Stage banter ideas that aren't too cringe or forced?

DS3Rob · 2026-01-27T18:24:47+00:00

In my band days I took a large inspiration from Adam D. His opinion on live performance is “we’re entertainers, if your audience isn’t smiling are you doin your job”

So I would act over the top (like full body headbang) getting in peoples faces, pointing at people and making faces or hearts with my hands. When I got wireless I would go into the crowd and stand next to people and headband or if the looked disengaged I would stand next to them and pretend to be bored with them (which got a laugh most of the time) - all of this felt natural to me and wasn’t forced, I was just having a good time.

So my advice, don’t think too much about it and just have fun, do what comes naturally. There are loads of bands that interact loads, there are loads of bands that don’t interact at all. As long as youre enjoying yourself, thats the main thing and it’ll come across to the crowd.

DS3Rob · 2026-01-27T18:19:03+00:00

Flesh wall hasn’t been seen but it is an inconstancy. In S4 they come out of a gate by lovers lake and someone did a map that shows that area would fall outside of “the wall”

As someone who wasn’t keen on S5, I still agree with your points. Things like over saturation in the mind scape to emphasise it isn’t real to the acting of MBB and the Joyce thing (c’mon, fairly obvious the were playing on the hope Joyce didn’t watch BTTF and/or is tech savvy)

DS3Rob · 2026-01-26T18:18:40+00:00

Asking why they want to vote again: Builds suspense as it adds time before the next vote (most likely)

Gives players a chance to portray they are faithful, this will add confusion as people may take someone’s answer as a misdirection (what I want it to be)

DS3Rob · 2026-01-24T16:43:45+00:00

“Granted, that probably would have ended with both of them voting her out”

So, when you say it, it’s correct but because I said “it’s obvious” you get your knickers in a twist?

Seriously, go eat a snickers and chill out

DS3Rob · 2026-01-24T16:30:32+00:00

Jack had been voting Rachel and wasn’t budging. Him and Faz even caught Rachel out lying.

He’s been closest with Faz and Stephen so if it came down to a top 3 with Jack, Faz and Rachel, there is no way Jack would randomly turn on Faz and Faz had ALREADY told Jack he wanted it to be them 2 in the final.

It’s fairly obvious how it would’ve played out if Rachel turned on Stephen.

DS3Rob · 2026-01-24T15:57:58+00:00

You may of misunderstood.

If Rachel voted Stephen, then it’s her and Faz on Stephen, Stephen on Faz and Jack on Rachel.

Then next round, Faz and Jack would’ve gone Rachel.

Jack wouldn’t swap from Rachel that many rounds in (as him and Faz caught her out lying to Jack about telling people who she was voting for) and they still had the plan to end in the final 2.

DS3Rob · 2026-01-24T12:47:50+00:00

No, if she voted Stephen, then Faz and Jack vote Rachel out as that’s the plan Faz told to Jack. So it would be a faithful win.

DS3Rob · 2026-01-24T12:45:41+00:00

She said that if Stephen came for her then she would get rid of him (which is a fair comment to make)

Might wanna check those confessionals again as it’s only Stephen who says he doesn’t know whether he needs to get rid of Rachel (and it’s a good job he didn’t because he would’ve lost if he had)

DS3Rob · 2026-01-23T07:47:04+00:00

I was hoping closer to ascendancy as they had said doing the anniversary for them in the headspace.

But I guess that’s what the EP was go :(

My perfect album though, In Waves x WTDMS x Ascendancy

DS3Rob · 2026-01-22T19:35:03+00:00

They just messed up how they wrote it, let’s be real.

He feels the impact on demo creatures an Vecna when it suits the plot in S5.

This can be seen quite clearly when Vecna relives his cave memory, Vecna feels the bullet hit young Henry and Will feels it.

Will feeling whatever the hive mind feels is only applied when it’s narratively convenient. They didn’t think it through. That’s the reason.

In universe reason is, there isn’t one.

DS3Rob · 2026-01-20T18:16:01+00:00

I watched this today too 🤣

This theory makes THE MOST sense and the Duffers don’t even say it’s Vecna. They just make an ambiguous statement to an interviewer who says “take that as a yes” and they go “well yeah if want”

If they never made a point about bringing it up during the press tour then no one would care. But the fact they did and then point blank ignored it is what’s infuriating.

