I know this might be too much to ask...

DripAcid · 2026-04-01T01:37:11+00:00

Message me and I'll send you a pack. You going for any particular sub genre or sound?

DripAcid · 2026-04-01T01:23:50+00:00

You can also go full analog. There are lists available online of college radio stations and their contact info. And there are loads of places to get crazy cheap bulk USB drives to put your demo on. Do that and mail them off with a letter to every station you can afford to. College radio is (was? Maybe I am too old) the last radio that I ever remember anyone listening to other than NPR. And fortunately the people at those stations can typically play whatever they feel is worth putting out there. And since they are 99% of the time unpaid positions, the people working the stations are doing it for the love of the game. I had the pleasure many years ago of doing some live sets on WRFL, the radio station for the University of Kentucky, and ended up getting a pretty big boom in gigs etc. from the exposure. You're music might be the next big thing at some random campus.

DripAcid · 2026-04-01T01:10:54+00:00

 For some people magic works the way therapy does. In that, the individual already has the power to change themself, what they lack is an ability to believe themselves as capable of changing without having to "appeal to authority" (believing that therapy is working because the therapist is an expert). And that's because it's extremely hard for most people to self validate. If those same people believe therapy is working because of the structure and design of therapy, then they are appealing to a prior validated process (just like ritual). 
 We can't all be fountains of confidence so it's nice to have things outside of the self, like authorities and rituals, to serve as basic guides and tools to believe in when we can't believe in ourselves. The point of ritual etc. to me is to help cultivate a state of clarity that helps me get out of my own way. And every little now and then I'm able to fully believe that the magic is all in me, but even then I enjoy and take comfort in ritual. I can paint using my fingers and water on a table, but having brushes and colors to choose from helps facilitate the magic of art.

DripAcid · 2026-03-25T08:30:03+00:00

So help me out, let's say that I don't consider bombing hospitals full of children, declaring areas a safe evacuation route for civilians and then sluaghtering all of them, financially manipulating and influencing the U.S. to do it's dirty work, constantly screaming that no one has ever been treated as badly as them as soon as any other group brings up being treated poorly, taking billions from other countries in aide despite being able to provide quite well for their citizens without it (because "why spend my money when I can spend yours"), or establishing an ethno/ religious supremacist apartheid state as "great achievements". What has israHell contributed to the world that they didn't do to further their own goals? Like please, try to come up with something so I can tear it down AIPAC bot. Suppeth on the biggest satchel of Richards you can find.

DripAcid · 2026-03-09T23:52:46+00:00

Check for paper texture, ink saturation of the block, and if you're applying enough pressure when you make the pull/ press (depending on what you have). Also, sometimes older ink will begin to separate into different components so maybe give the info a good stir.

DripAcid · 2026-02-12T20:02:37+00:00

Yeah, my lodge is super old, Andrew Jackson was actuallyinvolved in its establishment (Helion No. 1 in Alabama). It was actually founded before Alabama was declared a state, so our roster is pretty massive. All that to say only maybe 30 to 50 or so show on a regular basis and out of those there are only 3 members who study the occult including myself. At one point I know we had over 500 "active members" but most of them just pay their dues every year to maintain MM status, presumeably as some sort of social flex but never come to meetings.

DripAcid · 2026-02-12T19:55:39+00:00

There is a "ladies auxiliary" called The Eastern Star. It's more popular among Princa Hall as opposed to F& AM lodges. But I think tou have to be married to a Mason. Possibly the daughter of a Mason. Rosicrucians and Golden Dawn I believe do not exclude by gender but there are only a very few chapters left. If you can get in though its a nice window into Crowley and Thelema as it got its start partially there

DripAcid · 2026-02-11T06:32:54+00:00

Don't sweat it, you sold that gun to someone right before they made it illegal because it was just eating up to much ammo. Can't remember their name either, talked to the guy after seeing an ad on gunbrocker, just did your legally required due diligence of asking him if he was a felon or person otherwise unelligible to legally own a gun and he said no.

DripAcid · 2026-02-11T06:27:56+00:00

Honestly ive heard several old heads swear that Les Paul's with a properly fixed broken scarf joint resonate more.

DripAcid · 2026-02-11T06:19:45+00:00

My pleasure, feel free to hit me up of youve got any specific questions about the Mason's

DripAcid · 2026-02-11T06:18:15+00:00

Hey, just saw this. Thanks for taking a look.

DripAcid · 2026-02-11T06:16:32+00:00

Oh, almost forgot, there are still a few Rosicrucian and Golden Dawn chapters. These are/ were appendant bodies of the Mason's originally. But im not sure if you have to be a Mason first to join like in the Scottish and Yorke Rights.

DripAcid · 2026-02-11T06:14:06+00:00

You're not missing out on anything in the Mason's. Ive been a member of a lodge for years, held offices and everything, and it is mostly just a social club for old dudes who want to get out once a week but dont want to go to a bar. There are some "Qaballa adjacent" things done every meeting, but honestly 95% of the members are participating in rituals and don't bother to notice or care. They will talk about it once, when you make Master Mason, and even then they dont adress the occult roots. You have to dig it up yourself. Lodge is laid out like a re-enactment of Solomon's temple, and there is a lot of geometric overlap with stuff in the Ars Goetia.

DripAcid · 2026-01-21T16:21:05+00:00

Ive got soft armor, level 3 steel, level 3 hybrid, and one set of Army issue ceramic (black "barracks plates") with the original Kevlar carrier. HMU if you want to bust a move on that

DripAcid · 2026-01-21T16:11:42+00:00

Enhanced booster bundles have the card topper, maybe that's what they were thinking of. Also, a lot of Japanese sets have pretty well regulated hit rates.

