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So, how confident are you Americans that Trump will lose the midterms?

The same people who elected Trump are still here and voting. From what I've read, he was elected president because the last election brought in a whole bunch of first time voters and more of them voted for Trump than Harris ...

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The people in charge are completely detached from reality. I can't remember a time in my life that it's been this ridiculous.

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Does anyone think he will be able to win the mid-terms...
Don't underestimate how stupid and brainwashed the American population is. I have close friends who absolutely cannot see through the culture war haze, people who complain about the economy but somehow believe the economy is bad because we ...

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Attached a chart I found with OS stats from Proton. I don't know anything about CachyOS but it's the top Linux OS for gaming.

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While I don't care to chase plugins and spend money I don't have, I really, really love the design sense in a lot of these products. Just gorgeous. Great to look at regardless of how they sound.

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Be careful about what kind of stuff you let the social media algorithm feed your brain. Practice a healthy media diet; avoid the conspiracy channels, trash and propaganda.

You would think this would be enough, but a healthy media diet is only possible if you have good critical thinking skills in ...

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Hey thanks for thinking of me. I wound up using my bent Casio SK-1 and it worked out better than expected. The track is an Industrial Drone, something I never write, probably because I recently listened to the latest Tron soundtrack. The recording is all cheap battery powered hardware: a Korg ...

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Sounds good.

Here is a question for you: I discovered yesterday I don't really have anything in my arsenal to make industrial, mechanical sounds. I always lean toward soothing, fuzzy tones so all my equipment is pleasant sounding, but I'm working on something now that requires a harshness I don't ...

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I think you made the right choice, there are lots of time and modulation effects out there but when it comes to distortion and fuzz, which are so important to the fundamental tone, there aren't as many good options.

I actually use a Muff Bass PI in my band and I have the EH Bass Soul Food Overdrive ...

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Big Muff is on the 808 part ...
Oh that sounds really good. I hadn't really though about that use case. Can't go wrong with EH. Basically every pedalboard me and my friend have used in the past 20 years includes some EH gear. Never thought about them as plugins though. I've been a hardware guy for ...

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Sounds amazing. Like the bassline, really interesting intervals I never would have thought to use. Speaking of flats, my friend gave me his 1965 silvertone bass last night for a setup and I'm going to put flats on it since I have an extra set and I think that will bring out the vintage character of ...

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Thanks for fixing the tracks on your Drive. I've never heard of Goldbaby. Is it a company or just one person? I don't know anything about sample sites, I've always made my own stuff.

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TheWhat wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2026 1:07 pmMonsieur 6-Basses over here say less is more lol =)

Hahaha. I also have 15 drum machines.

Hey, I can't play those Google Drive clips, you might have the permissions set incorrectly? I've tried in two browsers and nothing loads.

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I can see spending all that money if I were a professional musician who had to create for a wide variety of genres. As a hobbyist I go the opposite way and use as little as possible. Years ago a friend of mine who did all her work on Native Instruments "Maschine" cornered me and questioned why I ...

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I got here late so I missed out on a lot of great gaming discussion, but I will note that having a community run wiki would have been a nice touch for this game. My guess is that it was never needed since there were so many great fan sites, but now a lot of that knowledge has been lost, probably.

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Yeah I think you get diminishing returns with a lot of expensive music equipment. I'm pretty sure a lot of stuff is simply priced and marketed to people with a lot of disposable income, usually old guys who are big earners with grown children. Same thing with music concerts. Yes, I have more money ...

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I've only heard good things about La Bella. I've always been hesitant to try any brand that doesn't list their string tension though. Tension is super important to me (I know I'm in the minority of players that care).

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If I bought the LaBella's and wanted to go back to the GHS would it be a problem? Or should I just shudup and eat the $55 bux?
It's a good idea to do a minor setup whenever you change to a new type/brand of strings because the tension and thickness will likely be slightly different.

Bass strings ...

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I dont get how you would forget to change the batteries? It's an active bass, they are required to make sound. Does that really happen?

It happens to me. First, one of my basses with active pickups is ON when plugged in, and coming from a passive bass background I had a habit of just leaving my ...

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So youre saying the way its routed with the two 9v connections is ok?
Right. Imagine accidentally leaving a battery in the bass for a couple years and the resulting leak severely corrodes the contacts. To clean it you might have to remove the battery box and if bad enough, replace it. But if there ...

