#12 string

[not-the-coffee-machine4]

Brian showing off that beautiful new(ish) 12-string from his TikTok

[okbillie]

いちいちかんちょう

[johnyorks]

Listen/purchase: War Looms by John Yorks

I think my best songs, in my humble opinion, are just acoustic guitar and vocals.

[the-takosader]

Anyway, on the list of Things In The Making...

What, you thought one electric would be good enough for me?

Yep, I'm doing another one. This one won't be fretless, because of two reasons:

The Fretless (hereafter referred to as Sunset Fade) was an experiment to see what I could actually do with a kit.

A 12 string fretless, though cool, would be even more hell to play than the Sunset Fade already is.

Yep! It's a 12 string! As some guitarists might say, I've caught the 12 string bug. But, y'see, I think I've had it for a good long while now.

The first time I actually encountered a 12 string in a song was, if I can correctly recall, Wish You Were Here. I don't actually properly remember my reaction to it, but I know what my reaction is to it now: play along to the rhythm on my acoustic 6.

The more recent and powerful one, however, is much, much later than that. I never really did a Beatles Back-Catalogue dive until when I made a full Studio Discography playlist on Spotify, and encountered a little gem called If I Needed Someone.

For those completely unaware of the history of this song, it was written in the latter half of 1965 by one George Harrison. I don't think I need to explain the ins and outs of what the song's about, but the long and short of it is that he's telling the women of the world that, although he's gonna be married, he might need someone if the thing goes sour.

But again, this is rambling. My reaction wasn't to the lyrics, but the guitar. The jangle and chime specifically. Two toaster single coils in a bevelled-top Rickenbacker 360/12, ringing out like Rhymney. Oh, and it's got a capo on the 7th. Chime a-plenty on this one.

So yeah, this one's a doozy of a build. A 12 string electric with 2 single coils... which just now occurred to me that it sounds a lot like a Fender Telecaster XII. Oh yeah, Fender made a Tele XII. It was a limited edition thing from 1995-99, but it still counts.

So my build is going to be a Tele XII, mainly because I didn't fancy a Strat again, but it's going to be special for 2 reasons (that's the second time it's been two reasons specifically):

It's going to be a semi-hollow 12 string, because you can never have too much jangle on a 12 string like this.

It's going to be strung Rickenbacker-style.

What's Rickenbacker-style stringing? That requires an explanation of 12 strings in general.

The above is a tuning guide for a normal 12 string guitar. Yes, it actually is 12 strings. Anyway, note how it's the higher octave string first, then the standard string after, leading to a kind of sawtooth as you strum down.

Rickenbacker 12 strings reverse that order, placing the normal string first, then the octave string, and repeating that process until the upper four strings, which don't change due to being unison pairs.

In effect, this is going to result in a Ric 12 string for a fraction of the cost. For reference, Ric 360/12s? A nice, clean £3,400. Meanwhile this project has only costed a total of £167, though it remains to see if it'll cost anymore in the future or not.

I'll try to remember to update you all on this mad shit, but if I don't, I've proably gotten too invested in the thing.

[dvepalki]

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[somereaderinblue]

Odysseus of troy AU: Does Paris try to woo Odysseus and tries to become a second father to Tele? (And failing miserably at both?)

To answer all of that, here are some incorrect Paris & Ody quotes:

Paris: We're getting married!

Ody: And I'm about to make that everybody's problem.

___________________

Paris: Smart is attractive. Educate me on something I don't know!

Ody, batting his eyes: The mouth of a jellyfish is also an anus.

Paris: Stop.

___________________

Paris: Stay foxy~

Ody: Die lonely.

___________________

Paris: I'll treat you like a god.

Ody: You mean ignore my existence until you need something?

___________________

Paris: Can I bother you for a second?

Ody: Every breath you take bothers me, but go ahead.

___________________

Tele: Pa....pa...

Paris: Come on, say papa.

Tele, pointing at Paris: Pa-the-tic.

Paris: .what

Ody, tearing up: I'm so proud!

[crossbackpoke-check]

blessed be (lorscher bienensegen) | telling the bees (wiþ ymbe)

"Bees" [remixed, abridged], Claudia Emerson // "Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now" [remixed. abridged], Matthew Olzmann // "Letter to my Great, Great Grandchild" [remixed, abridged], J.P. Grasser | Len Redkole, Nina Weiss, Brian Babineau, Christian Peterson, Mitchell Leff, Dave Isaac, Megan DeRuchie

[laur-rants]

My and my Noodles on a String wish everyone a Happy Year of the Noodle (Snake)!

This is my birth year, and my life is very different from 12 years ago. It's crazy to think back to that time: I only had a few goals back then, mostly to illustrate a kids book, get a borzoi, and have a house with a yard for my dogs. Simple goals, but I was actually able to achieve all three. My life is not lucrative (yet) but it is full. Here's to hoping fortune still smiles upon me, and we all have a prosperous and healthy 2025.

