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PC Building
I like building PCs.
I feel it’s advantageous monetarily to know how to replace particular parts myself. An easy analysis is that it’s cheaper to upgrade a singular part rather than buy a whole new rig everytime you want an upgrade. I like to be competitive with new technology in terms of the power of available hardware and to have the ability to play new high-end games that require cutting-edge parts.
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Lil’ Laptop [2021]
Parts:- CPU: Intel Celeron N2840
- GPU: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx
- Chassis: Chromebook Dell XDGJH Intel Trail 4GB RAM 16GB eMMc
- OS: Peppermint 10
- Microphone: LavalierMicrophone
- BIOS: SeaBIOS
- Thumb Drive: Scandisk 32GB USB Drive
I hacked a Chromebook.
It was the strangest thing from my perspective, to find out that Google is so authoritarian that they are now putting a screw on the motherboard to stop you putting another operating system on the laptop, completely crazy from a libertarian perspective. I shouldn’t have been surprised that Google would do something like that but I can’t believe people are buying them. It seems they are not, which was probably why this one was so cheap in Mexico. The most anti user-friendly thing I’ve personally seen with any piece of hardware trying to restrict software. I bought it because I had to be without my PC for a few weeks when travelling.
It came with no BIOS. It was so strange. I had to put SeaBios on there and find an OS that was small and fast cause the harddrive is so small.
- Travelling Ryzen [2020]
Parts:
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core
- Motherboard: Asus B450M-A Prime Gaming. Prior: Gigabyte B450 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4*.
- GPU: Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB MINI
- CPU Cooler: Be quiet! Dark Rock 4
- RAM Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200
- SSD Drive: Crucial 1TB M.2 SSD (x2)
- Chassis: Corsair 275R Airflow ATX Mid Tower (video)
- Power Supply: Corsair CSM 450W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX
- Operating System: Pop! OS (video)
- Monitor: AOC 24G2 23.8″ 1920×1080 144 Hz C24G1. Secondary: Samsung 226bw
- Case Fan: Arctic BioniX F120 (x6)
- Keyboard: Vortex Race 3 RGB – Silent Black. Prior: Wooting One Red RGB Wired Standard
- Mouse: Cooler Master MM711
- Headphones: Sennheiser HD 559. Backup: Sennheiser HD 206
- Ereader: Kobo Clara HD
- Webcam: Logitech C920
- Microphone: Fifine USB Cardioid Studio Condenser 669B
- Desk: Ikea PÅHL Green
- Chair: Herman Miller Aeron
- Lighting: Lume Cube Panel Mini (video) (code)
- VR: HTC Vive
This is the PC I intended to take overseas with me again. Upgrading before I moved. CPU had been overheating something fierce continuously when I was trying to multitask so figured it was time for the upgrade.
CPU / CPU Fan: This is my first Ryzen and I waited a few years till the decent ones dropped down to a better price. I’m an old school AMD girl, so… I’ve been excited to see how they have been out-competing Intel in recent years. I went with the Be Quiet! because even though I like noctua fans for the silencer adaptors and have had them before and I can’t handle the mesh of colour inside the rig. As I tend to like peering into my PC’s window occasionally, so I ended on the be quiet! which looks sexy. The be quiet! had been too large for the prior Carbide Spec-4 case.
Chassis: I got the 275R because Corsair fixed all the problems it had, it was a good price, and I liked the look of it being unique with still airflow in the front. No yellow though this time which is a bit sad, but very hard to get a nice yellow case. Not much you can do about that. The nice cutouts at the front of the Carbide are nice, though I did consider the Kolink VOID tower, cause it’s a fucking triangle at the front :3. But of course I don’t know Kolink well and it hasn’t got great cooling at the front due to the structure of the triangle so I opted for Corsair instead. The 275R is nice though so I’m overall pleased. I liked the caseking sent me candy in the box as well, I love sour worms :3. When traveling from Australia to China about 3 years ago the PC arrived fine. When repacking my bags and trying to make sure my PC was very securely placed by pushing it down against the soft things under it. I accidently cracked the PC window. So… the case needed an upgrade for quite some time.
GPU: I decided to keep my 1060, as it’s functioning fine, I may get a 3000 series for my next upgrade.
Keyboard: Tried out the Wooting keyboard but I’m going to have to change again because I need silent Cherry keys. Hard to find a nice keyboard plus the silent range of Cherry keys and not pay hundreds of dollars for a custom build… Ended up with the Vortex eventually. I like 84 key german (DE) keyboards the best because I have small hands and I like the layout generally more than the US. It’s nearly the same but has the smaller shift button giving me an extra easily accessible key.
Monitor: The issue with the monitor is that because I move relatively frequently, shipping an amount of monitors or flying with them in luggage, is risky and they take up a lot of room. So I don’t tend to care too much about the quality of my monitors as long as they are above 21″ as I can’t keep them for too long.
Motherboard / RAM / SSD: I had a long discussion about the 450, 550 or X570. As to whether I would be upgrading sooner rather than later and whether the jump to the X570 was worth it. I decided by the time I get something which requires above a X570, I would just upgrade the board with the new CPU. There was a stronger tossup between the 550 or 450 but there wasn’t much point paying for a higher priced board if I was going to stick with this CPU for a while as both were compatible and I would need something above a X570 by upgrade time likely. I regret buying the Aorus a bit, because it broke and I wasn’t totally sold on it to begin with. Usually I buy Asrock or Gigabyte, because of all the recent shitty news about MSI meant wasn’t buying their products again, but I should have gone with Asrock. Ram upgrade came alongside this to go with the motherboard and cpu. Bought some M.2 SSDs to stick on the motherboard because I realised my old SSD was bottom of the range and it’s speed wasn’t great.
