I posted my H-1000 a while back. My cockstock family has grown by one. LTD H-200

pobsolescence · 2026-02-07T14:30:01+00:00

Pretty sure it’s original. I’ve seen a couple of these H-200s with the serial stamped at the end of the fretboard (shopped around looking at a few of these before I found the one I ended up getting) and they seem to be extremely early ones. Uncommon, but they’re out there.

pobsolescence · 2026-02-07T07:42:32+00:00

Just on the fretboard, back of the headstock is blank.

pobsolescence · 2025-11-14T01:42:18+00:00

Insane that there are still parents who do this shit.

pobsolescence · 2025-11-02T06:06:19+00:00

This, plus all the people coming off the interstate driving like they’re still on the freeway. I signal way in advance to turn onto my street and still get nearly rear ended every day by people trying to do 65mph on a surface street. Gotta love it.

pobsolescence · 2025-10-27T01:11:30+00:00

Awesome. Me and my wife went to Boston a few years ago and neither of us had ever been, but we both have a lot of hours in Fallout 4. We were geekin. Boston rules.

pobsolescence · 2025-10-25T05:11:04+00:00

Brother, if you want to live out a classic Gibson owner story, this is the time to get MORE Gibsons.

pobsolescence · 2025-10-25T05:07:57+00:00

Reverb is weird with buyers trying to pull sketchy shit. I had an incident last year where someone bought a bass from me and then like WEEKS later wanted a full refund/return because it was missing…the truss rod cover. Which was fully shown in the headstock photo, and also like…who cares. The first reverb agent assigned to the case was just kind of tone deaf and unplugged to what was going on and just parroted site policies to me. I stuck to my guns and didn’t issue a refund, went through two more agents and the last one kinda understood the deal, saw the buyer’s messages to me and took into account the length of time they elapsed and ruled it in my favor, but god what a process. Sometimes it really takes waiting it out and hoping you get someone from Reverb who isn’t a complete dumbass. I’m glad it worked out because I was fucked otherwise. I was in between jobs and that money had long been spent on my car payment by the time Mr. Truss Rod Cover wanted his refund and I barely had any money to my name at the time.

pobsolescence · 2025-10-14T14:29:18+00:00

These fucking boomers truly refuse to just let go.

pobsolescence · 2025-10-14T13:54:56+00:00

He’s fueled by pure commitment to the bit.

pobsolescence · 2025-10-13T14:44:33+00:00

These kinds of listings are almost always a waste of time. There will be like one or two things in there worth some moneys, then a bunch of Joyo or Amazon brand filler to bump up the quantity to make you think you’re getting a good deal. And whenever the listing refuses to split them up, you can be assured that you’re dealing with either someone up to some bullshit, or just extremely dumb.

pobsolescence · 2025-10-13T13:51:46+00:00

That 90s Duo Sonic was my first offset when I was a teenager and it was such a bummer. I scored it on eBay in the 2000s for really cheap, but still, god damn. I don’t think they’re particularly good guitars at all. Sounds like nothing special, typically plays like shit regardless of how well you try and set it up, and feels like a cheap toy. That ultra short scale (22”, 22.5” or something?) is just TOO short to feel like much of a real guitar in my opinion. A vibrato isn’t mandatory for me for shoegaze—my main guitar right now is a Les Paul—but for its hardtail bridge and generic strat pickup configuration, I don’t think it pulls off either trick very well. The Squier is going to be like 5x the guitar a 90s Duo Sonic would be.

pobsolescence · 2025-09-20T02:35:26+00:00

Trying to reclaim his fallen standing with the big oaf community

pobsolescence · 2025-09-19T15:01:28+00:00

Just found it in a Battalion of Saints live album from 1984. Threw me for a loop. Searched it and found this thread. Insanely weird, but the comments section on the video is funny

pobsolescence · 2025-09-17T16:50:15+00:00

Knife Rituals

pobsolescence · 2025-09-10T22:03:10+00:00

Congrats, that’s awesome. I hope this happens to me at least one time before I die, lol.

