Travel one is my favorite.
He's traveled over a thousand miles just to go to the pool!
ohhh that's what that is. I thought it was he went to all those places alone.
I think it's either this or that he only goes to resorts and doesn't see the actual cities he visits.
Goes out to chain restos and stares at his phone all over the world.
At least his phone is ultra slim
Yes, but
You know what? That's fine in my book. Some people enjoy seeing all kinds of hotel!
Don't gate keep fun.
Phone bad
Can we get an anus fact please?
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I went to the university of new hampshire, UNH, so this comment hits me a little...differently.
I thought it was about only taking pictures of yourself rather than what you came to see.
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... you've edited your post to say your point is "controversial", but no one has replied to you yet?
But it's still true, what's the point of even travelling if you would actually spend 100% of your time doing the exact same shit that you could do at home? It's not gatekeeping, it's just highlighting that it's an inefficient use of your own time if you just do the things you do at home, abroad.
I don't think it's about doing traveling to do things you could do at home. I live in a cold climate, hanging out at the pool is simply not an option for half the year. I would have to travel to do that.
I think the point was that the guy travels a lot and says he's been all over the world, but he just goes to different beaches and tropical climates. He's not experiencing anything new, seeing new sights, experiencing different cultures.
Yeah which is still a waste: might as well go to 1 resort closer to home if that's literally all he intends to do. Otherwise he's just experiencing different flight times, different airports, different pool layouts, and different (larger) carbon impacts
If not, get out and see the place you've travelled to, a bit? At least make it worth the change.
If you like to travel go for it, for me the money and potential danger outside of resorts not worth it to me.
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Traveled all over the world, but never left the hotel.
It's very much people who go to "exotic" countries and just stay at a resort.
Nothing wrong with resorts. But thatās a vacation. Not traveling.
It's okay to book your hotel at a resort. I'd even recommend it for certain conveniences.
But if you're traveling to foreign country, don't make your entire stay at the resort. Otherwise, you're just traveling for the same shit in America.
Go out to local events. Mingle with the people. Even the war torn countries have tourist specific areas that are generally safe.
They donāt have all inclusive in the USA. Sometimes itās dangerous to go off resort. Semantics are silly. Itās travel and a vacation.
I have been to resorts and I have traveled through local communities. They are both valid experiences. But the difference between them is most definitely not semantics. That would be like saying both American football and rugby use oblong balls, so the difference is semantics.
You misunderstand me. I didnāt say the difference between a resort and off resort local travel is semantics. The guy above me said a resort is not traveling. Iām saying that is a silly semantic argument.
Yeah we do.
Not really. They will call it all inclusive, but it doesnāt include alcohol. If you know of an exception, Iād be interested to know about it.
club med sandpiper bay
South Seas Resort in Captiva, Florida.
Yeah, I'm there now
Why is that a bad thing though? Why can't people enjoy themselves however they want when they're on vacation? They paid for it, they should get to enjoy it however they want. Why we gotta gatekeep traveling now?
Because part of travel is experiencing new cultures.
Itās like going to every restaurant in your city and ordering the most common denominator food item, like fries or something. I mean you could if it makes you happyā¦but itās totally missing the point?
I've gone to many countries and stayed with host families, on farms, guesthouses, rented a room, sharehouse. Resorts are nice sometimes after enough cultural immersion, because you can just relax. Like the freedom and peacefulness of it is a true vacation. But I made the goal of living like locals for at least some time, didn't actually stay in many resorts yet.
I thought it was he went all these places but only shows himself in the same pose at a pool.
Yeah, because he doesnāt do anything more interesting than that.
"Bro, just got back from Portugal. Awesome pools there."
"Bro, just got back from Cuba. Killer pools there."
"Bro, just got back ......(rinse and repeat).....
Traveling by yourself is not any less traveling than doing it with other people
Best trip I ever went on was a solo trip.
For sure, same here. Being able to do w/e you want, go wherever you want to go is the greatest sense of freedom anyone can have. Bonus points if you stay at hostels and meet a ton of different people.
Eww, meeting people. Worst part about the travel experience for me.
Same. I like to meet people, but only casual interactions. I'd rather sleep on a car than a hostel where the hippies will sing and get stoned, the middle aged ones will start drinking contests, and the old man who owns the hostel will tell you a story and give you a quest to retrieve some ancient treasure. So stressful.
Was that travel or Lord of the Rings?
None really, but while shitposting I thought of of Raiders of the Lost Ark at the end.
Thatās exactly what I did. Met some awesome people!
I go on solo trips almost every night.
true, that's why I was a bit baffled
i thought it was a photoshop job
there's nothing like that trend of spending thousands of dollars to be lonely somewhere else. Whoever thought up branding that as "finding yourself" probably got a big raise at some travel company.
I disagree. I think there are few things as valuable as seeing a world youāre unfamiliar with, being exposed to things youāve never imagined and realizing how much life there is outside of the one you have, and not based in the value system youāre born into. Loneliness is inescapable, but climbing a mountain in Iceland with hitchhikers from places Iāve never been was more memorable than anything Iāve ever done in my own home.
there's nothing like that trend of spending thousands of dollars to be lonely somewhere else.
Some people aren't lonely by themselves, at home or somewhere else
I think its also the same resort just different countries
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That one feels a little judgy
Everything is judgmental, if you think of it that way. Why not use a digital device instead of real instruments? Why not have a messy desk? Its just a joke.
Peak gatekeeping tbh. "Oh, you went on vacation and spent your time enjoying the nice resort you paid a lot of money for? Wow, guess you didn't actually travel then, you poser."
Like damn, let people enjoy their vacation, it's their trip not yours.
"oh you only took pics of yourself at a pool? That means you didn't do anything else"
Dadadadah!
I recently made a resolution to myself in that I will never vacation in a place I could easily go to a Denny's
I have an in law that does this but with bars. Loves traveling but everything revolves around drinks. Any touristy thing or site will not be seen if alcohol is not served. And that's fine by me. For the rare family trip, I do me and meet up later for dinner and am in awe of how many drinks they can have and still be functional.
When asked if he had visited the Parthenon during a recent trip to Greece, the basketball player remarked: "I can't really remember the names of the clubs we went to."
Maybe you just don't understand the how big the world of alcohol is, you could spend a life time learning about the history of it. Sure you go to see monuments and see and learn a little, you see the culture a little. He tastes the past and the present of the culture, he feels their fire burning in his blood. He knows how and why and where these people did and do drink, and if you understand that you have true understanding.
https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/qptl4v/everything_revolves_around_drinks_any_touristy/
r/copypasta
I take that as a compliment.
https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/qptl4v/everything_revolves_around_drinks_any_touristy/
Haha you should. I will absolutely use this in response to other Reddit comments on alcohol
https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/qptl4v/everything_revolves_around_drinks_any_touristy/
Lol I hope thatās pasta. Iām good to hit breweries, wineries, and distilleries especially in the name of learning the traditions of their alcohol. Iāve always been fascinated that almost every culture discovered booze in their own way using rice, or barley, or agave, or potatoes, etc. I love it, I just prefer to also see their monuments and architecture and beautiful landscapes before Iām too blacked out to remember!
Comment is original, but definitely a joke.
I know I really don't appreciate another culture until I've seen how well they make vodka redbulls.
poetic in a bad way?
Yeah my thinking was traveling and visiting bars gives a better sense of what the locals are like compared to doing the tourist things
Yup, this is why i like going to bars or cafe and just hanging out whenever im traveling. Because that is where you will meet actual locals and get a great sense for the country and the people
Trevi Fountain is cool but all the real Italians in the area are gonna be at the cafe a few blocks away
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I can actually hold my liquor pretty well but theyāre just different beasts altogether. Itās fun to drink all day with them but I end up feeling like trash the next day and I miss out on a lot of experiences that I want for myself. I end up exhausted and unfulfilled so I learned itās better to go my own way and meet up later. I grew up in a tight family and felt like we had to be together all the time and realize now how utterly insane that is.
