Quote from: thepigspeaks on May 06, 2021, 12:16:34 am

Slash may be very good on a technical level, but his solos lack the soul and inventiveness of true guitar legends such as Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Hazel.  That's my opinion on the matter, anyways.

Actually, his technique is his weakest aspect of his play. He has great feel and sense for phrasing but remains somewhat simple on a technical level. In live performances he often makes tiny mistakes on solos that are somewhat "easy" to play. His greatest skill is his sense of sound.

QFT. From what I can tell by his released material, he has proclivities to very few harmonic skillsets and even less technical skillsets. Yet he's still capable of making highly-consumable material that has withstood the test of time. It goes to show how far one can go with specialization. You can practically tell a guitarist is Slash just by hearing it, even if you haven't heard the song before. (Similar to Brian May from Queen)

That said, I do personally find his play boring after about 5-10 minutes of it. I'm just into other types of guitar work, not all of which are more complicated than what Slash does.

why is making fun of someone for having an illness like drug addiction any better? You're seriously a dick man. idk why you even started attacking me personally about my private life. Btw I haven't touched any drug in a year so I don't know what "drugged out stupor" you're talking about. You are an arrogant asshole who thinks highly of yourself but sadly others do not. I went to op ugl today and everyone there told me ur toxic get overself buddy. If I was as bad at sc as you are I guess is run my mouth about irrelevant shit. You make me laugh allen

I'm not making fun of you for having been addicted to drugs. I am friends with plenty who have been and are. I have been (but no heavies, fortunately). Congrats on your sobriety, and I mean that.

I'm making fun of you for believing in reptile politicians and driving a car while on acid. These are all choices you decided to make, perhaps many years ago when you traded the future for the present and started doing heavy drugs in the first place. That's a choice, my dude. People can make fun of me for my choice to be an asshole on an old forum for an even older game. Choices are fair game.

I promise you Idgaf what these mfs in OP UGL think about whether or not I'm toxic. All of my self-worth is derived internally, as should yours be. Why do you give a shit what I think anyway? I am no authority. You are the authority of your emotions. Like you're really admitting to seeking public validation about your feelings towards me from people who are probably equally fucked up in a channel on a game where I'm not even present. Why delegate the responsibility of finding self-worth to someone else? That is YOUR responsibility my dude.

But I guarantee I don't make you laugh. I make you angry and probably a plethora of other negative emotions. But did I do that or did you? I'm only repeating things you've said publicly. It seems to me there is latent shame & anger about those things. Understandable. We've all done some dumb stuff in our past that doesn't end up defining who we are now. But sometimes they leave a big ol' scar that does at least partially define who we are. And that scar for you is how we can't have a conversation without you talking about wild conspiracy theories that you can only believe because you destroyed your brain voluntarily. You're clinging for meaning in the wildest of places because you won't take responsibility for things you can actually control.

Also, SC is "irrelevant shit". Anyone actively participating with others in reality knows this. And I don't think too highly of myself. I just don't think very highly of you, and that contrast is something you choose to perceive negatively towards me (victim mindset) instead of yourself or not at all (responsibility mindset).

Maybe your conception of reality is flawed?

It almost certainly is lol. Inherent in all humans I believe. Not too flawed for me to participate in a shared reality with others to a high degree of 'success' though.

To be clear, I don't think I'm better than anyone on here. I'm not talking all this shit with some delusion of superiority. They're just observations, most of which have merit.

I could easily just ignore the dumb stuff I see, but that wouldn't be nearly as fun. At the end of the day I'll die in a puddle of my own shit and piss like the rest of you.

I don't get why such a noob idiot even speaks. Please exit the universe you're no longer needed here

I proved your point? When "eat dick" and "your sense of reality is heavily distorted by your previous heavy drug use" makes you type 3 rapid-fire incoherent comments about how I should kill myself, each filled with name calling that lack any substance, I think maybe you don't know what toxic or asshole means. If anything, you proved your own point and projected it onto me.

You have a tighter grasp of your dick than you do on reality. If you had any semi-coherent sense of reality, I might take your feedback seriously. But until you regrow some of the brain cells you voluntarily killed, maybe you should stay in your fuckin lane. Not my fault you've smoked and tripped yourself into a permanent stupor.

Sword #1

Agreed, dude has to put up with too much shit to do a good thing for a bunch of people who don't appreciate it.

Thing is Hydra was banned while he played on this account

Yeah, just went and researched it. Thing is, same with Ronin (The~Power) and you, the embarrassment lies the person who shared the account, not the person who played on it.

But even then, I bet the cheating would go down if Ronin or you could just easily smurf and not need to feel compelled to let other people play on your accounts. And if Hydra and Cole could easily smurf, they wouldn't probably feel like taking the opportunity to play on a "believable" smurf.

In an era with no real problem with hacks, it just feels kind of obvious to allow this to happen. I don't think any player is entitled to know the identity of another player unless they are actively cheating in a way that undermines the integrity of the game.

And for perspective so you know where I'm at, this kind of cheating to me is: hacks, sharing accounts (especially in top 10 situations), obs cheating of any kind,  stream peaking, playing the same noob over and over again, picking race last second, leaving because of race/spots, and deliberate disconnecting. And on the disconnecting front, I think either party is a loser for reporting (since it's usually incidental), but I understand that some of these low level players do disc on purpose and not just because they're half way across the world from another player.

This is what happens when Unit Limits are set to Original instead of Extended. It's an ancient BW bug that's been around the whole time that they were only able to fix by adding the unit limit options into remastered.

Yo Alex, I feel like I see some truth that's worth sharing. Please take it with a huge truckload of salt, but here's my perspective:

Making light of or using the death of a loved one to hurt someone isn't very cool (although, fuck I might do it if it's gonna help me win a game or if I really don't like the person). Starting off those convos bm isn't cool either (although I'd probably do that too, especially if I thought messing with the other ego involved would get me a game).

The thing that's the most concerning though is how this is even on your radar as a way to spend your time. It's a self worth issue.

You'll probably never meet Hydra, and he'll probably never have a profound personal impact on any of your future successes. It's literally not worth caring at all about what he (or anyone you'll meet on here) thinks about you as a person if they're not being constructive (and perhaps even then). You seem to have a want/need for validation that must be filled (I think we all do), but it seems from the outside that you might be trying to fill it with people from this community. There are probably less than 10 people on here worth letting have that kind of responsibility, and even less would be compassionate about the opportunity when it comes--especially when you BM them consistently (first? not important).

I think if you wake up every day with a clear head and focus on what you want to make out of life (especially hard for a lot of people) and are actively making progress--even if it's just baby steps--you'll realize that you have the trust and authority to validate your own self. It doesn't need to come from competitors on a war game. It doesn't need to even come from people you know IRL. It's a personal thing. At some point, we all must own this personal responsibility. At least it seems so to me. It seems to be the only viable path to sustainably increasing self worth.

Congrats on #1 K rank btw. Clearly putting in that work.