shodan

autistic linguistic mystic

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vectorpoem
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Shit Talker Version 1.2 By Jaundice

this was a sound board program for making crank phone calls. i would've stumbled across it during my time on SA (2000-2001) but never used it for that purpose, it was more just a dirt simple text-to-speech sandbox - which i believe used a win32 DLL version of the classic DECTalk synth, aka Stephen Hawking's classic voice, aka "Fitter Happier" robot voice. you could also save custom voice presets and make the thing sound like a (still quite robotty) little kid, old woman, various alien and robot voices, and a whispery voice i still find enjoyably creepy.

the "Jam radar!" button there is arguably what has stuck with me the most over the years, it utters a random line drawn from a sizeable bank of memorable non sequiturs, including such greats as "What's a meat vest?", "I have meal worms", and "Eat your whole neck, Bobby". i wonder how many poor random customer service phone line employees got to hear one of those in the late 90s / early 00s.


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in reply to @programs's post:

The numbers tell you the order in which the operations are applied. The app's actually not that complicated, you just go to the group with the operation you want, configure it, watch the live preview.

ok honestly though bulk rename utility had amazing UX. yeah it looks a bit cluttered at first but you use it once or twice and get a feel for how things work and it becomes a joy to use

What you all have to understand is that this tool is amazing. This is good design, because this product is doing EXACTLY what it's users need and want. You need access to a large number of options. You don't want to hide discoverability because there's no way to predict use case when the user opens this program. They need to rename a bunch of stuff, so here's all the possible use cases, and if you need something else you have instant access to all of it. THIS IS GOOD DESIGN FOR ITS USE CASE AND IF YOU IGNORE WHAT YOUR USERS ACTUALLY NEED IN FAVOR OF "CLEAN" DESIGN AND "STANDARD" DESIGN PRINCIPLES THEN I WISH YOU TO BE BANISHED TO WHITESCAPE HELL.

in reply to @vectorpoem's post:

Shit Talker was built off of a TTS program called DocTalker, though the only mention I can find online of DocTalker is in reference to it being used by Shit Talker. The Laziest Men on Mars sampled it for their All Your Base song.