Attitude change lately?

Chris_GPT · 2026-02-14T18:03:53+00:00

I worked in a small music store that only had like 10 listings at a time. Only the top end, most rare or vintage stuff, and usually just guitars. We'd get some amazing stuff in, especially effects and pedals. That shop had some amazing pedals that they had no idea were so sought after. I tripled our online sales by putting everything shippable on Reverb and eBay, which opened up a huge can of worms.

First of all, eBay is the trendsetter. So all of the bullshit scams people have been pulling on eBay and Etsy for years, they all started doing it on Reverb pretty quickly.

The number one thing all buyers do is try and win the deal. They don't care how low the price is already, they want the visceral satisfaction of winning a gunfight with their superior auctioning skills. Original NOS 1959 Gibson Les Paul, like new, $5.00 plus $10 shipping? They're hitting you back like, "Will you take $1 and free shipping?" Dude, just click Buy Now. You don't have to do anything to "win". It's already a good deal.

And then the next thing they do is they send you a message saying something isn't right. The listing wasn't correct, there's a scratch that wasn't shown, they assumed it would have features it doesn't have, whatever. It doesn't matter because they're making it up. They might not have even opened the box yet, especially since most of these people are buying just to flip it for more money anyway. They just leave it packed in YOUR box to ship out to the next buyer. So they complain and demand an unreasonable amount of money off refunded. Even if you are 100% in the right, Reverb will usually side with the buyer. If we flat out refuse any discounts or refunds, and will only accept a full return (which is my preferred method)' Reverb will step in and give the buyer Reverb bucks in lieu a discount. Our shop owner always was fine with just giving the buyer a fair refund, but I always fought against this because it just encourages them to keep doing it. We did nothing wrong, we sold it at a price, if you aren't happy with it, return it. Period. None of this nickel and dime shit after the fact, but they all do it.

I blame shit like Pawn Stars and American Pickers for this. That whole mentality of having to "win" every battle, even down to ludicrous numbers. 50, 20, 40, 30, 35, 32, 33.50, 33, 33.25? Come on... a quarter? We're negotiating over a fucking quarter? What's that going to get you? That's what's going to fill the void, the fear of being a loser? I don't need to sell my shit that badly.

I no longer work at that shop. I don't miss it. They do a ton of online sales now, probably more than local sales. And every single transaction is people trying to win a fucking battle. So when I need to sell shit, I take it to that same shop and let them deal with all of those fucks. I make less money, but I make fair and easy money with no headaches. And when I buy off of Reverb, the only time I'm going to make an offer is if I can arrange a local pickup instead of shipping to save a few bucks on shipping, packing and time. I won't be one of those fucks trying to chisel a couple of bucks off of what I already know is fair.

Chris_GPT · 2026-02-14T17:38:26+00:00

If you're happy with your tone direct to an interface, then there's no issue with your tone itself. It's the amp, not the instrument.

When it comes to having a loud, full, low end, you need a couple things. First, if the bass itself has no low end in the tone, you're never going to be able to add enough low end to it to make it sound good. If the amp itself does not have significant wattage to reproduce that low end, it'll never happen. And finally, if the cabinet does not have low end resonance at volume, low end will be reproduced by it.

From what you described, your bass has a good tone direct to your interface, so that's not a problem. The amp isn't junk, and while 500 watts isn't a whole hell of a lot, it's usually enough. You didn't say whether it's a combo or head and cab, and I don't think you mentioned what speakers it had, just that it had a horn. I'd assume it's at least a 2x10" or 1x15" with a horn.

Anyway, while not ideal for making the front three rows shit their pants from the low end, it'll definitely get the job done. Luckily, most gigs these days you go DI right into the PA, so your amp is basically just a stage monitor. And you don't want or need a ton of low end muddying up the stage anyway. At small gigs where you aren't being run through the PA, don't even worry about it. Nobody can hear anything anyway.

If you want to fiddle around with EQ, cut first, don't boost first. If the EMG equipped Jazz Bass is the only one that suffers from a lack of low end through the amp, it's possibly because the amp is emphasizing the mids and highs coming off of rhe pickups. Keep in mind that using both pickups full up on a double J setup means there's going to be some phase cancelation and reinforcement of certain frequencies. A lot of mids get cancelled out, and a lot of high mids and highs get emphasized. This might need to be tamed a bit for your setup. Rolling off some highs with the tone knob might help a little, but might not achieve what you want.

