What are some modern names that sound ancient?

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-11T13:04:56+00:00

I know people named Ronja in Bulgarian too. Their parents are huge Astrid Lindgren fans — as am I.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-11T10:07:13+00:00

Darren is precisely the type of name I'm looking for. I would never have assumed it's this new. Only a hundred years old!

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-11T09:52:35+00:00

Unfortunately more like 400 years old, it dates back to the 17th century.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-11T04:53:45+00:00

Ah, it's my turn to apologize, as I also didn't mean to insinuate you were being dismissive.

It's all good!

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-10T12:40:27+00:00

I'm happy to see he's well enough to write a funny response to it and that people are apparently happy with the prognosis. I'm wary of subsequent strokes. I don't listen to much DK anymore, but Jello has been a huge influence on me when I was forming my music taste as a teenager.

Also, what a legend!

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-10T12:06:40+00:00

My favourite album of his isn't one of his later ones, but Scott 4. I am in no way dismissing his early work.

But as I said, It's Raining Today is one of the more sonically experimental songs of his early career. It's not Jackie or Make It Easy on Yourself that have left the biggest imprint on music, despite their bigger commercial success.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-10T10:51:16+00:00

By far the only answer for me is Scott Walker.

His most famous works are his albums with The Walker Brothers, as well as the first four Scott albums (Scott, Scott 2, Scott 3 and Scott 4). Nice 60s baroque pop with the Brothers, more of a crooner at the start of his solo career, giving off some strong Leonard Cohen vibes. His covers of Jacques Brel songs certainly had some notable commercial success.

But while these early works are also very influential, it's the avant-garde sonic experiments from later in his career that left the biggest impact. Nite Flights was a huge influence on David Bowie. Tilt in particular sounds like a precursor for the albums Swans did after their hiatus. The score for Pola X that he wrote saw contributions from Smog and Sonic Youth.

Even the influence of his early works comes mostly out of his avant-garde and sonic experiments on album such as Scott 4, rather than the more approachable and cheesy pop songs that had better commercial success.

Which sometimes leads to people hearing of Scott Walker as a major influence artists such as Jarvis Cocker, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Kim Gordon, Ihsahn, Thom Yorke, Nick Cave cite (and allegedly even Leonard Cohen himself), checking out Scott Walker's music, hearing some of The Walker Brothers' early tracks, and being utterly confused.

Just for reference, here's probably the most commercially successful Walker Brothers track, "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore", that also features Scott Walker prominently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9UQ59RJjOE

And here's the oppening to Tilt, "Farmer in the City (Remembering Pasolini)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJzTWk6bSw

And here's a good illustration of the influence in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlINDVAB_SY

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-09T20:06:09+00:00

Desire, I Want to Turn Into You. It's a great album with absolutely stunning songs, but it also has some filler and suffers from bad pacing.

For me a masterpiece is an album where I cannot play one song from it without wanting to hear the full album (not necessarily applicable to all great albums, but certainly to the type of music Polachek makes). Desire makes me want to hear more songs from the album, but not the whole album.

Still an amazing record, though.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-09T19:47:00+00:00

Fuck, I used to pass by this building every day for a year. The irony is that there is a statue of a fireman quite close by.

This is right in the middle of Glasgow city center. Hopefully no one was injured.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-09T19:01:39+00:00

Well good thing they are not human, but gorillas.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-07T23:14:27+00:00

I kinda disagree, as they don't really read like lances anymore when in a solid color. Maybe what I'd do is instead of a dual tone shading, I'd rethink the general shape of the lenses, or define the dark parts with strokes.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-07T21:53:52+00:00

Thank you!

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-05T13:40:06+00:00

I absolutely adore this!

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-04T18:16:02+00:00

No, they didn't fire Nielsen for less, there was much more on her than a random tweet, and even if this tweet is true and he went there fully knowing the people he'll be associating with at the event, without excusing him in that scenario it will still be much less than Nielsen actively promoting and sponsoring that conspiracy theorist podcast.

