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mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 16633 Location: under the bed

well, that's too bad. one would hope that with the advent of word processors, there would at least be more filings in curlicue fonts.

maybe even colorful curlicue fonts.
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Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 4499 Location: No.

I've just discovered the facepunch forums

well, not the whole forum, but just a thread on it
a particularly horrible thread

I hereby ragequit the internet

it's been a good run, guys

byyyeee!~
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Felgraf · Joined: 10 Jul 2012 Posts: 645

eureka00 · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 1970 Location: Pretzel City

Currently sitting out on my back deck what's left of the daylight. Daughter is playing in her sandbox after a long summer. Looking forward to more nice days like this.
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WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11871 Location: Unknown Kaddath

Howlin' Shaolin Nunja Convent 7: Old Habits Die Hard with a Vengeance

When Sister Agatha North-Dragon's nun-justu instructor is assassinated by rival Franciscan Wushu monks for hire, she scours the mean streets of the Vatican's Chinatown district to uncover corruption that goes all the way to the top in her quest to restore the convent-dojo's honor.

Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 4499 Location: No.

Sometimes I don't want to be included in something, and actively decline, even, but still feel a bit bad about being left out.

very strange

I don't understand myself.
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WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11871 Location: Unknown Kaddath

Firefox, foobar2000, VLC, and MP3Tag all support the Opus audio codec now, so I did a little experimenting.

Setting up foobar to transcode was as easy as it is for anything else: either drag the encoder into its installation folder or set a path to opusenc.exe. Then add a new conversion setting by selecting Opus and choosing a target bitrate.
I picked out a .wav file and converted it to mp3 (LAME V0, ~245kb/s), ogg (q8, ~256kb/s), and Opus (VBR, slider set at 256kb/s) using foobar2k's file conversion interface. Then I filled in the appropriate tags, and tried playing them in foobar, VLC, and Firefox. Everything just worked. Now I want Rockbox for the Clip Zip to stabilize a little more so I can listen to this stuff on the go.

Weird thing is that the file size for Opus was actually the largest of the three (6.41MB), followed by the mp3 (6.14MB) and lastly the ogg (5.88MB). I don't know if that's because the encoder is still immature, if it tries to restrict itself to a narrower range, or if it's just the limitations of foobar2k's conversion dialogs (each encoder gets its own way of selecting bitrate, and the LAME mp3 encoder only allows certain bitrate settings so I couldn't pick 256 but had to go with 245). Soundconverter on Linux also supports transcoding to Opus in the latest versions, I might give that a try and see if there's any difference in the resulting file. I doubt it though, since they should all be using the same encoder.

Since the bitrate was relatively high (and I don't have any really great earphones, nor am I an audiophile with Golden Ears) I didn't expect to hear any difference between the various files, and that turned out to be the case. They all sounded pretty much the same, even on the cymbals. I'll try with higher compression settings later to see which one is the most tolerable at super low bitrates (64, 96, maybe 128).

WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11871 Location: Unknown Kaddath

Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 10421 Location: Bellingham, WA

Today over lunch me and one of the nurses invented telephone sex marketing. It's a combination of phone sex and telemarketing where they call you, get you horny, then try to get you to buy things to keep the conversation going. "Upgraded shipping makes me so horny," she says to me over salad.

Terrible idea, or the most terrible idea ever?
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ShadowCell · Joined: 03 Aug 2008 Posts: 5896 Location: California

probably already been done

Arc Tempest · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 4776 Location: Oregon

Lasairfiona · Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 4:22 am Post subject:

Pffffffffft.
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WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11871 Location: Unknown Kaddath

In case you don't get the reference.

cixelsyD · Joined: 09 Oct 2010 Posts: 1340

Catching reptiles and amphibians was always a enjoyed pastime of my childhood. I have never been grossed out by snakes or frogs, but even I think that those types of frogs are gross.

Look at this ugly thing!
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