* Bought a Asus B450M-A Prime Gaming, due to prior Gigabyte B450 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 malfunctioning. Pretty common error for it to have from what I was reading, but might have happened during travel. Had this problem: X570 Aorus Pro cold boot hangs on dram led, Red Cpu / Dram Light – System won´t boot, and X570 Aorus Aorus Wifi Frequent Light. PC would just shut itself off randomly. Memory Light on the Board would turn on, upon restart the CPU light would be on. Sometimes would boot back on after just switching off the power supply, then power board, then repeat. But sometimes it would take 10 mins walking away and coming back, sometimes would take 40-50 turn on and offs to properly glitch on. Wasn’t great feeling. Wasn’t related to anything I was doing, I wasn’t surging the memory. On a few occasions I put on temperature tracking and had it in the background and when tabbing over it was never an issue. So, no idea the original cause. Though when I was in germany it did flicker when it would turn on, like it would short circuit a little. Didn’t think too much of it cause everything was flowing smoothly. Possibly it was defected as soon as I bought it but took time to decline. No idea. I tossed up between a Asus B450M-A and a Asus B450M-Plus. Decided on the A due to knowing I’d upgrade to a higher Ryzen probably in a year or two and there was no difference in specs based on what I needed. Also it was cheaper, obviously, being a mATX board.
- Yellow Mid Box [2018]
Parts:
- CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5 GHz 8-Core
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P FX (rev. 2.1) ATX AM3+/AM3
- GPU: Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB MINI Video Card
- CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212X 82.9 CFM
- RAM Memory: Corsair Vengeance 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR3-1600
- SSD: OCZ Trion 100 480 GB 2.5″
- Chassis: Corsair SPEC-04 ATX Mid Tower
- Power Supply: Corsair CSM 450W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX
- Operating System: Pop! OS (video)
- Monitor: Samsung S22D300HY 21.5″ 1920×1080 60 Hz
- Case Fan: Thermaltake Riing 12 40.6 CFM 120 mm Fan (x4)
- Keyboard: Drevo Excalibur Cherry MX Black Switch
- Mouse: Redragon Lavawolf M701
- Headphones: Sennheiser HD 559. Backup: Sennheiser HD 206
- Webcam: Logitech C920
- Microphone: Fifine Usb Cardioid Studio Condenser 669B
- Desk: Ikea PÅHL Green
- Chair: Herman Miller Aeron
- Lighting: Globe Electric 32″ Multi-Joint with Metal Clamp 56963. Alzo 27W Joyous Light Full Spectrum
- Red mATX [2017]
Parts:
- CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5 GHz 8-Core
- Motherboard: Asrock 970M Pro3 Micro ATX AM3+/AM3
- GPU: Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB MINI
- CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212X 82.9 CFM
- RAM Memory: Corsair Vengeance 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR3-1600
- SSD: OCZ Trion 100 480 GB 2.5″
- Chassis: BitFenix Prodigy M MicroATX Mini Tower
- Chassis Lighting: BitFenix Alchemy Connect Orange
- Power Supply: CSM 450W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX
- Operating System: Linux Ubuntu https://ubuntu.com/
- Monitor: AOC e2250Swdn 22.0″ 1920×1080 60 Hz. BenQ GW2255 21.5″ 1920×1080 60 Hz
- Case Fan: Thermaltake Riing 12 40.6 CFM 120 mm Fan (x4)
- Keyboard: Razer Blackwidow 2014 Stealth Edition Wired Gaming
- Mouse: Redragon Lavawolf M701
- Headphones: Sennheiser PXC 450
- Desk: Ikea PÅHL Green
- Chair: Herman Miller Aeron
- Lighting: Globe Electric 32″ Multi-Joint with Metal Clamp 56963. Alzo 27W Joyous Light Full Spectrum
I read up a lot about AMD’s performances with gaming for this build. I read a ton about if it was ‘do-able’ for things like WoW. The FX generation ran WoW fine, so I bought myself one as an upgrade from the prior CPU.
I wanted Ultra graphics for WoW on it… I nearly purchased a AMD Athlon X4 860K Kaveri. Though I found and satiated my gaming with a AMD FX-8320 and ASRock 970M PRO3 mATX. Luckily around the time of when I wanted to upgrade, the specs for Warcraft Legion were released, so I bought an FX that was higher than the optimum for Warcraft. I got the ASRock cause I have a windowed case, and the beautiful Motherboard is a slick black :). I purchased the specific FX because it was a competitive price for a newish FX :). FX 6300 being the minimum for optimal, so 8320 is strong. The new 9series range needed upscaled cooling people argued.
For mouse I changed from a Razer Naga Classic, when it broke and actually looked up hand size ratios for mice. Tried the Logitech G300s, then stuck with the Lava Wolf. Small hands mate. Lava Wolf is very sexy.
I upgraded to a mATX cause at the time believed a little bit bigger size would be still able to fit in luggage nicely. I bought an ITX case, and built originally an ITX rig. I got to the point when I wanted to upgrade my CPU and realised that AMD-FX ITX motherboards really didn’t exist at all -.-. Sooo… I bought the bigger case. Tbh, this was the case I had intended to buy originally that I fell in love with. Though the ITX was smaller, so I purchased it for the travel reasons. The Bitfenix was the one that started off the love-affair with red chassis’, so overall it worked out well :).
