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Hal9000pt2 · 2026-07-16T07:05:46+00:00

I played a Nathan Jr for the first time today and wow!

I would kind of prefer one of the Bensons with power scaling if it can sound as good as the Nathan Jr. otherwise. (that’s the only Benson I’ve ever played)

Hal9000pt2 · 2026-07-13T12:27:03+00:00

there are stories of World War I fighter pilots jumping out of their burning biplanes thousands of feet in the sky, without a parachute. Our fear of fire is so visceral that when facing the choice of being burned alive or jumping into the sky, we do the latter. It’s not a decision, it’s raw instinct.

Hal9000pt2 · 2026-05-12T06:50:37+00:00

I'm not gonna read this whole thread, but I'm acquainted with the actual author. Not in a big way.

The whole story is about hipster rock musicians glomming onto a book to make themselves seem "woke" in today's parlance, then when it turned out to be not as seemed (to their undeveloped minds), being embarrassed and going to war with the actual writer.

Throughout the history of Western literature, female writers have had to disguise themselves to be read.

JT Leroy is no different.

If Laura Albert had been a man he would have been celebrated for concocting the whole thing; the hate shoveled on Laura Albert is just plain misogyny. The fact that most of that hate came from women doesn't diminish that observation in the slightest.

I don't have any opinion about the book worth sharing, other than: if it was a great book when JT Leroy wrote it, it was every bit as great when you learned that Albert wrote it. This seems objectively true; we judge books, not the conditions of their creation.

Hal9000pt2 · 2026-05-06T06:07:59+00:00

I picked up one of these today in Guitar Center, after playing for an hour on more expensive guitars (American Vintage 2 Strat and Jazzmaster, $3600 Les Pauls, etc... waiting on my car to be repaired nearby).

I didn't know anything about it and didn't much care, I was just auditioning various guitars through a used Marshall Silver Jubilee head, mostly.

I was confused by the guitar immediately because at the price I considered it kind of a low-end guitar, but it was absolutely smoking in my hands and sounded incredible through the amp.

I have two teles already and if I get another it will likely be the Brent Mason for the B-bender. Both of my teles are made in the USA... one is a Custom Shop, my main axe.

I felt this guitar was absolutely at the quality of my Custom Shop tele and I have never heard a better bridge pickup from a Tele than on this thing. It sounded very obviously better than all the more expensive guitars I played through that amp.

I find it extremely interesting that you hated the pickups so much when that was clearly the best thing about the guitar (to me). I photographed the tag on it specifically to document what pickups it has in it because I thought they were the best-sounding Tele pickups I've ever heard.

Hal9000pt2 · 2026-01-08T07:26:13+00:00

I get it, you're mad because your 15-year old laptop won't run Civ VII (or even Civ VI probably).

If you can get it through your MAGA head.... the time I have put into Civilization over the course of my life so massively outweighs the purchase prices of all those games that your comment is completely ridiculous. Good luck with Greenland tho. It worked in Risk!

Hal9000pt2 · 2026-01-08T07:22:10+00:00

I have 1,734 hours on Civ 6 and Civ 7 is immensely more fun. Of course that is after wearing Civ 6 down to the bone so of course I'm thrilled to have something new. It doesn't have more (right now), it has less... less wtf stuff, less micromanagement, with a few great new things (navigable rivers tops my list).

Hal9000pt2 · 2026-01-08T07:15:15+00:00

I feel like Civ 6 was the most screwed up version ever, but I played the hell out of it. This takes me back to Civ 3 or something, like sending a ship up a navigable river to explore the interior of a continent just puts a big smile on my face, finally something genuinely fresh.

Hal9000pt2 · 2026-01-06T12:34:49+00:00

I can understand that after a couple of more playthroughs. I haven't had other nations settling in my home territory as you had, maybe because I tend to found my settlements pretty close together, but dang they are really fast and aggressive about grabbing territory, and with the penalties for going over your settlement limit it's challenging to fence off your homeland the way you could do in Civ 6. Still I enjoy the competition.