The trick to not feeling like trash is to never stop drinking. Save the come down for when you get back to work.
Quitting the drink was the best decision I've ever made.
Alcoholism to some degree. Becomes a lifestyle, and before you know it, whammo. Bottle a night.
Do you even understand how many cultures in the world habitually drink alcoholic beverages for dinner each night?
Wanting to drink a bottle a night isn't alcoholism. Not being able to function normally unless you have alcohol is.
Americans are so bad at drinking alcohol that they think anyone who does it regularly is an alcoholic. Nah, the drinking culture in America is just a joke.
Yeah mate I live in Australia. We have one of the largest drinking cultures. Would see people get their stomachs pumped from a night out more than you think.
Drinking a bottle a night is absolutely alcoholism man. Defend booze all you like but it's definitely a terrible drug to have around.
I feel like you guys are misunderstanding each other.
A bottle a night is not automatically alcoholism, depending on the bottle. A bottle of beer every night with dinner? No problem, arguably even somewhat healthy. A bottle of everclear every night while sitting alone in your bathtub? Thats another story.
I think the guy you responded to meant a bottle of beer, not a bottle of hard booze.
Yep. I had a friend who would make fun of me for going home to my family cottage every summer instead of traveling the world, but her traveling the world was going to different all-inclusives, which to me all looked the same from the pictures.
Damn to bad they couldnāt leave the resort
I do this and love it. I do visit some other places than the hotel a day or two but 90% of my vacation I'm reading by the pool and relaxing the fuck out of my body.
This is a waste of the emissions it takes to get there. Please don't do this, extremely wasteful and indulgent
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If you're traveling to another country you should engage with your culture. I'm not trying to gatekeep travel, but if you're going to another country (especially a developing country) just to live the resort life, you're probably just contributing to their existing problems and should go somewhere closer to home.
Also, on a personal note, I get different strokes for different folks and all that but I've you're going to an exciting new place just to do all the same things you've done a thousand times before then u need a bit of a fucking spice in your life.
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You can do that, but the comic is poking fun at going to all these places and doing the same thing thatās not even relevant to the culture.
Itās also arguably a waste to do that when you can kinda do that anywhere. Like you can do that in both Vietnam and Miamiā¦but Vietnam is going to have so much amazing food and experiences that you canāt get in Miami so itās a āwasteā to travel around the entire world just to do something you could do fairly locally.
Like Iām not gonna go to a steakhouse and just order fries, you can argue Iām gatekeeping steakhouses but thatās the logic of it.
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you're probably just contributing to their existing problems and should go somewhere closer to home.
You are spending money there. Many small countries, tourism is their biggest money maker.
If you are just going to a resort then the money you are spending is barely going to anyone that needs it there. Your money is most likely going to a wealthy foreigner besides any tips you give.
You're still tipping hotel workers, going out to restaurants, using taxis, probably buying gifts, etc.
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I'm not sure, but this sure as fuck is particularly egregious
oh stfu
People can vacation how ever they want bub
Wahhhhhhhh
It's less wasteful than traveling to those places and then going all around those cities.
I don't understand resort/pool people.
It's a really expensive way to not do anything.
"No matter where you go in life, there you are."
The password one kicked my ass as a technician. The amount of times Iāve used 1Password suggested passcode and then forgotten to update the entry it was under isā¦more than 0
Yes, but I like the other one too
It agrees with me on so many levels.
While I'm not a pool guy, the idea of walking around the streets of a city has the same appeal as doing so in my home town. Cool, paved sidewalks. Stoplights. Fun!
Restaurant? Okay, cool, let me order the fish with some kind of sauce and a variation of potato for a side plus some green vegetable. Fun!
Taking pictures of anything? I could've Googled them and found better pictures by an experienced photographer. Fun!
I've traveled outside the US and to almost rvery state. But I don't really care to have done so. And the only thing that could appeal to me is a tourist attraction, loke Harry Potter world, but the fact that it's so popular and crowded with long lines would just end up irritating me. Fun!
That's what I telly wife about the beach. You don't need to travel to different beaches
The license plate on the car really sells it
Missed that little tidbit. Thanks
You're welcome, butthole. :)
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This has to be the best-worst Reddit comment I've ever seen
Emoji triggered
No I'm not one of those emoji bad assholes I just love this comment but also kinda hate it at the same time lmao
It's a Dismaster piece.
Does it come from somewhere? Why is the spacing all weird?
Lmao exactly
Lol fair
New to reddit eh? Let's not forget LE GEM!
...I've had an account here for a decade now
People are ignoring the "best-" part, I meant it's the comment that strikes the best good-bad balance
r/ATBGE
Better than expected
I hate this.
Holy hell.
DUNE emoji edition
I don't understand the car one. Whats the point?
YS BT
YES BUT
So thats it? I thought there was something deeper.
YS BT
Whatās the point of #6? The one with the music recording studio, itās going right over my head.
There is a studio full of real instruments and this person is programming MIDI beats.
Tbf the person is only programming the drums in the 'but' photo, which aren't pictured. The vocals are pre recorded. I get the gyst though.
I had assumed it was referencing that they have a massive mixing board, but only 4 tracks in their DAW. They have a lot more tools on hand than they'll ever need.
Those (I counted, but there's probably more offscreen) 31+ track boards are really not going to be used by a lot of modern music producers, most musicians only use like drums, bass, rhythm guitar, melodic guitar, keyboards, vocals, backup vocals, and auxiliary percussion/noises. You'd at most need like 18 tracks, half of which you can mix by mouse/keyboard on the computer.
Thing is, mega studios have huge expensive monitor speakers setup. If you are mixinging a top-40 pop song, you most definitely want the huge expensive speaker setup to mix on, wether the song has 5 tracks or 50.
But then again, if you're a studio that mixes top 40 tracks you most definitely want a huge console because you are 100% tracking live bands too.
This is like saying, why do you have all those different screwdrivers if you only used one to fix that drawer?
Yeah exactly. The main thing is mixing with the speakers. That's the thing that a lot of at-home productions lose. They add too much reverb or other effects because they can't feel how it sounds outside of their headphones.
To be honest, unless you're a big studio, I don't see the point of getting a huge mixing board when the more important part is the speakers.
If you're a studio for songs that big, it's worth it because you aren't doing just that.
I love how I found this being discussed in the comments lol. I was wondering if any other music producers or audio peeps in general were looking at it.
Not to mention that many of those studios do record 60 piece orchestras, too. Big band jazz has at least 20 tracks. Saying music only has rhythm section and vocals, you're basically showing you listen to only a few related genres of music.
Also, while recording at home is becoming easier, acoustic treatment at a studio is still going to be much better.
I was saying that thereās a specific type of musician who buys a lot of studio equipment only to make basic-ass beats that you can do without 90% of that equipment.
You should read someoneās entire point before you try talking shit, because Iāve been literally mixing a big band chart in Logic Pro the last few weeks. I donāt see the point for a small musician to get it; I never said they didnāt have use.
Edit: also my name is literally Autumn1eaves. Obviously I listen to many different types of music.
Goddamn, dude, I was agreeing with you. Lighten up. The person who mentioned rhythm section and vocals wasn't you.
Me, too poor to afford the sampling package and spend hours mapping every individual note.
Itās not terribly difficult but terribly tedious. More tedious than learning to play instruments.
Yeah exactly. Personally, I think whatās needed most is a synth and mixing speakers or headphones.
Everything else you can do quickly and efficiently enough without complex equipment
Definitely, just takes a while to build the muscle memory to move your way through production at a breezy pace. At first itās like navigating an alien spaceship lol.
Cheers.
I assumed it was having an entire studio for everybodyās first beat + vocals
Yeah that too
Also thank you for listing out what components most artists like... gives me an idea of what Iām missing in tracks that sound like theyāre missing something
The picture of the DAW is the step sequencer from FL, which is a fully-fledged DAW.
