I do agree that Agusa has been more consistent. I am not a big fan of Leker For Barn or Intetnett from Tusmorke, but their older stuff will always hold that special place in my heart as the albums that just totally captured me. Hestehoven and Dawn of Oberon were welcome returns from whatever the hell was going on in Intetnett lol

I’m not actually super familiar with anything outside the few bands I’ve mentioned, do you have any other suggestions? This genre/style is really an island by itself in my normal music rotation, but it’s a happy little island that I visit pretty often.

Aw man, you could have waited until July 19th and made a sick callback .

Never forget.

I proposed 2172C as the Pantone color of the year for 2024 lol

Spotlights are so good. I saw them live recently, it was a great show.

If you like Spotlights, give Graywave a try if you don’t already listen. A little less doom, more electronic. I don’t think there’s any harsh vocals, and if there are it’s very, very few. Dancing in the Dust is one of those songs I can always listen to at max volume under any circumstance.

If you use Android, check out “Distraction-free Instagram”. It’s an app that lets you disable various parts of the app like your home feed, stories, etc.

I really wanted to stop scrolling on Instagram, but I also really wanted to keep posting my photography, as the interactions I sometimes get on my posts are fun and I enjoy sharing my craft. I also have some friends who ONLY interact via instagram messaging.

I downloaded the app, and disabled everything except messaging, and it’s been great. It’s definitely made me happier overall.

“Trust but verify” are some excellent words to live by. Some boss I had years ago bestowed that wisdom upon me when I was still a wee spritely junior engineer.

It’s hard to implement in practice, though, and I still fall victim to the “Damn, I should have just checked” pretty often.

But that’s none of those genres…

I would like their stuff so much more if the nu-metal parts went away.

I am unsure what makes something “Swing”, but I absolutely adore The Roar of '74 by Buddy Rich. I discovered it via my dumb rule of “See vinyl record with car on it, buy vinyl record with car on it”

I wouldn’t say it’s less well-known overall, but for others of my generation, I feel like it is…

I was born in '92. My dad apparently liked Thunderbirds (1965-66), so we had the full VHS set. We didn’t have cable for a LONG time, so my brother and I watched a lot of VHS tapes. We grew to absolutely adore Thunderbirds. Sadly, the VHS set is long gone, but there’s a full rip on the internet archive, so I’ve got it all anyway.

I used to work at a company that had a side-hustle and received large shipments of boxes from China containing the front half and the back half of electronic multimeters. One employee would sit there all day, put the 2 halves together, put 2 screws into it, then toss it in a clamshell pack proudly labeled with “ASSEMBLED IN THE USA” with a big-ass american flag.

This is a hilarious example of “Read headline, formed opinion, investigated no further”

You could probably run a study on this. Call it “Regarding the Leap Year of '45”

Also, I swear I reached this page from the top of a community page, how have I traveled 7 months into the future… Uh oh. (It was probably a cross-post)

I didn’t have depression, but I wanted to try the experience after hearing how much someone I knew enjoyed it. I had a terrible trip (in a safe space, with good intentions, an experienced user I trusted very deeply, etc. etc. etc.) and suddenly developed pretty gnarly depression and felt like an unnamed part of my brain was missing/out of reach for over 2 years… I’m only one data point and my experience seems uncommon, but I definitely won’t be touching shrooms ever again. It’s only in the last 6 or so months that I’ve felt more “myself” and have been making progress out of the hole I was dropped into.

I desperately wanted to be on Figure It Out (With your host, Summer Sanders)

I reference the secret slime action fairly frequently, and it seems that maybe I’m the only person in my area who watched/enjoyed the show, because most people have no idea what I am talking about.

Don’t even get me started on Figure It Out Wild Style.

I signed up for the physical print edition at the tail end of last year. They are excellent reading and I have 0 regrets. Well I do have one regret… Not signing up sooner. I missed the November 2024 publication to tie the whole shit-sandwich together.

Their marketing/member emails are also amazing.

All the browser settings are also stored there, too. I turned all the AI stuff off, then the next time I booted up my PC the AI was back. Turned it off again. Same thing the next time I logged back on…

I finally looked into it and it was because I had firefox set to clear the cache on shutdown.

It can fall under the same umbrella. Unrealistic beauty standards being set by the “rich”, who some people look up to as role models. If there were something that you could do that you might be able to afford, like botox or lip fillers, that you believe would make you more beautiful, closer to your role model… If that sort of thing matters to you, then yeah, you might go for it. I can even take the same analogy of watches above, because there are definitely cheap imitation versions of the gaudy diamond-encrusted ones.

I was sort of thinking more like this though with respect to extreme alterations…

It’s definitely a status thing, but I think the extreme it’s been taken to has more to do with an erosion and warping of reasonable beauty standards than anything. More of an act of “because I can” than anything. I think a lot of the people who you look at and think “what the fuck” actually think they are making themselves more beautiful and attractive. I don’t think someone who has everything and can get whatever they want would purposely make themselves look grotesque, but I’m neither rich, nor a psychologist, so maybe I’m totally wrong…

It’s kind of like how there’s a gaudy stupid looking hyper-expensive version of everything, like those giant hideous watches with diamonds encrusted on every surface… Someone think’s it’s beautiful or shows status, but most of us probably just think it looks stupid.

The Bogdanoffification has been happening for a while…

Part of me wonders what’s next… But that likely won’t be for a very long time, as USB C seems to be pretty good (at least for power-delivery and some decently high speed data transfer), lacking in customer complaints (as far as I’m aware).

I remember getting my first wireless charger with my Galaxy S10e and thinking “This is the future, you’ll never have to plug your phone in again!”… But that certainly hasn’t come to fruition, so I’ll refrain from making bad predictions lol.

Thanks! Also a bit of fun directly responding to the post before it. I was ultimately inspired by the “allure of the pine forest” post from a bit ago, thinking “Hey, I have some photos that look just like this…”

I think I am going to have fun with this (photo from a ~1999 PDA camera module [original resolution])

I am so glad that the USB people got USB C right… I have so many memories of the micro-USB ports on my old phones being the most absolute asinine garbage.

I remember seeing my very first USB C port in 2015, it was on a friend’s new Google Nexus 6P phone, and we were sitting in a hotel room in Florida somewhere… I ended up buying a 6P in August 2016. it was my first smartphone.

What phone do you have? It’s nice to see people who keep their phones around. It’s crazy how much progress was made in the phone world from ~2015 to 2019, but my phone from 2021, a similar 4 year age gap, feels just the same as phones made today. Truly a massive plateau.

Also, 2019 being 6 years ago is giving me serious vertigo lol

Pub cheese would like a word.