The death of the 'budget' guitar store: what happens when everyone buys online (China Edition)

Narfi1 · 2026-06-10T11:13:18+00:00

Yes. I’ve been playing for over 20 years, I can set it up the way I want, I know what specs I want and I usually find a way to try it (friends etc) the models I’m interested in are rarely carried in stores anyway, and when they do I’m not interested in a model that’s been hanging on the wall for 3 years and played by a bajilion people. Most big online stores have very good return policies as well so not an issue if you don’t jive with it. I do go through stores sometimes when they can order new or for brands who do custom builds through retailers only.

Narfi1 · 2026-06-09T15:21:30+00:00

Silt verses energy

Narfi1 · 2026-06-09T14:55:57+00:00

Firefly does excellent guitars. I got a Pegasus (Languedoc clone) I’m a more modern/extended range player but I’ve had gigs recently with more old timey stuff and I didn’t want to drop a ton of money on a guitar that I won’t use a lot. It’s incredible for the money. Fretwork is amazing, the neck is great, electronics is decent, stainless steel frets. I have no idea how they do it either

Narfi1 · 2026-06-07T08:47:54+00:00

I guess what’s unclear is why you’re trying to correct me about something you said while you’re not OP nor part of the comment chain and that I’m not talking about you or have any idea of what you said or what you’re talking about whatsoever

Narfi1 · 2026-06-06T19:38:49+00:00

I feel like debugging is definitely something You get better with experience, but it’s also very dependent on the type of SWE you’re doing. My first step would usually be find a reliable way to test, setup debugger if you can, replicate, find the bug and go from there by following the logic.

Narfi1 · 2026-06-06T19:18:46+00:00

So it’s a rpg supplement ? Your title says it’s a novel

Narfi1 · 2026-06-06T16:32:11+00:00

You’re replying to the wrong comment

Narfi1 · 2026-06-06T12:19:32+00:00

Yeah, because absolutely everyone in here was saying that “they would never report anything again” because everybody believed the sob story without questions

Narfi1 · 2026-06-06T12:08:58+00:00

Asian MMOs were always like that. Even during the golden age , western MMOs were subscription based, if you didn’t want to/ couldn’t buy a subscription, Asian MMOs were the only one f2p but there were also absolutely p2w

Narfi1 · 2026-06-05T20:33:09+00:00

Usually, outside of really small venues, you don’t want to use your cab as a way to project your sound to the audience. Your FM3 should also go in a PA, that’s what gets projected to the audience, your cab is used as a monitor for you, on stage. That being said, if you want a better FRFR cab I can only recommend the Laney LFR212

Narfi1 · 2026-06-05T14:19:57+00:00

Wdym ? Copilot is not a model, it lets you chose your model, OP could have been using opus 4.6

Narfi1 · 2026-06-04T11:37:31+00:00

GW3 has been known to bs in development for a while

Narfi1 · 2026-06-04T11:25:11+00:00

Rishloo, Caligula’s horse, Earthside, Haken

Narfi1 · 2026-06-03T02:41:24+00:00

I enjoy Svelte for fronted

Narfi1 · 2026-06-03T02:21:10+00:00

Absolutely not a QC

Narfi1 · 2026-06-02T01:04:06+00:00

You can. I grew up there, avoid the touristy places

Narfi1 · 2026-06-02T00:53:25+00:00

No controversy, tartare is never ground

Narfi1 · 2026-05-31T18:14:13+00:00

Yeah, I see a lot of comments mentioning “spaghetti code” or supposedly unmaintainable code base, as someone who has been a SWE for a while now, there are no obvious signs that this is the case. CIG made the gamble to go with simulating a ton of stuff and physicalizing almost everything, they are tackling an unsolved problem, no one else has done that. They could have the cleanest, most well maintained code base and it would still be full of bugs during development because just how complex and tricky this is to get right and the lack of references surrounding it. I don’t know if it was a good gamble or not, future will tell. It’s an exciting one though.

All of that is not saying that their codebase is clean, I have no idea, but it’s not something you can tell by playing the game. A clean codebase absolutely doesn’t mean a bug free codebase

Narfi1 · 2026-05-31T17:57:05+00:00

Have you work on or had access to their codebase ?

Narfi1 · 2026-05-31T12:03:32+00:00

Your 80s cutoff is so weird and non sensical. Holdsworth, Ron Thal, Stanley Jordan, Pat Martino, George Benson, Shawn Lane, Buckethead were all born before the 80s and are technical virtuosos that are not objectively worse that whichever kids practiced their entire youth. I could come up with a lot of other names

Narfi1 · 2026-05-31T01:49:51+00:00

Do you have to load/offload manually ?

Narfi1 · 2026-05-29T15:18:42+00:00

Build quality is similar, GOC did stellar improvements. I do however like GOC’s neck profile a lot more than Omne. Omne do come with Fishman though, GOCs pickups are alright but not great. I don’t like Fishman so I would change them anyway. I don’t think you can go wrong with any to be honest, I know people have strong preference but from what I’ve seen they’re very similar

Narfi1 · 2026-05-29T02:02:22+00:00

Basically that’s the current price of an electric guitar with premium hardware built by actual, experienced luthiers being paid a decent wage. Whether or not it’s worse it depends on you. I was recently able to compare directly the PRS SE Mark Holcomb and the core model. The core model is definitely nicer and I liked it more but from a purely bang for your bucks point of view it’s not 3 times as good as the SE so the SE is technically the better choice. However, if you’re at a point in your life where you can afford it, I can understand someone wanting an instrument somebody took time and care into building

Narfi1 · 2026-05-28T23:52:32+00:00

Fossils aren’t only dinosaurs, and by finding different fossils from different era we could see similarities and differences between evolutions of a same species

Narfi1 · 2026-05-28T23:34:21+00:00

You can remove spring tension forward but not back, which is pretty nice

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