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FakeGAF Book 4: A Game of Thirst
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Sitting While Black disturbs the peace don't you know?
for their own protection
RobotNinjaHornets
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Tell your son to watch Chip & Ironicus then >_>
That series isn't exactly typical for them as normally they do post commentary and have a large amount of editing, but fuck me it's funny
I think it's probably because there's some element of quality control, in that if you make something low effort and shitty you will be told in no uncertain terms "This is shit and low effort. Do better."
And yeah, ProtonJon is cool. Though now I'm freaking out because his Kaizo video is rapidly approaching the 10 year marker
Halcyon
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How long is this doctor's appointment. You've been there for hours.
Are you at the doctor's house?
Jobbs this isn't an appointment. It's a gridr date.
hah. I'm home. I was just reflecting on the visit and how unusual it was. I guess when you get into more specialized medicine you get stronger personalities.
I don't think of Weezer as emo, but maybe my emodar isn't perfect
List is strange but it gets some stuff right. Sunny Day #1? Yes. Promise ring, jawbreaker, mineral, yes yes yes. Rainer Marie yes. At The Drive In -- Boy I haven't heard them in a long ass time, very good but I Don't remember thinking of them as particularly emo.
Paramore - RIOT? LOL. Cute album cute band but not emo
Coheed is emo? THat's news to me
One Armed Scissor is such a fucking rule ass song. That second verse is one of the most epic things ever
Pinkerton is generally considered one of the more important emo albums. then they completely gave up on that and went full pop-rock
Gay doctors getting heat from straight dudes smgdh
I got into the history of emo after falling hard into Brand New love and dug through all that but never came across Pinkerton in my musical archeology but it makes sense now that I think about it.
You Know Nothing
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I spent all this time looking for a fitting gif and didn't find one.
Halcyon
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No gif needed
I saw them live in Pittsburgh before a John Mayer concert 6? years ago or some such.
I actually like Paramore (haven't heard whatever they're doing most recently, but I've heard the first few albums) despite not being a teenage girl. Fun music with some pretty solid guitar riffs and the drummer was really good. Just not emo at all. That's a stretch.
Incidentally I also like The Veronicas. Saw them live in philly a few years ago and was among the only grown men there who wasn't someone's father
Incidentally I also like The Veronicas. Saw them live in philly a few years ago and was among the only grown men there who wasn't someone's father
it got poor reviews and the band completely ignored it for years so thats not surprising. its one of those albums that people who end up making music in a couple years all listen to
their new stuff is pure pop. its okay but Riot! imo is the best pop punk album.
oh and they got rid of half the band and now its just a hayley williams vessel (more so than it already was)
they didn't mature as well as Fall Out Boy
You Know Nothing
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lets use Alvvays as a case study. they got a ton of attention on blogs and stuff in the summer but most people still don't know them adn they aren't played on top 40 radio
wait into pop? they're already pop. nevermind
Be Your Own Pet - Adventure This is so fun!
I had a moment with my son the other day. He's super into Fall Out Boy's new Popier stuff and so I was like "hey son, let's listen to Fall Out Boy's albums from when your pops was a teen" and he fucking hated them, I was devastated.
But only for a second because I quickly remembered that his dislike of older FOB stuff is indicative of their business and cultural acumen, and also I didn't really like FOB stuff that much when I was a kid so *shrug*
did you play anything from take this to your grave? that stuff is so different from the rest
Yea I eased him into with "Grand Theft Autumn/Where is Your Boy" (the most approachable) but he wasn't having any of it lol
I dunno, you look at artists like Grimes or Tegan and Sara or even the aforementioned Fall Out Boy and you realize that changing sound to fit a narrow chronological range of popular music is what generates one hit wonders if you ask me. The three artists I mentioned above kinda just have been doing their thing for awhile, slowly morphing their styles as they mature and evolve, and suddenly they're making pop music because the people went to them rather than them going to the people.
Especially with Tegan and Sara, they've been making the exact same style of music for like a decade and a buddy of mine told me they sold out because he heard them on popular radio, I was like "did you even listen to their latest shit?" Musical snobs sicken me, is what I'm getting at.
RobotNinjaHornets
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Some examples because I am bad at explanations
In Circles - Sunny Day Real Estate
Accident Prone - Jawbreaker
Dendron - The Hotelier
You & Me & Me - You Blew It!
Parking Lot - Mineral
Johnny On The Spot - Texas Is The Reason
Forget Me - The Promise Ring
Halcyon
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I think everyone learned their lesson about time machines from Adam Sandler.
My day has been long and boring. I don't have a ton of energy and I want to skip the gym but i probably won't. Gonna watch either Gotham or the Voice when I get home which will be around 8pm. My days are long.
