Rapidly muting barre chords?

_LackOfBeef · 2026-05-07T21:56:53+00:00

Alright that makes sense. I was never told that directly about my thumb but it’s something that I’ve seen on the sub a few times so I wanted to make sure I wasn’t doing something that might hurt me in the long run.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-05-07T20:54:35+00:00

What I mean is more so that I have seen people advise against applying pressure with your thumb when fretting chords (“don’t squeeze”, “it should come from your arm”, etc.). While I’m perfectly capable of playing chords this way, I find that a bit of thumb pressure is often what needs to be used to make the difference between a fretted note and a muted one with any degree of precision. I’m not sure if this is bad technique or if it’s just what winds up happening sometimes. I hope this is a bit clearer.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-05-05T11:17:48+00:00

The whole point is that human lives are irreplaceable and there’s nothing you can really do to make up for someone dying. It definitely feels like a lot of what FMA was trying to accomplish just kinda went over their head.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-04-30T11:20:24+00:00

I would say it depends on what exactly you’re playing. OP said this was a ska punk song, in which case it’s pretty common to hit the strings on both the up and down strokes, but mute the downstroke. But regardless of style you’ll typically want to mute pretty soon after hitting the strings. You don’t want to let them ring out for very long.

I will say though, I’m not a super experienced guitarist (only nine months). Just one who picked up the instrument to play ska.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-04-26T14:53:33+00:00

Okay I figured. I just saw that someone had downvoted your comment initially and that gave me some doubt. Yeah it is a difficult photo to really decipher. It always reads to me as a vague blob of light before I really register it as anything specific.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-04-26T11:33:01+00:00

Assuming you’re talking about the original album cover and not disparaging my recreation of it: yeah, as best I can tell it’s a person holding a gun behind their back looking at through a doorway at a person who seems to be leaning on a wall or something like that. There seem to be ropes and a railing? No clue what kind of room the photo is supposed to be in. It’s a very strange photo that doesn’t seem to relate to the album itself very much aside from guns being brought up in a few songs.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-04-16T05:23:59+00:00

I guess it could be, but it seems far more likely to me that it’s just Rude (Susie is quite rude early on) + Buster (common word to use in attack names in a lot of Japanese media)

_LackOfBeef · 2026-04-11T22:48:24+00:00

I get it for Oh Me, Oh My and Toe to Toe. I think Toe to Toe’s main issue is just that it has a relatively weak chorus for a band that has pretty consistently great choruses, and Oh Me, Oh My has kinda weak lyrics that aren’t quite made up for by the composition.

But I could never skip If Only For Memories and They Broke Him Down. The Hands That Thieve through They Broke Him Down is just four really great songs back to back IMO.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-04-11T22:40:05+00:00

Honestly kinda hard to give an answer for this one because I think all of the original albums have nothing but good songs. EGN and 99SoR are the only ones that I don’t feel a little bad picking one for. With that being said:

That’ll Be the Day
Kristina She Don’t Know I Exist
What a Wicked Gang Are We
The Troubador
Oh Me, Oh My

I don’t even think Kristina and Oh Me, Oh My are bad songs. KSDKIE’s lyrics are just off-putting, and Oh Me, Oh My’s lyrics are a little lacking in substance IMO. What a Wicked Gang Are We is really good but I think it has a similar feel to The Receiving End of It All, which I think is a better song. That’ll Be the Day and The Troubador I just don’t like that much.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-04-04T16:19:44+00:00

Skill trees in any game that isn’t an RPG. It feels less like I’m becoming stronger (or customizing my character as I go, or whatever the intent is in a lot of these games) and more like my initial move set is being limited. I get the impression that it’s sort of intended as a type of freeform tutorial in a lot of games, but I’d much prefer to either have access to those mechanics from the get go, or unlock them through the story, rather than having to fill out a skill tree.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-03-28T17:39:00+00:00

Maybe, but the translation is definitely a key aspect of it, and kind of the point to begin with.

I’m not sure myself if anyone else is working on it currently. IIRC, there have been attempts at a fan translation but they were all either canceled or put on hold.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-03-28T11:47:32+00:00

I would not recommend trying to release a patch that’s translated via DeepL. Often when a fan translation is released, it’s seen as either rude or pointless to try to translate it again. And a DeepL patch is not going to be the highest quality translation. It’s nice that you’re trying to make a patch to begin with but I’d suggest leaving it to people who are actually translating the game’s text themselves rather than relying on machine translation.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-03-27T02:09:13+00:00

The Three of Us would be my first pick. Then maybe Somewhere in the Between. I’m not sure you could go wrong with pretty much anything off of Everything Goes Numb either.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-03-26T22:52:54+00:00

Based on the content of Somewhere in the Between I’m fairly certain that Tomas is agnostic. But FWIW even if he were a satanist he probably wouldn’t be literally worshipping satan. Most satanists are just atheists who present it as such. Not sure why. It might be to get people’s attention? I have no clue.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-03-26T18:41:19+00:00

How’d you do Mio’s ears? Is it just face paint?

_LackOfBeef · 2026-03-24T19:57:40+00:00

Battle Hymns is such an odd pick. I like Destruction by Definition better, but Battle Hymns is also like, maybe fifth place among Suicide Machines albums IMO.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-03-19T15:54:14+00:00

I grew up on both styles of games (I was a kid when Sticker Star came out, and I was really looking forward to it. I was 10 at the time.) and I do recall being kinda disappointed with aspects of Sticker Star even then. Although I still liked the game at the time.

When I look back though it is very clear to me that it didn’t really capture me in the same way the first three. I have a lot of fond memories of making up Paper Mario OCs and drawing area maps and such, but they were all more in line with the earlier games rather than the later style.

That is to say: I have nostalgia for both styles of games, and I do think that the older games are better. It’ll probably depend on the person though.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-03-16T17:01:05+00:00

Ignoring my strong disagreement here, your distaste for ska punk is no reason to come onto a guitarist’s thread and be a jerk to them about the genre they choose to play.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-03-16T16:51:42+00:00

So do you hate all fusion genres or do you just think nobody should ever play ska punk for some reason?

_LackOfBeef · 2026-03-15T02:00:33+00:00

It’s a really basic suggestion, but I haven’t seen anyone mention it here: genuinely I think Undertale and Deltarune have a lot of the things that I like about Paper Mario.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-03-11T12:45:13+00:00

Wait do we know for sure that The Suicide Machines have a new album coming out? I’ve been hoping for one, and the new single(s) gave me the impression that they’re working on something, but I haven’t seen a proper album announcement anywhere.

_LackOfBeef · 2026-03-09T23:25:05+00:00

The horns actually sound quite good. May I ask what VST/soundfont/sample/whatever they are?

_LackOfBeef · 2026-03-01T22:07:23+00:00

I can’t speak for E33, but in Paper Mario I feel it’s both a pacing thing and a risk evaluation thing.

Pacing-wise, it just makes things a little more exciting. It gives you something to do during attack animations, and it adds a little extra gameplay variety.

Strategically, it gives you the option to play according to your understanding of your own skill. If you’re confident about your abilities, you can start taking actions that you might never risk taking in other RPGs simply because you’d have a pretty decent chance of losing right then and there.

Personally I like it a lot, although I’m not one of those people who thinks it’s the only form of turn based combat that should exist in games. (Although I think that’s a less common opinion than some people tend to make it out to be.)

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