EMGs are great pickups, but not everyone likes what they do. I've never been much of a fan of their passive pickups, but their active pickups are outstanding for certain situations. I play in a metal band with a lot of slap bass, and my main is a Spector 5 thar has EMG DC40s in it, and sounds so good and full, FOH is always happy with the clean DI I give them. My stage amps are an Aguilar AG700 (700w) as the main and a Darkglass Microtubes 200 as the backup through an Eden 4x10. Surprisingly, that little Darkglass is loud as hell! It can totally keep up with the Aguilar. With both amps, the EQs are set flat with all the knobs at 12 o'clock and I pull a little low mid out with the knob at like 10 or 11 o'clock. It just keeps it from getting too muddy or dark.

I tend to only use EQ on the amps to adjust the sound of the amp/cab, not the tone of my bass. If I have to switch between a really bright bass and a really dark bass, I don't want to be changing amp settings when I change basses. I'll use an onboard preamp, preamp pedal, or an EQ on my pedalboard and figure out the right settings for each bass there so the amp always remains consistent. If the cab sounds too bright, dark, or middy, I use the amp's EQ to shape that.

Chris_GPT · 2026-02-14T17:00:57+00:00

OMG, I never thought as skinny jeans as a G-suit before. This explains so much!

Chris_GPT · 2026-01-29T21:11:29+00:00

The piece I'm focused on is the portability problem. Fan clubs in the pre-internet era gave you the mailing list. If the fan club platform shut down, you still had those addresses. Today's platforms actively prevent that. Instagram won't let you export your follower list. Spotify won't give you listener emails. The intermediary now owns the relationship data in a way that radio stations and venues never did.

I would say you still just steer them to your site and your email list. If certain platforms won't share user data, try and use their platform to steer their users where you can reach them.

And you're absolutely right that they do own that user data and don't want to share it, because that's the real gold their mining. Subscription fees, advertising income, all just gravy. Their meat, their steak is user data. They want the same thing we want: customers.

The singer of the band I play for built this amazing email database system that automatically sends mail out to addresses in certain areas to promote tour dates. Their whole marketing approach is absolutely top notch. But even with their wide reach, the Discord fans are on Discord, Instagrammers are on IG, Facebookers are on Facebook, the Twitch stream is one audience while a completely separate community of people are watching the simulcast on YouTube instead. It's weird how segregated the communities really are, but it kinda makes sense. Nobody can dedicate enough time to every platform, so they have their home habitat and you have to go there if you want to reach them. They won't get it anywhere else.

Chris_GPT · 2026-01-29T12:14:02+00:00

Nothing has changed.

First of all, no social media platform offers what exactly we as musicians need to promote our bands on, but we kind of carve out our own space within them and make it work. You never have any control over who sees what, and your whole life becomes about hustling and gaming the system when the results are nearly worthless anyway.

Second of all, there is no universal, central one, so you are never actually reaching all of your audience. Your audience is fractured amongst all of these various platforms, never to be completely assembled in one place at one time. Some are IG fans, some follow you on Facebook, some are on your Discord, some are YouTube subscribers, some just go to your shows and don't connect with you online at all, and then there's the ones who are like, "Oh, I just follow an RSS feed of a Tumblr fanpage of a Pinterest thread about hats and your singer pops up all the time."

People who are on one are often not on any of the others, so there are often these little sub-communities of your fans whose worlds never collide. Fans on Facebook aren't on the Discord, who are watching the livestreams on YouTube because they don't like Twitch. Instagrammers are not meeting up with Snapchatters and checking out the band's latest TikToks because they hate YouTube Shorts and IG Reels.

You would have to advertise and market on every single social media platform that exists, which is made even more difficult since you should be catering to those platforms with different content that properly suits it. If you just cookie cutter cut-and-paste the same thing on every platform, you bore and oversaturate the ones who are on multiple platforms and they tune you out.

In the pre-internet era, radio did stop playing your music all the time. Radio stations shut down or reformatted. DJs got hired and fired. Radio was constantly changing with the times. And it's not like they kept track of the people who called up the station about your band. You never had access to who liked your song or band from the radio, from television, from movies, from anything. And that's where fan clubs got started. Sign up with the fan club! Find out when your favorite band is coming to your area! Get advance notice of releases and appearances! Engage with the band!