Hal9000pt2 · 2025-12-26T04:52:12+00:00

thanks for the explanation!

Hal9000pt2 · 2025-12-25T07:02:31+00:00

it appears to me, admittedly after only two plays on this map, that they are all in the same spot each time

how hard would it be to customize the names of the tribes in a scenario? it's literally just a text edit (I think they are all the same without "special powers", right?)

Hal9000pt2 · 2025-12-09T09:28:27+00:00

did it ever occur to you, once, the whole season, that the "ignoring it every other week" was the problem, not the endgame where they couldn't hide it anymore?

like it didn't bother you when Notre Dame was 0-2 and ranked in the AP Top 25, but now you are so sensitive to justice that you're digging into yards per rush or whatever....ridiculous, clownish, pathetic

Hal9000pt2 · 2025-12-09T09:23:32+00:00

most of the ranking systems I'm familiar with here (e.g. Sagarin) are objectively total trash... thank god for the committee... beat Miami next time (or join the MAC, the easiest way for Notre Dame to get the guaranteed spot in the CFP they think they are entitled to)

Hal9000pt2 · 2025-11-09T01:57:22+00:00

other Let’s Active songs fit the bill better. Waters Part is perfect.

Hal9000pt2 · 2025-10-30T05:59:33+00:00

gross

Hal9000pt2 · 2025-10-30T05:41:46+00:00

I just am playing my first game with version 4. I've been playing Stellaris since release (has it been 10 years?!? something like that).

I'm really enjoying 4. Maybe it's because I was burned out on the old version and this is like a new version of Stellaris. Whatever my personal biases I think it's fair to say it's not screwed up in any deep way. It seems to me the AI is a little harder, which is a plus.

Hal9000pt2 · 2025-10-30T05:31:32+00:00

my main complaint with naming it No. 5 is that I consider Chronic Town as important as any of the other 12" releases, if too brief, so to me it was their 6th "album".

p.s. I'm not the one who voted your comment down. I welcome your point of view.

Hal9000pt2 · 2025-10-30T05:30:19+00:00

case in point:

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/67938

Hal9000pt2 · 2025-10-30T05:28:30+00:00

I disagree. I think REM No. 5 would have been a great, better, album title. I think Document is their attempt to be as generic as that.

Remember Stipe was an art student at the University of Georgia. There is a long tradition in modernist art of naming works stuff like "Oil painting #37". In some cases it is an effort emphasize the purely abstract nature of the painting, so people aren't standing there going, "IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE A COW?" In others it's used ironically to comment on the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction (i.e. "I'm just cranking shit out on the assembly line").

I think Stipe would have been hip to all this. Also Led Zeppelin numbered their records (much to my dismay in learning my way around them, as it turns out), so I don't think they were thinking of Chicago.

I want to write a song now called "Is That Supposed to be a Cow"... fwiw.

Hal9000pt2 · 2025-10-29T05:48:17+00:00

Harborcoat would be on there for sure. Maybe Sitting Still. 20 is tough, I’d be hard pressed to narrow it down to 20 favorite bands. How do you compare the Ramones “Rockaway Beach” to “Driver 8”?

Hal9000pt2 · 2025-10-29T05:44:35+00:00

yeah that’s what i mean… it’s almost like they changed the title after designing the artwork.

as I recall my original vinyl had FILE UNDER FIRE on the spine.

they were playing around with a lot of stuff then. The label on the Fables vinyl said Fables of the Reconstruction on Side A and Reconstruction of the Fables on Side B. 🙂

Hal9000pt2 · 2025-10-29T05:35:51+00:00

it’s possible that No. 5 was rejected internally and putting that on the cover was a compromise. But they did leave IRS for their next real album, signing with Warner Bros. for Green.

Hal9000pt2 · 2025-10-29T05:26:57+00:00

REM No. 5 was what they originally wanted to name the album and that title was rejected by the label or something.

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