stupid first world problems you're dealing with

Yeah he's been shitting up American TV for years. Ridiculous man.

what a smug cunt

prime cable news material.

I wanted to start the MOST IDM poll, so I bought an EKT subscription, but it hasn't taken effect yet and Joyrex hasn't checked his messages yet 

Codeine withdrawals really bloody sucked. I had been taking a lot of it each day and decided I like my vital organs functioning more towards the proper side of things. I went off of them cold turkey and holy shit, ow. The worst of it only lasted 4 days, and then I could start doing things like sit at my computer or do a small load of laundry. Those 4 days though! Laying in bed wondering if it's worth it to walk the lengthy 5 meters to the bathroom to piss, or just piss the bed. Now I'm learning to live without painkillers again, which is difficult. It's chronic pain with no injury though, so I keep telling myself to man up and be active anyways. It's just pain, it'll get worse if I do nothing and it'll get better if I get outside and do stuff. Those withdrawals were still better than the 3 months I spent being suicidal everyday this past spring. I'd rather have a healthy mind while in physical pain than the other way around. So I'm manning up, dammit.

Also, it's the 3rd of the month and I'm already broke. I don't get paid again until the 31st... shit...

Sorry to hear that 747, hopefully things will get better for you very soon.

Random inexplicable ticks appearing on different tracks in the Ableton file I'm mixing.  Why???  So irritating.  This shit makes me want to murder.  I am screaming on the inside.

  On 8/4/2016 at 1:32 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Random inexplicable ticks appearing on different tracks in the Ableton file I'm mixing.  Why???  So irritating.  This shit makes me want to murder.  I am screaming on the inside.

Is it when it loops? Sometimes when you throw in an mp3 it will add it a space at the beginning and end so it won't loop at a zero crossing.

  On 8/3/2016 at 6:30 PM, 747Music said:

Codeine withdrawals really bloody sucked. I had been taking a lot of it each day and decided I like my vital organs functioning more towards the proper side of things. I went off of them cold turkey and holy shit, ow. The worst of it only lasted 4 days, and then I could start doing things like sit at my computer or do a small load of laundry. Those 4 days though! Laying in bed wondering if it's worth it to walk the lengthy 5 meters to the bathroom to piss, or just piss the bed. Now I'm learning to live without painkillers again, which is difficult. It's chronic pain with no injury though, so I keep telling myself to man up and be active anyways. It's just pain, it'll get worse if I do nothing and it'll get better if I get outside and do stuff. Those withdrawals were still better than the 3 months I spent being suicidal everyday this past spring. I'd rather have a healthy mind while in physical pain than the other way around. So I'm manning up, dammit.

 

Also, it's the 3rd of the month and I'm already broke. I don't get paid again until the 31st... shit...

First & foremost, respect for attacking this aspect of your life. This in itself is a moral victory, hope you see that and thats not wanting to come across as a patronizing cunt.

When serious pain is involved Dr's can either under-prescribe or over-subscribe & either way its v v easy to veer into behaviour better avoided. W/out boring fuck out of you, i had all manner of opiates hurled at me after a life-changing RTA to the extent that i was withdawing every cunting night just from the ridiculous levels sustained. Ungodly with everything else added. Remember, worst is behind you in that respect. I went from oxy to oramorph/morphine to codeine to dihydrocodeine, but average a handful a month now. It takes a wee while for the stomach to normalize, but whatever went down, despite £$£, things are improving in one key area, non?

Plow into art in whatever way takes to you, make that the compulsion (sorry if thats a loaded word). It can help map the experiences. Also, if you're physically able, if possible, try installing a punchbag at home when practical. Beat fuck out of it on an as/when basis. Repeat when stressed.

However you can, try to access a CBT-led therapy program, because it could underpin and reinforce the positive decisions and actions you've already made. Trust me, pain treatment is a fuckin nightmare in most countries cos the practioners either think the patient is looking to score or misses appropriate levels of medication.

Tale care & hope this doesnt seem empty sanctimonious/preachy cheerleading

  On 8/4/2016 at 1:45 AM, Braintree said:

 

  On 8/4/2016 at 1:32 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Random inexplicable ticks appearing on different tracks in the Ableton file I'm mixing.  Why???  So irritating.  This shit makes me want to murder.  I am screaming on the inside.

