ShrimpShady

ShrimpShady

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    Daily music recommendation #57

    This one's for all the stinky emo shoegaze women.

    This song feels like a VHS tape, despite it being released in 2012. Honestly, mixing the introspective lyrics and guitar vocabulary of emo with the dense sound of shoegaze sounds like an obvious choice, like French fries and ice cream, so I'm surprised it took until these guys to really try it out.
    ShrimpShady
    Just finished with a scholarship interview. Lowkey think I nailed it, but watch it be revealed that some minor thing I said had irrevocably fucked up my candidacy.
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #56

    More j-rock. nano.RIPE are severely underrated. No, the singer does have a good voice. Fuck you.

    Omokage Warp makes me feel human. Maybe it's Hanasaku Iroha nostalgia. Maybe the song is just that good.

    The guitar work is heavily tinged in that classic midwest-emo inspired j-rock sound, and the hook truly encapsulates seishun.
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #55

    To me, this is the essence of Asian Kung-Fu Generation. It's that feeling of youth that so many other J-rock bands try to capture, but none quite as strongly as AKG. It's a shame that it hasn't been used in an anime yet, but here's hoping Bocchi season 2 picks it up :blob_hmm:
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    A college student in my country was arrested for posting an AI meme of the current president and the previous president kissing.

    You cannot make this shit up.
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    ShrimpShady
    Not sure about less :blob_hmm:

    I consider most of SEA as equally cringe. Except Malaysia. I'm Indonesian, so it's in my genes to think Malaysia is more cringe
    Macha
    Macha
    Malaysia is not more cringe. Only more racist. They wish they can be as competitive as the Korean and emulate them with how the Bandar people looking down at the Kampong people.
    Macha
    Macha
    All my knowledge of other SEA cuntry is taken from Reddit. Take it with a grain of salt.
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #54

    The college kids who invented modern emo are now the divorced dads giving you sterile divorced dad indie rock.

    This track is not that though, IMO. The main riff is as addicting as Never Meant's. Singer Mike Kinsella's aging vocals give just the right amount of lostness to elevate this song into one of the best from this band of sad dads.
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    Also the 3:4 polyrhythm between the guitars and drums in the extended outro just further drives home that feeling of bittersweetness, of inner conflict, as Mike sings about lacking direction. It's nice and subtle, but once you hear it, you really feel it.
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    Uncanny valley aside, notice that you never see people make ugly humanoid robots.

    What this suggests is that, if given the choice, people would prefer if ugly people didn't exist.

    They'd create a world without ugly people if they could.

    Stay woke, my uggos.
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    JayMark
    JayMark
    Also, ugly people are usually depicted as petty villians in fiction.
    If they are lucky, they can upgrade to a side character that needs to be pitied.
    In some worlds, nobody is depicted outside of a certain aesthetic.
    Some try to break this mold, but it is an uphill battle against human psychology.
    Alski
    Alski
    Yet another reason why i find DEI in video games comical.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    I personally don't mind average-looking or even conventionally unattractive people in my media. In fact, I'm tired of seeing pretty people on a screen.

    Show me the uggos and the fatties.

    I'm not playing games or watching TV with the expectation that pink hearts must be beating out of my eyes from the attractiveness of the people featured.
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    Daily music recommendation #53

    Radiohead are my favorite band, weird politics aside. And as much as In Rainbows is my favorite album of theirs, I do wish we got this version of Videotape as the closer instead.

    Whereas the album version was skeletal, mournful, and resigned, this version of Videotape almost sounds celebratory or blissful. It's a dignified acceptance of one's death.
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #52

    The godmother of punk.

    Opening with one of the most badass lines in all of rock, you're thrown right into the cigarette smog of Patti Smith's machismo-filled cover of Gloria. First she hooks you with undeniable swagger, and then the track builds in intensity until she ah-ah makes you hers. I guarantee the chorus will be stuck in your head all day.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    At this point, it's really starting to show that I don't know that much about music outside of punk and other genres under the alt rock umbrella.
    ShrimpShady


    I found this on Instagram. Putting Chivalry of a Failed Knight in the same chart as Monster is wild. Insane sneak :blob_unsure:
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #51

    It's day 51, so I had to do it.

    Stay woke.
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    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    I'm also way more into alien footage than paranormal footage. So aliens all the way.
    Prince_Azmiran_Myrian
    Prince_Azmiran_Myrian
    Is it that different? Often sightings report activity doesn't follow our natural laws, breaking physics.
    Then I have also heard the vast majority of people experiencing abductions also mess around with occult stuff, hmm.
    Several different stories claim abduction stopped after crying out Jesus Christ's name. A curious reason for aliens to stop.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    I forgot to mention that I also think aliens are bullshit, just that I find the mere existence of them easier to believe than the supernatural. So I do think that most cases of alien sightings and abductions are either hoaxes, mistaken identity, suggestion, or some kind of hallucination or psychological break.
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