u/Metalhead831

[Middle of bumblefuck nowhere, New York][24M] I’ve never really played with a full band but I’ve been playing guitar casually for probably a little over 10 years. I think I can do some screams or backup vocals if needed. I’m a quick learner when it comes to riffs and stuff.

Also when I say metal I don’t mean anything too heavy. I’d say the heaviest bands I listen to and would like to emulate are melodic death metal bands like Children of Bodom, At the Gates, Death, etc.)

I think metal bands need to start focusing on image (long hair and leather pants) and having fun.

Pros:

- Chill guy

- Don’t do drugs and don’t even like them (Maybe that’s a con for some people idk)

- Have nothing keeping me in New York if I think we can be good enough, I can really go wherever (Within the US)

- I have a few songs written and a bunch of sections here and there

- I believe image is very important and largely neglected by modern metal bands. If we don’t hit the stage with leather pants like it’s the 80s, what’s even the point? (Not you drummer you can wear shorts)

- Spotless driving record

- Am funny if you like dark humor/meta-ironic memes/post-ironic memes

- History nerd (Can write a song about the 30 years war if needed)

- Gamer (I don’t know what this does to help us become the best metal band of this generation but it’s there if we need it)

- Can cook

- Have nothing to lose

- Have a very clear idea in my head of what kind of music I wanna make and how I want it to sound

Cons:

- Basically no real experience playing with other people

- My wallet looks like that meme where Mickey opens his up and a fly flies out of it

- Tiny bit of stage fright (Nothing a drink or 2 and some experience can’t fix)

- I think most modern metal is terrible (Maybe that’s a good thing depending on your opinion I don’t know lol)

- Am very opinionated and don’t like a lot of stuff.

- Can’t sing AND play guitar at the same time very well just yet (but I’ve been practicing)

- I unfortunately play better sitting down so when I’m standing, my guitar strap is a bit too short imo (I wish my arms and fingers were long enough to stand like Prime James Hetfield but play like prime John Pettruci) 😔

- Not great at the engineering and producing part of the process

I’d say I’m a pretty fun and energetic person (or at least I used to be) but recently I’ve been in a really bad spot. My family situation sucks but I feel like I have to be around to help my mother and grandmother, but it’s causing me to have no social life at all, and to be honest, I used to think depression was just a state of mind that you can just ignore, but I think I’m really depressed right now. I’m not even sad anymore I’m just tired and lonely.

The few I kept after high school have moved away over time. I still keep in touch with them but it’s not the same. I’m kind of anti-social media so I don’t keep in touch with a lot of the people that I’ve been friendly with in the past so I lose contact very quickly.

I’d also say that includes tinder, I just dislike the casual attitude towards sex from a lot of people (I’m 24M) but I just wanna meet some people, and have something to do or someone to talk to. But I also feel like I wouldn’t get along with/have any similar views to someone who uses tinder.

If I do make a tinder account I don’t want to put any negative stuff in my bio for obvious reasons, but I also feel like I’m not as energetic and outgoing as I used to be, and I don’t want to lie and make people think I’m fine and then give off any weird fake vibes.

Should I bother with tinder? Are there better ways to meet people? Or should I just continue by myself? I kinda feel like my energy is about as low as it can get and I don’t wanna bring that kind of vibe to anyone.

I wrote a song and the verses sound better in the third person but the chorus sounds better in first person.

I’m not sure if anyone knows a song that does this. It feels weird but like I said I think it sounds better

I don’t know if this is a common problem, but when I’m making a new world on bedrock (Xbox) when I’m trying to enable certain creations, the game does like, a one second pause, and then turns them all off. Is there a fix for this?

I’ve gotten around it by spamming enable on them and then quickly hitting create, but this seems to cause some problems, and I’m also unable to get both resource and behavior packs enabled.

And no I’m not trying to shove 800 mods into the world. Just about 5-10 vanilla+ style mods. Any help would be appreciated, thanks