Everything posted by Paul Wesley
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Hipgnosis Music Fund having a tough time
Blackstone, huh?
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the 2023 speaker of the house voting thread of implosion
For the sake of my mental health, I should stop reading the news as the resumes of the prospective GOP speakers as their names are put forward for consideration. Scalise who proudly called himself "David Duke without the baggage." Jordan who covered up sexual abuse and shows relentless fealty to Trump and hostility to functioning government. Now Johnson who repeatedly propagated election lies, filed briefs to overturn a fair election, and wants me to live in his theocracy. It's all just so fucking gross. We see who they are in their presidential "debates" where none of them is willing to criticize Trump, except for the guy who enabled Trump from the inside for years and years, right up until the moment that he made his own power-grab calculation to be the "anti" vote (now polling at around 3%). I know I'm just observing what's been obvious for the past 8 years and counting, but it's disheartening to see it on display. I never thought I'd feel nostalgic for Romney or McCain - guys who I just disagreed with on most issues, but at least I didn't have to wake up every morning and see stories of them covering up sexual abuse, plotting to overthrowing democracy, trafficking teenage girls with Venmo payments, vaping and getting to second base in a theater where families are watching musicals, or having a completely forged identity. I still believe that none of this would be possible - and have vigorous party-wide support - without relentless right-wing propaganda that presents itself as news.
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Guitar Effect Pedalphile Thread
Damn. That's a crazy tool. I love my Mobius - but Mobius only does modulation and not time-based effects. You could set up a pretty ferocious board with a really small footprint. TC Electronics makes great stuff.
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Guitar Effect Pedalphile Thread
It's such a cool effect. Pinwheel looks cool. I'd never heard of it.
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UCF @ Oklahoma 11am on ABC
Setting aside all the psychology of rivalry games and underdog vs favorite... OU did a great job vs Texas of scheming around their lack of a traditional running game (handoffs to the RB), but they're not gonna make it through a whole season beating teams with QB draws, sweeps, wildcats, etc. They'll almost certainly come back and win this home game vs the team that lost to Baylor(!) and hasn't won a Big 12 game. But the shitty O-line pigeons always come home to roost, i.e. they're gonna drop a couple games this year, maybe one of those being Big 12 championship.
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UCF @ Oklahoma 11am on ABC
chicken shit call
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2023 Houston Astros Thread
Just as a reminder here: Garcia hit a 3-run shot, does about as much showboating as you're ever going to see. Stands forever in batter's box. Carries bat to first base and slams it down. Does a big slow-motion stomping thing as he gets to home. After all that nonsense, Verlander gets the ball back and throws a strike to the next hitter. Half-inning later: Altuve hits a 3-run shot, takes his bases with none of that bullshit. Leclerc gets the ball back and like a little bitch he throws the very next pitch right at Dubon's head.
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Jim Harbaugh NO LONGER coaches at Michigan
Babers said on his podcast that he (himself) knew exactly what the play was going to be based on Texas' personnel and alignment - we had run the same routes from the same formation vs Bama (and maybe others). He agrees that the OU defense acted like they knew the play. I would bet the house that most/all of our opponents are trying to steal signs... but that particular play might just be opposing players who watch film + a failure in self-scouting.
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Jim Harbaugh NO LONGER coaches at Michigan
I don't know either, but I know that the scandals that become sticky and permanent are the ones that line up with already-held grievances. And it seems like a lot of people already don't like Harbaugh's demeanor. On a side note here: if I were a coach getting paid tens of millions of dollars to coach for a school whose brand is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, I'd be 100% aware that there's an information war happening as part of the game -- programs are trying to get a competitive edge. They had better act accordingly (e.g. don't use hand signals like you're at a division III school in the 1970's). Shit, Ed Biles was doing this as the Oilers' defensive coordinator in 1979. https://vault.si.com/vault/1980/01/07/the-stolen-signals-caper
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Guitar Effect Pedalphile Thread
If you're trying to do the Nile Rodgers 16th-note funk thing with lots of muted chukka-chukkas, it's better to hit the compressor on the way in. He used bridge pickup of a Strat to an 1176 straight into the board (no amp) for most of those iconic parts. I've never played the Corey Wong Wampler pedal, but he is quite the Rodgers disciple, so I'll bet it's great for that. I think compression also helps on a lot of 80's clean tone things... either before or after the chorus.
