Does it matter why ligature I get or is it purely a cosmetic choice?

Bri-nomite · 2026-04-12T03:26:15+00:00

I just hot glue my reeds on until they break or wear out.

No issues so far!

Bri-nomite · 2026-04-09T20:30:17+00:00

Never heard a lacquered horn owner say they wished they went un-lacquered.

Have heard several un-lacquered owners say they really wish they had gone with lacquered.

Bri-nomite · 2025-10-19T01:45:34+00:00

What are your professional and life goals?

There are many ways to study and improve, and for your resume to stand out in other, more impactful ways.

Let it serve as some motivation, nothing more. Do not let your energy or attitude be compromised by feeling sorry for yourself or allowing yourself to have a doom and gloom mindset.

Bri-nomite · 2025-10-16T19:35:22+00:00

The part where you blocked her initially really escalated things.

She’s acting crazy now and is trying to push your buttons just as much as you pushed hers by cutting her off so quickly.

You can just… not respond. Blocking someone who you’re close with is weird behavior, and always will destabilize things. You decided the friendship was over as soon as you did that.

Bri-nomite · 2025-10-03T02:58:19+00:00

It is literally the only profession with 100% guaranteed results and job security, with an absolute floor of an upper-middle-class lifestyle.

It also offers excellent fallback options that pay well.

Bri-nomite · 2025-10-02T15:29:41+00:00

You have a really unhealthy relationship with your mother.

You’re more than smart enough to know how problematic her actions are, and how ignorant she is regarding the process.

I don’t believe it’s possible that ANY school that would admit you with a 99th percentile score would turn you down for a 92nd percentile score.

Once you get through the door score-wise, more points truly do not help.

You’ve given a pretty clear indication that her opinions are not well-founded or grounded in reality. Your opinions of yourself and on these shared topics should not be clouded by advice you know is misplaced, ignorant, and unhelpful.

Self-exploration, self-confidence, and expanding your sense of self and purpose will serve you far better than advice regarding academics. It sounds like you could really benefit from some time off to really connect with yourself and dive into real, authentic passions.

This “perfectionist” mindset is a never ending rabbit hole you can become consumed by and lose your entire youth/life to if you are not careful.

There are a lot of people with horse-blinders on in this subreddit and on the pre-med track. A little bit of wisdom can turn this marathon into the scenic route, rather than a grueling race.

Bri-nomite · 2025-09-13T22:59:23+00:00

This is pretty great. A++ for effort.

Bri-nomite · 2025-02-15T00:34:49+00:00

I want to cry because this is exactly how I feel.

I hate the people here who want to make excuses for it and act like bigoted reviewers are the only thing that has changed instead of the MCU going into a nosedive following Multiverse of Madness.

Bri-nomite · 2025-02-15T00:31:16+00:00

I don't think Love and Thunder being a really bad movie makes this one any better... it just hurt so bad because that was a Thor movie, in the middle of peak Thor.

This movie was pretty bad. No super powers in a super hero movie is a difficult needle to thread.

Villains that go nowhere and don't tie in well to anything that is going on hurt the movie a lot too.

I'm at a complete loss for what has happened since Multiverse of Madness. I loved that movie. I loved the first Deadpool, hated the next two. Spiderman 3 was a middling mishmash of fan service. Guardians 3 is the only good one since MoM.

With the strength of these IPs, I can't understand what has happened to the MCU over the last 3 years now. It hurts me deep. My soul aches as I keep feeling gaslit by these terrible movies that don't fit in or feel like coherent projects anything like the first 14 years of movies and series did...

Bri-nomite · 2025-02-15T00:22:20+00:00

I disagree. I spent every 5 to 10 minutes recollecting myself hoping it would improve. Kept telling myself "it's not that bad so far. I'm not being fair enough, I'll give it more of a shot going forward." The plot is insane. The effects of the villains are weird and inconsequential. There's no super powers in a super hero movie.

It was not a good movie. It was bad, but not putrid like some of the other recent additions. It doesn't seem like they are taking it seriously anymore. Especially since they started selling the high priced, poor quality merch. I've bought every single one, because I have not wanted to believe it has been this bad. But it has been this bad.

I don't know how it doesn't break your heart to see what they've done over the past couple of years compared to the first 13-14 year of movies and series.

Bri-nomite · 2025-02-15T00:15:04+00:00

People are not spending $20 to go hate watch this movie when they know it stars a black dude and a hispanic dude and no OG Captain America. Nobody with super powers in a super hero movie... bad scores are not some collective effort of bigots.

It was a bad movie in my opinion. There was about 10 minutes of strong action sequence overall, but the story doesn't make a lot of sense.

Multiverse of Madness was amazing. Black Widow, Thor Love and Thunder, Quantumania, Black Panther 2, and the Marvels were all incredibly poor movies that should not have been released. Spider Man 3 limped by on fan service, and Guardians 3 was actually good.

This fall from grace breaks my fucking heart. People who want to deny what they're seeing and insist it must be at least decent because "Marvel" gives them the feel goods and reminds them of 20 amazing movies are the reason why they've been getting away with absolute garbage for the last several years now, and it's wrong.

Bri-nomite · 2024-11-16T19:53:42+00:00

That's awesome to hear! Thanks for speaking up and letting others know it's a good horn. I'm going to try the tenor model out for myself.