Every mixing console these days goes into a DAW anyway so it's a moot point
That's a valid point. I actually really like this comic because there's so much to unpack.
specifically, they're using fl studio
FL represent
I love FL Studio so far. I used a uh "demo" version of it way back in high school and just recently picked it up again. I forgot how much fun making music could be
As a hobbyist musician I found this one funny because you can get all kinds of fancy equipment and instruments and what not but you can do so much with a DAW that you don't even need to use your fancy toys most of the time.
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Yeah that one got a real life oof out of me
Lots of lovely studio equipment, but it can all be done on your laptop now anyway.
Edit since a lot of people are debating digital versus hardware below: It's a bit of an oversimplification, but there are styles where going entirely digital is possible and that's obviously the case for the person in the cartoon.
uuuugh but you actually do lose a lot of nuance with MIDI. You have to be listening for it, but I'd say I'm 80-90% at picking out an authentic guitar vs a MiDI guitar, for example.
I don't want to sound like some music snob, but I hate that everyone is so focused on digitizing instruments.
Edit: I am not listening for it like people keep saying. It literally stands out clear as day that a song is using digitally created sounds versus real instruments. It's not a judgement in anyone who uses MIDI, but you are absolutely lying to yourself if you think no one can tell the difference.
Like those figure squeaks when you move your hand on the fretboard?
Those can be sampled, you just need the equipment from the first panel to do it
Yeah you can sample and recreate most analog sounds, itās just at some point itās far less time intensive to just record the instrument track.
I like instruments, but I try not to judge digital music just for being digital. Just a different medium, like paint vs. digital
Yes, kontakt session guitarist does those sounds particularly well.
Honestly though, the cost difference between that and an actual guitar isā¦debatably negligible.
You can't pirate a guitar... yet.
Thereās literally a MIDI patch for that
Yep right after all the "metal" guitar ones right? Like it's the electric guitar, then overdrive, then fret sound
Vvvvvvt!
hnnnnng, I love that sound š
Me too. It's also actually super hard to completely eliminate from your playing as it requires you to sacrifice a lot of your economy of motion. Ideally you want to move as little as possible when playing guitar, otherwise you tire quickly.
Oh you're definitely not wrong, but guitar is definitely one of the hardest instruments to midi imo.
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It's amazing what we can do these days. I remember when drum kits were terrible, plain samples, and now we can change the wood our digital snare is made out of and how tight our cymbal nuts are screwed on lmao
And somehow Rolandās electric kits still sound like garbage. They need to collab with Superior drummer and use real samples.
They should have been doing this for years, they've always been behind. It's a shame, really. I do love playing them, and I hate the noise lol
With their new digital high-hat I feel like they have the best interface, but still a terrible sound. Almost bought a set this year, but they just arenāt there yet.
Then there's this
Wkrstfskt!ā½
Uhh, has MIDI improved dramatically in recent years? My brother does composition with Sibelius and some expensive sound fonts, and from what I remember from a couple years back, it's the woodwinds and strings that really stand out as computer generated. Piano can be very good, but synthetic bowed double bass or saxophone just sounds mechanical no matter what you do.
That largely fits my experience. Simple strings aren't bad, woodwinds are fairly awful. Guitars stick out to me because there's so much extra noise associated with playing a guitar that is poorly expressed through midi. Drums are largely pretty good, probably the best by a good margin.
Yeah; drums never sounded too bad to me as an amateur. Piano was always the best to my ear (but maybe my brother was just better at wrangling the computer for it - piano was always his forte š).
There's some modern that can do good woodwinds and brass, but it still sounds robotic to a lot of ears, and can't really have the nuance that an actual player would have.
Also, things like the finger squeaks that a guitar makes when you slide your fingers along it are completely lost, and also any tuning nuances that occur, like how in Jazz you'll often gliss between the minor and major thirds.
I had a friend fuck around and try to make a bluegrass song just through MIDI one time.
I was begging him to stop š
MIDI guitar sucks, but digital amps are amazing. I run an axe fx3 when I play shows. Nobody can tell the difference. I compare it to the switch to digital photography in the early 2000s.
That shift has allowed me to make music. Is it great? Nope. But i still made and Album. Its being released in about 3 weeks. I hired someone for the album art and paid a studio to master it. That helps everybody. I'll get like 1000 listens and be happy with my creation. It's not all about the absolute top tier best. And there's LOTS of folks like me out there. I think it's great.
For sure. I think itās overall really great for this very reason. You kind of just have to know what you want to make and whatās the best choice. If you want a saxophone line in a song, youāre probably better off just hiring someone to record that line. String pads though? Using the computer is just going to be easier and cheaper for really not much of a difference.
Hey can you send me the link? I like listening to random indie artists. I also make music that few people ever hear but one of my songs made it onto a playlist anyway. And I didn't even get it professionally mixed and mastered since I lost all my unmixed tracks, and still someone liked it enough.
Sure. They are just on Soundcloud currently unfortunately. I can send you another message when it comes out on Spotify and the others in a few weeks. I'll go ahead and send you that soundcloud link for the album playlist.
Edit: Sent. Thanks for checking it out. I hope you like it. If anyone else is curious it's MDK FLA on soundcloud. The album is pinned. "The Unintended Consequences of Time Travel"
Congratulations! Keep up the hard work!
Thank you!
Iām fine with my 50 listens. So long as something I created will stick around on this earth for a little longer than I did.
I feel that very much. It's such a good feeling. I am unable to work due to a quickly deteriorating body so I have A LOT of time on my hands. Spending 8 hours on my computer making music produces something as opposed to playing video games for 8 hours or more a day like I did when I first got ill. Now, I got absolutely nothing against video games, as a hobby. It was all I had for a bit before I found music in March.
Yeah the way you feel after 8 hours of music is so much better than 8 hours of gaming.
Though I do both regularly lol. Cheers.
I hate that everyone is so focused on digitizing instruments.
It's not that people necessarily prefer digital (though many do), but that it's far cheaper and simpler to use a DAW than it is to buy the same amount of audio equipment to match what a DAW can do. Not to mention having enough space for it.
cries in UAD
edit: my small studio is pushing about 25k now, 1/3rd of that in uad
I could try listening for it and not be able to tell.
And I feel like I probably speak for the majority in that.
Right, and that's fine. But I've been married to a musician for 4 years now and he's taught me to listen to music in a completely different way.
Just because you can't tell doesn't mean others can't. Now that I'm learning an instrument myself (banjo) it hurts even more to hear "fake" instruments.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Asx-p2r1nE
It depends of the quality. So that still had to be recorded somewhere. Also limiting in what you can do.
speak for the majority
Given the majority use shitty apple earbuds/pods, or apple beats, or some other discount garbage. Yah. You probably do speak for the majority.
I donāt think youāre right in saying you lose something. Itās different, MIDI and real life instruments are different, but they both can create equally valid and unique sounding music.
wait until you find out they warp and stretch all the timing and autotune the "real instruments"
Edit, yes. Auto tune, no, absolutely not "everyone" does this.
My husband has a home recording studio and has produced over 15 songs, I'm well aware of the post recording effects and adjustments that happen in songs. Particularly vocals, my god it's basically a full time job editing those.
But the authenticity still comes through in a way MIDI cannot capture. That's what I love about music, the imperfections that somehow makes the song perfect.
Melodyne is pretty advanced now, you could tune guitar bends on solo if you wanted to, and it wouldn't be unheard of either.
Melodyne is the shit.
My lead singer has a bit of a warble/pitchy/tune problem in the higher registers. He also isnāt the greatest at consistent phrasing between takesā¦Iām better at holding and keeping tone. Unfortunately our voices sound fairly similar so when our tones clash when we harmonize, it sounds really bad.
With Melodyne we can drill down on specific warbles and straighten them out without needing lead singer guy to try take after take after take after take.
We donāt use it for everything, but it helps for saving some time in the studio.
Yeah, you can add bends and fix tiny timing flaws in solos to make them sound magnificent. I don't think they know the kind of editing we're talking about, exactly. It's much harder to hear pitch correction and warping on guitars than voices.
