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If you are near and have access to a full computer tower or laptop, I don't know why you would use a tablet or phone unless away from said computer. They're shite for looking at websites and video compared to a full computer. Also, download everything you can. More consistent experience. Ethernet whenever possible and wired controllers, mice, and keyboards whenever possible for a more consistent experience.
illmatic is still the greatest rap album of all time
I ain't no joke, best rap song ever.
New luxury cars suck. Give me a 1997 Grand Marquis for the best, smoothest ride you can have under $70,000
I like going to the movies, the on demand future is sorta trash.
Lebron aint better than Kobe
I hate nuanced bad guys that you can sympathize with. I want very clear lines of good and evil.
I still read the paper.
I ain't no joke, best rap song ever.
New luxury cars suck. Give me a 1997 Grand Marquis for the best, smoothest ride you can have under $70,000
I like going to the movies, the on demand future is sorta trash.
Lebron aint better than Kobe
I hate nuanced bad guys that you can sympathize with. I want very clear lines of good and evil.
I still read the paper.
Completely agree here.
I believe the same applies to 80's-90's movies. Other than Superhero movies, classics from the 80's-90's are better than what we have today. (ET, Back to the Future, Goonies, National Lampoons, etc). Part of this is why Strange Things resonated so well.
I agree with this and will take it one step further (old man take) and say that society would be better off if we had less sex outside of marriage/serious relationships. It affects our society in so many ways that do long term damage (STD's, single parent households, childhood development issues, divorce, etc). Granted we should also be pushing for safe sex education and ensuring contraceptive availability.
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Luxury cars have really changed over the past 20-30 years. They used to be sedans with comfortable interiors, good materials, and smooth ride, where as now luxury usually means full of tech, and also probably an SUV
This.
I was happy to see split-screen play make a small resurgence the past couple of years after it had been practically wiped off the map. But it's still disappointing that gaming consoles have become a more solo experience in terms of the living room experience. My son doesn't invite his friends over to play Overwatch or Call of Duty, they just stay on their own couch miles away. They're happy, but me having experienced both online and couch-coop, I know they're missing out.
The best of both worlds is "athletic"."Relaxed Fits" are definitely still a thing. Nobody is wearing jnco stuff anymore, but I don't like the look of anything "looser" than a regular fit. 🤷🏻♂️
My man. So much on point.
I'm tired of all these "reboots" that have to do a "dark" origin story. I won't be surprised if Inspector Gadget gets a dark retelling about the gruesome experiments that was done to him and the vengeance he now seeks.
I lament the death of mainstream R&B. Occasionally Pharrell will produce a cool neo-disco track but it's a wasteland for those into soul music at the mainstream level. Now I know how rock and alternative rock fans feel. It's now just mumble hiphop and the occasional throwback track from Drake and the Weeknd.
I never understand people who have a desktop computer right next to them choose to write an email or a report/essay on their phone or tablet.
The amount of information people have had their fingertips is insane yet the upcoming generation seems the least educated to anything that's not "trending". If I wanted to learn about different types of clouds and weather events, I had to wait until Saturday when my mom could take me to the public library and I had to hope there would be a current book (not from the 1950s pre-satilite era) available. Nowadays you can get info on clouds within a quarter second on Google. Tons of documentaries on Netflix. Watch time-lapse footage of real weather events on YouTube. And watch Live Streams from weather stations all over the planet. And yet most people today will never dig deeper than a 1 or 2 sentence tweet or "inspiring" Instagram photo.
Generation Xers and older Millennials have their problems but I think we do have a better appreciation for acquiring information because it wasn't always easy to get.
- Full albums are still important
- I don't think younger dems prioritize economics enough, and that class based framing of issues is still useful
- Social media is mostly bad but Instagram is particularly socially damaging
- I am happy my grandparents who lived through the depression and WW2 can't see our response to covid.
Fuck video essays, a lot of them feel like failed media studies assignments.
I think cell phones are a nuisance. They make you feel like you have to always be available. That and how everyone has their nose in a phone wherever you go
Ketchup and onions on a hotdog is one my favourite things to eat.
I use whatsapp since my sister and I live in different countries and just texting her would be expensive. It's just for free calls and texts over data or wifi.
That only works if it's about some sort of esports competition. Most of twitch is someone sitting alone in their room with neon lights behind em
I mean, you watch some one play something. like you watch people play sports too.
you could also go out and play football instead of watching a game.
This is supposed to be a safe space from monsters like you!
I️ guess. It still seems like watching someone watch a movie since it falls under media consumption
you don't only see the person playing you see the game too.
for me it is a mixture of watching them actually play. and how they play it.
then there personality and the interaction.
watching people play online games when you don't have access to them yourself at the moment can be lots of fun.
Web 2.0 was a mistake. Go back to presumed anonymity and non-algorithmic content delivery, please.
I suddenly remembered another one:
I really, really do not 'get' sneaker culture. I think a lot of the really overpriced ones look garish AF and I don't know why they're so... valued? Sought after? Desired?
Still, if that's your thing and you love them, good for you. I'm not gonna bash your interests, I'm just saying it's something I don't get and I don't think I'll ever get.
I really, really do not 'get' sneaker culture. I think a lot of the really overpriced ones look garish AF and I don't know why they're so... valued? Sought after? Desired?
