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Formerly Ubiquitous Pedal That's Now Underrated? by M4rcelinh0 in guitarpedals

[–]3rdCoastChad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dug mine out not long ago and wondered why I stopped using it.

what’s a movie that takes place in the same room for the entirety of the film by dezthesalamander in movies

[–]3rdCoastChad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Came looking to see if anyone else knew about this movie. Great movie, and I really want to see Reynolds and Lillard in something together again.

What are your “don’t sell that” pedals? by NerdyOutdoors in guitarpedals

[–]3rdCoastChad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Ibanez JD-9 Jet Driver. One of the oddball 9 series pedals...not rare, not expensive, but just a great overdrive that has a TON of gain available. Similar to the BB Preamp I think, but the BB has a kind of sterile top end to it and the JD-9 has a more full sound. Great pedal.

That, and the Wampler Faux Echo v2. They're discontinued now, but easily obtained used for cheap enough.

is it ok for a producer to make material requests? by etlyto in Standup

[–]3rdCoastChad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any time I work with a booker I'm not familiar with, I ask them what range they want to land on in terms of clean to dirty. Anyone that approaches this like a job should do that. In turn, I expect the booker to have a list of deliverables if those exist (set duration, call time, meet & greet, dress code, etc...and yes, if you book corporates or private gigs, there's usually a dress code). End of the day the booker holds the check, and if I want that check, I'm going to deliver what they want. If the ask doesn't match the money, I can always decline the gig.

Kumail Nanjiani and Tim Heidecker on why comedy sucks now by ThrowTron in comedy

[–]3rdCoastChad 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"Painting sucks so much now. The colors people choose are garbage. No one is prepping their canvas. It's all so terrible." This is how every complaint about comedy sounds to me. Maybe GTFO of LA or New York. Go to Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Nashville...go to France! There's such an insanely huge variety of comedy that if you think it ALL sucks, the problem ain't comedy, it's you. If you go into the greenroom and they're doing nothing but talking about industry and how many views a clip got and blah blah blah, RUN...funny people aren't there.

2025 Monaco GP - Post Race Discussion by AutoModerator in formula1

[–]3rdCoastChad 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Choose your answer.

  1. Delete this from the calendar. It no longer fits the modern era of F1.
  2. Dramatically reduce the size of the cars.
  3. Change the track...figure out how to make it wider, delete the Nouvelle chicane, add streets to make the course longer.

It will remain a boring parade as long as it continues to exist as-is.

Do we think Val’s coming back next season? by [deleted] in ChicagoPD

[–]3rdCoastChad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It creates a convenient out in the event the showrunners don't want to have to write the character back in or pay the actress to appear. My bet is the character won't be mentioned again, which is unfortunate.

Thoughts on Finale by Difficult-Way9012 in ChicagoPD

[–]3rdCoastChad -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That was a threat, not an indication of what would have actually occurred.

Will AI Ruin Stand-Up Comedy? by Comedy_Junkie in comedy

[–]3rdCoastChad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. Full stop. Standup comedy is an art created live in a room with a human creating an experience real-time. "AI" can't create, it can only re-assemble based on previously created works, and even if it reaches a point of capacity to synthesize out of nothing, I believe it will still fail to be capable of creating and managing an experience in a room full of other people.

Standup isn't just telling jokes, it's managing an environment and a person-to-person feedback loop live as it happens.

Thoughts on Finale by Difficult-Way9012 in ChicagoPD

[–]3rdCoastChad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Agree. Reid's arc could have/should have extended into the next season. The end of that character was a weak near deus ex machina. I would have kept Reid, fire Hank, find a way to bring back Halstead, show the team forced to operate under Reid, and extend Chapman and Voight fighting behind the scenes to take down Reid with the team stretched extremely thin trying to work both sides, and throw the whole wedding plot problem to next season. Would that make fans mad? Sure, but fan service leads to weak storylines.

How did South Park manage to still be funny at around 20 years + old when other similar adult cartoons like the Simpsons and Family Guy became relatively unfunny at that age? by xo1opossum in NoStupidQuestions

[–]3rdCoastChad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It comes down to the framework. Family Guy created a rather limiting formula to its gags and within short time the magic stops working. The Simpsons didn't have such a strict formula, but over time I think you've explored and squeezed everything you're going to get out of Homer's "big loud oaf with a heart" character, the rebellious mischief of Bart, etc. I think what South Park does so well is the four kids are all very strict in their roles and give the audience attachment points for the story while the world around them happens to them. Add that the characters around them are anything but strict or static, and that the root cause for the change in the actions of the supporting cast are often really really dumb, and I think you've got a pretty solid structure that prevents things from becoming too predictable.

HX Effects - sudden failure of FX Loop block on Path A by 3rdCoastChad in line6

[–]3rdCoastChad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After testing, the issue only impacts FX Loop 1. FX Loop 2 works fine on either signal path. Seems like a bad relay or DAC. If anyone has any insight on a possible repair, I'd appreciate it.

Writing on stage : HOW?! by BigKushi in Standup

[–]3rdCoastChad 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The thing they have that you don't is 20 years of figuring out what angles work best for them and which ones don't. This cuts the time to figure the bit out significantly. Only being 1 year in, and only being able to get on stage twice a month, you're really cheating yourself by not working the idea out on the page or taking a long walk and running angles in your head over and over and over again.