In the ITX I originally had a Noctua NH-L9a 57.5. Then building the mATX i realised it might not be strong enough for the FX. So I just put in the stock fan. It drove me insane. It was making this fucking rattling noise. It doesn’t all the time, just fucking like once an hour. Apply some pressure and it stops -.-. Took it out, clipped it back in, still noise. Its not like you can tighten a clip -.-. Rofl. I looked, and it is reaching 60degree temperates, so… Cooler Master Hyper 212X was the solution. I got mad as fuck installing this Fan. My brain = totally logical, these instructions were written for morons. No fucking intro page, AMD not cited to have a different set of notes. Sigh, I got super mad. Steaming internally. And… now my computer is heavy af. The fan itself isnt heavy, but I just realised… that its now accumulated to become heavy. This mATX. *pats it*, sigh of luggage weight.
After watching a fucking video on how to install this months later… because my computer was fucking temp’ing hard. Was between 60-70 degrees just after being turned on :(. AMD stating that is max, probs not should be just stable speed without WoW playing or whatever. And, another video about the direction of the internal fans. Like top is meant to blow out, and bottom is meant to draw in, because heat rises. Etc. So, I refucked around with all the fans. And its now back down to 30 degrees. Thank fuck.
I grew up on Celerons just fine. I just am not as big of a fan of Intel and I tend to just sway towards AMD. I think its down to two reasons, 1: Intel are blue, AMD is red :P. 2: Intel make a shitload of ads, i’m not a fan of ads. I love researching all things. I dislike being told what to buy, or do at all generally unless its filled with genuine information. 3: Intel are huge, AMD are the ‘underdogs’. 4: AMD are cheaper, Intel seems to be more expensive with a much less competitive gap nowadays. There is debates to which is harder to run, and as to whether AMD is as competitive. But currently, FX is pretty competitive, and it takes about as much cooling as high end Intel, so there is no difference for me in terms of played ability. But I get it. If you’ve not read any info in the past few years, or if your reading just shit by Intel-pro people, I can understand how you might not know 🙂 [this was written pre-ryzen].
- Red ITX [2017]
Tea
A hobby of mine is trying different kinds of tea and finding ingredients I love.
Hibiscus
Hibiscus is a main component in “red tea”, of the fruity-red kind. Think of like “thick-red” tasting. Its a really strong bright red coloured tea.
Rooibos
This is a fan favourite of mine, and I tend to always have some around. It’s traditional African tea. Called “red tea”, ie red in colour but different to hibiscus in taste in the inference that its more like black tea than fruit tea.
Dandelion
Dandelion can be a “coffee substitute” which has no caffeine. Ie, is made into a coffee look-and-kinda-taste. In Australia I used to get it granulated, meaning that it just melted in hot water to create a dark liquid drink similar-looking to coffee. It is different to coffee, but close enough in texture that your taste buds are like “oh ok” and get a form of similar hit in terms of dark-thick-filling taste. I actually prefer it to coffee personally. There are two kinds of dandelion tea. Dandelion “root” tea, of which I am referring to and also Dandelion tea which is made from the flowers.
White
For a while there was a brand in Australia that sold “white tea + pomegranate” at the Supermarket that I worked at. I loved it. It had a white tiger on it if I recall. I like pomegranate… and the white tea from what I understand is a “highly profitable tea” to consume in terms of its chemical composition. Its been a long time since I’ve drunk it “on the regular” but I love it as a form of tea. “Lighter than green tea” would be how I would describe it in taste.
Green
I like a lot of varieties of green tea, but mostly, anything heavily Asian (Chinese, Japanese, etc) is my preferred. When I went to Sushi places in Australia, I got excited when I realised they had green tea. Just because the traditional tea leaf tea is superior to the bagged stuff you generally get from the mainstream store varieties in Western countries in taste. Its more “full” tasting I find.
I tried 6 types of tea whilst I was living in China. I couldn’t read the containers in the stores… so I just bought tins and tried them.
Top Maofeng [it’s green tea]: When I was in Chengdu I bought Top Maofeng from a festival… it was divine.
Zhong Guo Hong Cha [it’s black tea]
Moli Huacha [it’s jasmine tea]: Tastes alright but I’m not a fan of Jasmine, Camomile, etc.
Longjing Cha [it’s green tea]: I don’t think mine is too luxurious as I bought it from a corner store, but it was indeed more expensive than the others. Also well liked in the UK.
Longyun Early Spring [it’s green tea]: I just bought some Early Spring Green Tea… is identical in look to the former link but the packet says its from Longyan.
Bi Luo Chun [it’s green tea]: Top Maofeng and Bi Luo Chun have been my favourites so far.
Gao Ji Lv Chao.
Chai
I have been trying for years to try and perfect a way to make this myself in parts. As Chai is “a mixture of ingredients”… so say with Hibiscus tea. I worked out in the red fruity tea, it was that ingredient that was what I “liked most from the tea” so I just bought a kilo of Hibiscus, lol.
With Chai this is a little more difficult. I had the ingredients in a few little tins for a while… I’ll work it out one day. So Chai ingredients are cinnamon, cloves, black tea and ginger < are the main four – examples from T2.