Iāll be the snob, I can pick out midi guitar every time. There is a time and place for programming instruments for sure but nothing can replace the magic of a quality live sound source.
Metal music is like 75% programmed drums (or at least messed with heavily in post)
Literally such a shitty take itās not even worth thinking about
If you have to be specifically listening for it and even then youāre only 80-90% successful at picking it out, that actually sounds like a great endorsement for MIDI guitars since the vast majority of people arenāt listening for it and probably enjoy the music just as much. Itās awesome that sounds that used to require hundreds or thousands of dollars of equipment to create are now accessible to anyone with a laptop.
I was being very generous, I honestly never listen to music that uses MIDI but every time I do I pick it out instantly.
It absolutely does not cost "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to get the instruments & recording equipment necessary. OG punk & grunge artists would love to have a word with you.
Yeah, it is neat that people have more access to create music, but I personally think it sounds inferior and I'm certainly not alone. My husband is a musician and he's far more experienced at hearing the difference between digital vs real.
Sure, but midi isn't the only way to do it. Lots modern songs are just resampled garbage. Basically FLAC/wave/mp3/whatever files, recordings of actual musicians, spliced together then overlaid with some auto tuned vocals.
Even in a lossy format on cheap mono bluetooth speaker like most people listen on? I get that stuff should be mixed for all types of setups but you gotta admit that a majority of listeners won't notice or care even if you told them about it.
If you have to be listening for it then...why would you? Sounds like you're actively trying to be annoyed that way.
I am not listening for it, I literally hear it almost as soon as the song starts. It's called having a musician's ear (and not even a very well trained one, at that)
Oh, I thought the joke was that the second one was shitty because it's a really basic sequence. Like, that's a "it's 2012 and i pirated fl studio five minutes ago" looking beat.
Ah I thought it was ālots of studio equipment, but youāre making simple tracks that donāt need thousands of dollars of equipment, and you clearly arenāt talented enough to use it allā
Exactly. The studio probably has thousands of dollars in instruments and microphones that they're replacing with computer controlled synths or samples. The only thing that's actually being recorded for the song are some vocals.
As long as it sounds good. You can be limited by instruments if youāre a good composer but donāt have the skill required to play it live.
One of the benefits of instruments though is fiddling around and finding bits and pieces to map out and incorporate in your digital music.
Not really though. The bunch of physical buttons and dials are purely a preference choice but you still need plenty of hardware for high quality mics/instruments/headphones. Good laptop can serve as tool ideas and whatnot but final recording you want some kind of a recording studio, even self made one.
After dabbling a bit in the industry, I came to have a great respect for audio engineers. There are lot of science that goes into creating perfect sound.
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A quality preamp costs hundreds of thousands of dollars
Either you're confused about which piece of gear a preamp is or your cost estimate is just off by a factor of 100x.
Also, lots and lots of hit recordings these days are tracked and mixed on the equivalent of a MacBook pro in someone's bedroom studio. Some of those mixes then end up sent off to a fancy studio for mastering, but even then you'd be surprised how good "in the box" home studio mastering has gotten these days.
I'd say the comic in question fairly accurately captures the current state of popular music recording and production.
100% correct. Thereās a reason studios still exist today for mixing and recording. You canāt replicate the sound from high quality analog compressors onto an āIn the boxā setup thatās for damn sure.
You canāt replicate the sound from high quality analog compressors onto an āIn the boxā setup thatās for damn sure.
IDK man, have you auditioned something like Unisum? It might not be 100% the same as your favorite outboard compressor, but you can't deny that it sounds damn good.
Plugins have gotten so good that you absolutely can make a completely professional-level recording entirely ITB these days. It's just a fact that there have been numerous grammy award-winning tracks that were mixed/mastered entirely ITB, and there are plenty of award-winning mix engineers who work entirely or almost entirely ITB.
Traditional studios still exist, but their market has absolutely been eaten up by the advancement of high quality pro-sumer home recording gear and the trend towards electronic music and virtual instruments. Lots of the local studios I used to know and even record at have closed their doors over the last decade.
You canāt replicate the sound
And? It's not studios are even trying anymore. Overtones? What are those? We just have over samples.
I think they meant to say "to" and not "of".
Maybe, but then the thrust of the comment becomes "you can't do it all with your laptop ā you also need a few hundred bucks worth of preamp" which doesn't really make much sense in context.
Just look at Andrew Huang. He's got a modular synth easily worth over 10k and he does 90% of his work on a small synth and Ableton live.
Those panels are completely missing the point of music production though
Speaks to me personally. I own a bunch of guitars and some recording equipment but no drums. Drums are the most challenging thing to record. A good reliable drummer is also the most challenging person to find in a band. I think itās supposed to mean something else but to me it means no drums but you have everything else. Your forced to input drums with a machine
Full studio. Song only using 4 simple tracks. high hat, clap, and a snare. plus the vocals lol.
But there's no drums in the studio, only guitars and a piano...
Top icon is a kick I believe.
Boomers mad that music production is now accessable to all via digital means, without needing access to thousands of $ worth of gear.
This is a great thing however. That expensive gear still exists and is still used. It just now means that people of all budgets can afford to record/produce music, and those with a higher budget can still use the expensive gear/real human instrumentalists for that boost in fidelity.
The boomer take is that this use of software for music somehow produces shittier music. That is plain wrong. If a producer or artist wants to cut corner they will find corners to cut no matter what. I see this as allowing all musicians to perfect this facet of their craft from day 1 rather than needing a fat stack of $ or a recording deal. It also allows non instrumentalists opportunity to jump into the world of music with almost no barrier to entry.
The digital samplers/drum machines/instruments being so accessable also means that those who could not otherwise play an instrument for some physical reason, have had at least one barrier torn down.
Iāve literally never heard boomers complain about that. Or really anyone. Fake outrage.
Itās only from boomers who are in the industry that youāll hear it from. If youāre not around those kind of folks, no one really cares to bat an eye over whether or not you recorded digitally or went full analog.
most sane audio engineers (boomers and all) embrace the digital revolution. the sticking point comes from people thinking they can get a master done for $5 that is worth a damn (hint: they never are)
Good luck trying to even set foot into a studio for $5 lol
clearly - that was more about the bedroom mastering engineers that are abundant nowadays
I don't think the comic was necessarily implying anything bad about the state of music production. It was just saying that it's cool and all that you have this whole studio, but in reality you barely use it because the digital music production tools can do most of it.
You are completely right in your assessment of modern music production. If you've got the fortitude to continuously learn music theory and the tools you can literally make shit that sounds just as good as classic instruments with just VSTs and plugins. I much prefer finding new ways to manipulate sound waves digitally over finding and learning a bunch of different hardware because it's much easier and far less expensive.
That being said this isn't the joke. That picture is as simple as pimp has all this equipment and made the most bare bones ass track possible.
Same.
Itās FL Studio. Can do everything but is mostly used for electronic music and beats. Pro Tools is a better fit.
That clean computer desktop, messy RL desktop hits a little too close to home.
I feel targeted.
Hey, it could be worse. You could have a messy RL desktop AND a messy computer desktop (like me).
Hello waffle brother.
Hello waffle brother.
I have a semi clean desk now, do the same. Let's form the WACK (waffle association for clearn desktops) (a shitty acronym needs to take a letter from the middle of a word).
WACD kind of works, like "Together we WACD that mess"^tm
Okay, I will clean my desk a little bit.
Hello wafflebrother
Sup
Hey, it could be worse. You could have a messy RL desktop AND a messy computer desktop (like me).
That's called being authentic my dude.
I feel personally attacked
Don't feel. You're just one among millions who live like that, he did not target you specifically.
You're right. He carped bombed the lot of us. I still feel attacked though!
