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#91

Open Discussion / Re: Just Saying -- the soapbox...

Last post by jimilee - October 17, 2025, 05:22:07 PM

2 things

1. Is xxxx worth it? Goddamit, figure it out for yourself.

2. I'm like, they're like, I'm like....what happened to the English language? Use it!

I guess it's a get off my lawn moment, maybe? That is all.


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#92

Open Discussion / Re: Just Saying -- the soapbox...

Last post by lars - October 17, 2025, 05:09:09 PM

I'd say being a source of "truth" might be a slightly more rational interpretation

Maybe it's just a means for them to flex at dinner parties? "Check out how many websites I've made! Great success!"
I don't know.

Being right about AI doesn't seem like a victory, does it?

I don't know where that quote came from, but it's a good one. It reminds me of that scene in Hunt for Red October where the weapons officer refused to launch a torpedo that didn't have any safeties enabled. Of course, the idiot captain launched the torpedo anyway, and it eventually came back on them and blew them up. The weapons officer was proven correct, but he still died. A victory? Well, for about 1.2 seconds.

#93

Open Discussion / Re: Just Saying -- the soapbox...

Last post by jessenator - October 17, 2025, 04:59:27 AM

The real question is:  what possible purpose or advantage does somebody recieve from making these sites? It just clogs up being able to find the 5% of actual relative sites.

The cynic in me thinks that the clogging effect is the end goal, although what there is to gain... I'd say being a source of "truth" might be a slightly more rational interpretation. There's a slim possibility of revenue from the disparate holders, but that's peanuts. Maybe it's just groping at crumbs falling from the table of the harbingers of the $whatever. 

While it does little to filter out anything from more current content of repute, duckduckgo has a feature where you can filter by date. I basically set it to not show me anything created after 2019, just to be sure.


Being right about AI doesn't seem like a victory, does it? (if you know where I appropriated that line, you're my favorite member on the forum)

Championing dumb devices, reviling terrible platforms... we're the sane ones in the asylum now. In terms sheer numbers, the dead internet theory is fast becoming a plausible reality.

#94

Open Discussion / Re: Just Saying -- the soapbox...

Last post by lars - October 17, 2025, 03:45:45 AM

Revive the soapbox!
I'm sick and tired of those brainless websites that flood the Internet with ChatGPT-generated content.
"Are you looking for the guitar related tone source? Let's talk about the potentiometer shaft!"
Idiotic phrasing like that gives these sites away, in addition to thier 34 IQ information and stupid web address names. This garbage should be cleaned up / banned / relegated somehow. The real question is:  what possible purpose or advantage does somebody recieve from making these sites? It just clogs up being able to find the 5% of actual relative sites.

#95

Build Reports / Re: MicroSynth Fuzz

Last post by LaceSensor - October 16, 2025, 09:39:51 PM

Still a couple unspoken for - I have PM you Bret.
Cheers

#96

Build Reports / Re: MicroSynth Fuzz

Last post by Bret608 - October 15, 2025, 01:15:14 PM

This sounds and looks great! Very much up my alley. PM me if you still have any PCBs. I just got back from a trip to S. Korea so probably missed the boat as it were.

#97

Open Discussion / Re: what's been good?

Last post by jessenator - October 13, 2025, 02:50:41 PM

Now I'm 42 and FEELING IT!

Yeah, it's surreal. 

#98

Build Reports / Re: A couple builds

Last post by jessenator - October 13, 2025, 02:49:16 PM

I adjusted one resistor in the the tone stack and one capacitor in the clipping stage to match the '75 Rams Head muff and BOOM! A killer-sounding Big Muff was born. This thing rips. Run some mild overdrive into the front end, and it sounds epic. I housed all of it in an old enclosure I had used for a DOD 250 clone, and I used random knobs and slapped a Thomas organ logo on it. All the wear and tear on the enclosure is from real use, so it isn't a relic job. It's now one of my favorite dirt pedals I've ever made. Funny how that happens.

Very nice!   The old and new decals totally works. I dig it.

#99

Open Discussion / Re: what's been good?

Last post by jimilee - October 11, 2025, 03:51:20 PM

I wouldn't have traded it for anything.

I'm feeling that. These hooligans are growing up too fast. Always happy to help them in the music department, but harder to get up and move. You can tell which is my favorite 

I was 38 when my twin boys were born. Now I'm 42 and FEELING IT! I'm also the stay at home parent so it's double pain. Love them more than life it's self tho! They don't leave me with any spare time but that will change
-Mike-

All too quickly. Enjoy it while you can. My baby is 18 and in college.


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#100

Open Discussion / Re: what's been good?

Last post by flanagan0718 - October 11, 2025, 02:50:19 PM

I wouldn't have traded it for anything.

I'm feeling that. These hooligans are growing up too fast. Always happy to help them in the music department, but harder to get up and move. You can tell which is my favorite 

I was 38 when my twin boys were born. Now I'm 42 and FEELING IT! I'm also the stay at home parent so it's double pain. Love them more than life it's self tho! They don't leave me with any spare time but that will change
-Mike-