Boba Pearl posted:

Actually it's incredibly cursed and a book of dead names.

Operator posted:

You know what? You are pissing me off. Not you ML goons in particular, but the group you belong to. Amateur musicians.

There are way too many of you, too many make it through the loophole and get to release mediocre albums in an already oversaturated market.

Life is too short to listen to 100 bands for each genuinly innovative and talented one. It's like a 50 page menu at a restaurant where 90% of the dishes are absolute poo poo.

So are amateur musicians to blame for this? Yeah, you are. About 90% percent of you are mediocre, and have nothing to contribute to the world of music. It is time for aspiring musicians to start realizing this and let music be a hobby instead of making GBS threads around your crappy demo wasting everyones time.

For some reason, being a musician is very trendy these days. You learn to play guitar to be cool. And as soon as you are able to string a couple of chords together, sing a simple cliched melody along to it with some lyrics about emo love, SUDDENLY YOU CAN BE A SUPERSTAR!

no. Fact is, I believe just about anyone can achieve at least mediocrity if they put enough effort into it. You are in no way unique.

It is getting nearly impossible to follow the general music scene these days, it feels like every day you hear about 5 new bands, each with their own magazine article hyping them beyond all good decency. Yet they are all pathetically mediocre. And maybe one of them isn't, but you couldn't give them enough time to realize it, because you had to spend time hearing the other 4 crap bands.

And stop fueling the fire friends and relatives! Sometimes, 'that was kinda cool' suffices when compared with 'WOW YOU SHOULD GET A RECORD DEAL!' when Jimmy auditions his 'AWESOME DEMO' for you.

To conclude: More amateur musicians should come to grips with the fact that their music should never leave their homestudios.

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Operator posted:

As most of you know, just about everything in nature serves some sort of purpose. Be it sharp teeth to tear flesh, colorful plumes to attract mates or bright colors to attract bees for pollination. Nothing is random in nature, all beings have been sculpted into its current form through millions of years of carefully perfecting its abilities and characteristics.

But sometimes, some of the traits certain lifeforms have developed through evolution just blows me away to the point where I almost choose not to believe it, and that it must have been masterminded by some sentient entity.

Take for example an apple. Exactly what purpose do apples, or any other fruit for that matter, serve? I can tell you right now that trees don't grow apples to be cool and score some cred with the herbivores. The concept of fruit is one of the most unbelievable (to me at least) feats of evolution: Fruit contain seeds, which the tree needs to spread around if it wants to procreate. The idea is that animals will eat the fruit, digest the fruit and pass the seeds along with feces to serve as the perfect source of fertilization. As you know, most plant seeds have hardened shells to protect them from the terrible things your digestive system tries to do with it and will therefore pass through your system undigested.

The complexity and ingenuity of this system is more than enough to really baffle the mind, but we look at this from a biased perspective. We are experts at complex systems. How the gently caress does a stupid plant come up with this masterplan?

You will learn that this system of distributing seeds is the result of countless years of evolution, but that just doesn't satisfy my need to understand this properly.

1. How did the plants first get the idea? Plants can't see and they are not aware of animals around them. How did plants get the idea to use these mobile herbivores to use as seed distributors when they lack the abilty to be aware of them, see them or hear them?

2. Even if we assume the first question can be answered, there is still a second mystery to this. How did the plants know that seeds needed hardened shells to survive passing through the digestive systems of animals? Exactly how do plants know that animals have acid in their stomachs? It's not like the seeds could report back to the plant and let it know after trying to pass through it? How does the plant even know that it would pass the seed? Plants don't poo poo so I'd assume it doesn't know much about that?


When I consider these amazing traits of evolution it isn't hard for me to understand how ID supporters think - that some unknown sentient entity at some unknown level or dimension is guiding the hand of evolution.

This can also be applied to the origin of life. There are many theories and no one have been anywhere close to empirically proving any of them. No one has been able to recreate the creation of life. From what I know, amino acids combine to form proteins which is the main component for life. Scientists seem to agree that amino acids were around long before we believe life originated, so somehow amino acids combined to create proteins. But the thing is, that amino acids need to combine in very complex and specific sequences to correctly form a protein. I've heard it said that the odds of them combining correctly by chance is equivalent to winning the national lottery 10,000 times in a row. The fact is we really don't know how life originated, we only have unproven theories none of which even have any scientific consensus.

If you see in that light it's easy to see how some people choose to believe that something somewhere engineered life as we know it and sparked it.


I am in no way an ID supporter, but I do not completely discard the idea.

But these are just a laymans loose thoughts really, can anyone here with knowledge or interesting insights about this subject share their thoughts on this..?

