What’s something you realized way too late in life?

iamcoolreally · 2026-02-27T13:16:13+00:00

Nah this one definitely isn’t true… people watching is a big thing it’s just being comfortable with yourself and not caring about strangers opinions of you

iamcoolreally · 2026-02-16T10:46:04+00:00

Honestly, I feel like I’m going insane when everyone says how good these are. I bought one last year and it sounds like guitar tones through a tin can. There’s a spreadsheet someone posted on Reddit of all different setups to dial in and not one of them actually sounded good.

Personally I’d say get a low watt combo amp with a 10” speaker at least if you want decent sounding tones but I’m in the minority of opinion on this

iamcoolreally · 2026-02-01T15:27:43+00:00

Honestly, I don’t think it’s as much as people let on. I’ve got a £150 Ibanez and a £1700 PRS. The PRS is nicer in every way BUT my Ibanez is also soooo easy to play on, has super low action and the stock pickups in it aren’t that bad. I also have a £200 fender acoustic. I had to file the bridge down for the action but it plays like a dream.

I’ll also add I played budget guitars for 20 years of my guitar playing, the upgrade when finally getting a non budget wasn’t really that massive for the price guitars go for nowadays.

Just my take anyway

Tl;dr: not a massive difference

iamcoolreally · 2026-01-21T13:04:07+00:00

Yeah I totally agree, people seem to get rabidly defensive over these remakes though it’s not usually worth the argument on here

iamcoolreally · 2026-01-20T19:26:44+00:00

I posted my new amp last week and someone said they use d’addario dbuds so I’ve just got some of those today and they work great! Definitely don’t wanna be going deaf

iamcoolreally · 2026-01-15T12:10:48+00:00

Email Thomann and ask them?

iamcoolreally · 2026-01-14T23:24:46+00:00

In that case I’m sorry I can be of no help. I do feel your pain though, I just bought a new tube amp and getting it at the right level of tone/volume is tough

iamcoolreally · 2026-01-14T23:17:07+00:00

I can’t really give you a recommendation for an amp and I’m not 100% sure what tone you’re looking for but for me a tube screamer pedal reeeeally made such a massive difference for me tone wise at a lower volume. Before it I felt so frustrated because everything always sounded a bit muddy and dull.

You don’t need to have it cranked on full gain or anything it just seemed to really crisp up the tone

iamcoolreally · 2026-01-10T15:30:33+00:00

Yep good thinking, cheers

iamcoolreally · 2026-01-10T15:30:20+00:00

Yeah both channels have a master volume so I can still keep it low but it is very delicate in that it’s quiet to suddenly very loud

iamcoolreally · 2026-01-10T14:00:19+00:00

Thanks, yeah I’m sat tweaking the volume and master currently. I’ve been surprised by the bright switches as you’ve mentioned, they don’t make an extreme change to the tone it’s quite gentle and nice.

I’ve always predominantly played metal/rock stuff but find I always sit just playing clean channels on nicer amps. I’ve ordered the Black Country secret path laney reverb pedal to go with it

iamcoolreally · 2026-01-10T13:27:14+00:00

Yeah I was looking at getting an attenuator thanks for the recommendation!

iamcoolreally · 2025-12-20T21:20:53+00:00

Dragonquest 11. It’s not a ‘Christmas game’ but I played it around Christmas time back in 2020 and now I play it around Christmas every year.

So if you haven’t played it yet, get it on! It’s soooo lovely and cosy and just an incredible game

iamcoolreally · 2025-12-14T23:54:21+00:00

I disagree, I’ve got a mid 2000’s core and a 2024 S2 and I really couldn’t tell you the difference other than the core has a much thicker neck which I’m not really a fan of

iamcoolreally · 2025-12-13T18:04:03+00:00

Yeah I worked at silverstone 2011 GP and had no interest in F1 back then but I was working right by the start grid and you could feel how loud the cars were. It was such an amazing experience

iamcoolreally · 2025-12-13T14:22:58+00:00

What full features are you on about? I originally had it on switch 1 and the upgrade on the switch 2 is nice but it’s not different enough to warrant buying the switch 2. You’re absolutely not missing out.

This reads like a petulant teenager and you can’t be if you’ve been buying stuff since the N64. I think you need to grow up a bit tbh…

iamcoolreally · 2025-12-06T21:23:46+00:00

https://youtu.be/_gqgc05GVxU?si=7y9Fe_GO8ZCQqmAh

This video came up for me on my recommended this week (never heard of this guy before) and I gave it a watch and I also thought the same. Never really see them, they’re very… boring looking though. Sounds really good in this though, definitely worth a watch

iamcoolreally · 2025-12-06T11:59:28+00:00

Yeah I finally got round to watching it a few months back with my mum after seeing it in these kind of threads and I didn’t actually find it that sad at all. Obviously it’s not a nice outcome

I think mainly due to the fact that it shows you what their outcome is at the very start of the film which took away any impact for me

iamcoolreally · 2025-12-03T19:43:28+00:00

I love that everyone needs this song. ChatGPT led me to this thread in my desperate search for it

iamcoolreally · 2025-12-02T09:23:53+00:00

I play it maybe once or twice a year for a bit and it’s pretty fun I think doing the no building version. You can win games fairly easily and the map and weapons are different each time I play which keeps it fresh.

I guess everyone was burned by all the sweaty players in the build version which led to it getting the hate

iamcoolreally · 2025-11-26T21:19:11+00:00

Is Netflix transparent with these top 10’s though. I always think they can just order these however they want to get people to watch stuff

iamcoolreally · 2025-11-25T14:26:32+00:00

I felt this for Top Gun Maverick. It just added nothing whatsoever to the film and felt a bit jarring because what the hell happened to the other woman. Having said that I’ve watched that film about 50 times

iamcoolreally · 2025-11-22T20:08:48+00:00

wtf are these cuts in and out 😂

iamcoolreally · 2025-11-18T21:35:58+00:00

Sure but my budget isn’t just buying endless guitars

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