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  • Honestly, dishwasher safe makes your request essentially impossible. None of the options for that are without their own issues. Composite materials are all built using some form or another of adhesive, and those have the same issues as plastic when it comes to swallowing things that aren’t food.

    So you’ve got to pick between light materials like plastic and composites you can shove in a dishwasher, or a wood that’s heavier, but only needs quick washing by hand.

    So far, nobody has come up with a solution that’s perfect, though wood products constructed with normal wood glues come pretty close in every respect but weight. Even there, while a decent sized wood board is going to be heavy and awkward to wash, at least it isn’t going to slide around.




  • It was a single sentence’s worth of “damning”.

    This, btw, is an article about and interview someone else did. Which isn’t a rare or new thing. But it’s an example of why journalistic telephone games are a bad idea. Thks clickbait title is going to get shifted just enough by whatever site copies this article until someone is claiming Thad she went on a five minute tirade.

    What it really was, was an answer given in sound bite size while eating really spicy chicken wings and trying not to just scream in pain. Her entire response, without pauses for the heat, was maybe thirty seconds long. If that. Interesting, yes. Accurate, yes. Damning? Not even remotely.


  • Probably Dragonfly. It’s not a world class movie or anything. Most of it was draggy as hell. But then that ending hits, and it’s worth it.

    But I don’t think that a second watch would have the same wow factor at the end. Knowing it’s coming, and still having to slog through the first half, I don’t believe I’d enjoy it.

    Edit: or gone with the wind. Great movie, but it’s gotten harder to ignore the flaws in the story despite the movie itself being a masterpiece. I think if I watched it again now, knowing more about the era and the bullshit that got crammed into the book that showed up in the movie, I couldn’t be immersed in it.





  • You gotta stay relaxed and let it be above or below the vocal cords. I do below, but it comes out not sounding exactly right. I have trouble staying above the cords though.

    There’s videos on how to do it that are better than what I can write, but the key is keeping the throat relaxed and open

    It sounds like a scream, but if you watch Draiman do it, he stays really loose physically. There’s only the barest tension in his chest when he does it, enough to drive the air out from the diaphragm. It does seem like he’s pulling from there anyway, though he likely is also pulling support from the abdomen as well, what with the volume he gets without a mike.

    For me, I start with some loosening up, warm up my throat, then start with a deep growl. A grrrrrr in my chest. Then I pull in some deep belly breaths and let the growl rise until it’s just under the vocal cords.

    If you’re fine with it being deeper, you can stop there, because that’s where the barked “ah-ah” needs to sit anyway. But if you’re shooting for the higher version he uses, carefully engage the cords and do the wah-ah-ah without tightening them. Then move it above them for a few soft ones before pushing hard with the air. That’s when you let it rip.

    All the shaping of the sounds is in the mouth. If you try to generate the ah parts in the back of the mouth, you’re likely to end up with them further down, and engage your cords, which is when they end up feeling abused as hell for a half hour.

    I genuinely suck at doing it in the same pitch Draiman does. I can’t really scream at all without engaging my cords, and that shreds them. So I growl it out. Doesn’t even scratch if I stay relaxed enough.

    What’s funny? I can’t actually sing for shit. But I can do stuff like that well enough. The basic techniques are the same as you use to project your voice when doing public speaking unamplified, or in a crowd.

    Thing is, you might not be able to get the same effect no matter how you go about it. Everyone’s throat is a little different. If the false folds aren’t shaped similar to a given performer, matching their sound is essentially impossible. So you have to play around and find different parts of the throat to give the vibration from. I’ve heard people do that intro scream from their palate, just behind the uvula, where it sounds more like the usual metalcore screams. I tried that, and it just fucking hurts to me, and sounds like shit as well, instead of cool



  • This might be the exception though.

    So far, none of the previous movies were smart enough to go right into a proper FF story without having to dick around with an origin section.

    Since part of this movie is also bringing the FF into the MCU as much as it is telling an FF story, if they do it right, it could be exactly the right way to do both.

    Leading off with Galactus, you get to see the FF at their best, while also showing their limits. If it was only going to be a series of FF movies, that would suck. But as they weave in and out of future MCU arcs, the chances of seeing this kind of story would go down. So having it be the first FF MCU movie may be awesome.