Happens to me all the time with music. Be jamming out to a song I've loved for years, right when my fav. artist dropped the album. Then tiktok plays the one hook from one song on their album and people always ask "Oh! Did you hear that on tikTok?!" .... No...no....no 🙄
Oh, no
Oh, no
Oh, no, no, no, no, no
That has happened to me so much in recent years, both with clipped songs and bands/artists I like becoming popular. I don't hold myself with any music pretention, and the vast majority of my "underground" discoveries are just random chance and Spotify algorithm. There is no way I have found to explain "no, I've been listening to them since [insert album]" that hasn't been met with some form of hipster comment.
"I'm not intentionally trying to be better than you, I just happen to be better than you at finding good music on my own"
Oh wait you said not be met with a hipster comment
I mean, there's definitely a skill to finding new good music. I'm not very good at it but I wish I was, it's kind of difficult.
My experience has been different. There's such a wealth of good music out there that I hardly know where to stop. Almost every time I see an artist perform, I want to buy their album.
Now, finding new good music that's also popular is another thing.
Or maybe I legit have bad taste in music, but if so I'm ok with that because I'm having fun.
I think it's definitely possible that the range of music you like is wider than mine, which is definitely not a bad thing. I guess that's part of my problem, I know how to find a lot of music, but I don't enjoy a lot of music i find.
I also tend to latch onto certain things and become a bit obsessive. For example, I've listened to pretty much everything recorded by Asian Man Records since like the 90s haha
The only genre of music I don't much care for is pop country, and there are even exceptions to that
Maybe you don't have to tell people anything at all about how you discovered good music?
"Oh, did you hear about them on TikTok?"
What?
"TikTok. You probably heard that song on TikTok."
Oh ok. I really like their new album. I also enjoy [insert other music you like].
"Yeah, I heard it on TikTok. I really love the 20 version I've heard replayed thousands of times."
Cool. Have a good day.
Just have your favorite band not release a new album for a decade. cries in streetlight manifesto
And why does that impact your enjoyment? Did the song change? Did your ears change?
It sounds like you care too much about the opinions and experiences of others.
Back in the 90s, saying the earth was flat meant you were open to talking through hypothetical science and creating wild theories. You knew the truth, but you never wanted to break kafabe. The sheer sillyness was part of the fun.
Today, saying the earth is flat means youre a flat out moron who lacks other critical thinking skills. It's a warning sign that you also have other troubling thoughts.
Flat earth was so much fun until all of them got roped into Q.
Back in the 90s, saying the earth was flat meant you were open to talking through hypothetical science and creating wild theories. You knew the truth, but you never wanted to break kafabe. The sheer sillyness was part of the fun.
See, this is what I thought we were doing back then too, but I've got a different hypothesis. I believe many of the people we were talking to back then actually really did believe it. I don't think people were any more level-headed back then than they are now -- we just assumed they were joking because that's what we were doing.
I used to have a certificate of membership from the Flat Earth Society (circa 1995). I don't know what happened to it.
My friend flipped when the first ever acknowledgement of Mistborn outside it's own books was Kelsier as a guest character in Fortnite. It was like targeted harassment. I like Mistborn too but it didn't bother me.
Journey before Destination
Strength before Weakness.
I before E.
Except...
... all those other words that don't follow the rule.
Weird that such an ancient rule, purported to be efficient and sufficient, should seize one's conscience and dash them from the sovereign heights of their ideas, making them forfeit any claims to proper spelling.
I just finished the 200 hours of audiobooks because my wife got me into it. Now I’m just sitting here patiently for my next dose from the remaining 300
This comment chain caused me to start reading Elantris
I'm gonna read all of the Cosmere in publication order (I've only read Stormlight Archive so far)
Oh boy. I made the jump from SLA to (kinda) publication order. Going from his most intricate series to his first published book was almost jarring. I still liked Elantris though.
Personally, I read through close to publication order, but grouped series together. Well, I guess it's really just Mistborn and maybe Emperor's Soul with Elantris, but those last ones aren't actually in the same set, just the same planet.
