• manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      Eh, slutshaming, misogyny vibes

      what about gear guzzler or something, i dunno i wish gear dragon or gear god didnt make the sound cool

      also gear geek ig

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    1 month ago

    It’s really common advice to not start with the cheapest gear. Yes a lot of us learned to play on dime store guitars but would have suffered less with a quality instrument. The same is true for just about everything.

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      1 month ago

      Exactly. I started learning harmonica on those $20 pack of 8 and struggled for weeks to get anything to sound close to what I wanted. When I spent $60 on a decent instrument, I could suddenly do what I’d been practicing. There’s a sweet spot for getting good enough equipment to actually learn without blowing the budget on something you may not continue doing

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      1 month ago

      I teach guitar. I have lost more students to a crappy beginner instrument than to any lack of desire, ambition, or ability.

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    1 month ago

    Depending on the hobby, this is some fucked up gatekeeping.

    My first thought was riding a motorcycle as a hobby, and that is one activity that many people severely underestimate how much expensive gear you should be wearing for your safety before you even consider doing it.

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      1 month ago

      What’s crazy is “Fred” used to mean the exact, literal opposite. It’s the only word I know of that has come to mean the full opposite of what it meant (except maybe “literally”, but that’s usually used for emphasis)

      Fred used to mean the dude who showed up in jeanshorts on a huffy, who everyone was like “are you sure you want to join the group ride?”, and then he ends up pulling the pack the whole way. Somewhere along the line it ended up meaning dentist, which is the slow dude who buys all the expensive gear. I literally don’t understand it.

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        It’s the only word I know of that has come to mean the full opposite of what it meant

        “Terrific” is one of those. It used to mean terrifying, but it means awesome now. “Awful” is another, it used to mean awe-inspiring instead of terrible.