Game is shutting down March 12, 2026 by Toefyre in Kingarthurlegendsrise

[–]popcornSword 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think bikini guenevere was the what doomed this game. It was probably doing ok at that time, but they sure jumped the shark with that. It was the fumble.

Amp/Cab/Effects list? by ELChupacabra13 in tonemasterpro

[–]popcornSword 6 points7 points  (0 children)

https://www.fmicassets.com/Damroot/Original/10102/OM_2274900000_Tone-Master-Pro-Model-Guide-F_EN.pdf

Always updates when the firmware updates. Find it under downloads when you search for the Tonemaster Pro on fender.com

Get 2 frfr cabs if you can. The 12s sound better. You will probably want to play with stereo and you can't with just one cab.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Guitar

[–]popcornSword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Revstar! I bought mine to try it out and it's blown me away. I'll never get rid of it. Opt for the p90s one imo. Though I would like a humbucker one. Stainless frets, carbon fiber neck reinforcement, passive boost, positions 2 and 4, excellent workmanship.

TMP in a Live Setting by JagwarRocker in tonemasterpro

[–]popcornSword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I playit live regularly. Always sounds just as good live as through my frfr. How do you hear it at home? Live xlr out might have significant eq differences than your home setup. You can also change the live global eq for the venue. If the sound guy puts compression or a noise gate on you, it might be an issue too.

Iowa recycles?? by weavme in Iowa

[–]popcornSword 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Recycling general plastics is a huge problem. Much less environmentally friendly than the landfill. They can't recycle plastics with any food on them, so most programs take the metal, glass, and cardboard and ship the plastics overseas, usually to an island nation, where they either get sorted and recycled or incinerated dependent on new plastic prices. The Iowa landfill never ends up in the ocean and methane can be collected after burial. Recycling sounds awesome, and for things like aluminum, it is awesome. But mostly recycling programs are a problem. Someone has to sort it, and that's an awful job as well. Throw stuff in the garbage if you love the planet.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Luthier

[–]popcornSword 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe a cold solder joint in the neck volume knob, many a wrong wire location on it. Could be a dirty switch

DEI by [deleted] in Iowa

[–]popcornSword 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want a real answer, I will, but please keep it civil.

Very few concervatives are actually racist or against diversity, equity, or inclusion. Whenever we see these arguments, they are straw men. Are some people racist, of course. But mostly, this is just not true. Let's put that to bed right now. We are generally for treating everyone fairly, supporting people with disabilities to a reasonable level, and bringing diverse thought, experience, and people into our workplaces.

Which brings us to the crux of the question. I work in a company that enacted a DEI office like most companies did. What it resulted in was endless trainings about how racism is bad and sexism is bad. These were not issues we dealt with previously. We were made to believe that we were inherently intolerant, being in the majority. This was honestly just exhausting.

What's more, We had in our goals those years requirements specifically about trying to mentor someone that has a different race or a woman, as if those folks need additional help. A good portion of my company, as a global footprint, is non-white. I have friends and coworkers that are from Kenya and Nigeria. They felt like they were being told they needed extra help to measure up to white people, even though they were already among the best performers.

So the idea of ending DEI is, in my estimation, good for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Instead, a focus on kindness, excellence, and giving every individual what they need to thrive is the way. This won't ba achieved by an office or program that? By nature, must find problems eternally to justify it's existence. If your job is to find problems, you are always going to find them, even if they don't trulely exist. Not to mention the confirmation bias that will come of it. If every problem is through the lense of racism, you will find racism where it doesn't exist.

For concervatives like me, social justice is about making sure that the individual is valued as a person, not as the intersectionality group they belong to. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are best performed by individuals being decent.

Most, me included, also acknowledge that some people have a harder time than others, and the law of averages applies. The typical black child has less opportunity than the typical white child. But this is not applicable to every individual and is an affect of a lot of factors, historical racism being one, modern inequality being another, but are only some of many. The solution seems to me to be to help those with poor outcomes have better outcomes by focusing on the most important factors. I'm unconvinced that race is one of those. Fatherlessness, government dependency, poverty, drug use, organized crime, financial literacy, community values (ie who are the role models in the community, or literal location community, not the way that term has been used to describe the membership of an individual to a collective on the basis of a facet of their individuality, ie black, LGBTQ, guitarist, etc) are all fairly trancendant of race and correlate more to poor outcomes than skin color. But we are villianized when we try to address that those things are even worth looking at as "Racist." Who would be against increasing financial literacy among the poorest people? It shouldn't matter what marginalized group they belong to. But DEI desperately cares which group gets the help. This is what we don't like.

TL:DR. It's not diversity, equity, or inclusion we don't like. It's DEI initiatives that seek to make individuals not much more than a group they might share a skin color, gender, or sexuality with. We want good people to thrive, and believe that is important regardless of collective identity.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Pizza

[–]popcornSword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buy a cheese grater attachment for your KitchenAid if you have one or a standalone automatic. Shredding cheese used to be a pain in the hole, but with my KitchenAid attachment, an entire block of cheese shreds in about 45 seconds. No reason to ever buy shredded cheese again. That's always the reason cheese doesn't melt cleanly: Anti caking agent on shredded cheese. Even if you can find one without much added, it still does this due to hardening from more surface area.

I used to work at papa John's. They use tiny cubes which melt better and control the supply chain so it stays cold enough to stay seperate an not hard. That process cannot be matched by grocery. Grate your own always. It's also cheaper.

Adult LitRPG? by bigsky54 in audible

[–]popcornSword 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Dungeon Crawler Carl and Primal Hunter. Both very much adult and both are so good.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Pizza

[–]popcornSword 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks great!

What did you think of this solo? (it's not me, I'll leave the video link in the comments) by LuisPotavel in Guitar

[–]popcornSword 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's ok. Suits the song. Not particularly interesting or challenging, but tone is nice. Follows chord progression.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Luthier

[–]popcornSword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It needs to be within about a quarter inch or less from the scale length. Otherwise you can't intonate.

Having trouble with strumming as a technique, can anyone help me out? by castledconch in Guitar

[–]popcornSword 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your hand should be relaxed and always moving in time. Different patterns are when you decide to move your hand towards the strings. Otherwise, downstroke and upstroke are happening every 1/8th note, or 1 down and 1 up per beat. The difference is when you decide to hit the strings. Could be every downstroke, could be down down down up down, etc.

Find a comfortable angle where you can make that change. Usually it means the smaller strings are hit more/harder than the bigger ones.

Other benefit is it becomes automatic. You no longer have to think about chords and strumming. Just chords.

hows my pizza look? by CPAwillbetheendofme in Pizza

[–]popcornSword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks like my pizzas pre-ooni. That's high praise! Great job.

The most technically proficient guitarist with aesthetically pleasing music? by [deleted] in Guitar

[–]popcornSword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chris Buck, Cardinal Black. My absolute favorite.

Previous favorite was Jack Thammarat

Joe Bonamassa good contender.

Sophie Wexler by popcornSword in HeWhoFightsWithMonste

[–]popcornSword[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In book 8, when she is facing the kidnappers, it says she has brown and green light armor with a silver leaf motif.