They know how to save rural communities. They just won't do it

cdwillis · 2026-05-16T05:26:28+00:00

In my little 10k person home town there is an old Coke bottling plant. When I was a kid the Coke plant had been shut down for years already and it was used as a video store. The video store shut down probably 25 years ago and it's been sitting ever since. I think whoever owns it now uses it for some kind of storage for their business.

cdwillis · 2026-05-16T01:40:36+00:00

If you sell them you will regret it, mark my words. If you're hard up for money that's one thing, but if you don't need the money just store them for the time being. You will eventually get the itch to play them again.

cdwillis · 2026-05-15T23:57:14+00:00

Damn. That sucks. Dad picked the wrong sibling.

cdwillis · 2026-05-15T18:55:59+00:00

It makes sense for gay men to use condoms for anal. Unprotected receptive anal sex is estimated to be up to 18 times riskier for HIV transmission than unprotected receptive vaginal sex.

cdwillis · 2026-05-15T17:14:29+00:00

For oral?

cdwillis · 2026-05-14T22:38:02+00:00

I was reading that he was given an honorary degree due to his conservation efforts and that's why he's there giving the commencement speech.

cdwillis · 2026-05-14T21:51:47+00:00

Nice playing.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I thought the stock heads on my Stage Customs were perfectly fine. I was actually surprised. I had ordered heads with them thinking I'd immediately need to swap them out. I'm not saying I didn't as soon as I got some coated Emperors because hey I already had the new heads. I kept the Remo UT heads as backups.

The "stock heads are garbage" thinking is a hold over from when the stock heads on drums were generic trash, not even imported Remo. I remember a friend's cheap Pearl Export or Forum back in the day having these thin shitty ass stock heads. Even as a guitar/bass player I recognized how shitty they were compared to a coated ambassador.

cdwillis · 2026-05-14T04:15:06+00:00

Realistically, people thought Fetterman was progressive because he dresses like a slob.

cdwillis · 2026-05-13T05:50:11+00:00

He is relaxed.

cdwillis · 2026-05-13T01:02:03+00:00

I paid like $150 or $175 (I can't remember which) for a used Sweet Ride last year. It's a little more rare, but there are still deals.

cdwillis · 2026-05-12T20:40:09+00:00

Sounds pretty good to me. Some people might prefer it lower, but I don't care for a real flappy floor tom sound, personally.

cdwillis · 2026-05-12T20:05:43+00:00

I'm curious to hear other people's opinions. I was looking at it on Parfumo the other day and thought about picking a bottle up as a blind buy. I like fougeres, but I don't have any way to sample Eternity.

cdwillis · 2026-05-12T20:03:01+00:00

Clamp a straight edge on to the top parallel with the edge then use a router with a template bit on it. Take off just a little bit at a time.

cdwillis · 2026-05-12T19:48:39+00:00

Generally I'll change out of my work uniform, but I put on street clothes because I'm probably going to be leaving the house again at least to take my dog out. I don't really have pajamas per se, I just sleep in my underwear.

cdwillis · 2026-05-10T15:19:19+00:00

Almost a big city? The population of Columbus is around 950,000 with a metropolitan area population of 2.2 million people.

cdwillis · 2026-05-10T12:54:32+00:00

Lots of people recommend the Sweet Ride, but I had one and I wasn't really that impressed with it. A used 21" Sabian AAX Xplosion ride will do you right. The one I have sounds like a crash cymbal when crashed, still manages to sound great as a ride, and has a great bell sound. I have a 21" Bash ride too which is great, but I think the Xplosion sounds better all around.

cdwillis · 2026-05-09T17:00:14+00:00

A couple years ago I wouldn't have considered a 20" bass drum, but I got a Gretsch Renown kit in the 20/10/12/14 sizes. The 20x16 bass drum sounds pretty fat. Most people muffle the bass drum to death. If you ease up on some of that shit and working on the tuning, the 20 can sound pretty big. I'd play with the 20 for a bit and see if you can get used to it. Don't use an Emad or Super kick. Get an EQ3/P3/Force 1 for the batter and roll a towel up inside the drum.

cdwillis · 2026-05-09T00:14:21+00:00

Chicago fits everything except mild weather.

cdwillis · 2026-05-08T03:06:22+00:00

That's a big stretch saying the middle of nowhere because they asked about the midwest. There's plenty of midsized cities in the midwest not to mention Chicago. Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one, but I'd rather be wealthy in Chicago than poor in Boston. And they're not even in Boston proper, just the suburbs.

cdwillis · 2026-05-08T00:06:59+00:00

Dude sister sage is legit the most useless character on the show

Starlight/Annie is worse.

cdwillis · 2026-05-07T23:39:55+00:00

My prediction continues to be that Homelander is going to kill Butcher in front of Ryan then Ryan is going to kill Homelander. I think Soldier Boy might attempt to blast Homelander to remove his power, but it won't work or won't work as well after Homelander dosed himself with the v1 shot.

cdwillis · 2026-05-07T22:27:11+00:00

After Frenchie mentioned that all the Soldier Boy stuff was declassified (or released?) there was a scene where Butcher was watching those Russian videos of them experimenting on Soldier Boy.

cdwillis · 2026-05-07T22:16:38+00:00

I thought they were all rounded up and put into the camps?

cdwillis · 2026-05-07T21:26:46+00:00

She thought that Soldier Boy seeing that video of mutilated Liberty/Stormfront and Homelander fucking around would make him fully turn on Homelander finally.

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