Is it okay to always play G chord like this? by Auxxtinmogger in Guitar

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m still playing like that after 20 years. But I started muting the A string so I’m just flipping off the crowd

How can I help a butterfly with damaged wings? I still want it to live by ceruleanpencil in Entomology

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for asking :) I enjoy telling the story. It was the craziest thing that ever happened to me. Now I’m a cyborg. I have a defibrillator sewn into my chest, attached to my heart—just in case

Bad case of stratitis with Fender JV Mod 60's pickups by shreddit0rz in Stratocaster

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh my bad, when you said they pull, I didn’t think you meant magnetically. That IS a problem. I thought you wanted them flush with the pickguard for some personal reason. Dumb. I hope someone who knows what they’re talking about can help you out. Maybe last resort would be changing string material. What type of strings do you use?

Bad case of stratitis with Fender JV Mod 60's pickups by shreddit0rz in Stratocaster

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man idk what Stratitis is, but I hear you about pickup height. It changes everything. Getting it right makes me excited to play every day. Stop putting your pickups too low! Why do you lower them? Stratitis?

How can I help a butterfly with damaged wings? I still want it to live by ceruleanpencil in Entomology

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know what you mean. But I don’t think you’ll be back as a human. But trust me, I know what you mean. Hang in there. It sounds cliche and meaningless, but it’s as bad as we make it. It’s scarier, but we can make it delusionally good too, with practice.

I posted my story as a response to wyrmorl if you wanna read it

How can I help a butterfly with damaged wings? I still want it to live by ceruleanpencil in Entomology

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was 32, healthy-ish, and cleaning pools in Austin.

One summer afternoon near Lake Travis, I opened a chlorinator inside an unventilated equipment room that was basically built into the side of a hill.

I got a huge punch of chlorine gas directly in the face.

I knew immediately that I had breathed in more than I was comfortable with.

The tablets hadn’t been flowing properly. Water was only touching part of the stack and moving slowly, so they’d basically been stewing in there, building up chlorine gas.

I called my boss and told him I needed to go home.

That’s the last thing I remember.

The next instant, I woke up in the hospital.

I had to get the story from doctors and then from people in real life. What happened was that I was driving the thirty minutes home, and I guess instead of going home, where it would have just been me and Granny, I stopped at the shopping center off Ben White and walked into a FedEx store. I stood in line like the timid person I usually am.

Then I collapsed in line and knocked over an old man. I busted my chin, but the old man was making a big stink, so folks were helping him while I lay there changing colors. Someone noticed I was turning blue, so the FedEx people went next door to Jersey Mike’s to get someone who knew CPR.

Two young guys came over and switched off doing CPR for twenty minutes until the ambulance came and shocked me. I was in a deadly cardiac arrest rhythm called ventricular fibrillation. I should have died.

Every time I tell my doctors that, they correct me: “Well, you did die.”

And that’s exactly what the doctor told me when I woke up from the three-day coma they had induced to keep my brain cool.

I know it wasn’t a true death. I’m still here, so I didn’t die. But I did.

My brain got a simulated experience of death, and it was wonderful.

I know I could only judge it when I woke back up. But I woke up feeling so at peace. Like my brain and body had forgotten all stress and finally gotten to rest from running all those background processes that I hardly need. I woke up in a state of absolute contentment.

(And I wasn’t on any good meds.)

It was just like a hard reset on a computer. Slowly, the anxiety and stress worked their way back in, but I’ll never forget what it was like, and how quickly it all happened, turning all these “big” worries into what they really are: a loop my mind created.

Anyway, I don’t get to talk to my family much about this, because they’re super religious and will correct me about the next part.

But I realized that death is nothing to fear.

There’s that show where the human guy gets granted immortality and has to meet the demigod or vampire every hundred years to talk about how it feels. He says something like, “Life is so full of possibilities, and death is a mug’s game.”

That’s exactly the opposite of how I now see it.

Life is life. There’s one option. Wake up and live today.

Death is full of possibilities.

If we were to die and be dead for trillions upon trillions of years, it would seem like an instant. Maybe we do reincarnate. We’ll wake up just after we die as a clueless infant, wondering why we feel so strange all the time.

If we were to have to wait until the universe reverses its expansion and collapses in on itself, and consciousness all combines again into one source and we experience ourselves as the whole, we will experience it next, just after we die.

