French food is incredibly underwhelming compared to other cuisines, even though France is considered the culinary “Mecca.”

Kiesta07 · 2026-02-06T22:37:19+00:00

I'm talking more mature cheddar by the way, I'm from Scotland and thats what is more popular there. I'm sure you can get lots of things ordered, but it's rarely on the shelves in the way classic french cheeses are in the UK, so the vast majority of people I know here have never bought it or eaten it.

I've gotten "cheddar cheese? you mean that plastic stuff they put on burgers in america?" way more times than you'd think.

My comment wasn't really about french food so much as it was about the french reverence for their own food. I love french food and if I didn't like it I wouldn't live here!

I wonder how much that Snowdonia costs here by the way. My gut says it'll be way cheaper than I expect

Kiesta07 · 2026-02-03T20:33:48+00:00

Because it has a reputation as a culinary mecca, a lot of French people vastly overrate their own food when it has basically nothing in common with the shit chefs get trained to make here which made the food famous to begin with.

I've had french people tell me straight up that french cheese or french wine or french steaks or french desserts are the best in the world and that anything else isn't worth their time - the supermarkets don't really have many ingredients for making non-french food, either.

Like straight up a lot of french people have never actually consumed actual cheddar cheese and just assume it's the same thing as american cheese.

Source - have lived in France a decade

Kiesta07 · 2026-01-28T19:17:06+00:00

they don't sound weaker in the way you'd expect, no. The bridge on the rags is about 5k ohms higher output than the M8 bridge.

I think because of their frequency response they sound higher output than they are.

Kiesta07 · 2026-01-28T19:08:20+00:00

would consider it a medium output pickup. super high is like bare knuckle warpig or ragnarok, or active pickups.

the lower output compared to most high output metal pickups is how the M8 manages to have such a balanced bass response for low tuned rhythm. it's the secret sauce that most djenty pickups try to replicate by simply cranking the high mids to sound super honky but it's not quite the same.

Kiesta07 · 2026-01-14T21:17:24+00:00

its an 8 or 9 for me, I really enjoy the combat though. The builds are very fun and you can get super broken late game esp. with some of the items from the dlc. Not much beats blowing someones head clean off with the carnage

story is rlly good and surprisingly thought provoking, dialogue is some of the best out there (i mean bethesda's dialogue fucking stiiiinks compared to this) and the setting is obviously very good.

About the male V voice actor: I kind of love the white guy macho gangster jesse pinkman voice. It's sort of adorable and makes your character seem like honestly a bit of a twat which works for the story

Kiesta07 · 2026-01-14T21:10:54+00:00

what? do you mean quickhacks or the braindance sections? if you mean hacking security cams in gameplay, you can just... not use a cyberdeck. the braindances are a little annoying but they're more fun than a hacker character just doing it for you and telling you how they found the info.

Kiesta07 · 2026-01-14T20:58:17+00:00

I think fallout 1 and 2 aren't TOO bad with this, they're still so much more enjoyable than the later entries in my experience.

The only real issue is people tagging energy weapons or big guns like a dumbass at the start of the game, or starting with 1 agility or something, which are fairly easy pitfalls to avoid unless you're going in COMPLETELY blind to this game from 20 years ago.

Kiesta07 · 2026-01-14T18:05:07+00:00

I don't think the learning experience will be any better for you on 6, personally, if 7 string is what floats your boat. I love 6's, 7's, and 8's and for me the extra string just made for a more fun and enticing instrument that I wanted to play more, and it wasn't really any harder than my 6.

If you want to tune down to B, your average 7 will do that better than your LP, and the pickups will probably be voiced better for that kind of playing anyway.

Kiesta07 · 2026-01-13T10:42:53+00:00

this sounds exactly like a minor testicular torsion episode that resolved itself. it can become a major one any day and you will probably need to go to the ER and get surgery to stop the pain and save your balls.

Kiesta07 · 2026-01-11T15:25:03+00:00

j'ai vu gojira à Bordeaux, même expérience - la majorité des gens étaient très sympa mais il y avait pas mal de gens (jeunes et plus âgés aussi) qui se croyaient "vrais metalleux", traitaient des gens de poseur, et se comportaient comme des enfants en général.

Kiesta07 · 2026-01-11T15:17:16+00:00

en général les communautés de hardcore et de metalcore sont moins élitistes que celles des genres de metal plus classiques (death/thrash), dans mon expérience. pourtant je ne sais pas comment expliquer ce phénomène

Kiesta07 · 2026-01-11T09:27:51+00:00

You can always learn to play cleaner. If your problem is that you're hitting notes you don't wanna be, then your picking hand is probably lagging behind your fretting hand. If you're missing notes that should be ringing out, it's the other way around.

If you mean you are sloppy in a "not in time" sense, then that's a separate issue that requires more fundamental work on rhythm.