Chrysanthemum
A common flower used for a lot of cheap tea in China. I ended up buying some at one of the airports, which was the cheapest tea on the list. I of course couldn’t read what it was on the menu as it was in Mandarin. It turned out to be Chrysanthemum in flower form. These are little white flowers which have a very nice smooth flavour.
- Flavours I like
Lemongrass, Ginger, Pomegranate, Licorice, Spearmint, Cinnamon, Lemon, Berries, Mango, and Pineapple.
Flavours I don’t drink:
So Black Tea is a little hard for me to talk about. I can drink black tea on the “short” end but I try and avoid caffeine in my body. Black tea is thick in caffeine so it makes my body react badly. I literally can’t drink a few cups of it before it negatively affects me. Honestly, I’m not even fond of one cup anymore, but if I ask for tea and that’s what I get, then I drink it. I don’t drink a lot of soft drinks for the same reason. You will find in the world a lot of women who have had children avoid caffeine or anyone who has had cancer or etc. I neither have had children or cancer, though my body reacts in a sense, as if I had towards caffeine, and has since I was born :). Caffeine is a very strong drug so I just try and avoid it.
I am not a big fan of Chamomile, Vanilla, Peppermint, and Jasmine. I dislike Orange in some things like chocolate and tea, but I like the flavour in candy and ice blocks.
Gaming
Alcohol
I do not commonly drink alcohol anymore though when I do these are the ones I prefer.
Sour Monkey
Midori
Jagermeister
Black Sambuca
I prefer the Black Sambuca brands that when mixed with another substance go Blue rather than Purple, which seem to be the sweeter variants. Examples of some brands I have tried and liked (my images): Galliano, Antica, Licor De Anis, etc. Some brands I dislike are Opal Nera. Sambuca is also sometimes drunk with fire.
Beer
Pure Blonde and Blue Tongue.
Entertainment
Music
I have a diverse set of music tastes.
Nu Metal / Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
So my tastes fall under ‘Hard Rock’ or ‘Heavy Metal’. Nu Metal being a subgenre popular through my teenage years. This implies I like heavy beats with lyrical content.
To compare slipknot’s Iowa album to later tracks like Vermilion or Snuff, or anything Corey makes under Stone Sour would be a good comparison. Most scream Death Metal music there is a stronger focus on the instruments, and the singers voice is in a higher octave of competition with the sound so I find I enjoy it less but still find the heaviness of it appealing. I guess a good example may just be to compare A Perfect Circle to Tool, and Slipknot and Stone Sour. Maynard sings for both the former bands, and Corey sings for both the latter bands. They are made up of arguably very similar people, yet the bands are totally different in content. In this regard I prefer A Perfect Circle and Stone Sour than their main, more maintream bands, due to the more lyrical focus under their side project.
A playlist like this made on Spotify would be a good example of my tastes in this genre. This is my “main listening” genre.
- Alternative Rock / Emo / Screamo
I also go more ‘hardcore’ with bands like New Medicine, All Time Low, Palaye Royale, and I guess The Pretty Reckless might fit in this category.
This influence was started in my mid-20s when I started interacting with younger people for whom this genre had become a mainstream rock category and was only just beginning when I was a teenager. Rock mixing with Rap and Metal was more popular when I was a teenager arguably (bands like Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn, Rage Against The Machine, Kid Rock, Gorillaz, P.O.D, etc). For the next generation it seemed to be Rock mixed with Death Metal and Pop.
A playlist like this made on Spotfiy would be a good example of my tastes in this genre.
- Rap and R&B
My feelings about Rap is complicated and I am one of a huge list of humans who rap and metal both fit into the same overall genre of “extreme music”. Both are seen as examples of hard, aggressive tonal songs. People tend to split at some point and go one way or another from what I’ve noticed in my little questions to others. I grew up listening to a lot of Eminem, during the time I believe R&B was the most “popular music” genre – during the late 90s and early 2000s – when my music tastes were developing.
My favourite Rappers:
Lupe Fiasco, Bliss n Eso, B.o.B, Immortal Technique, Mind Over Matter (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) (Pre-split. I like Willow, I met him at Occupy in Sydney. It’s really hard to find their stuff now unless your Spotify is set to Australia then you get at least 1 more album, but I liked the Free the Wolves album the best which I now can’t find anymore), Hilltop Hoods, Lil Wayne, and Diddy.
My favourite “Rap” Songs:
- Make Them Believe by Black Magic ft. Johnny Utah
- Weightless Wings by Bliss n Eso
- Dumb It Down by Lupe Fiasco
- Dr. Aden by B.o.B
- Business by Eminem
- Renegade by Eminem
- 6 Foot 7 Foot by Lil Wayne ft Cory Gunz
- Spun a Web by Ja Rule
- The Hard Road by Hilltop Hoods
- The Cause of Death by Immortal Technique
- Living in this World by Guru, Sweet Sable
- Channeling by Robot Koch and John Robinson
- Grand Deception by K-Rino
- End of Days by Vinne Paz, Block McCloud
- I Need a Girl by P.Diddy, Usher, Loon
- Boys Like You by 360
- X Gon’ Give It To Ya by DMX
- Just a Dream by Nelly
- How To Love by Lil Wayne
I imagine that I tend to like anything by Cash Money overall these days, like Nicki Minaj, etc. For a while I listened to quite a lot of Aussie Rap because I had a group of friends who loved to play it in my car.
