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I saw a Fantano review for Ska Dreams - I love ska, so of course I watched it. I learned it was a ska revamp of his last album, so I thought I'd check out the source album before checking out the ska rework.

This shit is straight out of 2005. It reminds me of the best stuff I've heard from Zebrahead, Unwritten Law and early Blink-182. It's like the better Burnout tracks, for a whole album. Every song on No Dream has been really fun and genuinely listenable.

I'm looking forward to Ska Dreams, this is already very punky so to add a ska slant seems like a real peanut butter and chocolate sort of moment.

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xXfireglzXx posted...

Turkey requires our assistance right now because of the rising tensions with Russia. The best time to do something like this would be right now, when Turkey is hesitant about strongly admonishing an ally because doing so weakens their position against Russia's geopolitical posturing.

Turkey's also wiping out the Kurds, and the US was on the side of the Kurds before your fuckwit former president pulled all troops out of Syria.

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Give it another ten years.

Counting Crows is dad rock. Nickelback is dad rock. Any dads who listened to Imagine Dragons as kids or teens probably don't have kids who are old enough for them to posture about their favorite music, and I don't think the zeitgeist that birthed them has changed that radically either.

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TheoryzC posted...

Batman: The Black Mirror for some Dick-Bats mystery arc

Oh yeah, that's the one where Bruce spends his whole time batting his dick around. And then he goes down to the pier and manhandles his schmeat. And then the action picks up at Gotham Gardens when Batman puts his salami in a stranglehold.

Good run.

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I've been sick lately, so I've gotten to see the start of this whole thing while I've been bundled up on the lounge. Initially I didn't know what to think, but upon learning that it was a pre-learning exercise with content created by students without the guidance of a teacher, I can confidently say that this is a non-issue. This is the result of the times we live in, not a bias taught in the classroom.

Last night was the first time I slept the whole night in my own bed for three days, so I missed the morning shows today. But the Police Minister sounds like a fuckwit who doesn't understand the reality of the situation.

The worst part is how adamant he is to say "we don't have a race problem" over here - we do have racism over here, and we would be wise to keep an eye out for it. Whether it's some fat bogan named Dane yelling racial slurs down the street in thongs and a singlet, or a police officer in the Northern Territory driving an indigenous bloke for hours through the desert to get him to jail without adequate access to water, leading to the prisoner dying in the back of the vehicle due to dehydration - we need to stay conscious of racism and the effects it has on the people it affects, and we need to work to eliminate it. The fucking Police Minister shouldn't be getting his nuggets caught in a twist like this, it's not professional and it's a weak look.

I understand his point about America's troubles not being our "war". Ultimately, I do think that police in Australia are more trained than American cops are. I think the police are a more respectable institution in Australia than they are in America. Saying that, Australian police have their own problems - in particular, their track record with the indigenous population is appalling. There's a video of two indigenous women fighting in the street, pulling each other's hair and bashing each other, and the police are just standing there letting it play out. Their excuse was "that's how they settle disputes up here, and if we got in to break it up, it just would have festered and led to a harsher retaliation". I'd have to get a second opinion from a trusted source, but the image of two indigenous ladies flogging each other in the street while the police are doing absolutely nothing - literally standing a couple metres away and watching - is a very striking image.

I can only hope that most of the country swings Labor this election. The past 8 years of Liberal leadership have stripped this country bare - of its resources and wealth, of its integrity and of its dignity. And now we have that bald fuck Peter Dutton as Defence Minister - one of a small, small handful of people who walked out of Kevin Rudd's apology to the indigenous population, and the man who's responsible for the fact that we haven't had a Liberal prime minister who's sat a full term in 8 years because he keeps gunning for a power vacuum so he can take the job. The man's a creep, and he's an evil son of a bitch - and every time he's subverted the democratic process, he's moved one link up the chain of command. When you have a piece of shit like that as out defence minister - when you have such widespread corruption in the Liberal government, across all boards - is it any wonder that our Police Minister is a shit-for-brains Liberal puppet whose pattern of speech hems closer to Trump than it has any right to do?

DocDelicious posted...

He's not entirely wrong.
Politics should not be part of primary education.

They weren't told to do this, and they weren't taught this in school. They made these posters before taking Aboriginal studies, based on things they've seen in the news and in their lives.

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I really like One More Try.

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spikethedevil posted...

If you count an admin getting away with flaming and trolling a feud.