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Sure. Forums like this are for old people so the number of visitors will only decline. Young people use Discord, there are people chatting in it every day. Also, this game is super old. The fact that anyone still talks about it is amazing

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My theory on the battery connection is it's due to people commonly forgetting to remove batteries causing them to leak. A really bad leak with classic 9v leads is much a much easier fix than a battery box. I'm going to speak from experience here because I 3D print and sell replacement battery covers ...

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I think most social media is bad for guitar/bass advice. There are too many blockheads full of misinformation and numbskulls that talk confidently about subjective qualities. TalkBass.com is almost unusable and it feels like every thread gets derailed by a few know-it-alls who want to argue with ...

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It's too bad they just sent you a generic for a 4-string bass instead of the specs for a 5-string. I think these are fine as a starting point, but ultimately your setup should match your playing style. I usually start with the neck as straight as possible and saddles all the way down then add relief ...

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:frown: Sorry if I came across as condescending. I'm one of those technical players, so all my instruments are modified for maximum performance to the point where I'll even make subtle adjustments depending on the music I'm playing. I'm like a racecar driver that also works on cars. I forget that ...

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...I would've drunkenly just set it and not know why it worked ...
This ★■◆● is not hard to understand though. I don't even bother with gauges, I just hold down the string at the first and last fret to see how much relief is in the neck then adjust the truss rod and saddles. It usually takes about ...

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...have ever wondered why it is everything starts to go to shi...
They really do think that "the left" is burning everything to the ground rather than cede power to the righteous right wing and that they got into power just in time to save everyone. Right wingers are completely delusional.

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I too wonder why any average person needs secure boot. I can see enabling it on business hardware or if you have so specific security needs, but I've always just turned it off so I can install Linux.

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Forgot to mention your hardwood floors look great.

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Looks great. I bought my first five string about two years ago. It was really stressful, I wanted to fall in love and didn't want to buy online so I went to every music store in a progressively wider radius from my place then played every bass until I found one that "clicked." It wound up being a ...

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I also have never used anti-virus on Linux. Or Windows. The anti-virus programs are more trouble than the viruses.

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I feel like adding a bit more to the conversation.

First, I've used Linux so long that I get really frustrated using Windows 10 and 11. Same with MacOs. I have no idea how to use an iPhone, like literally can't seem to turn it on and open an app. However, all these things have more in common than ...

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Hey, a famous person in Descent is posting. Awesome.

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Maybe it's hit or miss with certain hardware?
I'm sure that's part of the problem I had, Neon wouldn't recognize some hardware. The main issue I had was the main panel sometimes crashing and the file manager locking up. I might be using it today if not for buying a System76 desktop and running PoP ...

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TigerRaptor wrote: Fri Oct 17, 2025 11:36 pmavoid KDE Neon.

This is the first KDE desktop that really resonated with me and I hate that I had to stop using it because of the bugs. It's really cool.

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On ASUS's site, they want it in FAT32, even though my system has a UEFI BIOS. Does that sound right? When the USB is formatted in NTFS, it just won't show in the boot menu.
I don't understand what you are trying to do. USB drives are bootable if there is a proper boot partition and have nothing to ...

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How about other clients like Ubisoft, Rockstar and Epic?

Less likely though some are available using Lutris, usually older versions. You can check here:

https://lutris.net/games?q=launcher&paginate_by=100

You still have to be somewhat of a computer geek to get some games working on Linux, but ...

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...what's the best distro for a gaming rig, a gaming laptop and a noob to Linux?
Any major distro will work. Gaming on Linux requires an additional software environment and that software runs on all the major distributions. Also, you'll have better luck with AMD GPUs over Nvidia, generally. My ...

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I rather go back and focus on descent here only as I was doing before. Have a good day.
Yes, don't get involved, it's a sick past time. I'm here to watch your videos and talk about Descent. I rarely join E&C threads now that the most egregious liars have been banned, and I feel like I was only ...

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Neat, I bet we saw the same article about turning a picture in to a model. Though seeing that D2 boss is making me think I should 3D print one. I was thinking about making a custom case for one of several Raspberry PIs in my house, maybe I'll make a PI that runs Descent and put it in a boss-shaped ...

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