- Favourites
My favourite rock band is Godsmack.
My favourite mainstream artist would be Rihanna.
My favourite rapper would be Lupe Fiasco.
My favourite metal band would be In This Moment.
- Voices I would say that I am a fan of
Women: Fefe Dobson, Maria Brink (In This Moment), Sky Ferreira, Hayley Kiyoko, Rihanna, Lzzy Hale (Halestorm), Ashanti, Lauren Babic, Taylor Momsen (The Pretty Reckless), Lacey Sturm (Flyleaf) and Halsey. To a lesser extent: Selena Gomez, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Rita Ora, Bebe Rexha, Hailee Steinfeld, Nicki Minaj, Camila Cabello, Karmin, Cassie, Avril Lavigne, Demi Lovato, Dua Lipa, Jessie J, Keri Hilson, Skylar Grey, The Pussycat Dolls, Tove Lo, Carly Rae Jepsen, P!nk, Michelle Pfeiffer, Cher Lloyd, Hilary Duff, and Alanis Morissette.
Men: Sully Erna (Godsmack), Shaun Morgan (Seether), Chad Kroeger (Nickelback), Scooter Ward (Cold), Corey Taylor (Stone Sour / Slipknot), Jake Scherer (New Medicine), Ryan McCombs (Soil), Matt Walst (My Darkest Days), Ed Sloan (Crossfade), Josh Todd (Buckcherry), Ivan Moody (Five Finger Death Punch), Tommy Vext (Bad Wolves), and Enrique Iglesias. To a lesser extent: Bliss n Eso, All Time Low, Bullet for My Valentine, Papa Roach, Korn, Disturbed, System of a Down, Lupe Fiasco, Eminem, Mudvayne, Saving Abel, Nick Jonas, Trapt, OneRepublic, Ne-Yo, Avenged Sevenfold, Theory of a Deadman, Static-X, B.o.B, Lil Wayne, Skillet, Conor Maynard, Linkin Park, Imagine Dragons, HELLYEAH, Troye Sivan, Jason Derulo, Red, Saliva, Palaye Royale, Kevin Rudolf, Kid Cudi, Marilyn Manson, Skipknot, Mike Posner, Hinder, The Chainsmokers, Andy Black, Shaggy, Ja Rule, Shawn Mendes, Trey Songz, ZAYN, Charlie Puth, P. Diddy, and Usher.
Instrumental: Lindsey Stirling – Violin, Ryan Martinie (Mudvayne) – Bass Guitar, Claude Debussy – Composer, Franz Liszt – Composer, and Motzart / George Nascimento – Composer / Pianist.
These lists are not exhaustive.
Voice breakdown:
I would like to talk about Sully Erna from Godsmack right now especially to explain something. These singers also sit on this spectrum; Scooter Ward from Cold, Corey Taylor from Stone Sour, Jake Scherer from New Medicine, Ryan McCombs from Soil, Maria Brink from In This Moment, Matt Walst from My Darkest Days, Shaun Morgan from Seether, Ed Sloan from Crossfade, and Fefe Dobson.
So Sully’s voice has been for a long time, my ‘optimal music voice’. You will see a theme from most of these bands, say comparing Scooter, Corey, Ryan, Shaun and Sully. That they all hit a very low ‘rumble’. Their voices are not deep necessarily, but when they hit their low octaves, their voice ‘rolls’. Similar to my fascination with double kicks. There is a rolling rumble sound when one uses a double kick, like these men’s voices. I would argue that also Maria Brink’s voice rumbles, as does Fefe Dobson when they hit their low notes with a females voice in a different kind of style but the same ‘feel’.
To give an example, say this song when Sully says the word ‘line’. The voice seems to go both up and down at the same time when he says it. Or in this song ‘alive’, ‘awake’, ‘say’ and ‘you’. It is not inherently the ring out of his voice, it is what his voice does when he holds a note for an extended period of time I believe. As not all voices holding a note affect me like Sullys.
Obviously the lyrical content in their songs makes my heart pump too. The songs content must coincide with the voice singing it for me to especially enjoy it, but I do notice a theme in artists when they make certain sounds with their voice regardless of genre. I would say for an alternative genre, that Lil Wayne’s voice also has a ‘crunch’ when he hits the low tones. Seen in this song when he says, ‘charisma’, ‘under’, ‘understand’, etc.
You will find that the music style I also prefer, has large highs and lows. Like the song softens then punches you with a beat. Say in this Rihanna song, after ‘twisted’ there is a sharper drop, whereas when she says ‘carriage’ there is not a drop instead it rings out. The phrase nee-eee-eed-ed me, has multiple drops in a singular word even though it appears to be connected. Or in this song, ‘I am’, ‘So I’, ‘I-Can’t-Feel’, ‘Time won’t change’. Or in this song, you can hear in the phrase “so I traveled back, down that road” that the lyrics and music seem to stop and start.
This in English is called a Glottal sound, and is very strongly used in the German language. My argument is that some musicians when singing, use a form of glottal or faux glottal, dropping tones lower whilst singing which I am attracted to. It’s the ‘drop’ itself, rather than whatever note they are singing in to begin with. Though the more sharp the drop, the more I find I pay attention to the song or person speaking, as if it ‘hits my interest’ level.
Video
This is an excerpt of my movie and tv show interests. Alongside the online channels I regularly find myself watching and some childhood flashbacks for those interested.