[whereifindsanity]

Justin Johnson

12-String Acoustic Guitar Cover - "NOTHING ELSE MATTERS"

[thanatika]

yeah i agree with your point about survival mechanics and i feel the same way about the lack of combat mechanics. "why would an educated city doctor need a weapon" because shit is hitting the fan in every way impossible and pretty much everyone is walking around armed... also why am i supposed to believe the the fact that he's a man of intellect will somehow provide him with food? i don't think anyone is going to be too eager to share food during an outbreak intellectual or not...

+ follow up for the previous ask but actually my favorite quest from the original pathologic is the day 11 bachelor quest that involves shooting down soldiers. i think it really drives the point home about how this random fuckass guy who is supposed to be battling a plague doesn't even have the time to do that anymore because the people in charge are asking completely irrelevant things of him now and he's at a position where he cannot refuse what is being asked of him. like i think it was good storytelling that even as the guy who lowkey wants to deal with the plague and solve its mystery you still have other, more pressing, less interesting and or pleasant tasks to complete

i agree! honestly, i feel this way about the combat mechanics even more than i do about the physical survival (food, health, illness, sleep) mechanics. because sure, i can see how it makes sense for daniil's position of authority to mean that his basic needs are somewhat provided for -- although i don't think it makes more sense than what we got in the original game. i've never seen anyone bring up "isn't it kind of unrealistic that the bachelor isn't given lots of food during a massive food shortage?" as a plothole that needed to be resolved. the townspeople generally don't like him much, and most of the people with power don't either, except for the kains. sure, maybe it's kind of weird that you can go see the kains while broke and on the verge of keeling over from hunger, and they won't do anything to help you, but... the kains are pretty self-centered, and they're so goddamn weird that maybe they forget that you need to eat food to live anyway. and it's half-implied that the powers that be are ultimately giving daniil this role as a convenient way to kill him, so it makes sense that they would put no pressure on the town authorities to keep him alive.

(and honestly, artemy is taken under the olgimsky's auspices as much as the kains take daniil's under theirs! which is to say, selfishly, with ulterior motives that are more important to them than the well-being of their healer, but... the olgimskys are set up as the wealthiest of the 3 families financially, as well as the ones with the most access to food, given their control over the meat industry. so if anything it's "weirder" that artemy isn't more materially provided for, though to be clear i don't think there's an actual plothole there either way.)

but anyway, you could handwave it and say that daniil's position of privilege and authority gives him more perks than he got in the original game, but the amount of fighting you have to do to get through town is... kind of an unavoidable physical reality? like you're given so many sidequests that you often wind up walking around town after dark, and that's when the bandits come out. is the idea that the bandits would be too scared to attack him because he's so important? because that doesn't make a lot of sense to me, and even pathologic 2 establishes that he's seen as a valuable target by the bandits:

and then there's the quests where combat plays a more direct role in the story itself, like getting involved in saving andrey from the firing squad, or killing guards to break artemy out of prison, or the quest where you have to kill var in attempt to stop the arsonists (which i include on the same tier as the other ones because i really like the quest journal entry he has if you complete it where he blames himself for willow's death. it's a good character moment.)

hell, even in pathologic 2 itself, one of the biggest Bachelor Moments is on day 11, when you have that big dramatic convo with him after he killed a soldier for the papers he was delivering. plus one of bad grief's idle dialogues in patho 2 is commentary on the bachelor being "quick on the draw" and that he "already shot someone". like he just straight up is not living a combat-free existence. and overall, combat isn't just a good tool from a mechanical perspective, heightening the stakes and placing pressure on the player (though it is), it's also pretty important for him on a thematic level imo, almost as important as artemy and his "rivers of blood". in patho classic, daniil has this early interaction with the inquisitor:

which, thinking about it from a doylist perspective, was probably the writers' attempt to make it sound more plausible that this random medical researcher from the big city was competent with multiple types of guns. and i appreciate them coming up with that hint of backstory to cover their bases a bit, but with those bases covered, i think the fact that daniil ultimately spends more time shooting people than he does prescribing medicines for them actually does a lot for him thematically? i mean, if his whole thing is that he's this "tempted destroyer", someone who frames his career as a combative battle with death rather than a quest to save people's lives, whose "default" solution is to raze the town with artillery because he's too limited by his rationalist worldview and military upbringing (and bitterness over being manipulated and sabotaged) to come up with a solution that saves the any remaining infected survivors on his own. plus the way that clara frames artemy and daniil as two sides of the same coin in being violent destroyers and killers, who without player intervention will immediately devolve to running around chasing each other down in what's either an insanely dedicated tom and jerry LARP or some really elaborate foreplay. imo, that whole dichotomy (which is pretty core to the game, as the idea of dichotomies are core to it in general) works so much better with the way they're both presented in classic, stalking around with gun/scalpel in hand. hell, not to mention the effect that spending 12 in-game days trying not to starve and getting killed by bandits or guards or worms or soldiers every day would have on the player, and the way it would make them feel about the town and their natural projection of those feelings onto dankovsky, who is a perfectly fitting vessel for them as the avatar actually undergoing those virtual experiences.

