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Punk was big in the late 70s - mid 80s, though? I thought the big boom was early 80s. It was buried under things like nu-metal and emo in the late 90s (I'm fuzzy on this because of reasons).
correct, should've clarified, I was big into what was at the time, old-school punk. As I was not alive in the late 70s.
I welcomed the punk-rock wave of the 90s with open arms.
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Yes they are. I count it as pop punk.
Totally punk, you know what isn't? being an elitist about a music genres, specially punk
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All of their merch sold out incredibly quickly as a show of support after they got dropped by their talent agency. Looking at their Shopify now they have absolutely no listing for any clothes so I doubt that collection is coming back.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Ah. I didn't know. Good to hear that people are supporting, sucks that you can get one though. I was gonna get a shirt and a couple vinyls a while back, but the shipping was more than I wanted to pay sadly.
Edit: can't, not can in the second sentence.
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I'll be honest here; anime has always been a large sea of mediocrity, with the few sprinklings of stuff that is occasionally actually good, and some incredibly rare few things that are consistently good.
I think it’s a right place / right time sort of thing. I have never gone back and rewatched an old favorite without regretting it. Things that meant a lot to me at the time just hit different from a different head space, and revisiting that old space just makes the flaws more noticeable.
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lore
Let me interject with my unasked opinion:
Aa far as I'm concerned the trouble started when we stopped calling it fluff and started calling it lore (and treating it with such reverance) instead.wrote last edited by [email protected]And Tolkien's Legendarium is just a bunch of hastily-written bedtime stories for Chris, right?
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I think it’s a right place / right time sort of thing. I have never gone back and rewatched an old favorite without regretting it. Things that meant a lot to me at the time just hit different from a different head space, and revisiting that old space just makes the flaws more noticeable.
yeah actually that closely matches my observations
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This is why I either went with Chaos (during my adolescence, mostly outgrew them) or Aeldari. I mean, they aren't that much better from a lore perspective, but at least they give everyone a chance to suffer equally...
What I also appreciate about Chaos is that their writers know they're evil. I swear the people writing loyalist books forget that the Imperium is basically as bad as the rest in its own way.
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Alt-codes are for nerds
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I really think more text formatting should do as mobile devices do and just auto convert two hyphens into an em dash. Make it simple, i beg.
Two hyphens are an en-dash. Try 3 for em. Filthy casuals!
(Obvious /s but yea don’t mean to insult.)
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I hate that I'm writing this because I'm gonna sound like the *"to be fair * copy pasta but, the fact that it's so lame and stupid is kind of the whole point of the bit.
He gives his big "I'm pickle Riiiiick!" presentation like it's supposed to be some big huge awesome thing, and it's presented like a punchline that you're supposed to laugh at and find funny... Then it's a hard cut to Morty's disappointed, slightly concerned face for a solid 10 seconds. Morty is you, the viewer, painfully unimpressed by what is presented as, well, "the funniest shit ever".
Remember in an earlier episode when Rick makes a reference to the non-existent Redgren Grumblholdt, and the kids laugh because they think it's supposed to be funny and just want to fit in? Those are the people that the "funniest shit ever" meme is about. People that are fed an intentionally bad joke, don't understand the irony behind the bad joke, but sees that everyone else is laughing at the bad joke, so they pretend the joke is funny. Two people laughing at the same thing for entirely different reasons.
The whole Pickle Rick plotline is just background events anyways. The meat and potatoes of the episode is with Dr Wong.
Nail on the head
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Roblox. I played it as a kid around 2007 when it was just a small Lego-like building game with your friends. It's been really weird seeing it become some predatory, monetized app game that kids play on their iPad now.
For reference, I'm almost 30 and haven't played it since I was like 14. My friend's kid was playing Roblox on his tablet and asked if I "heard of this new app game called Roblox" and it hurt my soul.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I remember when my nephew first asked if I knew about Roblox. I was so excited to build some stuff with him, until he showed me this crappy superhero fighting simulator. I can't complain too much, since it's basically the new-age version of crappy flash games, but it was still a disappointment.
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Computer games. Anything that can be monetized will turn into shit.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Ah yes, computer games, I almost forgot it ever existed!
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Minecraft. Started playing in 2011 and have played off and on every year since then. It's now really popular again, but I distinctly remember around 2017-18 it became suddenly uncool to play. When I would be in a VC with friends while playing it, they would ride my ass for it. The ~10 year nostalgia/hype cycle is coming full circle lol
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What I also appreciate about Chaos is that their writers know they're evil. I swear the people writing loyalist books forget that the Imperium is basically as bad as the rest in its own way.