Media Watch
ABC News
Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson – serene interviews
The Rubin Report – fun interviews
The Joe Rogan Experience – profound interviews
Ted- Russel Brand – stimulating quick news
Nomad Capitalist – advanced travel skill- Lex Fridman – balanced interviews
- Keiser Report – economics
- Jordan B. Peterson Podcast – superb interviews
- Chris Williamson – brave interviews
- Caspian Report – geopolitics
- Academy of Ideas – intense philosophy
… And Then There Were None
Eric Frank Russell
Free Audio (Short Story – 3 hours) / Free Text
- Illumination by Terry McGarry
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Authoritarian Sociopathy: Toward a Renegade Psychological Experiment by Davi Barker
- Animal Farm by George Orwell [audiobook]
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
Tenet
Sucker Punch
- Idiocracy
IMDB / Trailer / Opening Scene
- John Dies at the End
- Limitless
- Malena
- Monty Python’s Life of Brian
- Monty Python and The Holy Grail
- Nine Days
- Push
- Secret Window
- Revolver
Please watch 2005 version (british) not 2007 version (american): why (spoilers).
Or buy from Microsoft – This is the only place that I think that has the 2005 version (that I can find but I’m not sure). It may be on your countries Netflix but I am not sure it is the right version. This is a free 2007 version as an example to compare.
It is not too different but the 2007 one is missing an extra part in the ending. The movies are 10 minutes different in length. The 2007 one was made for the American market after it received mixed reviews.
- Scott Pilgrim vs The World
- The Truman Show
- V for Vendetta
- Fight Club
- Dogville
- Cheech and Chong – Up in Smoke
- Cheech and Chong – Things Are Tough All Over
- Cheech and Chong – The Corsican Brothers
- Cheech and Chong – Nice Dreams
- Blade Runner
- Being John Malkovich
- Animatrix
Philosophy
Beliefs
- Déjà vu and Time Travel
A good way to say it is that I believe time is linear, but our conscious connection to time is nonlinear. Ie, our consciousnesses is stronger than time and able to manipulate our connection with it.
An unconscious action is something your brain does without you telling it to. Ie, moving both legs when walking, breathing, how to drink, etc. These are old habits we no longer think about, they are instinctual. A conscious action is something you think about. Ie, how to do this math problem in a test with the new knowledge I learnt this year, how to drive to the new restaurant with my wife - not how to drive, that may be unconscious, but where to go, may be consciously thought about.
Humans were once bottom of the food chain and eaten by many animals, now we have guns and can kill most animals. Meaning we are at the top of the animal food chain.
I think it is the same with time, I think somewhere in our evolution, our brains learnt to "be top of the time (food) chain". In that we learnt to conquer it, but like some random English word we learnt in the past but can't really remember what it means consciously, our brain has the capacity to do and remember things subconsciously but it is not something we consciously understand anymore. Our brain does it without us being in full control because it has moved out of the conscious and into the unconscious because we learnt it a long time ago possibly.
I believe brains do it as a survival mechanism. Similar to most innate things. That life is hardwired to take you through situations which lead you to things. Ie, you may kick your toe so you're in a bad mood because you need to be a bit tougher at work that day because events may require extra strength. I believe that events are not unlinked, if they were, hypothetically we would not need to have any form of memory at all because it would not be as useful as 100% situational awareness adjusted in the moment constantly - similar to more animal instinctual ways of existing which is generally not related to long term memory at all. So, I believe some things that do not kill you, that the brain assesses are extremely threatening, such as making a small error which leads to a large problem such as being hit by your parents or failing something which you could have passed, these are things that cause the brain to go into trauma and your brain's subconscious tries to hardwire a "way out of" which is in its power to do. The question is not whether the brain "does it", we all know our brain does it. When you get nervous, you instinctively start to look for a way out of your situation. We all do that automatically and our body has a range of innate reactions. A few examples of sweating, feeling nauseous, stammering, widened eyes, and a wider range of fight and flight responses, etc. The question is whether the brain has the capacity to manipulate your relationship with the linear time pattern as a mechanism.
You cannot stop your death necessarily because you would be dead whilst reversing if that makes sense. Your brain must consciously have enough willpower to have the energy to reverse. Everything in the universe requires energy to occur (either matter or anti-matter, ie, the possibility of something occurring as the concept of anti-matter is in itself a form of energy but that's more complicated). If you are dead, you are disconnected from the ability to use the resource hypothetically. Does your brain have enough energy to disconnect and reconnect you with linear time? It is not moving your body. It is only moving your consciousness back through your memory which is already a resource. Computers and AI can do this easily, you can restore a prior update without any stress at all. I believe the brain has this same restoration capacity as a computer does. It is just because we lose memory, we have no connection to the hardware properly as we are humans embedded into the software process. Ie, we are inside Windows 95 and most humans cannot access BIOS, so we cannot see that there was a "rewrite" which occurred on July 17th at 10am. Some people have better smell, some better sight, some more attractive, some more intelligent; I think some see the BIOS easier because they have thought to ask "is there a BIOS" that's all.
Our brain records time as a line, we know this as memory. I think the brain understands how to send our "conscious" connection to time forwards and back. This is due to no physical matter being changed, so it being lower energy to do than moving the physical matter. Like changing how the world "looks for everyone" tomorrow would be very difficult and take a lot of energy. Changing merely "when" you connect with the timeline is within our brain's power because it affects absolutely no other people. As you were already in the past. You are changing nothing but making the "conscious" move back to prior moments and in a sense "adding more energy" to the past.
