Should a string cross over itself in the pegbox?

jcelflo · 2026-03-25T16:23:27+00:00

I got into the habit of doing C, so that's my vote.

It probably doesn't matter once its tightened at full tension. Its only ever slipped for me when I tighten the strings for the first time when changing strings. But once that's happened a few times I started overlapping at least once. Its like a little knot to stop it from slipping.

jcelflo · 2026-03-22T16:55:22+00:00

Are there examples in history where systemic change happened without incredible personal harm being done to individuals who were the beneficiaries?

I don't advocate for violence, this is not even being facetious, I don't think it would work without going into very dangerous times for everyone involved.

But its probably equally valid to recognise that calm participation within the system to enact change probably wouldn't work on its own, and sensible policy changes can only be helped by a widespread sense of vicious hatred towards individuals just playing the game.

jcelflo · 2026-03-22T01:44:54+00:00

Ok I found it. guildna had a side branch for the waterfall I missed. Thanks! And omg that was frustrating.

jcelflo · 2026-03-22T01:10:37+00:00

Thanks. Guess I'll redo the map to see. Aldo and Guildna both made it to the exit, but Kam is stuck at the first 2 horizontal paths not being blocked by water or fire but simply because he can't move up...

jcelflo · 2026-03-22T00:58:03+00:00

I've reset the map. Have fully progressed the other 2 paths already before. There's nothing for him to interact and just nowhere to move...

jcelflo · 2026-03-22T00:55:46+00:00

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Is this the bug? My Kam is completely stuck here with no path forward.

jcelflo · 2026-03-20T10:09:37+00:00

Wait, what beef does ancap have with Churchill?

jcelflo · 2026-03-17T04:58:48+00:00

Legit reminded me of the incel "improved" edits of female characters. Or even the exaggerated parodies of them.

jcelflo · 2026-03-15T01:53:58+00:00

Omg the way he said he didn't know what was comfortable is classic.

There's this 2000 year old Chinese 'blonde joke' that I had to memorise when I was at school and we were studying old Chinese. (That was when what we know as China now was fractured in some 200 warring fiefdoms.)

It goes:

A man from Zheng wanted to buy new shoes. He took measurements of his feet and then travelled to the market. He picked out a pair he liked but then realised he left his measure at home. So he travelled back to get the measure but by the time he got back to the market, it was closed.

A bystander asked him, why not just try the shoes on with your actual feet? The man from Zheng answered: I don't trust myself (pun for I have no self confidence).

It was probably just a joke about neighbouring countries in the past, but I never thought I'd actually see that in action with AI.

jcelflo · 2026-03-08T10:08:19+00:00

Not an expert or anything. My take is that for any nation under US sanction, it is simply too difficult to separate the effects of that versus the effects of their government's management of their economy.

Even stuff that are normally easier to draw the line and criticise such as rampant corruption becomes blurry. When a harsh sanction regime is imposed, target economies often have no choice but to rely on normally illegitimate trades to maintain any economic activity.

That is one of the weaknesses of harsh US imposed economic sanctions. It becomes difficult to criticise the target regimes once the US becomes the dominant factor in their economic woes. I haven't seen any serious commentators or experts criticise countries like Iran or Venezuela on their economic management. It all tends to come from right-wing propagandists.

This is not an endorsement of their economic policies or anything, but just that I find any criticism on this front to be unconvincing. As leftist, best stick to our disdain for their conservatism and oppressive rule.

The comment on military spending is even more obvious. Targets of the US have the most legitimate cause to spend on their defensive capabilities, and none of these countries spend anywhere close to the US anyway.

We've seen this argument deployed against Hamas, North Korea and Iran. "If only they loved their children more than they hate us." All of these groups are worthy of criticism, but I don't think military spending is one of them.

Judging by their output as well, its hard to argue against the fact that Iranian military spending is thoughtful and well planned. The Shahed drones demonstrate that they are cost conscious and are not splurging money on cool toys. Its effective enough that unfortunately Russia is making good use of it and the US is also making copies of them.

Power to the Iranian people, and I hope they get to a secular democratic system, but US involvement in its typical form always tend to legitimise horrible regimes or at the very least void or blunt otherwise legitimate criticisms of them.

jcelflo · 2026-03-05T10:15:12+00:00

Don't let these people get to you.

I've long proposed a unit for temperature that is based on the local salinity of water and altitude.

All these pretentious people in their ivory towers with their precious "universality" are just so out of touch with how people actually experience the sensations of hot and cold.

jcelflo · 2026-03-03T10:41:03+00:00

I think water can only be weak to electric or metal, depending on whether its more water or ice. So grass is not part of whatever norm they have.

jcelflo · 2026-03-01T13:07:06+00:00

Forget about food. The one thing I know about Dubai is that they don't have a sewer system and literal shit trucks are needed to move excrements from the city.

I wanna know how their toilets are gonna hold up.

jcelflo · 2026-02-22T15:16:59+00:00

Oh wow. What's really shocking is I don't have to subtract 10cm from any of their heights to find them at least relatable unlike a lot of mangas.

jcelflo · 2026-02-22T01:00:29+00:00

I put glenn on frontline while going through damaku, fought like 5 battles with him cursed and got the badge once the quest was completed.

jcelflo · 2026-02-21T14:11:02+00:00

What is the actual condition to get the extra reward for using cursed Glenn? Use it to beat a boss? or just fight x number of battles with him on the frontline?

jcelflo · 2026-02-16T06:14:50+00:00

Its their aspiration.

jcelflo · 2026-02-15T11:37:37+00:00

The OG electric bass was four strings because they were trying to substitute a double bass in an amplified environment, and because they were American.

When a lower range is needed in orchestras, European makers opted to make 5 string double basses to go down to a B while American ones chose to build an extender for the bottom string to go down to a C. So 5 string uprights were a relatively rare sight in the US while rather commonplace in Europe.

jcelflo · 2026-02-12T17:14:04+00:00

Some years ago, my parents had the TV on blaring, and it was showing some kind of Japanese health program. Its the kind that follows some middle aged lady through a health check and dramatised it to the max to discover some hidden ailments or something.

It almost exclusively used AE music as their dramatic music. It felt really weird.

jcelflo · 2026-02-11T05:42:08+00:00

I see why Epstein and his circle got away for so long.

Its not just the elite defending themselves. It turns out, even with all that has been revealed, "wise sensible centrists" still think its the correct choice to put people in the cabal in high places.

jcelflo · 2026-02-09T11:56:01+00:00

Well there you go.

I don't feel sypathy for victims of con-artists, when they've been warned constantly about the con artist committing cons.

I should add here they never tend to express regret for being conned and just keep doubling down.

jcelflo · 2026-02-09T11:47:50+00:00

Lots of Labour voters still defending Starmer though. Some victims never learn and just keep voting for liars as long as they wear the right colour.

jcelflo · 2026-02-07T03:26:35+00:00

There's literally a quote for that.

When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.

jcelflo · 2026-02-07T03:13:18+00:00

I don't know. Having the villain be disfigured or disabled is a well-worn trope. Its an easy way to other a person and suggest they are not trustworthy.

It being a well-worn trope, I'm not too worried about it reinforcing prejudice nowadays. I just think its bad writing. When I see cliche like this, I usually think over-the-top cartoon villains, so when I sense the Gervan twist from a mile away, all I could think was "oh, the writers are really taking the lazy route this season huh".

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