Official Off Topic Thread

[Yngvai X]

Alright, I gotta bitch about something here...

Maybe its cause my body frame is on the smaller size for a guy (Im around 5' 8" and slim) but why the fuck are t shirt sizes getting larger? For example, I got a COBHC shirt at the Bodom show in NYC the other week, and its a medium and the thing is fucking huge on me, and the Blind Guardian shirt I got had a similar problem (tho not as bad). Why the fuck is a MEDIUM this big?!?!? I have other shirts that I got from European online stores that are cut much smaller, and it fucking pisses me off that these band shirts are increasing in size.

 

[DoomsdayZach]

^ +10,000,000,000,000 imho

Is this to heavy metal being better than power?

Ok, i guess i should be more helpful as well. Heavy Metal is basically just straight forward metal... it's what you think of when you hear "Metal". Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Doro, and many, many other bands of that style. Let's stereotype now. Power metal gets more cheesy. It's generally more about fantasy, faster paced (or super slow, cheesy gay ballads that even Celine Dion would think goes too far) and so on. There are some good stand out bands (Helloween, Gamma Ray, etc.) but most are fairly worthless because the genre relies heavily on vocals and most power metal vocalists are weak.

Heavy metal is generally more badass. The aforementioned bands such as Priest, Maiden, Doro are all here, and topics can range big time. There's also a lot about the glory of metal that falls into the heavy metal category (though generally this gets very close to power metal territory, i'd say it's plain Heavy stuff) such as Manowar. Heavy Metal shares more in common with very melodic thrash (think Rage here) over power metal, which is often times just gay.

Poster children for Heavy Metal:
Judas Priest
Doro
Iron Maiden
Dio

Poster children for Power Metal:
Helloween
Gamma Ray
HammerFall


Any questions?

 

[DoomsdayZach]

Alright, I gotta bitch about something here...

Maybe its cause my body frame is on the smaller size for a guy (Im around 5' 8" and slim) but why the fuck are t shirt sizes getting larger? For example, I got a COBHC shirt at the Bodom show in NYC the other week, and its a medium and the thing is fucking huge on me, and the Blind Guardian shirt I got had a similar problem (tho not as bad). Why the fuck is a MEDIUM this big?!?!? I have other shirts that I got from European online stores that are cut much smaller, and it fucking pisses me off that these band shirts are increasing in size.

uhh... because metal fans are fat dude. especially american metal fans.

 

[Tubbs]

Is this to heavy metal being better than power?

Yep. I'd give you rep for the ep1c post but I have to "spread the reputation" again. :grumblepissedarghwtf:

 

[DoomsdayZach]

Thanks tubbs, i'd rep you too, but i get the same message. How many people to i have to rep? Fuck, i feel like such a rep whore.

 

[Tubbs]

I'm pretty sure it's somewhere around 10 people or so. :annoying:

 

[Anonymous]

You have to give 10 rep points before giving rep to the same person again.
Also, Tubbs is nearing his 8000th post

 

[Tubbs]

Of course! I can't believe I only had around 7,800 posts yesterday. Damned thread games!

Obligatory:

POST 8,000!!!11one

With all that aside, I haven't given much rep lately. It's nearing the end of the year, so I might be giving some out.

What's hilarious is (as of right now) I have 1,268 rep points on Sevenstring.org and only around 45 here, and I also have 7,600 less posts. Haha!

 

[Anonymous]

Harris, I took a screenshot in case you miss this one.

 

[Tubbs]

Haha, I have screenshots of every significant post count I've ever made!

(666, 888, 1,111, 1,234, 2,112, 2,222, 2,500, 3,333, 4,321, 5,555, 6,666, 7,777, and also the more significant ones from 1,000 all the way up to 8,000)

I guess that kinda makes me nerdy tbph.

I plan on posting every single one of them in the pictures thread when I reach 10,000. It's a sort of project I'm doing more than being a post whore. I notice myself in the first year how naive I acted and etc., and what I had for avatars that were corresponding to how I was feeling or what I was listening to at the time. If that's not obsession, I don't know what is!

 

[Horus]

Harris, I took a screenshot in case you miss this one.

Yes I did

 

[Beelzebub]

Alright, I gotta bitch about something here...

Maybe its cause my body frame is on the smaller size for a guy (Im around 5' 8" and slim) but why the fuck are t shirt sizes getting larger? For example, I got a COBHC shirt at the Bodom show in NYC the other week, and its a medium and the thing is fucking huge on me, and the Blind Guardian shirt I got had a similar problem (tho not as bad). Why the fuck is a MEDIUM this big?!?!? I have other shirts that I got from European online stores that are cut much smaller, and it fucking pisses me off that these band shirts are increasing in size.

Have you tried shrinking it? Tumble dry (inside-out to preserve color) on high heat for a bit longer than usual. If that doesn't work you can always alter it.

 

[Kenneth R.]

uhh... because metal fans are fat dude. especially american metal fans.

fuck them, i'm a M too

 

[progmetaldan]

hmmm, I have a similar problem, I'm pretty slim, I basically always have to go for a small... It annoys me though, when on their online store or whatever when L is the smallest size, or M... Oh well...

 

[Matt]

fuck them, i'm a M too

I also a M. In-shape people ftw!

I am now declaring a rep race, in which all of us have to catch up to mrfast.

 

[progmetaldan]

I'm trying, but I've only just discovered this whole rep points thing. Rep point me up! haha unfortunately it says I've given out too many this 24 hours and I have to wait before giving more...

 

[Matt]

I notice you haven't given me any.

 

[progmetaldan]

I was gonna... honest... ha, unfortunately it was when I clicked on you that the little alert came up... As soon as I can I shall...

 

[SilentRealm]

try having that prob AND being a chick.. most metal merch does not cater for women, so we are forced to wear the mens shirts and even the small sizes are huge on us! theres no point even wearing band shirts most of the time because they look atrocious on our frames..

 

[progmetaldan]

HOw does it decide how many rep points you get??? I got 11 from one person, and 5 from another (thanks Montu...) Does it depend on how many person who's giving them has???