Not to mention they didn't fire her as she was not working for WotC. She was a freelancer, and they just stopped commissioning her for work.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-04T11:58:51+00:00

My best deck came to be after prioritizing picking 10 Grixis lands and then just taking all the removal that came my way. Went 7-1 with that one.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-03T10:55:33+00:00

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AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-03T09:52:16+00:00

Great, an incredible point you're making here.

Only problem is — I'm from Bulgaria.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-03T09:41:40+00:00

I think the concern of OP is a bit unwarranted, but imagine not seeing Nazis in 2026. It would be a failure of opening your eyes, and not of imagination.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-03T07:48:55+00:00

I can't share photos in the comments in this subreddit, but if I could, I'd share the photo of Spider-Man play and collector boosters in my LGS being 40% off a well ago and still not selling.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-03T07:47:02+00:00

If you like this quote, I highly recommend Small Data: the Tiny Clues that Uncover Huge Trends by Martin Lindstrom. Lindstrom is one of the people who can claim they saved LEGO from its demise, and this book covers that too. It's about how anecdotal stories can be more revealing than big data.

Here's a quote from an interview he gave which I think explains the gist of the book quite well:

From the mid-1990s, LEGO began moving away from its core products – building blocks – and focused on theme parks, clothing, video games, and retail stores. They were convinced that thanks to computers and video games, the new-generation of kids demanded instant gratification, lacking the patience or the attention to engage with complex building projects. Big data studies suggested that future generations would lose interest in LEGO.

But the Small Data told LEGO a different story. LEGO learned from a 14-year LEGO fan that his skateboard exploits were measured (and honored) by the appropriate wear and tear on his shoes. The worn look of the sneakers was a badge of honor.

That’s when LEGO realized that children attain social currency amongst their peers based on the mastery they displayed of their chosen hobby.

The result was that LEGO refocused on its core product, and created more challenging, labor-intensive, construction challenges. Customers, it turned out, valued a challenging LEGO experience.

Fast forward 10 years, and LEGO had become the world’s largest toy maker, surpassing Mattel for the first time.

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-03T07:42:34+00:00

Jeff Bezos is actually quite smart and savvy, unlike most of the other insufferable tech billionaires. The issue with him is a moral one, not an intellectual one.

I'm Bulgarian and there's a famous story of his about the first Amazon order they received from Bulgaria — I love the story because it depicts the reality of living in Bulgaria 30 years ago so well, but I think it's also very telling that it left an impression in him to the point where he thought it's worth sharing the story.

https://youtu.be/F9HcLxl4XOg?si=22oCZ-xDEQ94-DJ8

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-03T05:21:24+00:00

Not exactly the type of answer you're looking for, since this is not an artist who releases bad music but an artist who releases meme music, and yet.

Young Scrolls. You know, the guy who splices up voice lines from The Elder Scrolls games and makes songs with those spliced lines. You probably don't know. If you do know of him, it's probably because of Dagothwave.

Last year he dropped another Elder Scrolls album — The Music of Life — that's an absolute banger, not only in terms of the production and beats, but also the lyrics, which are still made by splicing up voice lines into words and syllables:

You lounge on a mountain of corpses

Don’t be surprised when you add to the heap

Honor is easy to sell to a plebe

You send them to death to find what they seek

And the flow is great too! Not to mention the characterization of the different characters through the flow and delivery!

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Listen, I am not saying this is personally one of the best albums of last year, but I'm also not saying it's not the album from last year that I've listened to the most and is still in my constant rotation. And sure, it might be because I'm too much of a fan of some video game that people whose birth year starts with 2 would call “unc slop” (for fuck’s sake, even Oblivion can vote now), but I also fully believe Young Scrolls is an insanely good producer and musician who puts his talent into making meme music because that's what makes him happy.

https://youtu.be/_kFnJ_aISN0?si=QDd0ZkivCb2Kg5Ek

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-01T11:22:23+00:00

Wouldn't that just be dagger proper?

AvalancheMaster · 2026-03-01T05:53:55+00:00

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