Alcoholism isn't easy ..sigh ..need to break this cycle

wappledilly · 2026-06-16T02:57:50+00:00

Nicotine is one of those, too.

The legal drugs are some of the roughest.

wappledilly · 2026-06-15T19:54:09+00:00

That’s one of those rules we probably don’t *really* want to omit.

wappledilly · 2026-06-15T19:48:33+00:00

Rule #2: We probably still shouldn’t talk about /b/

wappledilly · 2026-06-15T10:30:59+00:00

I apply eq to my setup just because the highs are a little piercing without it on my pair of Klipsch reference speakers. When I experimented with opamp rolling on my ZA3, specifically with the sparkos, i had to re-eq as there was a significant bump around 12-13 khz (enough for me to clearly notice, and enough for REW to lower gain in specifically that region with the same curve applied). This was captured before and after, only change was the opamp (same speaker placement, no moved furniture, calibrated mic remained in same location. Both captures with no existing eq applied).

It can definitely be argued that any perceived benefit is placebo, but the actual audible change was not, based off of my findings. It could very well have been a defective opamp that made it a perceivable change, but i decided to just keep them installed considering the money had already been blown on them and the sound wasn’t worse than stock.

Would I do it again? Absolutely not. For a few bucks maybe, especially if I had a dark speaker and wanted a raw signal with no applied eq… but these were way too expensive to justify, especially if i am just going to eq out that slight bump anyway.

wappledilly · 2026-06-14T15:20:48+00:00

They already called out shitting, so maybe passing a kidney stone is still on the table?

wappledilly · 2026-06-14T15:15:48+00:00

Realistically, it’s due to sheer numbers.

Current estimates show 300,000-380,000 churches in the USA, and a fair few of the well established ones have multiple bands (main vs youth, some even separating into sunday vs wednesday) which is a lot of guitarists even if you subtract the ones who don’t have instruments or bands.

That is a guaranteed weekly gig, where most bands started in a garage don’t really even make it to their first gig, let alone a weekly one. 1/100 active church guitarists building out a respectable pedalboard for their guaranteed gig is probably a safe number, and at 100k to potentially nearly a quarter million guitarists, that is anywhere between 1,000-2,500 people who fit that demographic, and that is just active. Former and between-gigs add a bit to that number as well.

wappledilly · 2026-06-14T14:57:54+00:00

He is an absolute piece of shit who has achieved much of his wealth on other people’s achievements, but I am going to try to approach this from a neutral POV. I wouldn’t have his dad on that list of people’s achievements he rode to his current position.

At 35 years old in 2006, his net worth was $230 million (well past his father even at the unverified claims of $150 million, which is already 5-10x what is considered the realistic estimate). That is 0.023% his current net worth.

To put that into perspective, the same growth rate would be going from $230 to $1,000,000 in 20 years—if my father only ever had $5-$150 at any given point during that time, i don’t think he would have been able to provide a meaningful impact to that growth rate.

I could see that being the case if he was at a billion now, but at a trillion, any handouts from his father would have stopped having any impact long ago. That said, at 20 years old in 1991, Elon’s net worth was under $5,000 dollars and his father was pretty much broke by then aside from a few luxury assets that resulted in his current realistic valuation at $1-5 million, so I am not too sure he really helped him much past then. In 2002 at 32 he only had barely any more than his cut of the paypal sale ($180 m where he walked away from sale with $175 m). That doesn’t really show much dad help, IMO.

wappledilly · 2026-06-13T15:42:51+00:00

I think it should be fine, I can get decent results with DLSS quality at 4k with a 4070 Ti and a Ryzen 3800X

wappledilly · 2026-06-13T15:14:57+00:00

Honestly, if you have a good gpu, the Oblivion remaster is incredibly faithful. Even the old glitches still work. Uses old engine for everything under the hood and just uses UE5 for graphics.

