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1h ago

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How I used to watch dubs exclusively and now I can't stand them, what flipped for you?

Three years ago I sat through a full dub of Sword Art Online and thought it was fine, then I caught the subbed version of episode 14 and broke down crying over something I had barely felt before. @grayc27, I get where you're coming from on MHA and AoT, they have solid English casts, but for me it's less about quality and more about hearing the original creator's intended pacing and emotion. Some dubs still have that slightly stiff delivery where the lip-flap matching takes priority over the actual feeling of the scene, which can kill a tense moment for me. Just a personal hangup I guess, your mileage may vary a ton on this one.

15h ago

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Tried using a borescope to check cylinder walls and got a false reading that cost me 2 days

Man that's rough, I've been there with a cheap borescope from Amazon that showed scoring that wasn't really there. Tore down a whole cylinder head for nothing once. The lighting on those things can be really deceiving if you don't angle it just right. Now I always double check with a different tool before making any big decisions.

1d ago

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Saw a celebrity tweet their own phone number by accident last week

Oh yeah that happened to a friend of mine once, you have to CALL the platform's support line ASAP and tell them it's a security issue not just an embarrassing mistake cause that gets them to take it down way faster.

3d ago

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Rant: That one Saturday where every single perm went wrong

Xena1 makes a good point about the neutralizer, but I have to respectfully disagree that stopping early and doing a protein filler is always the right move. In my experience, once those bonds are broken from overprocessing, slapping more product on top just masks the damage and the perm won't hold anyway. Better to be upfront with the client from the start and offer a refund or free repair session rather than trying to salvage something that's already failed.

3d ago

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My lucky week - three portrait commissions in five days

Did you check if any of those clients are art students or teachers? I had three commissions in a week once, turns out they all knew each other and were just referring me around. That kind of fast batch work usually means someone talked you up somewhere.