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All my favorite bands were called gay in 1991
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That said, I don't think metal ever had the potential that prog had because it was too inward directed and culturally defeatist. In the mid-'70s prog rock was creeping towards merger with jazz fusion, progressive soul, and other forms of long-term popular music. You had rock sounding more like jazz or soul, jazz and soul sounding more like rock, African and European scenes interacting in unmediated ways, all of it threatening to become a giant vernacular art movement that would have not only screwed up marketing and increased systemic risk for the culture industry, but threatened the survival of cultural hegemony itself. In the late '70s the culture industry defeated the various strains of erudite popular music, and drove everyone into either the "mainstream" or isolated, paranoid scenes like metal (which I like but is only a dim echo of what came before) that could either be commodified or strangled with minimal resistance. All this ultimately led to our current hellscape out of Theodor Adorno's worst nightmares where everything is reduced to empty signifiers that can be manipulated, reconfigured, and resold in a cultural vacuum. Nothing is real and everything is an op. I am reminded of Steve Albini (I think) talking about music on the internet as a "hall of fetishes" where there is a form of musical pornography for every kink. That is horrible! A culture with no cultural threads, everything a neo- something or other disconnected from any living tradition, with the reactionary "traditional" art being the fakest of all, cottagecore and jackbootcore and grecoromancore and medievalcore, empty simulacra of a past that never existed. If a chain of continuity breaks there is no going back except as a cheap counterfeit. Woolie Wool has a new favorite as of 19:22 on Nov 28, 2023 |
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Nov 28, 2023 19:10
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Big cities are overrated. I was raised in a smallish town and although I'm completely aware of the issues with small towns, I prefer them over big, impersonal cities.
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Nov 28, 2023 19:15
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Big cities are overrated. I was raised in a smallish town and although I'm completely aware of the issues with small towns, I prefer them over big, impersonal cities. There are so many things you can't try in a small town
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Nov 28, 2023 19:54
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Sure....insane real estate prices, apartments the size of postcards....
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Nov 28, 2023 21:21
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:apartments the size of postcards.... we still had those when i was in a small town
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Nov 28, 2023 21:26
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Big cities are overrated. I was raised in a smallish town and although I'm completely aware of the issues with small towns, I prefer them over big, impersonal cities. I like tiny podunk towns 'cause you can have a 300 acres lot and no neighbors and you can do whatever the gently caress you want as long as it doesn't involve a business being open past 7 PM. I like cities 'cause you can walk and bike most places and there's public transit for the rest. Suburbs are actually part of Hell and were basically invented by car companies to normalize driving literally everywhere.
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Nov 28, 2023 21:37
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Yeah, give me a small walkable town where you're minutes, if even that, from all the places you need to be. Having to drive everywhere sucks.
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Nov 28, 2023 21:41
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small towns and big cities both offer ample opportunity to develop community suburbs exist to offer solitude to those none of us want to be around in the first place
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Nov 28, 2023 22:00
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Woolie Wool posted:Also this entire thread is hot takes by people with axes to grind so I don't know what you were expecting this thread is about workshopping a hot take in a low stakes peer feedback context
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Nov 28, 2023 22:07
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We should have better public transit, affordable housing, and walkable cities, so there will be fewer cars on the road, for me, when I drive.
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Nov 28, 2023 22:36
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Aramek posted:We should have better public transit, affordable housing, and walkable cities, so there will be fewer cars on the road, for me, when I drive. There's a reason why you don't see traffic in car commercials. E: this would make sports cars (in the sense of "lightweight two seater" not "900 horsepower penis extension") and manual transmissions much more viable too Woolie Wool has a new favorite as of 22:44 on Nov 28, 2023 |
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Aramek posted:We should have better public transit, affordable housing, and walkable cities, so there will be fewer cars on the road, for me, when I drive. There should be absolutely no other cars on the road so we can identify Aramek when they drive. Then I'll wave and say "hi Aramek how are the roads today har har just joshin you know I dont drive have a good day"
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Nov 28, 2023 22:53
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gently caress Mele Kalikimaka. Absolute abortion of a song. Hate it
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Nov 29, 2023 01:47
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Grassy Knowles posted:There should be absolutely no other cars on the road so we can identify Aramek when they drive. Then I'll wave and say "hi Aramek how are the roads today har har just joshin you know I dont drive have a good day" I would also like to wave at Aramek.
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Nov 29, 2023 06:14
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I try to be open minded and accept that people have wildly varying tastes and interests but whenever someone says they don’t like animation at all I’m always taken aback. It’s a fantastic art form!
