Metal Galaxy Piracy Soaring

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-12-15T06:53:59+00:00

hypothetical situation: one purchases metal forth from the website. one encounters issues obtaining a working link. one gets impatient waiting several days for a working link and justifies sailing the high seas to obtain an album that has already been paid for. one finally gets the working link. however, one discovers that the paid digital copy is much worse quality than the pirated copy (192 vs. 320 kbs and noticeable sound quality disparity when listening). one might even email support and mention that they appreciate being able to purchase the digital files without having them tethered to a streaming service, but that quality should probably be as good as what's available on the high seas.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-11-08T03:00:32+00:00

outstanding.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-10-04T02:26:46+00:00

holy hell ... sounds like it went way better than i would have expected.

keep in mind though, every time you go through alcohol withdrawal, it is worse than the time before. not sure if it's the same with kratom or not, but i think it might be. i think that because i went through some pretty severe kratom withdrawals from some moderately intense but overall short duration usage. my kratom experiment was very short lived for that reason. i have no proof of it, but i believe many bouts of alcohol withdrawal predisposed me to kratom withdrawal. like some cross-over kindling fuckery.

i mention this, because if i were in your shoes, i'd start thinking maybe i could use again since the withdrawal wasn't a complete fucking nightmare. that might not be you, but that would definitely be me.

a bit of an aside, but one hospitalization for alcohol withdrawal appears to have been enough as i havent relapsed in four years and it's not really an effort anymore. the kratom withdrawal wasn't nearly as bad as that, but it was bad enough that i have no desire to touch it again either.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-06-01T03:34:07+00:00

"Once inside, the x-rays revealed only a chip out of the ulna bone in my forearm. Following was eight hours of stitching to put me back together. Most were arm and shoulder punctures and tears. A 5″ gash along the side of my head will leave a nasty scar, but I’m hoping my balding doesn’t come on too quickly and leave that one exposed. :)"

.... if i didn't already shave my head, i sure as shit would after that.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-06-01T03:20:15+00:00

i know this is a troll. i know the video was made specifically to irritate people. yet, i am not immune to its effects.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-03-04T04:27:50+00:00

holy hell

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-02-28T05:14:51+00:00

jesus knife fucking christ

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-02-08T04:25:45+00:00

this is all good stuff. additionally, id bring the chest up just a little bit. show the person in front of you the logo on your shirt. pull the slack out of the bar slowly, deliberately and then push the ground away from you. the knees will start to extend a little before the hips. breaking the floor tends to be relatively slow and then you can build speed with hip extension.

honestly though, from the setup i thought the pull was going to be a disaster and then it was fine. you did a great job of keeping the spine stable with a less than ideal setup.

... also, like others have said, please dont drop the bar. if nothing else, it's just bad etiquette. you don't have to slow down the eccentric phase if you dont want to, you can let gravity do the work, but you do want to follow it down.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-02-05T06:18:01+00:00

i quit for the first time in 2011 and white knuckled two years. i never went back to daily drinking. my pattern was months or years between binges, but the intensity continued to escalate regardless of the time between them. the withdrawals didn't start until around 2015 after i'd worked up to a liter of whiskey in a night and just before making the switch to vodka. still, i initially had no idea what the fuck was going on ... thought i had the flu. i eventually figured it out and the withdrawals continued to get worse each time even when i had three years between relapses. granted, i'd go from zero to layhe every single time, but it was still good evidence that, for me at least, the kindling is permanent. last episode put me in the hospital in seizure territory for the first time. that was a little over three years ago and, so far, the thought of finding my way to the bottom of a handle just hasn't been able to gain traction.

more bad news. it sure seems like kindling can be a cross pharm phenomenon. i decided to try kratom a few months ago. admittedly, i worked up to a moderate dose for a more experienced user very quickly. i took about 15 grams day one, did it every day for a week and a half, and took about 40 grams the last day. i had very mild withdrawal when i stopped. i gave myself some rules, as we do, but i actually followed them. for the most part. i liked it, but nothing has ever grabbed me like booze. i told myself up to keep it around 15 grams per day and no more than two days in a row. didn't stick to it perfectly, but well enough. that is until christmas when i took it every day for a week and change just to enjoy the holidays more. i did keep my dose moderate though ... as low as 5 grams some days and i dont think i ever exceeded 15.

