This happens to me regularly, I just kinda kick it out of my shorts between coughs

He was very cat-like, to be fair

I don’t know if the question should be the absence of, but which would you attribute beautiful and which underwhelming. Would you prefer an underwhelming penis with beautiful balls, or a beautiful penis with underwhelming balls?

If you stay seated it’s just your legs that get aerosolized and that’s even easier to wash

(Pre-amble, I don’t think the meme should be taken seriously and I do find it funny)

Horror is my favourite genre because it genuinely seeks to express the most primal and furious of all emotions: fear. From the goriest, straight-forward splatter fest to the subtlest discomforts of tense artsy horror films, the popular and cult favourite movies offer a fantastic reflection of that generation/culture’s deepest vulnerabilities.

Slashers like Friday the 13th were about the internalized self-criticism of modern, white Judea-Christian values (pre-marital sex, drugs, etc) and Nightmare on Elm Street was about parents, society, the government, etc, being unable and unwilling to help with the problems they created, problems that turn lethal. Suicide due to depression from repression, OD’ing from drugs because you need a way out, getting killed because you got mixed up with the “wrong” crowd at the wrong time, these were all things that happened to people because the “system” pushed you into a corner, and vilified any means you sought to escape.

Even “torture porn” like Saw was about feeling trapped and what extremes you’d take to “free” yourself. Terrifier, too, can offer a reflection of extreme violence offering some form of release.

Backrooms and Obsession are so relevant because they too talk about our fears of being trapped in the endlessly mundane, or attachments that we cling to beyond the safety of ourselves and others.

This is a really general rant so I’ve glossed over and even ignored so many nuances. Not to mention that I’m really not eloquent enough to really hit every nail on the head… and each person will pull their own unique experiences from horror.

I genuinely love it when people find something they can connect with in horror, regardless of what generation or subgenre they find.

edit: head not hand

I knew it

I daren’t question doja cat’s choices

have you never beheld a sweet, buttered cob

yeah pretty much the same reaction everyone had

I thought the problem is that the amount of dog bites don’t go down when you ban breeds - it just changes to another?

All the studies I’ve seen suggest strong licensing over all dogs, regardless of breed, is the most effective at reducing dog bite injuries and fatalities

That said I’m not great at extrapolating data so if someone can point out anything I’ve missed in that, I’d greatly appreciate it.

https://www.dogbitestudies.org/

Somewhat phallic object looking like it’s about to enter some sort of cavity

I see it now, but I do think you’re both high and a pervert

Nothing wrong with either, I just don’t think the format or the drugs served your meme well. Keep glistening on, you crazy chicken

Let me tell you about the worst pair of titties I ever saw; they were awesome

God the age of this is older than some Lemmy users and it’s no less funny

“Guys, I gotta take a HUGE shit. Also, I might be a while because I’ll be furiously masturbating.”

bless his coming and his going

I mean did you even hear all the things she said?

I can’t do that, but I’ll put on a little red had and dance around

Okay, so I have no idea about streaming services, but commercials on broadcast TV never had the volume increased but the compression.

(I love getting lost in details so apologies if any of this comes off condescending.) Compression works by making the quieter parts louder, without distorting the louder parts.

THINK of a SENTENCE where SOME of the WORDS are LOUD and OTHER words are QUIETER.

compression works by squishing down all the loud parts, then bringing everything back up to full volume, so the previous sentence would become:

THINK OF A SENTENCE WHERE SOME OF THE WORDS ARE LOUD AND OTHER WORDS ARE QUIETER.

Now, the loud parts didn’t become louder. What happened is that the quieter parts got louder. You lose the dynamic, but gain volume. If you think it would just be exhausting, you’re correct - even at low volumes, you can get a sense of ear fatigue when audio is heavily compressed.

Now, if you want to know why movies have quiet parts where you can’t hear shit and loud parts that are way louder, this is called dynamics. Artistically, you very much want this for the same reason you want quiet parts and loud parts in classical music. If everything is constantly loud, the dramatic moments won’t feel as impactful.

“But wait, I don’t enjoy that, I like having my TV at a reasonable volume!” Yup, me too. It’s fucking annoying. Mixing is done often on high quality speakers, loud volume, so you can get every detail. Most home setups dont have that nuance, and most people don’t care. Until execs can actually get proven that they’ll make more money by having consistent compression, you’re shit out of luck. You’ll probably have to get your own compression, either through software or hardware.

Source: used to work in sound engineering.