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  • decadentrebel@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    Not only tipping, but we should also stop vilifying people who do not practice CLAYGO in public kasi parehas lang root nyan. Employers don’t want to hire more cleaners (or in some cases yung security guard pinagliligpit kahit wala naman extra) and they’re relying on you being a fucking crab that will post and shame others who don’t fix the table for the next customer.

  • Neonridex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Manigong bagong taon sa ating lahat na naririto! Nawa’y maging maganda ang taong ito sa atin 🎆🎇

  • atomchoco@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    naalala ko nanaman course subject namin nung college na Software Technology Research Methods tas yung code STRESME HAHAHA

  • decadentrebel@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    Looks like r/PH has been getting posts about my Evangelion uploads. Thanks to those who have been talking about it!

    For the uninitiated, the tagalog dub has been considered lost media for decades! Not only did ABS-CBN air it just once and never again but no uploads exist anywhere and no one has stepped forward with recordings. I myself have never watched it and only learned that a tagalized version aired in the late 90s, thanks to an r/PH thread a few years ago. There was no way I could have recorded it even if I was aware of its existence because it conflicted with Gundam, a series that’s more popular in the family despite being Eva fans as well.

    Fortunately, someone replied to my Gundam Wing post correcting me about the actual air date (of GW) and revealing that he has recordings to prove his claim. The conversation led to him saying he has the Evangelion series (all 26 episodes!) as well as a few other rare anime and he sold it to me.

    I don’t make any money from the channels, but I think it was well worth it. The wife would probably thump me on the head when she finds out, lmao.

    • k5nn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      am curious how do said tapes even withstand erosion? and do you mind explaining the restoration process I imagine it ain’t cheap? also gow do you even come accross these tapes

      • decadentrebel@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        am curious how do said tapes even withstand erosion?

        Tapes are honestly robust. Not many people know that so they tend to give up on their tapes if they get flooded, dirty, or the ribbon gets cut. Plenty of VHS got discarded during Ondoy when it could still be remedied. Dust, molds, and sticky shed - they can be cleaned. Huge pain in the ass, though! Here’s me cleaning one that’s super dirty.

        and do you mind explaining the restoration process I imagine it ain’t cheap?

        When I first started, I just bought a cheap VCR and a digital dongle that’s around 2k all in all. The results are okay, but you run into problems when the tape is in bad shape. I have since learned a lot and upgraded to better equipment.

        It’s expensive (due to rarity), but luckily for me, VHS restoration isn’t a thing here so you can buy stuff much cheaper than those in the US. I was able to get an S-VHS player here for 9k when on eBay it runs for 84k++

        Digitizing is real time. I copy it losslessly, upscale it a bit to 720p, then compress to mp4. I can’t afford a frame TBC (device used to clean VCR signals that was pricey then and is more pricey and rare now) so sometimes there’s not much I can do with super old and poorly-recorded tapes even if I have 80% of the highly recommended capture setup.

        also gow do you even come accross these tapes

        Most of it is from the little I was able to save from my own recordings. Used to have like 60 tapes but only set aside 15 when we remodeled the house a long time ago. The rest, I buy off Carousell or FB for dirt cheap because the seller just wants to get rid of it. Some are donations.

        I regret getting in the hobby late in the game. Those who own recordings likely disposed of them many years ago. You also have to contend with cartels who buy tapes just so they’re the only ones who have copies of any lost media.

        • decadentrebel@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          I actually started the channel around the first lockdown in 2020 with the intent of digitizing my surviving tapes but paused it and forgot about the project for a long while before revisiting it late last year.

          Regret ko yung nagpause kasi I missed out on people selling/giving away their VHS tapes. The longer you wait, the bigger chance na tinapon na nila yun. Plus, may mga cartels pa that are hoarding tapes to keep others from uploading super rare stuff.

  • willnever_fadeaway@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    I never thought that this year would bring someone to me that would so drastically change my outlook in life that I feel as if I can be myself after decades of being forced to fit into something I’m not. I’ve never felt so light, like a massive burden has been taken off my shoulders. These innate connections and natural compatibility, as well as so many other things that I have never felt before in my life. Feelings so intense and overflowing that there seems no end in sight. I can truly be myself around this person and she feels the same way about me too.

