Zeus

I'm just as addicted as you are!

I mean, Chick-fIl-A chicken sandwiches are some good shit, and while they're a national brand, they're particularly concentrated in the Southeastern US. While brining their chicken in pickle juice and pressure frying create their chicken's unique flavor, they claim that they invented the actual "chicken sandwich" in the 1940s. It's an unsubstantiated claim, and hot chicken between two slices of bread certainly existed long before them.
 
As someone from the Southeast, Chick-fil-A is leagues beyond most of the fast-food options in the region when it comes to service and food quality. They invest a lot in integrating with their surrounding communities and are fast-food havens for the upper-middle class (who can justify the price hike relative to McD or BK for quality.) When I was part of my youth town-council several years ago, we worked exclusively with them for community events.
 
On the other side, Popeyes has been perceived a lot differently compared to Chick-fil-A, with deep-southern influence and a lower-class demographic (relative to CfA, McD is the most affordable tmk.) While their new sandwich comes at a premium relative to other items on their menu, having something on-par with CfA's "pride and joy" has stirred a lot of interest. It contests with CfA's cushy spot as "America's Restaurant".
 
There's, oddly enough, some "political" nuance to this related to CfA that I'm clearly dodging b/c forum rules. If you Google it, you'll find a ton of stuff.
 
As for my opinion, CfA's quality is pretty much the same nationwide, and they have pretty high ff standards (for both sanitation and food.) I usually seek them out if I'm on-the-road while traveling. That consistency is attractive to me, but local cuisines/"hole-in-the-walls" are always my first choice if I'm familiar with the area.
 
I've had Popeyes only a few times b/c they're not as common where I'm at, but they're pretty damn good as well.

thats what i asked last week. apparently taking a break.

one thing to ensure that they don't have your important files is they didn't show you any of your files as a proof of having access to your pc bc they don't have any to begin with.

it's totally ok. you can ask your mh fellows for help when needed. one more thing tho, don't use public WiFi bc your online activity can be monitored/sniffed. and don't install any cracked software, and no one can harm your PC.

I agree with everyone. Change your passwords, activate 2fa, tell the hacker to fuck off after you've done a scan on your pc and made sure he has no malware on your system. Dont pay.

never watched that show. premise is too depressing for me.

ty saishuu

ah! it's always a shame when gigantic data repositories go down. we think they will always be there and then one day they aren't anymore.

ah! it's always a shame when gigantic data repositories go down. we think they will always be there and then one day they aren't anymore.

ah! it's always a shame when gigantic data repositories go down. we think they will always be there and then one day they aren't anymore.

this would be great

1. creating an AI to build music requires teaching an AI about music and music theory or else you're going to have an AI that smashes random notes together. that means having a solid understanding of major and minor chords, harmonic scales, time signatures, etc. and then being able to program it so that the AI understands it as well.
2. it is easiest to teach AI music thru monophonic melody. most visual kei songs (most songs actually) are polyphonic. that means many melodies at once. simply giving AI an MP3 is not going to work because it's not going to understand how to separate frequencies and instruments. what i worked on accepted MIDI files as input, but as it would turn out...
3. turning Mp3 into MIDI is not easy either! try one for yourself. the resulting MIDI is a discordant mess. this is because the conversion process loses a lot of information, and this is the information we want to teach our AI!
4. need a good training set of data to begin "teaching" the AI about music. you will need hundreds of samples to get started. i used Bach since i had a training set already available to me. this would have to be replaced with visual kei melodies to achieve the desired effect.
there are a few more but that's the issues i had.

old DEZERT or new DEZERT?

@Lestat i have a scrobbler for the iOS music app on my iPod. I am sure the last.fm scrobbler will be compatible with the new Music app very quickly and I'm also sure they won't phase out iTunes support right away. I think we are OK. I'll let you know if i find out anything else.

@platy we will be able to. they are replacing itunes with the music app from ios

@platy we will be able to. they are replacing itunes with the music app from ios

@chipathy "I was just going through my stuff and for this "remix" or whatever I did, all I did was decrease the track volume by 2db then select all frequencies above 4kHz and increase by 2db to bring out the high-end."

someone sent me an adjusted version of the insulated world and i started liking the album a lot more after listening to this version. i hope the single later this year is mastered properly it's beginning to be embarrassing that such a long standing band can't hire decent sound engineers.

someone sent me an adjusted version of the insulated world and i started liking the album a lot more after listening to this version. i hope the single later this year is mastered properly it's beginning to be embarrassing that such a long standing band can't hire decent sound engineers.

I'm glad you realized you made a huge mistake, but stop pitying yourself. I've been in that dark place where I had to defend my opinions constantly and attacking those who thought differently. What I've learned in these few years of adulthood, however, is that the world doesn't solely revolve around you. An unbiased debate where you can hear both sides freely can not only help you learn more about people around you, but it can also help you grow. Harassing people however (especially from out of nowhere) will not only do jackshit, but will also make you look just as bad as they are, and it was just as ironic having bragged about it in the toxicity of VK fandom thread.
 
This forum is known for having a lot of gossip, debates, drama, whatever. But actively harassing someone on a different platform, just from hearsay alone, is taking it a step too far. This behavior will not be condoned and there may be additional consequences, should this ever happen again. I hope you learned something from this and always think before you do/say anything.

prob farmin avocados

prob farmin avocados

i do and i miss them

Remember @Azaeroe, I warned you. And @suji warned you seven minutes earlier. How does this feel? Do you like this feeling of loneliness and rejection? Do you like being isolated? Being a loner is okay, but it doesn't seem like that life is for you. You want to "ruin your life" and "go to jail", so this anonymous online embarrassment should be nothing. But I suspect that your new shadow banned status will be agony for someone who desperately seeks companionship, even if they do not want to admit it.

This is not how you make friends, process your emotions properly, or snuff out the cinders of your burning rage and disappointment at life, everything and nothing in particular. You have feelings and reasons for those feelings, but if you cannot understand the part you have to play in your current situation then you will never truly be happy. You are the only constant in all of your interactions, and you are the strongest catalyst for change in your own life.

Reflect on this experience and I hope it will cause you to grow and change as a person. And talk to someone, even if it is to just vent your issues. Verbalizing problems grants new perspective and maybe that is what you need to get out of the rut you are in. But this cannot be the place for you to work it out. In the meantime, please don't do something stupid that will ruin or end your life.