Community and Thankfulness

[Piperken]

Dropping in to once gain give thanks.

I've been visiting Reddit and Steam pages to get guidance on a game I was playing (Silksong, it's hard!) and just baffled at how awful everyone is to each other. For every one decent poster, there's like a hundred jerks! I wish I was exaggerating...

Then I got to thinking, it seems fandoms that create (playing instruments, art, game design, cooking, etc.) are less toxic then the ones that just consume (video games, music, movies, etc.). I think those are the communities I'm going to seek out from now on.

Anyways, thanks to everyone here for being decent people that care about this hobby and each other.

"Hi. I'm trying to figure out how to do <thing I enjoy doing> and I am stuck. Can someone help?"

"Bruh, get better." (And a thousand derogatory equivalents, or worse.)

Young children playing outside on the playground handle this situation more often, and usually better, than people older than them do.

It's such a shame.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Agreed, but it seems to be "well meaning" at least? Also, the ratio of jerks/friendlies is better!

For instance, if the strings on my Fender are clanking and I post about it on a guitar forum, I'm mostly going to get some solid advice from people. At worst, I might get the, "Eew, you have a Fender, that's your problem." from someone who probably genuinely doesn't like Fender. Hearing them out though, they might still have something useful to say. Much better than the, "You suck, why don't you just quit? or "Maybe.. get better?" spammed ad nauseam.

Oh, and the lesser quirks of any community that always cracks me up:

• Hating on the popular idea/technique/product/brand that works just fine. How else are you going to stand out from the crowd!?

I also mod at Ultimate-guitar.com, and believe me, there’s definitely a cadre of toxic posters. We get brand haters, technique haters, musician/band haters, tech haters, and probably types I can’t remember right now.

I just don’t know the ratio.

And, FWIW, it’s not just the fan base, it’s in the music biz as well. Luck- including the personal peccadilloes of A&R and executives- is at least as much a factor in getting the “big break” as talent. For example, there was an exec who was sent to check out a hot new band that was playing a gig nearby, and he went quite reluctantly.

He was pleasantly surprised to find out the lead guitarist/vocalist was NOT playing a red Gibson Les Paul, which was apparently the “in” guitar at the time. Mood brightened, he stayed for the whole set, and offered the band a contract.

And that’s why we know about Dire Straits.

I pity the foo.

Do not pity the foo; fight it.

 

[payn]

I also mod at Ultimate-guitar.com, and believe me, there’s definitely a cadre of toxic posters. We get brand haters, technique haters, musician/band haters, tech haters, and probably types I can’t remember right now.

I just don’t know the ratio.

I go on Ultimate Guitar for tabs and chords when I want to learn a song. Much of it is fan written transcribes and holy moley do folks get nasty about folks posting their idea of how a song goes. No clue why, its just somebody sharing how they play it? While I appreciate knowing if its a flat instead, I dont go ballistic on a person good grief.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I go on Ultimate Guitar for tabs and chords when I want to learn a song. Much of it is fan written transcribes and holy moley do folks get nasty about folks posting their idea of how a song goes. No clue why, its just somebody sharing how they play it? While I appreciate knowing if its a flat instead, I dont go ballistic on a person good grief.

Yeah, I don’t mess with the tabs, so I miss a lot of that. Occasionally, it bleeds into the forums.

 

[MichaelSomething]

It is obvious to all that Enworld is the best TTRPG community on the internet!
That is why I believe we are best suited to rule D&D!!!

 

[Jahydin]

I also mod at Ultimate-guitar.com, and believe me, there’s definitely a cadre of toxic posters. We get brand haters, technique haters, musician/band haters, tech haters, and probably types I can’t remember right now.

Oh boy, I tip my hat off to you. I love UG, but those forums... point taken.

And, FWIW, it’s not just the fan base, it’s in the music biz as well. Luck- including the personal peccadilloes of A&R and executives- is at least as much a factor in getting the “big break” as talent.

I believe that. Probably more than ever too. Was absolutely floored to find out J-Lo doesn't even sing many of her hit songs. Not just lip syncing, like there's other people who sing the song she's lip syncing to. Talk about manufactured stardom.

 

[jdrakeh]

Here, here! I've been a member of (and worked for) many different online RPG communities and ENWorld has been the best for me. Their news is actually vetted and presented in a non-biased manner, the members of the community are (mostly) well-meaning people who I am happy to interact with, and the forums are absolutely better moderated than all of the others I've known. I wish I could afford to support them with a paid membership (sadly, disability benefits don't allow little pleasures like that),

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Oh boy, I tip my hat off to you. I love UG, but those forums... point taken.


I believe that. Probably more than ever too. Was absolutely floored to find out J-Lo doesn't even sing many of her hit songs. Not just lip syncing, like there's other people who sing the song she's lip syncing to. Talk about manufactured stardom.

Hadn’t heard that one…about her.

I’d heard it about Paula Abdul, though.

 

[Jahydin]

Hadn’t heard that one…about her.

I’d heard it about Paula Abdul, though.

Article if interested:

No, That’s Not Jennifer Lopez Singing Some Of Your Favourite J.Lo Songs

Jennifer Lopez is a perfect pop star, but she sometimes has a little help on the vocals. Here's what SNL star Ayo Edebiri has to say about it. Read more on Grazia.

graziadaily.co.uk

I actually found out watching a Milli Vanilli documentary. Author pointed out what was once unforgivable is now no longer an issue really.

Did some more digging, and looks like ghost singing is pretty common? Rhianna, Selena Gomez, and Nicki Minaj, for instance. Just wild to me they don't credit the people singing. If I was in a similar situation, I can't imagine the feeling knowing millions of people were singing along to my voice on the radio and no one knowing it was me.

Looks odd live too, like Minaj here just walking around for most of the song sort of moving her lips till she begins rapping again. At least in this instance, Jessie Ware was finally given credit for the chorus years later.

Anyway, sorry for the tangent. I don't follow pop music, so all of this is new and fascinating to me. It goes against everything that makes music special, IMO. I can only imagine how much better AI is going to make things. /s