u/Topher_BCK

As the title suggests, having fret buzz around the first five frets. Sometimes it's just the third fret, other times it's the first five frets. Either way, it's a pain in the arse. I'm not sure the video will do it any justice.

Now, I am missing my tool bag so I'm short of basic tools to try and attempt this myself. The neck has a bit of a bend in it and the action, further down the neck, is far too high. This was never a problem before and I've had the bass for the last ten years and it's always well looked after.

I will be near a guitar repair shop next week, but I'm in two minds spending £50-£100 if it's a repair I could do myself.

Any tips on how to sort this out?

Many thanks!

I've played C&C since the 90s and ever since the Remaster was released, that has been my absolute "go-to". I bought Tiberium Wars, Kanes Wrath and Red Alert 3 for Xbox back in like 2011 for next to nothing and they sat on the shelf for years.

I first played Red Alert 3 back in 2021 and thought it looked too "cartoony" compared to the other games and then never touched it until earlier this year. I was dead wrong to sleep on the C&C3 collection because they are fucking fire! Playing them in release order, right now, and I've just finished the Soviet Campaign and that was the good bits. Tiberium Wars was a blast to play through, despite GDI Sarajevo, and Kanes Wrath was decent enough.

I had only ever played C&C on PC so I wasn't sure the console ports would even be worth the time and if it wasn't for Halo Wars, the AoE2: DE, AoE4 and AoM collection coming to console, I wouldn't have bothered playing them. But they proved you can play on the console no problem! Give us all the games remastered on Xbox, along with the Dawn of War collection, because I know it can be done!

I'm sad that the servers are now closed and I missed out on that, big time! On top of that, I don't need to tell everyone WE NEED ANOTHER C&C GAME!!! I'll easy start work on Red Alert 4. There's plenty of inspiration for it now.

So, that's my pointless post. The Xbox 360 (Series X) trilogy is a masterpiece and I'm sorry it took so long to actually play them.

Also, Ivana Miličević, you have a new fan!

Peace!

Why can't the Command and Conquer games just sit neatly next to each other? Microsoft knows something that little bugs me and they are sitting laughing at me, as we speak! I'd forgive them if they were in the wrong order next to each other but come on!

Same goes for the Diablo games. D3, D2 then D4. Why? Because it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life!

S09E13

S04E13

I'm a bit late to the club, it seems, but I just found out this can be played on Xbox, through the Edge app. I was looking at setting up developer mode for emulating OG Xbox games, since my OG Xbox just finally died, and stumbled onto a post with a link for a website. Don't know if this sub requires me to gatekeep that info or if I can share it, for folks interested in it.

It's as God awful as I remember it being, but I have the day off and I'm now invested. Xbox controller works, although my buttons seem to be set up Nintendo Switch style. Thankfully, I can work with it. 007 Racing and TWINE are also available.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success...

Edit: Forgot to mention it was Tomorrow Never Dies, for those who didn't play it

Tomorrow Never Dies had more of an impact on me than I thought, for some bizarre reason, since I always assumed CNN stood for "Carver News Network". At no point did I ever think to look it up and correct myself. Every day is a skewl day.

S08E10

*your ID. Fucking reddit won't let me fix it. Me fail English?

First time playing this C&C, even though it has sat on my shelf for years. What a fantastic game! Hate this level, though!

Peace!

I bought a job-lot of Action Clix, years ago, after watching AngryJoeShow's stream and I think I only ever played it a couple of times. I seem to have an infinite amount of Spartans and ODSTs and not enough Covenant. I could just play Spartans vs Tyranids ans Orks, for the millions of them that I have. (Halo 7 idea: Misterchef purges the Xeno scum)

I do see that the prices of them are wild now, on eBay, so I did consider 3D printing a couple of vehicles to go with them, but I've yet to get round to it.

I thought it was quite a cool purchase, even if I haven't looked at them in years.