Holy shit I think I blocked this one from my memory. Seriously, now big could the overlap between mistborn fans and fortnite players possibly be?
It's because the author is friends with one of the lead guys over at Epic in charge of the game. They cycle through so many characters that they just start asking their friends for ideas I guess.
GOTO Hell isn’t correct and will lead to a syntax error
20 GOTO 4311 is technically correct but you’re actually going to hell for writing your script this way.
I used to write heaven and hell into scripts specifically for this joke
I used to use Shit or Hell for error handling
So that if you arrive here and things aren't as expected, everything goes to shit and then you can go to hell
Didn't qbasic implement labels?
I remember when gaming and D&D were niche interests. They got popular, and now look at them. 😩
You can actually find a group that manages to play with some regularity?
No, that's still an issue somehow 🤷🏻♂️
"Go to hell is basic. Instead say I hope your DnD group starts to get momentum right at the climax of the campaign, it becomes impossible to get anyone to show up."
Really? For me it's exactly the same as before critroll. "Anyone want to play? Sure I'll DM. See y'all this weekend!"
For gaming I see your point, it looks like everything as to be a money grab nowaday which greatly reduce the quality of a lot of games.
For ttrpg I don't feel like it though. Sure Wizard of the Coast/Hasbro has gone to shit but I left the D&D train a long time ago already. And the amount of other very good and accessible system is amazing. IMO The only thing "bad" that this new popularity bring is players with wrong expectations. Some expect every games and every DM to be of the same quality as Critical Roll or other well known podcast, some exept to find "video games" mechanic like in baldur's gate, some are trying to force the meme stuff inside the game, ect.
I know it's disgusting, there's D&D groups all over my town now, I can't even play all the games that are accessible to me. discusting i say!
It's happened to everyone. I'm sorry, but it would either be too effective or do no damage.
“Enjoy the next 24 hours”
sounds like a threat even though it can mean the same thing as “have a nice day”
Wtf
Dear God....no...
I'm glad that the only gacha that entered normie sphere was Genshin, with all the negative attention it got I wonder how people would react to second job ones like Fate GO and Granblue.
It's great that Blue Archive is impenetrable.
I think Grand blue is fairly well known in the US because of their expansion into other game types. Plus the anime. The fighting game is marvelous.
Unfortunately, everyone still thinks of Lost as the show with a bad ending. Even though it's completely misinterpreted.
It was the worst ending of any show I've ever seen. If it is misinterpreted by the masses, then it was clearly done with incompetence.
By any chance, did you watch it when it first came out? Lost was made to be binge watched in an era of television before that was commonplace. It holds up much better if you can watch an episode every few days, instead of once a week.
It's not just the ending is bad. It jumps the shark in like season 4 or something once they start doing the flashbacks
Season 4 is actually regarded to be one of the better seasons of the show, the beginning of season 3 was awful though. Also they do flashbacks throughout the whole show
No the flash forwards I mean the after stuff. Show just was awful from that point forward.
You sound like a hipster taking about music.
Clearly you've never had your blorbo get youtooz'd
... what niche interest is this person talking about? ... is it Star Trek? I'm not sure that makes sense
Except this is all predicated on caring about other people's opinions on your interests, which is foolish to begin with.
If you like something, like it because you like it. Let however other people process the thing be how they process it; it doesn't have to have any impact on how you process it.
No.
GOTO Hell is BASIC.
came to post this. was not disappointed someone beat me to it.
Honestly I thought thats what it meant at first for some reason lol.
It might be mildly annoying, I give you that, but throwing a tantrum about people enjoying the same stuff as you but "not enough" or "the wrong way" is super immature and petty.
It's exactly this mindset that started the bullshit wars regarding cultural appropriation.
"the wrong way" is super immature and petty.
Oh yeah? Look up stoicism on YouTube. There are wrong ways.
The problem primarily is when a niche interest becomes exploited for profit by capitalists and no longer maintains the community-oriented culture it once had.
It will lose aspects of it that make it unique and special but they don't appeal to the general public, because ultimately making as much profit as possible means attracting as many customers as possible.