Come on, it's a bit of silly fun. Doom_Art isn't about to go and make an anti-SBallen WordPress blog and start harassing him on Twitter, and SBallen isn't gonna get Doom_Art banned on an infraction. Calm down and have a girly drink or something.

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The Doom_Art/SBallen feud is the best thing to happen to this board in ages. I can't wait for another one of their trademark scuffles.

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WingsOfGood posted...

This is irrelvant to pay.

If they paid her 2 million she wouldn't have been suicidal? I don't buy it.

I don't think you can put a price on it, but I think she would have been better off if she felt like she was being fairly compensated for the stuff she was doing. That's what this article, and this thread, is ostensibly about - porn apparently doesn't pay well enough for what they want you to do.

Though I will say in regards to suicidal thoughts and intent due to one's involvement with the porn industry - there should be a wider effort to bring therapy into the business, and to get stars who are having a bad time into therapy. Sometimes, that will result in a star making the decision to leave the industry for their own wellbeing. But it's the right thing to do when you've got former stars talking about how miserable and exploited they felt during their time in the spotlight.

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When your baby daughter is born

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WingsOfGood posted...

Because the reason she can make more than minimum wage in porn is due to all the things you are saying make it not worth the pay.

The things she describes as having made her suicidal in the past, almost certainly because whatever she was doing was not worth what they were paying her. Stuff she's explicitly trying to warn other young women off of.

Her argument that you can make more on the unmentionable site is fine, but that is a relatively new thing.

Which is why her comments are relevant right now. There's an alternative to the porn industry that gives its workers more control and gives them a more direct link to the money they make.

She's not making these comments a few years ago, she's making them now. Now is the time to dissuade more young women from entering the studio system and to go solo on platforms like The Unnamed Platform for their own wellbeing and their own bottom line.

And yeah, they won't be millionaires. But if they can learn to cultivate an audience on their own terms, they can carve out a niche and make some okay money without putting themselves in the hands of a system that will push them to stick two cocks in their asshole for a level of compensation that will likely not be enough to justify the personal consequences that come from that sex act.

This is called a tradeoff.
Maybe they will have to pay more though due to the site I cannot name.

You're committed to calling her an entitled bitch, aren't you?

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WingsOfGood posted...

She said it did not pay well. Her argument was not even that "it paid well but not well enough for loss of dignitiy"
It literally was just that it plain did not pay well.

Which we have proven false.

She claims some of the extreme scenes she participated in left her suicidal.

Its what I warn girls against its not that glamorous,

Rhoades said. Its not even well paying. Its a lot smarter to go into Instagram or just do [redacted].

She did say "porn doesn't pay", and she followed it up by talking about Instagram and The Other Website where people can produce their own sexual content. You won't have to do the degrading shit that devalues you and makes you regret being alive, and it pays just as well if not better.

Does she not have a point?

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Persona 5

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Trumpo posted...

nope

See, that's a bigger crime. I like Johnny Cage, but he's as much comic relief as he is a main protagonist. Liu Kang is the lynchpin of the franchise.

Why TC is weeping over the loss of Johnny Cage is stupid. I understand being upset that he's not in the movie, but if you wanna go out and cry racism and act like a victim, you're gonna look like a clown. Meanwhile - where the fuck is Liu Kang? Why'd they cut that bitch out of the movie?

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https://youtu.be/eJ11lLmt0vI

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All I wanna know is if Liu Kang is in this movie.

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DarthAragorn posted...

She had $100k at 21 but porn doesn't pay shit? Lol, okay.

I think the implication is that the pay isn't worth the personal cost. There are some rough fucking scenes out there, and ladies aren't making the big bucks for getting fucked in the throat until they puke, or getting fucked by a group of 5 dudes who keep spitting on them and slapping them.

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These guys fuck, so I'm giving it one last bump

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one more bump bc Jim Steinmann was awesome

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The lack of detail in the OP is because I've been sick lately, sorry. I really liked Jim Steinman's work, and it was a big shock hearing that he had died. The music he produced was truly massive in its size and scope, and it brought a level of theatricality and drama to the music which most artists haven't been able to come close to matching.

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BilalPowell posted...

I need to listen to more Meatloaf. Only really know Bat Out of Hell

The album or the song? Because Paradise by the Dashboard Lights is lit as fuck.

Another good Steinman song - with multiple versions to choose from - is It's All Coming Back To Me Now. Meatloaf did a version of it, but I don't think it's the definitive version.

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Dude behind the massive sound of Meatloaf's and Bonnie Taylor's best material.

