The Digital Doubt

Jarick said:
My first three cars were absolute lemons that cost me an arm and a leg to fix (Mercury Cougar, BMW 330xi, Nissan Murano). I've since switched over to Honda and Toyota and I've had one non-maintenance repair in the last 15 years across all the cars.
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Die hard Honda here. I've owned 4 of them, my wife 3, had 1 repair between us and it was on the oldest of them and in a location with BRUTAL winters. I had a 98 Civic save my life. Head on collision from a red light runner at about 50mph. Totaled the car, hit so hard the sunroof started to fold in because the frame of the car started to buckle. Walked away with a headache.

DrewJD82 said:
I killed a squirrel with a BB gun when I was 11 or so, I was almost catatonic the rest of that camping trip because I felt like such a piece of shit after. Echo goes apeshit when he sees them (or cats) and thankfully they can outrun him, but I know the day he gets his mouth on one it won’t be a pretty sight.
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Oh man you better count on that happening, and its gonna be an event for the kiddies with all that not very white fur anymore. One of our hounds has started catching rabbits. She doesnt kill them, she catches them and then gently carries them around like she does her toys. There are a couple dozen bunnies in therapy over here.
 
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EOengineer said:
Die hard Honda here. I've owned 4 of them, my wife 3, had 1 repair between us and it was on the oldest of them and in a location with BRUTAL winters. I had a 98 Civic save my life. Head on collision from a red light runner at about 50mph. Totally the car, hit so hard the sunroof started to fold in because the frame of the car started to buckle. Walked away with a headache.


Oh man you better count on that happening, and its gonna be an event for the kiddies with all that not very white fur anymore. One of our hounds has started catching rabbits. She doesnt kill them, she catches them and then gently carries them around like she does her toys. There are a couple dozen bunnies in therapy over here.
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I’m Asian.
That’s always the joke of my friend: “You can only drive Honda, you are Asian.”

Maybe it’s a cultural thing but in the past it was the truth. At my grandma’s porch on a birthday .. all cars where Hondas.
 
laxu said:
Modelers are good at teaching you that you probably only like a subset of what they can do. I ended up selling my Axe-Fx 3 last year because I kept using such a fraction of what it can do, and the UI inconvenience was the drawback of having those features just sit there unused.
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I still find it interesting that so many of us, myself included, have this feeling that because a modeler has so many options we are in some way wasting them if we aren't using a good number of them.

For years I've said all I really need for amp tones is three great sounds: ckean, crunch, and 5150 high gain. And then I need some great effects including delay, reverb, detune, and flanger. And truthfully I had all those things saved in a preset template and in my blocks library on my FM9. I could've just used those and been happy. Actually I was happy, I just needed to downsize.

Why do we maintain that feeling of "if I'm not using the majority of its features I'm wasting it"?
 
holoholo said:
I’m surprised this thread hasn’t devolved into doubting farts that turn into sharts yet
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deadpool_25 said:
I still find it interesting that so many of us, myself included, have this feeling that because a modeler has so many options we are in some way wasting them if we aren't using a good number of them.

For years I've said all I really need for amp tones is three great sounds: ckean, crunch, and 5150 high gain. And then I need some great effects including delay, reverb, detune, and flanger. And truthfully I had all those things saved in a preset template and in my blocks library on my FM9. I could've just used those and been happy. Actually I was happy, I just needed to downsize.

Why do we maintain that feeling of "if I'm not using the majority of its features I'm wasting it"?
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I don’t feel that way but I can see it being a possibility for some. Reminds me of the outdated old saying that we only use 10% of our brains. Accurate or not I’ll take a Fractal brain over a NUX one any day.
 
I’ve never been able to wrap my head around that line of thinking (getting rid of something due to not using every option). How many people pay for streaming services or cable TV and don’t watch 90% of the shit on it? Add to another one I find silly, “I’m not a professional/gigging guitarist, I can’t justify owning that” and it’s not a cost thing.

I’ve had more growth as a guitar player since getting my AxeFX, starting off with just the high gain amps doing my metal stuff to eventually end up digging into the Fender/Marshall edge of breakup tones and changing my playing up because chugging in drop C on a Bassman is kinda, not awesome. I had zero intention of getting back in a band at the time, it wasn’t until my first night with the FM9 and realizing all I could do with it in a live situation that the band itch started up again.
 
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