*Picture was taken before I completed the game!*

This was recommended to me recently, after searching the Dreamcast sub for some decent RPGs. My Dreamcast catalogue was lacking anything with substance. So I picked up Record of Lodoss War, Dragon's Blood (Cult of Wyrm) and Phantasy Star Online from eBay, having never heard of any of them in the 27 years I've owned the console.

First of all, I am a huge Diablo fan so I was sold, before even buying it, on the idea and the gamble paid off! To start with, I thought "meh". Just another dog-ass Diablo clone. I've been rumbled by Reddit. I worked my way towards the Goblin Fortress hub world and rescued the Blacksmith and that attitude changed pretty quickly. From then on, I worked my way through the game, levelling up my weapons and armour to create an unstoppable beast, eventually turning the Blazing Sword into the Doomblade +275, I believe was the final level when I completed it? I have a habit of using the same weapons throughout the playthroughs. My ten playthroughs of Elden Ring fixated on the Bloodhound's Fang. So, because I didn't pay attention at the start, I had no idea about Ancients so I just put anything into my weapons and that was my first mistake. Turns out levelling weapons was incredibly easy and I was just being a tool. Raise that Critical level and pump damage and strength up! I was basically "one-shotting" everything near the end game.

Combat wise, I was expecting to get my ass kicked plenty of times and I did. Some of the deaths were unfair and rage inducing, like the fucking arseholes with the giant hammers spamming your dead body into jam, and others were me being stupid and deserved. Christ, it took me over three hours to do the Floor Guardian because those giant bastards kept trapping and spamming me! Once I snagged a pair of "Heavy Boots" and the upgraded versions of them, I was sorted. Getting knocked on your arse in that game is a severe punishment. But the combat was just was I expected, so I wasn't disappointed. A dodge feature, of sorts, would've been welcome but I understand it was 2000 when the game came out. We didn't need to dodge back then because we were all hard.

The magic system was great, despite the fact I mainly used "Fireball" and "Recall", up until the point where Fireball was no longer useful. But the Recall spell was an absolute lifesaver and possibly the best function of the game. So many times I was able to jump back to the Goblin Fortress before a big fight and level up, refill my potions and refine my unwanted gear.

Story wise, I never saw the Anime or was in any way familiar with the franchise until I bought the game so I went in blind. "Deliver some heads to a sleeping dragon and smack some boys". That was about it.

• Since then, I have watched both ROLW and Chronicles of the Heroic Knight. I have been invested in some podcasts and unofficial audiobooks on Spotify, but I haven't been able to justify eBay prices for some reading material. Obviously, I went back on Youtube to piece together parts of the story I missed or wasn't paying attention to and it was an okay plot, I guess.

Since completing the Anime and Game, I have picked up the Deedlit game for the Switch and are currently flying through that. I would consider myself a new fan to the series, and I can't believe I've never heard of it until last month! But I went into this expecting a Diablo clone and I was not disappointed. It ticked every box for me! There were plenty of "Fuck this game!" moments and there were plenty times where I'd come home from work and next thing I know, it's like 2am, because I've been glued to it.

I clocked in at just over 66 hours, which for a Dreamcast game seems wild, to me anyways. I know the amount of times I've played Sonic Adventure, Red Dog or Soul Reaver absolutely dwarfs that but still. And that's nothing compared to modern games! But I'm going to give the game a solid... 9/10. My only, and I mean only, reason for not scoring it a 10/10 was the sound design. I saw myself just muting the TV or putting on headphones and listening to something else, a lot of the time, especially thanks to the Heavy Boots. That would drive you mental after a while. Plus there were like only three or four songs in the entire game, so that did get repetitive very quickly. It has a decent difficulty spike and was a lot of fun to play. I just love a game that doesn't hold your hand and I will admit, I had to go "Old-skool" and look up some walkthroughs from the early 2000s. But once you figure out where everything is and where to go, you'll do just fine! It's so refreshing to come across a game like this, in my Mid-Thirties, when I'm finding the current market stale. The only thing I'm after, this year, is the new 007 game. Nothing else is screaming out to me. So this was the perfect game to fall on to my lap!

So, Record of Lodoss War for the Dreamcast: 9/10! Absolutely solid effort!