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Nov 29, 2023 07:59
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Woolie Wool posted:The first wave of punk rock was some of the most cynical manufactured culture industry bullshit ever recorded and whatever artistic value punk has came later in the '80s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anNJU1ExuJw Most bands weren't explicitly social or overtly artistically ambitious or anything. but it retrospectively doesn't seem like there was this huge push to 'make it' beyond the local scene in the earliest years of it thetoughestbean posted:I try to be open minded and accept that people have wildly varying tastes and interests but whenever someone says they don’t like animation at all I’m always taken aback. It’s a fantastic art form! nice obelisk idiot has a new favorite as of 18:45 on Nov 29, 2023 |
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Nov 29, 2023 18:36
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nice obelisk idiot posted:I feel like animation fans can be too immersed in it and oblivious to what might appeal to people who aren't all that taken in by the craft as such. I like stuff like weird stop motion or sloppy comedic things with great facial expressions, but if someone tried to show me something like The Thief and The Cobbler like that one guy on here years ago, I would nope out asap I’m more talking about blanket dislike of the entire art form, not not being interested in obscure passion project
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Nov 29, 2023 23:11
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Woolie Wool posted:The backlash against hair bands also hit traditional and US power metal bands who made totally different music but had long hair and high pitched singing so they were trashed as hair metal, and also as "gay" (this was 1991 and gay was a deadly insult). Like honestly it's a different enough take that I was just hoping to see you argue it a bit harder.
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Nov 29, 2023 23:18
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I dunno maybe it's different on the east coast but in the places I do most of my regular traveling (Arizona, California, New Mexico) small towns are pretty desperate places, usually without a ton of upside. There are places where the communities are really trying hard to keep it together and even grow it and I could kind of see the appeal of those places, but usually it means living somewhere with no services, no entertainment, dollar general as your grocery store and police openly in the pocket of whatever nearby factory/mine that is in complete control of the town. Actually I just realized the difference between the two types of towns I've encountered is their proximity to tourist destinations.
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Nov 29, 2023 23:27
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thetoughestbean posted:I try to be open minded and accept that people have wildly varying tastes and interests but whenever someone says they don’t like animation at all I’m always taken aback. It’s a fantastic art form! For every person on earth there is at least one anime they'd really like.
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Nov 30, 2023 04:22
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Ghost aren't scary. Like, what're you gonna do, kill me? That threat has no teeth anymore!
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Nov 30, 2023 04:34
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Gripweed posted:For every person on earth there is at least one anime they'd really like. who is this nonbinary person who likes 8 billion animes
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Nameless Pete posted:Ghost aren't scary. Like, what're you gonna do, kill me? That threat has no teeth anymore! Torment your soul eternally
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Gripweed posted:For every person on earth there is at least one anime they'd really like. For example, this clip is the only anime I like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jnecnhS-Z4
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Blue Moonlight posted:For example, this clip is the only anime I like: this is better than akira
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Nov 30, 2023 05:35
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For me it's Ronin Warriors.
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thetoughestbean posted:Torment your soul eternally You are also a ghost in this scenario. Torment them right back!
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Grassy Knowles posted:who is this nonbinary person who likes 8 billion animes Turn off your monitor.
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Blue Moonlight posted:For example, this clip is the only anime I like: what does he mean go back to work is this just a hobby for this man
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Nov 30, 2023 08:47
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Nameless Pete posted:Ghost aren't scary. Like, what're you gonna do, kill me? That threat has no teeth anymore! They're going to watch you in your most private moments and then tell everyone all the weird stuff you do when you think you're alone.
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Nov 30, 2023 10:08
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:They're going to watch you in your most private moments and then tell everyone all the weird stuff you do when you think you're alone. They're going to ruin your favourite hobby by putting on Unchained Melody and getting all Swayze with you.
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Nov 30, 2023 10:59
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LED christmas lights are tacky christmas lights of any kind are also tacky I don't mind seeing the decorations at night though. Looks nice. The whippy whappy screensaver projectors that you point at your garage door though, they look as terrible and low effort as they are. In conclusion, Halloween is by far the superior decorative holiday.
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Nov 30, 2023 20:40
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Like LED are more tacky than incandescent? How can you tell?
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Nov 30, 2023 21:30
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Christmas decorations should be tacky.
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Nov 30, 2023 21:49
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 Anyone calling my Christmas decorations tacky gets the whippy whappy right into their bippy bappy!
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Nov 30, 2023 22:44
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Christmas time is the best time. It’s cold and gray so having a bunch of colorful lights on houses is nice. I wish there were more holidays that involved decorating houses. Decorating things for stuff is fun!
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Nov 30, 2023 22:54
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The problem with Christmas is not necessarily the tackiness of the displays or even the jingly Christmas music*, but how obligatory it all is: gotta have the Christmas tree, gotta watch the same dozen or so movies you've seen a thousand times, gotta buy buy buy to show your friends and family how much you love them, gotta have the ostentatious Clark Griswold-style house decorations, etc. No wonder people hate "the holidays" so much. * I think we can all agree that Christmas Shoes is the worst song ever created, though. F_Shit_Fitzgerald has a new favorite as of 23:01 on Nov 30, 2023 |
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The Puritans tried to ban Christmas in England so the English banned the Puritans. That said the version of Christmas in question had a lot more drunken reveling so maybe we should bring that back.
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I've gotten to the point where I involuntarily tense up if I see a poinsettia.
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