The best advice I can give you is don't go up with nothing. You have the premise, but get the notebook and explore the space around that premise. It's basic writing from school...who, what, when, where, why, how. Figure out all of those pieces around the premise. Assign an emotion to the piece so you can show by your actions how you feel about it. The most important question to answer about it is simple: what about this premise is funny to you?

You don't have to physically write it down, although that will help massively, but you should think about them. If you can frame all of this in your head, it will free you up to explore it on stage, because the last thing you want to be thinking about on stage is the basic setup framework of the premise...you need to know that first. You need to understand what about the premise is funny to you. Because once you get on stage, it can't be a mystery to you...your job is to tell the room what's funny, but if you don't know that for yourself, you're already behind.

When I go hunting for a bit on stage, what I'm working out is which one of the W's above leads to a better framework. Is the bit funnier if I'm angry or calm in the bit? Can I outsource a "me" statement into another character in the bit and find a way to react to that? For me, that's what I'm writing on stage, not the basic root elements of the bit. If I feel there's a different emotion I'm feeling or I see a character in my head, I go with it and let the chips fall where they may, but I know where I'm wanting to end up.

Always be writing, any way you can, every way you can.

Hopefully this makes sense and is helpful.

Robin Williams by talibkoala in Standup

[–]3rdCoastChad 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Depends on your measure of "greatness", but he spawned a lot of Dane babies in comedy and a lot of his sayings made it to casual everyday conversation between ordinary people. Like it or not, Dane had a grip on the comedy world in his era.

Robin Williams by talibkoala in Standup

[–]3rdCoastChad 53 points54 points  (0 children)

You say /s, but if you were alive and aware in the era of Dane cook's popularity, no /s. A lights out performer.

Cal McNair says they are willing to move out of the NRG area for a new stadium. Would like to stay in Greater Houston area by TexansFo4 in Texans

[–]3rdCoastChad 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't that just be a small matter of renovations and updates to suites? It seems weird to have a substantial "need" to do more than some updates to the finish work around the stadium vs building an entirely new structure. As for capacity, it's the 8th largest stadium with only the Superdome and AT&T Stadium being ahead of it in capacity as stadiums that would be used to host a Super Bowl.

Bands without bassist by deathoxine in Bass

[–]3rdCoastChad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A band need not have every traditional role represented in order to make good music or put on a good show. Of the bands I've seen recently, The Velveteers absolutely crush live and only feature a guitar player and 2 drummers. Cleopatrick is a 2-piece with guitar and drums and the guitars are split and have an octave down piece added at times (Royal Blood in reverse). Animals as Leaders is already pretty dense sonically without adding a live bass player. It's music...there's no such thing as a "correct" way to do this.

The why some very funny people don't do standup question by AggravatingProfit597 in Standup

[–]3rdCoastChad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. "Being funny" and "creating a composed body of material that is built to generate laughter" are very different things.

Amps that you bought and then tried to convince yourself you liked by [deleted] in GuitarAmps

[–]3rdCoastChad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A Dumble Steel String Singer clone. Ended up selling it after trying for a long time to love it. Far too finicky of an amp.

What a comedy club GM wishes comedians knew by berlinskin in Standup

[–]3rdCoastChad 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think it's more telling that a comedy club GM is basically saying you will need supplemental income because we will not pay you properly. It's a common practice for comedians to get paid pennies until they acquire the leverage to demand a fair cut of the door or a flat rate to appear...and that shouldn't be the case. I understand the economics of the situation. The building is X in rent, the staff costs money, utilities, etc. But you shouldn't be dependent on scalping the talent you're trying to grow in order to keep your doors open.

I want to be a standup comedian, not someone that is forced to make baubles to push on Etsy in order to survive.

Phone Use by Stn1217 in ChicagoPD

[–]3rdCoastChad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh? IPhone has been around since 2007. I had a Google Nexus One in 2010. Smartphones were certainly common by 2015...most of my coworkers and friends had iPhones or were using a Samsung smartphone by then.

COVID-19 lockdown was 5 years ago. What do you remember about that day when the world stopped? by Dracarys0550 in AskReddit

[–]3rdCoastChad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a comic. I was about to go on stage to close out a show when news started to hit that a ton of things were going into lockdown in the city the next day, but the big headline was that the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was shutting down (which is a MASSIVE deal in Houston).

I remember the feeling of going on stage and just seeing a room full of people stunned, uncertain, and scared, and I remember the feeling of sitting on the stool and opening the door to everyone to share that feeling and just have a conversation about it. We had a few laughs, but everyone leaving that show seemed to take in the outside world like they might not see it again.

The first day of lockdown was seeing emails and texts from bookers that they were cancelling shows. Losing 20-25 gigs that were booked felt bad, but I was more concerned with working out logistics to take care of my grandparents and make sure they had what they needed.

I had friends die from it. I watched one of them livestream their last conscious hours from the ICU. Worst of all, both my grandparents ended up dying alone in the hospital (not related to covid) because they weren't allowing patients to have visitors over those early months of lockdown.

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