May 17
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It was the left, right?

Or was it? It’s odd how confusing it can be when you think something is so and so, but it’s not, because it’s harder to sense. Or in this case hear. When I was in the military I had a minor mishap with ear-protection falling out of my ear just moments before an assault rifle went off less than half a metre away from it. Good going, I could hear the intense whine for three days afterwards, and that’s not counting the whole lying on the ground feeling messed up and dizzy.

Enough about that, I learned later that I had lessened hearing in my right ear (I think, it’s still a bit confusing…), after a test after the sound in my ears had stopped being in the way of it. Oddly enough I forgot which ear it was that had reduced hearing, and it’s not really crossed my mind a whole lot (though there has been moments of “Eh, wut u SAY?!” and I’ve tilted my head (the right side) towards the person). That’s not really the point either, because those moments are fleeting, passed in the blink of an eye, and then it’s past. Which this moment was too, but this moment really struck me.

Somehow I had managed to fuck up the sound settings on my computer. When talking on Skype the speaker on the other end could hear themselves from me through some magical means in the settings. That left me to mute a whole buttload of channels by the elimination method while yelling into the Sound Recorder (while it’s probably a whole lot more fun to shout at other people, I doubt they’d subscribe to it).

During my fuckup moment I had managed to flip the balance to the left ear without thinking/noticing. Shit, that’s not a problem, right? So I go through the settings trying to find the right one that I messed up (for some reason I was in dumbass-mode this evening, so it took me some time). Eventually I find it, grinning at me. Damned slider.

Moving it with grace and precision towards the middle I quickly found myself pushing it beyond the middle, just messing around. For some reason my left was hearing worse than the right, so I pushed it back in the direction from whence it came. It was awesome. The sound was balanced. I think. This is where confusion comes into the picture - after an hour or so it felt like I had lessened hearing on the other side again! So I turned it towards the right, but was that right? Nope, that felt decidedly weird. Really weird, so back it goes, and then the whole unbalanced feeling comes back again. Which is it that’s right? Left? Neither? I’m still not sure. I feel a bit lessened on the left now that I have it in the middle, but I’m not sure.

This shit’s messed up, and I’ll figure it out eventually. Might it be some balancing thing in my ear that went the way of the Dodo? Meh, confused. It was right, right?


Author: Morghus
May 09
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The headset has returned!

It’s back, the marvellous headset that I mentioned in an earlier post, the one that I had such a hard time getting sent. Do I regret taking my time sending it now that it’s back? Fuck yeah. Does it feel good to have it back on my head? Definitely. As I mentioned earlier, the headset is simply marvellous. It’s originally made for gaming, fps-gaming to be more precise, with emphasis on sounds like footsteps and such in the games. This clicked with me completely. I love bass, but it wears me out quickly, and in alot of sound-systems these days the bass is overemphasized to the extreme, or has some other weird distortion that leaves alot to be desired. I know, I know, I could have spent 2500 NOK on a supreme headset like Martin would, but no thanks, this covers my needs nicely (though I really admire Martin for his ability to not only be that demanding, but also being able to spend the cash without feeling any apparent regret. I know I would, but I’m not anything remotely close to a connoiseur).

The downside that isn’t a downside? Originally I bought the version that brought a USB soundcard along, and the one I was returned is the non-USB version. Not that I mind, in practicality the USB-soundcard was good, but totally unnecessary for my needs (something I discovered later, but I wanted to use it for several machines back then). So now I’ve sent a letter to komplett.no detailing their mistake, telling them that it’s ok, but considering the price-difference combined with the shipment cost, the extra price for the headset I’m wearing now is over 200 NOK more than the worth in the shop. Would be nice to get some of that back. We’ll see what happens.

Happy!

Oh, and prepare for being Skyped again, the sound is back, and it’s nice to talk in them again.


Author: Morghus
May 08
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Wtf? (and Zero Punctuation)

What the hell happened to the traffic on my blog?

Haven’t logged in on my blog for some time now, with GTA IV and other activities being available. So I come in, I peruse the Wordpress news, I think “…wait, wut?” and scroll back up again; I saw this in the little traffic monitor embedded in wordpress. Wtf?

Must be my wordpress installation on shrooms or something, because apparently Google Analytics doesn’t agree with it.

And in case you’re missing it, here’s the latest Zero Punctuation. This week I laughed harder than I usually do. Got to love a guy that apparently gives a flying fuck about a politically correct language to soothe the frantically-scrubbed-yet-still-dirty masses (as opposed to unwashed masses).


Author: Morghus
May 04
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Iron Man hidden trailer!

Holy crap, we missed it when we were out to watch it on Friday! How could we! AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! So fucking stupid… anyways, here it is:

Nick Fury! Samuel L. Jackson! Avengers! The fanboi stirs! Wohooo!


Author: Morghus
Apr 23
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More Zero Punctuation

Once again there’s a review, just like last wednesday, before that, and so on, and will probably be in the future.

This time it’s about Super Smash Bros. Brawl, a game I’ve never tried, and most likely never will. I don’t own a console, and I most likely never will - except for the ones I own already, which is an old PS1 and an even older Nintendo.

So, if you’ve played the game and hate him for mocking it I’m sorry. Me? I laughed my ass off. Thank you Croshaw!

[Edit]
Small thank you to Ingar for showing me what an ignorant fool I am for not even making sure I’m using the right title, and a small smack to myself for not even providing a Wiki-link from the start that would have shown me the true title of the game.


Author: Morghus