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Touch posted...

Also doesn't have a camera because your old iphone already has one

It also won't open any files unless they were made in an app that was developed by Apple, which limits a lot of reading to what you can buy on the App Store.

Kindlification strikes again.

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WingsOfGood posted...

@MrMallard

Do...do you not know what this is?

Of course I know what it is. But by the end, with all the shit going on, it sounds like a KH song.

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Fam_Fam posted...

i think this entirely depends on what you call "anti-semitism"

is making the observation that jewish people hold an amount of power that is disproportionate to their population size ("too much power", one might call it) anti-semitic?

also, is thinking that Israel is being a dick/committing human rights violations anti-semitic?

What suggests to you that the Jewish population have more power than a non-denominational or Christian population? Or that whatever power they do have is disproportional in any way?

And the Israel question is complicated - when it's the one human rights violation on earth that someone seems to give a shit about, it can signal anti-semitic intent.

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That sounded like a fucking Kingdom Hearts song

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Rapid99 posted...

Reminder that if you freed him from his plastic flesh he looks like this

Tag your gore, please

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pogo_rabid posted...

Didn't shane dawson have to dip out from pubic view because he was also a sexual degenerate?

Yeah, D'angelo's video blew the top off of all that. It was genuinely an incredible thing to behold. That's why I'm so bummed out that it's gone.

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So I'll disclaim that this is my opinion and I might not be 100% correct on everything. But here's my take.

I think to understand this, we need to understand the atmosphere around the Nazis and the rise of the first modern hate groups. Following the fall of Nazi Germany and the scope of their genocide, the Nazi party gained a monstrous reputation and were rightfully vilified for the evil acts they had done. This characterisation stayed in place for decades - the Nazis stood for evil, and we need to oppose everything they stood for.

I just looked some stuff up and apparently neo-nazism has been around since the end of WWII - Nazis and Nazi sympathisers have been trying to control the narrative and get back into power for decades. But I think it's important to note that the general attitude in the west - at least to anyone who wasn't a massive bigot or anti-semite - is that Nazi ideology is evil and we need to ensure that such an evil could never rise to power again.

But then you have your white supremacist gangs popping up, and your skinheads. And as the internet gained more and more popularity, they realised that they could spread their rhetoric to a lot more people with a lot less risk. So after the big flare-up of neo-nazi ideology in the 90's, a lot of them traded in "boots for suits" - a phrase meant to evoke blending in with the populace and becoming harder to detect. And it's through that anonymity that they began to use the internet to market their rhetoric to a wider audience.

4chan has been instrumental in propagating these beliefs, and stuff like the brony movement and Gamergate have been key events in converting angry internet patrons to white supremacist beliefs. They might not be about white supremacy, they might not even evoke white supremacy in any way, but what these events did was radicalise an angry, victimised group of white boys and give them a target to unleash all of their impotent frustration on.

You can see in the case of Bronies: a bunch of lonely maladjusts start watching a show made for little girls, and a community springs up around their enjoyment of the show. Over time, these spaces become more and more toxic, and when bronies are called out for toxic behavior... well, now bronies don't have very nice things to say about feminists, since it tends to come from more of a leftist angle to criticize a group of people for making a truly unprecedented amount of pornography based on a children's TV show featuring horses. And from there, the movement can be further derailed by other people with other views.

And then with Gamergate, there was a huge anti-feminism boom in that movement from the start. People like to point at the Kane and Lynch or Max Payne 3 reviews to display what the focus of gamergate was, but they happened a good while before gamergate and it fails to reflect the hostility directed at people like Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian and other leftist/feminist commentators. For any goodwill that gamergaters try to assert in regards to the movement, you can't deny that this is where the "culture war" bullshit really crept into gaming discourse - and I think it was a deliberate tactic to rile up angry young players, give them a target, give them communities to "feel welcome" in and then start a process of normalisation and indoctrination for racist and anti-semitic values.

That's not to say that bigotry on the internet began with these two events. There are classic video game modifications that have been floating around since the 90's that are full of swastikas, slurs and racial caricatures - and again, 4chan has acted as a gateway to this sort of rhetoric for decades now. It's not a recent thing. And bigotry has persisted in the real world too; holocaust denial started in the 70's. But those two events have reached such a wide audience and affected the digital landscape to such a degree that whether someone was involved with either of them directly or not, it's probably made it a lot easier for them to run into bigoted rhetoric online. It's created communities for people to fall into. It's given bigots a level of control over the narrative that they've been working at for years - and it's paying off dividends.

