See if you can find an Ibanez AZ to try out. They’re fantastic guitars for the price and there’s a variety of pickup configurations and number of frets to choose from. Several of the Signature and Premium models fall in the $1000 to $1500 range.

That’s a really good point. It’s what got me to stop using StumbleUpon and stick around on reddit in the first place some 15 years ago.

It’s home to a very strange community unaware that their “platform” was just an image host for users of an actual social media platform. Well, at least it was before imgur recently started adding social media features and purged nsfw content.

Popular image posts from reddit would routinely get boosted (sans context) to the top of imgur’s homepage, which would attract confused, angry, and often unintentionally hilarious comments from imgur users. Iirc there was a subreddit dedicated to this phenomenon.

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Most open-world games have areas on the map that are blank until “explore” them by climbing a tower of some kind and “activating” that region on your map.

This results in trudging blindly into the middle of every new area, ignoring interesting stuff along the way and beelining to the tower just so you can see the damn map. It’s an annoyingly unnatural way to explore.

I didn’t even realize that I disliked it until I played Far Cry 6, which has a much more organic and immersive landmark discovery process. You learn locations of interest from readables and by talking to friendly NPCs that you encounter in the world.

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The Genshin TCG is already light on strategy, but the lack of QoL features is what really annoys me.

So much time is spent staring at rolling dice and slow attack animations, and there’s no option to speed it up. Pain.

I still can’t believe they put a whole open-world rpg minigame in Gwent