ugh why can't there be a daily deal for a teleporter (both time and space), so that i would only have to make sure i don't miss that one crazy deal day and therefor am able to not have to miss out on anything else. if only speaker docks had those powers...
Wow, that was surprisingly insightful. Who knew you were so wise Irk? I would have just told those whiners to shut the fuku up get the hell over themselves, but maybe that's why you have a video and I don't...
I hate to mention it..but... I've had a little puppet training... and well..., you should NOT chomp your words... your hand should be opening on the words, not closing. FYI
for instance: If you (Irk's Hand Master) were going to say "Open" it would be:
mouth closed
"Ohhhh" (mouth opens)
"p" (mouth quickly closes then back for...)
"PENNNN"(open)
"nuh" (bite then a little open at the end)
Basically...
Don't chomp vowels
default position is relaxed and open
Open mouth for syllables
end of word 'chomp' then relax open
Watch "KER- MEET- THU- FROG-UH"
PS: Notice that default hand position is OPEN not closed and not chomping syllables:
@unixrab Just curious... did your puppet training also begin with someone's hand up your ass? Because, uh, I would have chosen a different career path.
@unixrab this is really interesting. I can't wait for more tips after you've had "I launched a daily series of videos that have millions of views on the Internet" training
@Cinoclav No. @shawn Thanks! @outofmymind It can work if you make some sort of "mouth" by pressing the sock into your hand. But for training... the sock is entirely optional.
@Teripie don't listen to him. if Irk was a puppet then his mouth would move as unixrab describes. but he's a real troll and real trolls are magical. they actually live in another dimension slightly out of phase with ours (time-wise), so it makes their movements seem a little off. mostly it's inperceptable, such as when they dance, they seem to be in rhythm, but their vocal chords are more multi-dimensional, so their voice-to-mouth movements seem off to us. these special vocal chords them give a rich, expressive language, which increases the density of their neural connections, making them highly intelligent and well-spoken, and giving them excellent critical thinking skills.
@Teripie don't listen to @katylava. EVERYONE knows that phase variations between .001 and .003 percent cause partial INVISIBILITY with full blown invisibility at .004% ... Trolls do NOT have Type L or Type R phase discriminating amplifier that would allow such sensitive control. Irk is INDEED a puppet as evidenced by the shoddy vowel-chomping hand movements!
@unixrab oh come on, do you know anything about trolls? also that only applies to phase variations in space. we're talking about time phase-variation here. while parts of trolls are phase-variated in space as well (the invisible parts) the mouth is not. some of the higher-order vocal chords are, of course, but you can't see those anyway.
Sigh, he had a moment there. And in honor of that moment, I'll read the first few words of a unixrab post, but generally not respond directly to it and if it's characteristic, my new policy is to skip right to the smackdown. Nice one, btw, @Thumperchick. Totally fits, as far as I can see.
Can I just say that it's interesting that Irk is right handed? that means that A: his puppeteer is left handed and B: the puppet was custom built by or for that person. (Joe is also a left handed puppeteer)
That's all fine and good mehirk, unexpected wisdom from a sock and we can all handle that but what of arriving at exacly 12:00:15 (10:00:15pm mtn.) and you get a familiar song in you head.. over and over, then nothing more than a white screen.. (Ro)bots know nothing about such things so why did it keep bumping me off even after I checked it? Then after, oh.. say an hour and thirty six minutes everything starts working perfectly except now.... It's all sold out!! How 'bout us, huh? I'm not bitchin'... I'm not bitchin'... The hell I'm not! (your still a great place to lurk though).
I think this may already be the highest starred "Ask Irk" segment! I didn't figure Irk would answer because the topic was too "real" and no matter how he answered, it would feel like he was picking a side and alienating people. Amazingly, he somehow is on everyone's side with this answer. Well done, Irk. Thanks for the response.
Did I really just see a company, who is having significant scaling issues, passively call its customers entitled whiners? Did I really just see a company, who released a high-demand product with a minuscule 0.8% supply, dodge responsibility via a winding philosophical argument?
I came here for the bargains, sharp looking web/video production, and exceptional copywriting. I will be staying to watch this young management team and its collection of animated gif-posting forum yes men complete this truly unique piece of performance art.
I finally get meh. Seriously. This is fantastic. I love what's going on here.
@Michaelforman I'm not take certain what responsibility this (closeout, drastic discount which most certainly never claims to have an endless supply of exactly what you want and labels itself with onomatopoeia for indifference and mediocrity) site would have. Please, enlighten us. As for entitled whiners, like rare, golden opportunities, they are going on all the time. Unlike rare, golden opportunities, these ARE readily available on the internet every day at all hours and in endless supply.
@Michaelforman It's a 'seasoned' "management team" that has been given the 'authority' to use 'innovative' and 'edgy' marketing strategies. Regardless, there is an underlying issue with offering [supposedly] 'great deals' with a large [or infinite] supply. Meh.com has [apparently] chosen to address this issue by using the sell-outs as further advertising and verification of how 'great' their deals are. Otherwise, they'd have to emulate 'bad deals' as 'great' deals like a certain 'tech deals' site does. Eventually, all good things become emulations of good things.