 

 

Is it when it loops? Sometimes when you throw in an mp3 it will add it a space at the beginning and end so it won't loop at a zero crossing.

 

It's all wav files.  I've tried adding small fades, consolidating various cross faded versions.  Nothing helps.  Fortunately if I export a wav of the whole song it doesn't include the ticks (which I discovered after my initial post).  But it makes the mixing process maddening as hell. Every time i hear that tick sound I go into a blind rage.  It's quite counterproductive.

Got a headache after drinking 2 cans of Lemon Fanta

  On 8/4/2016 at 9:52 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

 

  On 8/4/2016 at 1:45 AM, Braintree said:

 

  On 8/4/2016 at 1:32 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Random inexplicable ticks appearing on different tracks in the Ableton file I'm mixing. Why??? So irritating. This shit makes me want to murder. I am screaming on the inside.

Is it when it loops? Sometimes when you throw in an mp3 it will add it a space at the beginning and end so it won't loop at a zero crossing.

It's all wav files. I've tried adding small fades, consolidating various cross faded versions. Nothing helps. Fortunately if I export a wav of the whole song it doesn't include the ticks (which I discovered after my initial post). But it makes the mixing process maddening as hell. Every time i hear that tick sound I go into a blind rage. It's quite counterproductive.

My old M-Audio FireWire 410 crapped out on me about half a year ago. It started to make clicks when I would play files in Audition and whenever I hit "play"' it would stop playing whatever else was being played in other DAWs and then after a couple of seconds everything would start playing.

  On 8/4/2016 at 5:58 PM, Squee said:

 

  On 8/4/2016 at 9:52 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

 

  On 8/4/2016 at 1:45 AM, Braintree said:

 

  On 8/4/2016 at 1:32 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Random inexplicable ticks appearing on different tracks in the Ableton file I'm mixing. Why??? So irritating. This shit makes me want to murder. I am screaming on the inside.

Is it when it loops? Sometimes when you throw in an mp3 it will add it a space at the beginning and end so it won't loop at a zero crossing.

It's all wav files. I've tried adding small fades, consolidating various cross faded versions. Nothing helps. Fortunately if I export a wav of the whole song it doesn't include the ticks (which I discovered after my initial post). But it makes the mixing process maddening as hell. Every time i hear that tick sound I go into a blind rage. It's quite counterproductive.

Have you tried running the audio through a different sound card or maybe directly through the computer's mini jack out?

 

My old M-Audio FireWire 410 crapped out on me about half a year ago. It started to make clicks when I would play files in Audition and whenever I hit "play"' it would stop playing whatever else was being played in other DAWs and then after a couple of seconds everything would start playing.

that sounds hilarious

I'm incredibly boring and all visitors to my flat start doing the jigsaw I leave on my coffee table not long after arriving realising conversation with me is boring. How does one be interesting / have a life?

  On 8/5/2016 at 11:18 PM, Bechuga said:

I'm incredibly boring and all visitors to my flat start doing the jigsaw I leave on my coffee table not long after arriving realising conversation with me is boring. How does one be interesting / have a life?

you either find some common ground you can build a convo upon or talk about yourselves in turns. Or just go full late night presenter and let the other person do the talking, "tell me more" etc. Maybe give up altogether

  On 8/5/2016 at 11:18 PM, Bechuga said:

I'm incredibly boring and all visitors to my flat start doing the jigsaw I leave on my coffee table not long after arriving realising conversation with me is boring. How does one be interesting / have a life?

Ask questions. People always want to talk about themselves.

  On 8/3/2016 at 2:35 AM, eugene said:

i was setting up my illegal iptv thing for kodi, checking out various pirated broadcasts of worldwide tv channels and encountered a program led by richard quest on cnn international. usually hating people is kinda fun but that guy literally made me shudder. i've never seen a more vapid and obnoxious delivery, he embodies some kind of pompous and exaggerated classic-british stereotype but with zero irony. his voice and mannerisms are just vomit inducing, he's only capable of spouting banal platitudes proudly showing an extremely shallow understandings of the topics he talks about while flaunting some kind of faux street smarts and contrived cockiness. it's just unbelievable that such a thing exists. just check it out for yourself:

 

he easily beat caleb landry jones, my previously most hated person i've seen on the screen of some sort.

flipped into it randomly there and just got ' i have often found... it is often best when entering someones house..... not to criticize the wallaper''  lolled at that.

i watched the whole clip because im drunk, seems like a real life alan partridge, what i cannot fathom is why it has a warning at the beginning saying 'SOME VIEWERS MAY FIND THIS CLIP SHOCKING'' 

all i saw was a guy getting some elocution training and a bit of alexander technique. 

ive had more shocking wanks

  On 8/5/2016 at 11:18 PM, Bechuga said:

I'm incredibly boring and all visitors to my flat start doing the jigsaw I leave on my coffee table not long after arriving realising conversation with me is boring. How does one be interesting / have a life?

