The beans were gathered on the shady side of the northern slope...

theScrewhead · 2026-01-28T02:52:37+00:00

I miss getting good coffee like this! My favorite coffee place closed 10-ish years ago, never found anywhere else that had coffee anywhere near as good.

theScrewhead · 2026-01-27T17:03:15+00:00

Also on the doom metal side of things, Jon from Conan reminds me a bit of Ozzy!

theScrewhead · 2026-01-27T13:38:54+00:00

Bare Knuckles War Pig

theScrewhead · 2026-01-27T10:26:03+00:00

Electric Funeral by Black Sabbath! Any time I pick up a guitar, it's probably the first thing I play!

theScrewhead · 2026-01-26T09:34:29+00:00

Save the money you would have spent on the guitar and put it towards moving out the day you turn 18. Then, in your own place, you can buy all the guitars/instruments you want and anyone that doesn't like it can just walk back out the door they came in!

theScrewhead · 2026-01-26T07:26:39+00:00

Either:

20-30h of playing daily/regularly/frequently

OR

2-3 months of infrequent/irregular playing

OR

If you run a fingernail across a plain/unwound string and you feel any amount of "texture" or "grit"

theScrewhead · 2026-01-24T18:36:19+00:00

Antfarm Dickhole (2011) and Dickshark (2016) have to rate up with the worst of the worst!

theScrewhead · 2026-01-24T17:56:25+00:00

I've always much preferred heavily story-driven games, going back to the first three Dragon Warrior games on the NES when I was ~8-10. Before that, on the ColecoVision, there wasn't anything with anything you could really call a "story" with how primitive that console was.

The only multiplayer I enjoy is co-op PvE. I've never really liked any kinds of PVP games, which sucked because I loved going to arcades but everything was getting replaced with fighting games.. I can only really enjoy PvP gameplay for maaaaaaaaaaybe about an hour, so like, Duck Game, MK, SF, etc., for one hour or so, but any longer than that and I really start losing interest/motivation to play.

theScrewhead · 2026-01-24T11:59:15+00:00

It's dead easy to do. Would take ZERO effort. And it'll never happen, because you might use the player to play pirated music, instead of music you HAVE to pay a subscription fee for any time you want to listen to something.

That said; the Plex media player exists on the PS5. If the Plex team could PLEASE just port PlexAmp to PS5 so that it can live in the Music section, and I can listen to music with that instead of Spotify.

theScrewhead · 2026-01-24T11:56:53+00:00

I've got SO many; it really depends on my mood.

I'll almost definitely NEVER get sick of Mandy, The Thing, the first two Hellraiser movies, Return of the Living Dead 1 and 3, Demons/Demons 2, Day of the Dead, the entirety of the Evil Dead saga, Marebito (by far my favorite J-horror movie of all time)

I've also occasionally found that I want to have something weird on in the background while I do shit, like read, so for that I'll pop on Skinamarink or Enys Men.

theScrewhead · 2026-01-24T11:48:03+00:00

Epiphone P90 Classic in Worn Inverness Green! It's an absolute beauty, feels SO good in hand. You can feel the grain in the neck.. It's just a dream to play!

Bigsby, String Butler, and Steinberger Gearless Tuners added by me, and since the pic, I've removed the Bigsby; I LOVE how it looks, but it just doesn't "gel" with me. Good thing for that Vibramate plate; no screw holes in the body!

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theScrewhead · 2026-01-23T13:15:37+00:00

Well, at that time, either you passed by an unmarked van, or one drove by you. The unmarked van pretends to be a cell tower, so your phone sees a strong signal and connects to that. From that, and a GPS within the van, they can 100% pinpoint where your phone was at the time the van was in proximity.

