Free speech absolutist doing free speech absolutist things.

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This is our regularly scheduled reminder that we absolutely need celebrity death match to be brought back.

Someone just rip the idea off if the rights are unattainable.

-$400B

And the war persists.

First three were excellent. I cant imagine a valid criticism of those.

I didn't know there was a 4 or 5.

The third rounded it off nicely as a trilogy. It didn't need more.

Functional. Things are stable. I suppose a bit overwhelmed by an excess of things on todo lists and a lack of reasons to do them. So the couch is getting a lot of my me time.

Something's off and I can't pin it to anything other than the ever present depression and anxiety, the panic attacks that come with it.

I need to exercise more. Living rurally is making neither exercising nor socializing an easy out, and I need to fix that.

😂

Holy shit, did Putin give Iran the pee tapes or something?

I don't think the USA has ever had such a humiliating loss in war.

Could he have gotten a worse deal?

Turned on him?

Is he in shackles?

I think trolling Trump is something on every world leaders bucketkst after seeing how Iran ended.

Not trolling the US makes you look weak. Trolling the US is insanely easy when you have an demented old man sundowing in the oval office.

Education is a problem, yo. I see so many folks on this app run propaganda for the regime while simultaneously talking like they're not about it. "Just following orders" is criminal but carrying water for an enemy ain't too different.

You don't learn the lesson again by disguising yourself and asking the question again. Are you a crazy person

You're changing the wrong variable. Comically wrong. This does not produce learning.

And Hillary's election bid cost us the 2016 election. She ready to own that yet?

Network engineering is hilarious as well.

Oh I don't find it unpopular.

I think the term "poser" is what makes the term "gatekeeper" negative.

Go to an opeth show as a 20 something. Tell a 40cyear old your favorite song is grand conjuration.

You meet a real one, and you'll get a polite lecture. "Dude that song was their death rattle. That was the mandatory road runner records track. They made a music video! So lame!"

And you turn up a bit and listen

"... porcelain heart is akerfeldt apologizing to lindgren for The Grand Conjuration, it symbolized him chasing the rock star dream so hard it drove his best friend away from the project."

And there is your valuable gatekeeper. In a sentence, they turned you from a casual fan to someone deeply interested in the bands history and current trajectory. You're no longer just a fan that digs the sounds. You know something you could have never pieced together if you didn't meet this mega nerd wizard.

Then you listen to the two songs back to back and see the two songs nearly share a chorus for guitars! He recycled lindrens part!! Off by one chord! How has no one anywhere else on the internet ever brought this up beyond the tonal similarity?!

Desperately trying to get an ICE agent killed right now so they can try to fuck with elections.

They're fucking desperate.

No, we need to be able to charge a subscription fee to our data. That's the fucking answer no one's brought up.

30 free trial? Oh you want my CC info? Yes, sure. That'll be $3.99/mo for my CC data, cookies collected for this transaction, PII, etc. I'll need indisputable proof that you and nobody else are no longer using it in order to stop charging you.

So let me unpack it a bit. The band almost broke up recording Deliverance/Damnation, but iirc, it was a mix of Martin Lopez and his overwhelming anxiety, struggling to finish recording tracks, and that Peter had seemingly checked out.

Then during Deliverance, Akerfeldt said:

“Peter pissed off right as we were about to start recording the guitars: ‘I’m going to a party, I’ll be away for a week or two.’ I guess he lost interest. He didn’t really play rhythm guitar on the records. I did most of it because he wasn’t there.” source

"[Peter was] showing enormous disrespect to me, to the band, to himself, as a guitar player" source

But that was all before the records/songs in question. Long after Ghost Reveries, in 2021, Akerfeldt said (beginning to soften his harsher takes on Lindgren, and own some fault):

"On Still Life, Peter didn’t contribute at all. He would never say anything, but I could tell he was not happy about that. I think it made him feel small, like I didn’t allow him. On Blackwater Park, he wrote a couple of riffs that we put in the heavier verses of Dirge For November, and I wrote the rest.” source

Ultimately, Mikael expressed regret over the way he had treated Peter.

Perhaps most strongly to my point (going to edit my original post with this probably):

Akerfeldt on Watershed: "This one was all personal lyrics." He said it wasn't a concept record - the songs came out of what had happened in his life, namely becoming a father again and the lineup changes (i.e. Lopez and Peter leaving) source

Funny enough, this interview that touches on the Mikael and Peter relationship seems to feature Porcelain Heart. Maybe someone else shares my theory.

Every band will put on a unique show that is more distinct between bands than the experience of listening to them on your headphones.

The music is physically pushing the air in the venue. You can feel it in the neat packed between your bones.

IF YA SMELL...

I am upset that I count > 64 post its.

It's so close to perfection.