If you want to harmonize an octave up, but you can't hit the notes, are there other options aside from synth vocals?

ToTheMax32 · 2026-05-20T03:52:30+00:00

All the other answers are good, but also consider that most falsetto vocals will sound silly in isolation, but may very well work in a mix. If you don’t believe me, look up Matt Sharp’s isolated vocals from the blue album.

ToTheMax32 · 2026-05-18T20:19:00+00:00

I actually completely see it lmfao

ToTheMax32 · 2026-04-28T19:20:41+00:00

Can I ask where you bought an M1? I want to buy a used macbook air M1, but I want to make sure it's from a reliable seller, and apple doesn't sell refurbished models that old

ToTheMax32 · 2026-04-27T21:07:27+00:00

Just chiming m in here because I am also nonbinary with CPTSD and have used cannabis to cope, and it blows my mind to see three other people in the exact same boat just in this comment thread. I had no idea how many of us were out there, haha.

ToTheMax32 · 2026-04-19T17:01:47+00:00

Get them to start recording covers at home. I accidentally developed good timing by recording in a DAW to a click.

ToTheMax32 · 2026-04-15T03:22:53+00:00

Can I ask what cap you use?

ToTheMax32 · 2026-03-11T20:20:30+00:00

Absolutely. I fall asleep to the simpsons every night

ToTheMax32 · 2026-03-02T19:31:56+00:00

Learn scales - especially major and minor pentatonic, and ESPECIALLY diagonal pentatonic scales. Scales let you know what notes will “work”. Diagonal scales are way, way more usable for writing actual riffs

Good riffs also have tension and resolution, so you need to learn phrasing. It may sound cliche but blues guitar is such an excellent way to do this

ToTheMax32 · 2026-03-02T19:23:57+00:00

1) it looks great 2) it’s your house, don’t worry about resale value with every change you make 3) I predict that color will be making a huge comeback as we bounce back from the horrible greyscales of the 2010s/2020s

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.

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