@Michaelforman I don't think you understand the difference between scaling issues and a couple of specific bottle necks that were discovers and fixed within 90 minutes. Of course, I'm sure that all your code is so awesome, efficient and bug free that you don't even need QA! Or was that not sarcasm?
@Michaelforman I'm replying to myself because I'm interesting and also because I wanted to clarify that I am not being sarcastic. I get it and I like it. I'm going to relax, buy stuff if I can, and enjoy the show. I don't know if it really is four dudes humpin' it alone in a warehouse or an eccentric billionaire VC personally working an irreverent puppet. I don't care. I like this thing, whatever it is. Receive my money and don't stop, that is unless you're an acerbic gif-posting forum apologist who repeats the word "entitled" like a parrot. Yes, I've seen that gif of someone endlessly gesturing positively before, you lazy dummy.
Irk is Dalai Lama level deep. If he put his mind to explaining the four noble truths we might have a resurgence of Buddhism. With a puppet troll as the leader.
mehhhh
Congrats, @medz!
You tell 'em, Irk.
Cheer up suckers
lol I love this site
ugh why can't there be a daily deal for a teleporter (both time and space), so that i would only have to make sure i don't miss that one crazy deal day and therefor am able to not have to miss out on anything else. if only speaker docks had those powers...
@gato They do. You should've bought the twofer.
@Cinoclav rookie mistake on my part.
Irk, you are wise beyond your ears.
@pitamuffin I see what you did there...
Nice, Irk.
The answer was so... reasonable and fair, are you sure this level of discourse belongs here?
The wisest damn troll on the interwebz.
Wow, that was surprisingly insightful. Who knew you were so wise Irk? I would have just told those whiners to shut the fuku up get the hell over themselves, but maybe that's why you have a video and I don't...
Good thought Irk!!!
Well done Irk, well done.
Irk Schools Whiners!
You been told by a troll!
Well said.
Sweet. Got that meh notch on my bedpost!
@medz congrats, medge.
Rather deep for a troll who is simultaneously wearing a short and long sleeve shirt while wearing just one shirt.
Dammit. Now I don't even know what I'm missing out there on this big blue world. Is there a website that can tell me?!
I can check every night at 12:01am.
@Mac454 ummmm reddit.com/r/all ?
I hate to mention it..but... I've had a little puppet training... and well..., you should NOT chomp your words... your hand should be opening on the words, not closing. FYI
for instance: If you (Irk's Hand Master) were going to say "Open" it would be:
Basically...
Watch "KER- MEET- THU- FROG-UH"
PS: Notice that default hand position is OPEN not closed and not chomping syllables:
hope this helps.
@unixrab why am I not in the least bit surprised that you've had "puppet training"?
@unixrab Your position against chomping is clear. I'm not sure your default position is relaxed and open. But I'll chew it over.
@JonT right on cue.. Good Job! (relax the syllables )
@mehjohnson aye! aloud: "think" "about" "it"
your mouth was open at the end of each of those words... CHEW ON THAT!
@unixrab
@mehjohnson perfect!
@unixrab Just curious... did your puppet training also begin with someone's hand up your ass? Because, uh, I would have chosen a different career path.
@unixrab this is really interesting. I can't wait for more tips after you've had "I launched a daily series of videos that have millions of views on the Internet" training
@unixrab I've trained with a sock. Although I am not sure that is entirely the same thing.
@Cinoclav No. @shawn Thanks! @outofmymind It can work if you make some sort of "mouth" by pressing the sock into your hand. But for training... the sock is entirely optional.
@unixrab Irk is a puppet!???!
@Teripie don't listen to him. if Irk was a puppet then his mouth would move as unixrab describes. but he's a real troll and real trolls are magical. they actually live in another dimension slightly out of phase with ours (time-wise), so it makes their movements seem a little off. mostly it's inperceptable, such as when they dance, they seem to be in rhythm, but their vocal chords are more multi-dimensional, so their voice-to-mouth movements seem off to us. these special vocal chords them give a rich, expressive language, which increases the density of their neural connections, making them highly intelligent and well-spoken, and giving them excellent critical thinking skills.
@katylava I feel like I just tripped all the balls.
@Teripie don't listen to @katylava. EVERYONE knows that phase variations between .001 and .003 percent cause partial INVISIBILITY with full blown invisibility at .004% ... Trolls do NOT have Type L or Type R phase discriminating amplifier that would allow such sensitive control. Irk is INDEED a puppet as evidenced by the shoddy vowel-chomping hand movements!
@unixrab @katylava Wahhhh! @unixrab made me cry!
@unixrab oh come on, do you know anything about trolls? also that only applies to phase variations in space. we're talking about time phase-variation here. while parts of trolls are phase-variated in space as well (the invisible parts) the mouth is not. some of the higher-order vocal chords are, of course, but you can't see those anyway.
@shawn to @unixrab
@katylava
Sigh, he had a moment there. And in honor of that moment, I'll read the first few words of a unixrab post, but generally not respond directly to it and if it's characteristic, my new policy is to skip right to the smackdown. Nice one, btw, @Thumperchick. Totally fits, as far as I can see.