What a wholesome reply :)
That was the one that confused me the most, I was like
Yes [messy PC desktop], But [messy desktop]
But I guess that is some people's idea of "clean" PC desktop, personally I don't allow a single fucking thing on mine
I think itās more of a terminology thing, since this desktop might not be considered ācleanā by all, but itās definitely organized, which is not messy.
It's definitely me, but I will make the distinction that there's no trash for me, it's all just clutter.
Mine is the other way around tho they go through their phases.
I actually also switched to reusable produce bags as well.
If someone has a way to refill my tide detergent bottle from a common bulk dispenser, I'd gladly do so.
Yer that one kind of annoyed me because loads of people do the whole "oh you reuse a water bottle but you still use a gas oven, what a hypocrite" as a excuse to make 0 changes to their own lives. A reusable bag full of none recyclables is better then a disposable bag for none recyclables, any small change is a good change.
Honestly I took it as a call for more reusable products rather than criticizing the person with the bag.
100% agree. The "forgot password?" BUT one is also not something one person can do anything about.
Look for bulk refill stations near you. I go to a place for shampoo, detergent, etc thatās exclusively zero waste/bulk refill. Idk where you live but hopefully you can find a place not so out of the way for you.
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The vaccine one is absolutely my sister. Botox, breast implants, lip injections yet won't get vaccinated and says she doesn't want to put something foreign into her body š
Introduce her to a guy with an exotic accent.
Now that's a quality comment
This is indeed pretty weird knowing that botox is just a pharmaceutical brand for the botulinum toxin, which is the most poisonous toxin ever known for humans.
My sister sent me some video being shared on Instagram and it used heaps of scenes from Gattaca to illustrate its point. I almost threw my phone in frustration.
I know your feels. I got a friend that was just scared of needles and she went full antivax after that, sharing shits on her fb and insta.
She got mad at me because I refused to see her knowing that she was not vaccinated. I got a close call once with a colleague and I didn't want to take the risk again.
This was my only remaining friend from high school. This make me sad.
It bothers me how the yes, but photos should be reversed in this one. She saying no to the vaccine, not yes...
Holy shit we must have the same sister. āDonāt know if itās safe - drugs r badā meanwhile Botox and Xanax all over.
It's frustrating because I know she's not that dumb. Or at least I thought.
Yeah I know someone who gave up their job as a paramedic because she refused the vaccine but got like 4 lip injections in the past year. Her lips are half her face.
In Spain we had a famous singer saying the same anti-vaxer shit, claiming he was very careful about what goes into his body... Unfortunately for him many people remembered how in the 80s he used to boast about consuming up anything that came from his dealer lol
The amount of botox and lip filler there is in 20something women is truly disturbing.
Vol 1?
https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/is3nbt/yes_but_tag_yourself
Vol 3 is definitely the best
Came here looking for the other volumes - thanks!
https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/oo8qsw/yes_but_vol2
Your link but without all the reddit tracking bits. :)
God forbid reddit know how users primarily navigate the site so they can use that information to make the most used parts better/easier to use
Huh, vol 3 is much better than vol 2 imho
I mean, Vol 3 is a considerable upgrade.
What sort of monster is using difficult passwords without a password manager to both generate AND store them? If you're number 7, you're just mental, there are off the shelf free tools that do this for you and it's better than low friction, it's actually removing friction from most login processes because you just have a manager that stores them encrypted until it needs them and makes it so that you never need to think about them ever again.
Real ones use passwords.txt
Notebook with all the passwords in a drawer
And the file name:
passwords.txt
private.txt
dontopen.txt
...
supersecret.txt
I downloaded a password manager. Then the manager required like 15 characters with multiple numbers, capitalizations, and symbols.
I forgot the password to the password manager.
idk I use forget password all the time. It's usually super fast and most things remember devices so I can set a secure password and forget it if I want to.
I use it as a last resort, because it's never as fast as a password manager (especially on the web), and if it goes wrong, it can go pretty wrong:
Basically the only upside to your approach is not having to learn a password manager, but... there's one built into Chrome/Android now, so it's pretty easy. And it's not like you can't use "forgot password" if you do.
Your phone and browser literally tries to do this for you automatically. If you've secured your google account with two factor authentication you don't need to worry about it and life is quick and simple.
Using forget password all the time is much slower and would drive me crazy.
password managers have their downsides too. You could lose your access to the password manager because you forgot your master password (because you changed it recently for example and are still trying to type in the old one because you're used to that one). Or if somebody got access to your password manager they now have access to all your passwords. Also, if you rely completely on it, you have a problem if the password manager isn't available in some situation (because you're working on a different PC for example).
One trick is to take sentences (easy to remember), take the first letter of each word and make that your password for that site. For example, for Reddit you could use "I use Reddit 3 hours a day!" and you'd get IuR3had!
Easy to remember, you can have a different passwort for each site and you don't risk losing all your passwords at once.
password managers have their downsides too. You could lose your access to the password manager because you forgot your master password (because you changed it recently for example).
Keep a offline backup, maybe even with the old master password until you know the new one by heart.
Or if somebody got access to your password manager they now have access to all your passwords.
MFA/2FA will help here for extra layer of security. Something you should be using anyway.
Also, if you rely completely on it, you have a problem if the password manager isn't available in some situation (because you're working on a different PC for example).
Most, if not all, apps have cross platform support and keep an offline version locally.
One trick is to take sentences (easy to remember), take the first letter of each word and make that your password for that site. For example, for Reddit you could use "I use Reddit 3 hours a day!" and you'd get IuR3had! Easy to remember, you can have a different passwort for each site and you don't risk losing all your passwords at once.
Randomly generated passwords are stronger in general, depending on length and complexity of course. This example is WAY to short btw. Password managers also have a good overall recommendation regarding generating properly strong passwords. However passphrase can still have there place. But if you are afraid of losing your password vault using a physical paper equivalent is still a better option then remembering your passwords. Easy to remember is just another way of saying crap passwords that are easily brute forced for the average user.
Why not use the sentence itself?
I'm not entirely sure, but off the top of my head:
shorter, which can be important when there are maximum character lengths on passwords. Edit: this is actually the big problem I think. You want the longest possible password with as much randomness as possible. If your password is limited to 16 characters then you can only use a few words which is not all that random, especially compared to 16 completely random characters.
less prone to dictionary attacks where an attacker generates random words to guess the password. Related to above.
easier to insert numbers, symbols, and different cases (in my opinion at least)
Edit: RE dictionary attacks, remember that the idea is to take a sentence that is easy to remember - and therefore likely easier to guess - and convert it into one that is more challenging. So for example I could take a simple phrase like "I waste far too much time on Reddit" which becomes "iwftmtor". Mixing cases and inserting some symbols, I might end up with "!w4tmt0R".
The number of words there are in English alone guarantees no one can ever generate the right password within any reasonable amount of time.
Just because words are in a dictionary does not make a password made of words more prone to dictionary attacks.
Just because words are in a dictionary does not make a password made of words more prone to dictionary attacks.
By definition it is more prone to dictionary attacks, but I get your point about whether that's actually a risk in practice or not.
Your argument makes sense if your password was an entire novel, not correct horse battery staple that gets brute forced in record time
But like it doesn't. Most simple password tools break down after a dozen to 20 letters anyway, which a passphrase can achieve while their originators way cannot. Literally the fbi recommends it. Five random common words is far far far more computational onerous than 8 random letters.
At 170k words in the English dictionary, the brute force search space grows much faster per word than even the most stringent password rule set. At 5 words, 170000^5 (not even counting upper/lower/symbol replacement) you already need 15 characters (72^15, for upper/lower/numeric/symbol) to beat the entropy. That, and most brute force attacks are going to go for low hanging fruit, so either way you've probably already made it not worth their time, and at least for me, it's way easier to remember the 5 words than 15 random characters.
So I use a password manager (gnu password store) with that very strong key so that all my other passwords are as long as I want, and even if you get my password store, you're going to be in for a treat trying to break the password.
