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    1 minute ago, Hero-of-Time said:

    It's about 8-10 hours long on a first run. You save using tape players but can use them whenever you want. It's only on the highest difficulty where they have limited uses. The game also auto saves on regular occasions.

    Ok, that's not too bad then. Might start that this week when @Eenuh goes off to Belgium. Then...I'll start Elden Ring after that. :grin:

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    1 hour ago, Hero-of-Time said:

    I finally plucked up the courage and played it this year. Look at the thread to see the setup I used to be brave enough to play it. :D 

    Well worth it though. It was a great experience and done well to recapture the feeling of the older RE games.

    I'll take a look!

    Just been doing some reading up on it and it seems to be rated quite highly amongst survival horror fans. How long is it in terms of length? What's the save system like? Just trying to judge when to start at and how it'll fit in all of my other shit.

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    I've got a copy of VII sat waiting for me in a drawer, but I haven't plucked up the courage to pick it up and get started just yet. The demo was awesome and I really enjoyed it. Might make a start on that soon before looking at village...

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    On a human level, I feel sad for her family, because losing a loved one is absolutely rubbish. Can't take that away from them, no matter who it is or however old they are. Yes, a person has lived a long life, but I fully appreciate how sad or difficult it can be to know that somebody is not there anymore, when all you've ever known is for them to have been there. That's tough.

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    1 hour ago, Hero-of-Time said:

    Klopp will be joining Tuchel at the job centre if he's not careful.

    Napoli have looked unreal. That second (and third...maybe the fourth, too) were just great. They pass it nicely and they're not afraid to take players on. I really like the look of them.

    Liverpool just don't look right. Need some sort of leader in midfield to give them a lift. A Steven Gerrard or Roy Keane-type figure would really help.

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    33 minutes ago, drahkon said:

    Yeah, I got that advice from a friend quite some time ago. It definitely works better than the "flat" approach.

    It actually really hurts my wrist after a couple of minutes. I think I need to adjust my grip, but whenever I switch it up, the barree gets even worse. 

    There's a few things to think about here. Are you playing standing or sitting? If you're standing, then maybe think about your strap height and altering that slightly. Another thing to think about is your thumb positioning and where that is. E.g. is your thumb 'pressed' behind the neck sorta between where the index/middle fingers are on the other side, is it coming over the top of the board, or is it a bit 'flatter' with the thumb pointing towards the end of the neck. A lot of player tends to grip too hard with their thumb when playing barre chords, thinking that this will making the strings ring out better. I always like to think of it the other way around, with the index finger pushing towards the thumb through the neck, rather than the thumb pushing through the neck. The trouble is if you grip too hard, it's going to make it uncomfortable to play for too long and it also makes you slower when moving between chords or when playing individual notes. It's probably worth checking out a few videos on ideal thumb positioning or through experimentation. 

    Another thing worth doing is playing some songs with big stretches. A great one for this is Every Breathe You Take by The Police. There's a lot of 5-7-9 style stretches in that, which I like to use as a warm up to really loosen the fingers. I find I can play for much, much longer after giving the fingers a really good stretch. It'll sound ropey at first and may even be surprisingly frustrating to keep up with the tempo for a long period of time, but it will make a huge, huge difference.

  23. Posted

    15 minutes ago, drahkon said:

    I checked the Premier League standings and...Arsenal on top? What's going on?

    Liverpool 7th?

    I must've missed some upsets :o 

    I know, it's nuts. Arsenal are good now. :grin:

    I do think everyone is just waiting for Liverpool to 'click' again. There's injuries to the midfield, Mane has been sold, and Salah hasn't really at it. Think selling Mane is maybe having a bigger impact than most people thought. 

    United are climbing, slowly. We're on for a top half finish, hahaha.

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    8 minutes ago, drahkon said:

    I should really work on my barree skills...they are not good :D 

    Any tips for practicing these?

    That's another thing that just takes a lot of practice. Best advice I can give is 'roll' your index finger so that you're not keeping it 'flat' on the fretboard. You're going to get more strength and a better connection by using the boney side of your finger. If you haven't practised or played them for long enough, it can be a little uncomfortable at first and can even make the index finger feel a bit sore around those knuckle/bendy joint parts of the finger, whatever that's called. Usually it's the pressure that's applied which causes guitarists the biggest issue, especially moving between chords because they don't quite get their index finger in the ideal position (e.g. they'd slid it too high up the fretboard or too slow, causing certain strings to buzz, usually the g and b strings). Just lots and lots of repetition practising major and minor chords in various areas of the fretboard. Not sure how common it is, but my barre chords get a little shit when I get to the higher end of the fretboard, e.g. around the 12th fret due to the frets becoming smaller. I mean, it's not that often that you'll be barring down on that end anyway, but still.

    When I'm practising, I like to arpeggiate my chords/play the notes individually, just to make sure that they're sounding out right. Even moving between chords and picking the notes, rather than strumming. You can often be surprised which strings ring out better than others. 

  25. Posted

    16 minutes ago, drahkon said:

    Thanks, but I know all this :p 

    The hammer-ons and pull-offs aren't the problem in general. This part is, though:

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    Incorporates both of the techniques but I'm not fast enough to play it properly and switch back to the part that follows. :D 

    Downloading now :D 

    Which one?

    Chord Wheel : Circle of 5ths or Chord Wheel?

    You'd be surprised at how many good players don't actually have great pull/flick-off technique. To get the right sound takes a ton of practice and repetition, especially when using all fingers. Even though I've been playing for a while, I prioritise a bit of my practice time just on hammer-ons and pulloffs. I heard somebody mention that it's more of a flick-off, which actually is spot on. 

    For that section, I'd be tempted to bar/barre my index finger on the 9th fret. That way you're covering the D and G strings and it's much less fiddly switching between the two strings. It'll just take a ton of repetition to get the speed of it down right, maybe even practising that to a metronome if you want to get it super clean and up to the right bpm. From a quick browse of the tab, the part before and afterwards isn't too bad really, as it's a simple move back down to the 5th fret, so that final note of that section you posted where it ends on the 10th fret is quite nice for that, since it's on the same string. The only really tricky bit is the strumming pattern, which has a triplet feel (123 456). It's not too bad, tbh. A bit of practice and you'll be fine with that, if you do it slow and build the speed up. 

    I'd go with that first app. Chord Wheel: Circle of Fifths.

     

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