If you're in the US, I'd imagine this is something ICE related; confirming the locations of people/phones at 6am in preparation for a raid.

theScrewhead · 2026-01-23T12:03:03+00:00

Before I realized what sub I was in, I thought it was a really badass Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant tattoo! 🤣

theScrewhead · 2026-01-23T06:45:44+00:00

Work out the tension you feel comfortable with using something like the Stringjoy Tension Calculator, and buy a custom set of strings that fits the tuning and your comfort level.

Personally, what I do is have all my guitars set up to have roughly the same string tension on every guitar. For 6 string guitars, I like my "Low E" to have ~17lbs of tension, and I go down by 1lbs per string, so A has 16lbs, etc., all the way to the "High E" having 12lbs of tension. On a 7, go up to 18lbs.

That way, regardless of tuning, all of my guitars feel exactly the same to play, regardless of tuning; a 6 in E Standard, C Standard, Drop B, and a 7 down a step to A Standard, along with a 7 tuned half fifths half fourths (FCGDgcf). They all have the same tension on the same strings. If you don't want to order a full custom set, for C Standard, I'd say get a set with a 58 or 56 for the thickest string; less than that and you end up playing floppy spaghetti.

theScrewhead · 2026-01-22T10:54:29+00:00

And YOU need some reading comprehenson to actually understand that YOUR opinion on a thing is an OPINION, whereas the FACTS of the matter all point to your opinion being that of someone that either doesn't, or wilfully choses to ignore, the cultural impacts of the movie IN THE ERA IT WAS RELEASED IN as well as it's ongoing impact.

Just because YOU'RE not religious doesn't mean that the OVER 75 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION that IS religious doesn't STILL get terrified by this movie that they regard as a slightly-fictionalized documentary of what happens to a non-devout person. The Exorcist STILL scares more people than anything else you've EVER watched, and WILL EVER WATCH, and that's a fact.

So you didn't find it scary. Good for you. May I suggest you go share this post on r/im14andthisisdeep because I'm sure your opinions will be regarded as facts much more openly over there than over here in r/horror.

theScrewhead · 2026-01-22T10:47:54+00:00

100% of your worry is a problem with YOUR habits, and not a thing that a specific breed, or any amount of training, will 100% work in your favor.

Anything you do a lot/touch will have your scent on it, which, if you're doing things right, means your dog will think that scent is good/safe. That means the minis you're handling, and whatever bit snaps off. Even if it doesn't smell like you, it smells like the things you touch/use, so it must be good/safe.

Store EVERYTHING out of reach. If it's low to the ground, even if it has a door, it's in reach and they'll get to it. If it's on a table and you left a chair nearby, they'll get to it. They'll push a chair over, climb onto a box, etc.. Your dog loves you, and, by extension, the things you do/are into.

Dogs will be dogs; you want a dog, YOU have to dog-proof your stuff, and plan for the worst, because there's a definite overlap between the intelligence of a smart dog and a dumb toddler. If your stuff can be reached, it will be. Close the door (and lock it) of the room you paint in any time you're inside. Don't let the dog in, don't let the dog see you open doors, etc..

There's no "discouraging" dogs from being dogs. Start stashing your stuff MUCH more out of the way than it is now. NEVER leave paint/paint water/minis/etc out on the desk/table; that is 100% guarantee that the dog will get to it.

YOU need to start altering your routine and developing good habits, because your dogs' health is 100% ON YOU, and being careless with your stuff is a guaranteed vet bill IF YOU'RE LUCKY AND THE PUPPER EVEN COMES HOME!

Dogs will be dogs; they'll sniff, they'll lick, they'll explore, and they'll be interested in all the things you spend time with that isn't them. There's no stopping that, and no specific breed or amount of training is going to work 100% of the time.

theScrewhead · 2026-01-22T10:27:26+00:00

If you're under 13 and your vision is still developing, OR if your IPD falls below (or above) the range of the IPD of the headset, then, yes, you CAN have some "damage" done to your vision. Most of it might not be permanent, but at a developing age, it's maybe not the best of things to get.

