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GanonsSpirit posted...

What's wrong with the book?

Just its glorification of fascism and imperialism really, which is why the movie was turned into basically a satire making fun of those aspects of the book and the world's society in it.

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DaydreamRising posted...

Hope you enjoy it. It kind of reminds of Bark Psychosis, only hazier and more sprawling.

I've also never listened to anything but them but currently listening to Hex for the first time and liking it.

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Oh damn I forgot to listen to the new Animal Collective EP. I heard it was really good, should get on that today.

And idk if it would be on my list but I didn't think about including 1000 Gecs and the Tree of Clues cause my mind just considered it a remix album but I do love it and the original album a lot.

Several new albums dropped today that I will be checking out, but haven't yet:
New Lianne La Havras
Another (his 3rd this year!!) Nicolas Jaar
New Protomartyr
and I guess maybe that new Dixie Chicks, though I've never really listened to their music before.

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Saw Yves Tumor and Ecco2k back in March right before all entertainment venues started being shut down. Amazing show. Yves and their guitarists were both super flamboyant and having a ton of fun, especially playing the stuff from their new album since so much of it is straight up psychedelic rock. Ecco2k was great too. I'm not really big on the 'drain gang' artists, but he put on a good show and I talked to him after and he was nice.

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I think you'd really like the tricot (Japanese math rock band) and Jessie Ware (disco/house/dance-pop) @MrMelodramatic both I would recommend to you. Oh and the new Yves Tumor if you haven't listened to that yet!

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My top of the year so far:

1. Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters
2. Jessie Ware Whats Your Pleasure?
3. The Soft Pink Truth Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?
4. tricot - (Makkuro)
5. Charli XCX How Im Feeling Now
6. Nicolas Jaar Cenizas
7. Yves Tumor Heaven to a Tortured Mind
8. Daniel Avery Love + Light
9. Rafael Anton Irisarri Peripeteia
10. Tennis Swimmer
11. Photay Waking Hours
12. The Strokes The New Abnormal
13. Jeff Rosenstock NO DREAM
14. Four Tet Sixteen Oceans
15. Triangulo de Amor Bizarro Self-Titled
16. Nine Inch Nails Ghosts V: Together / Ghost VI: Locusts
17. Caleb Landry Jones The Mother Stone
18. Against All Logic 2017-2019
19. Natalia Lafourcade Un canto por Mexico vol. 1
20. Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye and Jim White Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye and Jim White 2

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DaydreamRising posted...

And it's a single, but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSRVzQ4kvhc

Oh nice! I had no idea there was a new GAS release this year. Thanks for sharing it

Also just looked up The Kinspiral and it sounds exactly like what I would like. Excited to listen to it.

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Yeah I don't think there is any way really to rent games now besides those services that send you discs through the mail?

A shame. Definitely some games with 10-20 hour campaigns I would like to play over the course of a couple days and return, but oh well. I never took advantage of it while it was around anyway besides back in the blockbuster era when I was a kid.

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ritalin

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Portishead - Dummy is my favorite but after that its probably Illmatic which I voted for, but I love Weezer and Downward Spiral as well.

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Mead posted...

Holy shit I saw the video yesterday and had no idea it was a guy of any importance

fuck him

I think its just a small startup. Like he is probably rich of course and his company has top-level clients, but its definitely a tiny firm that I doubt is much more than him and a small handful of other people.

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Such xenophobic fear-mongering. The United States has multiple cases of bubonic plague every year. Also it isn't really a threat in the modern age because it is bacteria based and not viral, and can easily be killed/cured with antibiotics.

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The yellow one for sure

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personally? never, sometimes i go through stretches where i don't listen to much for a week at a time, but im still always thinking about music


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SSX 3 best game ever

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Carter is definitely my favorite but just because I think he is the only president who has genuine integrity.

In terms of what they actually did while president though? Probably LBJ, even with Vietnam? Things were best under Clinton for most Americans but thats mostly just the result of an incredible economic expansion that wasn't the result of him but just being in the right place at the right time, but also so much of what he did has resulted in the massive police-prison state we have today. Reagan and Nixon definitely have their pluses too besides the obvious negatives. All have tons of awful, legacy diminishing flaws though for sure, but thats basically what it goes into taking on being the '''world leader''' so to speak.

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Same :(

What a great, emotional ending.

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Had no idea that that iconic dance/kiss scene from the E3 trailer would actually be in the game. I just assumed it was constructed for the trailer, and acted as a prologue to the first part of the story since it happens the night before it. Glad it popped up.

FourthDimension posted...

That ending scene with Joel and Ellie was fucking brutal, knowing it was their final conversation.

Damn you are right.

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Oh okay there is more thank god I was worried that was the end

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Ok, I gotta admit. I kind of do have a problem with having you brutally fight Ellie while playing as Abby. Definitely just really powerful. I don't really like that that's the choice they went with their encounter but I understand why they did.

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I just played on the scene on the horse where you are riding through the burning battleground on the island, and wow. One of the most incredible moments I've ever seen in a video game.

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I really love the constant reoccurance of walking down that wide hospital hallway to the surgical room door. That wide, quiet stretch leading to it just instantly felt iconic during the first game, and constantly revisiting that walk from different perspectives just really hits me everytime.

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Whatever as long as its good and original.