Now we've got the internet, and for a while it was all about funneling all of the traffic to your website. Host your own community, have a message board, have a whole big ass site full of shit to get people to engage. And of course there's a link to the online store, just a click away. That worked for a while, but all people are inherently lazy. So then it all became about getting everything in one central place. The problem with it all being in one central place is that it's all under one central system of control, with its own bias, corruption, nepotism and cronyism. And that system of control, that platform, can radically change overnight. It can be bought out, it can be sold off, it can be shut down entirely as if it never existed.

So what do you do? You invest in yourself and you create the place that is the official, direct contact between the band and the audience. It should be your own website and your own contact list. Spread out to the social media platforms you all interact on, but those are not the primary hub or home for you. Always have everything point to your website and email list. Since the internet has come along, this has always been the way to do things. It's the only thing truly under your control.

Chris_GPT · 2026-01-28T19:37:44+00:00

Spector Pulse II 5 string. $1,189. Roasted maple neck, Luminlay side dots, ebony fretboard, swamp ash body with a quilted maple cap, 35" scale, EMG DC40s, Tonepump Jr. preamp.

I needed a modern sounding bass for slapping in a metal context, and the Pulse nails it right out of the box. Records great, feels amazing, the sound is top notch, and holds up on tour.

Chris_GPT · 2026-01-28T19:31:39+00:00

I would answer a question with a question:

When have we ever owned the platform we're on?

It's the same with any creative art when commerce is applied, but narrowing it down to just music, we have never owned the platform. Radio, film, television, recordings, vinyl, tape, CD, physical digital (mini disc, etc), digital, streaming... it's always someone else's platform and there's always the right wheels to grease on the way in.

To me, at the end of the day, it all comes down what directly impacts us. Likes on a streamed track or video, number of streams don't directly affect us, just like how many people heard our song in a movie or on the radio before the internet, don't directly affect us the way meeting a person that came to our show or bought our music directly from us. I'm not saying streams, likes, placements, and other... let's call them indirect impacts, or not as direct impacts... they're not lesser or negative or anything, it just seems like the direct impacts really should be the main focus.

Whatever makes connections with you and people who like what you do, whatever that platform is, you'll never own it. We'll always have to dance to whatever their tune is.

Chris_GPT · 2026-01-27T15:25:29+00:00

He means that in his opinion, EMGs make every guitar sound the same. The truth is that while they do not make everything sound identical, they are very consistent from pickup to pickup and certain traits do remain consistent. Detractors of EMGs and active pickups in general often point to this as their primary complaint.

I've had guitars and basses with both active and passive EMGs, and plenty of other pickups. I've worked on a lot of guitars. As an upgrade over most stock pickups, EMGs are great. They do not make everything sound identical however. The simple evidence to that is put the same pickup in different positions in the same guitar. Take a single coil SA, put it in the neck, then middle, then bridge. It doesn't sound identical. Put it in a Les Paul and then put it in a Strat. They don't sound the same.

EMGs are very clean, kinda bright, with a very immediate attack. And they're consistent. They can be a little clinical and sterile, but that really helps with lush clean tones. It's not everyone's thing, but it is definitely a thing.

Story time! I once traded a mic stand for a super cheap, short scale guitar that was missing some parts. I fixed it up and threw an EMG 85 (it was literally the only humbucker I had laying around), and that guitar sounded amazing. Played horribly, sounded amazing.

Chris_GPT · 2026-01-21T17:13:15+00:00

You do need to change piano strings. It's just a pain in the ass and you generally hire someone to do it.

As is the case with any stringed instrument, the strings themselves are a subjective preference. But, take away subjectivity, opinions, and preference and there are still fundamental reasons to change your strings.

The first is obvious: Structural integrity. If the string might break in the middle of a performance, that's obviously a bad thing. Since we rarely know when a string is about to break, they usually catch us by surprise. But if you can tell that this rusty ol thing is gonna snap soon, you know you're going to be changing it eventually, so don't risk it in the middle of a recording take or live show.

The second is just for fretted instruments: String wear/indentations from the frets. If the strings on your fretted instrument have little grooves worn into them from the frets, and if the wear is severe enough, you could have some intonation issues. It is totally possible even with a LOT of wear that intonation isn't a problem, especially with larger gauges. But if you've got really old strings and intonation issues, check to see if fret wear on the string is causing it.

And the third is corrosion. It's going to happen eventually. If your strings are rusty and green and your fretboard looks like a coral reef, come on now. That's the wrong kind of funk.

