Politics, Religion, and Digital Modelers

[ragingplatypi]

Fuck all you fucking fucks.

Me too.

I actually still love you fuckers.

Kkbye!

Me too, after I have a sandwich.

 

[DrewJD82]

There’s always SSO… or are you sick of them too?

I've been a member at SSO for a long time, shortly after the original owner started it and it was one of the very few remaining forums from 'back in the day' that I still visited. The last few months I visited it began to mirror/echo Reddit more and more until there was zero difference between the two and for the first time in about 20 years, I haven't been back in months and haven't even thought about it until I saw this.

Edit- I wrote this before I saw PLX asking if we've heard of Reddit.

 

[DrewJD82]

Hair Metal and Nu Metal coexist peacefully here. It’s actually somewhat disturbing.

There's actually quite a few hair metal fans at SSO, or there were. The original owner has a Ryche tattoo, most of the OG's are right around my age/couple years older where we grew up on the 80's stuff but were also in our teenage prime when 90's metal was taking hold. Not so much nu-metal (they used to bust my balls about being a Mudvayne fan) but the non-mainstream metal of the 90's. I know ArtDecade LOVES hair metal bands, @jaxadam is down for some, they're mostly hanging in the Ibanez and ESP threads.

The first big nosedive the place took was when it was originally sold and the vibe just changed when the original guys moved to MetalGuitarist. Then SSO spawned the entire djent genre and the kids showed up in force and "mix test #24" was born. Endless posts "testing" mixes of djent riffs that never turn into songs.....for years.

 

[Mikael Dez]

There's actually quite a few hair metal fans at SSO, or there were. The original owner has a Ryche tattoo, most of the OG's are right around my age/couple years older where we grew up on the 80's stuff but were also in our teenage prime when 90's metal was taking hold. Not so much nu-metal (they used to bust my balls about being a Mudvayne fan) but the non-mainstream metal of the 90's. I know ArtDecade LOVES hair metal bands, @jaxadam is down for some, they're mostly hanging in the Ibanez and ESP threads.

The first big nosedive the place took was when it was originally sold and the vibe just changed when the original guys moved to MetalGuitarist. Then SSO spawned the entire djent genre and the kids showed up in force and "mix test #24" was born. Endless posts "testing" mixes of djent riffs that never turn into songs.....for years.

I never knew MetalGuitarist existed, just visited it and

 

[Mikael Dez]

I fucking love Meshuggah, who have always just been themselves, and sometimes I dip into vildhjarta or TesserecT, but I could never get into Periphery or anything else.

 

[spawnofthesith]

I fucking love Meshuggah, who have always just been themselves, and sometimes I dip into vildhjarta or TesserecT, but I could never get into Periphery or anything else.

Meshuggah is god

Tesseraft was fairly sweet (at least first couple albums)

Vildhjarta remain absolute kings, their newest release fucks to high heavens

Periphery was always a mixed bag for me. I loved the pre-periphery bulb sound click demos the most. Never could get down with Spencer and misha got more and more annoying to me over the years


I barely listen to any metal anymore but I still got down to plenty of “basic” Djent bands back in the day and will still dance to them if I happen to hear them to this day

 

[Frodebro]

I fucking love Meshuggah, who have always just been themselves, and sometimes I dip into vildhjarta or TesserecT, but I could never get into Periphery or anything else.

I grew up on Priest & Maiden, so the "newer" subgenera of metal are all a bit more aggressive than I like. But then, Metallica didn't do it for me at all when they hit, either. I guess I'm just not wired for that level of intensity.

 

[Mikael Dez]

I grew up on Priest & Maiden, so the "newer" subgenera of metal are all a bit more aggressive than I like. But then, Metallica didn't do it for me at all when they hit, either. I guess I'm just not wired for that level of intensity.

I never got into Priest but obviously respect the shit out of them, but Maiden was one of my gateway bands, along with Metallica, into heavier and heavier and… you get the point lol

 

[DrewJD82]

I never knew MetalGuitarist existed, just visited it and
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That's MetalGuitarist after Chris (original owner of SSO) sold it to a company with the 'promise' the company wasn't going to fuck it up. It actually worked for several years, then one day we logged in and it looked like that, totally fucked from what it was before. I think we spent a day yelling at the admin before Chris went and opened MetalMusicians, but that only lasted a year or two before he threw in the reigns and started a FB group that no one posts in. Bummer, there was a lot of great dudes and laughs on those two forums when they were at their peaks.

 

[Frodebro]

I never got into Priest but obviously respect the shit out of them, but Maiden was one of my gateway bands, along with Metallica, into heavier and heavier and… you get the point lol

My trajectory was kinda weird. I was thirteen when Screaming For Vengeance was released, so prime age for that stuff. Then came Defenders Of The Faith and I wore that one out, too. Then came the hugely divisive Turbo... I liked it. By that point I was a senior in high school, but my taste was already shifting away from hard rock/metal and into other things. During the peak years of grunge I was into the Brian Setzer Orchestra, which is about as far away from rock & metal as you can get without reaching for a Carpenters disc...

 

[MTB1973]

I've been a member at SSO for a long time, shortly after the original owner started it and it was one of the very few remaining forums from 'back in the day' that I still visited. The last few months I visited it began to mirror/echo Reddit more and more until there was zero difference between the two and for the first time in about 20 years, I haven't been back in months and haven't even thought about it until I saw this.

Edit- I wrote this before I saw PLX asking if we've heard of Reddit.

I have been a member of SSO for a long time too. It has definitely changed a lot in the past few years. I go there occasionally but rarely post.

 

[PLX]

Reddit.

 

[FuzzyAce]

What is SSO?

 

[Mongillo19]

What is SSO?

Seven String Org or some such

 

[Mikael Dez]

What is SSO?

Or for the IT folks here that get PTSD from it, SINGLE SIGN ON

 

[AutomationBias]

Pretty sure that if the scientists at DARPA, who invented the Internet, could spend 20 minutes reading Reddit they'd rethink the entire project.

There are 138,000 active subreddits. Some of them are great little niche discussion groups for weird hobbies or interests (same as TGF), and others are incredibly awful. It's like the internet. Or humanity. Some of it's great, but a lot of it sucks.

 

[PLX]

There are 138,000 active subreddits. Some of them are great little niche discussion groups for weird hobbies or interests (same as TGF), and others are incredibly awful. It's like the internet. Or humanity. Some of it's great, but a lot of it sucks.

Yeah, that's true.

I've found quite a few sub-Reddits that are useful and really cool !

Unfortunately though, the guitar-centered ones are just ruined with sycophantic echo-chamber group-think rants.

 

[Orvillain]

There are 138,000 active subreddits. Some of them are great little niche discussion groups for weird hobbies or interests (same as TGF), and others are incredibly awful. It's like the internet. Or humanity. Some of it's great, but a lot of it sucks.

Just be honest. Reddit is full of people you'd be afraid to leave your kids with.

 

[LCW]

Surprised no one brought up… <gulp>… Rig Talk…

/s

 

[laxu]

Surprised no one brought up… <gulp>… Rig Talk…

/s

Anyone considering it should look into the off topic forums. Some of those people are vile.