CentipedeFarrier

No worries, those services are pretty hit or miss for me as well.

Thanks for the link, I’ll watch this later today :)

Do you have a link to it? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it, so idk what to look for.

They probably do that when one plays all the way through because people let shit continue to play without being there, and they can count that as an impression and get paid for it if they just inject a bunch of them to an active but unmonitored stream. The fact that you actually sat through it is completely irrelevant to them. Most people would have closed it out or went back in the video to whenever they left, which would likely reset the ad serving instruction.

Speculation, of course, but the sort of fuckery every big company is doing these days.

Also, creators don’t really get money from ads. Don’t feel bad for skipping them. Sponsorships and direct donations are basically the only ways creators make anything worth making on YouTube. Many creators will tell you as much themselves.

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Just house a colony of crickets in your living room and it stops being a problem! I did that for a while and it was awesome. Reminded me of rural living. (Fed to chickens, wasn’t just for kicks)

More seriously, there’s a volume reduction treatment available for tinnitus, something I’m actively seeking right now and go in for later this month for tone matching. Might be worth looking into for you as well. It seems the mechanism behind it is just stimulating those frequencies regularly at a volume you don’t consciously register, so the receptors aren’t searching for phantom noise all the time. So if you can tone match your noise (probably professionally), you can mix it into a low volume band on whatever music track to stimulate those hairs. And it’s supposed to make everything quieter so you can tolerate it better. Idk yet if that’s true, when I’ve listened to a tone that’s close it stops being so loud so I have to think it is, but might be worth a lookie loo for you as well :)

That’s super unhealthy to actually do, but what were the hallucinations like, emotionally? They sound like fever dream scary stuff, which most hallucinations are not at all.

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I imagine it’s rather like bird hatchling down, which is very structurally basic, and if so, it’s very brittle, and makes for a lot of dust.

Low-key thought this was talking about tech familiarity until about halfway through when I realized I’m a moron.

My man’s definitely got one of these bad boys clipped to his belt. (Yes, the blades fold up)