You Know Nothing
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Only FOB song I remember from my teens is Sugar We're Goin' Down. (I didn't mind it I guess.)
RobotNinjaHornets
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Fucking hell I haven't heard this in like 10 years
EDIT: Just looked it up it has literally been 10 years, it got on the Top 40 here in March 2006
This is by far -- far and away -- my favorite Paramore song, and it's not on any of their albums.
I love this song. It's genuinely awesome
I love this song. It's genuinely awesome
Halcyon
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This just sounds like 90's alternative music to me. But I can see how it could be classified as its own thing.
These aren't musical snobs. More just people that want to like stuff no one else does. Once it gets popular they get angry cause they have to find some other unknown to favorite.
Halcyon
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because you don't want to buy said game
because you want to experience something you like through others eyes
because the same reason you watch sports
because the same reason you watch porn
the list goes on.
fall out boy is weird. they started from a more narrow genre and made their own sound to be more digestible to the masses. as much as i like take this to your grave, theres a ton of bands that did the same thing. cork tree on they added more of their eccentricities and i think Patrick Stump losing weight and coming out of his shell helped add the mroe arena-y sound to the last two albums
i think uma thurman is the best example of their evolution. you can see old fallout boy in there with even more energy and catchy guitar licks
There's not a musical snob bone in my body. I listen to weird stuff, obscure stuff, and total absolute unabashed pop. I listen to Taylor Swift. I do it all.
This is a bold opinion bro
Anyway I'll give you an example.. As I mentioned before, I played through Alien Isolation then watched PDP play it.. Reason being I wanted to see how he handled the situations presented by the game, how he reacted (how much screaming -- btw, there wasn't much or really any) and what he thought. It was a way to decompress after playing that game for 20 hours.
I've watched a lot of Souls let's play because I always find it interesting comparing experiences and hearing peopels thoughts and deconstructions on a game series we share love for
This is a bold opinion bro
Anyway I'll give you an example.. As I mentioned before, I played through Alien Isolation then watched PDP play it.. Reason being I wanted to see how he handled the situations presented by the game, how he reacted (how much screaming -- btw, there wasn't much or really any) and what he thought. It was a way to decompress after playing that game for 20 hours.
I've watched a lot of Souls let's play because I always find it interesting comparing experiences and hearing peopels thoughts and deconstructions on a game series we share love for
I would rather play with balls and/or fuck firsthand
much more fun
the alternative is just lazy imo
do you know com truise? you should know com truise
And I get your point insofar as watching something like this as a way to decompress AFTER going through it yourself but to do it in lieu of actually playing the damn thing is dumb.
how about them apples halcyon?
I suck at games and would still like to experience them
The only thing I don't like about modern FOB (from a casual listening point of view) is their lyrics have degenerated quite a bit. Not that they were comparable to lyrical masters like Jesse Lacey but I think they peaked lyrically with From Under the Cork Tree.
I would argue that you are not really experiencing them if you are just watching
RobotNinjaHornets
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I think this is just one of those things where if you're into it, you can tell the difference, if not then you have no idea. Which isn't meant as an insult, I would have no idea how to separate out different subgenres of like electronic music, or jazz or whatever.
Because I don't want to play Watch_Dogs when I can watch amusing people play it instead and get waaaay more enjoyment out of it than I would've otherwise
Also games like The Wonderful 101 and Metal Gear Rising that I am terrible at but still want to see how they play out
Halcyon
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There's more than just watching someone play a single player game on youtube. That can be fun though. I get to watch someone who I enjoy listening to play through things like Ghost Song without having to buy it from game dev's I personally hate and who I hear like to have anonymous doctor sex.
Then there's multiplayer games, minecraft, gmod, zombies, reviews, old games, speedruns, hacks, etc etc.
It's the most popular genre on youtube other than music videos.
I'm allergic to apples.
I like indie rock and relaxed music so I'm actually kinda into it. It just feels very 90's to me and I remember everyone making fun of my flat-top haircut and start crying.
FTFY
edit - instead of watcfhing lame streams you should be listening to seven more minutes by the rentals on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Q8SbhGJ3s&index=1&list=PLOScPLHtxuxC8_9TQeLdvbc8rhhUSrQ-q
best album about living in Spain and falling in love with a girl ever
its basically cheesy poetry with a ton of wordplay
see if you can tell them apart from sylvia plath
or bukowski or ginsberg
(personally i think it peaks in infinity on high though)
neither is me playing through them and being awful. its the best i can do
edgelord
Yo I stream my games often times and I'm not a lamer so POINT PROVEN WRONG
alternatively you can git gud
I see this whack ass cyber bully insult tossed around pretty often these days. for a game dev you should try to be more original bro
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