Happens to me all the time with music. Be jamming out to a song I've loved for years, right when my fav. artist dropped the album. Then tiktok plays the one hook from one song on their album and people always ask "Oh! Did you hear that on tikTok?!" .... No...no....no 🙄
Oh, no
Oh, no
Oh, no, no, no, no, no
That has happened to me so much in recent years, both with clipped songs and bands/artists I like becoming popular. I don't hold myself with any music pretention, and the vast majority of my "underground" discoveries are just random chance and Spotify algorithm. There is no way I have found to explain "no, I've been listening to them since [insert album]" that hasn't been met with some form of hipster comment.
"I'm not intentionally trying to be better than you, I just happen to be better than you at finding good music on my own"
Oh wait you said not be met with a hipster comment
I mean, there's definitely a skill to finding new good music. I'm not very good at it but I wish I was, it's kind of difficult.
My experience has been different. There's such a wealth of good music out there that I hardly know where to stop. Almost every time I see an artist perform, I want to buy their album.
Now, finding new good music that's also popular is another thing.
Or maybe I legit have bad taste in music, but if so I'm ok with that because I'm having fun.
I think it's definitely possible that the range of music you like is wider than mine, which is definitely not a bad thing. I guess that's part of my problem, I know how to find a lot of music, but I don't enjoy a lot of music i find.
I also tend to latch onto certain things and become a bit obsessive. For example, I've listened to pretty much everything recorded by Asian Man Records since like the 90s haha
The only genre of music I don't much care for is pop country, and there are even exceptions to that
Maybe you don't have to tell people anything at all about how you discovered good music?
"Oh, did you hear about them on TikTok?"
What?
"TikTok. You probably heard that song on TikTok."
Oh ok. I really like their new album. I also enjoy [insert other music you like].
"Yeah, I heard it on TikTok. I really love the 20 version I've heard replayed thousands of times."
Cool. Have a good day.
Just have your favorite band not release a new album for a decade. cries in streetlight manifesto
And why does that impact your enjoyment? Did the song change? Did your ears change?
It sounds like you care too much about the opinions and experiences of others.
I guess that must be the only reason.
Back in the 90s, saying the earth was flat meant you were open to talking through hypothetical science and creating wild theories. You knew the truth, but you never wanted to break kafabe. The sheer sillyness was part of the fun.
Today, saying the earth is flat means youre a flat out moron who lacks other critical thinking skills. It's a warning sign that you also have other troubling thoughts.
Flat earth was so much fun until all of them got roped into Q.
See, this is what I thought we were doing back then too, but I've got a different hypothesis. I believe many of the people we were talking to back then actually really did believe it. I don't think people were any more level-headed back then than they are now -- we just assumed they were joking because that's what we were doing.
I used to have a certificate of membership from the Flat Earth Society (circa 1995). I don't know what happened to it.
My friend flipped when the first ever acknowledgement of Mistborn outside it's own books was Kelsier as a guest character in Fortnite. It was like targeted harassment. I like Mistborn too but it didn't bother me.
Journey before Destination
Strength before Weakness.
I before E.
Except...
... all those other words that don't follow the rule.
Weird that such an ancient rule, purported to be efficient and sufficient, should seize one's conscience and dash them from the sovereign heights of their ideas, making them forfeit any claims to proper spelling.
I await your reply at your leisure.
Life before death
Elhokar before Moash
THESE WORDS ARE ACCEPTED
I just finished the 200 hours of audiobooks because my wife got me into it. Now I’m just sitting here patiently for my next dose from the remaining 300
This comment chain caused me to start reading Elantris
I'm gonna read all of the Cosmere in publication order (I've only read Stormlight Archive so far)
Oh boy. I made the jump from SLA to (kinda) publication order. Going from his most intricate series to his first published book was almost jarring. I still liked Elantris though.
Personally, I read through close to publication order, but grouped series together. Well, I guess it's really just Mistborn and maybe Emperor's Soul with Elantris, but those last ones aren't actually in the same set, just the same planet.
