Resident normie on this site.
This one and the new Ocean Grove (more nu-metal revival than metalcore) were both surprisingly short. But both are bangers front to back and I think I'd rather have that than some filler just to make it longer.
The era of 24 minute hardcore punk albums are back. It's good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl)
Really looking forward to two and a half terms of President JD Vance.
I loved a lot of early Blizzard stuff and I have no desire to play any of them ever again. Warcraft 2, Starcraft, Diablo were all huge parts of my life and I have done nothing with any of those series since those games, let alone go back to those.
I was also a so into Smash Brothers that I was in the competitive scene and won some locals, but I haven't really felt the call of that series since Melee. Loved my time with the game and the scene though.
My favorite game of the year was Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader. Owlcat finally got it right with the ship battles as the "mini-game" and their TTRPG bona-fides really shined with this. Great writing, cool characters, nice voice acting. The choices, while not necessarily true "choices matter" (TM), allow for some great RP moments. The battle system is a little chunky at times since so many characters need to recast buffs most turns and so that gets a little repetitive, especially when you get stuck doing some of the "random" encounters while bouncing around in your space ship.
But, small details aside, it's a long, text heavy, rewarding CRPG. With BioWare's corpse jacked by EA, Owlcat has really become my go to for CRPGs. I honestly like it more than BG3.
I mostly listen to hardcore, metalcore and a bit of electronic stuff
My favorite album this year was probably SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Coup de Grace. Just a masterpiece of that 00s hardcore sound.
Honorable mentions: Poppy - Negative Spaces (pop), Boundaries - Death is Little More (metalcore), Make Them Suffer - Make Them Suffer (deathcore), Nothing More - Carnal Nature (hard rock), Bring Me the Horizon - Post Human: Nex Gen (alt metal)
Beat my personal record of minute listened this year and logged 144,561 minutes.
I remember when we were all considered ableist for pointing this obvious fact out.
I like watching it because my kid likes watching it. If I didn't have a grade schooler in the house, I probably wouldn't have bothered. I think it largely succeeds at what it aims to do, which is be a kid's my first live action Star Wars media, but I don't have much praise for it beyond that.
Has Adams escorted any other murder suspects as mayor? Seems wild he's there.
David Graeber going to rise from the dead over this.
Never feeling more like the normie of the site than reading these answers. You guys re-read some incredibly dense and/or challenging books on the reg.
Mine is a simple pleasurable book by Kevin Murphy of MST3K fame (he voiced Tom Servo from season 2-10). A Year at the Movies. His goal was no matter what he was doing, where he was, what day it was, he had to see a film. Film, as in celluloid, once a day for a year. This involved doing things like sneaking a Thanksgiving turkey into a film theater and taking a small film projector with him hiking. The book is a diary of sorts of him taking on this self-imposed challenge and each chapter covers roughly a week. Repeats are allowed, so he ends up seeing some films that no one should have to see more than once many times, but given his "day job", this isn't much of a problem for him.
It's a very silly book, which is why it's so easy to pick up and just re-read. Murphy is a delightful life-long midwesterner and genuinely, deeply, loves movies.
Almost their whole discography is so good, but especially the last three album run they've gone on is just a real chef's kiss moment. They're getting to be like Every Time I Die was, where they just can't stop putting out bangers over multiple decades.
If you like Rage, I'd recommend Stray From the Path, which in a lot of ways is Rage Against the Machine fan fiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rlIav2RSD0&themeRefresh=1
I'm more into hardcore punk than the sort of straight punk you're into, but I'd also recommend Fucked Up if you don't mind a bit of a journey in hardcore. Not always revolutionary, but they do have some anti-capitalist songs. Here's their most popular song anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJwgcSjIjMQ
Guy that beat her is a 74 year old with cancer that he didn't disclose until after he won his election. Feels like a big "fuck you."
Always good to see Roth on the pod. They need to rescue him from Drew Magary constantly talking over him on The Distraction podcast and give him a permanent spot in Chapo.
As a fellow NT, this hits it on the head. This can be considered rude for exactly what you say: it can come off as one-upmanship or an inability to not have the conversation be about you. Obviously, the flow of conversation, relationship, tone and topic can change just what exactly this feels like, because there are situations where it can come off as empathetic or an attempt to showing common ground. Like most things in human interaction, there are not hard and fast rules. But if OP needs hard and fast rules because of having trouble parsing things like tone and flow, I would err on the side of not sharing personal story unless specifically asked.
Game was a mixed bag, but this is one of the best video game soundtracks out there. Run the Jewels, HEALTH, The Armed and Converge all have great tracks on it as well.
Haven't watched the Hobbit, but I guess I should have. My friends and I have been doing a bad movie night weekly for almost five years and the Soviet Lord of the Rings made that. There's major theater kid energy in that film, if you can call it that. Just really relying on the audience to go along with it as the production quality just dips and dips and dips. By the time Gandalf is "on" the eagle, you just have to laugh at what they're passing off as special effects.
I would not recommend LotR unless you just gotta see something bad. Like you, I agree that it really isn't in the so bad it's good category. But maybe we should watch The Hobbit some time, sounds more charming.