Hide the jigsaw puzzle.

  On 8/5/2016 at 11:18 PM, Bechuga said:

I'm incredibly boring and all visitors to my flat start doing the jigsaw I leave on my coffee table not long after arriving realising conversation with me is boring. How does one be interesting / have a life?

Put a collection of sex toys on the coffee table and see what happens.

shit i should get a jigsaw puzzle

  On 8/5/2016 at 11:41 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

 

  On 8/5/2016 at 11:18 PM, Bechuga said:

I'm incredibly boring and all visitors to my flat start doing the jigsaw I leave on my coffee table not long after arriving realising conversation with me is boring. How does one be interesting / have a life?

 

you either find some common ground you can build a convo upon or talk about yourselves in turns. Or just go full late night presenter and let the other person do the talking, "tell me more" etc. Maybe give up altogether

 

  On 8/5/2016 at 11:58 PM, Squee said:

 

  On 8/5/2016 at 11:18 PM, Bechuga said:

I'm incredibly boring and all visitors to my flat start doing the jigsaw I leave on my coffee table not long after arriving realising conversation with me is boring. How does one be interesting / have a life?

Ask questions. People always want to talk about themselves.

 

The question / dilemma was mentioned mostly in jest but advice is welcomed regardless.

Getting them to talk about themselves is my general approach--and most people don't give a shit about whatever it is I do in my flat so they're not exactly pursuing me conversationally--but it comes down to all the things I can quite happily talk about--music, books, games, creative endeavours etc--are none of the things most of my visitors care about, being more interested in The Only Way Is Essex type social life drama and who's fucked who, which I am sure is fun but not on my radar. In particular, I found not watching television / movies shuts down 90% of all conversational topics. especially with my little brother who does little else than go the cinema.

So it's not really boring in the sense that I am unable to talk--I can happily talk anyone to death as people in CHATMM may have noticed, and I am boring there too--but when it comes to my visitors, we move in too differently shaped circles to talk in depth about anything. And any steps to readdress this--watching films, going out and getting drunk every night--are not exactly worth it. I love my visitors but I am merely aware of how little common ground there is between us, which is all the more prominent when silence takes over.

(That said, people have told me they like coming to my place because it is peaceful and quiet, plus I always have plenty of tea / biscuits to eat so maybe my boringness is the reason they came?)

  On 8/6/2016 at 7:58 AM, fletcher said:

 

  On 8/5/2016 at 11:18 PM, Bechuga said:

I'm incredibly boring and all visitors to my flat start doing the jigsaw I leave on my coffee table not long after arriving realising conversation with me is boring. How does one be interesting / have a life?

Hide the jigsaw puzzle.

 

  On 8/6/2016 at 9:00 AM, mokz said:

 

  On 8/5/2016 at 11:18 PM, Bechuga said:

I'm incredibly boring and all visitors to my flat start doing the jigsaw I leave on my coffee table not long after arriving realising conversation with me is boring. How does one be interesting / have a life?

 

Put a collection of sex toys on the coffee table and see what happens.

 

I suspect that they think the jigsaw puzzle is a sex toy...

Most people prob watch TOWIE at least semi-ironically. Chuck it on in the background for a lol maybe so at least you have something to talk about

1) Don't own television, nor will I ever

2) I don't do irony (unless I have a creased shirt)

3) 'So bad it's good' television / films make me angry. Why would you watch something you know is bad? I know that's the point but still. I have barely enough time for the good stuff in life, so why waste it watching The Room ten times over? (Like a friend who watches it once a month if not more and I am open mouthed in horror at)

Can you see why I'm boring yet

if you have trouble relating to people it's because you aren't trying

everyone is more or less the same

sounds like you're afraid to make an attempt at a real/intimate conversation as you are manifesting roadblocks like "we have nothing in common"

of course you have something in common

We all have things in common