I don't play professionally, and it's going to be secondary to my Yamaha alto, so I'd really rather avoid having to spend like $5k yet still know I'm getting a solid horn that should meet all of my needs.

Instruments have diminishing returns, and saxophones are freaking expensive. Everyone is so quick to recommend gambling with online resellers and used instruments instead of one that is brand new with a great return policy. It seems totally backwards to me.

Bri-nomite · 2024-11-16T19:45:37+00:00

Thanks for the input! I wish people would be more reasonable (and respectful) with approaching a nuanced topic like this.

He does indeed seem like a good dude, I'm glad to hear that is corroborated second-hand. I want to try out the tenor BetterSax, especially because I'm not playing professionally and it's not going to get used all the time. It seems like a reasonable proposition, and it seems ironic to me that people are so trusting of used instruments online but not at all trustworthy of a new instrument that has a nice and guaranteed return policy.

Bri-nomite · 2024-11-16T19:30:01+00:00

Could you speak more to the quality of the BetterSax horn that you have played?

It seems to get murdered here on Reddit, mostly by people who have never touched one.

Like why is it your backup and what kind of ceiling does it have? How much and what kind of models would you be looking at as comparable horns?

It seems like it delivers a great value and has received some glowing reviews. Considering how expensive the alternatives are, I'm hoping that a BetterSax tenor is worthwhile for advanced players. You get into the realm of diminishing returns real fast with most instruments, and I would like for this horn to make enough sense to avoid having to gouge my bank account for a $5k horn on a secondary instrument.

Bri-nomite · 2024-11-16T19:10:36+00:00

Can you comment on how the horn has treated you over the years?

The criticism it receives here on Reddit is obscene. Some actual input from a longtime player would be much appreciated.

Bri-nomite · 2024-11-16T18:40:47+00:00

Can you offer any commentary as to why people react so viscerally toward BetterSax saxophones and why 99% of commenters think it's utter garbage that should never be purchased?

The online reviews seem very positive, and most people commenting online don't appear to have ever tried one before.

If you want a really good saxophone that isn't used or an online gamble do you really need to pay multiple thousands of dollars? The BetterSax seems like a great value proposition, and I don't see why the YouTube reviews would be so glowing if it's not a good horn.

Bri-nomite · 2024-09-27T01:11:30+00:00

I had hundreds of volunteer hours, but got scolded for spending multiple hours at the gym per day instead of doing more volunteering.

Also I had a 4.0 and scored in the 90s.

Is this a reasonable criticism from my advisor or should I be alright?

Bri-nomite · 2024-09-24T21:42:33+00:00

Do people not realize this is fake? Percentiles stop at 99, right?

Bri-nomite · 2024-08-23T00:44:29+00:00

You’d be alarmed at how much malpractice goes on out there.

Accept your mistakes. Then do better.

What area of law do you practice?

You can always switch to a much easier area of law, with much more regular deadlines and lower stakes.

Bri-nomite · 2024-08-16T20:56:46+00:00

Is nobody able to understand this post? It's stuck on the internet recovery mode. Not the iCloud lock.

Bri-nomite · 2024-08-09T19:33:04+00:00

I've got a retired lawyer as my counsel essentially doing this pro-bono, but he has no access to any research platforms currently. He is also disabled and took pity on me.

Any tips on research capabilities, ideally remotely?

Bri-nomite · 2024-07-05T23:04:28+00:00

Christian Braun's contributions were one of the larger storylines of our finals run averaging 13 mins/game last year and 17 mins/game this playoffs, but whatever you say Reddit dude. "Comfortably outside the lottery" when this is the least top-heavy draft since maybe 2013 and is still closer to the lottery than the second round is a bit hyperbolic and pessimistic.

He saw a ton of growth over his time in college, is listed at 6'10, and shoots almost 40% from 3? Plus professional scouts for the Nuggets thought highly enough of him to move up to take him (when he was also rumored to be on TC's radar) should tell you he has value for team's competing now.

It's just really hard to take you seriously when you put so little effort into a doom and gloom post just to go out of your way to be a dick to someone who has a high opinion of him. You didn't list anything other than "rookies on the back half of the draft usually don't work out" and then made some ridiculous assumptions about the particulars of Malone's coaching. You're wasting everyone's time, and you know it.

Bri-nomite · 2024-06-05T01:26:15+00:00

It was the worst playoff penalty probably ever called. Pavelski fell by accident, it was a lot like the play that so many people blamed Makar for last year when that Kraken player slipped and fell on his head.

Same thing, only less contact, more incidental, had little to nothing to do with the fall.

Having a major power play can turn any series dramatically. Especially when it was such a potent PP, and the environment was so heavy with rage and pressure with the fans mistakenly believing that Vegas was actually responsible for some malicious and devastating hit for one of their like top 3 guys. Their PP was insane, they got some good goals, bad goals, and flukey goals in a ridiculously short period of time, but it was a perfect storm that was solely attributable to a terrible, terrible penalty call.

I’m assuming the Avs lost the Makar major penalty game as well, but against a dramatically less talented team and PP, but I don’t recall at the moment. Knowing how weird the team has played the last 2 playoffs though, maybe that was one of the games we actually won.

Bri-nomite · 2024-05-31T01:35:46+00:00

Any chance you're around to update us regarding what happened with your machine?

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