If you woke up yesterday, rather than today, how would you know that yesterday is not today if you had no memory of yesterday? You would of course have no memory of yesterday because you are living yesterday and it has not happened yet. But it has, but it hasn't. So your brain cannot connect properly to the recording. Like a movie you half-watched, where do you store that data? Where does the brain store data that didn't happen yet? It doesn't know so you can't connect to it properly because its not in the normal memory place as that is only for linearity.
The discussion as to whether consciousness is internal or external is discussed in detail in this lecture by Rupert Sheldrake and is in part, where science is heading. Similarly discussed by Anil Seth in this Ted interview. The quantum approaches to consciousness are very interesting and has become a massive field due to humans trying to give AI consciousness, which as of right now is beyond impossible as Anil Seth discusses. Stanford discusses it in this article, as to the discussion of how much consciousness affects the reality which is extremely complicated in quantum physics. For a movie reference, these subjects are discussed by Dr Quantum, which is what is being discussed by Stanford in a part of the article. The affect consciousness has on the world and how much influence our brain can have on reality. Quantum level things like adaptation to time is complicated in terms of the brain's capacity, "This system is capable of transforming mechanical, thermal, electromagnetic and chemical energy into electric potential energy." Quantum Nature of Consciousness and the Unconscious Collective of Carl G. Jung by Adam Grzegorz Adamski (NeuroQuantology, 2013), and "... the quantum entanglement theory together with its relations with Bell’s inequality and finally describes an “entanglement model of consciousness/mind”, Quantum Entanglement: Fundamentals and Relations with Consciousness/Mind by Mustafa Erol (NeuroQuantology, 2010)" the concept as to whether we may be entangled with our past states and that is how the brain can manipulate the matter into returning to past states by the present still being entangled with the past, and also the future. Which is one dominant hypothesis in the theory and research of synchronicity.
https://www.space.com/29859-the-illusion-of-time.html
Groundhog Day and The Matrix are movies which when pondered as to the scientific legitimacy of why these movies discuss the ability of time to be altered and what, if anything, do humans have to do with the process. - There are two kinds of thoughts: things you care about, and the things you think would be interesting to care about.
Scenario:
Someone says something. Your brain "clicks" to what they have said is of interest to the Other rather than the Self.
You decide it would be "interesting" to care about this thing for the Other, whereas the Self is not concerned with what was said.
In this scenario you may irrationally act, as you have a lack of rational understanding of how the Other would respond. You act as the Self+Other which is less able to be controlled because you have less knowledge of them than you do of yourself.
People I Like
- Dave Rubin
- Chris Hedges
- Russell Brand
Someone gave me Brand’s book when I was going through a rough time in my life. From what I read of the first chapter, it delved into sex addiction. Whilst I didn’t read the book past this chapter, it remained in my mind as recognising Brand as someone who had some form of similarity with me.
Later on, a splattering of him popping up in my entertainment (I recently found him through his interviews with Jordan Peterson), I found I quite like his persona. I like his evolution of life, I like his eccentricities and the way his brain formulates cognitive thought. Ie, I think he’s cool.
Not a lot of people I’d say that about, I’d say interesting, or intriguing, etc. Which are also compliments, and more traditionally what I am drawn towards. Acquisition of knowledge.
I genuinely would say that I actually think Brand is ‘cool’ in my opinion. A magician would be another word. Creating things from the Self to dazzle people, and the things he creates I find interesting. So I find him a cool person. Not common I say it but yea. I find it a good definition. Neverending source of interesting creation. Someone I would go to, to hear their opinion because I just like him as a cool person in general.
- Julian Assange
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert
Max and Stacy have given me an incredible measure of unfiltered knowledge about economics. I feel they are most useful presenters in terms of guests they present, the topics they discuss, and the unfiltered showing of the issues currently in the world economy in a manner that I feel is unrestricted by mainstream doctrines. Ie, they say what the fuck they want and it will save you money in the long term. They don’t just say shit cause other people say it, they call big names out and tell you about the bullshit going on behind the scenes in the economic market. They are generally right years before anyone else coins onto ideas.
Max is also hilarious and charismatic, and Stacy does a great job being the stable intellectual. Both of them provide a fantastic quality show.
James Corbett
Favourite journalist. Corbett’s severe determination as a journalist of integrity who takes his research down roads I am interested in, has fundamentally helped me understanding of topics and advanced my own research immensely. I appreciate him as a human being. As does the rest of the non-mainstream media movements. Website / IMDB.
- Terence McKenna
- Thomas Sowell
- Douglas Murray
- Jonathan Haidt
To explain why Haidt is so important to me, besides me respecting him as a person, is to give some background of my opinions of the US. I am someone who has done a lot of research on multiple subjects over my life, and generally my research leads me to anything hidden or unknown to mass culture. Due to this, America being the current Empire (usually under economic imperialism), and the fact that I am English speaking has led me to fall down the dark rabbit hole of things America does wrong more often than any other country. Which is normal for an Empire, but not normal when the rest of the world can sometimes see them as goody-two-shoes hero protector. Generally due to media proliferation as an export (ie, people watch their TV Shows, Music, Movies, Journalism, etc), generally other cultures see their Empiricalism as a positive rather than a negative under blind faith. Over the years I developed what could only been seen as a depressive hatred of the country. I had it since my teens and it continued on throughout my 20s.