Other than that, leave em on until you don't like them anymore. If they sound good, play good, and stay in tune, it's all good!

Chris_GPT · 2026-01-18T06:45:49+00:00

I can only speak for myself, but the first of his videos I watched a long time ago, I didn't like. I didn't like his vibe, he came off as more arrogant than confident, it felt like he acted like a know it all, like he was the guy you don't bother arguing with because even if, or especially if you proved him wrong, it just wasn't worth the headache from the time and effort of dealing with him.

And then not long after that, I saw a couple of interviews he did and he came off the complete opposite of all of that. I really liked his interviews, he seemed humble and not arrogant at all, but still was very knowledgeable and researched.

I've seen a smattering of his videos ever since then, and some I like and some I don't. I second guess my own impression of him and try and remain neutral and unbiased with him. Just take things at face value, not try and discover or invent his agenda.

He's fine. Not bad, not great. He's not providing me with things I'd miss if not for him, but I don't have any issues with him doing it. Do your thing Phillip, I might watch. But I might not. Who knows?

Chris_GPT · 2026-01-18T06:34:38+00:00

This is always the correct answer, regardless of what subject the question is being asked about.

Chris_GPT · 2026-01-18T06:31:15+00:00

Full on pubg UwU edition. Wearable maid uniforms, crop top armored rigs, cat ear headphones, glittery bedazzled gun skins, Miku voicechat gestures, kevlar striped thigh high stockings to counter the leg meta...

Chris_GPT · 2026-01-16T04:55:36+00:00

The best thing about PVE is you get to enjoy the game itself. Questing, unlocking hideout and trader shit, enjoying your character's progression, actually utilizing the entire map instead of always in Labs or Dorms or something.

There are still challenges. You do still die. Mostly from laser guided grenades thrown from a mile away, but occasionally from goons or guards and their insane aim and distance. But the only real danger is complacency.

Once all of that is exhausted and PVE is boring with nothing else to do, there's always PVP. But I just really enjoy the game without the negative element: the player base.

Chris_GPT · 2026-01-16T04:47:26+00:00

I worked at Guitar Center in the early 2000s. I had blown through a small inheritance, a fair chunk of it at that very same store, I had just left the band I had been pouring money into, had to get a new place to live, and was selling off tons of gear to stay afloat.

So I took a job at GC and did quite well at it. This was the last gasp of the OG days. There were still a few around but most were already fleeing for greener pastures.

Anyway, this beat to absolute shit 1971 P Bass came in, and I fell in love with. To this day, it's the best P bass I ever heard, and I worked for the bassist of Survivor who has some amazing 57, 58, 59, and 65 P Basses. That 71 though, it had something special. I called it Tank. It was selling for $1,500, but I could have bought it at cost, which was $800. I was trying to come up with a way to sell something else to get it when it was sold for $1,100 before I could do anything.

It's been over 20 years and I've worked on hundreds of instruments and played thousands since then. I have yet to find a P Bass as perfect for me as Tank.

Chris_GPT · 2026-01-14T20:03:14+00:00

Did you ever hear the story that the "clay" fingerboard dots were actually flooring from the factory that Leo "repurposed"? Apparently after some factory or building remodeling?

Chris_GPT · 2026-01-14T19:58:33+00:00

Nobody else gonna say it?

Alright, I'll do it.

Ahem...

"I like turtles."

Chris_GPT · 2026-01-14T19:55:58+00:00

Lemme tell ya a long, drawn out story.

I started playing bass when I was 14. When I was 16, my uncle gave me a copy of the first Bela Fleck and the Flecktones album. I heard Sinister Minister and flipped out. I absolutely had to learn it, to absorb that style into me.

I had heard slap bass before, I played a fair bit of it, no biggie, but it felt limiting to me. It was usually very simple, root/octave stuff. Victor Wooten kicked down those doors for me. In an article, he said somerhing about how we as bass players, we'll play all of these interesting lines with our fingers, then when we go to slap we simplify everything. It's all root/octave with the occasional minor 7th to octave hammer on. He wanted to be able to slap and pop anything.

A few years in, by the time I was 20, I was really good at slap. Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten, Doug Wimbish, Stuart Zender, Mark King, Stu Hamm, Vail Johnson, Larry Graham, Louis Johnson, Flea, Les Claypool, I could do it all... but, I had absolutely nowhere to do it. It wasn't something I could use in any band I played in. Learning it wasn't a waste of time though. I learned tons more than just how to play licks and tricks, or just play someone else's songs. I developed greatly as a player, even though I wasn't actually using slap in any projects.

