yea precisely. Sound design is less about how it really sounds, but more about how you think it should sound + some flair to make it a show.

Fun fact! sometimes in movies when there's a big fire sound designers will put animal roars into the fire sounds to add an extra layer of fear you don't even realise your body is going to react to

I think this is more of a defence against scammers honestly, with a convincing enough scam you could make valve belive an account holder was dead and you're a family member wanting to transfer their account to yours.

Hell, I saw my dead friend's account message me in Russian, contacted support about it, and all they could do was remove the hacker's access, not even lock or delete that account.

And how could they? Unless you have your full name, address, and other identifying information somewhere on your account (strongly ill-advised, obviously) Valve can't cross check it with a death certificate and take action, for all they know you could be cooperating with the hacker or submitting fake information to "prank" your friend by getting their account removed.

Allowing account transfers would open a whole new can of worms.

Just write down the password and login if you know you're going to go. I don't think Valve under Gabe would have issues with that. Though I do worry for its future

ohhh thank you! yeah my 2 year old knives definitely need a whetstone at this point. I suppose the honing rod can only help you so far

I don't know where I read it but the best defence to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" is "I don't have anything to hide but I don't trust your judgment or intentions"

thank you lemmy, for showing me this post 2 days after it was made

the sound design of the real world is rather boring and often unappealing. Sound designers on movies are gods of those audiotary universes, they will paint it however they want

dang, what does the rod do? It was sold under the name of "knife sharpener"

oh that reminds me, I need a proper whetstone, the metal rod thingy from tesco's is just not (making it so my knives are properly) cutting it

to this day, I find 15 million merits to be one of the most terrifying episodes.

Would you sell your soul for a peaceful life?

I don't know about you but I can't answer that question. And it terrifies me.

what are you doing Micheal Vsauce

miraculous survival? world's first talking head? depends on the exact wording and if you got your intro from a benevolent fairy or a genie

adhd makes you more prone to depression and anxiety. untreated adhd, depending on the severity, can straight up cause depression and anxiety

or in my case anxiety and then that bonus on "not able to do thing (anxiety edition)" makes me feel worthless and then depressed