Still, if that's your thing and you love them, good for you. I'm not gonna bash your interests, I'm just saying it's something I don't get and I don't think I'll ever get.
The Beatles were boring as fuck.
Led Zeppelin was mediocre and Robert Plant's wailing is annoying.
Also the quality of mainstream music took a nosedive from the mid-2000s or so and onwards. Music was at its best from the 70s to the 90s.
Led Zeppelin was mediocre and Robert Plant's wailing is annoying.
Also the quality of mainstream music took a nosedive from the mid-2000s or so and onwards. Music was at its best from the 70s to the 90s.
I like the solo album he did with Alison Krauss. There he sings normally, and not like a banshee shitting broken bottles.
This is a good one. I always notice when websites I go on are referred to as apps instead.
Wtf kind of antique shopping mall doesn't either have a big open entrance or an automatic door?
Phil Collins is and always was terrible. I don't get this revisionist history where people act like Phil Collins is cool. People who listened to Phil Collins at the time were the same type of people that listened to Kenny G and Michael Bolton.
Peter Gabriel is a legend.
Imagine posting this on the internet and not being ashamed.
Current day veganism/vegetarianism is too wrapped in a history of moralising appeals to ever gain mainstream acceptance. Arguments about the health effects of excess meat consumption, doing your duty by the environment, calling animal slaughter murder and likening domestication to slavery may eventually put you on the right side of history, but they alienate people by making them feel guilt over the fundamental social and cultural experience they participate in when they eat. It raises the stakes too much too soon and makes people reject the message right away.
Ever hang out with charity working teetotallers who pray before their meals, don't watch TV and only use social media to raise money for orphans? Even if they are only ever kind, welcoming and never say a word about your selfish, godless ways, you still feel like you're being silently judged for simply existing. It doesn't matter that they don't demand anything from you or that you don't buy into their beliefs, the simple fact that you don't live up to their value system is always going to be keenly felt.
A better way to achieve the same goals is to market tasty, protein-rich, easy-to-prepare meals that also happen to be plant-based. And for the love of God, don't call them vegan, vegetarian or plant-based or try to use these as selling points. The key is to normalise these meals and introduce them into mainstream diets.
This will reduce the aggregate demand for meat by providing viable alternatives. It won't ever lead to a zero meat future, but it will help at the margins. There was a time when the standard American and British diets didn't include cilantro, rice or spices or any kind, so you know it's possible.
Of course, a lot of this will eventually be rendered moot when they work out how to successfully 3D print a steak from vat-grown wagyu and are able to do it en masse
Ever hang out with charity working teetotallers who pray before their meals, don't watch TV and only use social media to raise money for orphans? Even if they are only ever kind, welcoming and never say a word about your selfish, godless ways, you still feel like you're being silently judged for simply existing. It doesn't matter that they don't demand anything from you or that you don't buy into their beliefs, the simple fact that you don't live up to their value system is always going to be keenly felt.
A better way to achieve the same goals is to market tasty, protein-rich, easy-to-prepare meals that also happen to be plant-based. And for the love of God, don't call them vegan, vegetarian or plant-based or try to use these as selling points. The key is to normalise these meals and introduce them into mainstream diets.
This will reduce the aggregate demand for meat by providing viable alternatives. It won't ever lead to a zero meat future, but it will help at the margins. There was a time when the standard American and British diets didn't include cilantro, rice or spices or any kind, so you know it's possible.
Of course, a lot of this will eventually be rendered moot when they work out how to successfully 3D print a steak from vat-grown wagyu and are able to do it en masse
I watched that Jeff Goldblum episode on sneaker culture and I wanted to scrub my brain afterwards. It's just so....arbitrary and vapid.
You realize you can just....stop feeling this way, right? Like work on yourself a little sheesh. This isn't just out of touch, it's fucking cruel
I'm not sure about antique but while the building has been renovated to hell and back again it's more than 110 years old at this point. They disabled the automatic door for some reason when the first Covid lockdown started, which never made sense to me since not having to touch the handle would surely have been preferable when a pandemic is going on.
I found a picture:
I mean I could also use the other entrance but I usually go there on my lunch break and this is the fastest way into the mall, unless I hold the door open so a dozen or so people can stream into the building.
I mean just for scale, there are other entrances, none of which have doors that open automatically during the pandemic but I work in the scary red clock tower over there so this entrance is the only way for me to get decent food during my lunch break:
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Physical media is more important and precious to me than downloads. Convenience is all fun and games until the service runs out, or the content is rotated out, or DRM kicks in, or your hard drive gets fried. Fuck that. Give me my physical copies.
*looks back at wall of three bookcases worth of DVD and Blu-Ray movies*
This might just be the sunk-cost fallacy talking, but I 100% agree.
Tiktoks are occasionally hilarious and creative, but I don't understand how people can scroll these for more than a few minutes at a time. Instagram I get the appeal of, but I'm lost when it comes to putting together anything that doesn't feel too cringe to post.
Zoomer boys - if you're horny, just crank one out when you get home. Please. Don't spend the entire train ride scrolling Insta on your alt.
Also, I don't like Radiohead.
Zoomer boys - if you're horny, just crank one out when you get home. Please. Don't spend the entire train ride scrolling Insta on your alt.
Also, I don't like Radiohead.
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