Very much, yes! Chaos is the clearest, most stable faction in the entire lore in terms of characterisation and intent!
Honestly, I think the ambiguity behind the Imperium's portrayal stems from a sort of pandering to the popularity of the faction itself, maybe even to blunt the sharpness a bit, make it more accessible to new inductees. Easier to sell a "slightly Theo-Fascistic" galactic empire than "we need to sacrifice literally thousands of people marked as Other to a corpse and, yes, corpse starch is exactly what it says on the tin. Oh, and we'll need to lobotomise about 10000 of you because our biotoxin planet-wiping nukes need polishing."
It's a pity, because that's exactly what drew me into 40k to begin with, that feeling of "wow, this stuff's beyond horrific, my morbid curiosity is tickled seventy shades of pink!"
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lore
Let me interject with my unasked opinion:
Aa far as I'm concerned the trouble started when we stopped calling it fluff and started calling it lore (and treating it with such reverance) instead.Oh, no, with literally hundreds of books' worth of backstory beyond all of the "your headcanon is valid" bits, we are well and truly beyond simple fluff.
Fluff is those 3 paragraphs of contextual flavour text you get on the back of a board game box.
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Roguelikes. I'm not saying some of the modern roguelites aren't fantastic, there are many that are. But the genre boom has all but pushed traditional roguelikes (NetHack, ADoM, Angband, Brogue, etc) out of the conversation.
wrote last edited by [email protected]NetHack, ADoM, Angband, Brogue
One of those things is not like the others.
Also you're missing Elona (2007), game where your wizard can dual wield rifles while riding on an abomination with the head of your pet cat, body of a tyrannosaurs rex and 8 claymore wielding human arms taken from your gene slaves.
Or get rich while playing a piano and finish the game by using that sweet sweet moneh hiring adventures and sending them to die exploring the BBEG lair.All with cheerful pokemon-like gameboy graphics.
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I remember when my nephew first asked if I knew about Roblox. I was so excited to build some stuff with him, until he showed me this crappy superhero fighting simulator. I can't complain too much, since it's basically the new-age version of crappy flash games, but it was still a disappointment.
I mean, was Roblox more about building in the past? To me, or at least when I played it back as a 10 yr old or so, Roblox was always about playing the diverse amount of games. If you wanted to build stuff, that was for Minecraft. I was always playing party games, anime clones, survival games, etc.
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Minecraft. Started playing in 2011 and have played off and on every year since then. It's now really popular again, but I distinctly remember around 2017-18 it became suddenly uncool to play. When I would be in a VC with friends while playing it, they would ride my ass for it. The ~10 year nostalgia/hype cycle is coming full circle lol
wrote last edited by [email protected]Since 2011 for me too. I sometimes step away for half a year at a time, but I always end up back.
As much as the modern image of Minecraft might be obnoxiously shouty youtube shorts, that's not all there is to it.
You have the groups of talented builders recreating the Lord of the Rings world of Middle Earth at 1:1 scale, and then the crazy redstoners building fully working computers inside the game.
Minecraft has always been for everyone, and I hope it always will be.
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I mean, was Roblox more about building in the past? To me, or at least when I played it back as a 10 yr old or so, Roblox was always about playing the diverse amount of games. If you wanted to build stuff, that was for Minecraft. I was always playing party games, anime clones, survival games, etc.
I found it back in the mid-2000's while I was looking for a video game where I could build stuff, similar to legos, so when I played it all I did was make castles and robots and whatever. Maybe you could make minigames for people like they do now, but it didn't seem like it was the main focus, at least from what I had seen back then.
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anime
it's become waay too popular and drowned in a sea of mediocrity
Now they don't even bother with localization anymore.. which would be a good thing except now we have screens full of untranslated onscreeb Kanji that the story demands you be able to read and overly long and literal titles like "The Time I Gained The Power To Turn My Sister's Panties Into Angelic Guns By Meeting God On The Planet Golbacky While Drinking My Juice In The Hood That Tuesday Night." Which aren't even what people in Japan call the show since even in the tongue of Nippon that'd take too dang long.
Hell you're lucky if there's even a dub at all. Let alone one that hasn't been beaten to the ground by politics
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I'll be honest here; anime has always been a large sea of mediocrity, with the few sprinklings of stuff that is occasionally actually good, and some incredibly rare few things that are consistently good.
Right? Like the reason it was so popular in the early 2000s is because we got all the good stuff at once.
