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I'm building a PedalPCB Box and All EQ. The bass, treble, and mid potentiometers on the "real" pedal have a center detente. I haven't been able to find a single gang potentiometer for the treble control that has a detente (B250K).

Will a regular B250K pot function identically so that the treble is flat when the knob is at noon, just without the haptic click?

I grew up reading guys like Bill Cooper and Michael Ruppert and would surf forums like ATS in the early 2000's. There were many different "flavors" of conspiracy theorist: the survivalist dude who would shop at military surplus stores, hippies into psychedelics that swore they were abducted, 9/11 truth seekers, etc. The one thing they all had in common though was that they had a DEEP distrust of the federal government and other societal power structures.

Nowadays whenever I visit online conspiracy communities, I feel the general vibe is far different than what it used to be. Pro-organized religion, pro-government, and people will regurgitate corporate talking points for free. Many forums are inundated with nonsense about celebrities and Tipper Gore style moral alarmism.

Back in the day if someone said they were a conspiracy theorist, there was this connotation that they lived off the grid in an RV with their ten dogs and they spent their free time mapping out cave systems near their home. Now being a conspiracy theorist just means you're really into podcasts and have strong feelings about high school sports.

What happened that caused this change? Conspiracy theories going mainstream after COVID causing an influx of normies? Elgin AFB botnet shitposting to bury actual conspiracies? Or am I just insane and nobody else has noticed this trend?

WARNING SPOILERS BELOW:

Was very excited to see this film and typically love whatever A24 distributes. I'm not very familiar with the lore of Backrooms, but I know about the original creepypasta and I've seen the first YouTube video Kane Parsons created for it and it's a great premise.

First I'd like to mention the things I enjoyed:

• The opening sequence after the found footage stops playing and you see the reflection of people in lab coats silently sitting in the reflection of the CRT display...honestly one of my favorite shots I've ever seen in a film. So good.
• Chiwetel Ejiofor had such a commanding presence on screen, he was a lot of fun to watch. Going to be checking out 12 Years a Slave this weekend.
• The set design and audio were excellent. Especially the Christmas tree room and the laundry room.
• Dinner scene was like an homage to Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
• The design of Cap'n Clark was awesome. Reminded me a lot of the puppets in the film Abruptio.
• Mark Duplass

And the stuff I did not enjoy:

• The underlying themes were very ham-handed. Clark chooses not to deal with his grief/trauma, Backrooms kills him. Dr. Kline lets go of her grief and escapes. I almost groan nowadays when a horror film does something like this. Grief can be a good plot device (like Talk to Me), but oftentimes it seems like a lazy way of adding depth to characters or it serves as a deus ex machina.
• The character of Dr. Kline really wasn't necessary. Most of the therapy scenes were just a poorly disguised exposition dump. Splitting the film between two protagonists killed some of the momentum. We could have inferred that Clark was having mental health/marriage issues by the fact that he was drinking heavily and living in the furniture store.
• The transition to he 3rd act felt rushed and it's unclear how long Clark has been in the backrooms. We do see a small pile of mail at the entrance to the store and Dr. Kline makes some comment about how Clark must have been in there for a long time, but they could have made Clark's beard and hair longer or roughed up his clothing a bit to illustrate this better.
• Overall, I think this introspective melodrama about grief was a poor fit for the Backrooms premise and I think it would've been a more engaging story if it had taken a similar approach as the movies Cube (1997) or The Descent and focused entirely on Clark and his employees escaping their predicament.
• The film is set in 1990, but Clark is seen drinking Jim Beam Apple which wasn't released until 2015. Ruined all suspension of disbelief for me.