I think this genre bugged me more than any other bad genre because I really liked the previous era of indie rock - early Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Wolf Parade, Neutral Milk Hotel, Animal Collective, The Unicorns, Stars, Final Fantasy/Owen Pallett, The Microphones, ahhh, I'm getting powerful nostalgia just listing them out. Not that all these bands sounded similar to each other, but there was this weirdo/folko/p4k-zone that they all occupied that I found really moving and relatable, I think cause most of the people making it were depressed and anxious or otherwise mentally ill like me.

When all this stomp/clap "indie" bullshit started it felt like they took music I love, stripped everything interesting from it, and gave it to the rich kids with no problems that were often CAUSING me mental illness. It felt like some cruel ironic punishment from Greek mythos.

Same here. One of my favourite parts of this site was that it wasn't terminally self-obsessed. Now it feels like more than half the posts are just going on and on about who we've federated with, drama with other communities, our superiority over all their libbish ways, etc etc. On the other hand... I guess a few cool people found us because of that? But surely other people left because of all this nonsense. It's definitely the most I've ever considered leaving the site.

I think for me the most infuriating thing about these delivery robots is how much space they take up and how much they fuck up the normal flow of foot traffic. It takes up more space and is more disruptive than most people walking, but it isn't a person walking, it's a private company's product delivering one person's order and also serve as a rolling advertisement for the delivery service and restaurant. Granted, if it was apparent how many cars on the road were just Uber Eats drivers, I'd probably find that infuriating too, but at least they aren't more disruptive than a typical car. Can you imagine if these things took off? If there were dozens of these things rolling down every sidewalk? It'd be a pedestrian hell, especially for those with mobility issues.

I was just reading about how a lot of job listings are just silly little prank fake listings to gaslight other workers, build up a reserve of potential new workers in case of emergency, build a facade of growth for investors, or really for any reason besides actually fucking hiring people, which is just wonderful! So now you have to spend 30 min per application filling out all their bullshit to have a 0% chance of ever getting any sort of reply because they never intended to reply to anyone in the first place.

The whole thing is so sickeningly dehumanizing.

After years of loneliness I found myself dating a lovely man last April. We started spending a lot of time with a mutual friend of ours, a woman who had been sorta flirty with me in the past. Around July, after a lot of really comfy and increasingly intimate times, things evolved into a throuple-type situation. None of us had ever done anything like this before, so there was a bit of a learning curve in many ways, but far far outweighed by many many wonderful times. I feel so blessed that things worked out so well :)

I'm very very grateful that I got into what, ptp, btn, bibliotik, etc. when I was like 13 and it was way easier to get in and build ratio. I don't even know how I'd begin if I had to start now. I try to do my part by pirating anything and everything that my friends want for them.

Good luck to you all. I do feel like they're being unnecessarily protective for the sake of feeling elitist, but these sites are second to none in terms of being libraries of the media they specialize in. The sheer amount of content and wonderful content discovery-enabling organization has opened my eyes to so many great works of art. In the end, whatever measures they have to take to protect themselves I think are worth it.

When I think of how limited my artistic tastes would be if I restricted myself to what was legally available + I could afford, I feel deep deep sadness for those versions of me that didn't snag a what.cd invite when I was 13.

Oh I thought you were going in a different meta level to this... I thought you were complaining that Trek went from a franchise where they would swap out the entire cast because the strength of the show was in its ideas, to a zombie franchise where they just endlessly dredge up the same characters and actors over and over and over again, as if it was those specific Great Men that made the earlier stuff so good.

It feels silly to complain about this since it's been like this since the JJ Abrams 2009 film and debatably even earlier, and they do still make some series with new crews, but it really bugs me. Picard was an excellent character but I'm not excited to just see Picard again, or any number of those actors/characters. What I want is more episodes written like TNG was written, and the very idea of regurgitating Picard back up when his story already ended so nicely is something the TNG writers wouldn't do.