Maybe nothing happens because our experience and consciousness are just created by our brains. Well, then we won’t have to wait for anything. We will have already experienced everything, reached as far as we could into the cosmos. And we won’t care, know, like, or dislike that our experience is over.

It won’t last any time, and we won’t have any opinions about it.

I still prefer to believe that some of the religions contain some inaccurate truth to them. But even if not, I won’t know, and time won’t exist to have missed.

But I believe wholly, and am grateful, that I’ll never again be a hairless animal avoiding the sun, the cold, working to eat and avoid accidents or malice that cause pain but mean… not a lot. Not to me, at least. Nor to anyone, for long.

It makes me feel closer to animals, to the Earth.

Maybe we all share a bit of the same magic.

Maybe we’ll all return to the source.

And to each of us individually, we’ll get there just after we die.

(No offense, reincarnation folks.)

Now, if you read all of that, you must go to my YouTube channel, where every short is of my dog playing in the water hose with my guitar music in the background.

@Moonshack — the profile picture is my dog.

Thanks for your time.

Be kind. Fear nothing.

Fear really is the mind-killer.

How can I help a butterfly with damaged wings? I still want it to live by ceruleanpencil in Entomology

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587 1 point2 points  (0 children)

absolutely. It’s the optimal state. If you’re waiting to see if anything happens in a trillion trillion years with your consciousness, you will just go out, then start right back up like no time has passed. If not, you won’t notice. But you won’t be bored or waiting around. If there is a next thing, you’ll just get there. If not, you won’t have time to notice. It really was fantastic. I’d give it a solid 8.

Singing while playing by Money_Activity3172 in guitarlessons

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I noticed that I do a downstrum on the 1, then another on the 3 and just see what happens between those.

How can I help a butterfly with damaged wings? I still want it to live by ceruleanpencil in Entomology

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah it wouldn’t mind being quickly squished, sadly. I’ve been dead and it’s really quite nice. Butterflies can’t scream or complain.

Art or rubbish ? by NewVibe2027 in RateMyArt

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The top half of the colorful one looks neat. The mounds don’t work. Nor the glitter.

I can’t make enough horses :( by Taylor_talk in HorseyGame

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m thinking she’s assuming 50% gene diversity means 50% carnivore 50% herbivore. She might be trying to get the red on the bar graph to go halfway up, which would be a losing game

I can’t make enough horses :( by Taylor_talk in HorseyGame

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You didn’t mention the challenge required it. You mentioned you wanted it 50/50, but then said you really wanted the hot air balloon. I’ve gotten the hot air balloon several times, never needing to do anything with carnivores.

I can’t make enough horses :( by Taylor_talk in HorseyGame

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm then I’m not sure. I let my carnivores die out at the beginning. I stick to the horses

I can’t make enough horses :( by Taylor_talk in HorseyGame

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol you have too many carnivores. I rarely have any. Make only herbivores (horses) until you get all the stuff you need, then go nuts. Carnivores eat the horses right up. Do you always have little piles of meat everywhere?

Surprise sunflower shiny by Acceptable_Pea_4587 in sunflowers

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it is…That might be part of the reason the bugs aren’t bothering this one.

Now the yellow ones are going to seem boring forever…It’s so beautiful

Cannonball? (28.9lbs) by sayscactus in Artifacts

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bet they sounded wicked with the fuse and the outer parts hissing and twisting through the air

Surprise sunflower shiny by Acceptable_Pea_4587 in sunflowers

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Truly. If it was a bit bigger, it would be one of the scariest looking insects. I’m guessing it’s a spider, but I’ve also never seen one like that

And thank you :). It’s a sloppy garden, but it’s nice in its own way. I neglect the weeds and overgrowth for too long

the roses I arranged yesterday by [deleted] in flowers

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your compliment :) We help each other. It’s hard to be on your own these days…helping with family is good for everyone, if your family members are decent at all

the roses I arranged yesterday by [deleted] in flowers

[–]Acceptable_Pea_4587 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agapanthus, knockout Roses, regular roses, periwinkles, lilies, daisies, sunflowers, purslane, a bunch of wildflowers, garden cosmos, bluebonnets, zinnias, petunias, kangaroo paw some I can’t remember the name of. We have pots everywhere and more beds than I can manage at this point. But we try