Holy shit I think I blocked this one from my memory. Seriously, now big could the overlap between mistborn fans and fortnite players possibly be?
It's because the author is friends with one of the lead guys over at Epic in charge of the game. They cycle through so many characters that they just start asking their friends for ideas I guess.
GOTO Hell isn’t correct and will lead to a syntax error
20 GOTO 4311 is technically correct but you’re actually going to hell for writing your script this way.
I used to write heaven and hell into scripts specifically for this joke
I used to use Shit or Hell for error handling
So that if you arrive here and things aren't as expected, everything goes to shit and then you can go to hell
Didn't qbasic implement labels?
I remember when gaming and D&D were niche interests. They got popular, and now look at them. 😩
You can actually find a group that manages to play with some regularity?
No, that's still an issue somehow 🤷🏻♂️
"Go to hell is basic. Instead say I hope your DnD group starts to get momentum right at the climax of the campaign, it becomes impossible to get anyone to show up."
Really? For me it's exactly the same as before critroll. "Anyone want to play? Sure I'll DM. See y'all this weekend!"
For gaming I see your point, it looks like everything as to be a money grab nowaday which greatly reduce the quality of a lot of games.
For ttrpg I don't feel like it though. Sure Wizard of the Coast/Hasbro has gone to shit but I left the D&D train a long time ago already. And the amount of other very good and accessible system is amazing. IMO The only thing "bad" that this new popularity bring is players with wrong expectations. Some expect every games and every DM to be of the same quality as Critical Roll or other well known podcast, some exept to find "video games" mechanic like in baldur's gate, some are trying to force the meme stuff inside the game, ect.
I know it's disgusting, there's D&D groups all over my town now, I can't even play all the games that are accessible to me. discusting i say!
It's happened to everyone. I'm sorry, but it would either be too effective or do no damage.
“Enjoy the next 24 hours”
sounds like a threat even though it can mean the same thing as “have a nice day”
Wtf
Dear God....no...
I'm glad that the only gacha that entered normie sphere was Genshin, with all the negative attention it got I wonder how people would react to second job ones like Fate GO and Granblue.
It's great that Blue Archive is impenetrable.I think Grand blue is fairly well known in the US because of their expansion into other game types. Plus the anime. The fighting game is marvelous.
Unfortunately, everyone still thinks of Lost as the show with a bad ending. Even though it's completely misinterpreted.
It was the worst ending of any show I've ever seen. If it is misinterpreted by the masses, then it was clearly done with incompetence.
By any chance, did you watch it when it first came out? Lost was made to be binge watched in an era of television before that was commonplace. It holds up much better if you can watch an episode every few days, instead of once a week.
It's not just the ending is bad. It jumps the shark in like season 4 or something once they start doing the flashbacks
Season 4 is actually regarded to be one of the better seasons of the show, the beginning of season 3 was awful though. Also they do flashbacks throughout the whole show
No the flash forwards I mean the after stuff. Show just was awful from that point forward.
You sound like a hipster taking about music.
Clearly you've never had your blorbo get youtooz'd
... what niche interest is this person talking about? ... is it Star Trek? I'm not sure that makes sense
Except this is all predicated on caring about other people's opinions on your interests, which is foolish to begin with.
If you like something, like it because you like it. Let however other people process the thing be how they process it; it doesn't have to have any impact on how you process it.
No.
GOTO Hellis BASIC.came to post this. was not disappointed someone beat me to it.
Honestly I thought thats what it meant at first for some reason lol.
It might be mildly annoying, I give you that, but throwing a tantrum about people enjoying the same stuff as you but "not enough" or "the wrong way" is super immature and petty.
It's exactly this mindset that started the bullshit wars regarding cultural appropriation.
Oh yeah? Look up stoicism on YouTube. There are wrong ways.
The problem primarily is when a niche interest becomes exploited for profit by capitalists and no longer maintains the community-oriented culture it once had.
It will lose aspects of it that make it unique and special but they don't appeal to the general public, because ultimately making as much profit as possible means attracting as many customers as possible.