Trying to learn more metal riffs. I'm not really a beginner, but not really intermediate yet. I've played off and on for years and years, but never took it too seriously.

So my question, what are some rather simple but fun metal riffs/solos to play?

2nd single off King Gizz new heavy metal album. Super fun song. Basically two old school thrash songs with a TOOL song in the middle. Hilarious and fun music video.

From what little I can find the SL5X and SL3 are essentially the same guitar except the 5x has HSH pickup configuration and is manufactured in Indonesia.

Can anyone clarify for me a bit more on the differences between these two guitars?

Had a deal I couldn't refuse on a chuggy chuggy shreddy guitar. Need an decent practice amp. I'll definitely be playing some clean stuff or very little over drive stuff of my favorite 90s songs. But obviously the guitar is a thrash animal and that is my favorite shit, so what tiny amp combo can at least put out something remotely close to heavy? Price range is $250 used or less

I tend to noodle around and play metal, but I want to find a guitar that has some versatility. I'd just buy a Jackson otherwise.

Full disclosure I'm 36 and haven't played since I was a teenager. However, my friend let me borrow his Fender resonator acoustic recently and I reallllllllly want to get an electric now.

As looking at the Yamaha Pacifica but it seems like the tone might not be what I'm looking for. I do however love the look of the guitar.

I'm 36, and while my love life has been varied and interesting, over the last few years I've started to want to settle down. I know it doesn't happen overnight. But recently it's been weighing on me more and more. I reminisce about past relationships. I feel hopeless about meeting someone in the future who shares my values.

On the one hand you hear things like "happiness comes from within", but on the other we are social animals and 99% of us want to feel loved and to love.

I've burned through like every audio drama I can think of. Trying Audible. I like cyberpunk and sci-fi like Neal Stephenson. Super dark and gritty fantasy like the Netflix show Castlevania or the audio drama Aethuran: Dark Saga.

I'm open to any recommendations. Thank you.

Since I'm having difficulty clicking links to get to lemmy stuff and usually get a kbin 404, what are your favorite non meme kbin zines.

But at the end of the day I want to do anything I can to help people find shows they can love. If that means helping this group get off the ground tell me what to do. If it means this becomes a repository for linking people to more popular fediverse things that's cool too. But as I see it there are a few subscribers here so you guys gals and non-binary pals tell me what you want

I'm curious about less common meditation practices.

Like I'm trying to find magazines for meditation. But only one dead magazine shows up.

Basically the title. I want to click the link to a lemmy site or whatever and it shows up within kbin.

I imagine it's because "active" is showing recently created zines. That's a poor algorithm for what is actually active. It should be based on number of comments and threads. It's making it very difficult to find hip places I might want to subscribe to.

Just a heads up. Idk if it's a server thing or people are formatting wrong

I always have trouble firing my glutes. When I do squats it feels like all quads.

I'm pretty well versed and into a fair amount of kink/bdsm stuff, but for people looking to explore it might be nice to have some resources.

EDIT: https://kbin.social/m/FindAKbin seems to be what I'm looking for. Everyone should subscribe there if you're looking for the same thing

With things really picking up around here I'd like a magazine I can go to to ask people about other magazines. Search isn't always useful, and sometimes you don't even know what you're looking for. Browsing other users talking about magazines they like would be a nice resource.

For me flair is probably the most important. I follow a lot of organized sports and being able to quickly identify which team someone supports helps the conversation move along without having to write "as a fan of..." in every single comment. And this isn't a like talking shit, sports guy thing. It's genuinely extremely useful for broadening the depth of the conversation.

Also not having to scroll to find the reply box. Super annoying. Super easy fix.

That being said I'm all in on kbin. Deleted Reddit. Not going back.

I'm pretty well versed in the bdsm culture, but I've always wanted to read more literature on the subject. Are there any deep dives or even academic papers to look at? Specific subject matter can be whatever, but I'm mostly curious about articles that delve into WHY some people enjoy BDSM and others don't.