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D'Angelo Wallace took down his 3 video series on the beauty community because if all this. He was sure that the whole Jeffree Star thing exonerated James Charles, and upon this news coming out I guess he'd rather eliminate any harm of an outdated and incorrect claim than risk leaving it up and giving him good press.

They were his most popular videos too - I started watching thanks to that Shane Dawson video, which is honestly still some of the most incredible YouTube journalism I've ever seen. But he sticks to his principles, and I respect that.

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Once again, Luigi coming through with the best shit

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https://youtu.be/vE7AXBELOU4
Top comment is "Christ Pete absolutely shelled this "

And frankly, it's right

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The internet nearly made me a much worse person. I was fully on my way to becoming some sort of batshit crazy incel. I was hurt over everything wrong that was happening in my life, and I lashed out on the internet, and if I had found a place where my lashing out would have been validated I would have been off to the races.

It's thanks to the people who had to put up with me in the communities I spent time in, who actively challenged my bullshit and reprimanded me for the fucked up things I did, that I even remotely had a shot at being an okay person. And even then, it wasn't smooth - I said some very, very fucked up things. I made some people feel really fucking unsafe. I lost friends, and I burned bridges beyond the point of repair in the most painful way possible for the other person. But it was ultimately because of the people around me who wouldn't let me get away with it and who kept me accountable that I turned out even reasonably as well as I did.

I'd say that I became a better person through my time on the internet, but at the same time I became a better person despite the internet.

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https://youtu.be/DlcGxjtcr3s

Drill rappers who are in their 70's. Their flows are off the chain.

Full disclosure, I know next to nothing about drill music and I found these guys through Fantano. Not trying to front. But holy fuck, this shit is legit lmao

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Goddamn, how did dp get his shit kicked in this thoroughly?

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You can't affect cancer with activism, education and protest. In time, the ignorance and way of thinking that enables racism and transphobia can be ended. But cancer? You can't conduct reform against cancer.

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It took me 7 hours to get into Ni No Kuni recently. Had to sit there and grind it out until the game clicked with me. Pretty sure I had to brute-force Persona 5 when I started playing that, and I ended up with 2 back to back playthroughs with like 160 hours on record.

How long does it take for you to get into a new game nowadays?


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The syntax in the title leaves a lot to be desired, but good for her.

Also, the comments aren't showing up for me :/

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All of them are bad ones. I played Symphonia and DotNW on auto because I hated the combat system so much.

The stories might be okay - at least for full-fledged main titles like Symphonia - but why would you ever wanna play one?

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ThyCorndog posted...

what's going on this year

America's opening up again.

You might read that as an inappropriate joke, but I do think that this sense of being out of the woods is emboldening people to go out and do shit like this.

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hockeybub89 posted...

The entire self-titled album is great. Mostly a singles band after

Couldn't agree with you more.

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Smashingpmkns posted...

I saw Foo Fighters live a few years ago at Cal Jam and it was the most boring set I've ever seen in my life.

Yeah, their last few albums in particular have... not been great.

I remember in the lead-up to that album with the "banging on the ceiling" song on it, Dave Grohl was like "we took the time to just unlearn and then relearn everything we know about music, and I think that's really made us a better band overall". That single sounds like crap, and while the album apparently did okay critically, I doubt it's worth listening to.

It's like, he threw everything about his sound out the window, and the result is generally unremarkable.

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Kisai posted...

It depends entirely on the device. It's not a universal volume for all of them.

For sure. I've got an old TV in my room that has kind of a high pressure whistling sound, like air escaping from a microwaved Frankfurt. The TV in the loungeroom is just a monolith of ringing in the background, even taking the ringing in my ears into account.

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It's like, every monitor has its own background noise. All of its functions combine in a way that causes this low background hum, and depending on the monitor there might be a soft dampening effect on the sound due to that background noise being there. Whether you're watching tv or using a computer, there's a tangible difference between background noise when the monitor is on or off - even when that monitor isn't producing sound, like on TV.

Do you hear that background noise?

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It took me years to get into Everlong. I'm more into like Walk, Wheels, Learning to Fly, Long Road to Ruin and stuff. Everlong had to grow on me.

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CouldBeAnAlt posted...

Tak and the Power of Juju they even tried to make a cartoon of it iirc

There were a couple of Tak games, to my knowledge

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so douchey x_x

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