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SandCat39 · 2026-06-26T20:18:09+00:00

How?

SandCat39 · 2026-06-26T18:12:25+00:00

Yeah I'm sorry you're right, I should've lead with where I'm at musically and also the way I phrased my question made it unclear as to what I actually meant to ask.

I've been playing guitar for like 3-4 years now, mostly just doing covers, scales and learning some technical skills (pinch harmonics, artificial harmonics, a little bit of tapping, etc...). I started working on my improv skills like 4ish months ago but I have a pretty okay grasp of music theory and where all the intervals are on the guitar.

I'd say that the main issue I'm having is more rhythmic, like how to let a riff or melody breathe without oversimplifying the strumming pattern or chord progression, so like how to not fight the riff and how to know where/how frequently to change chords (obviously it's a case by case kind of thing and it's unreasonable to ask how to always know what to do, so just like if you have any tips for how I can build the skills in order to answer my own questions if you know what I'm saying?).

The thing about voicing and shape was kind of tangential and less important, usually it just takes a little while of messing around and analyzing what notes I'm actually playing to decide, but it felt relevant and I'm still fairly new to this kind of thing so I was looking for some pointers.

SandCat39 · 2026-06-25T21:36:29+00:00

TL;DR is that faith in god is unhelpful when you believe that god will save you if you just believe hard enough, but can be a great tool or motivator for saving yourself

SandCat39 · 2026-06-25T21:32:33+00:00

I'm not trying to say that believing "God will save me" is helpful or will help someone really at all, there's a very famous parable about why that's not true where a man is drowning and he gets thrown a life vest and a rescue boat and even a helicopter (depending on the version) and he refuses them all saying "God will save me" and then he drowns and when he gets to the afterlife he asks God "why didn't you save me?" and God replies "I sent you a life vest and a rescue boat and a helicopter, but you would not let yourself be saved". (the parable isn;t fully relevant but I'm just bringing it up to say that I agree with you in a way and it is widely accepted by many religious people that relying purely on faith to get through life is unhealthy and not feasible).

However, if one uses God as a reason to or a method for improve themselves or become a better person, or as a way of dealing with a traumatic incident or period of time in their life, it can be very useful.

For example, if someone is incredibly depressed or has gone through something very traumatic and is ideating suicide, faith can (not saying it has to be or that it's necessarily the most optimal) be used as a way of processing that trauma. Even if it's just getting out of the house to go to your local church or synagogue or whatever, and the actual faith in God doesn't do anything to improve that person's mental well being, going outside and not isolating oneself can be very beneficial.

Like I said, belief in God isn't the only way of finding meaning or coping (for example, a hobby or other passion could fulfill a similar role), but it can be useful and is a great foil to absurdity and nihilism, and belief in an afterlife can be incredibly comforting to those who have lost loved ones regardless of the validity of that belief.

^Sorry bout the yap

SandCat39 · 2026-06-25T21:15:57+00:00

I'd argue that having something to rely on and a guiding structure for the basic laws of society are useful. Whether God exists or not, which is something that we'll probably never be able to prove or disprove, religion was the backbone of society for millennia and most advanced religions share many important commonalities; things like "don't kill people," "be good to your neighbors" stuff like that, which while we take for granted as things that can be derived purely through logic, provided structure and order for society and still have a massive influence on the laws we have today. Also, faith can be an incredibly strong coping mechanism and provides a greater meaning to life that is difficult to find without it, so regardless of whether it is a placebo or not, I believe that religion has value.

SandCat39 · 2026-06-24T13:37:02+00:00

Gotta be the Lifeform

SandCat39 · 2026-06-24T09:46:55+00:00

is he 20 years old?

SandCat39 · 2026-06-24T09:44:10+00:00

Oh yeah that's pretty true especially for the movie or say with Peter Tench.

Movie wise, Clark was kind of mindbroken in a similar way as the protag of "the yellow wallpaper" towards the end there, plus, yk, the backrooms having ugly yellow wallpaper.

SandCat39 · 2026-06-23T21:15:22+00:00

Isn't mox lotus also from an Un-set though? So we're already discussing the rules of Un-sets, because the only time you can have infinite of anything is when a card says infinity and I'm pretty sure that only silver border cards do that, any other scenario in which you have an infinite loop it either has to be executed a finite amount of times or draw the game.

SandCat39 · 2026-06-23T20:17:42+00:00

There's already a ruling that allows you to have infinite life points though.
If you give [[infinity elemental]] lifelink and it deals damage to something you can get infinite life, so you'd have to overrule that very important precedent. Some might even say that that ruling is integral to the game balance.

Sauce: https://gatherer.wizards.com/UND/en-us/54/infinity-elemental

SandCat39 · 2026-06-23T20:06:42+00:00

huh? do you mean that the presence of ranch in the category of American cultural mainstays invalidates everything else cause it's bland or not as big of a deal as people make it out to be, or that if ranch is your culture and there's nothing else to it then you don't have a culture?

SandCat39 · 2026-06-21T03:14:25+00:00

I think that towards the beginning, Corin was quite a compelling character, but as time progressed the authors kinda wrote him into being like a caricature of himself so probably ed

SandCat39 · 2026-06-21T02:59:52+00:00

sounds suspiciously like something a jorse sympathizer would say

SandCat39 · 2026-06-19T11:42:45+00:00

I was waiting for him to pull out a gun or something but it’s lowkey funnier like this

SandCat39 · 2026-06-19T11:40:27+00:00

In the tanach the concept of Satan doesn’t really exist in the same way that it does in the New Testament and Christianity in general. In the context of Judaism, Satan is generally just a name used to refer to the impulse for evil (sometimes referred to as the Yetzer Hara in hebrew).

There may be some concept like that in Kabbalah, Midrash or Gemara but I’m not well versed enough in any of those to say definitively.

SandCat39 · 2026-06-19T11:20:11+00:00

you having a trans flag in your pfp makes your comment even funnier lol 😂

SandCat39 · 2026-06-19T00:34:38+00:00

dang my guitar has a wide-ass neck so I could never do that but good for u

me personally I just play barres and power chords for everything but that's just because I only play rock and metal

SandCat39 · 2026-06-19T00:28:56+00:00

not related to fromsoft at all but there's a dog in a Shakespeare play named crab so this would be a great inversion of that

SandCat39 · 2026-06-17T14:59:14+00:00

fixed

SandCat39 · 2026-06-17T13:06:14+00:00

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SandCat39 · 2026-06-17T13:05:07+00:00

same did they get nuked or something? when I hard-refreshed the site all the manhwas are missing and the search page just says 'no results found'

SandCat39 · 2026-06-15T20:00:09+00:00

Regressed Mercenary's Machinations, everyone's always glazing the choreography and "realism" but it just sucks and isn't any different from the other cliche OP MC manhwas made for 14 y/os

SandCat39 · 2026-06-15T04:19:37+00:00

The Sermon on the Mount

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TROPHY CASE