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One disk is just the data disk, the other disc is the play disc. Doesn't seem entirely uncommon. But yeah its not like there are two games in one, the game is just massive due to a lot textures.

But the game is split into parallel campaigns, so you did hear that bit correct.

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Stubborn Americans who think taking precautions against the pandemic is infringing on what their idea of 'freedom' is.

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Yeah Plemons got kinda fat for Fargo Season 2, but he got engaged to Kirsten Dunst during that time so clearly its worked out for him haha.

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ChaoticKnuckles posted...

This seems fake to me.

It's real, but the guy making it is definitely doing it as a joke, and has a history of frivolous gaming-related lawsuits like this.

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I just got to the part where the big narrative switch happens half way through. I definitely see why its a controversial decision, but I understand completely why they have made the game this way and I think I'm down for it.

And yeah I am loving it so far. My only real complaint is the gameplay is definitely repetitive, a step down from the first in that regard but the gameplay is also made better through some additional elements. I think its fine, just playing it for about 5 hours a day the last 3 nights has just worn me out, think I might take a break from it for a little while.

The story, while not being as good as the first for sure, I think is told in a stronger, more engaging way which makes up for the generic conflict that acts as the narrative force behind the action. It's really impressive. Overall, so far, I think I prefer the first, but this is definitely a solid game, and the people who hate it (assuming they liked the first) only seem to because either 1. they are whiny internet trolls or 2. the narrative 'twists' don't sit right with them at all, which I understand, but I think its a dumb way to look at a game, as they seem to only want fan-service.

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Sometimes, especially if I am watching late at night because if I have the volume too loud, the women in the apartment next to mine can hear it, and when the volume is kind of quiet sometimes I have a hard time understanding dialogue. Also honestly, just from watching foreign films, I am just kind of used to watching with subtitles on and prefer it.

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I used to be around the blue circle, now here.


also from that 8 values


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From public/open/government spaces. Definitely.

Though I do think some of them should be moved to museums or other situations where they can be removed from a context of 'glorifying' the statues, and more in the context of using the statues as learning tools or just historic appreciation. Personally, I'm in favor of maybe opening an outdoor museum where the statues are on display all in one place, similar to places that hold a lot of Soviet/Stalinist monuments in Russia and Eastern Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Monument_Park

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faramir77 posted...

I had a university professor whose name was Dick Butt.

I had a Dick Cox

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Same.

It was you

;)

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Even if people genuinely do hate it, there is no way in hell even 10% of those metacritic user reviews have even played the game. It already has almost DOUBLE the user ratings that the first game had and it hasn't even been out a day.

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Damn, I just watched The Sweet Hereafter which he is the star of yesterday. Great actor RIP

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Turkey

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MartianManchild posted...

@Jen0125
Heres a link to a graph you can look at that shows what Im talking about straight from John Hopkins.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/usa
You can select Arizona and yes the percentage has risen from a month ago but it is about at the same percent as it was when everything was completely shut down two months ago.
Regionally there have been some areas that have seen an increase but in general things are about the same as or better than they were with everything shut down.
Like remember when people were saying that everyone in Wisconsin was going to become infected after the stay at home order got thrown out? Or when Georgia said screw it and just opened everything up anyways? Surely we would see huge spikes in those areas right? No. They never came. Dont believe the hype.

ICU Beds and Hospital capacity have been spiking in Arizona too though

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I feel like him having trouble walking down the stairs is probably because he wears high heeled shoes to make himself taller. Would be difficult to walk down a slope if you are old and wearing lifts.

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Depends on the humidity and breeze, but assuming the low humanity that is here and a slight breeze, like 77-82.

Places outside of the desert like 70-75, and if high humidity like 65-70

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Oh so its probably awesome. Nice.

Had a bunch of amazon gift card so just preordered it using some of that.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

The PS4 board HATES it

What for?

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Journey is amazing, very short, but I love it (i'd recommend playing offline for first run through)

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either that or GTA 6 comes out as a launch title for sure (or if GTA 6 comes out for PS5, GTA 6 remaster as a launch title)

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HornedLion posted...

Not illegal. But immoral all day, every day. This is a capitalist nation, baby

This, especially since my job is centered around just making investors richer. But its a great first job out of college and I'm lucky to have it. Maybe in a couple years once this whole COVID triggered recession is over I will look for a job where I can feel more personally proud of what I'm doing, but in the meantime making the most of it and still finding ways to be proud of my work and giving it my all, even if I don't personally agree with it.

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Far-Queue posted...

Night in the Woods.

how is that? Just got it as part of that 1,000+ indie game charity bundle

https://itch.io/b/520/bundle-for-racial-justice-and-equality

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My work here in Arizona was planning on going back next week. Now that cases have more than doubled in the past week, they have delayed going back... To june 22nd.

It's so crazy, why would we have been working at home for almost 3 months when new daily cases never reached above 400 or so, and then plan on going back when new daily cases are over 1,200?

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I don't play it but most of my friends still do. I think the past couple months has been peak playing time for them since their 'playing' was 99% clicking every minute or so to grind levels, so I think working from home is just feeding their habit.

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GameLord113 posted...

The daily new case numbers we are seeing now are about the same as they were at the height of it back in April and beginning of May.

wish that was even true here :(



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Yeah. Like I definitely expect another spike in a week due to the protests, but this spike is definitely due to memorial day weekend reopenings.

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