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Cool, thanks. Yeah, I’m probably going to pick up superior drummer for drum samples when it’s time to do the drum track with a real drummer.

Alright, spent the past week working on verse/part 3 and I'm digging it, so gonna share now. Again, no Sidis piano or real drummer yet, and the vocals are a work in progress. This has an extended instrumental section in it, and is the longest of the 4 parts at 3:22. I am not 100% certain I like how this wraps up, I am going to let it sit for a day or two then I may play with the end a bit more, but its good for a first pass and check in if anyone wants to listen and critique. Dearest brother,Is that you at the door?I can see your faceBut I can recognize you no moreNo, no, noIt's not a good timeYou shouldn't have comeYou should go back to your homeBeyond a distant sunFar away from me

There’s a whole lot of room between “we should ban all guns” and “we shouldn’t have any gun restrictions whatsoever” that should be able to be explored to “keep mentally ill people with a track record of violence from owning guns.” But not in this cuntry.

I took a flier on a fusion HSH, will see what it needs to be made to play good, and if I can provide that. If that works, I'll see what it needs to be made to sound good. Intriguing company with some gear offerings that might allow one to round out a sound palette with niche instruments on the cheap. Like, I see they make a knock off Rickenbacker 12 string, as well as mandolin's and banjos.

I personally don't give a shit these movies are being made, or that actors are collecting a paycheck for them. There is a market for evangelical infotainment. There is nothing inherently wrong with someone serving that. And there is nothing inherently wrong with someone making a living from them. But I don't want to consume that. And as far as causes go, I don't want to waste my time and money supporting the maker's mission. So don't sell me Blade Runner then hand me a Proselytizing bible lesson and expect me to be happy with the transaction. And after, don't try to directly recruit me and my kids to spread your word and expect me to give you a high net promoter score. Since we're both-sidesing this, the liberal equivalent would be a trailer that made Brokeback Mountain out not to be a gay love story, but a western along the lines of Tombstone, and then at the end of the movie, made a direct appeal to the audience to spread pro-gay messages everywhere. If your movie and ideas are worth a shit, they will spread without the need to ambush moviegoers or beg for them to become evangelists.

Lol. You’re pretty effective at being a cunt. I get it, it’s your fetish. Anyway, I’ll say it again. PSA: the Shift will sell you on it being something like Blade Runner, but it’s a Jesus pamphlet. Go watch if you want the sermon. Spend your money elsewhere if you don’t.

I know people here have dicked around with Firefly guitars. Anyone ever pick up a Harley Benton to see if they could make it worth a shit? They seem to have a pretty good reputation on TGP for being a good value for the money and a good platform to mod from. I'm considering picking one up just to be the equivalent of a 9th grade biology frog to dissect and learn from without risking the money invested in more valuable instruments.

That trickle? Its piss.

I’m sorry you took your kids to see Brokeback Mountain.

He makes a pretty good Satan.

Having to be concerned about this when taking my kids to a movie at a mainstream family theater is wholly new to me.

I had forgot this happened. I mean, I know it happened, but I don't think about it anymore except when this thread gets bumped. How sad and unsurprising that this tragic event came and then faded from public consciousness without a damn thing being done to ensure it doesn't happen again. Its no more difficult for a troubled young adult to get his hands on the right tools for the grim job of murdering school kids, and its no more difficult for small-town law enforcement to shrug in helplessness when confronted with an armed gunman playing GTA at an elementary school.

There's an audience for it, and so yeah, we'll see more. What I don't appreciate is the bait and switch marketing. Don't sell me a thriller but put a bible in the bag.

I went and saw "The Shift" this past weekend with my kids, thinking it was a sci-fi dystopian thriller. Well, its gateway evangelical entertainment made by the same people who made Sound of Freedom. It was not wholly bad. It had good production values and decent action, but as it goes on, it becomes more and more apparent its goal isn't to entertain you, its to give you a sermon and win you over to a cause. At the end of the movie, the protagonist is on screen and tells you that if you want to do your part to help the world be a better place, you should buy a ticket to this movie for someone else, maybe someone who can't afford it themselves, and pay it forward. Then a QR code pops up and he tells you its ok to take your phone out now and scan the QR code for more ways to make the world a better place. I didn't scan it. Kind of pissed me off. If I want a sermon, I'll go to church. Even my kids were like, "Why is he begging people to buy extra tickets to his movie?"

Maybe his daughter is 50.

I really like the punk feel to this coupled with pleasant vocal melody and harmonies. Very cool.

98% of what my kids listen to is crap, but I think this is a great song. How about yours?

It’s AI trained on the content of Twitter and corrected by its users. Think about that. All the guard rails removed from Twitter users and the content they post. A mass exodus of decent people to other platforms who can’t stomach the prevailing content on Twitter. Twitter basically becomes a fascist/racist/misogynous social network. Grok the AI is seeded with the thoughts of and is stewarded by fascists/racists/misogynists. It’s going to generate dangerous misinformation at warp speed, which has always been the proximal danger of AI.

So I think I got verse 2 wrapped up as far as the tracking I am going to personally do (piano and drums to be performed by @sidis and a drummer friend later) except for vocals which I'm gonna be working on for some time as I'm not a well trained/exercised singer and I am learning as I go about how to record and mix vocals. @G650 I played with your reverb suggestions and I have applying globally to the vocals throughout the song. Otherwise, the mix is still rough. Thoughts/feedback welcome. Dearest brother,What have you done,I know that weAre to always be oneBut this is too muchYou've strayed far fromWhere we were bornWhen we were young

I’m willing to take one for the team and escort his wife* to the game so you and he can bro up. * pending pics and final approval.

To be fair, everyone watching that ACC championship game was like…

The most logical and defensible choice is Michigan, Washington, FSU and Texas. Which means it will probably be Michigan, Bama, Georgia and Notre Dame.

Dude, I think someone sold you some bad coke. Are you ok?

Ya'll are overthinking this. Texas is about to get in the mother fucker.