on the 128kbps. i could be bodging details, but this was
 the gist of it
 
 so this was a real thing, you were not making it up.
 confirmed. at the time i was not sure it was a real thing,
 because it was too hard to pull back, and because it was not
 something i would do. we were both wrong and right. think on
 the implications of that sir
 
 
 
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         |  Wolfslice
             from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2023-08-03 05:22 [#02629667] Points: 5097 Status: Lurker | Followup to EpicMegatrax: #02629650
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 | I'm not much of a discord guy either 
 but when xlt was down I had some enjoyable chats with
 recycle and hyperflake on there. chatting directly seems to
 humanize someone rather quickly.
 
 moimaid mane is even pretty normal on there. fleetmouse has
 a biting, sarcastic way with words that is more conducive to
 that environment as well.
 
 Enjoyed and will stop by again when not mired in finishing
 so many video games
 
 P.S. hot take: 128kps is noticeably worse for shizzle, but
 not so bad as to ruin a track. If you didn't check the
 bitrate you probably wouldn't even care.
 
 
 
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         |  Wolfslice
             from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2023-08-03 05:23 [#02629668] Points: 5097 Status: Lurker | Followup to recycle: #02629655
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 | recycle you were so quick on the fruit fly anecdote that now I'm almost certain you have a genuine fruit fly problem.
 Seal up your food real nice, and I hope you get through
 this.
 
 
 
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         |  mermaidman
             on 2023-08-03 13:38 [#02629670] Points: 8488 Status: Regular | Followup to EpicMegatrax: #02629666
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 | i don't remember you mentioning soundcloud compression but even if you were "messing with the EQ on the 128kbps" you eq
 before the compression not after it
 
 
 
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         |  recycle
             from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2023-08-03 16:41 [#02629671] Points: 40933 Status: Lurker
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 | Lol @ fruit flys 
 My ex wife worked with fruit flies and there was like 20-30
 different kinds. There was even a some that were homo 🪰,
 not joking 🙃
 
 
 
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         |  Tony Danza
             from the river to the sea on 2023-08-03 17:07 [#02629672] Points: 3803 Status: Lurker
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 | fruit flies 
 
 
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         |  ijonspeches
             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2023-08-03 23:05 [#02629673] Points: 8089 Status: Regular | Followup to recycle: #02629671 | Show recordbag
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 | im thinking: you forgot about that bottle of champagne and got it on!
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-04 10:51 [#02629674] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | mostly what i'm interested in is how whatever mermaidman thinks went down on there (2 years ago?) fired off in my
 brain. like a sonar ping briefly illuminating the
 surrounding memory landscape before going dark and leaving
 me to try and untangle the details.
 
 this morning, i find myself admiring the work of
 courtroom sketch artists. how they've so little time to get it
 down and you wind up with something that's actually so
 incredibly like the aforementioned memory. what you're
 paying attention to is in color -- and everything else
 gradually bleeds off into sketchy lines and then emptiness
 
 the artist of that drawing is clearly of the skool where
 it's like "i try to make everyone i draw look good" because
 trump looks 40 years younger and less fat
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-04 10:55 [#02629675] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | while i roll my eyes at drawing trump kindly [even if it's because you draw everyone kindly] i still freaking admire
 the heck out of this skill. i imagine it must be the same
 rush i get out of recording a track -- just this manic rush,
 like "quick quick QUICK switch crey-pas color" and then a
 few minutes later you're pouring sweat and your art supplies
 are strewn all over in an exploded cloud and you have it
 down as in image and you're like *exhaling after sex*
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-04 11:00 [#02629676] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | my memory also includes a sort of perspective distortion where my mixer was stretched all about in a blobby manner
 and taking over most of the image, not just the color. which
 is how i remember things when my mixer has most of my
 attention
 
 it's actually very non-euclidean kinda thing
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2023-08-04 11:05 [#02629677] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | approaching memory of mixer 
 
 
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         |  RussellDust
             on 2023-08-04 12:02 [#02629678] Points: 16155 Status: Lurker | Followup to EpicMegatrax: #02629674
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 | relevant 
 
 
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