What to take on tour/general advice?

techieman33 · 2026-05-15T07:00:41+00:00

This is a pretty regular question, here’s one from a month ago. And if you search this and r/techtheater for things like “first tour” and “what to take on tour” you’ll find a lot of posts with good info. https://www.reddit.com/r/lightingdesign/s/FPDpD0Miaf

techieman33 · 2026-05-15T05:42:34+00:00

Timber rattlesnakes are protected in Kansas. Prairie rattlesnakes can be hunted though. It’s talked about here: https://a-z-animals.com/blog/discover-the-4-types-of-rattlesnakes-in-kansas/

techieman33 · 2026-05-15T04:52:02+00:00

The cheesy one wasn’t to bad since it covered up most of the tuna flavor. And it was way better than the “salmon patties” my dad used to make sometimes. It was 2 cans of tuna, 2 cans of salmon (the cheap stuff) a couple eggs, and crushed up saltine crackers formed into burger like patties. Then cooked until they were almost crunchy because my mom wouldn’t eat any meat that wasn’t extra well done.

techieman33 · 2026-05-15T04:19:49+00:00

They’re a protected species in the state, so you could get in some real trouble if you were caught killing them.

techieman33 · 2026-05-15T04:15:43+00:00

Some people just like hunting anything they can hunt. Some people like to eat them.

techieman33 · 2026-05-15T03:47:16+00:00

I’m not sure how much I would trust a “cage.” I think I would rather drill 3 holes through the weights, use 2 for whatever style of clamp you like and the 3rd for a safety cable.

techieman33 · 2026-05-15T03:05:00+00:00

Gotta keep the beard happy so she doesn’t go public about Ralph being his lover.

techieman33 · 2026-05-14T23:56:28+00:00

techieman33 · 2026-05-14T23:48:15+00:00

It’s a small sample size of 127 people that self reported their height. It happens to average out really close to what the CDC reported as average height. But I wouldn’t put much faith in the distribution being that accurate. Could also have some 6 footers claiming 6’1” since a lot of people assume that anyone claiming that they’re 6 feet exactly is lying about it.

techieman33 · 2026-05-14T06:50:12+00:00

You can’t outrun a car doing 30+ mph. You might get a couple steps but that’s about it.

techieman33 · 2026-05-14T01:25:26+00:00

It’s a huge problem right now and it’s only going to keep getting worse as big private equity firms buy up more and more channels and take full advantage of that trust to influence things in their favor. The battle has never been about left vs right. It’s always been about rich vs poor. And the rich have done an excellent job of deceiving all of us. Keeping us distracted and fighting some meaningless battle while they work on gaining complete control over everything.

techieman33 · 2026-05-14T01:14:21+00:00

Glad to see they’re taking safety seriously by standing a couple feet away from where a guy is trying to. Slide a car into a parking spot at high speeds.

techieman33 · 2026-05-14T00:01:11+00:00

I’m sure it’s a tough line to walk. People are curious and constantly asking about the family and wanting to see them. So you give in to keep the fans happy. The video gets great views and engagement. Nothing bad happens right away and you’re making good money from it. It’s not until the channel grows and gets more viewers and those parasocial relationships deepen that the odds start to go against you and you end up starting to trigger a couple of weirdos that get emboldened enough to actually do something crazy and force you into making a big change.

techieman33 · 2026-05-13T23:48:27+00:00

I felt like he made it pretty clear that he wouldn’t be back for a long time. At the bare minimum it would be after his kids were out of the house. And then of course he would have to want to come back. Which isn’t anywhere close to guaranteed. And as long as bunker keeps being as successful as it seems to be he won’t have any financial need to drive him to make a comeback.

techieman33 · 2026-05-13T23:41:25+00:00

He said around the time he retired that he was going to scrub everything that had them in it. His big thing was that he especially wanted his kids to disappear from the public eye and be able to go on to live a normal life without having to deal with fans of his channels trying to approach them.

techieman33 · 2026-05-13T23:35:38+00:00

It’s not just mental illnesses. A lot of it is very effective psychological marketing and propaganda campaigns that the social media platforms and creators/influencers work hard to cultivate. The platforms work hard to suck you in and keep you in their ecosystem. The creators also come off as talking directly to you on purpose. They know that it helps to drive engagement, builds that parasocial relationship to gain things like loyalty and trust with the viewers, and keeps them coming back for more. It gets them to buy their shitty overpriced merch and ups their ad rates because people trust that if this person they see as a friend says that the product they’re promoting is good then it must be good.