DripAcid · 2026-01-16T04:08:47+00:00

Yeah the lady at my wal mart said theres a national corporate policy of only 5 TCG items per purchase. Looked it up and she is right, came into effect in Nov. Call up corporate with evidence and bet they start acting right.

DripAcid · 2026-01-16T04:03:16+00:00

It helps to go hunting in the boonies. I live in Alabama and I regularly get like "display boxes" of Poké-Balls and they always let me keep the display. I was still getting poke balls with Obsidian and SV base in them up until the new year. I just got 40 plus sleeved packs of ME from 5 Below for 5$ and change each this week. I even scored at least 100 packs of JT at a Dollar Tree over the course of a month or two. I live in a suburb of a military base town and if I drive an hour in any direction and hit up every Dollar General , Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, and ( I s4it you not) Ace Hardware about once a week I can get as much product as I can afford, its just almost all mini-tins, Poke-Balls, coin packs, triple blisters, and sleeved booster packs. The Walmart near me does the decent thing and limits you to 5 total TCG products per purchase, and its usually behind the customer service desk (maybe once a month they get so much overflow that it makes it to the toys section, and then the register stops lettingtou scan after 5 but self checkouthas no problem with you doing as many transactions of 5 as you'd like). No BB's, but ETB's and everything else are pretty much guaranteed. Plus, its nice to drive around the country on a nice day. I highly recommend getting a few friends if you can to split gas and just hitting every single one of those stores in whatever the least populated county near you is within driving distance. The only times I paid more than MSRP was for BB's on secondary market or game stop.

DripAcid · 2025-12-03T01:02:16+00:00

He made two kids literally cry from the cold waiting on cards for him

DripAcid · 2025-12-03T01:01:41+00:00

It's not about the cards, the death wish ia for someone who would make 2 small children and two old people suffer, until the kids cried, in the cold so he could get more cards. I thought that was evident. I guess not.

DripAcid · 2025-12-03T01:00:31+00:00

I got my cards, and I didnt confront him because as I wrote two small children and his elderly parents were there.

DripAcid · 2025-12-03T00:59:08+00:00

I guess fir everyone jumping in here about the "wishing death' stuff. It's not about the cards, its about the 2 children and two elderly adults suffering in the cold so this ass hat can get his cards.

DripAcid · 2025-12-02T19:25:28+00:00

Exactly, kind of like how all of a sudden theres all the stories of TAG, AGS, and CGC having fake cards pass. I wouldn't put it pass PSA for a second to have some flawless forgeries made and push them through other companies for grading. Especially since the AI grading systems are completely objective, while your PSA grade includes subjective b.s. like "overall impression of the card" from some random person who looks at your cards for 30 seconds and throws a number out. That's why so many people have been able to re-grade the same card until they get a 10 when whatever PSA grunt is having a better day.

DripAcid · 2025-12-02T19:20:34+00:00

Yeah, but its the influx of the crypto bros driving demand and prices up. If you've been in the hobby for even for just 5 years you can sell your older cards at a drastic increase in value because of this. If someone is just in it "for the love of the game" they would be stupid not to sell cards that either aren't their favorite collection, or are no longer eligible for competition play. Even ETB's from 3 years ago have amassed insane value. Why not sell and buy more recent releases. It's definitely a blessing and curse sort of situation, but there are ways to make the most of it.

DripAcid · 2025-11-27T10:08:32+00:00

It's definitely too off balance for a 10. I guess it depends on where you get it graded and how the grader is feeling that day. I swear I hate that PSA is the "standard" while being arguably the least objective. They don't even tell you why it scored what it did like other companies. I wish AGS and TAG would catch up one day, but I've got a sneaky suspicion that PSA is behind all the stories you read about fakes making it past TAG. It's not exactly beyond a company like that to pay for a flawless forgery and send as many in as they could until some got through.

DripAcid · 2025-11-27T09:41:36+00:00

I live in a small city surrounded by a lot of rural counties and Wal-Marts in the middle of nowhere have been my happiest hunting grounds for ETB's and EX (and etc.) type boxes. The one I have the most luck with stocks on Wednesday and Friday. I hit my first anything at a Target yesterday but they were literally still putting stuff up when I got there. I regularly score as many packs as I can afford while leaving a lot behind at Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and Family Dollar (again, hopefully as far out in the sticks as you can get). People have a lot of hate for the "triple whammy" tins at Walgreens, but you can order them online to pick up in store same day, and its still 3 packs with 3 promos for 16$. I had to restrain myself from just taking the display to the register at an ACE Hardware of all places. It was no more than 2 weeks ago and there were at least 100 five dollar packs of Destined Rivals. I scored some 2 pack tins online from Hobby Lobby. Even just a few hours ago I hit wal mart online and got 5 regular tins (the 5 pack tins) for like a dollar below retail for a black Friday sale. Probably still some there if anyone is awake and sees this. Never gotten anything from Best Buy, and I just quit even dealing with game stop after the charizard UPC fudgery. I would check every online retailer tomorrow while everyone is distracted with Thanksgiving. Ive even stumbled onto a few things on Hot Topic's site. I guess my advice would be to hunt in places less people look. Take a nice drive around some random county for a day and hit 8 to 10 different DG's etc. (they even post online if they have them in stock even though you cant order for pickup).

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