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There's like 5 stellar songs on Hamilton. That's a great accomplishment IMO but I cannot imagine sitting through the other two hours of the musical.
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Negativity hardens the soul.
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Dec 25, 2016 01:10
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Hugs are great 😢 merry Christmas
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I would just want to ask the loneliness to stop, for a while. A long while, if that is okay. I am sorry
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Dec 25, 2016 01:17
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If your response to finding out there's no Santa Claus is to never trust your parents again, you were the only kid in the class who believed Billy's uncle worked at Nintendo.
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Dec 25, 2016 01:30
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yeah I eat rear end posted:It's a good thing I dislike it for entirely different reasons then - namely, because it is bad. Your opinion is pretty nonsensical and not well thought out. That's why everyone is confused by what you are saying.
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Dec 25, 2016 02:18
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Das Boo posted:I dunno, I think comics can be a halfway point between film and literature. A good artist can elevate the text and unlike film, a good idea won't be so terribly hampered by budget. Illustrations and woodcuts used to be a fairly common feature in literature, so it's not like looking at an image immediately dumbs down the text. Rather, a decent artist will give you subtext through imagery that might otherwise require a lengthy description. And one of my pet peeves of literature is a writer who smothers a thought in words.  I've posted it before but comics could've been a neat blend of text and imagery for conveying enormous amounts of information elegantly in a small amount of space. For a film director to have the same control over a shot as an artist they'd have to go full kubrick, either through excessive retakes or a lot of post processing, whereas an artist by default has as much control as their talent and imagination can take advantage of. In one person you essentially have the jobs of casting, shot direction, acting, production design, set design, etc, etc, etc and when unified under one coherent creative vision the results can be amazing. The rest can be managed through succinct use of text. When I read into the history of comic books I got a little salty when I became aware of just how hamstrung the medium became when a moral panic led to a number of cities actually banning them outright, resulting in fairly drastic measures that turned it into kid's medium to remain in publish. Before that happened there was a broader readership and comics covered a lot more topics than juvenile fantasies. The moral panic itself being at least half on dubious grounds didn't help either. I accept most comics then and now aren't very good but there's no good reason they can't be good now that there's more freedom. The same's ultimately true of animated films, albeit what you gain in music, voice acting and control over pacing through a time axis, you somewhat lose in the extra bodies you need to make everything work - still, it's a fine way of expressing something neatly especially when everyone on-board has the same direction and it's a shame it's mostly a kid's thing too.
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Dec 25, 2016 03:12
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My unpopular pinion is that all you stupid mother Fulkers with unpopular opinions should have a merry Christmas and also weer shouldn't correct sotto correct or swipe mistakes when phone paint
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Dec 25, 2016 04:01
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Usually it is the opposite, but tequila is the only hard liquor that does not make me gag.
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Dec 25, 2016 04:52
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Music right now is the worst it's been since the late 90's. Pop and EDM dumber than they have ever been, and most of the indie stuff coming out is either gimmicky stuff where people are throwing poo poo at the wall to see what sticks, or so derivative it's hard to take seriously. Down the road I think this will be looked at as one of the most embarrassing and forgettable decades for music. There's obvious exceptions but the sheer amount of interesting artists seems to be at a record low.
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Dec 26, 2016 21:06
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I guarantee someone has said the same thing about pretty much any year or era of music throughout the history of music. Music is the same as it always has been - some good, mostly forgettable/mediocre/bad.
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Dec 26, 2016 21:12
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Music's never going to get better overall, and neither will most other media. Get used to it or don't. If there aren't experimental artists out there, maybe it's because no one wants to pay for anything any more.
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Dec 26, 2016 21:13
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I think some decades are worse than others. At least parts of decades. Either people run out of ideas or something truly terrible snowballs into popularity. there will always be a handful of interesting stuff happening in music. But 1996-2001 was a loving dark age with an incredibly disproportionate amount of bad music being made. Right now is the worst it has been since then.
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Dec 26, 2016 21:18
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1960-1964 (i.e. post-Elvis, pre-Beatles if you're being reductive) is unfairly maligned for music.
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Dec 26, 2016 21:24
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veni veni veni posted:Music right now is the worst it's been since the late 90's. Pop and EDM dumber than they have ever been, and most of the indie stuff coming out is either gimmicky stuff where people are throwing poo poo at the wall to see what sticks, or so derivative it's hard to take seriously. Down the road I think this will be looked at as one of the most embarrassing and forgettable decades for music. i agree kinda but with a lot of caveats as far as actual diversity goes music's right now in the best place it's ever been and it'll probably trend that way for a while, the market's so big that bands doing niche genres of music that would've flamed out young from lack of interest are fairly sustainable now as long as their expectations for success are modest; their fraction shares of the market might remain low but in actual # of sales it's still enough to remain lucrative, because of that sustainability there's enough new music out there from all these little bands that you will find something new, interesting and to your taste if you try, at least in my experience - finding new music btw is the easiest it's ever been mostly because of apps and the like on the other hand with the market being so big, any radio station or whatever that just sticks to the top 10, top 20, top 100 will probably make music seem generic and lcd - there's so much incentive for mass appeal, enough layers of accessibility and enough market to make that kind of strategy highly profitable even if you're not number 1 that there's not room for anything like, weird in the top 10, it's kind of narrowed down in some respects mostly i'm okay with the situation because i can find things i like and i don't care if a lot of music i don't really enjoy is also getting made
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Dec 26, 2016 22:48
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hard counter posted:mostly i'm okay with the situation because i can find things i like and i don't care if a lot of music i don't really enjoy is also getting made  I don't care if the music they play on the radio sucks. I don't even really know if it sucks, because I don't listen to the radio. If I can go on Spotify or Youtube or wherever and keep finding new and interesting songs, things from around the world, even in languages I don't know... This era is a great time for music. Accessibility and ability to support artists more directly are wonderful things.