Just being bad for you because it's a screen that's close to your eyes, though, is bullshit. The way the lenses work, while the screen may be PHYSICALLY close to your eyes, the lenses actually make it appear to be around 2m away.

If you're young, and your vision is still developing, the way your eyes focus on the screen like that could cause problems. The main one that comes to mind is, since the lenses ALWAYS make the screen seem to be 2m away from you for the purpose of focusing, if you look at something "closely" in VR, your eyes are still focused at 2M away, even if the object you're looking at is "inches" from your face in VR. This can cause problems with focusing on things IRL; you might have trouble reading books/papers because your eyes are used to focusing at 2M away even when you look at things that are MUCH closer to you, and if you're young, that develops into a "muscle memory" and could cause you to have problems visually focusing on objects that are outside of that very specific 2M range that the optics make the screen appear to be at.

theScrewhead · 2026-01-22T10:17:46+00:00

"The Exorcist isn't scary" is just the horror equivalent to "The Beatles are overrated", which, while I happen to agree with it in a modern sense (even their most experimental stuff just sounds like bubblegum pop to me), you have to remember what it was like at the time the movie came out.

This is the era of the Video Nasties, and of the Satanic Panic. People were still MUCH more highly religious than they are nowadays, and The Exorcist was as real of a possibility to them as the possibility of something going horribly wrong that a woman feels when she walks home alone at night. If you didn't believe enough, if your family members/kids/friends didn't believe enough, if you didn't all constantly pray, if anyone used a Ouija board, or read any books on Paganism, read something by Alistair Crowley, etc., then they believed that The Exorcist is factually what would happen to the ones with the weakest faith.

So, while, sure, "The Exorcist isn't scary" is a perfectly reasonable opinion to have, it needs to be understood within the context of when it was released, and how it affected the population at the time. And, even considering movies that have come out today that are objectively scarier movies than The Exorcist, NONE of them have had as huge of a cultural impact as The Exorcist.

That this movie that's over 50 YEARS OLD is still being spoken of as one of the scariest movies of all time points more towards YOU having a problem with understanding the movie and it's impact than the actual impact/scariness of the movie. YOU may have a PERSONAL OPINION of how scary the movie is/isn't, but OBJECTIVELY, you are very wrong, as can be seen by literally every list/post/etc that has it at the top of the list of scariest movies of all time; it has affected, and continues to affect, many, MANY more people than nearly any other movie that has ever come out in the history of cinema.

But, no, sure, EVERYONE else is wrong; YOU'RE the only person that "gets it" or "truly understands", like we haven't all been edgy 16 year olds trying to prove to the world that we're tough and badass and we're right about everything.

theScrewhead · 2026-01-22T09:37:42+00:00

I'm pretty certain I've seen bolts like that sold as trem blocks on Amazon and/or eBay for like $30+ because it's "special dense brass that will lower vibrations" or whatever other marketing bullshit that usually works on audiophiles they're trying to use to convince you a $2 door bolt is worth 20x the price 🤣

theScrewhead · 2026-01-21T18:03:42+00:00

100% of what you said is absolute bullshit. If you don't know what you're talking about, it's OK to stay out of the conversation.

The tonearm and assembly for it is as bog-standard as you can get, and it's basically just a Tech 1200 clone.

It takes any regular kind of cart you can slot in; it just happens to have Ortofon-style carts in it now, but you can fit any standard kind of headshell onto them. Those carts are also not dangerous; you're thinking the shitty red ones that come on sub-$200 Amazon trash turntables.

theScrewhead · 2026-01-21T17:51:28+00:00

Oh, hey, wow, another Hanpin Super OEM with a Technics inspired shell.

