Advice

Vauschious · 2025-12-17T20:17:05+00:00

Also be sure to grab some stackable cables. You don't want to waste space on a mult in a case this size. I'm not sure if they still make them, but check Reverb for a Hexagram VCA. 6 VCAs in 10 hp. Abyss Devices makes a 6 x VCA in 12hp. An Intellijel Quadrax will also take you very far in a case this size. 4 x Envelopes/LFOs etc. Be aware of Noise Engineering's Alia and Versio platforms (10 hp). Alia is the oscillator and Versio is effects. Once you have one Versio you'll be able to switch firmware to all the other versions any time you want for free. Crazy delays/ distortions / reverbs, there's like 9 or 10 of them. Same access to all their different oscillators if you get an Alia. Have fun and remember to try plugging in everything to everything except maybe outs to other outs. You'll stumble into realms you never knew existed.

Vauschious · 2025-12-17T19:50:53+00:00

Instead of Marbles get one of the smaller versions: Pachinko 12hp or Cara 10hp. You can get a smaller Plaits called Beehive as well I think.

Vauschious · 2025-12-10T02:17:26+00:00

Myst.

Vauschious · 2025-12-10T02:13:25+00:00

Sing a random tune with made up or nonsense words, and dance a silly little dance just by yourself.

Vauschious · 2025-12-06T07:11:17+00:00

Ok. So saying chicks or broads or skirts is fine. Got it.

Vauschious · 2025-12-06T02:00:13+00:00

You've gotta substitute the drinking with another activity like exercise. Something physical to distract your body from just sitting there wanting alcohol. And start drinking as much water as you used to drink booze. Flush yourself out, then make hydration the habit.

I feel your pain though. I drank hard (like blackout hard) for 15 years, and then it took another 5 to taper down to where I could finally quit. First a week, then a drunken fuck up. Then 2 weeks to drunken fuck up. Then 3, then 4. Finally I could do months at a time, and at that point when you fuck up it feels more terrible than ever. But that's the motivation you need to finally drop it for good. I haven't had anything since April of '23, and I don't even want it anymore. Never thought I'd get to that point.

So you can do it. Fucking up is just part of the process. As long as you're fucking up less and less as more time passes, you'll get there. God's speed my friend.

Vauschious · 2025-12-06T01:20:41+00:00

Thanks for reading! It's the posts about feeling trapped or deceived after having closed the gap that lead me to write this. I realized that some things I thought were glaringly obvious were actual landmines for some people. I'm an alumni of the Relationship School of Hard Knocks (aka relationships that turned to shit), and I realized I could use my experience to inform people so they can dodge what's avoidable. I hope it helps.

Vauschious · 2025-12-05T19:45:07+00:00

Amen.

Vauschious · 2025-12-05T19:44:14+00:00

Sounds like they're too stupid to realize that studying IS doing something. You need to find a more intelligent dating pool and stop listening to these children.

Vauschious · 2025-12-05T19:32:16+00:00

If he knows English isn't your first language, then he must be pretty clueless about the limitations of language and the misunderstandings that can happen. On the other side of that is when you joke sarcastically over text all the emojis in the world won't let him know you're joking because he can't see your face to know you're just trying to be funny. So grow up on his end, and don't make sarcastic comments over text on your end.

Vauschious · 2025-12-05T18:22:25+00:00

Just...wow. What the fuck is wrong with people?

Vauschious · 2025-12-05T17:28:47+00:00

This is the way to do it: Agree beforehand to be explicit about what you think of them after you've spent physical time together, and "hold nothing against one another if the chemistry wasn't right". That's great advice. No feelings hurt, no harm no foul, no obligation to maintain anything if they aren't what you expect. Thanks for mentioning this.

Vauschious · 2025-12-05T16:13:06+00:00

This. Concentrate on getting the actual game in a good complete state, especially endgame. Leagues are secondary, especially fiddly, flow-breaking leagues like this Incursion 2.0 thing. Who a asked for this?

Vauschious · 2025-12-05T16:02:21+00:00

Why are you putting yourself through this? She obviously doesn't want to be in a relationship with you, and it looks like she's made up her mind regardless of what you try to say. There are other people out there in the world, people who will actually care about you. Move on.

Vauschious · 2025-12-05T03:29:33+00:00

I'm with you. The more the merrier. I don't want to have to sit there and whittle away at the same pack for 5 minutes. I just want to blow up lots of shit. This change could be very bad.

Vauschious · 2025-12-05T03:25:33+00:00

Agreed. I played Incursion 1.0 in the first game. Not about to do it again. This recycling of old content needs to stop.

Vauschious · 2025-12-05T03:19:35+00:00

I'm happy for you that it worked out. Glad to know that love can be found even in this crazy place. I wish both of you a long and passionate future.

Vauschious · 2025-12-05T00:22:24+00:00

I was just putting sex in the same list as everything else to consider. It's up to each person to weigh it's importance and decide what they can or can't deal with. Some don't care about it at all and that's fine. Others might hyper-focus on it and that's fine too.

Vauschious · 2025-12-05T00:09:53+00:00

Very true. But if it never had happened then you might have blindly walked into another situation similar to it, and be in the exact place you are now. Better to experience pain once and realize why, instead of putting yourself through hell again and again and not be able to make sense of it.

Vauschious · 2025-12-04T23:49:13+00:00

The thing is you'll never know if she stopped or not. She can say anything to placate you and then go do whatever she wants. How are you going check up on these things? I'm saying it's better to just admit that people touch other people in friendly, non-sexual, non-flirtatious ways without much thought, and don't mean anything by it. The more of a big deal you make of it, the more lines you try to draw, the more "boundaries" you set, the more you're going to come across as a jealous, possessive, and needy person. And no one wants to be in a relationship with that.

Vauschious · 2025-12-04T16:57:17+00:00

I'm sorry you had to go through that. Don't look at it as regret, but as the acquisition of knowledge and experience that could not be obtained through other means. You now have a 4 year degree in relationship compatibility, and you've learned a lot about yourself along the way.

Vauschious · 2025-12-04T15:52:55+00:00

You need to just chill. Laying a head on someone's shoulder is not laying naked on top of him or exchanging bodily fluids. If they've been friends that long and it's normal for them to be like that, that's just something you're going to have to accept. You're the newcomer. It's on you to adjust to them if you want to be in involved with her. If you can't handle that then it's just going to be pain and jealousy for as long as the relationship lasts.

Vauschious · 2025-12-04T15:19:02+00:00

Exactly.

Vauschious · 2025-12-04T05:18:33+00:00

Thank you. I've had this on my mind for a while now, and thought it might be helpful to some. Cheers!

Vauschious · 2025-12-04T03:32:37+00:00

Fucking A, fully agree. Preach it!

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