I was wrong about Romanticize the Dive

Just wasn’t feeling the new album much. Hearing Crush Forever and Loyal live certainly helped a bit.

Popped the cd in again today during a drive and it finally started to click. Moral Compass hit me hard. I don’t know why it took so long to grow on me.

Still consider RtD to be one of their weakest, but I no longer dislike it at all. There’s still no bad Metric albums. I also like that they didn’t try a typical ‘we’ve still got it/ we can still kick ass’ type cliche thing that a lot of aging bands try. Instead we got some honest songs about where they are in life right now.

My song ranking for RtD looks like this:

  1. Moral Compass
  2. Crush Forever
  3. Antigravity
  4. Time is a Bomb
  5. Wild Rut
  6. Trememelemelo
  7. Leave You on a High
  8. Clouds to Break
  9. Victim of Luck

Edit-no idea why my lost formatting is messed up. It’s right on my side.

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u/beardedweirdoin104 — 23 hours ago
▲ 24 r/guitars

Why does the Rushead Max sound better than my Boss Katana?

The little plug in makes my guitars sound like a beast. This could very well be that I just don’t have the Boss dialed in yet-I’m pretty new and bad at this stuff. But a cheap pair of headphones and the Rushead Max sounds really cool, with a tone I can’t seem to get on my Boss.

I will say that the Rushead makes all of my 3 electrics sound pretty much exactly the same. Does Boss just kind of suck?

u/beardedweirdoin104 — 2 days ago

I’m a quickplay Widow, but pretty proud of this:

My next match I went 7/4 though so the consistency isn’t there yet. To be fair it was heavy dive and I should have swapped out.

u/beardedweirdoin104 — 3 days ago

Opinions on this?

This would be my first tele. Not sure if it’s the greatest deal or not though. I’m a fan of the tele aesthetics with humbuckers though.

I recently got a very cheap Epiphone Les Paul Special though I’m not sure I really have to have this.

Thoughts?

u/beardedweirdoin104 — 3 days ago
▲ 5 r/ticks

Am I cooked?

This is my leg about two days after this (black- legged deer tick?) got me in Wisconsin.

The rash really doesn’t line up with tick bite photos I’m seeing online. I’ve already consulted a with doctor and have a prescription ready to pick up, but can’t get it until late tomorrow. The doctor wasn’t convinced the rash is tick related, but he went ahead and prescribed antibiotics to be on the safe side.

Also, no symptoms outside of the painless and non itchy rash.

u/beardedweirdoin104 — 7 days ago

Downtown Chicago (Target)

Was hoping for the green skin version, but oh well happy to have snagged her. Her face definitely looks better in person.

u/beardedweirdoin104 — 11 days ago
▲ 154 r/electricguitar+1 crossposts

Keeping one, selling the rest

My 38 year old cousin recently passed (fuck cancer). Her parents gave me her guitars, they asked that I keep one and sell the others for them.

I’m going to restring the epiphone soon and I’m leaning towards keeping that one, but the Ibanez has some character, and I like the color. Epiphone has the most cosmetic issues too. The Squier looks very cool too, but I’m least likely to keep that one.

I know that these are all fairly low end/ starter guitars, but outside of that, any input?

u/beardedweirdoin104 — 23 days ago

Got the platinum trophy!

Cheeky photo aside, nothing but praise for this game. I did not expect to get drawn into this as much as I did.

Ended up doing a full run with every weapon class. Started with heavy axes and that’s probably still my favorite, but they’re all fun.

u/beardedweirdoin104 — 27 days ago

Got my tickets! Austin, TX

I only ‘discovered’ Metric about a year ago, so this will be my first time seeing them. Very hyped!

I’m still making my way through their discography (I have not listened to Live it Out, Pagans in Vegas, or Grow up and Blow Away, but will get to them soon.

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u/beardedweirdoin104 — 2 months ago
▲ 78 r/Nirvana

My Ancient Nirvana CD Collection -have some questions

I’m currently cataloging my CD collection. Mostly wanted to show off my stack while I had them out.

The duplicates are from when me and my girlfriend (wife for 25 years now) merged our collections.

Coincidentally, she has the version of Nevermind that does not include Endless Nameless. Mine has it.

I have the regular version of In Utero, hers is the Walmart censored version.

The barcodes are different on each Incesticide but as far as I know the CD’s are the same. The two copies of Bleach are the same.

  1. Are the bootlegs in anyway valuable, rare or sought after? Considering getting rid of them.

  2. As far as the studio albums versions go are they worth much? I’m not getting rid of them just curious.

Indebted to your priceless advice!

u/beardedweirdoin104 — 2 months ago

My haul from last night (Austin)

What an overall frustrating show. People suck. Constant talking through songs. Talking while Jason was talking. Was also unfortunately at a high traffic area as people just filtered past to the beer line through the entire show. That said, Grandaddy rocked it.

u/beardedweirdoin104 — 2 months ago

Flask upgrade?

Playing the game since it’s free on PSN. Loving it so far! Question though: I have materials that say o can upgrade my flasks, but see no way to actually do it?

If it’s a progression thing, I’ve killed 3 bosses so far (Master Raider, Lu Bingzhang, and giant corruption bug)-kinda feel like I should have access to it now.

Have I missed it? Google isn’t helpful it just says go to the upgrade path in the shrine, but there’s nothing there for me.

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u/beardedweirdoin104 — 2 months ago
▲ 776 r/Eldenring

5k Toys ‘Lava Knight’

This is an Asian toy (5K Toys) company that makes very cool looking copyright infringing characters. This figure is a little over $100. Looks cool af, and since nobody else is making these I’m def getting one.

u/beardedweirdoin104 — 2 months ago

Just inherited this. Need some info

A couple of questions:

  1. I don’t intend to sell it, but is it worth anything? I’m currently making a list of my instruments approximate value for insurance protection.

I did ‘google’ approximate value and the AI response was $1600-$2000, but not sure how realistic that is.

  1. It has some small wheels on the inside of the sound hole, only barely visible from the outside-what the heck are these?

  2. only issues I see is some dust and old strings, but if anything else stands out, please let me know!

Tag on the inside reads J-45 Studio serial number 12289044.

Thanks for any help!

u/beardedweirdoin104 — 3 months ago