@katylava In his defense, I think the unic knows a lot about trolls, just not the magical kind.
Can I just say that it's interesting that Irk is right handed? that means that A: his puppeteer is left handed and B: the puppet was custom built by or for that person. (Joe is also a left handed puppeteer)
Thank you Irk. Excellent answer. I'm off to continue mostly ignoring the re-re-re-battling threads on the subject.
a video so nice i watched it twice!
I liked it, even though I don't miss out on anything important to me.
now I am sad about all the miracles I have missed out on. meh
That's all fine and good mehirk, unexpected wisdom from a sock and we can all handle that but what of arriving at exacly 12:00:15 (10:00:15pm mtn.) and you get a familiar song in you head.. over and over, then nothing more than a white screen.. (Ro)bots know nothing about such things so why did it keep bumping me off even after I checked it? Then after, oh.. say an hour and thirty six minutes everything starts working perfectly except now.... It's all sold out!! How 'bout us, huh? I'm not bitchin'... I'm not bitchin'... The hell I'm not! (your still a great place to lurk though).
I like purple.
@Barney Some people I presume are purple in the face after enough bitching at loud enough volume.
Look, meh.com. Here's what you do.
So, can I have 30 of something for my valuable and crowd-pleasing suggestion? I'm waiting.
@mehmeyousweet Get comfortable, it could be a long wait.
@mehmeyousweet simultaneous four corner day nature's harmonious fukubukuro sale, but meh is educated evil
@mehmeyousweet here's your 30 of something:
No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
@JonT I love you guys
@JonT bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath bath would have been better.
@Outofmymind Grammar police say you need a comma somewhere in there.
@JonT trigintiple negative?
@JonT Sweet. Put those with my 30 baths and I'm going to stink this place up
@Teripie Fuck da grammah poleece
@mehmeyousweet 30 bags of TX air?
irk calling out medz for starting shit. good start to my morning!
@effenfish
Heh. Irk said "shit".
It actually was a very wise reply. Thanks irk.
i was very intrigued to see irk's answer and then boom. Truer words have never been spoken by a troll.
I think this may already be the highest starred "Ask Irk" segment! I didn't figure Irk would answer because the topic was too "real" and no matter how he answered, it would feel like he was picking a side and alienating people. Amazingly, he somehow is on everyone's side with this answer. Well done, Irk. Thanks for the response.
@medz No, mmmmmmedz, he's on my side.
Did I really just see a company, who is having significant scaling issues, passively call its customers entitled whiners? Did I really just see a company, who released a high-demand product with a minuscule 0.8% supply, dodge responsibility via a winding philosophical argument?
I came here for the bargains, sharp looking web/video production, and exceptional copywriting. I will be staying to watch this young management team and its collection of animated gif-posting forum yes men complete this truly unique piece of performance art.
I finally get meh. Seriously. This is fantastic. I love what's going on here.
@Michaelforman I'm not take certain what responsibility this (closeout, drastic discount which most certainly never claims to have an endless supply of exactly what you want and labels itself with onomatopoeia for indifference and mediocrity) site would have. Please, enlighten us. As for entitled whiners, like rare, golden opportunities, they are going on all the time. Unlike rare, golden opportunities, these ARE readily available on the internet every day at all hours and in endless supply.
@Michaelforman It's a 'seasoned' "management team" that has been given the 'authority' to use 'innovative' and 'edgy' marketing strategies. Regardless, there is an underlying issue with offering [supposedly] 'great deals' with a large [or infinite] supply. Meh.com has [apparently] chosen to address this issue by using the sell-outs as further advertising and verification of how 'great' their deals are. Otherwise, they'd have to emulate 'bad deals' as 'great' deals like a certain 'tech deals' site does. Eventually, all good things become emulations of good things.
@Michaelforman I don't think you understand the difference between scaling issues and a couple of specific bottle necks that were discovers and fixed within 90 minutes. Of course, I'm sure that all your code is so awesome, efficient and bug free that you don't even need QA! Or was that not sarcasm?
@Michaelforman I'm replying to myself because I'm interesting and also because I wanted to clarify that I am not being sarcastic. I get it and I like it. I'm going to relax, buy stuff if I can, and enjoy the show. I don't know if it really is four dudes humpin' it alone in a warehouse or an eccentric billionaire VC personally working an irreverent puppet. I don't care. I like this thing, whatever it is. Receive my money and don't stop, that is unless you're an acerbic gif-posting forum apologist who repeats the word "entitled" like a parrot. Yes, I've seen that gif of someone endlessly gesturing positively before, you lazy dummy.
@Michaelforman
At least i get to get up in the morning and be me!
Irk is Dalai Lama level deep. If he put his mind to explaining the four noble truths we might have a resurgence of Buddhism. With a puppet troll as the leader.
I'm glad Irk didn't go out of his way to insult the whiners. We should leave that to Glen.
Where is my eclipse?
@mdrcoast I don't really understand eclipses either.
How much for Irk?
to jump on this. plush ones, make it a thing, I'd buy three.
@joedel263 Do it on Tuesday so I can have six.
The chargers are still available; are we happy now?
Today was a great example of this. Bump.