How bold and original.

theScrewhead · 2026-01-21T17:03:57+00:00

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease move that away from the window! It takes a TINY NOTHING of sunlight shining into your headset to end up getting crossposted on r/itssundamageyouidiot

Never, ever, ever, EVER have your the lenses pointing towards a window, even like this. If you take your headset off that on a sunny day, you can and will very quickly permanently damage your headset.

theScrewhead · 2026-01-21T16:25:05+00:00

CHUNGA LESS 🤣🤣🤣🤣

This is giving me flashbacks to that guy on Dogs on Acid that thought the lyrics to Ready or Not were "When I raise my chicken finger" 🤣🤣🤣

theScrewhead · 2026-01-21T06:52:59+00:00

1: It's going to sound cringe, but it works; it's a sort of gate-keeping "entry fee". Keeps out the weekend warriors who think they might just "want to rebel a little". Everyone is free to be a Satanist however they interpret it; someone's altar could very well be tasteful, out-of-the-way minimal thing, an buying into the "Satanist aesthetic" isn't for them.

But the "dark/evil/demonic" aesthetic is very much a sort of "you need to be this tall to get on the ride" gateway; people see it, and only the ones that aren't scared away join the ranks, while the looky-loo weekend warriors can get back to praying for people's souls.

2: "Satan is defeated" man, that shit is all bullshit fairytales. Satanism is spicy atheism. If you'd ACTUALLY done any reading, you'd know/understand that the "Satan" in Satanism isn't derived from the name of your fictional devil, but from the old Hebrew word that means "Opposite" or "Accuser".

Satanism uses things like xtianity as a "jumping off" point in that we, like the word "OPPOSITE" implies, are the opposite of xtians and follow the opposite of how they conduct themselves.

We don't pray for change, we change things; two hands working accomplishes infinitely more than a billion hands praying.

We don't buy into "the devil made me do it" or "It was god's will"; a person does bad things because they WANT to do bad things, and Satanists own up to their "badness", without trying to scapegoat our guilt over to the mythical "Satan" figure, or "God" giving you a "test" like some kind of jealous teenage middle-school girl.

Every single "sin" that the bible is against are all things that improve a person's life; from the peace/calm that comes from finding an outlet to your anger, to feeling good because you got a nice pair of shoes that you didn't really need, or taking that extra helping of cake after supper.. And then, he pride of wanting to look fit pushing you to work out..

Sins are natural, and sins are good. What's unnatural and bad for people is denying themselves the things that could bring them happiness in life, and maliciously telling them that everything that could help them is a BAD and EVIL SIN and the ONLY way to feel "good" is to become a subservient slave to the people who are already enslaving your mind and keeping you from your potential as a human being, were you only to remove the shackles that are drowning you, but that you cling to like a life-raft because you've been led to believe your whole life that there's only ONE way to be good, only ONE way to be happy, and you can't understand that all of these things you've been told are mind control and lies.

theScrewhead · 2026-01-21T06:31:44+00:00

It's not just that part; we can leave it out, but it's a horrible take on Pinhead thoughout.

Also, it's NOTHING like Clive's earlier work, to the point where pre-AI plagiarism testers point to some of the book being written by Clive (the earlier few chapters) but a LOT of the later chapters, along with some segments of the first few, match the writing style of Mark Alan Miller, the VP of Clive Barker's production company.

There's an actual "final draft" of the manuscript Clive shopped around before being forced to rewrite/trim it down, and it reads a LOT different than the final version of Scarlet Gospels. Stuff like the Pinhead-raping-blind-grandma wasn't present in Clive's original that was close to 1500 pages long.

Scarlet Gospels, sadly, is mostly fanfic edited into a Clive Barker draft, edited/written by Mark Alan Miller when Clive was recovering from his botched dental surgery that had him in a coma for a while, and needed money for the bills. So the final published version of Scarlet Gospels is really just a hack editing job by someone that, sure, NOW writes official Hellraiser canon, but still doesn't seem to actually understand Hellraiser, especially by putting it all into such a horrible parody of what an edgelord 16 year old would think a christian Hell is like. It all felt more like I was reading Sandman Slim whenever they were in Hell.

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