I get your point, though the entropy of the English language is much lower than you suggested because words in a sentence are not uniformly distributed and many words are effectively unused. For example, depending on how you count the average person's vocabulary is only 20,000 to 40,000 words.
The only things that matter with passwords is length and not using one of the ~100,000 most common passwords (could be million, canāt recall). Complexity only makes a password more difficult for a human to remember.
Source: work for a site with 8MM users and implemented the password functionality
You could lose your access to the password manager because you forgot your master password
Memorizing one complicated password is a hell of a lot easier than trying to remember the (checks my password locker) 112 different unique passwords Iām currently using.
Or if somebody got access to your password manager they now have access to all your passwords
Multi-factor authentication. Every password locker Iāve used in the last 10 years has had a combination of master password, encryption key, and an optional QR code for additional security. They could get your master password, but theyāll need your secret security key too.
In order to set up my 1Password (not shilling, I just get it for free through my work) account on a new device, I have to:
The locker requires me to login with my master password every time I turn the device on, or log out of the device (like turning off my PC or every time I close out of the app on my phone).
Also, if you rely completely on it, you have a problem if the password manager isn't available in some situation (because you're working on a different PC for example).
I have the app set-up on my phone. I always have my passwords with me, and theyāre doubly secure - if someone stole my phone, theyād have to get through my 8-pin phone code and then have to guess my master password (which locks out after a few tries)
For example, for Reddit you could use "I use Reddit 3 hours a day!" and you'd get IuR3had! Easy to remember, you can have a different passwort for each site and you don't risk losing all your passwords at once.
āEasy to rememberā maybe if you have 5 passwordsā¦ or you could just use a password locker and only have to memorize one password, instead of creating a custom encryption algorithm for all your passwords.
Just use a password locker with good multi-factor authentication and you only have to memorize one password. Itās infinitely easier and will result in your passwords being more secure with far less effort required on your part.
yup, and cracking that one password is easier than cracking 112 unique passwords. And losing that one password has more consequences than losing one of your 112 passwords.
And be honest: How many people have 112 passwords and how many of those have 112 important passwords? If I have 112 passwords and the one to the bulbapedia forum gets cracked or I forgot it, that's not really cause for concern.
And you can use 2FA without a password manager.
Cracking 1 good randomized password is actually very difficult. If we have a password with: upper case and lower case, numbers, special letters commonly allowed in websites like # and @, and ~15 letters long, it can literally take trillions of years using super computer level processing power to traverse through all the possibilities (though in reality, due to pidgeon hole principle, actual probability will be few orders of magnitude higher, but still on average waaaaay longer than your life span)
Your approach with sentences would not be able to reliably generate special letters like + and @ that would strengthen your password and would be more vulnerable in the long run because English spelling/grammar isn't uniformly distributed, which causes some letters or pairs of letters to appear more frequently than others. Smart brute forcing method will be able to concentrate their effort to break semi random passwords like yours a lot quicker.
I have around 300, and it's kind of convenient to go to a website I forgot I even had an account from and just get signed in.
If I have 112 passwords and the one to the bulbapedia forum gets cracked or I forgot it, that's not really cause for concern.
For dedicated attackers, they can often glean some information from various accounts to help break into other accounts. For example if you put your real birthday into the forum account then they can perhaps use that to help recover other accounts.
It's not like the password from bulbapedia is going to get you into trouble either. Unless you're like many people online, and have only a handful of passwords you reuse everywhere.
Or you could just use the recovery options that all password managers have, use 2FA, and login to your manager on another browser to get the password you need and log out, respectively.
I've used the same 2 or 3 passwords for the past ... 10 - 20 years. I just stuck two of them together as a master password for my password manager. I'm never going to forget those passwords.
I have them in muscle memory
I couldn't tell you my password without a keyboard to type them with.
Hunter2
How do you access the password manager? Like to change the passwords. Like what if your account for whatever gets locked?
What password manager/generator is good for a guy with a galaxy? I think i downloaded something called fit2key or something along those lines then was too dumb to figure out how to use it.
My personal recommendation is to just use the one built into your web browser of choice.
The latest versions of Android allow them to register as system wide password providers and they almost to the last have versions that are available online as a stop of last resort if you need to access your saved passwords somewhere other than a browser where you're signed in. Critically, they're usually free to top all the other great benefits off.
If you want something that's separate from your browser (and any associated login) Bitwarden has a very generous free tier and their paid plans are stupidly cheap. There's even the option to self host your own Bitwarden instance if you're wary of letting a third party hold on to your secrets and you're at a technical level where running your own service isn't prohibitive, it's also free but for any time you might spend setting it up and maintaining it.
Self hosting is pretty much always going to be less secure than just hosting your database on the cloud but better to have the choice than no choice I suppose
Honestly, like half of these were good and pointed out common hypocrisies, and half were a little holier than thou or missed the point.
For instance the eco bag one. Single use Plastic shopping bags are extremely hard to recycle and even if youāre filling your reusable shopping bag with single use plastic products its still using less plastic than a plastic bag full of single use plastic products. Like lets not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Boogers
The blue hair one š¬
Yeah these are way worse. Wow I donāt even get half of these ones.
Edit: And I find the other half to be pretty weak.
A lot of these felt like "You criticize society yet you live in one. curious." except for things that I don't think anyone criticizes in the first place. Like, I think the creator just wanted to be mad at people for nothing.
Honestly for the first three I thought I was looking at r/boomerhumor for a second. The first one seems like it's saying "this generation's always pretending they like sophisticated stuff on social media but they actually don't"
And then the second one is just plain nonsensical. Like do they think when people say "my life my rules" they mean they don't follow the laws of physics or they commit lots of crimes or something? What the hell does that one even mean?
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Yeah that's probably it, but that's the biggest issue with this, it's unclear what the creator is going for because they're so inconsistent. Some of them are relatable and completely reasonable, some of them are unreasonable/incorrect but I can see why an out of touch person would believe it, and some of them are just absurdist/jokes.
Meaning, there are bigger-than-you rule systems in place whether or not you believe in them or support them. Your YOLO beliefs and Freedums still have to live in the Real World. As examples, see: "They took my job cause I wouldn't let them jab me" and "I'm gonna fuck with this huge 18-wheeler cause he passed me on the right and honked at me", and of course, "we're gonna storm the Capitol and re-write this election!", with a side of "even if I were arrested, I'm not going to prison--I'm white."
I think the creator just wanted to be mad at people for nothing.
so they're a reddittor?
Spot on. Thats the meme I had I mind when I wrote this but couldnāt exactly remember it.
i think you're projecting criticism where i just got more of a neutral vibe from these. like the artist is saying these things are kinda peculiar rather than wrong
I'm glad it wasn't just me, some of these felt so preachy.
even if youāre filling your reusable shopping bag with single use plastic products its still using less plastic than a plastic bag full of single use plastic products. Like lets not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I don't know if that's actually true. And if it is, it is misleading. The mass of a single plastic bag is insanely low. Compared to the mass of a reusable shopping bag, which is often still made of plastic. It depends on the bag, but you have to use them pretty much your entire life for them to break even. And since they're cheap to produce, they have essentially become disposable. Not as disposable as the others but probably not as ecologically responsible as we had hoped.
And cotton bags also have their drawbacks, like water usage. I'm sure someone else can chime in on that one.
Organic cotton bags are one of the worst common options when you compare their overall production impacts. You need to use organic cotton bags around 20,000 times to equal the impact of a single use plastic bag. Cotton bags that aren't organic only need to be used around 7,100 times. Those reusable nylon bag are probably one of the better options for production impact since you only need to used them around 50 times or under. Obviously though, the best eco-conscious bag is the one you already own.
Here is the source from the Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark (Be warned its a fairly long PDF)
Here's a NY Times article about this
I really don't get the second one. Like, how the fuck do you expect me to break the rules of physics?
You can't. Hence the point of "I live by my own rules!"...but it's like..."Do you really, though...?"
half were a little holier than thou or missed the point.
