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Everything posted by Goredho
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More proof that AI should replace CEO's.
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We have different Roadhouse fantasies. I've always wanted to rip out someone's esophagus (and to play as well as Jeff Healey).
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You are correct, economic populism is the way. 82-88% (reports vary) of US citizens have a net worth less than a million dollars, a figure which is becoming worth less and less by the day under Trump 2.0. The economics of that 82-88% should be the D platform, full stop. Nothing else should matter to them until they quit getting their ass demolished by the combination of populist Trump and their own milquetoast politics-as-usual approach. I've never seen an organization more in need of turnover at the top than the democratic party. That needed to happen in 2015 so a new, charismatic leader could emerge to convey this new message. Someone who can sit down with a blue collar worker, make them feel comfortable and hold a conversation with them without coming off as condescending. Calling people deplorable is no way to win friends and influence them. Oh, there isn't anyone in the bullpen that fits the bill? That's just more evidence that the current D leadership is a fatally flawed joke with regards to political strategy in this new era of politics where the people outside the "pool of likely voters" are now likely voters. Get rid of the inept and complicit at the top. They are a large net negative. And Democrats need to realize they aren't going to reach the people they need to reach to flip this script through traditional means. An interview on 60 minutes doesn't mean shit compared to an interview on Seth Rogan's podcast. They need to emerge from the traditional, safe venues where they are asked polite questions with decorum. They need to enter the lion's den and show that they are A) not afraid of Trump/MAGA and B) not what they are portrayed as in the skewed conservative informational vacuum. EN-FUCKING-GAGE. Democrats have lost the faith of the working class everyman and need to earn it back, at the same time the opposition will be doing everything in their power to undermine any re-emergence of trust. So what? The only good solution was to never allow yourself to be maneuvered into this corner. Yet here you are. If the new Democratic party is worth a damn and not complicit, they will find a way to overcome that shit. I fully expect them to do none of the above meaningfully, but would love to be happily surprised otherwise. We'll see.
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I've tried lots of permutations of gear, and one thing I've found is that I really like to stay analog for things that go in front of my preamp (or facsimile of a preamp in my case) in a signal chain. Fuzz, dist, OD, phaser, envelope filter, etc... Just my experience that the digital replicants are exposed as such at the head of a signal chain. Digital modulation, delay, reverb, etc.... in an effects loop (or after your amp/cab facsimile), I don't have any issues with -- these are like having effects loaded on a channel strip of a recorded track in a studio. But being super impressed with Tonex for emulating amps and cabs, I am very interested to try out some of their stomp box captures in front of an amp (real or modeled). If it works well, it might be good as a wildcard dirt box that could be used for tones outside my core analog dirt pedals. This video shows them switching back and forth between real pedals and tonex captures of the pedals, and I can't hear much difference. But it's YouTube sound quality, and it's not testing things like reactions to rolling off the volume knob and such. But I have a tonex one here at the house, I might have to just download some of these captures and try them out.
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Just seems like fuzz kind of lives in its own world. I hear much bigger differences between the flavors of fuzz than I do with, say, flavors of overdrive. Fuzz face, big muff, tonebender, octavia ,etc... all seem to have their own distinct sound and characteristics. ODs do, too, but not to the same degree. They also seem to really favor certain pairings with pickups and/or amps. Like, I hate the bridge strat pickup. But get some dark fuzz on it, and all the sudden its a usable, musical thing. Put that same dark fuzz on a humbucker, and its sounds like a bowl of oatmeal. My current favorite fuzz, tonebender style, in a mini format. Can get as wooly as I'd ever want, tone knob to dial out darkness, it cleans up superbly with a guitar's volume knob and sounds good with most pickups. That last thing I sent you, @G650, used this with the volume knob rolled to 3-4 w/neck & middle strat pickups.
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Seems like we could have a nice long discussion about fuzz here.
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Killer sounding pedal, and nice playing to boot!
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Goredho replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Site country motto worthy. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Goredho replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
With how I see AI being pushed onto white collar workers, if a neural link provides a productivity improvement through a direct brain to AI integration, you'll have to do it to remain competitive against the people who will do it gleefully. So fucking glad I'm 55 vs 25. -
Trump can't exist in a context of a content and pacified populace. He's got to drum up new reasons for his base to be outraged even as their wildest dreams are being realized. He wants something like Portland's 2020 BLM riots going on in democrat controlled cities so the conservative information machine can drum up new fears and anger in the base. It will be a reverse Kent State event for them, something that galvanizes the people that love him into supporting more authoritarian measures. Just don't take the bait.
