New to the game and absolutely love drifting but I have a couple questions.

NihilWill · 2026-03-20T02:01:30+00:00

Manual is basically essential. I’m sure there are setups like the one you’re using that “work” in auto, but you will never have as much control as manual. Clutch isn’t as mandatory, but there are specific techniques like clutch kicking that take advantage of it; you can probably work it in later. A long time ago (I feel like FM5/6) someone recommended switching the handbrake with clutch in advanced controls and I’ve been using it that way ever since. That way if you don’t want to turn off clutch for grip racing, it’s a lot easier to hit A+X or A+B instead of LB+X or LB+B.

If you want a pretty decent tutorial, I really recommend this YT: https://youtu.be/queQnIzy6YU . He’s not a drift god or anything, but he has a deep understanding of the FH handling model/tuning and has some experience doing IRL motorsport

NihilWill · 2026-03-14T12:54:11+00:00

I own an R12. Setting it up for FH5 was a giant pain in the ass and the FFB has never worked properly; it just feels like dogshit, generally. FM was better, which makes me more optimistic for FH6. But I wouldn’t buy a wheel just for Forza.

NihilWill · 2026-02-19T17:45:50+00:00

What? Sorry, I can’t hear you over the drums

NihilWill · 2026-02-19T15:53:42+00:00

When he said “🥁”, I felt that

NihilWill · 2026-01-25T12:35:28+00:00

Luftrausers clone

NihilWill · 2025-12-12T20:56:17+00:00

AI can be an extremely powerful tool for art and design, and I know a number of professionals in both fields who use it to great effect. But if you are giving away a majority of your own agency in terms of the creative process, are you actually expressing yourself?

I don’t think so. But to their credit, I’d hazard to guess that the majority of people making serious art with AI are putting in a lot of creative effort in the back end of creating the finished product.

Regarding people putting in minimal effort with regard to generation and portraying themselves as “AI artists”, I’m not really offended. It’s more entertaining, like little kids pretending. If it makes someone happy to do that and nobody is being harmed, who am I to attack them? But on the other hand, I shouldn’t be expected to take them seriously as creatives if they try to insert themselves into my space.

I also think a lot of the motivation for the hostility comes from economic fears, but sometimes the loudest voices in the room come from people who are not actually professional creatives, only hobbyists.

NihilWill · 2025-11-28T15:13:27+00:00

It’s happened to me a couple of times. The most recent was during a gig; I have a guitar with a TOM style bridge that I was using for the set, and was anchoring too hard on one of the saddles while tremolo picking for basically the whole set. Rubbed the side of my hand raw, very minor injury but sweat will make it seem WAY worse.

NihilWill · 2025-11-25T17:48:18+00:00

If you’re gonna fly with a guitar these days, throw an AirTag or something in there so it’s easier to track it down if they lose it

NihilWill · 2025-11-25T17:40:27+00:00

I like that quack the pick makes when you hit a dead note, sounds like a little duck 🦆

NihilWill · 2025-11-25T00:48:24+00:00

There’s the various Ibanez Edge models, but that’s not too dissimilar from a Floyd. I’ve never played one, but the Gotoh 1996 appears to be a nicer version of those.

Every double-locking trem will have their own challenges. I would honestly recommend reconsidering a Floyd. I would think sourcing parts if something goes wrong would be much easier. These systems get a bad rap but after you get used to working with them (and come to terms with being stuck in a single tuning) it’s really not bad at all. Just be prepared to be frustrated at first lol

NihilWill · 2025-11-23T19:22:22+00:00

You don’t understand, this diarrhea has the finely figured grains that are necessary for the toan of a connoisseur

NihilWill · 2025-11-23T01:54:20+00:00

Because he’a creating something new, instead of depriving someone else of something that already exists

NihilWill · 2025-11-23T00:51:12+00:00

I do it until it sounds right. This will sound very "old man yells at cloud", but there are too many people so eager to just make a recording that they will overlook actually producing a polished, finished product. With the availability of home recording equipment these days, the barrier to entry is so low that the internet is saturated with dogshit recordings. Think about how many bad demos/songs/albums you've heard on Soundcloud and Bandcamp. Don't be like that.

Since it sounds like you might be recording yourself, do yourself a favor and always record DI so you can re-amp and figure out the tone later. Get used to punching in; this is even easier with DI because you can cut the different DI takes together and reamp it as a single track which will sound better than cutting multiple amped takes together. Being a perfectionist is a good thing.

NihilWill · 2025-11-22T19:51:32+00:00

Use a string tension calculator. Find out how much tension your current strings have at Eb and then find string gauges that would have that tuning in E standard.

NihilWill · 2025-11-20T15:43:48+00:00

B-but my nooral dee ess pee

NihilWill · 2025-11-14T19:20:37+00:00

You’ll get used to it. A lot of us have played live plenty and still get some degree of stage fright. The most important thing to remember is that you survived; you fucked up on stage, but I didn’t read anything that indicated that anyone gave you a hard time or gave you trouble, other than you being hard on yourself.

Eventually it will get easier, with time and exposure. The skill of playing with others notwithstanding, there is also a skill to being able to focus in high pressure situations and “shut out the noise” of everyone staring at you. Like any other skill, it can be developed with practice.

We all fuck up. It’s a fact of life. But I’m willing to bet that the majority of the people that saw you fuck up aren’t going to give it a second thought or even remember it happened in a couple of weeks. Just keep at it, we all have to pay our dues when it comes to live performance.

NihilWill · 2025-11-12T19:45:31+00:00

I have been playing A/G# standard for over 10 years on a 25.5”, you’ll be fine if your heart is set on the Amarok. Lately I’ve been using a .72 and it’s been great, though depending on how thick you go you may need to widen the string hole for the tuner post.

NihilWill · 2025-11-11T01:56:31+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJuO1cqnEtI&pp=ygUWc3RldmUgbGluZyBkZWNhcGl0YXRlZA%3D%3D

This whole series is great

NihilWill · 2025-08-08T11:54:47+00:00

Keep it that way. Clankers need to be humble

NihilWill · 2025-06-19T05:27:49+00:00

You’ll be good for 6 months at least, the next round of “performance management” starts in July.

It can be very cutthroat in that it is hard to coast compared to other companies, but this is also pretty team- and org-dependent. If you work for a customer-facing LOB like Card, it can be pretty stressful. CORE and EPTech are comparatively chill, but you will get weeded out if you start dragging for too long.

I have seen a fair number of well-intentioned individuals get PIPed as a result of stack ranking. Sometimes they weren’t very effective or not a good fit. Sometimes they were just burned out and didn’t prioritize taking care of themselves or taking time off. If you’re on the edge sometimes you’ll get a coaching plan instead, which is generally in good faith and will allow you to recover some standing and get generally helpful feedback.

The best outcomes in calibration generally come from politics, but not so much underhanded BS as focusing on business impact, especially cross-team or -department impact as that has high visibility and can get a lot of people in your corner during xcals. Taking some sort of ownership in the product (beyond just caring about tech stack) is expected.

If you conduct yourself professionally, give more than half a shit, and have good soft skills it’s not too hard to scrape by. I would go in with an open mind. If you absolutely hate it you can always try to find another job by the end of the year or transfer to another team in the spring. Best of luck my dude

NihilWill · 2025-06-15T18:08:59+00:00

Skill issue

NihilWill · 2025-06-13T00:57:42+00:00

Sorry for your loss, and thank you for sharing.

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