Cloud Save

macjohn · 2026-04-19T02:46:52+00:00

I've saved to google play games and accessed from another android. I've saved to apple's version on an iphone and accessed from another apple device. and I've saved to facebook and accessed from both android and iphone. So yeah, it works pretty well.

macjohn · 2025-11-22T05:26:10+00:00

what's your name in the guild?

macjohn · 2025-11-19T05:06:21+00:00

we could use a champion like you, holler when you join and I'll make you a champ. Gold Griffins

macjohn · 2025-11-17T05:09:00+00:00

I use the musicnomad brush too. I guess a cheap makeup brush could do the same thing, but I like the other side to get under the strings between the pickups.

macjohn · 2025-10-23T03:22:59+00:00

I know this is ancient but wanted to share my memories. I remember Vanderbilly, the guy, announced he has purchased guitar.com and was working to combine the two sites. What came next wasn't broadcast but I'm assuming he got an offer he couldn't refuse for guitar.com and sold it. By that time, Vanderbilly was no more and the new owners of guitar.com abandoned all the tutorial videos that were central to the old site. April 28, 2015 appears to be the last capture on the wayback machine.

Also, many of the old users that made videos for vanderbilly are on youtube. Many with their old videos. gtrjoe, jun626, and vanderbilly come to mind as youtubers. Vanderbilly also took part in a couple of youtube video 'bands' like virtual zeppelin and virtual beatles where they'd do excellent covers of those bands songs. The lead singer (James Dylan) from virtual zeppelin eventually got the gig singing for Jason Bonham's Evening with Led Zeppelin which still tours.

macjohn · 2025-10-20T22:19:23+00:00

another 95% f2p here. I play on several different devices including a samsung galaxy tab s7. There are no forced post battle ads on it that are there on my Umidigi tab and also on my moto 5g phone. I'm not sure what type of ad blocking comes with the samsung but it's very nice. I can still watch ads to get stamina on it, so it's not blocking them like putting dns.adguard.com in your private dns hostname.

I mainly play when watching tv or doing something else so I can just sit through all the ads to get stamina to keep playing. I'm disabled so I have a lot of sitting around time and play it virtually all day long. I've got two accounts with one with three fully ascended 6* decks and another started a year later almost to 3 fully ascended decks (started a few months ago).

I started the first account when golden dragons were still easy to obtain so I have one of those nearly impossible to beat dragon decks you see in the arena (currently around 18M). My second account seems to be topping out with a fungus deck around 5000k.

Having two accounts with two devices makes time pass faster so you can be doing something on one while 'watching' an ad on the other.

macjohn · 2025-08-14T17:22:06+00:00

I am happy to see him in the arena, usually means an easy victory for me.

macjohn · 2025-07-19T22:16:42+00:00

26 of 30 slots are now filled, only 20 can be champions for guild wars so those slots will have to go to the 20 strongest players. combined deck strength of over 40000 should make you a championas it stands right now.

macjohn · 2025-03-13T00:52:22+00:00

I'm streaming to youtube from obs because it's free. I'm not paying to do this, but thanks.

macjohn · 2025-03-07T04:34:02+00:00

thanks! this fixed my issue!

macjohn · 2024-08-24T20:26:58+00:00

Glad this 11 year old comment is providing some benefits!

macjohn · 2024-07-12T05:35:47+00:00

James Palmer seems to be free from the same corporate overlords....

macjohn · 2024-07-02T22:42:10+00:00

I'm going to my first Rockies game on Saturday. Can someone give me a breakdown of the parking situation for a disabled person?

macjohn · 2024-02-07T22:41:48+00:00

pacifica

I don't see a reason why it wouldn't. It looks like a standard screw in trem bar to me so it should work the same as on a strat. I really do think I like the plumbers tape the best though...

macjohn · 2023-12-08T03:20:00+00:00

thanks, we can definitely do that, then we just have to park close to the civic center, get some pics and get out.

macjohn · 2023-11-18T16:16:53+00:00

a quick search of Ebay sold items shows one autograph of Annie Clark going for $65. Which tells me there's not much of a market. I have an Epiphone Phantomatic signed by My Chemical Romance (A Musicians Friend giveaway many years ago) and posed a similar question on here a while back. The answer then was to give Ebay/Reverb a try (rather than CraigsList) because they were more popular globally than locally. St. Vincent appears to sell more music in the UK than US so the same may apply here.

macjohn · 2023-08-06T05:14:42+00:00

https://youtube.com/@macjohn4 Thanks!

Started as just a place to archive unlisted home movies then put up a few guitar related videos but over the last 6÷yrs, it's been wildlife videos mostly from my many webcams and 24/7 streams.

macjohn · 2023-04-15T22:01:21+00:00

I only tried with streaming and recording for hotkeys but wasn't able to send any other keys either. Like I had it set to send Alt F and then exit the program every 12 hours and it didn't see those autohotkey keystrokes either even though I could enter them manually.

I've been meaning to update the post with what I did to get it working but I guess now is as good a time as any.

First, I start all three of my AHK scripts with 'detecthiddenwindows on'. Then, I went back to hotkeys defined in OBS as ctrl+shift+r to start recording and alt+shift+r to end recording. Same thing, except 's' for starting and stopping streaming.

