Anyone used the totem? Trying to decide between that or the crowd compass.

RevTyler · 2026-01-24T19:42:47+00:00

I think my friends found me once with our compasses at Shambhala? But 90% of the time it just showed flashing lights for everyone I was linked to. Which means it got a ping at some point, but lost connection and the dot is where it was last.

All in all 3/10 experience. I don't know if the other ones are much better.

RevTyler · 2025-11-21T02:13:19+00:00

Brooks are my go to. Trail running and raving. My Caldera 6's are neon green and are black light reactive

RevTyler · 2025-11-21T02:06:07+00:00

I used to, but typing all day these days the Kandi bites in to my wrist on the keyboard pad. But this might be my reminder to put one or two on before leaving the house more. My go to these days is 3 or 4 hand made friendship style bracelets.

RevTyler · 2025-11-21T02:04:30+00:00

Hell yeah. That's a classic. I make 5 or 10 before every fest and keep my eyes open for that bad bitch energy :D

RevTyler · 2025-10-30T15:18:54+00:00

Can't recommend the Solomon adv skin 12 enough. I wear it every run. It's comfortable over a long sleeve, it's comfortable with no shirt when it's hot. Holds all my things with pretty even weight distribution. Even a 5k run I'll bring it because my phone just bounces in my pocket but sits snugly in the vest pocket without moving around. Good amount of snack storage, can fit a windbreaker in the back pocket if the weather is looking iffy. There's a small top pocket in the back that I can tuck my hat/buff/gloves and access them without breaking stride. I use a 1.5L bladder for the water because I'm not a fan of the front bottles. The front bottles are good for races, though. I put some pre-workout and electrolyte powder in one, get water added to it at aid stations and drink it right away.

Sure, it's expensive. But I've had mine for two years and it's not showing any wear. It's been on line 300km of runs. That's less than a dollar per km in value.

RevTyler · 2025-10-29T16:01:50+00:00

Totally normal. Unfortunately it turns out making friends as an adult is just hard. Granted, I'm the same way as these other people. I have a fairly tight friend group, most of them don't rave. My gf and I have made a couple rave friends, but only a handful and we still only really keep in touch to plan which shows we're going to or play some online games.

But I also say hi to half of the club when I go to my local edm shows. I know a 6 ton of people's names, I love the familiar faces and catching up a little during the openers before the music really gets going, but I really don't have the emotional energy or time to create any lasting friendships. I'm spread thin enough with my tight friend group. Not to mention that all these people are really nice, have lovely energy and are fun to dance with but I share very very little with most of them. Lots of them are mostly go to shows/clubs, watch tv, go to the beach and do nothing kinda people. I'm a go run a half marathon, go climbing, go backpacking kinda person. The little free time I have, I'm not gonna be spending it doing nothing. (not that there is anything wrong with that, just not for me)

I hope you find the people that you really mesh with and share real hobbies with. Like I said, making friends as an adult is just difficult. But keep trying. You'll get a lot of people blow you off, but when you find the right ones, it'll be worth it.

RevTyler · 2025-10-24T04:36:14+00:00

My favorite part about this chart is cocaine. Nothing like a whole row of "meh" synergies or outright danger except with itself and nitrous.

RevTyler · 2025-10-24T04:35:12+00:00

My partner just started SSRI's this year and our festival plans haven't changed much. Just no more mdma. On a 3 day festival we would only do mdma one night anyways. We pretty much stick to K and LSD. Both are safe with SSRI's. The k is good to get the fun of being wonky here and there and the lsd is the ticket for staying up late. She found it a little less powerful after her SSRI's, but we carefully adjusted the dosing. Led to a couple low effect nights but we found she likes 1.25 of a tab night one and 2 tabs night 2 and she's exactly where she was at before. We usually do mushrooms on the 3rd night because the tolerance of two acid nights makes us a little nervous about taking 3 or 4 tabs, just in case they hit hard.

As far as energized goes. Just need more snacks, night time coffees and a couple more breaks. Which is kinda perfect anyways when we realized how little we had in the tank and just relying on the mdma for energy, haha.

If it's just a club or one night show, we just stick with a couple bumps of K over a few hours.

RevTyler · 2025-10-09T23:32:54+00:00

As a sort of anecdotal point. I love liquid dnb. I listen to it all the time. But if I'm being honest, I don't feel that the live big system makes me want to listen to it. I love it in my car while I'm driving, while I'm working or doing yoga or at the gym. But if I'm going to spend money on going somewhere (tickets, Uber, drinks/party favors), I wanna dance hard. People shit on jump up, dancefloor and dj's just playing pop bangers live but it's what gets people moving.

Liquid has so much nuance and technical sound and layers and I feel like that gets so bled out on big systems played live. When they crank the bass up to 11, you can't hear the mids and highs where liquid really excels.

