Let me be the one to tell you… those audiophile nerds that care way too much about the headphones you use are fucking right.
I’ve been using the Beats Studio Buds ($120) since they released. I was mostly happy, whatever.
Just bought some $20 wired IEMs a few days ago. They have changed my life and I cannot stop. I can’t find enough music to listen to with them. It’s like I’ve come out if the womb and have just experienced music for the first time again. Industrial Techno? Screamo? Hyperpop? Folk? Take me Home, Country Roads by John Denver? Absolutely, yes.
I just got a new pair because this next pair has a different profile for a different type of music ??? You’re absolutely missing out
18 notes
·
View notes
I guess this might be as good a time as any to get back into (micro)blogging and tumblr. I used to have a tech-focused tumblr blog way back in the day.
I plan on focusing this little blog on gadgets, IEMs and headphones as well as interesting stuff I discover all over the web and the world of technology. Let's see how this goes.
As a starting point, a really awesome new-ish IEM with the ThieAudio Oracle MkII, used to listen to one of the best albums of 2022.
4 notes
·
View notes
finished Rising Tide
continue to be lowkey annoyed at how main characters who are not Clive are an afterthought to the game—why was Jill not centred in the portion where we visit Ysay's grave? that is literally her predecessor and a cultural ancestor. why were Jill's feelings on the north not explored further? she is their princess! all these people dispossessed of crown and country seem barely to have opinions and feelings on it. she barely talked as the characters walked! the part where she spoke on the hall at the Timeless Stones, and how sermons would be given when halls like these were in use in the northern community? why not add more of such drive-by commentary. also why were people sick in Haven and Joshua not consulted? they're talking about all these sick people in the village, and your world's best magical healer bar none—in the opening scenes of the game literally called "the ruler of life and death" was not consulted in any way? once more our companions are decorative.
sorry. just. i came from the party tradition of FFs, and the focus is so unbalanced... it was already obvious in the main game. a lot of the main cast have deeply unexplored histories and underwhelming reactions to current events. i spent an inordinate amount of time in the main game and this DLC thinking "but what would [character] think/feel about this??" or "holy moly that has pretty serious implications for [character] and [character], are they ever going to have the opportunities to react to that onscreen in a way that will bring home to the player certain core aspects of said characters?" it was a pretty significant distraction for me at least.
no thoughts Ysay pretty
Ysay's knight was crazy powerful—why does main game Shiva lose all of her fights... yea okay Jill was tortured and abused by iron kingdom... is it finally time for us to stop making excuses for the game and admit unpalatable things about its treatment of certain characters...
loved how a large portion of Joshua's comments were all about his nerdery—asking about history and magicks. his inner voice on Ysay was like "i want to see her writings ;_;"
Dalina is Shula's wife right lol
Joshua's inner voice on Dalina is so cute too, it makes me think when he was left behind to protect the village that he befriended Dalina well, especially since Dalina would have been left in charge of administration while her chieftain girlfriend was off with Clive
the uncute tonberries made me sad
originally i admit to disappointment that Dion was not brought along, but then i got to Haven and saw the murals and heard their stories and i thought... yeaa... the prince—and now emperor—of Sanbreque not coming along is a wise creative decision...
receiving Ultima's essence was unexpected and interesting... positively massive ramifications for the little fic i've been nursing
was surprisingly charmed by Jamila and Herve's plotline
this is completely personal: i wish Leviathan's Dominant was a girl. it felt like the egis' designs were weirdly shaped in a feminine way? it's just shapes i know, but i wish there was a better balance of Dominants... it seems like only the "female" Eikons get female Dominants...
respect to the game for consistently making their infant babies ugly and wrinkly lol realism wow
so the Dame knew all this time of the Motes of Water and their hidden little settlement?? or at least knew and protected people from there, and helped them procure jobs and supplies? that's a hell of a secret to have been keeping Isabelle
am shook at the introduction of chronomancy. really??? such a massive concept at the end game...?? i mean it's great in a way because my phoenixflare fic is a time rewind au, so thanks for confirming time magick exists in the world, but i'm an old school fan and would have done what i wanted anyway. i noted how the story repeated multiple times that the "stream of life" flows only one way, from the start to the end, and from the mountain to the sea, probably to try and ward off fan speculation of what chronomancy can do to the (canon) ending of the game. ha...hahah... well the firebird rules life and death, and time magics are historically classified as white magics in FF so...
the suspended Aire of Hours was stunning though, as was the Surge wave
loved all the water talk and water expressions of Mysidia. great linguistic anchor for what they believe and how they think: death as returning to the sea, the water cycle as the cycle of life, their collaborative living style and how they "flow together", using water references as exclamations and swears and blessings, even endearments such as "dewdrop".
Ifrit is pretty small in the grand scheme of Eikons huh... he fit so nicely in Leviathan's mouth. Chomp.
that bloody phase 3!!!!!!! ARGH.
Asides:
oh i'm annoyed with myself ;_; 70k words into the pf fic with Kihel planned as the Warden of Water... it's no big deal... i don't have to back-amend my fic... it's fine... it's fine...
but Mysidia had fascinating concepts that i really want to incorporate—and some i coincidentally already incorporated, thank you new lore for your validation—and genuinely fascinated by what it means for my fic for Clive to house the essence of Ultima. the Warden of the Divine? wild.
Joshua's musings on Dominants' fates was *chef's kiss*. when he reflects on his own experiences, his fear, (the loneliness; who else even understands or can help an Eikonic child, the rush of power)—and back at the Hideaway after quest completion he reflects further on Dominants being doomed to be servant or slave to the country in which they are born. thinky boy. Harpocrates was Dion's tutor, but Harpocrates' actual successor feels like Joshua. loremaster, philosopher, historian, storyteller? love this energy for him.
1 note
·
View note
Inter Emirates Motors Launches the All-New MG3 With a Unique Suhoor in the UAE
Equipped with a 1.5L petrol engine, the new model offers a sophisticated, yet economical driving experience
Inter Emirates Motors (IEM), the exclusive distributor of MG Motor in the United Arab Emirates, has launched the all-new MG3, further diversifying MG’s highly popular car lineup in the country. Following a high-profile and exclusive Suhoor gathering hosted by IEM, guests received the…
View On WordPress
0 notes
esport clem vs cure starcraft 2
je te présente dans cette vidéo le BO3 de clem vs cure dans le groupe des IEM catowice 2024
Twitch 👉 https://www.twitch.tv/thefrenchysc2
SERVEUR DISCORD 👉 https://discord.gg/B4UutgAUpw
Youtube 👉 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUzXaTEaB0t Jl9WRPAyWw9g
Instagram 👉 https://www.instagram.com/thefrenchysc2/
TIKTOK 👉 www.tiktok.com/@thefrenchysc2
Dans cette vidéo je vous propse de revivre le BO3 du premiers match entre clem vs cure sur starcraft 2 dans les IEM Katowice de 2024 esport. Impatien de vois quel bo terran va resortir. On commencera par le groupe stage jour 1 de clem. Cure va t'il etre capable de battre clem sur sc2.
5- LIEN PLAYLIST
https://bit.ly/499eK6E
1 note
·
View note