5 mo. ago • 97%

Reinventing the wheel

Got an error when posting the first 2 tries. Hopefully this didn't post multiple times.

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If my memory serves correctly, this is the thing that basically plays everything you say back to you with a 200ms delay that instantly makes you feel awkward.

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- Oh god. If I hear myself through people's speakers when on a call I cannot continue. It's super effective at making me confused and distracted. That's awful.
  
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  https://youtu.be/J-SH18dtBlY
  
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- Ah, a zoom emulator. Why didn't you say?
  
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  ...ou say?
  
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- Yeah, I'm guessing it was that, which won an IgNobel prize like a decade ago.
  
  If you've ever worked in a call center, this kind of thing happens from time to time. After a couple times you learn to ignore it and push through.
  
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  Whenever I run into that problem I just pull the earpiece away from my ear when I’m talking. I can still kind of hear it, but it’s much easier to ignore.
  
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- I remember seeing this effect on QI. They tried it on Alan first and he just powered through and managed to keep talking!
  
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  Alan is a very special individual, though.
  
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No, it can't. It can disturb the speech of some people.

A bit akin to those "drunk glasses" or something. No, they don't actually make you drunk, and this doesn't actually prevent you from speaking. It's just a matter of getting used to slightly weird thing.

When I worked in taxi dispatch I *had" to get used to this because the phone lines would pretty often just have the maon features of this "gun" as a fault of some sort.

It's weird hearing your voice with a tiny delay, but you get used to it.

Edit also it's like 15 years old

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- This thing makes it so you can't hear yourself, though. So it has that added difficulty.
  
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The whole country of japan invented this? That must have been a huge group project

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- I bet it is like highschool where one guy did all the work and everyone else took credit...
  
  or having a job.
  
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My old boss's phone would echo back at you when you'd try to talk. Reeeeally fun trying to explain a fuckup over the phone with him.

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- Just don't listen when you talk. That will also stop them from stopping you.
  
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  "Hey boss sorry I just LA LA LA LA LA...."
  
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Got an error when posting the first 2 tries.

You got hit by the post jammer

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Why is Asian Ted “Theodore” Logan pointing this at me?

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Insert xkcd "remember, so does a handgun" here

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Point it at all the transphobes lol

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Say what one more time!

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