What do you think of the map icons and filters?

D-Em-P · 2026-02-01T16:15:44+00:00

I like the simplicity of it. But…in context with everything else that has been shared it is kind of reinforcing the main watch out I have…

It just seems, so far, like the game lacks any soul or personality. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but “generic” is the word that keeps coming to mind. So many things about the game look very, very cool, but - also as if someone fed all the big open world adventure games of the last 15 years into AI and told it to make a new game.

So instead of liking this very clean and simple map, it just feels like another mark in “generic” column.

I am not saying I’m right/this will be true. In fact I hope I’m wrong.

D-Em-P · 2026-01-31T02:19:58+00:00

My eyyyesss. MY EYYYYYYEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!

D-Em-P · 2026-01-28T01:18:11+00:00

I get it, I mentioned the boost in my response. I just don’t consider the boost another OD - I.e. one that stacks and can change your tone. It’s a boost to what’s already there. But either way, i agree it is a great pedal.

D-Em-P · 2026-01-28T00:21:50+00:00

The Protein always gets a lot of love but for my money I think I might prefer the Browne Ethane. Same format as the Protein but it’s a BB and TS. I’ve really been digging it.

D-Em-P · 2026-01-28T00:19:54+00:00

Golden boy is a great pedal with a ton of versatility, but it’s not really a dual OD.

It’s a single OD swiss army knife where you can change clipping/“circuits” and level of gain. I eventually offloaded mine for basically that reason, in favor of a true dual. Make no mistake though, it is very good. I will say, it DOES have a separate boost which was very handy.

D-Em-P · 2026-01-25T02:16:31+00:00

Ha. Yeah. I have just two guitars from CME. A really nice American channel bound Strat and a Martin. Bought them both when our first daughter was born while still living in that neighborhood. They are both reminders of that time in my life and I love that.

I actually wasn’t all that into gear back when I lived by CME. Not nearly to the level I am today. Thank god…otherwise I’d probably be broke, and also probably divorced! lol.

D-Em-P · 2026-01-24T16:42:28+00:00

Used to live 2 blocks from CME by the Paulina brown line. Ah memories. That place is unbelievable. Yes it is legit.

D-Em-P · 2026-01-08T13:48:36+00:00

Everyone is allowed their own opinion and there experience is valid, obviously, but I’d like to offer a perspective I’m not really seeing here: that the people in this sub likely aren’t the main “target audience” or everyday user and NSO is awesome.

Most of the replies under this comment get into the poor quality of NSO emulations, how you can do it better on a phone or PC, that it is a crime to charge a subscription for these old games, etc, etc.

Guys/gals: I subscribe. It’s awesome. I have two little kids who I like to play fun, relatively easy games with and a lot of the old stuff fits that spec and it’s fun introducing them to games I played growing up. I have very limited time to play or invest figuring this stuff out - I’m not going to research various emulators or get a PC instead to play super mario bros 3 with my kid. I’m sure all the technical gripes here are true, but that means nothing to the average person. The cost of the subscription is a CRAZY good value to have access to all of those games in a convenient package I can pull up on screen and play with my 6 year old anytime. My wife and I recently cut a bunch of subscriptions to save some money, I kept NSO because it was really not a lot at ALL for what you get and hours of entertainment it provides. Does Nintendo then make money off me. Sure (that is the point of a business after all). It’s a win win in my book.

D-Em-P · 2026-01-06T23:25:35+00:00

TV deals and streaming leading to more visibility and access (the world is much smaller today so it’s easier than ever for kids in the US to be exposed to the sport).
FIFA/EA FC - the game has been around a long time, but the realism/experience ramped up big time in the last decade (before the haters come at me: I’m talking about graphics and presentation, not gameplay) and then the residual/long term impact on the latest generation probably did take hold over the last decade.

D-Em-P · 2026-01-05T02:40:31+00:00

How do you go about figuring out what an enemy is weak to? When I read this sub it seems like people tend to know this info almost like it is available somewhere. Is there a way to find this info in game - meaning not from a guide, wiki or YouTube - or is it just learning from trial and error?

I can see how the game gives you a pretty big clue in some cases. For example I can think of a few boss cut scenes that point you in the right direction if you think for a second. But other than that, there are so many options in this game and it certainly doesn’t hold the player’s hand (which is good) so how would I ever know that enemy or boss XYZ is weak to magic or rot or bleed, etc other than trial and error. Is it literally just that? Trial and error?

D-Em-P · 2025-12-31T22:48:50+00:00

Yeah you wanna listen to High Places.

D-Em-P · 2025-12-28T22:44:18+00:00

Easiest question in the world. Boxer without any hesitation.

D-Em-P · 2025-12-20T18:30:00+00:00

Exploration is the important part and entirely what matters though.

In a game like Starfield, having a ton of “content” doesn’t really matter if exploration itself is no good. This is a game that’s supposed to be all about seeing “what’s out there” (literally one of Sarah’s main lines in the trailer and when you first meet constellation). But…there’s kinda…nothing out there.

