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The Gear Page is full of idiots
01:49:37 pm on August 3, 2009 | # |
A recent post from Karl got me thinking about thegearpage.net forums. I have been visiting those forums for a while now, and I gotta be honest, its full of more poseurs then most video game tweaking forums.
For those who care. I used to play video games alot and got off on tweaking mouse settings, mouse brands, mouse pads etc, while some of it did actually improve my game, most of it didn’t, and was just a way to misplace my frustration with my talent.
So I like u2. Alot of people don’t like em. No big deal. But man check out the people on this particular thread:
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=583772
I get it, you think edge is all delay, like you can somehow just turn on delay and sound like him. Well most of the people commenting are slightly tarded, like the forum user: neastguy. His excuse is that he doesn’t listen to guitarists who don’t use their real names. I went to his awesome band website www.eightballonline.com. That band pic alone makes my pants tight.
And that brings me to my conclusion really, that alot of people talk ALOT of crap about people/instruments/styles/amps/effects/etc. on that board, and when you try to get some kind of sense of where they feel like they can be the authority on something, you follow their post sigs and you just get the most insane random crap. I used to think that forum was full of a bunch of pro’s, now I realize its a bunch of people shooting their mouths off. It took me a while to realize that most people talking about gear, have rarely ever actually played the gear they are talking about. Karl does actual tests, thats what I think set him apart.
Reminds me of a friend I have, who is always msg’ing me about some new tech thing about how awesome it is, and yet when I ask him how it was to use it he says, oh well I have not actually used it yet. The internet makes experts and fools of us all.
