3000€ is still a hell of a lot of money. Most people I know don’t have a TV that’s more than 500€ and no sound system at all or maybe a 200€ soundbar. I don’t know anyone whose TV + sound system is above 3000€ combined and the one guy who hits that mark is a movie lover.

If multi thousand euro setups would be the norm, I don’t think we would be having the conversation about bad-for-home-video audio as much. Most people aren’t in the position to spend that much cash on their TV, though.

That said, you can get a decent used 5.1 audio setup for well under 100€, that can totally cope with most of the dynamic range and deliver a good audio experience. But most people don’t know and don’t care about that. They just want whatever movie they’re watching to sound good enough on their TVs.

I mean, everything got more expensive. And I do hear that more and more youth centres and such are closing down, taking away places to socialise for young people in particular.

What has disappeared for me personally though is school/uni as a place to socialise at. I’ve never had the need before to search out specific places to meet people. It just happened organically. Now I don’t even know where I‘d even find new people. I’m stuck with just the few I knew back in school and uni and they mostly don’t live anywhere close by.

There’s no place to socialize though. I wouldn’t know where I could meet people my age (20s) that doesn’t cost money or includes activities that I don’t like (e.g. clubbing).

You got a smidge of a point. Yes, movie surround sound is mastered for (home) cinemas and if that’s the setup you have, it works. You don’t even need a fancy setup. I have a cheap old 5.1 system and when I’m in the mood for a home cinema experience, including the volume, it works great.

However, there’s no excuse for studios to not provide a more compressed TV mix because not everyone has a home cinema or the capability of turning up the volume without angry neighbours kicking down your door. Especially for Series and direct-to-streaming movies that never had a theatrical release but just drop on Netflix one day. Because there are plenty of those that are also not mixed for quieter soundsystems, TV speakers or people who cannot or don’t want to turn up the volume.

So yes. I expect the audio to work well on my living room TV. Because I’m paying to watch it on a service that’s available on on my living room TV and Studios know that the vast majority of people do not have a home cinema. It is thus, in my opinion, a reasonable expectation, for any movie that released past the DVD age, to have an audio track that doesn’t require me to own a home theatre. Because you can optimise for two things, by just having two audio tracks. Some movies on Netflix even have a dedicated stereo tracks available. Why can’t that be the norm?

Or, those streaming services could offer a setting to compress the dynamic range for home viewing. My AppleTV actually has that function built in and it’s very useful when you want to watch something late at night without waking the whole house up. Sadly, most streaming services use their own media player instead of the native one and don’t have a comparable feature…

That said, I very much don’t want a compressed dynamic range sound mix to become the only one available. I happen to have a setup that can just about handle a higher dynamic range in most of cases, if I can/want to raise the volume accordingly and I usually like it that way.

He also uses crucio in book 7, when one of the carrows spits on mcgonnagal, iirc

Not even that. I’m logged in. I watch a lot of YouTube in English and my mother tongue. YouTube knows this. YouTube also knows I turn off subtitles/translation when they auto turn them on. Why the fuck can’t they just see what I’m doing and serve me shit untranslated in the two languages they definitely know I speak? They can’t tell me they don’t have that data. They’re fucking YouTube/Google

Hm, may be worth a look. Thanks.

How would koreader make my experience better on kindle (that I don’t connect to the internet and use entirely with calibre)?

As we (jokingly) say in German: „Nur der Gefickte ist schwul.“ [“Only the one getting fucked is gay.”]

When I was 8/9, I was walking to school on the sidewalk and a dog ran out of a front yard, barking and bit me in the leg from behind before I could even react.

Granted, most of the blame goes to the owner, who didn’t lock their gate properly, but still. I was just walking to school.

And the other two times, I also got attacked from behind without warning. In these cases, inside though. To be fair, the dog is a traumatised rescue who doesn’t like anyone besides a very select few with an asshole-to-humans owner who doesn’t care that their dog already bit me and multiple collegues. But then again, it still just bit me because I dared walking by the room it was in. Twice. Without warning.

Cannot read body language, if I can’t see the dog

I never had anyone with a dog in my family and surroundings, when I was growing up, so I never learned how to communicate with them. This and that I got bitten, without warning or reason, three times already, once when I was like 8 or 9 y/o, makes me a bit uncomfortable and cautious around most dogs, especially if I don’t know them well.

I can deal very well with cats though. Family and friends had/have a few and I just get them. I know when I can scritch the belly and when not. Never got bitten or scratched (unless you count on accident by a kitten, that couldn’t control it’s claws yet).

I’m immortal until proven otherwise.

Yea but if people aren’t buying your games because they’re shit, shareholders aren’t gonna be happy about it. And Ubisoft hasn’t made a breakout hit in a while. Their normal is „tolerable if you get it on sale, if you don’t care about the franchise“, and even shareholders notice that.

Also seconds language but I’ve learned it depends on how the first letter of the following word is spoken. If the following word has a vocal sound (even if the first letter is technically a consonant), it’s ‘an’, which it thusly would also be here.

HDR actually works fairly well on Linux these days. Been using nobara for the better part of a year now and almost every game I’ve tried, that has HDR support, just worked out of the box.

Costs more to repair than it’s worth is absolutely a valid distinction. It’s not repair cost vs. new car cost, but repair cost vs cost of a similar, fully functional used car. So, if the repair is 3K but you get a similar (or better) used car without issues for 2K, repairing is not necessarily worth it.

Of course that always depends on the cost of the repair, the current used car market, the comparable worth of the car and the available budget.

Well, they did specifically look for heterosexual non-homophobic men. Apparently, every one they got was honest about their sexuality, both to the researchers as to themselves.

And, here in Europe at least, the popularity of Teslas has sunken dramatically over the last two years (about 40%), even though the demand for electric cars in general is rising.

It’s not as bad here in Germany but knowing hunters does pay off.

Probably venison and/or wild boar (if you don’t count the latter as pork). My partner’s parents are hunters and they’ve given us some excellent boar steaks and self made game sausages before.