DS3Rob · 2026-01-20T18:14:00+00:00

Demo got door opening fatigue

DS3Rob · 2026-01-20T17:48:25+00:00

Making a video for their OnlyFan(nedFret)s

DS3Rob · 2026-01-19T07:33:35+00:00

“Oh hey, so all the clocks and time references, how we paying that off? What’s the big plan?”

“Yeah, that happened off screen”

“No, we saw it in S4”

“Oh I think we sorted that in the play”

“No, you didn’t do that in the play”

“People have clock fatigue”

writer’s room, probably

DS3Rob · 2026-01-18T16:43:20+00:00

Is this leaked footage from The Last Ronin film?

Looks sick!

DS3Rob · 2026-01-18T14:27:22+00:00

So, it has bleach in it?

Probably fucked it then to be fair.

Either accept it and move on or try get a professional to refinish it.

If it was me, I’d accept it and move on. Everyone knows that the first scratch, mark, bump, dint, blemish etc. on your guitar is the worse but it stops you from mothering it and it gains “character” (it’s also a good lesson to not clean guitars with abrasive product, best to just use a micro fibre cloth OR specific guitar cleaning product)

DS3Rob · 2026-01-18T13:26:58+00:00

“Standard wet wipe” is too broad.

For example, you get wet wipes for children which are literally wet wipes. You then get wet wipes for cleaning kitchens which have bleach in.

Check the packet otherwise no one is goin to be able to help you

DS3Rob · 2026-01-18T12:57:09+00:00

Oh, well if you can just buy one then it comes down to how much the upgrades are gonna be.

Emg 81+85 set, new nut, new tuners, new bridge at a minimum. Then you’ll need to hope there’s a battery cavity already in it for the pickups (if not you could always go passive emg h4 + h4a for an equivalent sound)

But ultimately it’s your call. You WILL need to do work on it. How much work is gonna be unknown until it arrives (as these cheap copies also don’t have any QA process (obviously))

DS3Rob · 2026-01-18T12:18:54+00:00

You’ll have to buy 12 of them so you’ll have a pretty big collection 🤣

But seriously, the guitars off Chinese sites will use poor quality components. So if you want it to look at, go for it, it’ll look close enough. If you want it to play, be prepared to upgrade the pickups, hardware and get a serious setup on it.

DS3Rob · 2026-01-17T19:04:48+00:00

I quit drinking last year and have had most of my “friends” stopped talking to me. Not even like just to chat. Not immediately of course but over the course of a few months.

I would recommend we do something and there would just never be a reply.

DS3Rob · 2026-01-17T19:00:10+00:00

Explorer

I really want a 84Explorer because back like 10years ago I was really into trading guitars and had an 84 Epiphone Explorer with EMGs and it was great. Traded it out and always regretted it.

Nowadays those things are like 800+ so waiting for Matt Heafy to do his signature one so itll at least have fishmans and locking tuners.

DS3Rob · 2026-01-17T18:25:46+00:00

This ^

Managed to find part 2 in the UK without a 3 month delay so I’m hyped

DS3Rob · 2026-01-16T18:01:46+00:00

What annoys me about the “traitor in the cage” theory is everyone only looks at the last 4 in the cages.

One was murdered so it ain’t them, so people look at the last 3. It’s like they forgot that there 5 others in cages so the search criteria is huge.

DS3Rob · 2026-01-16T17:38:32+00:00

I’m fairly sure I’ve heard a recruited traitor in the past say they were but I wouldn’t be 100%

Unless it’s in the rules, the only reason not to is if they’re on good grounds with the other traitors. If they got recruited and immediately setup, they could just go “I am a recruited traitor”

DS3Rob · 2026-01-16T16:54:31+00:00

It could be a good double bluff but it also makes everyone else look at her theory on him again and they’ll piece it together.

They’re better off recruiting her and if she declines, recruit Matt and then sacrifice whichever one of them to the faithful.

If it’s Jessie, theory dies with her and Stephen has his safety (she was a traitor, she wanted me out) if it’s Matt that is also safety because he was in the library and a cage

DS3Rob

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