ultimately i think they are mainly going this direction out of a desire to do something more creative and original, which is fine... it just seems a bit silly to me that they keep saying "well obviously that doesn't really work for the bachelor's scenario", when, well... even as recently as patho 2 in 2019, they seemed to think it fit his narrative pretty well! i'm also guessing that a lack of combat won't be that bandits are just no longer roaming the streets at night. it sounds more like pathologic 3 is set to be more of a nonlinear experience, where you'll probably fast travel from place to place instead of having to walk across town so much? so you'll be avoiding bandits just in the sense that the gameplay will be avoiding them. i guess i'm hoping that at the very least, there's still the implication of the crunch of not getting enough sleep or food and the threat of being stabbed to death while trying to get through town occurring to dankovsky in the background, even if those mechanics are deemphasized in favor of more macro-level town resource management, time control, and sherlock holmes fruit ninja or whatever the hell they were on about back in 2022 lmao.

[ghcstwired]

☆      𝐆𝐇𝐂𝐒𝐓𝐖𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐃      ( .  .  . )      an   indie,   multiship-friendly   &   selective   portrayal   of   original   character   RYUJIN   CHOI   with   different   verses   available.   dead   dove   do   not   eat!   est.   march   2024.   tortured   by   wynter,   25+,   (CET)

once   the   celebrated   vocalist   of   𝗘𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗣𝗦𝗘,   a   rising   k-pop  group,   his   life   was   irrevocably   altered   by   a   tragic  accident   that   claimed   the   lives   of   his   bandmates   and  seemingly   his   own.   yet,   against   all   odds,   he   has  returned,   reborn   from   tragedy   and   cloaked   in   a   veil   of  mystery.   he   finds   himself   inextricably   bound   to   an  enigmatic   entity,   a   mysterious   presence   whose   motives  remain   shrouded   in   secrecy,   leaving   him   to   navigate   a  world   forever   changed.

✧   𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐃.  ✧   𝐑𝐔𝐋𝐄𝐒.  ✧   𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒.  ✧   𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒.

𝐓𝐇𝐄   𝐒𝐎𝐅𝐓   𝐑𝐔𝐈𝐍   𝐇𝐄   𝐇𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐒   𝐁𝐄𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐃   𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐔𝐒𝐓   𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐒       :   what   makes   you   you   when   your   mind   no   longer   belongs   only   to   you ?   /   art   as   a   mask   and   a   scream   /   grief   as   a   monster   that   rewrites   the   past   /   second   chances   aren’t   always   blessings   —   they   can   be   traps   /   being   surrounded   by   people   but   completely   alone   &   the   cost   of   resurrection.

[maryymaruu]

Drawing digitally is not going very well, it's been rough the past few days, so back to pencil and paper we go-

Take an out of context SOTU being sad-

[dvepalki]

⨂Together we're forged by one chain⨂

THE CHARACTERS AND THEIR OWNERS ARE AS FOLLOWS: Dystopian Arbitrary Endless Possibilities - @hdra77

Sleep Schedule Ruined - @kadalcoffee12

Glimmer le Dale - @moodymuu

Plume of Embers - @ideavian

Last String of Life - @dustyfandomtrashbin

Dark Tides - @voldkat

Leaves across a Tree - me:3

Bright Scale Among the Feathers - @reredram

Perpetual Umbra - @mewguca

12 Solemn Guards - @paradoxbeta

Monolith of the Hateful - @darkopsiian

[yuviur]

And then, Henry is holding them really tight, more for his security than theirs, and he walks out of the dungeon (ep 42)

I cannot be the only one who cried when the twins climbed Henry and sat on his shoulders like two loving pauldrons 🥺

[backpackingspace]

YALL yall I need you to know the context for the bow competition. LIKE

Okay so the bow in question was Hercule's teacher's bow. (Not sure how odysseus got it. I think it was a gift but 🤷) and the draw back strength was some absurd amount that only demi gods and immortals could achieve (odysseus literally is just that mortal who's built different). (I'm not going to go back and check sources so take this with a grain of salt.) It was something like 500 lbs.

And that's on top of this style of bow being so stupidly hard to string. If you don't do it in the exact right way it will spring back and back you in the face. And this is for a 30lbs of draw back bow. Your stances has to be exactly right. Your hands just so. It's so hard. I cannot imagine what it would have taken to string a 500lb bow. Olympic archers today shoot at a 33 lbs.

AND the challenge itself, the shoot through 12 axes thing? Yah that was odysseus's signature party trick. He did that at every single festival and gathering. During the war he regularly stole every archers bow and did this shit. It was /his/ move.

[jt1674]