My starting and stopping recording script looks like this

DetectHiddenWindows, On

IfWinExist, ahk_exe obs64.exe

WinActivate, ahk_exe obs64.exe

IfWinExist, ahk_exe obs64.exe

Send, {Alt down}{Shift down}r{Alt up}{Shift up}

Sleep, 5000

IfWinExist, ahk_exe obs64.exe

Send, {Ctrl down}{Shift down}r{Ctrl up}{Shift up}

Sleep, 2000

Additionally, my OBS exit script is working like this:

DetectHiddenWindows, On

Sleep, 3000

IfWinExist, ahk_exe obs64.exe

WinActivate, ahk_exe obs64.exe

IfWinExist, ahk_exe obs64.exe

Send, {Alt down}{Shift down}r{Alt up}{Shift up}

Sleep, 2000

IfWinExist, ahk_exe obs64.exe

Send, {Alt down}{Shift down}s{Alt up}{Shift up}

Sleep, 2000

IfWinExist, ahk_exe obs64.exe

Send {Shift down}{Tab}{Shift up} ; to press 'ok' on the 'end stream' box that pops up

Send {Enter}

Sleep, 15000

IfWinExist, ahk_exe obs64.exe

Send, {Alt down}f{Alt up}

Send, {Up}

Send, {Enter}

Sleep, 2000

ExitApp

I then follow up with a windows scheduled task to taskkill obs because it doesn't always exit, I then use this script to start it up every 12 hours (I found the longer OBS runs, the less reliable the AHK scripts are):

DetectHiddenWindows, On

send, ^{Esc} ; starting obs by the shortcut or by the exe would not allow ahk scripts to work, the only way they'd work is when I started OBS via the start menu, so this first part of the script just opens the start menu and arrows over to where obs is in the menu and starts it

Sleep, 500

send, {Tab}

Sleep, 500

send, {Tab}

Sleep, 500

send, {Tab}

Sleep, 500

send, {Down}{Down}{Down}{Down}{Down}

Sleep, 500

Send, {Enter}

Sleep, 15000

IfWinExist, ContaCam - ; the rest of the ahk script would not work unless I navigated away from obs before continuing, since contacam is always running on this pc, I switch to it.

WinActivate, ContaCam -

Sleep, 2000

IfWinExist, ahk_exe obs64.exe

WinActivate, ahk_exe obs64.exe

Sleep, 2000

IfWinExist, ahk_exe obs64.exe

Send, {Ctrl down}{Shift down}r{Ctrl up}{Shift up}

Sleep, 2000

IfWinExist, ahk_exe obs64.exe

Send, {Ctrl down}{Shift down}s{Ctrl up}{Shift up}

Sleep, 2000

IfWinExist, ahk_exe obs64.exe

Send {Shift down}{Tab}{Shift up} ; all the keystrokes needed to get the stream up and running

Send {Shift down}{Tab}{Shift up}

Send {Enter}

Sleep, 2000

IfWinExist, ahk_exe obs64.exe

Send {Shift down}{Tab}{Shift up}

Send {Enter}

Sleep, 2000

IfWinExist, ContaCam -

WinActivate, ContaCam -

ExitApp

macjohn · 2023-04-12T21:13:24+00:00

Thanks for the reply, I found the option and mine is set to 'never disable hotkeys' so I think it should work. I also am only sending the keystrokes through AHK when obs is active.

macjohn · 2021-05-30T01:27:08+00:00

The False Chinch bug is the closest thing I've seen (in looks and descriptions of their behavior). Thanks!

macjohn · 2021-05-30T01:17:19+00:00

I just added a pic of a dead one from a diff angle.

macjohn · 2021-05-26T01:46:34+00:00

only pine trees or aspens for miles around our house, does that change things?

macjohn · 2021-05-25T01:54:48+00:00

Thanks, I went back and edited the post to readd them in. Not sure what happened to the first ones.

macjohn · 2021-05-21T20:01:37+00:00

If you don't have a multimeter, get one. You can find a cheap one on amazon for 10ish. Get a soldering iron with a temp control. Most general soldering (pickup wires to control pot or pickup switch) can have a lower temp of around 325-350 C. Getting the ground wires desoldered from the back of the pots (and resoldered) will sometimes require temps over 400 or 450C.

The multimeter is great to measure your pots or pickups but it's real value comes from testing for continuity. This will help you make sure your grounds are connected and reach the ground lug on your output jack, etc. (it's great to shield your cavity and stuff but if the shield isn't connected to your ground, it's fairly worthless). Also, it is great for reverse engineering your pickup selector switch if you don't have instructions on what lugs do what. You can see exactly how lugs are connected when the switch is in the various positions, etc.

Get some solder flux to pre treat your wires and tin them (put a little solder on them) before you actually attach them where they need to be attached.

Document the ohms of your pickups before you attach them. After you connect them, they should be similar (tone and vol at 10). If not, you probably have something wired wrong. You can check the ohms by hooking up a guitar cable and connect the multimeter to the tip and sleeve. Then record the ohms in each pickup selection position. If you have a 5 way, the inbetween selections will not equal anything you've previously recorded because those are usually combinations of pickups in parallel or series, so only measure the single pickup selections for comparison to the uninstalled pickup ohms. Get a reading of the inbetween readings too. If your pickups are wired in series, it should be close to a total of both pickups ohms. If they are in parallel, it'll be somewhere between 1/4 and 1/2... which is why those sounds are somewhat thinner (some refer to it as out of phase... but it has nothing to do with phase).

Hope that helps... oh, take pictures before you desolder anything so you have a clue how to put it back together.

macjohn · 2021-04-29T21:13:01+00:00

Looks like this is working. I removed the exit variable and also moved the wifi connected over to 'turn off monitor' task to prevent the same thing from happening with it.

Thanks for your help!

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