ShrimpShady

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    Daily music recommendation #45

    Today's recommendation comes in the form of a notepad screenshot because struggling with the character limit would've given me conniptions.
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #44

    Norwegian Wood is a 1987 novel by the Japanese author Haruki Murakami, which tells the story of Toru as he struggles to decide whether he wants to bang his dead best friend's virgin girlfriend or the comparatively more free-spirited Midori. It is ultimately a tale about the people who cling to life and those who cling to death.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    Shit, wrong Norwegian Wood.

    The Beatles song is a pleasant little tune in the beginning of the band's weird Indian phase, telling the fictional (but I wouldn't put it past him) story of John Lennon burning a woman's room down because she wouldn't sleep with him.

    I don't fuck with Lennon that much, but this song is definitely a highlight of his songwriting.
    ShrimpShady
    Rule #1 - AnonUnlimited is an enemy of the working class.
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    Alski
    Alski
    But he wants to give 10% to charity (in the form of tips).
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    Tips are a way for employers to get away with not paying their workers a livable wage.

    Stay woke
    JayMark
    JayMark
    It started nice.

    Employers: People are donating to you of their own free will? We're not paying you now. Also, pay taxes on it. Essentially confiscation of charity towards workers.

    People get onto this and stop tippping.

    Employers: Let's make tipping mandatory and add it to our bills as a secret charge, keep half the money for ourselves, and still underpay them.

    So something nice twists into something awful.
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #43

    I generally find shoegaze fatiguing, but MBV hits different. They did it first (not really) and best kinda.

    When You Sleep perfectly captures the feeling of staring at the supernova hanging from the ceiling of some basement while everything else around you twists from the liquid bullshit you've consumed just to feel something other than that.
    ShrimpShady
    The demon of the deep blue is finally slain, and hopefully with it, the legions of grotesque crawling menaces.

    It's a day to rejoice.
    ShrimpShady
    Learning about WW2 is super interesting once you get past the uncomfortable questions about human morality.

    I just learned about the Navajo Code Talkers. Super cool.

    Also learned about what they did to Alan Turing after the war. Super not cool.
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    And I also learned that more people died in Indonesia (or the Dutch East Indies) during WW2 than in Japan, Britain, France, Italy, or the United States.

    We weren't even fighting and still had a top 5 death count. The vast majority of the casualties were civilian.

    Yet another masterpiece of imperial Japan's foreign policy.
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #42

    This song made me rethink the Fr*nch language. I learned that there's great beauty in its vowels. I have no idea what any of the lyrics mean, but they paint a picture of waking up dewy-eyed sure of only one thing: that you have to keep on moving.

    Also, please watch 3-gatsu no Lion. It's the greatest slice of life anime of all time.
    ShrimpShady
    Another romance manga about a gyaru who gets involved with a milquetoast otaku water flea for absolutely no reason, yet is somehow already on a collision course with his cock from chapter 1?

    Gee, how'd you come up with that one? What, she's in love with him for being a bare minimum kind and decent human being? No waaaay
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    RepresentingWrath
    RepresentingWrath
    Speaking of standards, I honestly thought we moved on from this. Sure, manga and novels where girls fall for MC simply because he is kind and picked up their eraser or something keep popping up here and there. I honestly thought we, readers, grew up from this and can see that it's not good. Yet the fact Alya is so popular not only proves me wrong, but also causes a mild depression.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    It's a sad state of affairs. There are still some genuinely great romance animanga out there, even ones aimed at teenage boys, but I'm guessing that a lot of audiences see romance stories not as compelling character-driven experiences, but as quick and easy self-insert fantasies. So the less effort you put into your protagonist and the more you put into manufacturing a marketable and trendy love interest, the better.
    JayMark
    JayMark
    Publishers be like: Make the female lead thirstier for MC and grow them booba. CHACHING! ? ?
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #41

    I carelessly forgot there was a better track to accompany Mumei's graduation.

    Owl's Friend is a pretty little track that makes you believe everything will be okay. It's the musical equivalent of a Chicken Soup For The Soul story. The technical ability on display is also awe-inspiring.

    Listen if you're one of those percussive fingerstyle enjoyers.
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #40

    Time for a melancholic folksy song featuring a woman with an incredibly sweet and gentle voice. For no reason at all

    ?
    ShrimpShady
    So my older brother and I share the same first name (don't ask). He's an internet musician, while I just play guitar as a hobby and sometimes upload scuffed song covers to my personal IG.

    Just now, I think one of his listeners, who knows his identity but I guess doesn't know enough about him, somehow found one of my covers. This person then proceeded to comment on my cover thinking I'm my brother :blob_unsure:
    ShrimpShady
    Every once in a while, I need to remind myself that the absolute pinnacle of human storytelling has already been reached with Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
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