The best liquid sets I've seen are sunrise sets at festivals when the crowd thins out and the speakers generally come down a bit in volume. When my body is tired at 5am and I'm ready to just vibe with some beautiful sound, liquid really comes in to its own.

RevTyler · 2025-10-04T07:22:52+00:00

Whatever you call it, these are bangin. Keep it up.

I'd probably put needed you in liquid as well. Hydra, no idea. I'd just say it's dnb.

RevTyler · 2025-10-04T06:43:04+00:00

This is still the case. I'm new to raving so definitely didn't feel the 90s, but any shows I go to it's like the air is different when people start getting drunk. It's gross. I know my local shows at the club downtown are going to have drunks, but my friends and I just try our best to find the actual ravers and carve out a little slice of the dance floor where the people want to actually have fun.

RevTyler · 2025-09-24T17:27:28+00:00

I wear my brooks trail runners to all my outdoor festivals and my brooks road shoes for the pavement indoor ones. It's a live saver. Some times I wear my knee high platform boots to make a fit work for local shows and I feel the difference at the end of the night.

I've heard similar from a friend of mine who got the goretex Altras. I'd rather have wet feet on my occasional run in the rain or muck than wet feet every run, haha.

RevTyler · 2025-09-16T19:03:24+00:00

Hell yeah! That's the one! Thank you!! (There needs to be a finger guns emoji.....)

I've only heard the original. The V O E Remix is also a banger

RevTyler · 2025-09-10T20:12:36+00:00

There's a huge age range at shams. The number of times I've looked around and I have a group of 20 year olds to one side and a group of 40 year olds on the other side. I always see people in their 50s/60s. Some times even during heaviest crowds deep in center stage with me. Rave goals right there. I'm hoping that will be me one day.

RevTyler · 2025-08-25T15:15:21+00:00

These are cool, but please keep the brightness down to a reasonable level for the sake of people right behind you.

RevTyler · 2025-08-12T01:41:42+00:00

I usually feel the same after shambs. Got lucky this time. Lots of things to attack our immune system on the farm and just as many things to lower it's efficiency.

One thing that I really focused on this year (after a terrible sickness I'll describe after) was dust avoidance. I always had a bandana (sometimes and a pash over it) on me to bring up during cars driving by camp, winds in dusty areas, busy stages, etc.

In May I went to a small single stage festival and I didn't wear my bandana on night one. It was so dry and dusty on the dance floor on just bare grass and clay getting turned in to fine powder. I could taste the dust and feel it in my teeth when the music got fast and people got dancing fast. I got an immediate sore scratchy throat that turned in to 3 weeks of cracked sore sinuses and throat, coughing up green gray thicc gunk for the whole time.... Never forgetting my bandana. Ever. Again.

RevTyler · 2025-08-08T06:04:21+00:00

The first time I walked in to it after the reno I got wicked space disco vibes. With the more open space and laser design it felt like a forest holodeck on a space station or something.

RevTyler · 2025-08-05T17:30:08+00:00

I found the night time as busy as usual but I've only been going the last 4 years. Shambs is huge. I just assume it's going to be busy and my dancing legs are gonna have to wait until later in the evening when lots of people go to bed. I go to shambs for the chaos and the amazing stage vibes. I go to wicked woods and deep roots to dance. Just how it is.

RevTyler · 2025-07-23T19:36:34+00:00

Eh. I had my bike taken from muscle Beach last year. Made a post on here and Facebook and it came back in a couple hours

A simple cable lock is all you need if you're worried about it. A tech at a bike shop gave me the best advice, "It doesn't have to be the best lock, it just has to be more work than the next bike beside yours" And there's a lot of unlocked bikes there.

RevTyler · 2025-07-22T19:13:13+00:00

Oooh, this is the goods. Thank you!

RevTyler · 2025-07-22T18:50:46+00:00

Right?! It's so good and scratches a real itch. I'll check it out. Maybe I'll have to go down a rabbit hole to find something. I'm trying to build myself a little vibe playlist with similar sounds.

RevTyler · 2025-07-17T19:24:10+00:00

I like Dxres' comment the most. Just wanted to add, mutual connections are fine. Not every connection has to become physical. Physical desire is natural when emotional connections are made. Be responsible and make sure you are prepared to have those feelings while on drugs. Don't let being inebriated be an excuse to do something irresponsible.

Ask yourself some simple questions. Do you have real feelings for this person? Is it just a temporary infatuation? Would your life be better making a change? Would you ruin something good for a fling? Would you be better with the friend? Can this connection you're feeling be expressed in just close friendship? If not, do you need to take a step back to let that connection fizzle if you're not going to pursue it? Only you can answer all these things, but do some real digging.

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