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No virtuoso, but I might take you up on that next time I'm in ATX. Enjoy the new guitar!
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Awesome! You know we are going to want to hear it, right?
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A hot bridge P90 is pretty much the sound of rock & roll to me. Mississippi Queen.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Goredho replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
This thread is awesome. Ewers, Arch, Sark, VY, Simms, Applewhite, Ehlinger, victimization, victim blaming. We just need someone to post something political so it gets moved to the cloak room and it will officially be The Most Surly Thread In The World™. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Goredho replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
The real post NC fireworks celebration will be in this thread -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Goredho replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
This thunder dome of a thread really needs to be in classics. It's simultaneously the highest peak and lowest valley of Surly, lol. But, it needs to stay alive for the 2025 season and aftermath at least. I expect it to pay dividends for quite awhile. Every time Arch does something jaw dropping, good or bad, we'll get people digging up their receipts and rehashing the coaching decisions at the end of 2024. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Goredho replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
He's playing his heel role so well. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Goredho replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
Uh, that's not what I said at all. I mean, did you read what you quoted? It says this "Those are hypothetical outcomes, as is that Arch comes in and we beat Az State, Ohio State and win it all. The only thing that is a certainty is that Quinn wasn't capable of performing well enough against elite defenses when the offensive line got pantsed." I will stand by this as long as anyone wants to go around the hamster wheel: "When you get to the point of win or go home, you pull out all the stops, and if you don't and wind up going home, you deserve your criticism for not doing everything you possibly could in an effort to win it all at the moment you had the opportunity. There are no guarantees Texas will be in a semifinal again this year. Or next. Or the year after that." -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Goredho replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
It's not a given Arch loses to AZ state, and it's not a given it's a disaster if he does. Those are hypothetical outcomes, as is that Arch comes in and we beat Az State, Ohio State and win it all. The only thing that is a certainty is that Quinn wasn't capable of performing well enough against elite defenses when the offensive line got pantsed. When you get to the point of win or go home, you pull out all the stops, and if you don't and wind up going home, you deserve your criticism for not doing everything you possibly could in an effort to win it all at the moment you had the opportunity. There are no guarantees Texas will be in a semifinal again this year. Or next. Or the year after that. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Goredho replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
And yet here we are, debating Ewers vs Arch, because that didn't happen. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Goredho replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
I can understand that thinking, and if we were just talking about the first GA game, I might agree with you, but… Looking at 2024 and the opportunity the team had had last year, we had 3 games against elite defenses where these truths were made blatantly obvious: Our oline was not effective against elite defensive fronts Against elite defensive fronts, our running game became largely nonexistent Against elite defenses, the responsibility to manufacture offense would fall on the QB who would be operating under duress Ewers was not very adept operating under duress and being the sole source of offense and would not be able to pull out victories under these conditions 3 games, 3 manifestations of the exact same problems, 3 opportunities to try a different QB who might have better success under those conditions, 3 choices to ride and ultimately die with Ewers, 1 missed opportunity to do everything you possibly could to try to bring a championship home. What’s the definition of insanity? I mean, I’m a Sark fan. He is undoubtedly a good coach building a powerhouse here and I’m happy we have him. It doesn’t mean he shits golden nuggets and farts rainbows and never makes mistakes. Hindsight is 20/20, which is why you have retrospectives in attempt to be better the next time. Here’s to Sark being less hand wavy than fans about his shortcomings in 2024. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Goredho replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
This. Why did Sark make Ewers his ride-or-die QB pick when NFL scouts evaluate him as barely worth a throwaway pick? That's a valid question. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Goredho replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
The 2024 QB competition was RIGGED!! -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Goredho replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
Ok, now that the victory laps are over, what should still be a discussion is not whether or not Quinn sucks (he does) or if he will last any length of time in the NFL (it's highly likely he won't). It should be, "When NFL talent evaluators could so clearly see Quinn's shortcomings, why couldn't or wouldn't Sark?" It's pretty obvious now that we should have prepared Arch more and at least used him when Quinn was struggling if not named him the starter after the first GA game. Would we have finished better? I dunno, our offensive line was exposed against teams with dominant D lines. But I don't think there is any debate that Arch is better equipped to perform with an offensive line that isn't providing great protection. I dunno what blinders Sark had on, but I am glad the temptation to rely on Ewers has been removed from him.
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