• Draconic NEO
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    99 hours ago

    I don’t speak on Voice chat though, mainly because many gamers online are racist (and sexist) pigs. Back in the day I did used to use TeamSpeak to talk to others in games and they both be racist toward me, and make fun of my voice saying I sound like a girl.

    So, text only from now on, if reading is too hard especially with spelling mstakes if I’m doing it quickly in game, fuck them.

    I do think this could have some use for me though, particularly with private calls which I’d prefer other people to not hear the other side of, though it’s still very hard to justify it since it just looks way too silly.

    • @[email protected]
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      65 hours ago

      It took me years to find gaming buddies who aren’t racist shitbags and we still have to punt the occasional edgelord who decides to get up in someone’s face with that shit. Not a single one of my remaining discord communities is gaming focused, those all ended up being Superfund levels of toxic. Hobby and tech communities though? Plenty of good friends there that I play games with occasionally.

      • Draconic NEO
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        23 hours ago

        Yeah, I do have friends who I play online games with. Though I still don’t speak because I’m still very self-conscientious about my voice, and I know it’s stupid, but it’s just how I feel. The only people I do talk with in Voice chat or phone calls are the friends I know in real life.

  • @[email protected]
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    3717 hours ago

    Im not gonna fuckin lie, I looked into buying one of these FOR WEEKS cus of my college dorm.

    250 something dollars. Im good.

    • Draconic NEO
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      48 hours ago

      That is way too expensive for a product like this, that also might not work for its intended use (if their nose isn’t fully covered like in the picture, I’d expect the screaming to leak out quite a bit. Might’ve worked for my idea of using it for call privacy (speaking softly) but still that’s way too much for something that’ll probably only be useful for that niche use-case.

  • @[email protected]
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    1716 hours ago

    I just wish someone put serious effort into a microphone that worked with a mask so people wearing masks were easier to understand.

    There are a lot of people who speak at conferences who still wear masks. I get it, even if you weren’t worried about COVID, in the pre-COVID times a lot of people were out for a week after going to a conference / convention because of all the germs being passed around.

    But, even with professional speakers and professional microphones, the audio just sounds muddy when the speaker is wearing a mask.

    • @[email protected]
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      -39 hours ago

      If they’re up on a stage by themselves speaking, and no one is within 10 meters from them, as most public speaking scenarios are, then why the fuck are they still wearing a mask? Take it off you unprofessional fuck.

      • @[email protected]
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        57 hours ago

        I think you may be overestimating the size of room most convention speakers address. 2m from panelist to front row of audience is normal.

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      18 hours ago

      i guess the equivalent for the eyes would be a vr headseat, since it makes it impossible for people outside to know what you’re looking at (i think, i dont know if the pc’s monitor shows what the person is seeing as i do not have a vr headset)

  • Programmer Belch
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    2821 hours ago

    Just buy a gag, it makes saying a slur more difficult, saving yourself from bans

    • Draconic NEO
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      29 hours ago

      Why do we want to save these people from bans? They need to be removed from the community, if from society altogether. Better for them to say it out loud than to think it quietly, otherwise these people will quietly ruin our lives one step at a time and we won’t realize it as they’re doing it.

  • Anas
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    1019 hours ago

    imagine not censoring the company’s name, they paid Facebook for the ad, they didn’t pay you