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well, well, well....I finally made here. Thanks to my M-F brothers for yanking my ass across the digital divide. I live in the Baltimore-DC greater region. I'm avid paddler and instruct part time for a paddle sports outfitter mostly on the Potomac river in whitewater. Professionally, I'm a transition special educator working with 18-21 years young adults with developmental disabilities. 

Back in 2012, I started posting on Head-Fi's metal thread with my desire to find new metal and put together a sound system that would allow me to digitize and access every single piece of music I owned on disc....and have it not sound like garbage....and wound up very active on Metal-Fi.

I don't care much about genres following my muse wherever it takes me-metal-rock-classical-jazz-punk --in truth I'm more of a music fan who happens to listen to some metal than a "metalhead". Much of the stuff I like is metal-adjacent and frequently genre shape-shifting, wanky and posty. I do like doom, sludge, weird ass heavy music and OSDM among other things. Praise Satan for the goat crew I've fallen in with who help ensure I listen to some actual metal. 

Cheers!

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2 hours ago, markm said:

well, well, well....I finally made here. Thanks to my M-F brothers for yanking my ass across the digital divide. I live in the Baltimore-DC greater region. I'm avid paddler and instruct part time for a paddle sports outfitter mostly on the Potomac river in whitewater. Professionally, I'm a transition special educator working with 18-21 years young adults with developmental disabilities. 

Back in 2012, I started posting on Head-Fi's metal thread with my desire to find new metal and put together a sound system that would allow me to digitize and access every single piece of music I owned on disc....and have it not sound like garbage....and wound up very active on Metal-Fi.

I don't care much about genres following my muse wherever it takes me-metal-rock-classical-jazz-punk --in truth I'm more of a music fan who happens to listen to some metal than a "metalhead". Much of the stuff I like is metal-adjacent and frequently genre shape-shifting, wanky and posty. I do like doom, sludge, weird ass heavy music and OSDM among other things. Praise Satan for the goat crew I've fallen in with who help ensure I listen to some actual metal. 

Cheers!

Hell yeah Marky Mark in the house! The Goat Mafia leaves no goat behind. Glad you finally made it. I think you will dig the diversity of musical choices here. Feels like the good old days of MFi minus the griping.

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Dude wasssupp!!!  I love how your first introductory topic has a classic Marky Mark typo!

 

Thanks for finally signing up, I've only been badgering you unrelentingly for 2 solid weeks. This place is a little different, unfamiliar and hard to navigate at first but it also has it's positives. Nothing's ever perfect but I think you'll find it's more than adequate for our needs. Now if we could only get Jon and Marko here. Take a look around and once you have the lay of the land you can use the activity tab up at the top of the page to see the most recent unread posts. It's an extra couple of clicks but it has deffo made this place navigable for me. Once I found a new app "Global Dark Style" to make the backround dark and the text white the other day I've started to feel much more at home.

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22 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Dude wasssupp!!!  I love how your first introductory topic has a classic Marky Mark typo!

 

Thanks for finally signing up, I've only been badgering you unrelentingly for 2 solid weeks. This place is a little different, unfamiliar and hard to navigate at first but it also has it's positives. Nothing's ever perfect but I think you'll find it's more than adequate for our needs. Now if we could only get Jon and Marko here. Take a look around and once you have the lay of the land you can use the activity tab up at the top of the page to see the most recent unread posts. It's an extra couple of clicks but it has deffo made this place navigable for me. Once I found a new app "Global Dark Style" to make the backround dark and the text white the other day I've started to feel much more at home.

I was just about to gripe about the lack of Dark Style.  I will look for the app.

 

Oh, and glad you made it, Mark.

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There are a bunch of apps that will make the background dark on supported sites, I already had one installed called Darkness but it wasn't working on this site for some reason. So I searched and found this Global Dark Style and that did the trick. Now I just have to do the same on my phone.

But I don't really like posting here from my phone as much because half the time when I use the back arrow to fix a typo or add/change a word I'll lose the whole fucking paragraph I've been typing and sometimes it'll take me 45 minutes to make a 3 or 4 paragraph post because I keep having to type it over and over again with my stupid thumbs til it stays. Happens on the desktop too but not nearly as much.

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58 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:

All you young, hip and happening people using your phones and showing off when you should all become squares and log on from home on your desktop PC like us old folk do.

Hey I'm a lot older than you my friend and I am for sure a desktop guy. But there are just too many times when I'm not at home or I'm home but busy supervising our home renovation (like I am right now) or I'm in bed or in the kitchen or on the throne and I just can't stay away from this place I just need to get my thoughts out right then and there. I honestly don't know how I managed to make it nearly 40 years of my life without a cell phone or the internet.

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