That's what most of the series is. This whole series has such an elitist and judgey vibes. Like wtf is the travel one supposed to mean? I'm supposed to only travel to places so I can take pictures?
Yeah, OP kinda comes across as a judgey dick
Travel one means.. "yeah you've been all over the world, but you didn't really explore this places and just stayed at the hotel".
The travel one I kind of liked. My take away was that a lot of people talk a big game about traveling all over the world, but wherever they go they do the same thing (in this case go to a resort sit by a pool and sip cocktails). So I took it to be critical of the superficial worldliness of some people. Yeah going to Egypt is great, but if you donāt leave with a greater appreciation of a culture different than yours and just sat by the pool the whole time, its hard to justify that you really needed to travel their to do that.
If someone tells me they had a good trip, I'm not going to quiz them on the local culture. I'm going to be happy for them that they had a good trip
That's cool, but so what? That doesn't change the point of the meme lol.
Each person to their own. Some people travel to show off, some to understand the world. If I have a limited budget and a friend just travelled to somewhere I want to go I would like to take recommendations from them if they say they had a good trip.
Really? because I would be curious about what they did on their trip. People usually love telling travel stories as well. Seems like a fun time for everyone involved.
Yeah, and at no point in hearing about their trip would I expect them to "justify" going
Really? Have you never gone on vacation? Most people justify the seemingly frivolous experience of visiting a far away place at great personal expense as a means to try new experiences and/or relax.
You said you feel like people need to justify going to foreign places by learning about the local culture. If I go somewhere and have a good time, you don't get to decide if my trip is "justified" by your arbitrary expectation that I did one particular thing.
I think it's sort of aimed at people who take pride in having been "well travelled" without having really gained the benefit of going different places.
Look at it this way: you can go anywhere you want and do whatever you want in your free time with no need to "justify" it. But if you tell people you went on a vacation to a cool place but did nothing but hang out at resorts, most of us are going to find you quite boring.
Site but that sounds like your problem, really. If the person going on vacation had a good time, then that's all that matters and I personally would be happy for them.
And theyāre going to think youāre an asshole.
If you have to "justify" going then you probably didn't really have fun because you were too busy making sure you achieved some arbitrary amount of things that didn't really bring you joy.
If you have fun you don't need to "justify" anything, because you know you enjoyed yourself and don't have to convince yourself it was worth the expense.
I don't travel to do work. I wanna relax by some water, go shopping in town one day and go out one night for dinner and bars. Exploring is just exercise I can do at home.
Thats perfectly legitimate. No one is saying otherwise. I took the comment to be critical of someone trying to have it both ways. Claiming a worldliness of traveling to exotic places. As evinced by the map of āvisited placesā that people into intense explorative travel often display. But forgoing those kinds if experience by seemingly only doing the kind of resort based activities that can be done at any resort in the world. Iām not saying either is an illegitimate way to spend vacation time but there are definitely people Iāve met who are disingenuous and try to have it both ways.
People are different.
Everyone vacations different and they should enjoy their travels how they like. If thatās hanging out and sipping cocktails then thatās that.
Yeah, unfortunately it's more miss than hit.
Nah the point was he traveled to all those places but really was just in a resort the whole time. Might as well be at home.
I guess I didn't see it that way because I am guilty of a lot of these things and still laughed. I saw it as sort of self deprecating/self aware. I guess it depends on how you read it, I saw it as sort of mocking the things we all do, including the artist. I guess if you assume this guy thinks he's the only one who truly admires art or foreign cultures it comes off that way.
Yeah, that is bit weird one, as the products weren't even something that has clear environmentally friendlier options for them.
Though plastic is only bad for enviroment if your garbage disposal for it consist on throwing it to somewhere, where it gets turned into microplastics that end up in nature, mostly seas. Manufacturing plastic items uses very little resources compared to alternatives, as it is almost side product of refining oil into fuel. If you dispose of it by burying it somewhere it won't get to environment from, it is practically returning oil into its source without burning it. If the disposal is by burning, it depends on what source of energy it is replacing, if the burned plastic is out of fossil fuels, the reduced efficiency of trash burning is likely offset by the manufacturing costs of the alternatives. If it is replacing renewable fuel or solar/wind/water/nuclear power then it is more unnecessary carbon from long cycle into air and short cycle.
Unfortunately, when you recycle plastic, a bunch of it gets dumped in the sea. And when you throw it in the garbage a bunch of it ends up in the sea, and when you buy something without wrapping the case arrived at the retailer wrapped in plastic, and they threw it in the garbage before you picked it up.
We need societal change. Individual actions only get us a fraction of the way there
Not in the US.
The one thing the US is really fucking good at, it's landfills. Yes, a lot of plastic put in the recycling bin ends up as trash, but it all goes to the landfill, not the ocean.
The US is responsible for approx 0.3% of the plastic waste entering the worlds oceans, despite consuming close to 20% of all plastics manufactured by humanity. We are over 100x better at keeping our waste plastic out of the ocean than China and India, relative.
Plastic products almost never end up getting recycled and just sit in a landfill anyways.
So we should consume more?
We should consume less. It's like drinking diet soda and then munching down a supersized big mac & co.
The problem is that everything comes with plastic packaging, but everyone is so focused on just the bags. If we instead made every company get rid of the plastic ones for eco friendly ones it would be so much better. But now we're stuck with "I'm using a eco friendly bag, let's stop this discussion now".
Yeah the insta feed is oddly reactionary. And the comments, ugh
The crapy plastic bags are better that the reusable ones if you use them more that once. You need to use a reusable plastic bag for like 10 years to offset the energy used.
Source: https://youtu.be/JvzvM9tf5s0
Where tf did you get your figures? Your video says you only need to use a reusable bag ~50 times to come out ahead environmentally (not to mention that you've just also saved 50 plastic bags from ending up in landfill)
I've had the same reusable bags for years and have used them hundreds of times
So a thing no one does is better than a thing some people do. Got it.
That's pretty easy though? I fail to see the issue
I think there are quite a few of these reusable bags that are not making it to their 10 year break even point.
Most of ours start to disintegrate around the five year mark. During COVID it was sooner, since the few stores that let you use them asked you to wash them every time.
Costco's cotton bags seem to be invincible, though.
Cottons bags are the worst. Cotton is incredibly water expensive. In the video i linked they said that you need to replace 7000 single use plastic bags to offset the cotton bag.
Personally I don't see it as criticizing the consumer but rather the industry as a whole. Big companies love to talk about "going green" and supermarkets will advertise their reusable bags, but try finding a store that even carries what you need in an eco friendly packaging, then if you do manage to find it look at how exorbitant the price is. It's pretty much impossible for the consumer to do the "right thing"
I found the eco one super poignant. As someone who is very environmentally minded, it felt like a wake up call.
What if phone, but too much?
Every black mirror episode
Holy shit. This is perfect. I can absolutely not take that show seriously.
It'd be harder to portray in an image, but it's the case that kills the "ultra slim" phone every single time.
Show "Ultra Slim" in the store, then show them putting it in a case on top of a battery pack.
Vol. 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/is3nbt/yes_but_tag_yourself/
thatās some judgmental bs
Yeah a number of these lean shitty.
Easily in volume 1 each one of them are judgemental and dumb.
In volume 2:
I donāt understand 1
took a while to parse 4 because everyone has the same colour clothes
8 is nonsense because one is in your home and one is going in the undercarriage of a plane, subject to weather while travelling, and being handled by people other than yourself.
In volume 3:
the reusable bag one, 3, is nonsense because you need a bag all the time and certain products like laundry detergent (shown) are rarely available in non-plastic containers.
the slim phone, 5, is bad because there are many different sized phones for different needs and usage. Slim phones with good battery life exist for people that donāt use their phone as a primary computer all day, or have frequent access to charging.
7, the difficulty of unique complex passwords has been removed by password managers for a while now
If i see one "omg so true" comment im killing myself
This
I am Turkish. I live in NZ which is about 35 hours away, the other end of the planet.
