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  1. 19 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

    Haven’t lusted for a pedal in awhile but this sounds fun:
     

    I noticed this too about my pedal lust, recently. It's been awhile since a new pedal caught my attention, but Strymon has a track record that doesn't have any misses so they're easy to lust after. And now I'm about 4 vids in...

    Did Kemper, Positive Grid, et al, create this general apathy towards pedaldom?

  2. On 1/22/2023 at 9:31 PM, HenryJames said:

    If you don’t like EVH’s guitar on 5150, you’re a fucking retard.

    Eddie is my number 2 guitarist all-time, behind SRV. (No one spends time learning Hendrix songs anymore. That's science.) I celebrate Van Halen's entire catalog (But prefer DLR. As someone once said, Hagar was great, but Roth made them dangerous), but Why Can't This Be Love is my absolute favorite VH track (pure pop perfection). It wasn't until I was in college that I found out it was a keyboard song. Learned a lot about myself that day. Still coming to terms with it.

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  3. That section's creature feature is a 15-minute homage to the Original Series, right down to Kirk solving the situation WITHOUT using his fists (in a manner of speaking). I'm getting giddy just thinking about it.

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  4. On 1/19/2023 at 11:05 PM, Serak The Preparer said:

    ST VI is a lot of fun for sure, but over WOK? That is a bold opinion my friend. Even if Wrath of Khan didn't have Dathon (of Darmok and Jalad fame) I've literally never met anyone who doesn't have that as their favorite. I do agree with you that Search for Spok is under-rated. It has its issues but I think my favorite part of any ST movie is in Search for Spok:

    I hear you. II is obviously the movie that finally validated nerds the world over and its place in SciFi movie history is unimpeachable. Wrath of Kahn is a great movie, but VI has everything II has except VI does it better (Kahn spends the entire 3rd act bumblefucking around, for instance, Chang would clean his chonometer (boop)). But what VI really is, down to its core, is the entire 30 years of Star Trek story and lore sticking the landing.

     

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  5. Took the children to see William Shatner at the Long Center in Austin this past weekend. The show included a watching of Wrath of Kahn, then a Q&A with T.J. Hooker himself, then a meet and greet after (which turned out to be a cattle call tbh). For 90+, Shatner was bouncing around the stage and just as entertaining as ever, he definately still all there.

    Wrath of Kahn is my 3rd favorite ST film, but watching it with an auditorium of enthusiastic Trekkies made it memorable beyond it simply being a great movie and has me re-thinking my order. (In all the times watching it I never noticed the Moby Dick thread throughout, btw. #dense)

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    Ive been worried for some time that I might be running out of time to see him in person, the only OG main cast member I hadn't up till now, but if his energy and presence are any indication, he might be around for a while yet, hopefully.

    Bucket Item: checked

  6. 17 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

     

    This popped up on the timeline today (Big Brother and all that). Cool rundown. Disney afterschool TV was on another level in the 90s. MIght be the only place Disney had their act together that decade.

    I even forgot to mention Tailspin. Zzzzz

     

  7. If the color of a person's skin tells you what you need to know about who they are, I'm not going to convince you otherwise. I'm telling you I believe skin color is a shallow thing to relate to, I am not telling you, nor do I agree with, that a common background is the same thing.

    Side note, I grew up in a Missouri City. Or, as we like to say, "not Mayberry." I wont hold it against you that you thought I grew up in an all-white town, afteralI you cant see the exact hue my sexy caramel skin and thus the tapestry of my life.

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  8. 54 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    Hey, that's great but not everyone is like you, and it doesn't just have to be on race.

    My daughter started going to the College World Series with me when she was about 8.  We'd drive up, and we'd go to every game and stay the whole week and we both had a blast, every year.  

    But when she was about 11, I also took her to the softball College World Series, and she was just absolutely starstruck and beyond excited to get to the ballpark every day, and it caught me completely off guard.  I guess I should break it to her that she was the victim of "shallow validation" and empty calories?

    I can't think of a less valid comparison than this one. Not only are we talking about two different things, we're talking in two different languages.

    And I imagine my daughter would react the exact same way to seeing the CSWS.

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  9. 14 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    As a hispanic person I don’t share any of your experience at all. I don’t see what’s so horrible about looking up to fellow hispanic people that have had success, or why it’s so bad to feel a level of connection to them. 

    That's kind of the point.

    Connect with whomever you want for whatever reason you want. Hopefully it's for something more substantial than the color of their skin, but if not, no harm no foul.

    Diversity of appearance is the basest form of diversity.

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  10. 2 hours ago, Rimbo said:

    Tell me you're white without telling me you're white.

    You didn't think about race because your race was always heavily represented on TV. So you never had the experience of suddenly seeing, for the first time, someone on TV who looked like you, and never knew how that felt.

    Lazy. I never looked at Ricky Ricardo and felt any connection based on his looks. He looked like my uncles, big deal. Could he make me laugh, if not I'm changing the channel and watching Andy Griffith. No one in that town looked like me and I couldn't give a fuck. Didn't even cross my little wetback mind. Still doesn't even though I'm beaten over the head that it should. 

    So many people put everyone else into little boxes. That's probably the woke movement's biggest failure. And it's an ironic failure at that.

    It's unfortunate that there are people who need such shallow validation, but even more unfortunate that so much of what we're sold caters to them and promotes these empty calories.

    Couldn't make it 20 minutes into an episode Velma and there's a shitton of little animated people in that show with an approximation of my skin color. They all sucked. Had they the less fortunate condition of having less pigment than me but written to be more entertaining or interesting, I'd still be watching.

    Diversity is great, but when I want to be entertained, it's way the fuck down the list.

    Entertainment has lost the plot.

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  11. 3 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    That’s awesome man! If I ever get around to having kids then Saturday mornings are reserved for cartoons for at least two hours with Scooby Doo, Johnny Quest, Duck Tales and The Jetsons in the lineup. 

    It's worth having kids just so you can do that mid-90s Rescue Rangers/Ducktales/Gargoyles train of greatness and pretend you're doing it for the kids.

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  12. This news makes me tingly. I mean, I know you SAID '58 but I read R8 and was just proceeding accordingly. Surely you werent' talking about an honest to goodness 1958 made in the year of our lord 1958. This is beyond astonishing and I look forward to watching Lifetime TV movie of how this came to be.

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  13. 14 minutes ago, Not that Bob said:

    I am moving in to a new, to me, house and the previous owner had a rather spectacular system set up. Wall/ceiling mounted speakers in at least 4 rooms. All controlled from one of two media closets. When he moved he took all the equipment, but obviously (I guess obvious) he left all the speakers and wires in the walls. I haven't been paying attention for several years and every thing seems to  have changed to wireless now, or at least most things. 

    Is it worth it for me to have someone come trace and label all these wires? I don't have the time or patience to do it myself. If it's worth it who in Austin would do such a thing?

    My first reaction is to just say fuck it and go with Sonos  or whatever is the flavor of the week. I no longer need T-Rex to shake the house, but don't want to just use the speakers in the TV. 

    I had a similar situation with the house I'm in now. I had a rat's nest of wires without labeling and they were bundled runs which included many colors other than red and white. I had to reverse engineer the whole layout to find out what colors went together and then to which of the 9 locations the pairs went. To wrangle it all I went with a Monoprice SS-Pro and it's worked wonderfully. It was worth it to me to keep using the in-walls over Sonos'ing the whole house. If your wires are all red/white pairs I imagine it would be even easier to do it yourself. (Brother, have you tried to get a contractor out to do anything is this day and age?)

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