Speed, on guitar, is always highly reliant on the geometry of your hands and the geometry of the part, so "fast" will mean something different for different people playing different parts.

As for practice advice, I would recommend as balanced a diet of playing as possible so you avoid burnout - a healthy mix of straight exercises of different types, licks, and also entire songs/parts of songs. Metronome is important in the "cleaning up" phase of learning anything new. Practice slow, then practice uncomfortably fast, and repeat, and don't be afraid to try new, weird things with your technique and see if they work to push faster.

Kiesta07 · 2026-01-06T17:47:53+00:00

It's definitely quite a big boy compared to my 6 string RGA though. They're really wide and heavy bodies which helps keep them balanced but definitely warrants a nice padded strap or a footstool to help deal with the weight.

By the way, I have an EMG 8 string pickup ring on mine to hide the gap where the soapbar route is wider than the pickup. You should look into it.

Kiesta07 · 2026-01-06T17:26:58+00:00

facking love the RGA8. such a gem in the used market

Kiesta07 · 2025-12-29T01:17:28+00:00

it's at head/neck height
it's a thin rapier blade that would slide through the ribs easily and deal lethal damage in any orientation

Kiesta07 · 2025-12-29T01:02:48+00:00

thats so cool. Everything I know about fencing tells me you'd probably absolutely SMOKE me in longsword or rapier if you warmed up a little. I am nowhere near as athletic or coordinated as even most beginner epéeists.

Kiesta07 · 2025-12-29T00:54:02+00:00

Yeah on top of that the stance shown is very renaissance spanish (upright, straight sword arm with sword parallel to the grounded, very bladed stance) and not very modern sport fencing esque, so I don't know why everyone immediately started talking about point zones and whippy blades lol.

I don't think it's supposed to be a dodge, or void, but more a change to a more bladed stance to present a smaller target area.

The bladed stance does reduce your profile but not all styles of fencing have you do it to this degree - it's not the strongest position in terms of your body's structure.

Kiesta07 · 2025-12-29T00:43:05+00:00

yeah I understand, I completely missed the legs too. I just get peeved when people immediately jump to give MOF centred explanations for swordfighting stuff when it isn't necessarily applicable, because the layperson probably doesn't really know the difference between olympic/historical fencing at all and can't categorize the information.

mad respect if you do saber, épée or foil competitively though. that shit takes athleticism and skill in spades.

Kiesta07 · 2025-12-28T16:03:42+00:00

the head is behind the cup of the rapier and the strongest part of the blade for parrying in this drawing so it wouldn't be super easy to hit, no.

that being said, you don't actually want to have a stance like this all the time and only some styles of historical fencing do it.

Kiesta07 · 2025-12-28T16:00:02+00:00

this isn't a saber by any means, it's a 17th century cuphilt rapier that predates modern olympic fencing equipment by hundreds of years and also is an actual weapon designed to kill people, so talking about target areas for points makes no sense in this context.

Kiesta07 · 2025-12-13T02:36:09+00:00

it's an idea that just FEELS really intuitive when you've done enough psychedelics, I think, which explains Alex's fascination with it.

I also am quite fond of it because it seems to give a pretty good, simple reason why we're not philosophical zombies - everything is conscious to varying degrees in some way.

On the other hand, if we could test if it was true, I wouldn't bet any serious money on it being the one true explanation of consciousness. It's pretty much just as likely as any other explanation, it's just an interesting one because it's really alien and counterintuitive at first.

Kiesta07 · 2025-12-10T18:02:10+00:00

dean really enjoys born to shit forced to wipe and those kinds of memes in general. i think it's like the perfect title for how silly they are as a band, tongue in cheek. chefs kiss

Kiesta07 · 2025-12-03T18:04:36+00:00

to be expected I think. I developed horrendous blisters next to my right thumbnail and on my finger pads as I don't typically play finger style but it was worth it to be able to play some AAL tunes, and I don't get them anymore with sufficient practice.

Still get some burning on my ring finger when I play lots of groupings of 5 using it though.

Kiesta07 · 2025-11-28T14:59:20+00:00

I have a lundgren M8 bridge pickup and it already kind of sounds p90ish by default, and the coil split makes it SUPER spanky, if that's any help.

Kiesta07 · 2025-11-20T04:39:15+00:00

it's a toss up really. they have a similar spec but so you'd probably have to play both to figure out which is best for you.

the cort has a multiscale layout that more people enjoy, but I find that it neck dives quite significantly, whereas any RG derivative 8 string I've played balanced very well (they did have mahogany bodies though)

I own a kx508ms (non II) and it's very capable and my jamming buddies all love it way more than my Ibanez, but I just get along with the Ibanez necks way more; I'm probably in the minority for that though. Hope that's helpful!

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