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Mike Migdall @itsmigdalltime.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Doing a freedom fries but for my go to coffee drink, iced deathtoamericano

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Just thinking about stuff

What would it cost to end homelessness in America?
Jan 16, 2024 - On the high end, eliminating homelessness in the United States should cost somewhere from $11 billion to $30 billion per year.

How much would it cost to solve food insecurity?
There are various estimates by researchers and scientists regarding the cost of eliminating world hunger. According to an estimate shared by Oxfam, around $23
billion is needed to fight extreme hunger. To fight chronic hunger, another $14 billion is required.

Tuition-Free College Could Cost Less
Than You Think
Jul 19, 2019 - Eliminating tuition at all public colleges and universities would cost at least $79 billion a year, according to the most recent Department of Education...

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday.
The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal.
"My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.

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Anime Sickos Podcast @animesickos.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Talking about how the 4DX effects get programmed with my boys @caseyponey.bsky.social and @itsmigdalltime.bsky.social from @thatguttershow.bsky.social. from Anime Sickos ep 232

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Listen to me, Mike, and Tom gush about 4DX (Water ON 💦🔛) for an hour and a half!!!

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Anime Sickos Podcast @animesickos.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

OUT NOW: @caseyponey.bsky.social and @itsmigdalltime.bsky.social from @thatguttershow.bsky.social made me watch a "4DX Movie," where the theater chair throws you around and beats you up and spits in your face. It's so stupid and distracting and I love it. You gotta try this shit folks

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232: The Sickos Enter the Fourth Dimension | Anime Sickos - Podcast for Geniuses

Tom joins Casey Toney and Mike Migdall from GUTTER to experience a new dimension in stupid bullshit your chair can do at the movie theater: "4DX," an insane...

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Taylor Moore @taylordotbiz.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Whoa check it out, my most gregarious biological son (gift from Irish witch I caught) is on the worlds best improvised narrative horror comedy audio fiction podcast. Now I’ve seen everything.

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Casey Toney: 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓-𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 @caseyponey.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Mostly I'm just glad I no longer have to do it MANUALLY like I was for the first few eps of Gutter. Added an easy 6-8 hours of EXTREMELY tedious work to every edit.

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Casey Toney: 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓-𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 @caseyponey.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

It takes 30-45 min depending on the length of the file and I basically can't touch my computer during it since the mouse cursor needs to be exactly where the script moves it to on giving functions without interruption. It's a hassle but the difference it makes is night and day.

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Casey Toney: 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓-𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 @caseyponey.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I need to run it once manually every time though to get the proper Learn and Render processing times, then modify the script with those times (plus 5 seconds of buffer), as well as the total length of the track and the length of the selection (rounded down usually).

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Casey Toney: 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓-𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 @caseyponey.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Ideally, iZotope would've accounted for this and made a version of the process that progresses chronologically through the track but they didn't. Thus the script. The script makes a selection 1/10th the track length, "Learns" the bleed profile, "Renders" it *twice*, then moves on and repeats.

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Casey Toney: 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓-𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 @caseyponey.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The latter. I initially tested it on small pieces of test audio and it worked stunningly well, so I went ahead and ran it on a full test track (took ~45 min). The result was basically non-existent. Turns out it starts losing efficacy on selections longer than 5 minutes, dramatically so after 10.

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Casey Toney: 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓-𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 @caseyponey.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

But of course, as mentioned by the Gutter account, a crucial first step is proper sound treatment and separating the voices with sound blankets or big acoustic panels, rear-to-rear.

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Casey Toney: 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓-𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 @caseyponey.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

It should be noted that they're recording through the same audio interface so the tracks are perfectly in sync otherwise it would be unsalvageable This is all to avoid the muddy acoustic profile of dynamic mics that I loathe so much compared to a bright clear capture of our Rode NT-1 condenser mics

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Casey Toney: 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓-𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 @caseyponey.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Then after that, I put a noise gate on both tracks and do a lot of manual cutting. I also crossgate our speech leveling which helps the remaining mic bleed not get lifted.

