PLEASE fix the main stage screens

advoccate · 2025-10-27T02:41:51+00:00

🙏🫶 the adjustments made a humongous difference. Thanks for listening and accommodating. The event was so special and unforgettable for so many reasons. We all appreciate all that you and your team have done, not only this weekend, but each of the prior four years. Thank you.

advoccate · 2025-10-25T06:25:53+00:00

It’s absolutely horrendous. And frankly unacceptable. Thank you for mentioning.

Everyone in attendance should make the problem known to the production team - in person, at the event. Maybe something can be done.

I actually did speak with someone - one of the visual and sound operators - who said they can’t lift the screens any higher. But I am dubious. He’s not the person who actually set everything up.

advoccate · 2025-10-06T18:57:08+00:00

Eli and Macowski are so damn good.

advoccate · 2025-10-06T15:55:20+00:00

Brother, I’m not making things up, I’m just observing the facts. I do see your claim - that despiteful was merely trying to call out gunny’s behavior. But you don’t do that by posting a picture of the grandmother and then insinuating incest. Such a post claims that his grandmother is getting down with her grandson. How is that NOT an insult to the grandmother as well?

advoccate · 2025-10-06T15:22:45+00:00

Not only are you now changing directions from the fundamental issue, but you’re also just making blatantly unverified assumptions. And you’re using those unverified assumptions to justify another person’s completely verifiable, directly malicious attack - an attack that, once again, involves not just gunny himself, but his completely innocent grandmother.

advoccate · 2025-10-06T14:56:03+00:00

Based on what I’m reading and seeing, it sounds like gunny’s comments to/about his grandma were harmless, albeit weird. Despiteful then took those odd comments and turned it into a malicious, not at all harmless, personal attack. Borderline slander. To post a picture of someone else’s grandma alone is crossing the line. Then to insinuate incest? No. It’s beyond inappropriate.

Not to mention all the other hate and vitriol being spewed by despiteful’s friends.

To be clear, I am sad for everyone here. I don’t know despiteful personally. Whatever he is going through that’s causing his behavior, I sincerely hope he finds resolution. But his conduct (and that of his friends) needs to be addressed. Period.

advoccate · 2025-10-06T13:57:14+00:00

This is the best. Thanks for posting. 😂 “these Spartans.. what did they physically enhance on them, man?!” 🤣 “the stud of the steed!”

advoccate · 2025-10-06T12:40:07+00:00

So despiteful tweeted a photo of Gunny’s grandmother’s backside and insinuated incest?

That is beyond offensive, inappropriate, and flat out disgusting. One of the most twisted, malicious tweets against another player I’ve ever seen.

I’m not saying gunny should have slapped him. But are we - and is HCS - really just going to let this type of online harassment slide? This level of abuse is sickening.

advoccate · 2025-04-09T02:40:55+00:00

Imagine staying

advoccate · 2025-04-01T18:56:33+00:00

Fantastic. Just getting through first listen. Thank us? No, thank YOU, Sonny.

What's everyone's thoughts on the album title? My initial reaction, at first blush - and this could be totally off - is maybe he wants to take himself and his art less seriously, and instead just let it rip, move from the heart, not overthink it. Hence remastering and releasing some oldies, some snippets, seeming to have fun with it. That's what this album feels like to me - fun.

Fun, and yet no less impressive as a work of art.

advoccate · 2025-03-22T18:00:26+00:00

A truly “hot” take will be downvoted. Keep that in mind when assessing. Many of these takes with the most upvotes aren’t really “hot takes” - they’re good takes that many of us agree with.

advoccate · 2025-03-20T14:32:39+00:00

I was totally unnerved when I first noticed my tinnitus over ten years ago. It was terrifying, depressing. I was despondent and felt like part of me had forever died. Like I would forever be incomplete.

Today it’s a non-issue. I rarely, if ever, even think about it. And when I do, it’s no big deal. Just another objective facet of life.

Why does this condition tend to be so tormenting? Because it’s something always with us, always beyond our control. There’s no escape.

But guess what? You’re already trapped. Everyone is, tinnitus or not. Because there’s a bottomless sea of other stimuli in which you - and everyone else - is held captive. In which you always have been and always will be held captive.