The Plant Guy posted:

I can't even consider how a loving plant is able to think up these grand schemes. It must be an "intelligent designer", right guys

ps the designer is god, but dont' tell teh liberals

Marcade posted:

Saw someone in FF14 named "Lovecraft's Cat" and I had to simultaneously laugh and cringe.

Dick Trauma posted:

Ancient complaints are the best.

https://twitter.com/TheAncientWorld/status/1432129264426512385?s=20

wizzardstaff posted:

Hi Meli-Shipak,

Just circling back on the status of the irrigation project. Per my previous tablet, it seems like we're consistently running a little low on water levels for the sesame fields. Going forward, could we schedule a weekly meeting to touch base and keep everyone in the loop? Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,
Ibbi-Ilabrat

projecthalaxy posted:

Were they the catboy race and what color was their fur. Did they commit, is my question

A Jupiter posted:

*continues to munch on piss-soaked cheerios*

*slurping on spoonfuls of piss and cheerios again and again*

ugn

* grips the bowl with both hands and chugs the cheerio-infused piss*

Baron von Eevl posted:

Yeah but then you get transphobe deadites running around.

Super Waffle posted:

Samovar posted:

I thought they were already.

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

mainly she just hangs out in her Scottish castle these days

Martman posted:

no this isn't the Furry Forum Quotes thread

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

mainly she just hangs out in her Scottish castle these days

RFC2324 posted:

I got very confused and thought you were talking about Enya, and was wondering if she had done anything noteworthy since her anal sex ad.

RFC2324 posted:

I got very confused and thought you were talking about Enya, and was wondering if she had done anything noteworthy since her anal sex ad.

Robobot posted:

Did...did anal sex need an ad?

RFC2324 posted:

About a decade ago, I guess, Enya ran an ad looking for someone to come shag her, and a willingness to engage in anal was mentioned. It was scrubbed from the internet, tho I was able to find an article a few years ago.

Pretty sure it was Enya. How many insanely rich, insanely reclusive women are there in Ireland/Scotland?

RFC2324 posted:

About a decade ago, I guess, Enya ran an ad looking for someone to come shag her, and a willingness to engage in anal was mentioned. It was scrubbed from the internet, tho I was able to find an article a few years ago.

Pretty sure it was Enya. How many insanely rich, insanely reclusive women are there in Ireland/Scotland?

Splicer posted:

You're thinking of Sinead O'Connor

RFC2324 posted:

My bad!

It was the other one.

Robobot posted:

Ha, remember when Sinead O'Connor was famous? That was a crazy time.

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

She got cancelled because she tore up a picture of the pope. Truly, a trailblazer in cancel culture.

Splicer posted:

She said a bunch of stuff that turned out to be very true about 5 years before people were willing to hear it.

About child abuse and misogyny and the culpability of the Church in both, not about her looking for a sex partner

Skulk Hogan posted:

Didnt she convert to Islam in the last few years or did i hallucinate that?

OPAONI posted:

She's also cool about anal sex

Arivia posted:

Anyone got Sludge Tank’s contact info I think we’ve got one hell of a missed connection here

RFC2324 posted:

About a decade ago, I guess, Enya ran an ad looking for someone to come shag her, and a willingness to engage in anal was mentioned. It was scrubbed from the internet, tho I was able to find an article a few years ago.

Pretty sure it was Enya. How many insanely rich, insanely reclusive women are there in Ireland/Scotland?

Empty Sandwich posted:

all up Enya rear end

Splicer posted:

My favourite part of all of this is I thought I was in the post your white whale thread and RFC2324's white whale was "That article about Enya looking to get calm.jpged"

nut posted:

drat, this guy is totally nuts

Rockman Reserve posted:

click through for mildly disturbing context:

Path Dot Com posted:

So I was on the internet as usual last night and I came across the shittiest loving website ever. They are trying to be the next myspace and everything about it sucks. Anyways, my friends are members on sa and they just sit here all day and read threads instead of actually going out, and thats why i signed up here even though this is probably going to be my only post ever. My friend works for the website in some lovely shed downtown and I want to gently caress with him. They have this stupid thing on the site where you can send pictures from your phone to the site and it posts it automatically- no one checks them and I don't think they can delete them. Can I get some help with people sending offensive poo poo to their site?? The site is path.com don't expect anything great there.

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Dabir posted:

No admin has come out strongly in favour of this, several are against it, the closest your summary gets to reality is a couple going "I don't care one way or the other. is piss upsetting people?"

The actual problem being discussed is serial pissflooders flooding the station with piss every round and several alternative solutions have already come up, like making pissing damage your kidneys, having piss cause stains instead of puddles that contribute to the fluid system, reducing the amount one person can piss etc. But I guess it's hard to turn that into an "admins are DELETING FUN game dead now" hate-on for the benefit of people who don't play the game any more.