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But like honestly though, I've seen on YouTube people funded almost entirely through commissions and patrons manage metallurgical feats previously considered impossible like the forge welding of titanium to steel. Imagine what they could do with even a fraction of Nvidia's or OpenAI's budget?
NileRed might make an actual Philosopher's Stone (out of Code Red Mountain Dew and Silly Putty or something).
This time, I'm going to make a diamond out of a pile of dirty socks!
(Not being mean, I like his content, but the guy has a verbal tick right? He starts every vowel starting sentence with this strange descending squeak. Or is it just an accent?
"^I^I'm here to show...."
I think he's forcing through a stutter. Specifically I think he's forcing through a stutter on hard vowels which begin without a preceding consonant. I have a similar specific impediment and while I've mostly worked through it sometimes when I'm nervous (like when recording) my voice will crack/squeak like that. Words that trigger it: I, Egg, international, Apple, Ypsilanti...
I also have triggers with words with too many consonant sounds at the start, like jump, which because of the shape of my mouth I form as DJhomp, the dj part shifting into a nearly unspoken H is tough for me.
I spent years in specific therapy, Nigel from NileRed talks like he has too.
Ah that makes sense. I had a noticeable stutter myself until I was about 25, and then I joined a gym and it magically went away
Confidence helps. For me it was changing schools at 14, being near people who didn't know my shortcomings gave me the confidence to succeed at talking that 6 years of speech therapy couldn't.
Nowadays when I'm mega nervous I still get tripped up by preglottal plosives like the Hard C in cat. I learned to speak alliteratively in those times because it makes me feel like I'm singing and I never stutter while I sing.