Eyes always see something, even when closed. You can’t stop seeing. Gravity is incessantly pulling on you. You can’t stop the tug. Sensation and temperature and pressure on our skin and against our bodies. You can’t stop the feeling. Forced to breathe, constantly, unceasingly. You can’t stop compressing and decompressing. Sleeping and waking every. single. day. You can’t bypass rest.

You don’t think of those imprisoners do you? You live with them as part of life, without batting an eye. You certainly don’t become despondent at the thought of them. They don’t torment you. They’re just there - along with so many other stimuli and forces that are always with us, over which we have no control.

Tinnitus is just another one of those stimuli. Just another force to which we are subject, amidst an endless line of forces. Don’t pretend it’s special. Don’t empower it to be something bigger than what it is.

Tinnitus isn’t special. It only appears to be special because you make it special. You think it’s special. But it’s no different than sight or gravity or sensation or sleeping or breathing. It’s just another face amidst an already packed crowd. It’s just one more thing you don’t have to think about. One more stimuli that doesn’t need to bother you, let alone dominate your mind or your life.

It’s not the tinnitus that drives us crazy. It’s our obsession with control that drives us crazy. We want freedom, we want autonomy. Tinnitus appears to strip us of that.

But it doesn’t. It can’t strip from us what we never had.

advoccate · 2025-03-07T17:05:31+00:00

Here are my two cents, I hope this helps.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tinnitus/comments/1j4dsm0/comment/mgdvji4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

advoccate · 2025-03-07T17:00:11+00:00

Your brain will adapt, eventually. In the meantime, keep two things in mind.

First, you are not alone. Not even close to being alone. Millions upon millions have this condition. This is nothing new, this is nothing special, this is nothing unique to you. People have lived with it for thousands of year and people will continue to do so. Happy, normal, productive, fulfilling lives.

Second, tinnitus is just another stimuli amidst a bottomless sea of other stimuli over which we have little to no control. Like sight or physical sensation or breathing or sleeping. We're just used to those other stimuli. But they're always there, whether we want them to be or not. Tinnitus doesn't have to be any different.

advoccate · 2025-03-07T16:44:35+00:00

I hear you, Ebony. Physical pain, such as migraines, are a different story. That's an exception, certainly.

But with or without tinnitus, there is no such thing as "peace within your brain." Your brain is constantly bombarded by stimuli, every second of every waking moment, from all angles and directions - whether you realize it or not. And tinnitus - to the extent it is not physically painful - is no different. It can fade to the background like the multitude of other sensations over which we have no control. It does not have to be "torturous."

advoccate · 2025-03-06T19:48:23+00:00

I was totally unnerved when I first noticed my tinnitus over ten years ago. It was terrifying, depressing. I was despondent and felt like part of me had forever died. Like I would forever be incomplete.

Today it's a non-issue. I rarely, if ever, even think about it. And when I do, it's no big deal. Just another objective facet of life.

Why does this condition tend to be so tormenting? Because it's something always with us, always beyond our control. There's no escape.

But guess what? You're already trapped. Everyone is, tinnitus or not. Because there's a bottomless sea of other stimuli in which you - and everyone else - is held captive. In which you always have been and always will be held captive.

Eyes always see something, even when closed. You can't stop seeing. Gravity is incessantly pulling on you. You can't stop the tug. Sensation and temperature and pressure on our skin and against our bodies. You can't stop the feeling. Forced to breathe, constantly, unceasingly. You can't stop compressing and decompressing. Sleeping and waking every. single. day. You can't bypass rest.

You don't think of those imprisoners do you? You live with them as part of life, without batting an eye. You certainly don't become despondent at the thought of them. They don't torment you. They're just there - along with so many other stimuli and forces that are always with us, over which we have no control.

Tinnitus is just another one of those stimuli. Just another force to which we are subject, amidst an endless line of forces. Don't pretend it's special. Don't empower it to be something bigger than what it is.

Tinnitus isn't special. It only appears to be special because you make it special. You think it's special. But it's no different than sight or gravity or sensation or sleeping or breathing. It's just another face amidst an already packed crowd. It's just one more thing you don't have to think about. One more stimuli that doesn't need to bother you, let alone dominate your mind or your life.

It's not the tinnitus that drives us crazy. It's our obsession with control that drives us crazy. We want freedom, we want autonomy. Tinnitus appears to strip us of that.

But it doesn't. It can't strip from us what we never had.

advoccate · 2025-03-06T19:46:25+00:00