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Rolling Stone Top Guitarists Thread of Clickbait
- Guitar Effect Pedalphile Thread
Now that I think about it, I think my mxr distortion pedal was purchased from one of the older guys in my church youth group. He joined the army at the end of high school, and he obviously got some kind of bonus, because he showed up at church the next week with a sunburst Les Paul, a Fender amp, and the most awe-inspiring rainbow of Boss pedals. I think I bought his old mxr distortion from him, and saved up for my own Boss chorus pedal (what with it being so futuristic and all).- Guitar Effect Pedalphile Thread
Just wanted to add: Joke turned out to be on the older kids, because I took that shitty pedalboard and fucking rocked it.- the 2023 speaker of the house voting thread of implosion
I think it's more than twice that number, right? And there are almost certainly a few "Jordan" voters who are now going to switch their votes away from Jordan, because now they can tell their MAGA voters, "Gosh, I really tried." It could still happen, but I think the consensus is that it's way worse for Jordan than we thought.- Guitar Effect Pedalphile Thread
Tip of the hat to tbone in the RS guitarist thread - who posted his first distortion pedals. First three pedals I ever owned below. I have no idea where they came from, but I can tell you there was no auditioning involved, and likely these were sold to me by my "older" friends who played guitar (older = 16 or 17).- Rolling Stone Top Guitarists Thread of Clickbait
I remember my first fuzz pedal.- the 2023 speaker of the house voting thread of implosion
Jeffries is going to outpoll Jordan. Maybe by a lot.- Week 7, 2023: Texas at Houston
- aggy vs tennessee, Saturday Oct 14th at 2:30p on CBS
Having an old hound dog as a college mascot is like finding some old bullshit trinket in your house and giving it as a wedding present.- Stanford at Colorado, 9:00 on ESPN
that looked like a fumble- Share Your Music (it probably sucks but that’s not why we do it)
If you want to work on your own mix/mastering skills, then sure, buy all the software and put in your hours. If you want your stuff to sound its very best, then hire a pro. Mastering engineers have gotten absurdly inexpensive compared to 10 years ago. Ozone 11 "advanced" is $299. For less than that, you can get a true pro like Ryan Smith (Adele, Coldplay, ACDC, Beyonce, Bob Dylan, etc) to master your single, and he'll do it in a couple business days. That's who I hired for "Boomtown." There's also an argument to spend more on a mix engineer, and (arguably) then the mastering gets less and less crucial because there's less for them to "fix." Just putting that out there for perspective.- Week 6, 2023: Red River shootout.
Yeah, obviously Gabriel is really good. I’m fine with anyone thinking he’s better than Quinn. But “if you knock the shit out of him on every play, he’s less effective” is a “no shit” statement you could say about anyone in any sport. It’s the “Quinn panics” stuff that seems detached from the facts. Also, he’s just a system guy with an average arm.- Week 6, 2023: Red River shootout.
I've watched about half of the Ikard/Lehman videos this year, and they're generally really complimentary of this Texas team. They had a few critiques of Texas that are already widely acknowledged on this board: our safeties don't have great foot speed, neither does Watts. Also, the Texas ends are not elite pass rushers. But they had some extended commentary on Quinn that seemed pretty homerish and absurd: Gabriel is the better QB. Quinn is the product of a system where Sark is the one getting guys open. Quinn panics under pressure. Quinn has average arm talent. If they blitz Quinn early, he will come unglued. The red-zone struggles at QB show how Quinn is limited. Sometimes what your critics say about you is true (slow safeties, average edge rushers), but they seemed like they went way over the top there. I think the advanced metrics rate Quinn as elite on plays where he gets blitzed. I guess we'll see on Saturday. They also had some extended criticism of Kelvin Banks. "Kansas really got after him." You think we had a 200-yard rusher and 660 yards of offense (despite playing without our 2nd best offensive player) while our left tackle was getting dominated? Hmmmm. They also claim the OU LT is better than Banks. Can't comment on that, because I haven't watched their guy, but I know Banks is pretty good, and that seems like nonsense. Again, we'll see. I hope somebody shows it to Banks though.- the 2023 speaker of the house voting thread of implosion
I watched CNN for an hour or so before I went to bed last night, and they interviewed numerous Republican congressmen during that hour, and every one of them had their prescribed talking point about making the McCarthy ouster a "both sides did this" issue, and then blathering for another full minute or so about "both sides" dysfunction, blah blah blah. "A few people from my party plus all the Democrats did this disgraceful thing." And I was kind of shocked at the number of times the host let their bullshit go uninterrupted and unchallenged, and let them go with a cordial "Thanks for being here!" Maybe that's the informal agreement for getting interviews? "If you ever interrupt our intellectually dishonest diatribes, we won't go on your network anymore."- Fuck Brett Yormark
If only there would have been some way to know he was a clown. - Guitar Effect Pedalphile Thread
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