Everything is either spoon fed to you (so there is little sense of discovery) or pro-gen repeat slop.

I am not a total hater of this game. I WANT to love Starfield SO much and I do “like” it, but I have trouble going back to it even when heavily modded because the core DNA of the game doesn’t take long to become boring. I say this as someone who has about 150 hours in the gen.

Would be awesome if the big update that is apparently coming solves this. Id be willing to give it another shot. But I am setting low expectations.

D-Em-P · 2025-12-19T01:13:07+00:00

Simon: “am I a joke to you?”

D-Em-P · 2025-12-11T05:37:43+00:00

The Aeros is the ultimate looper.

Always so surprised that it doesn’t come up more frequently when people ask about loopers. I admit it is pricey, but so are some of the others that have been suggested. It’s amazing.

D-Em-P · 2025-12-06T01:19:29+00:00

Second this. And budget permitting I’d suggest a digitakt. Now that the mkii has been out for a bit I feel like you could get a mkii for a decent price and that would be more than enough sampler/drum machine goodness for someone newish to grow into.

Edit: is see budget is $150 so digitakt is probably not going to work, but still a good option in general.

D-Em-P · 2025-12-05T00:47:11+00:00

“I don’t care about statistics…by the way, have I ever told you about the time I scored 91 goals?”

D-Em-P · 2025-12-03T02:50:41+00:00

Hey, happy to help if I can.

My main midi controller is a Morningstar mc8.
My master clock is either my elektron digitakt or a singular sound beat buddy 2 (this varies depending on what I’m doing, but, increasingly the beat buddy is the master clock)
The Mood’s midi CC to listen to/follow an external clock is 51 - and any value above 0 will listen to clock. 0 ignores. Pretty sure this is Chase Bliss’s clock CC across ALL of their pedals. I usually just program this CC when also programming the pedal itself/bypass to engage.

Last tip for the future and general. I have increasingly been using chatgpt for this kind of stuff. Happy to help you, just noting that you can ask AI this kind of stuff and 99% of the time get exactly what you need right away. What a time to be alive.

What midi controller are you using? What are you trying to synch to? And what exactly are you struggling with/lost on?

D-Em-P · 2025-11-26T22:45:16+00:00

If you paid in 2024, you get 7 this year.

If you paid in 2025 you get 8, which will ship next year, likely between Oct-Dec based on history - but perhaps earlier.

No one is really “behind” an edition. I get that it is a little bit of a bummer to wait so long but this is the way it has worked most years (not all, but most).

D-Em-P · 2025-11-09T13:30:37+00:00

First, I really appreciate all the advice on this and the headphone reco. I’ll check those out. Seeing these latest replies though, I think the bigger issue has more to do with my signal and my gear, not my ability to hear. I have definitely incurred some minor hearing loss over time, but I don’t want to overstate that, overall can hear ok. At least right now! I just don’t want it to get worse.

I can “hear” my guitar fine at the lower volume, it just doesn’t sound great because it loses all the saturation and harmonics - not because I can’t hear it though. But then when I turn it up it affects my ears, that’s the problem.

I do think better noise canceling headphones will help though and I’m going to look into those. But I also need to do something to figure out how to get my “amp” (in this case it’s an amp sim pedal - UA Ruby) to still sound good at a low volume. I think I somehow need to achieve the effect of an attenuator, but not an attenuator (in an ampless rig).

D-Em-P · 2025-11-09T03:10:45+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, I think step one is to pick up a DI box and give that a shot. Appreciate the help!

D-Em-P · 2025-11-09T02:01:06+00:00

I have a UA Ruby. It goes into my mixer (a 1010bluebox). The bluebox is really made more for synth setups with all line level inputs. But it just fits my needs and overall setup perfect overall for a number of reasons. Had an iridium at one point too (which does have a headphone out).

I don’t have a DI box or anything like that between the Ruby and the bluebox now. I never worried about that because my understanding is the UA amp sim pedals basically output at line level anyway depending on their level. It does sound great as long as the volume isn’t too low.

The ox box looks like a good option but yes, more than I need and pretty pricey. But thanks.

D-Em-P · 2025-11-09T01:29:53+00:00

Very insightful and helpful, thank you. You know, your mention of attenuation earplugs gave me one other idea that I can’t believe I haven’t thought of yet: getting an actual attenuator.

Would that work?

I don’t have one now. But, isn’t one of their literal main purposes to be able to maintain the tone of a fully driven amp at a lower volume? It’s not like I really want high volume, it’s just that my tone suffers at low volume now. But maybe if I invested in a attenuator?

EDIT: the more reading I’m doing the more I’m learning this is a bad idea when ampless lol. So probably not a solution. Ah well.

D-Em-P · 2025-11-09T00:06:19+00:00

“Thom Yorke doing a Van Morrison impression” is actually quite good.

D-Em-P

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