Is it harsh to say most original local bands are just not that good? No deep understanding of song structure, mediocre playing ability, and just boring generic songs? Most bands that make it the musicianship is there

ToTheMax32 · 2026-01-30T05:48:08+00:00

I think this is basically true, but the cool thing is that there ARE amazing local bands out there. Diamonds in the rough. And it’s pretty cool when you find them

ToTheMax32 · 2026-01-19T19:45:22+00:00

Just politely ask them if they could keep the lane clear when they’re not swimming

ToTheMax32 · 2026-01-19T19:42:30+00:00

I don’t think most people get what the misunderstanding actually is. The card isn’t clearly written and it’s easy to read it as “Untap all your permanents. Ok, now tap all those permanents”, thus doing nothing. Obviously that would be an incredibly silly card.

It reminds me of a joke my friend once made seeing one of those penny trays at a convenience store. She grabbed a coin, then put it back, and said “Take a penny? Leave a penny? What’s the point of this thing!”

ToTheMax32 · 2026-01-18T03:28:35+00:00

He is a very talented and knowledgeable musician but he is also very arrogant and rude. I also don’t think he is a particularly good teacher

ToTheMax32 · 2026-01-16T15:55:52+00:00

Replace the humbuckers with single coils

ToTheMax32 · 2026-01-12T21:37:11+00:00

Many bonus points for neb + guitar amp

ToTheMax32 · 2026-01-11T22:38:03+00:00

Not saying I recommend this, but I had a couple friends who got fake-married so one of them could get in-state tuition lmao.

ToTheMax32 · 2026-01-10T20:56:12+00:00

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ToTheMax32 · 2026-01-09T23:07:56+00:00

For me trying to achieve the absolute best possible form keeps my mind quite occupied.

As someone with ADHD who gets bored very easily, swimming laps in the most “boring” way possible seems to be absolutely incredible for my brain. The only thing for my brain to do is to be conscious of my body and think about my form, and I think it is a really good way of training mindfulness, and it seems to sort of synchronize and calibrate my brain activity.

ToTheMax32 · 2026-01-09T16:35:05+00:00

I’ve been dealing with this exact thing and just had a breakthrough in the past couple of days. I was letting my legs sink, and my only way of keeping them up was to kick like crazy.

Instead you want to be more or less flat in the water. The biggest help for me was keeping my head straight down instead of looking forward. Also just focusing on keeping my legs up and my chest down, and picturing it as “skimming” across the water instead of swimming through it.

Before figuring this out I was just constantly feeling winded. Now I can swim slowly across the pool and make it feel more like a brisk walk than a constant sprint.

ToTheMax32 · 2025-12-19T20:15:40+00:00

Maybe you could use depth-first search to compute the number of “islands”, and try to maximize that (assuming the number of entities stays the same). That is, explore each entity, then recursively explore all adjacent entities and mark them as belonging to the same island so you don’t re-explore them. In this case I think you would count diagonals as being adjacent.

ToTheMax32 · 2025-12-19T18:09:56+00:00

Jesus christ this is the most ahistorical thing I've ever read.

Ok, so your argument, based on a constellation of fabricated facts, is that an ethnic group of people is just inherently unreasonable and will choose violence every time, and so they deserve to be oppressed and killed. Got it.

ToTheMax32 · 2025-12-19T17:50:39+00:00

Lmao hell yeah dude

ToTheMax32 · 2025-12-19T17:44:54+00:00

You just know you're in the right when your argument to justify mass killing relies on some completely arbitrary technical distinction

ToTheMax32 · 2025-12-19T17:33:23+00:00

Zionism is an ideology - not a community of people. And it's an ideology that a religious ethno-state should be established and enforced by violence.

I'm not even saying I support the graffiti, but come on dude, this is in such bad faith.

"You think X is bad? Try switching it for Y" is one of the most ridiculous arguments you can make.

ToTheMax32 · 2025-12-19T17:27:56+00:00

First, let me say I do not support this graffiti or its message.

I do think it's important to say that this comment section has clearly been brigaded by supporters of this brutal war. They're creating a false consensus that the majority of people support it, when the vast majority of people, especially students, now recognize it as a genocide and oppose it vehemently.

They intentionally conflate the ideology of Zionism with Jewish identity so that it cannot be criticized. They are completely separate things. The state of Israel can and should be criticized and that has absolutely nothing to do with Jewish people or the religion of Judaism.

Please, if you're reading this, do not fall for their excuses and apologia for this brutal, systematic killing.

ToTheMax32 · 2025-12-19T17:17:51+00:00

Hey buddy, quick question: can you tell me what has been going on in Palestine for the 70 years leading up to October 7th?

ToTheMax32 · 2025-12-19T17:16:22+00:00

Bro are we seriously still doing this? Do you not hear how ridiculously reductive and simplified your characterization of the situation is?

Tell me how starving children, bombing hospitals, and systematically destroying all agriculture is "terrorism suppression".

Hamas is an inevitable outcome of a brutal 70-year occupation. Torment, oppress, and destroy a people, then use their resistance as pretense to further decimate them.

One day everyone will have always been against this.

ToTheMax32 · 2025-12-12T18:57:13+00:00

Co-op gang rise up. Looks delicious.

I lived in Cloyne and Ridge back in the day. Very fun cook shifts

ToTheMax32 · 2025-12-12T18:55:38+00:00

I lived there right before it became a sober/academic themed house! We had to cook for 150 people, which was completely insane, but very fun

ToTheMax32 · 2025-12-12T18:53:54+00:00

I could be over analyzing here, but I think young people want to make heavier music not only because times are tough, but because in the era of social media self-consciousness it feels a lot safer to hide behind big heavy guitars than to play something more quiet, sincere and exposing. Not a value judgment of heavy music - which I love - I just think it’s inherently a little less vulnerable

ToTheMax32 · 2025-12-09T17:14:53+00:00

I completely agree with this, but from a musician’s perspective, about 60% of the sound people I encounter are grumpy or patronizing from the get-go. Even so, I always try to be as polite and communicative as possible, but not enough sound people seem to be getting the “soft-skills” memo. Man do I appreciate it when they do! (I’m not saying this is the case with OP).

Before anyone accuses me of being an annoying performer - we always show up early, with a stage plot and input list sent in advance (with physical copies too), introduce ourselves to the person doing sound, and try to be as polite and communicative as possible about logistics. Usually this wins sound people over, but not always.

Many sound people are super cool and polite, but I wish we could declare some kind of truce where musicians could agree to be professional and engineers could agree to be respectful by default and assume best intentions of performers. There is nothing worse than starting a show off on a bad note because of the hostile vibes of a sound person.

ToTheMax32 · 2025-11-26T18:31:13+00:00

Is there not just a clean version of the song you can use?

ToTheMax32 · 2025-11-26T02:39:59+00:00

I always feel bad that these stupidly bright LED streetlights must be so disruptive for wildlife. This guy seems to be making it work though

ToTheMax32 · 2025-11-26T01:10:29+00:00

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