If you believe that this post is by Grimes about Elon Musk, as I have chosen to, then there's a lot of stuff in here that is banworthy.

It's genuinely baffling to me that these people who are outright obsessed with simulation theory just straight-up have no idea what it's suggesting or how it would work.

If we're being simulated, it's a simulation that's running on a subatomic granularity with a strict material causality all the way up to the macro world. To dispute this fact is to go against all of modern scientific consensus, the very idea of science itself.

There is no "game level" that is running "on top of this" where some people are magically "more conscious" than "NPCs". It is not just a nonsensical statement, it has so little to do with simulation theory that you might as well be saying "the theory of universal gravitation proves love is real".

Rationalists love nothing more than not understanding something and running with it to the most offensive dehumanizing bootlicking ends.

Hating on Mitsumi when she's Just Like Me For Real :'(

All the people in the comments coming up with situations where some poor overworked soul with no time to game (one comment said "someone who only has 1-2 hours a day to play games", lmao) and needs this or else they'll never see the upgraded weapons. Everyone ought to experience the whole of the game. A very egalitarian argument, yes yes.

Okay but... What about the overworked people who ALSO don't have a bunch of cash to drop unlocking things in the game they already paid 60 bucks for? Don't they also deserve to experience the whole of the game? Why is Capcom charging money for this at all if it's just a wholesome consumer-first action?

Back in my day, if we wanted to cheat, we inputted something like X R2 Triangle Square X X while on the main menu and got unlimited weapon upgrade codes. People are acting like giving these things out is taking them from some reserve Capcom has.

God. I go back on twitter for ONE thread on something as irreverent as video games and already I feel pissed off at how stupid people can be.

SPEARS

As someone who works for a startup that had all their money in SVB and might get totally screwed by this, all I can say is: lol, lmao.

I honestly think our company makes a useful product and is better than 99% of other startups in its intent, but it's still B2B SAAS stuff that no one really needs. If we go down in a massive day of reckoning that finally wipes out this ridiculous shell game that's VC-fueled perpetually-red startups throwing money at each other, I'll lose my cushy job with a smile :)

If you didn't know, your image actually comes from a series of animations - they look fantastic, I wish there was a pokemon game that looked like this https://twitter.com/pokeyugami/status/1527576053014618112

I'll be the one to step up and admit I have 50+ Nendoroids, which are maybe the closest anime/Japanese equivalent of Funko Pops (tons of lisences, relatively cheap, fairly consistent size and style).

I don't collect them currently, and they're in storage and not on display right now, but I don't totally regret dropping the money on them either.

The logic is always "well, I like this show, so I'll buy the nendo of the main character. Ah, but since I like this new show even better, I GOTTA get the nendo for it, maybe ALL the nendos for it, since I already have them for shows I like less", and so on and on every season forever (until I quit).

They're very cute and well made, and I liked how all the pieces were cross-compatible, so I could swap around outfits and accessories and such. They really differ from Funko Pops in that regard.

A big part of the appeal was also hunting for old ones in used figure stores in Japan, where you can get big bargains. That was a major quest each time I visited Japan.

Anyways I dunno if I really have anything profound to say about the psychology here, but I recognize that I was really just a couple steps laterally away from being someone with such a Funko wall, so I figured I'd volunteer the perspective.

It's not a super tight allegory, but the invaders are basically refugees and are treated similarly (perceived as a huge threat when they're just desperate for safety)

Big big seconding Delicious in Dungeon!! One of my all time favourites. There's an anime by trigger coming soon and the manga's nearing the finale, so there's never been a better time to catch up!

If you want something that has a lot of the charm and intrigue of Punpun, a really powerful political statement told through sci-fi allegory, and isn't quite as brutally heavy, check out Asano-sensei's latest series Dead Dead Demon's Dedededestruction.

You're not wrong, but it's much more directly a remake of the save point music from Kirby Superstar's Great Cave Offensive. It shows up in a few Kirby games in similar spots (breaks between battles where you can heal).