ShrimpShady

ShrimpShady

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    Whenever I need a quick dose of disgust and despair, I just need to look up some American news. Y'all really can't be topped :blob_okay:

    Local news does it too, but often the comments people make are worse than the news itself. I've seen shit :blob_blank:
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    Rezcore
    Rezcore
    Now you talking about my state. And it isn't that bad here, outside the ATL shit hole. But, ATL's influence ruins us
    Prince_Azmiran_Myrian
    Prince_Azmiran_Myrian
    Here's the thing, being declared brain-dead isn't actually dead, some people recover from such a state.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    I'm no doctor, but brain death is irreversible. The people who have come back from "brain death" were likely misdiagnosed as such.

    The baby also has a real chance of being born with severe defects, and might not even survive. Even beside that, the mere idea of the law forcing a dead woman's body to be kept alive to incubate a fetus is terrifying.

    That's what I'm getting at.
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #59

    Woke up with a headache today, so this is the recommendation.
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    Now, for a little music theory. This song experiments with 64th notes, giving it that uneasy wonkiness in the rhythm.

    What's a 64th note?

    Count 4 beats at a reasonable speed. Each beat is called a quarter note. Now divide each beat into 16 parts. Those are 64th notes.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    Ofc this only works at low tempos, like in this song. It plays around with 64th notes to give that feeling that it's very very very slightly off rhythm.

    Try listening to a standard drum beat. Then try saying the first 16 letters of the alphabet within each beat. It's impossible.
    Daydreamers
    Daydreamers
    It gave me a headache, thank you!
    ShrimpShady
    I replied "Thus Spake Pekothustra" to a tweet and it instantly locked my account??? :blob_unsure:
    ShrimpShady
    I wish there was a device that could painlessly and harmlessly knock me out whenever I need to sleep but can't.
    ShrimpShady
    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:
    ShrimpShady
    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
    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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    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    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.
    ShrimpShady
    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.
    ShrimpShady
    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.
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