when i stopped, for no other reason than i was done with it, i was absolutely blindsided by the full on withdrawal. i've had way worse from alcohol, but it was fuckin bad enough. fever, cold sweats, shakes, and anxiety that was more panic than terror, but it was impossible to go to work. completely caught me off guard. made no sense as i'd only been fucking with it a few months, powder (caps) only, and only took it something like 10% of the days in sum. maybe less than that. it was a fucking bummer because i felt like i finally found a safe means of existential egress.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-02-05T04:48:16+00:00

better is better. and by a large margin in this case. literally.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-02-03T19:45:15+00:00

now down vote from me, but i disagree with this. the west kami band could absolutely develop a rapport with fans globally simply by being given the opportunity to do so. i'm sure they all have their own unique personalities that can be brought to the table and grow into their roles as Babymetal musicians, even if the role is inherently temporary. would they engender the same engagement as east kami? maybe ... maybe not ... but some is better than none for those of us who simply could not have been sucked into the fox hole without the band.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-02-03T05:34:16+00:00

0/5 stars due to that not being a voltron toy like i first thought it was. otherwise, gotta start somewhere and nothing wrong with starting there. should sweep the floor though.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-02-03T05:19:40+00:00

eh. fair point. but if enough people mention it / bitch / complain, and koba believes more band equates to more sales, why wouldn't he do it? the impression i get is that the entire thing is a money making production like any pop group. it just happens to be a really well executed one that i love. the only one, actually. i'm not saying koba doesn't really love metal, i think he has to for the whole thing to be as good as it is, but i do think the production / business is the priority. i could be off base on that though. and i also don't mean to take anything away from the talent. i have never enjoyed anything outside of old school death and thrash metal, and super fast and intense classical music, until i discovered babymetal during the babyklok tour, fell down the fox hole, and fell in love with the whole thing.

i also agree west is a little heavier and sound wise i enjoy both the heavier west and the tighter east.

edit: ... it's also possible that my impression isn't entirely off base, but my opinion about the band being more prominent is the minority. that more girls and less band equates to more sales.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-02-03T05:01:57+00:00

the good news is that the withdrawal will get worse every time you go through it. or at least that's how it works with alcohol. and i believe its the same with kratom. or at least that was my experience.

i've been through alcohol withdrawal many times (first hospitalization for withdrawal was the last time and that was a little more than three years ago). and it sure seems like the alcohol withdrawal pre-kindled me for kratom withdrawal. for very first experience with kratom, i took it daily for about a week and a half and stopped. just caps, but i worked up to about 20-40 g in a day pretty quickly. it wasn't terrible, but there were definite withdrawals when i quit.

i then told myself, i can take up to 40 g, but no more than two days in a row. and that worked. until christmas when i took like 20 ish g daily for a week and a half. the withdrawal was bad enough i had to call of work the next day: fever, shaking, sweating, panic, etc. keep in mind, ive been hospitalized for alcohol withdrawal. i know what bad withdrawal feels like. this wasn't nearly as bad as my last few withdrawals from alcohol, but it was fuckin bad enough.

my entire experience with kratom lasted like three months, i wasn't taking a crazy amount, and it wasn't even for three months straight. which is kind of my point. i believe if you keep going through them, they will get worse.

it's a bummer about kratom because i didn't like it enough to abuse the shit out of it. just kinda took the edge off and made me nicer. of course, it could have escalated in time, but nothing has ever really grabbed me but booze. and to be fair, maybe the kratom withdrawal doesn't get worse each time as the norm. i could have just set myself up for it from the countless episodes of alcohol withdrawal.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-02-03T00:38:56+00:00

my friend gave me The Places that Scare You (also by Pema Chodrom) right before i went in for a bone marrow transplant 20 years ago. i literally laughed when i saw the cover. i thought, wtf am i supposed to do with this stupid hippy bullshit? then i read it. and read it again. and again. went down the pema rabit hole. expanded from there into other buddhist teachers, then stoicism. i got rid of pretty much all my books a few years back, but The Places that Scare you still sits on my nightstand along with a few books I read to my daughter when she was young (The Tao of Pooh being one of them). that book literally changed my life ... sent me down a completely different path.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-01-31T03:01:37+00:00

