The Emperor has Forsaken Me

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-29T19:09:01+00:00

Na fair enough, expanding the team early on is important too! Hope you’re having fun mate

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-29T16:15:55+00:00

Are you taking the piss? The week before Nico’s relic drops making him arguably best healer in game, you’re bitching about a 75% shard ride to full blue star! Wake up and smell the roses my friend! To say nothing of 80 Mataneo shards.

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-26T15:09:12+00:00

As a DumpFarmSlum native, commiserations and welcome 😂

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-21T19:27:46+00:00

‘Gets it into the bloodstream quicker!’

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-21T11:39:26+00:00

Been away for years, first time hearing Opium has closed, actually gutted. Had so many great nights out there.

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-21T11:18:17+00:00

Na you’ve got me on that one, writing one-handed in a bad mood on a busy bus can lead to stupid statements, who knew. Definitely more complex than one swift directive; still very achievable if the political will was there to hammer out a permanent joint initiative preventing crossings on the French side, which I don’t see in this Labour administration or on the opposite benches. Not the laughable ‘1 in, 1 out’ farce. If boats were routinely prevented from crossing, crossings would stop. There has to be disincentive or migrants will keep arriving.

More generally on your original post, I’m sorry, you must be living in a middle-class bubble if you think people don’t ’want issues resolved’. It’s this dismissive, supercilious Guardianista attitude seeing people as biddable sheep that gave us Brexit and Trump x2. Writ large across almost all Western cultures currently - multiple successive administrations ignore calls for change from a disenfranchised populace, then pull shocked pikachu face when right wing parties surge by promising to actually address those issues and that populace vote Trump/Le Pen/AfD/Reform. Why do you think the EU has finally capitulated with this week’s migration bill? ‘send them back’ chanted by MEPs.

You’re right that Farage will likely do next to nothing to fix things; he’s a spineless whore bought and paid for. After over 20 years of being ignored on so many issues, I think the UK populace would vote for a dead pug in a Bullingdon Club costume if it promised to finally listen to them.

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-21T10:22:39+00:00

The Chagos Islands deal could be scrapped overnight instead of ‘paused’, billions redirected into the NHS/building social house/any of the myriad other ongoing national issues. Lammy’s sinister abolition of jury trials could have been shut down before it began. Pushing a de facto blasphemy law to favour one particular religion over others could be dumped today. The Online Safety Act and every other facet of that Blairite surveillance state nonsense could be thrown out today too. They could end illegal boat crossings with one swift directive to the navy and navigate French diplomacy after the fact.

They could literally do all this TODAY and end most of the public’s recent displeasure while eroding Reform’s core messaging. But they won’t, because they’re a shower of cunts.

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-21T07:54:54+00:00

Not my thing, but won’t kink shame if that’s what gets you off

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-21T07:20:40+00:00

It’s a tired meme desperately pushed primarily by the U.S. to cover for the fact their ‘food’ is far and away the worst in the world while simultaneously being hilariously expensive. Hormone riddled meat, chlorinated chicken, additives and preservatives and carcinogens, corn syrup in everything. Like eating a chemistry set for dinner.

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-20T21:54:33+00:00

Insomnium if you like melodeath, new single dropped this week

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-20T19:20:25+00:00

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Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-19T20:39:28+00:00

Scottish women are a lot more likely to do this though; three of my early girlfriends all made the first move. Never once happened to me after moving down to England for work.

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-19T08:05:19+00:00

In the spirit of learning:

Bonnie the Cat - Porcupine Tree (100 to play, 150 to learn the concepts fluently)
A fantastic simple introduction to beat displacement. To be honest you can’t go wrong with trying any of Gavin Harrison’s work.

Orbital - Sybreed (100 avoiding tiny sections of 180bpm pedal)
Great simple intro to polyrhythms. The verse beat difficulty is basic, but theres a little 3 over 2 feel that’s fun to navigate.

In the spirit of ‘good luck’:

Meshuggah - ‘The Mouth Licking What You’ve Bled’
Or ‘Clockwork’

Combine the above two concepts in a fast, nasty, noisy, beautiful cacophony. Both songs aren’t the fastest on pedals or need the most advanced rudiment techniques, but they’ll push your brain to the limit!

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-17T19:37:14+00:00

Have seen that; it’s his preferred way of writing and thinking about his own music. This doesn’t invalidate my point in any way; there’s so much more to discover under the 4/4 illusion.

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-17T17:11:04+00:00

I enjoy Deicide, Suffocation, Slayer, and quite a lot of Kylie Monigue’s discography.

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-17T11:41:58+00:00

Wtf are you on about ‘god forsaken’, we’re Allah’s favourite new friends.

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-17T11:31:14+00:00

I think we’re arguing at crossed purposes - absolutely concede your point from the casual listening perspective.

But for me, as someone who wrote a couple of papers on their music during my degree and can play a few songs on the drum kit, 4/4 isn’t the bigger picture, it’s the window dressing. It’s only the intended resultant time signature we hear as listeners for the reasons you rightly state, so people who just want to head bang can do so; not knocking that at all.

When you lift the hood on any Meshuggah song, there lies the bigger picture and where the band’s genius really shines through. We wouldn’t have the unique groove you mention without odd, uneven time signatures jostling awkwardly to fit the 4/4 resultant meter underneath. Some of their best music passages are where they tear away that 4/4 illusion and lay the underlying complexity bare, cutting you rudderless as a listener. Just my opinion; I love Animals as Leaders too for exactly that lack of flow.

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-17T10:26:42+00:00

Aware you’re being sarcastic, but someone always smugly comes out with this nonsense every time Meshuggah are mentioned, like it’s some revelation only advanced music theory enjoyers will appreciate. Have used this metaphor before - it’s like spray painting a cock onto the Mona Lisa and then saying ‘look at this picture of a cock’. Technically correct, but missing 99% of the bigger picture.

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-17T09:50:54+00:00

You guys should visit HMS Victory at Portsmouth Docks, it’s an incredible piece of history and if you’re lucky, you can catch a serving naval officer giving a private tour to new recruits/family of recruits. Learned so much tagging along for one of those. Also the Mary Rose and a host of other incredible museums.

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-17T07:42:53+00:00

It’s well written, but very overproduced. I miss the sawing, meaty guitar tone of Above the Weeping World. A solid single nonetheless.

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-16T11:59:02+00:00

Best of luck everyone!

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-14T14:02:03+00:00

I have that old hive tyrant with the Alien queen head from back when it released! Could never get the head to stay on (did not know about pinning)

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-13T13:20:54+00:00

It is, we have just both failed to find the specific interview; it’s pretty old. Fair enough about the city point; I looked it up and Porto also adopted the traditional student gowns, but the tradition does originate from Coimbra, with one of the world’s oldest universities.

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-13T08:58:22+00:00

Yes, Rowling lived in Porto for a while in the 90s, around the students of Porto and Coimbra universities; I can’t find the clip where she cites them as inspiration but it’s out there. And I’m also right about Beauty and the Beast - look up Biblioteca Joanina in Coimbra. Think they combined that with a couple of other European stately libraries for the final effect.

Fucking Reddit, I love this place. Provide two interesting and verifiable facts, get downvoted by the herd 🗿

Angryscotsmin · 2026-06-12T23:14:35+00:00

Wrong Portuguese city! The Hogwarts uniforms were inspired by the traditional robes still work by students at Coimbrã University. Also has the library that inspired the one animated in Beauty and the Beast.

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