I’m a trans woman and generally nice person. I like video games, board/card games, Magic The Gathering, DnD, karaoke, tech stuff, and space stuff. I work as a computer programmer primarily using C# .NET. Not sure what else to say haha.

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Cake day: November 4th, 2023
  • ImpulseDrive42@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyz•FictionalEnglish
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    9 days ago

    So… I am not a scientist, just an enthusiast. But my understanding is that the speed of universe expansion doesn’t correlate with the speed of light. The speed of light is still constant.

    Instead, the universe expansion rate is measured via something called the “doppler effect”. Scientists are able to use telescopes and take a snapshot of the night sky. Stars that tend to be brighter and more blue are closer to us. And stars that tend to be darker and more red are farther away from us. By taking snapshots and comparing it with previous snapshots over a long period of time, we are able to see a difference in color in each star which then shows us which stars are moving closer and which stars are moving further away.

    Thus by measuring the speed at which the doppler effect changes, they can determine an estimate and compare whether the universe is expanding or shrinking and the speed at which it expands or shrinks over time without breaking the cosmic speed limit that is the speed of light.

    Another analogy for the doppler effect is that it’s similar to what happens when a train passes by us. But in the case of a train, the doppler effect is with sound. As the train gets closer, the sound gets louder and seems more higher pitched. Then when the train passes us and gets further away, the sound fades away and gets lower pitched. All the while though, the speed of the train is still constant.

    Hope that makes sense. And anybody that knows more than me feel free to correct me. ;-)

  • ImpulseDrive42@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you use a system-default or a custom wallpaper for your personal computer? If custom, what kind of wallpaper & why?English
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    13 days ago

    TLDR: if you’re a VRChat player/enjoyer, Find a cool world in VRChat to pose in with your favorite avatar by yourself or with friends and take a picture with the in-game camera.

    Alternatively, “Elite Dangerous” is a great desktop background generator! Find a cool spot and take a screenshot. Boom. New desktop background haha.

    /end TLDR

    I play alot of VRChat and I found a cool world in VRChat called " VR art ‘New place’ ". It’s basically a VR art museum where you click on the “painting” and it teleports you inside of it. The scenery in the world is super super pretty and very cool; I highly recommend it.

    What I did is I found a spot that I thought would look good for a desktop background. I posed on a dock facing a giant moon. And then used VRChat’s fly camera to give some distance. Thus making my avatar appear small in the center and expanding the view of the art in the world. That way the focus is moreso on the world with my small avatar in the center.

    It’s kind of like placing yourself in the middle of your favorite desktop background. Granted I suppose any experienced photoshopper or photographer could do something similar haha.

    As for Elite Dangerous, I’ve enjoyed flying my ship to a cool star system and then using the spectator camera to take pictures of cool phenomena and use those as desktop background too. Some of my favorites include: landing on Ring planets, finding a tiny planet with a view of 3 or more stars, or pictures of black holes.

  • ImpulseDrive42@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•ill be at your house in 10 minutes. how will you entertain me?English
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    2 months ago

    I’ve got a modded Nintendo Wii which plays GameCube games and also does emulation from a large hard drive.

    I also have a ps3 with two gun controllers and Time Crisis Razing Storm combo disc (3 shooting games included). And Killzone 3 which imo, is amazing. Especially with the gun controllers.

    I also have an older xbox 360 white model with backwards compatability that still works somehow (knock on wood). So we can also play original xbox games in addition to Xbox 360 games.

    All of these hooked up to a large flat panel TV on a swivel mount. And with 2 couches. And a fake zebra rug and smart lights for ambience.

    I will entertain you with nostalgia. And couch coop or versus gaming.

    And if we get bored of games. We can watch YouTube or Netflix or whatever.

  • ImpulseDrive42@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the best karaoke song?English
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    7 months ago

    Literally anything you like!

    I personally have a strong leaning towards rock music groups from the 90s to 00s ish. Such as “Linkin Park” and “Papa Roach”. I also like newer bands such as “Starset” and “Project Vela”. I just can’t do the screaming parts haha.

    Random side note: And… if I could stop being lazy maybe I’ll make more karaoke videos on YouTube haha. (I try to make ones for my favorite songs that don’t have karaoke videos for it yet.)

  • ImpulseDrive42@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are you going to be better at by the end of the year?English
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    1 year ago

    I use 2 pieces of software.

    One is called “Ultimate Vocal Remover”. Free and available on GitHub. It’s a piece of software that seperates the vocals from the instrumentals. It’s a little bit complicated to setup but once you got it setup you can just drag and drop the original audio in and then it spits out all the different tracks and stuff.

    Then I use another one called “KdenLive”. Also Free download. This one is basically a video editor. And can be used to create the text for lyrics. It can also do animations and such. Admittedly it’s a lot of work if you want to animate the lyrics haha. You basically have to line up the highlighting with each syllable in the word. Doing it without highlighting is a lot easier but also less precise. So pros and cons. ( I’m the meticulous type haha, it’s just time consuming).

    A friend of mine helped research this for me as they too wanted to do karaoke videos. And then they taught me while showing me their screen. We’re considering creating a tutorial video for others but we haven’t got around to it yet.

    ;-)

    Lookup “Impulse Karaoke” on YouTube if you want to see my work. Though currently I only have 2 songs so far. I’m trying to do 1 song per month. I have a list I’m working off of. We’ll see what happens after that.