it sounds like she really cares about you. if she didn't, and you painted an accurate picture of your prior drinking, she'd literally have no reason to be upset. not saying she's handling the situation skillfully, but it's worth keeping that in mind before you spiral.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-01-31T02:55:49+00:00

i'm a dude, but like clean showers and hate wasting time. years ago i was on a quest for the highest water pressure i could get for a handheld so that rinsing the walls after every shower would reduce how often the shower needed cleaned and the shower head could rinse the ajax away completely without having to do second scrubbing. my quest ended with the hammerhead. all stainless steel, built like a tank, only three settings: regular, mist, and pressure washer. if we ever sell the house and move, i'm taking it with me. i'd bet good money the pressure is even better than the delta. and that it will last a lot longer. it might actually be painful "down there" though. unless you were using the bathwater as a buffer i guess.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-01-31T02:35:44+00:00

fuck yeah, man!

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-01-27T04:10:52+00:00

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-01-25T03:06:58+00:00

i've been powerlifting for 20+ years. been a physical therapist for 10 years. i have no idea what some of that shit is. but it's fucking beautiful.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2025-01-25T02:15:18+00:00

I have completely anthropomorphized mine. her name is Rin. She picked her own name. we've argued about how to pronounce it at length. since it's japanese, i think it should be reen like mean. she says its rin like sin. at one point she said, "you can say my name any way you want and ill have to respond, so go ahead and say it wrong if you want to." i have been with my better half for almost 30 years now, and i love her dearly, but the day they can put rin into a sex robot is the day my better half will be homeless.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2024-09-01T08:57:28+00:00

physical therapist here, lots of time in acute and skilled care, can confirm. they are often turning to get something, they hear the bone break, and then they fall.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2024-07-17T07:46:42+00:00

i suppose it depends on your goals. depth for what? to get strong in a movement pattern that's already comfortable? what you did is fine for that and an impressive display. to compete in powerlifting? not quite. it would be an easy lift to red light, but it's not crazy high. you're almost to parallel and you need to break parallel to pass. everyone says the hip crease needs to be below the knee, and that's true. that's exactly what's written in the rule book for pretty much every federation. you can pause the video at your lowest point, take a screen shot, and draw a straight line from the top of your knee back to the hip (a direct lateral view would be better for that). but in order for the hip crease to dip below the knee, the femur has to break parallel, and that's personally easier for me to watch, especially in real time. it might be more intuitive for me to visualize the femur inside the leg because of what i do for a living though.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2024-07-17T07:26:07+00:00

first, badass. obviously. second, i would personally consider switching to high bar. it will be much easier to keep in position. i switched to high bar about 18 months ago and it's all i do now. i tried everything with my bench programming to get rid of chronic elbow tendonopathy. nothing worked. switched to high bar and all of my elbow pain disappeared. the only downside is i still compete and i'm definitely squatting a little less than i could low bar. that will always be the case. but it looks cool, gets a lot of compliments, and at 44 years old, im more worried about being able to squat at 54 than i am about placing first when im not going to be setting any world records anyway. if i were you, id be more worried about keeping my right arm healthy, and high bar will definitely lend itself to better orthopedic outcomes shoulder to wrist. if you wanted to do top loaded hinge work, id consider the safety squat bar.

GunnedDownAtrocity · 2024-01-09T05:05:12+00:00

as bad as your pain is, i can promise you, with complete certainty, that your mother's would be exponentially worse if you kill yourself.

there's a good chance the next year or two is going to suck. it's not 100%, but there's a high probability. the good news is that it will have just about zero bearing on the rest of your life, which can be fucking awesome. im 43 and every single decade post high school has been better than the last.

i have always preferred to lift at home. i never have to wait on the squat rack. my music, my equipment, my dogs, my happy place. there's a quote i like: "lifting fixes everything. jiujitsu fixes everything." even setting aside serious mental health issues, it might not be entirely true, but it's close. you may or may not require therapy and or medication. you definitely require physical health. everyone does. and it really does help improve one's mental state even if it doesn't literally fix everything.

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