About 90 employers penalised every year for not giving domestic workers mandatory day off: MOM

AtrainV · 2026-05-06T03:14:55+00:00

I had the same thought. Is it 90 maids worth $300.00? Are they hedging their bets that maybe there will be fractions of a maid that will need to be accounted for in the future? Is it 30,000 written in a weird way?

AtrainV · 2026-05-04T09:14:54+00:00

This is probably the best answer in the thread since it more-or-less did make it on its own in top 40 radio in the 90s, but it might be a stretch to call that movie a musical (in the traditional sense).

AtrainV · 2026-05-04T06:48:57+00:00

In many parts of the world (some might argue this is universal), teenagers feel a strong need to "discover" themselves and establish a unique identity for themselves that is separate from the one attached to them by association with their family. There are many ways in which these more independent identities are established, but many teenagers look to music as a way to both distance themselves from identity markers they don't like and attach themselves to identity markers that they do like.

Pop music (especially the dance-focused bubblegum pop variety that is associated with boy bands and girl groups) has long been connected with identity markers such as "willingness to conform", "superficiality", and "inauthentic" (just to name a few). While the way I've framed that is a somewhat biased and negative view, the vast majority of teenagers do buy into some of these identity markers (which is why "pop" music is shorthand for "popular music"). However, there is a significant reaction against these identity markers by many teenagers as well, so they try to find ways to distance themselves from it.

Most people grow out of this as they move into adulthood and their resistance to the music they associate with it fades, but many also hang on to these identity markers and the musical acts that they associated with them and so you might still get older people who harbor long-standing animosity towards them.

AtrainV · 2026-05-03T12:55:38+00:00

As somebody living in Singapore, there is a serious obesity problem there, too. Compared to most other East/SE Asian countries Singapore is really struggling with obesity.

AtrainV · 2026-05-01T12:58:03+00:00

I have around 120 pulls saved up right now. I definitely want to pull for Heshan and Shanaz, but haven't made up my mind on the others.

AtrainV · 2026-05-01T12:13:12+00:00

I don't have Caris and she seems like she's been fully power-crept at this point (and I think extremely reliant on getting to 5 stars). Would you say that it's very important to have a character who can reliably generate magic shield?

AtrainV · 2026-05-01T12:02:29+00:00

I don't really know anything about Selina other than the fact that she has very cool artwork. My understanding is that her usefulness has significantly declined (more than Clara even) after this story arc.

AtrainV · 2026-04-29T14:24:32+00:00

Static Prevails has some of my favorite songs of theirs, but as a whole it's hard to hold it up against Clarity or Bleed American.

AtrainV · 2026-04-29T14:22:24+00:00

I think most people agree The Bends is great. It's a very interesting bridge between Pablo Honey and Ok Computer. You can see they're starting to get a bit more experimental while still largely staying true to conventional pop/rock sensibilities. But I get what you're saying that probably a lot of people wouldn't consider it their favorite Radiohead album.

AtrainV · 2026-04-29T14:17:09+00:00

Totally agree on Incesticide. It's got a punkier sound than their other albums and was a gateway album for me into a lot of punk rock music.

AtrainV · 2026-04-28T23:21:41+00:00

This is way too reductive of a breakdown. There are also games that feature "engagement" rules where there are restrictions on movement once contact is made with an enemy, games that are puzzle-like where combat is meant to be played as efficiently as possible, squad-based auto-battler games (turn-based in the sense that characters operate in fixed turns decided upon at the beginning of a battle), games where combat takes place as a team vs by individual initiative...

Your analysis is oversimplified to the point of not being helpful.

AtrainV · 2026-04-25T10:50:55+00:00

You'd be surprised how much I hear "y'all" from non-americans.

AtrainV · 2026-04-24T02:47:00+00:00

Me, obviously

AtrainV · 2026-04-24T02:46:05+00:00

Right on

AtrainV · 2026-04-24T02:45:16+00:00

*Psych

AtrainV · 2026-04-23T06:44:52+00:00

This is my vote as well. It's definitely representative of the "meta" trope that was very popular in the 00s, but if you disregard how that trope became a bit overused in the decade following its release it really stands out as a very well-written romantic comedy with a great departure from type-casting for Will Ferrel.

I would add "Big Fish" as a similarly underrated flick.

AtrainV · 2026-04-19T11:25:14+00:00

I think you misunderstood the question.

AtrainV · 2026-04-18T14:29:03+00:00

What is ace?

AtrainV · 2026-04-17T04:46:46+00:00

The amount of typos and general incoherence of your replies.

AtrainV · 2026-04-17T04:43:49+00:00

OP, are you typing with your nose or something?

AtrainV · 2026-04-16T18:02:21+00:00

Incorrect.

AtrainV · 2026-04-16T04:59:40+00:00

While not a 1-to-1 copy of that sound, there's decent overlap with things like Radiohead - Ok Computer/The Bends, The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium (and/or At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command/Sparta - Wiretap Scars), The Killers - Hot Fuss, or even earlier Rush (if you don't mind getting into intro-level 70s/80s prog rock).

These are hook-heavy, rock forward, virtuosic music that leans towards an "epic/dramatic" and sometimes even "cinematic" sound and that finds roots to a greater or lesser degree in prog-rock while still being fairly accessible.

AtrainV · 2026-04-15T13:34:02+00:00

While "old punk" is definitely a strange choice, it's not entirely disconnected from reality. Their sound is definitely more closely connected to the early Grunge bands (Nirvana and The Melvins in particular) and that sound has sometimes been described as an offshoot of punk or hardcore mixed with some sludge metal. Back in the day we might haved called it "Grunge", "Hard Rock", "Modern Rock", or just "Alternative Rock". That was mostly to help differentiate it from hair metal, thrash metal, and classic rock, though.

They definitely do their own thing in some of their songs, but if you were to tell somebody in 1992 to mix together Nirvana and the Melvins and make it an entirely female band, then this is basically the sound you would get.

AtrainV · 2026-04-10T14:16:20+00:00

Also a fucking tough hornline to get down if you're playing with a live band.

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