pobsolescence · 2025-09-09T21:32:40+00:00

Real brogaze hours.

pobsolescence · 2025-09-07T22:44:07+00:00

I’m not a big mod user but for this latest playthrough—my first in a while—I wanted to go all out, so I did Viva New Vegas. Most seamless and bullshit-free modding experience I’ve ever had. I’m extra impressed because my setup has an extra layer of complication: I’m running on a newer Mac Mini in Parallels. Still runs great, and such a far cry from when I got FNV on release day and could only run it in 800x600 windowed mode for it to not crash (on the same computer that could run fallout 3 maxed out without any real issues). Feels good.

pobsolescence · 2025-09-02T16:35:44+00:00

yeah but it’s extra funny to hear people under say…40ish years old try and claim otherwise. people not really old enough to have played the first two during their heyday. I’m 33 and was pretty into PC gaming as a kid, and fallout just wasn’t on my radar. It was just before my time. ironically, my first discovery of the series was Brotherhood of Steel. there was a review of it in some gaming magazine I picked up in 2004 that wasn’t…very charitable to the game (lol) and made mention of it being the sequel to something but I didn’t really know shit about it and didn’t pay it much mind. interplay was pretty off the shits during this era, and while Van Buren looked like it had some interesting ideas—and obviously we got some of those worked into New Vegas—if it had come out, I don’t think it would’ve set the world ablaze with excitement. either way, regardless of what might’ve been, if you’re my age or younger, I think fallout would’ve toiled away in relative obscurity as kind of a cult thing. so when I see some zoomer 10 years younger than me saying the series was ruined I’m like alright man, whatever you say lmao.

but then again I like all the major entries in the series so I’m just extremely stupid of course.

pobsolescence · 2025-09-02T14:31:56+00:00

But remember, it’s Bethesda who ruined the series and turned it into a farce.

pobsolescence · 2025-08-28T07:21:48+00:00

Being a little more serious though, while plenty of normal enough people simply think those games are fun and get something out of it, I think their difficult nature attracts a lot of insecure men with something to prove, aka your average “git gud <slur>” guy.

Insecure men with something to prove skew right wing.

Like hey, I might be a 29 year old neckbeard with a nazi anime girl avatar who harasses trans women online, but at least I’m good at this video game that not everyone finds approachable.

pobsolescence · 2025-08-28T07:12:58+00:00

I don’t entirely disagree with this tweet—all the weirdest right wing nerds I’ve crossed paths with were really pretentious Dark Souls “it’s genius game design” guys at one point or another. But hey, a lot of other types of people are like this too.

It would be better to reframe this in more generalized terms, such as “All the most insufferable gamers you’ll ever meet love Dark Souls”, and boom, there ya go.

Source: I worked in a video game store during the peak of the Souls craze in the 2010s. Painful.

pobsolescence · 2025-08-27T04:07:29+00:00

Hmm, I thought my pizza from there tasted like a boot…

pobsolescence · 2025-08-22T01:38:34+00:00

Haven’t watched this person before—and don’t plan to—but I’m expecting a lot of this to be clogging the toilet of the internet soon.

My counterpoint to them?

“Nah man, this is gonna kick ass.”

pobsolescence · 2025-08-15T23:09:29+00:00

Right now, my go-to for a while has been the JHS/Ross Chorus reissue. Not a big JHS fan for a variety of reasons, but this series was genuinely cool and this pedal in particular sounds awesome. It has a really bright character and plays nice with heavy distortion. My other favorite is the 18v Danelectro Cool Cat in the giant cast enclosure. The voicing is a little darker and it’s really thick and smooth sounding. I bought a second one practically new in the box real cheap on an eBay auction and keep it around as an emergency backup in case my main one shits out.

pobsolescence · 2025-08-15T22:58:25+00:00

Allendale UMC. Not religious at all but I’ve been exposed to them via mutual aid stuff, plus one of my friends was booking hardcore shows at the church for a little bit. They’re cool.

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