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Rimbo

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  1. I pick on electric. Finger-pick acoustic. Bass is fingered. I'll switch it up sometimes. Don't really care much for what pick I use, but I prefer stiffer, thicker picks in general. Got a pair of Dunlop 2mm's that are pretty great. But what I really like are textured picks -- not for the fingers, but for the strings. Excellent with distortion.
  2. It's more or less why we ended up stuck with him in the first place. So the answer is, sadly, yes. Won't happen, though.
  3. your late mother and my late mother would get along fantastically
  4. No. We should not move on from the Shaka hate.
  5. We need to throttle that discussion, for sure. It's taking the air out of legit discussion and rumor-mongering. Not that there is much; CDC has a stranglehold on information leaks. I hope he's got a good grip on the search.
  6. i think half the board didn't get that memo
  7. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/boring Hovertext: "This is really a poem for GenX."
  8. Also, you absolutely CAN choke someone with just one hand. Hey everyone! @ATXbronco has SMALL HANDS. Well, good news for X. I'm glad this will end all the speculation and misogynistic jumping to conclusions. Oops, nevermind.
  9. 98% of the Internet is pure garbage. The other 2% is garbage that has yet to be purified.
  10. Star Trek V was ass. Nothing with the Star Trek name was worse, and by a huge margin.
  11. it did fit the theme, though
  12. Actually, think about what I just posted there. It's a familiar meme, but not from a movie, but from a once-popular streaming series. Entertainment hours are a zero-sum game; the time we spend watching one show/movie or playing a video game is time we're not doing watching or playing something else. And while most movie studios' content has gotten stale, the theater experience has worsened, and the home experience has improved to the point where more and more people actually prefer it, our options for entertainment have increased at the same time. We have not only a greater quantity of options, but the quality has gone way up as the market has gotten competitive. Video games aren't new, but their popularity and quality over the past decade or so is; they were the refuge of nerds when I was young, but among Gen Z and younger, it's just what every kid grew up with. It's not just about the home experience vs the cinema. It's that movies are facing more competition than ever before from other entertainment options, which ironically is driving studios to create and cinemas to screen the very low-risk garbage that's killing the industry off.
  13. not for me; I use Tidal FLAC streaming baby
  14. probably the most appropriate on-topic comment in the whole thread
  15. guess why I posted this here
  16. take a wild guess who "won"
  17. We adopted a couple of senior cats. It's been a great experience for both of us. One of them was really traumatized; she spent the first two weeks in the closet, she it really took a couple of years for her to come out of her shell. Now we've got this new kitten in the house, and after a little adjustment period, she and the little guy have become friends. And she went from a scrawny, anxious to the point of grooming herself bald thing to a big fat happy furball. (By far the dumbest cat I've ever seen, tho. Oh well.) The other cat was basically my son's therapy cat through high school. So she's justified her existence quite a bit. So no, I wouldn't take my pets with me; there's always someone else's life they could become a part of, just like these two old ladies have done for us.
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