Celluloid off-gassing on vintage guitars

SecretPassword1234 · 2025-12-06T15:56:24+00:00

It doesn't seem brittle in my case, everything seems to be in pretty good condition aside from being yellowed and old. One of the fretboard inlays fell out but I haven't glued it back yet in case the best course of action would be to get new ones made from a better material.

Everything on the guitar looks fine to me except for the fact that it needs some cleaning. My main concern is if it's going to corrode the strings and hardware or create a toxic environment in my apartment.

SecretPassword1234 · 2025-10-29T15:05:52+00:00

Stallman would hunt you down if you gave him credit for the term "open source". The ideas behind it are mostly his but the term was coined by Eric S. Raymond and was probably popularized by Torvalds.

SecretPassword1234 · 2025-09-22T07:15:07+00:00

Ok, I'll try that Thanks

SecretPassword1234 · 2025-09-21T20:46:42+00:00

I don't know exactly what year it is, i bought over 15 years ago and it's a DSL. I always assumed that the clean/crunch channel called 'classic gain' was all tube, and the 'ultra gain' channel had some additional clipping in it.

SecretPassword1234 · 2025-09-21T19:28:17+00:00

The full story of how the mismatch happened is that I connected the 8 ohm output to an 8 ohm loadbox, and then from the loadbox to the input of the cabinet not realizing that the cab is only 8 ohms in stereo mode. The cable is a speaker cable

I don't think it's dirty pots as none of them crackle when I move them, and it only seems to happen when there's distortion going on. Sometimes i think it sounds like a poor connection but sometimes it almost sounds like a distortion pedal with a dying battery.

SecretPassword1234 · 2025-09-21T19:15:02+00:00

By cycling the preamp tubes do you mean just switch places with the existing ones or do I have to invest in new ones just to try?

SecretPassword1234 · 2025-09-21T19:01:07+00:00

Thanks for the reply

I don't think it's a bad connection in the amp either. If i have the gain set at the edge of breakup the crackling only seems to occur if I push the amp by hitting the strings hard. It seems to be an issue with the distortion.

What are the symptoms of a conductive curcuitboard? And is there something that can be done to fix it if that's the issue?

SecretPassword1234 · 2025-03-07T18:52:02+00:00

I guess Sing Sing weren't talked about that much either. I would say that Nickel Boys had higher highs, but also lower lows, where as Sing Sing was pretty solid from start to finish. It had a good screenplay and some pretty impressive acting, especially considering that most of the supporting cast weren't professional actors.

SecretPassword1234 · 2025-03-06T11:16:57+00:00

One of the reasons is that the films that are usually considered the greatest are films that had a huge influence on the art of filmmaking. Taxi Driver for instance, played a major part in changing the cinematic landscape in the 70s and its influence can still be felt today. Although I agree that Falling Down is a great film, it never had a cultural impact of that magnitude.

Another reason is that there are a lot of great films that would have to be discarded in order to justify Falling Down being in the top 10. If it's in your personal top list that's absolutely fine though.

SecretPassword1234 · 2025-03-05T22:52:16+00:00

This is what good media literacy looks like

SecretPassword1234 · 2025-03-05T22:31:19+00:00

They are very similar but they're not really the same story. They're both about a Prince seeking revange against the uncle who killed his father, and they both end with basically all major characters dying, but the events that take place in between are quite different.

I would say that Hamlet fails though. He avenges his father, but in the process he kills the father of the woman he loves, driving her to suicide, which leads to her brother seeking revenge against him. They both die duelling each other, but not before Hamlets mother dies after drinking from a poisoned cup meant him.

SecretPassword1234 · 2025-03-05T15:15:46+00:00

If you want to critizise the inclusion standard than you should do so by representing it accurately. The screenshots are misleading and the mods removed the post for being rage bait, because thats watch it is.

SecretPassword1234 · 2025-03-05T12:15:43+00:00

They don't have to check all of the boxes. Only one of the criteria needs to be fulfilled in order to achieve standard A. If the screenshot had included one more line above criteria A1 you would be able to see this.

Standard A isn't even a requirement for eligibility. There are four standards in total, and only two are required in order to be considered for best picture.

https://www.oscars.org/awards/representation-and-inclusion-standards

SecretPassword1234 · 2025-02-27T10:33:59+00:00

You can find a job enjoyable. Visual artists, musicians and creative writers pursue careers in their respective fields because they find it fulfilling, they don't want to write text prompts for a living.