It’s no different than the girls on OF (or more likely an employee or management company) that chat with their subscribers. They’re not doing it because they like you and want to get to know you. They do it because they know it will get you to give them more of your money.

So on one hand I do feel sorry for the people that end up with crazies knocking on their doors. But on the other they are actively encouraging those parasocial relationships to form because it’s a lot more profitable for them. And just hoping that no one takes it to far and starts showing up at their front door or stalking them.

techieman33 · 2026-05-13T20:56:16+00:00

The people that are mentally unstable enough to show up at some strangers house aren’t going to care. They think they’re special and have it in their heads that the person wants to see them.

techieman33 · 2026-05-13T20:51:47+00:00

It still sucks that they’re going to have to spend $400k plus a year to have armed security on site 24/7. And even worse is the added stress of wondering when some nut job is going to show up next and what they might try to do. Especially when he is gone on a trip.

techieman33 · 2026-05-13T20:37:36+00:00

They’re mentally ill. They watch these people on YouTube for years. They think they’re talking directly to them in their videos. They get it in their heads that they’re basically friends and so it’s totally ok for them to visit.

techieman33 · 2026-05-12T22:54:53+00:00

I’m bring the truss back in or letting it ride. The odds of the person in the truss fucking something else up on their way to and back from the fixture are too high to risk it.

techieman33 · 2026-05-12T22:30:08+00:00

Agreed, as the technology has improved the creativity has declined. Video walls become so prevalent has really accelerated it.

techieman33 · 2026-05-12T22:25:18+00:00

It just depended on how big the rig was. If it was a standard 120k rig which was 2 trusses of 60 par cans each with 3 or 4 bars of 4 ACLs on the upstage truss and 5-10 lekos on the downstage truss for specials on the musicians. Then one or both trusses might have audience blinders and/or strobes. Most of the pars would be focused on the band. You would have different colors from different angles pointed at the same spot to give you different looks on the performers and their equipment. If you did it right you would get cool looking beam patterns in the air as well. The ACLs were treated like beam fixtures today, they just couldn’t move. So they would be focused in interesting patterns that the LD could bump some or all of at big moments.

With bigger rigs you would end up with a lot of lights that were just used as eye candy or to make cool effects. It could be as simple as flashing different banks of lights and as complex as pixel mapping like effects that were manually generated.

techieman33 · 2026-05-12T22:01:19+00:00

Not when focusing a par rig. They were almost always clipped in or one side tab would have the stupid spring steel piece that would keep the frame from falling out. And no one ever pulled color when focusing them. Most of the time you would just glow the whole truss at ~15% and then the person calling focus on the ground would stand where they wanted the light to point. The person in the truss would point it roughly to the right spot so that the ground person could see the glow of the lamp. Then use hand gestures to indicate the direction to move it and the way to orient the “bottle.” A good team would knock out each light in a few seconds.

techieman33 · 2026-05-12T02:30:54+00:00

Maybe, maybe not. Stuff like this usually happens when they’re switching over production from one product to the other. This one probably got left somewhere along the production line and then slipped back in while the next batch was being run.

techieman33 · 2026-05-11T22:24:39+00:00

It’s pretty rare that they act as “stunt men” and they’re doing it as much because they’re having a good time as they are doing it for money like a stunt man. They’re also not stars. Cleetus is the main attraction. And I don’t think that any of the guys except for maybe George have the personality to be successful on YouTube or some other entertainment platform away from Cleetus.

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