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Casey Toney: 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓-𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 @caseyponey.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

It still bleeds pretty significantly but I use iZotope RX 10's mic bleed reduction process on every 5-10 minute chunk of audio with a custom python script a friend helped me write. It's the process for our in-person recordings as well but when we're remote I only have to do it on M&E's tracks.

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GUTTER @thatguttershow.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

GUTTER+ @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social ?! More likely than you think ;)

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gannon @gannon.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Had a wonderful time talking to James here!!!! A very cool opportunity to talk turkey about GUTTER and NeoScum game mastering! Also cool ass freaky ass god alert: we make a big scary god in the second half

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Trevors (1990) starring Kevin Bacon @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Knucklebone & The Cardinal

a giant, warped, skeletal creature with a small, ordinary cardinal bird perched in its ribcage, peering out through a hole

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Really liked that moment too, thank you for calling it out 🙏☺️

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Marty Tina G. ⚢ @geezmarty.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

violet from newborn horrorcomedy ttrpg podcast @thatguttershow.bsky.social which btw is very very good

digital fanart of the character mentioned in the post featuring many sketches in the background and a colored drawing in the foreground. they are a person with bright green hair wearing an oversized tuxedo tshirt, shorts, and doc martens. they’re holding a cigarette in one hand.

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Especially with how the initial instruction for every LLM nowadays includes shit like "Don't hallucinate" or "Don't make up answers if you don't know". Like, this isn't a misbehaving toddler, bro. It's not getting shit wrong for fun. Even the engineers fall for their own propaganda smdh

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

When I saw the "Heretic Prophet" subtitle for this, I was like 'oh, okay, of course.' I know lots of great folks work at Naughty Dog, but I simply do not trust Druckmann to tell a story about religion. and hey: required reading on TloU2 from @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social www.vice.com/en/article/t...

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The Not So Hidden Israeli Politics of 'The Last of Us Part II'

'The Last of Us Part II' presents what at first seems like an evenhanded point of view, but perpetuates the very cycles of violence it's supposedly so troubled by.

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Casey Toney: 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓-𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 @caseyponey.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I'm not willing to "turn off my brain" for a story with a pitch like that coming from this man. If he hasn't evolved his perspective in the past year+, then it's truly tragic for a studio as capable as Naughty Dog to be stuck telling his story for 5-7 years of development

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Truly anything short of Druckmann taking a hard (metaphorical) stance against Zionism would make this story unredeemable imo The liberal Zionist "isn't it sad we have to kill these savages?" subtext of TLOU2 is repulsive no matter how pitiable it frames its "cycle of revenge"

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GUTTER @thatguttershow.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

GUTTER mentioned in best of 2024 list 😳🥰👹!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Mike Migdall @itsmigdalltime.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I'm a civilization 7 but a path of exile 2 😒

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Everett Carter @carterocket.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

@thatguttershow.bsky.social Holy fuck! That intro in episode 2 was the best thing I've ever heard in an actual play. You guys have leveled up and I am HERE FOR IT!

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Casey Toney: 𝑺𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓-𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 @caseyponey.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I've wanted to make an editing course for, like, 5 years but just never have been able to get it off the ground. Will be looking back into it in early 2025 though now that I'm doing so much editing on a project of my own that I can use as examples.

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Taylor Moore @taylordotbiz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

There is a new podcast called GUTTER and it is extraordinary. It’s the exact kind of show I WISH with every fiber of my being that I could make. Please. If you want to love again: GUTTER

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GUTTER @thatguttershow.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE NOW - GUTTER PODCAST IS HERE! gutter.show/listen

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But you're right to identify Veil rolls as something special and deserving of highlighting! I'll be considering carefully what to do with them sound cue-wise in the edits ahead 👍

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