Upon hitting upon the Intellectual Dark Web, I ventured into a different kind of understanding of America that I had not really seen before. Not the stagnant IQ, not the lack of Healthcare, not the drone wars, not the fiat push… Haidt just kind of represented something else to me. A pure passionate intellectual love of America. As someone with polish ancestry, and living in America his whole life. He garnished a very different intellectual opinion of America. Alongside the fact that his research is invaluable to the world. He made me understand aspects of psychology, and zoomers on a grand scale. Ie, I respected his knowledge so alongside this, found reason to value his opinions as a person.
I started off slow, and cautiously, but I feel what he represented greatly changed how I perceived the country to be far more open minded than before. Whilst I always had a more reasonable like of Texas and New Orleans due to have specific teenage interests in people from those areas (journalists and authors), overall the country represented an entirely negative point of view for me. In recent years this has become a lot more “fair” as I became a bit more in control of my confirmation bias.
- Jordan B. Peterson
Philosophy and psychology discussions. I love religious history. Mesopotamian and Norse being my two favourite historical subjects. I enjoy Peterson’s research on the Abrahamic Religions.
I feel my life has been bettered immensely by Peterson. Gave me some strength that there was still some intelligent people out there, especially those who gave a shit about general society like I do.
Jordan did something for me that nobody has done in a long time. Gave me back some respect for Western society. I set myself on a search to know the extent of my own intelligence, which led me to knowing how high my IQ was, and doing psychological profiles to better be able to explain the kind of person I was to others. Gave me the actual desire to bother to breed.
Acknowledging my high IQ, and blue eyes: I decided for the first time in over a decade that me breeding might be worthwhile for the world. Prior to this my bitterness about love, due to my relationship history in my teens, resulted in my severe hesitancy to bother with the notions of relationships let alone the idea of breeding with a male. Being able to run around on youtube with a community filled with other intelligent people thirsting for knowledge, alongside Peterson’s own words, eased the bitterness enough for me to give people a fairer chance again. Due to my high levels of dominance, and industriousness, I sometimes can just be an untouchable wall. I need to allow people in myself due to this, and I kind of just hit up against my own wall from the other side but never truly allowed it to come down. Though I had been trying over the years, Peterson really gave me the advice I needed to know that I would be okay actually finding reasons to trust people again.
- Chris Lilley
(I named my guinea pig Smouse)
- Rachman Blake
- Elena Gabrielle
- Superwog
- Tommy Chong
- Cheech Marin
Cheech and Chong
- George Carlin
- Russell Brand
Someone gave me Brand’s book when I was going through a rough time in my life. From what I read of the first chapter, it delved into sex addiction. Whilst I didn’t read the book past this chapter, it remained in my mind as recognising Brand as someone who had some form of similarity with me.
Later on, a splattering of him popping up in my entertainment (I recently found him through his interviews with Jordan Peterson), I found I quite like his persona. I like his evolution of life, I like his eccentricities and the way his brain formulates cognitive thought. Ie, I think he’s cool.
Not a lot of people I’d say that about, I’d say interesting, or intriguing, etc. Which are also compliments, and more traditionally what I am drawn towards. Acquisition of knowledge.
I genuinely would say that I actually think Brand is ‘cool’ in my opinion. A magician would be another word. Creating things from the Self to dazzle people, and the things he creates I find interesting. So I find him a cool person. Not common I say it but yea. I find it a good definition. Neverending source of interesting creation. Someone I would go to, to hear their opinion because I just like him as a cool person in general.
- Dylan Moran
- Bill Bailey
- Some of my favourite comedians
If I had to categorise my humour, I would say it is Black humour. I grew up a lot laughing at more traditional British humour; self-depricating, bitter, cynical, intelligent, etc. I like Monty Python and can quote a good lot of it off by heart as an example as I got given the boxset in my youth. Dylan Moran is a good example of cynicism.
I love a good Dad joke and I’m the idiot sniggering in the corner when everyone else thinks it’s lame.
I laugh when people hurt themselves. I’m that friend who tries to help you, whilst laughing so hard at you fucking up. People say my laughter is contageous. I tend to find really basic things utterly hilarious. Mocking reality, life, fears, knowledge, or one’s beliefs is the apex of what I find humorous. Though obviously these are hard lines to walk in appropriate and inappropriate, as people like George Carlin discuss. I would say I’m a non-conformist with spirituality (I am not singularly a part of any specific conforming religion), but that I am quite a spiritual person. So whilst I find the humour fantastic, there is a line to draw between showing someone different sides of their religion, and saying that believing in things is rediculous. As belief merely means knowledge. All science starts in a theory. Similar with mocking reality, many people dislike you mocking reality. Like mocking suffering, and the hardship of reality. People like Carl Barron do this well, where the poking is so relaxed. It’s like making a joke about your boss, that level of ‘is this appropriate or not’. As if they find out, you might get fired, lol.
I’m not a hard person to make laugh, I laugh at most things as I get bedazzled by people easily. If someone tries to make me laugh, I generally I appreciate the effort and don’t fight it too much. Though I know when I have really laughed hard, and there are different levels of status for what I consider humorous.
Some series examples of shows I have liked for their humour are: Rake, The IT Crowd, Black Books, Whitest Kids U’Know, Red vs Blue, Family Guy (this is my favourite episode), South Park, etc.
- Carl Barron
- Monty Python
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin (favourite).