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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • What’s going on with Gabi? I get that there’s Saudi interest but am I the only one who thinks we’d be crazy to let him go unless it was an absolutely insane offer? Yes, he can over commit at times and make bad decisions leading to goals, but I feel that’s a little bit due to how we played last year as we saw similar mistakes from Saliba too. Plus he’s great offensively from set pieces.

    I think we saw last year that given his faults, a Gabi/Saliba pairing is still one of the best in the PL. Why try to fix what wasn’t really broken. Plus then we can move Benny Blanco back out wide and stop the Partey experiment. Or am I alone and everyone thinks we need to move on?



  • I’ve been following the community for about 2 years now. Started with a Retroid Pocket 2+, then picked up a Miyoo Mini for something that was a little easier to take on the go, then added an Anbernic rg35xx. I still think the rp2+ (and now the recently released rp2s) is the perfect 1st device. Generally handles everything up through Dreamcast without issue, 4:3 screen, decent enough buttons, affordable.

    If you want something a little cheaper or in a verticle format, the rg35xx or Miyoo Mini+ are both good devices as well. I’ve never used the Miyoo Mini+, but I personally prefer the rg35xx with Garlic os to my Miyoo Mini with onion os.

    If GameCube or PS2 are important to you, just get a Deck.






  • I have Peacock and Paramount for certain sports and they do this too. I Don’t mind it on Peacock, but the way Paramount does it is absolutely terrible and I’ll be canceling my subscription once my yearly special rate expires. Peacock will generally show about 3 minutes of ads then let you watch a whole movie. Paramount seems completely random. Sometimes you’ll have 45 seconds of ads, then you might have 3 minutes of ads less than 5 minutes later. They’ll regularly have 6+ mins of ads in 30 mins.




  • I’d check out the Boss Katana. The 50 watt is right around $250 new and you could probably find a 100 watt one used for a similar price. It’s solid state so you won’t have a problem running it at low volumes. The Katana is super versatile and is really popular so there’s lots of good resources on dialing in various tones. The Orange Crush 35RT is another good option. It’s a little more expensive and not quite as versitile, but is pretty good for heavier tones. Both amps have tons of demo videos on YouTube.

    You could also look into running amp sims through your computer using an audio interface and daw. You can get a Focusrite Scarlett Solo for under $100 then the various software runs from free to a few hundred bucks. Neural DSP has a few different metal plug-ins that are very highly rated. The learning curve on the amp sim route can be a little steep though. I gave it a try a few years ago and could never get a good tone. I came back recently and spent a lot of time learning about gain staging and how to set everything up to work together and am thrilled with the sounds I can get. I much prefer the software route to any solid state combo amp I’ve played.