{"id":11743,"date":"2011-05-24T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T16:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=11743"},"modified":"2011-05-24T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T16:45:01","slug":"spoiler-warning-s5e21-boom-goes-the-dynamite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=11743","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning S5E21: Boom Goes the Dynamite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9TQEzPWX0B4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9TQEzPWX0B4'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think we would be able to fit the entire Boomer quest line into a single episode, but once again Josh proves he is the best at&#8230; whatever it is that he does.<\/p>\n<p>The thing where I cut off my audio is really painful for me.  Back in 1990-1992 when I worked fast food, I prided myself on NOT being That Guy.  See, everyone <em>else<\/em> hit the button too late and let go too soon. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;-elcome to McDonad&#8217;s can I take your or-?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;-ike fries with tha-?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;-ank you. Please drive to the next win-&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>ARG! I hated working drive-though with these people. (I think it would help if your own audio was fed back into your headset, so you could hear yourself doing this.)  I liked that I didn&#8217;t do this, and I tried to teach others the same.<\/p>\n<p>And now, I have become that guy, and I can&#8217;t STOP DOING IT.  I sat down this week with the intent to hit the button early and release it late, just to make sure that I didn&#8217;t cut myself off.  I reminded myself. I focused on it.  And I managed to cut myself off, like, <em>four times<\/em> in this episode alone.  I imagine the problem will get worse as the week goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I could use hands-free talking, but that comes with its own set of problems. I really don&#8217;t want to spend the next four weeks wrangling audio thresholds trying to find the balance between &#8220;broadcast every slightest sound in this room&#8221; and &#8220;broadcast the middle of every sentence&#8221;.  What I really need is:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Some way to set up my headset so that I only hear my own voice when broadcasting. (Impossible, as this loop takes place outside of Vent.)\n<\/li>\n<li>A way to mod Vent so that it will continue to broadcast for a half second after releasing the push-to-talk key.\n<\/li>\n<li>Legally change my name to Sha-\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Stupid technology, always doing exactly what I tell it to do, instead of what I want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I didn&#8217;t think we would be able to fit the entire Boomer quest line into a single episode, but once again Josh proves he is the best at&#8230; whatever it is that he does. The thing where I cut off my audio is really painful for me. Back in 1990-1992 when I worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}