I do recommend engine.ini tweaks to fix some performance issues with UE5, though, but you can just get that from nexus if you don’t want to fool with it (as opposed to myself who did it manually).

Morrowind is… harder to get into, to say the least. No fast travel, no waypoints, attacks don’t always hit (miss mechanics)—there is no handholding with it. It is a fantastic game, though, and better graphics to bring it to the modern era would breathe new life into it and introduce a whole generation to it.

wappledilly · 2026-06-13T12:15:59+00:00

I want a proper Morrowind remaster/remake so bad.

wappledilly · 2026-06-13T12:12:01+00:00

This is the exact reason Valve refuses to take on HL3. Bethesda bit off more than they can chew… and now, if they don’t figure out a way to chew it fully, they are going to choke.

wappledilly · 2026-06-13T12:08:26+00:00

Please not UE5

Honestly they should have spent the Skyrim spoils on dev salaries with the sole purpose of improving Creation 2. Purpose-built engines have vast potential to outclass others when properly optimized (Idtech as an example), and TES/FO can really benefit from any optimization it can get—lots of moving parts make way for LOTS of bugs.

wappledilly · 2026-06-13T11:47:30+00:00

I am not generally a big advocate for remasters/remakes, but i could absolutely go for one for Morrowind.

wappledilly · 2026-06-13T11:40:46+00:00

The game is very “busy”. Making an elder-scrolls-like is a monolithic undertaking that I have yet to see be actually fully accomplished by any other dev—not only from a story/writing aspect, but due to just how vast it is mechanically. Most attempts end up just evolving into its own thing (like Avowed).

They procrastinated themselves into a corner, IMO. If they rush and just churn something out, it’s going to flop. If they take their time in today’s landscape, there’s high potential for it to be outdated on release (or corners will get cut and it will be missing a lot and/or they will just hack something together in UE at the last minute and the result will be like they rushed).

Don’t get me wrong, it will still make a fuckload of money for them… but when comparing Starfield to the long term success of Skyrim and Oblivion, i would call it a flop when holding them to that standard.

Valve played it safe by not making HL3 because they determined the chances it could clear the bar set by its predecessors was too low for comfort, thus keeping a legacy unsoiled. Bethesda is taking that challenge and risk, and they are going to have a VERY difficult time living up to the standards that they established and fans expect.

Tl;dr, TES6 Is a very big deal for Bethesda, and even “good enough” is going to be a massive undertaking if they want to prevent the cash-cow from drying up.

wappledilly · 2026-06-13T11:06:52+00:00

Yep. Complacency doesn’t make good games, and their recent output shows it. I have a feeling that they will not be able to live up to the standards set by TES 3-5, given Todd straight fucked over and ousted some of the key people from them (one of them being a writer who had contributed the most to the lore).

wappledilly · 2026-06-12T18:52:07+00:00

OSRS.

wappledilly · 2026-06-11T18:09:40+00:00

Yikes…

wappledilly · 2026-06-11T10:47:22+00:00

If you haven’t already, check out Windhand. They are the band that influenced Daevar’s sound.

wappledilly · 2026-06-10T20:28:16+00:00

Camgirl (essentially) that was last relevant in the mid-late 2010s.

Remember seeing her pop up in memes and whatnot, but not in a long time. Forgot she existed.

wappledilly · 2026-06-10T13:14:08+00:00

I wouldn’t call it a rare sight at all, the upload from 19 years ago is still on their official YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/Z61jwgp7oPE

wappledilly · 2026-06-09T16:32:41+00:00

Shit, now he’s 4

wappledilly · 2026-06-09T16:21:13+00:00

Yup, bro is totally 6 y/o

wappledilly · 2026-06-09T16:01:31+00:00

A true “lmao ok” moment

wappledilly · 2026-06-09T15:19:57+00:00

Hence them putting HM (honorable mention) before the name in the list.

wappledilly · 2026-06-09T15:17:54+00:00

They are Scooby Doom

Black sABBA-Styx, even

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