    This is way better than a dream. I never would have looked for this, or thought it was possible, but here I am. She is real. If there’s something greater than true love, this is it. Everything just feels so natural and so free, there are no walls between us and we can just be ourselves, and the other just gets it. Never felt or seen in others such a wonderful feeling before. I once thought love was something else, but now? There’s no doubt that this is it. It’s definitely her. No doubt at all.

    I’ve always had nagging doubts and limits to myself in my past relationships, but this one, there’s none of that. Never have I felt the whole of me react like this to someone before, and neither have I seen others feel this way. She is definitely the one. I’ve never been more sure about anything in my life.

  • decadentrebel@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    Hindi ko gets mga nagpopost na 25 cents lang yung ganito nung 80s, 25 pesos lang 1pc chicken, et. al.

    50 cents in 1990 is almost 3 pesos now while 25 pesos is around 143 today, so tama lang yun.

    • k5nn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      i think it’s more like tinatali nila to numerical value ng isang bagay rather than market value

    • k5nn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      idk i don’t feel like seniors should even be working like yun na yung twilight yrs mo and you’re still working pero then again the pension system is so fucked na di nmn sapat yung binibigay

    • decadentrebel@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      That makes sense. Although it would have been a lot easier had I not tagged the_yaya as a bot because technically she isn’t anymore (due to some API fuckery).

      • ProximaPrime99992@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Paki-link mo man ang post na nai-link ko s’aking comment para matulungan yung hindi nila maka-access sa MRD thread sapagkat hindi naka-tsek ang “show bot account”?

        Edit, already pinned na, hindi mo na kailangang mag-risponde s’aking comento

    • decadentrebel@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Tbf, his alibi for “tax evasion” is that he was under the impression that his staff took care of those. Sure it’s good practice to check if your staff is doing their job, but from what we know of BBM (a bum), I wouldn’t expect him to do that.

      It’s also not unheard of to miss filing ITRs out of oversight. My first employer failed to do it for 3 years and I only found out when they couldn’t give me my TIN number. It wasn’t malicious or anything.

      That said, I do like this law because it helps freelancers pay taxes easier by digitizing BIR services. They don’t have paid leaves so they don’t have the luxury of setting aside a day to do that.

      • heyfrancis@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        I definitely guilty for hating the guy without considering his move, but kudos to his admin (not him hehe) for doing thia digitize thingy

        Pero sana nga lang mas maging easy talaga at walang delay sa proceasing. Alam naman natin na kahit sino pa nakaupo, may issue parati sa mga government offices. Parang yun drivers license ko, ilang months na wala pa rin ID, papel pa rin dala-dala ko

  • decadentrebel@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    You know, this puts those many posts asking for donations for dogs/cats into perspective. Nung isang araw duda ako dun sa pusa na nasagasaan yung lower jaw and basag yet the clinic was able to restore it back. Feel ko it’s a different cat and the original actually didn’t make it.

  • decadentrebel@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Dami na naman hater dun sa role ni Liza sa Lisa Frankenstein, lol.

    Bakit hindi na lang daw sina Kathryn Bernardo. Hindi lang naman acting basehan to penetrate Hollywood, you need to have the “look”, and Nadine and those guys don’t.

    What about Dolly? Tell me you didn’t watch Triangle of Sadness without telling me you didn’t watch Triangle of Sadness, lmao. Yung role niya kaya dun katulong sa ship.

    Extra lang? No one knows that yet. Even if she did, everyone starts small. Some even break out from small roles.

    Pinoy pride? Hindi mo naman maiiwasan mga ganun comments sa video. A pinoy making it to mainstream is going to attract those reactions. That’s just how it works.

    I seriously can’t see why we shouldn’t be happy one of our own made it to a Diablo Cody film and she’s not playing a stereotypical Filipino role. She’s actually an equal! Mas ok na yan kaysa yung pilit na NJPW aswang costume ni TJ Perkins who’s like a right wing nut with creepy female wrestler fanfics, ugh.