ShrimpShady

ShrimpShady

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    I will always believe modern settings are better than medieval settings because in a medieval setting, you can't have a scene where the cold-blooded antagonist unceremoniously shoots some guy in the head with a gun as a show of wickedness. Even though that's the best part of any self-respecting story.
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    Daily music recommendation #65

    Yoshimasa Terui often foregoes the twinkly alt guitar work of his mathy J-rock contemporaries. Kyoumen no Nami is the perfect example of that, focusing much more on complex interlocking keys and strings. Undercutting that rhythmic tension is YURiKA's serene vocals. All this makes for one of the most striking pieces in the genre.
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    The section after 1:40 especially is a monstrous groove that hurts just right. Terui's a master of those wonky rhythms.
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    I'm translating a scientific document right now with ChatGPT open to compare translations afterwards, and my writing is almost identical to the AI's.

    I produce AI slop naturally... :blob_pat_sad:
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #64

    This song is a through-composed masterpiece. It perfectly encapsulate what I feel defined the Y2K era of the band: alienation, psychosis, misanthropy, paranoia, Androids.

    I can't even really talk about it because it speaks for itself.

    It really is Bohemian Rhapsody for people who can't order a coffee by themselves.
    RepresentingWrath
    Want to help me make a new community game?
    ShrimpShady
    Trying to force a story idea out of my stupid wasteland brain right now :blob_pat_sad: :blob_no:
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    I've been obsessed with Horse Race Tests music edits lately despite never watching the actual "series". I have no idea why.
    ShrimpShady
    The most common form of English you will see used by Indonesians on the internet, especially on Instagram, is AAVE.

    It's bizarre. I suspect it's mostly a result of Indonesian gen Z being really into brainrot content and thus adopting a lot of the black slang associated with it. And also they think naked black men are just the pinnacle of comedy.

    Someone needs to study this phenomenon.
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    Macha
    Naked black men? Like in meme jomok?
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    ShrimpShady
    Yes, I am referring to meme jomok :blob_unamused:
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    This is some revisionist bullshit. Both Indonesian men and women despised yuri.

    Indonesian fujoshis didn't suffer persecution and great sacrifice in the 2000s just for the country to be labeled part of "yuri Asia". Sure, yuri has seen a rise in modern times because of vtubing, but let's not forget our historical roots here. This country was built on yaoi.
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    ?OctoPussE! ? Ultrasquid!
    Let's go, it's time to save Asia!
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    Daily music recommendation #63

    At this point, I'm grasping for songs to post. I've never listened to any other Peter Gabriel or Genesis song, but I like this one. Incredible nostalgia vibes, but maybe that has nothing to do with the song itself and more to do with the main guitar riff basically being the Rugrats theme in 7/4.
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    Found a cafe with a 39 MB menu. What the fuck is in there?
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    Daily music recommendation #62

    Even if I think they're kinda stuffy and sterile, I keep coming back to Steely Dan. They're not emotionally resonant enough to be a favorite, but they definitely know how to make a nice tune that sticks.

    But the most interesting thing about the Dan is the contrast between their sophisticated sound and their lyrics about the absolute dregs of society.
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    R.I.P Steve Albini

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    And R.I.P Walter Becker. It felt disrespectful to talk about Steely Dan without mentioning him.

    He played a mean guitar even among the 90 or so guitarists they'd hire for a single song, most of whom probably got the boot.
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    Indigenous cultures are super fascinating to learn about :blob_hmm:

    Learning about Aboriginal creation myths and songlines right now. Riveting stuff.

    Which in turn makes me think about how much culture and history has been lost to or destroyed by centuries of colonization :blob_pat_sad:
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    The thing that destroys just as much indigenous cultures and traditions as colonizations are modern people. By actively rewriting history. The prime example that happened recently to a not so small, and not so tribey country is Japan, and appropriation of Yasuke by French videogame company. The same thing happens everywhere all the time to every tribe, country, and so on.
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    I've always thought the Yasuke stuff was overblown and forced, but I also don't follow games discourse that deeply.

    You brought up an interesting point though about the erasure of culture that still happens in the modern day and under different labels... though my examples would extend beyond games and into things that would 100% get me in trouble for talking about here

    So I'll leave it here :blob_whistle:
    RepresentingWrath
    RepresentingWrath
    Yasuke stuff wasn't overblown considering the hypocrisy around it, and the fact it wasn't just a single issue.
    ShrimpShady
    Outside I'm an alternative rock guy who will claim that Steely Dan is sterile jazz-flavored yacht rock for shitty dads,

    But in truth, I bust it down sexual style whenever I hear Deacon Blues.
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