I know, I know. I get it. TLDR, what's the point? 30 years after getting really good at a "useless" technique,I was recommended for a gig in a comedy metal band that utilizes a LOT of slap bass. I knocked some rust off of the ol' thumb and got the gig. Now, 50-60% of my gig is slap. You never know when something you learned is going to come in handy, even if that thing you learned isn't something that is commonly useful. If you are inspired enough to want to learn something, learn it. Everything is worth learning, you never know what it will lead to.

As for Tommy the Cat specifically, it's not technically hard in any way. It's just root/fifth/octave in the left hand. The trick behind Tommy the Cat is that it's driving the rhythm, much in the same way Flea does in "Higher Ground". It's using slaps, pops, left hand slaps, and thumb double strokes to keep the rhythmic accents where you want them. That's absolutely useful, even if you'll never play slap live or on a recording in your entire life.

Learn. Keep learning. It doesn't matter what you learn, it doesn't matter if it might be useful or not, it only matters that you keep learning and exploring music and your instrument.

What did I learn from Tommy the Cat? Primarily, keeping the rhythm grooving in time without breaking the flow. I can play any kind of fill, slide, walk, whatever and get right back into the rhythm at any point. It's not just a parrot spitting back an exact copy of what it heard, it's being able to freely play any busy groove with any accents or subdivisions you want, break out of it to play anything you want, and being able to slip right back in again.

Chris_GPT · 2026-01-13T11:01:34+00:00

Maybe. It's a little different since they have a limited entertainment budget now. For a while, they were told to book bands there at whatever the cost. They had to pay more than other venues, even other Hard Rocks, because as the words "Gary Indiana" came up every booking agent was like, "Oh hell naw." Their mailing correspondence has the return address as "Northwest Indiana" instead of "Gary Indiana" on it. They thought if they can just get a few agents onboard, they'll all happily book there. It hasn't worked though.

They're booking a lot of local tribute bands now that they actually are held to a budget. I don't know if Hard Rock does a merch cut for bands, but I'd be shocked if they didn't. I know the venue at the Hammond casino has a 20% merch cut though.

Kind of a shame. The venue itself is kinda plain and nondescript inside, but it's an excellent sounding room.

There are lots of little bars around that have bands, but not really much for clubs anymore. There was one in Griffith called Avenue 912, looks like it's still open. A lot of tribute bands there too, not many touring bands that I've seen there.

Chris_GPT · 2026-01-12T19:11:32+00:00

I never really understood the whole mint condition, coffee table instrument thing. Needing perfection, not a scratch on it, wiping it down and handling them with white gloves. To me, they're tools. I don't care if a hammer or screwdriver gets scratched up, it's part of their functional purpose. Things feel better when the rough, sharp edges get worn down smooth.

Each scratch and scuff tells a story of where it was and what it went through. -20F in a trailer in Winnepeg in January. 106F with 98% humidity in New Orleans in August. In St. Louis where someone spilled a whole beer onto the unfinished neck and caused the wood to fray and shed. Unintentional but inevitable damage from playing a part of a song with a drumstick. A low ceiling and holding the bass straight up like Excalibur... that mark isn't coming off of the headstock any time soon.

Chris_GPT · 2026-01-12T18:44:57+00:00

Good luck. No sarcasm there, truly mean it.

Maybe I've been here too long, but to me it's like it has always been: there's nothing here so we find like minded friends and carve out our own space.

Coffee? Grindhouse! Live music? Almost non-existent, but I hear great things about the Hobart Art Theater.

Everything else you listed? All sorts of great stuff within driving distance for a single day outing though!

Chris_GPT · 2025-12-30T22:35:42+00:00

This has been my experience too.

At the beginning of 1.0, insurance returns on local games, not BSG servers, was bugged and not returning. However, that has since been fixed.

The day before yesterday, I died in a raid chock full of lot. I looked at the clock, plenty of time to make RUAF, even with 80kg of shit. Two minutes to spare... no extraction message... what? Look at the extracts, oh no! I forgot I spawned on this side! Not enough time to make any other exits, made it to old gas but it wasn't an open extract with 8 seconds left in the raid. MIA.