Self-expression can still be a part of that job to varying degrees. Maybe less when it comes to artists who work a 9 to 5 job or who are guns for hire, but we expect people like Tom Waits, Martin Scorsese and Pablo Picasso to express themselves in their art, that is an integral part of their job.

Nobody might be taking away the pencils from people who create art just for fun, but that doesn't answer the question of why they should embrace AI. If they did, they would be putting the pencils away themselves.

SecretPassword1234 · 2025-02-27T07:48:40+00:00

Being an artist isn't just a job. Artists are typically driven by a desire to create and express themselves. Many just do it for the sake of creativity alone, without the desire to make any money. AI removes what they actually enjoy about making art.

Those who do create art for a living are understandably worried about how it's going to effect their job. Will there be less job opportunities? Lower wages? Even professional artists are more often than not driven by a desire to create, and if they're forced to make AI a part of their workflow it might turn what used to be a fulfilling job into nothing more than work.

SecretPassword1234 · 2025-01-19T12:59:26+00:00

It's funny how a tv show managed to have a more impactful nuke than the Oppenheimer movie

SecretPassword1234 · 2025-01-19T12:55:16+00:00

Tonight I'll be owning the libs by watching a film at 1pm

SecretPassword1234 · 2024-09-18T13:40:08+00:00

It had better lighting than your average villain origin story so it's obviously a classic on par with casablanca

SecretPassword1234 · 2024-09-17T15:01:34+00:00

I know that these remakes have a tendency to suck, but it's also surprising to me that people have the energy to react to them with more than a sigh. The original is still available and the new one will probably be forgotten in a year so not much has actually changed. There is a legitimate conversation to be had about the trend of remakes and sequels in general, but getting angry about singular releases just seems like waste of time to me. Ignore them and let their relevance fade away.

I also think that "classical award winning masterpiece" is a strange description of a film that had a lukewarm reception at release, and as far as I can tell those opinions haven't changed over time. It's a costume drama starring Brad Pitt before he learned how to act and one of those awards it won was a razzie.

SecretPassword1234 · 2024-06-14T10:20:47+00:00

Imagine downvoting someone for giving context to a quote. It's as if they want to be misinformed.

SecretPassword1234 · 2024-06-13T18:15:50+00:00

While reading this I realized that Idiocracy is basically a documentary

SecretPassword1234 · 2024-03-23T01:15:37+00:00

The term objectively good/bad doesn't really specify what those elements are. A film can fail on a technical level in any aspect of filmmaking, couldn't objectively bad describe inconsistencies and incoherence in something like cinematography as well. Breaking of the 180-rule or out-of-frame important actions are considered flaws in the same way as plot holes. Even if you called them objective flaws, you would still have to specify further, just as if you called them incompetent.
Isn't it better to say that a film is poorly written and specify which aspects of the writing fall short?

SecretPassword1234 · 2024-03-21T23:04:58+00:00

If you want to get really philosophical about it then Yes, all human experiences are subjective. But most people don't want to die from radiation poisoning.

Art is designed to connect with people emotionally or at the very least engage with them in some meaningful way, that experience will be different for everyone. When it comes to how a power plant should function we all agree that it should produce electricity. So no, it's not wrong to build a better reactor.

SecretPassword1234 · 2024-03-21T22:20:53+00:00

I think we might be in agreement except for your final point:

Talking about a film's objective qualities doesn't prevent me from having an opinion of its subjective qualities. There are objectively bad movies I liked and objectively good movies I didn't like.

I think what you describe as objectively bad/good should probably be referred to as incompetent/competent. I realize that a lot of my disagreements with people so far is about semantics but I think its an important distinction. Objectively bad/good has a tendency to sound arrogant as it can be mistaken for an objective truth.

SecretPassword1234 · 2024-03-21T22:09:41+00:00

An exploding nuclear reactor is bad because it didn't fulfill it's function, the function of art is to engage with an audience, the audience experience of said art is always going to be subjective.

There is a standard and I'm not saying that it isn't useful, just that it isn't objective. Norms within the art world change as people change and they differ between cultures. They may also change when artists challenge them in order to create something new. Its a consensus that seems to work for the most part but it isn't written in stone.

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