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Dec 26, 2016 22:57
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regardless of your opinion of her, it's also neat that people like Lindsey Stirling can eke out a slice without much support from the industry proper; you don't necessarily need to prove to some suits that there's abstract value in your brand just to get your foot into the business per se - you can reach out to the market directly
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Dec 26, 2016 23:52
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music is a trash genre!
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Dec 27, 2016 03:18
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The worst era of music was when every rock band also had a DJ scratching hot beatz.
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Dec 27, 2016 03:23
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Faded by Alan Walker is the gift of the magi for the year 2016
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Dec 27, 2016 03:49
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I feel bad for people who like stuff. You poor, naive, dumb little idiots. Sweet and innocent and retarded as newborn babes.
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Dec 27, 2016 07:45
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I just watched The Ridiculous 6. It wasn't that bad.
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Dec 27, 2016 16:53
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veni veni veni posted:Music right now is the worst it's been since the late 90's. "Music was only good when I was the proper age for it" is a pretty popular opinion.
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I think it is dumb and bad to post on social media about a celebrity death as if you knew the person personally
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While I get what you mean, celebrity deaths impact people a lot more, because celebs are larger than life and are way, way more important than us normal people.
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Dec 27, 2016 20:10
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"I can't comprehend how someone who was a huge influence dying can affect people"
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Dec 27, 2016 20:47
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Field Mousepad posted:"I can't comprehend how someone who was a huge influence dying can affect people" durrrrr That is not what I said even a little bit
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Dec 27, 2016 20:51
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People who legitimately believe dad rock is the best type of music have the worst opinions about music.
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I'm somewhat on board re: people who post about how profoundly the death of a celebrity is affecting them - mostly because the celebrity is likely leaving a personal hole in the lives of those that truly knew them. Along similar lines, it also bugs me when acquaintances sob at somebody's funeral when the family is clearly trying to hold it together. "Read the room" seems too cold, maybe, but seriously.
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Dec 27, 2016 23:40
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MizPiz posted:People who legitimately believe dad rock is the best type of music have the worst opinions about music. How do we define "dad rock" exactly? Is it a particular subset of classic rock or just classic rock in general? This is something that's always bugged me a bit because my dad was a teenager in the 1970s and his favourite bands were the Bay City Rollers and ABBA.
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The thing that really bothers me about celebrity deaths is that most of them aren't all that shocking but you always see "I'm so shocked!!!" Well, you know, people aged 60 and older are, you know, old and die of old person things. It's shocking if somebody dies in an accident, especially younger than 60. Go ahead and be shocked about that. Go ahead and be shocked whenever somebody you like dies before 60. Go ahead! It's fine. Most people don't die before 60. But please don't be shocked, horrified, and surprised when somebody that is old dies of old. That happens every day. A lot. Humans get old and die. It's perfectly normal. It isn't shocking at all. We're living things. That's what living things do. They grow old and they die.
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Well yea, you notice the bulk of the grief has been focused on Prince and David Bowie? Also, median age is 76-ish, so people dying at 60 is a bit shocking, particularly when you realize most celebrities have access to the best healthcare in the world.
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Dec 27, 2016 23:53
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WampaLord posted:Particularly when you realize most celebrities have access to the best healthcare in the world. Yes, but it's balanced out by easy access to every illegal drug known to man.
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WampaLord posted:Well yea, you notice the bulk of the grief has been focused on Prince and David Bowie? Celebrities also have access to all of the best drugs and enough money to buy a bottomless supply of all of them. The other thing that isn't shocking is when a celebrity dies young of an overdose. Being famous is apparently pretty awful and famous people often find themselves consuming all of the substances to cope. It also comes with free access to all of the parties.
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Sic Semper Goon posted:Yes, but it's balanced out by easy access to every illegal drug known to man. And yet, Keith Richards.
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Dec 28, 2016 00:02
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WampaLord posted:And yet, Keith Richards. Some people are just inexplicably indestructible. Apparently English rock stars are just immune to everything. Lemmy died at 70 and Ozzie is 68 and still trucking.
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Dec 28, 2016 00:08
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Wheat Loaf posted:How do we define "dad rock" exactly? Is it a particular subset of classic rock or just classic rock in general? It's a phrase exclusively used by millennials so who cares. My dad's rock was Bill Haley on 78 RPM records. Everybody who has ever said "dad rock" had a dad who listens to Toto and/or Judas Priest and should probably just shut the gently caress up.
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Dec 28, 2016 00:11
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As annoying as naive, wide-eyed idealists and optimists can sometimes be, they're still way better than cynics. Cynicism is for babies who don't have the guts to care about things and/or maybe need to get treated for depression. Not me though, my scathing and irreverent wit is healthy and good.
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Dec 28, 2016 01:19
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WampaLord posted:"Music was only good when I was the proper age for it" is a pretty popular opinion. That's not what I said though. I was a teenager in the late 90's and I've always hated that era. 2010ish and beyond has been the worst since then for a bunch of reasons. To some degree it's probably me getting old though.
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veni veni veni posted:That's not what I said though. I was a teenager in the late 90's and I've always hated that era. You just had/have a very narrow cultural scope.
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