I had a friend who asked me what to see in Turkey during his trip there. When he came back, he said that he was in an all inclusive hotel with a pool, and never left it.
Why make the trip then? Why??
Greetings.
You should have told him to squish some cats in Ä°stanbul.
Lmfao the #6 one, as a music composer myself that's literally true, most things can be done digitally pretty much.
Live is so good, but so expensive. Thatās why we use Bratislava
These are pretty shit.
These just came across as being salty lol
This seems like some boomer shit
This is some Facebook boomer shit
this is the corniest shit i've ever seen lmfao
Agree. Let people enjoy their life smh
Reminds me of the Louie C. K. bit, of course, of course! But maybe!?
That's a great bit.
Yeah sure, of course.... But maaaaaybe....
The point on the last one is that the guy do nothing different on the places he go OR he only go to places where he can do the exact same thing?
I think it's that he just goes to resorts wherever he goes, so basically always just an identical touristy resort that looks the same as all the others, instead of actually going out and seeing what makes that area unique. Like if you went to Hawaii but just swam in a hotel pool instead of the ocean.
But I don't understand why that's a bad thing. He travels and he does the thing he likes while he travels.
I love cafes and would just like to tour them in different countries. When I went to uk all I wanted to do was check out the afternoon tea spots, instead I was dragged to every single sight and old building. Just running around London to stare at some fucking pile of bricks. Everyone was so exhausted and irritated.
I did indeed see a lot of different, "important" places of London and hated every moment of it. I was in so much pain after being forced to walk around the place hours on end, I just couldn't move anymore once we got to the house we were staying. No good memories from that trip.
There isn't a right or wrong or dumb way to travel. The only "right" way is doing what makes you happy. The guy in the pics likes beaches/ pools, so let him have it lol
I mean I donāt think itās a bad thing, itās just indicative of that person being incredibly boring in my opinion. Like why would I fly halfway around the world to sit in the pool and drink a frozen drink when I can basically do that a mile from my house? It just sounds like an incredibly boring way to spend a ton of money on a vacation.
It's not boring if you enjoy it though. Enjoying beaches doesn't make a person boring, I understand its good for relaxing to some people.
All places have different feels and atmospheres and people to them, no place is the same
There's no point doing "interesting" stuff on your expensive vacation if you don't actually enjoy it
My point is that you can do that without spending a whole lot of money and going all over the world. If you enjoy it l, fine. But you can enjoy the same thing much more cheaply at home.
If I didnāt go out and experience the local culture do anything interesting that you couldnāt do at home, Iād rather just spend the time at home and save the money.
To me, the point of travelers to get out of my comfort zone and experience something new.
Yes, you would. But every person in this planet is not you.
Some want to travel. Why would you go to a restaurant when you can cook the same meal at home? Why go to a hotel when you can sleep in your own bed? It's similar but not the same.
The fact that you find something to be the same and boring or you find something interesting doesn't mean that everyone else does too.
I find your thinking to be very narrow on this subject
Local cafes are different than the same Holiday Inn copy pasted around the globe
Very good, some of them are food for thoughts. Now I want more!!!
Loved the eco bag one
What is a āClean green New Zealandā?
Can you explain #2 to me? I donāt get it
He says he lives by his own rules, but he lives under the rules of law, of a leader, of physics, etc.
Ugh, the first one. I genuinely, earnestly went to a ballet because a friend of a friend was in it (and she's an Emmy winner!). I was mesmerized by the ballet, the orchestra was great, the costumes were fantastic......and I still was fighting off sleep. Something about the theater atmosphere - the lighting, the music, seating, etc. - just lured sleep. I felt awful about it and still do.
At least I got to go backstage afterwards. That was also very cool.
The theater is warm, you canāt move around, they dim the lightsā¦ only thing that has saved me is the hard plastic top of the seats when my head falls back. And I used to go to orchestra concerts all the time!
Sometimes you just canāt help it! Every night I fall asleep reading a book I enjoy and want to keep reading when the relaxing environment asserts itself.
Talking about the music one, that's so accurate.
So often people are like "man if I only had that one next tool, I could create good music" and, speaking from experience, you could do it using only free software and a good ear.
Depends on the plugins you have but the good ear part is mostly true. Even with the most basic program you can make something that sounds nice if you have an ear for composition and satisfying melodies.
Similar vibe as Louis CKās āOf courseā¦but maybeā¦ā routine.
https://youtu.be/XLGzFQg_1xc
Just forget momentarily that he likes to wank it in front of unwilling bystanders.
Not really saying much. Just hating on people who post their adventures on social media.
YES,
SOCIETY
BUT
WE LIVE IN IT
This kinda makes me sad.
your art elicited an emotion, so good job.
...And? How do any of these comic mean anything? The author thinks he is doing some oh-so-clever "gotcha" moments, when in reality he is unbelievably pretentious.
I looked through the other ones and I'm trying to find consistency with the author's intent. Some of them feel like "Isn't this ironic?" (no, it isn't), some of them feel like gatekeeping (the vacation one, the music one), and in some of them, the "but" doesn't make any sense like the blue hair one.
If we're gonna start calling harmless jokes in comics "gatekeeping"... we're in trouble.
You okay there, bud?
Weird comment.
Yo I love your style. I ended up going through your post history and I have to say, this one in particular was hands down my favorite, made me actually spit take IRL, so fucking good.
https://www.reddit.com/user/gudim_anton/comments/fo806q/crazy_girls/
Keep up the great work!
I don't get the 3rd pic, aren't you supposed to use them to carry groceries?
Eco-friendly but buys plastic waste products.
I felt #4, the desktop vs desk top, in my soul.
6 has me feeling attacked. My buddy and I were just having a talk about hardware vs software.
That last one is a personal attack š¬š¬š¬
The simulation is ... interesting u/Theodora96
These are stupid
Fruity Loops pirates unite
Where can I find Vol 1 and 2? š
Nice work! I was entertained.
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Very good!
i couldn't afford a neve either. fruity loops is cool as heck though.
Going for a sunny holiday to Somalia seems pretty exciting though.
These are great.
jokes on you!
both my desktop AND my desk are a mess!
Wow I love this
Music one hits me hard lmao
SHIT the last one. This is a big worry of mine when/if I travel somewhere new.
The password is strong, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.
Guess what? Chicken butt!
i like the small details in the license plate
Technically Science rules are theories which are constantly tested. And laws are more like guide lines.
Oh my god this is amazing.
The last one is my cousin, talks about going to all these different places but just spends the entire time on a beach or pool getting drunk. To what end.l?
"and everything that comes with it"
What did you do to Ireland in that last pic?! You monster! Give it back!
I don't get the audio one
No need Instruments or people to play on them, when you can make music using only soft (FL Studio etc)
I'm a ballet dancer I think classical ballet performances are boring. I need an intermission after 30 minutes tops.
whats with all the cheekectomy patients?
This guy F...ruityLoops.
The concert one is me. My kid plays in orchestra and the live performances knock me right out. I get some of my best sleep there.
Oh, #art, not fart
Is there an app that looks like the picture for? Something that would do that to my desktop? It looks nice.
Picture 4
I love FL studio made an appearance
whereās vol 1 and 2?
That mf hasn't been to morroco there's no dot there.
Just cause your desktop is clean doesnāt mean your desktop is clean
Reusable grocery bags need to be reused thousands of times to equal the carbon footprint of a flimsy single use plastic bag. Reuse the cheap one once (2 uses) then recycle it and it's equivalent to using a cotton bag over 20,000 times.
I got all of em except 9/9.. Travels, yes, but takes same photo by the pool?
1, 2, 3, and 9 have always fucked me off. Such a shit species.
What is the my life my rules guy supposed to do? Not follow the laws of physics?
Can someone explain the sound studio one to me please.
That's some fine nihilism, Lou.
Fart.
Does Greece sound that exotic to you guys? Genuine question.
I love the last one. It amazes me how many people travel across the world to stay in generic resorts without seeing what live is actually like there.
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