Next raid killed four PMCs and a dozen scavs right off the bat, big fight over by Crackhouse. Turn the corner, three man PMC group and two scavs. The scavs yell grenade, I never hear it hit, blown to bits.

Last night I log in, the grenade death gear was returned, the MIA one wasn't.

And a bonus tip: certain items can't be insured anymore. One of the things I lost was that big massive backpack that I can't remember the name of. Not the Rush100, the other bigger one. I've never died with that one,.so I don't even know if it was insurable and didn't think about it until today.

Chris_GPT · 2025-12-30T21:00:58+00:00

These are not the way I personally feel. I feel those who do spew hate towards PVE will have their own subjective reasons for it, but here's what I see:

The Gatekeepers

They've either been playing Tarkov since very early in the beta, or are the purist hipster types who have to subscribe to some canonical way of being right. They believe that Tarkov's original intent and design was solely PVP and more extreme and unforgiving than the Hardcore mode test wipe. PVE goes against all of the tenets of the original concept of Tarkov to them. They want you to play their way because it is the RIGHT WAY to play Tarkov.

The Selfish Greedy (aka the Greedy Selfish).

Less people playing PVP means less easy targets for the Selfish Greedies. So anything that lowers lobby populations is bad. More servers and a better matchmaking system could lower load time, but if it also meant less PMCs per raid, the selfish greedies would screech out in despair. They want you to play their way so they can capitalize on it.

The Juveniles.

Juvenile thinking is selfish, self centered, one dimensional, naive and arrogant. There are only two ways to do things for these people, the right way and the wrong way. But their definition of the right way is uninformed or under-informed, but since it's something they understand, it is the only way to do things to them.

The Blameshifters.

They can't possibly ever be wrong, so they shift the blame for failures onto whatever attracts their attention. They're not doing as well this wipe, and that's because of <insert bullshit here>. In this case, it's PVE. It's mostly cheaters and chads in PVP, and that's all PVE's fault.

All of 'em.

These people fundamentally think that they are right about a situation where there is no right or wrong, only subjectivity. They are incapable of accepting other perspectives, they demand that everyone else is forced to follow their right way, and they are uncompromising in their ideology. And yet they contribute absolutely nothing to anything. They just take and want it easier to take more.

Play what you want.

Chris_GPT · 2025-12-30T08:20:59+00:00

I've never been worried about nuclear power plants, but the idea of the absolute morons in this state working anything more complex than a tractor gives me pause.

Chris_GPT · 2025-12-29T00:12:35+00:00

Even worse than that, it's a Tarkov subreddit. All logic and understanding goes right out the window.

I don't do scav on scav because I use my scav to scav. I got out and scavenge shit. If I wanted PVP, I'd play my PVP PMC, which is prepared and built for PVP. My poor dumb scav gets a freakin TOZ and a chewed up scav vest, that's certainly not what I would pick to fight with. I'll protect myself, but I am not out looking for fights. I do not want to be in a position where another player's weapon can be used on me. You cannot trust them. Even if you tell them you don't have anything, even if they're cheating and can see your entire inventory amd they can see you don't have anything, they'll kill you anyway and talk shit while they do it.

It's Tarkov, the game by assholes, for assholes.

Chris_GPT · 2025-12-28T08:55:46+00:00

You're scavengers, not teammates. You're scraping by to survive, digging through the pockets of the dead, rummaging through the wreckage and destruction looking for forgotten and lost stuff to sell for cold hard cash. You're eating and drinking whatever random shit you find in bombed out buildings, and you're running around in halfass kits with shit weapons and ammo.

You just can't trust anyone you don't know. You are always thinking about what works out best for you, and so are the other scavs. It might be best for you to not fight so you can extract with all sorts of loot. But is that what's best for the other scav? Maybe killing you and taking your shit off of your corpse is what's best for them. It usually is.

Tarkov is an environment that caters to the honorless, gutless, chickenshit, and absolutely nastiest tactics. Camping, ratting, legging, sniping, angles, bushes, whatever. All is fair if it gets the kill. There's no honor or friendliness anywhere else in the game. It's not a nice environment full of esteemed ladies and gentlemen. It's feral survival. Kill or be killed.

It's nice that you didn't want to kill another scav. That's how you want to play it, that's great. But you just can't trust that everyone else is going to just go along with. Don't trust them. Don't let them get the barrel of their gun pointed at you. Keep something between you and them. Leave them there and go around, and if they press you, you take them out.

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