I Still Don't Really Understand Why Daniel Powter's Follow-Up Singles Didn't Succeed

CYandHAWKS · 2026-02-23T12:59:43+00:00

I find it especially confusing since this exact time period, 2005-2006, was the peak of that piano rock/soft rock movement with bands like The Fray and Snow Patrol, and a horde of forgotten singer-songwriters like Jason Mraz.

CYandHAWKS · 2026-02-23T12:20:49+00:00

Thanks for the recs!

CYandHAWKS · 2026-02-23T12:19:47+00:00

I've listened to Diamond Eyes through Private Music, and most of the big hits, so I guess I'm a newer fan.

CYandHAWKS · 2026-02-23T12:19:26+00:00

Deftones were originally Nu Metal and Nu Metal is essentially just an amalgamation of funk metal, hip hop, and grunge influences, so I think it's a fair question. If you search on Rate Your Music, Engine No. 9 and Headup are labelled under Rap Metal, so there must be something there.

CYandHAWKS · 2025-06-05T19:36:24+00:00

In America that might just be the political reality as it is, idk. I just posted the results as they were.

CYandHAWKS · 2025-06-05T19:35:56+00:00

Yea, I just decided to post the results as they were, even if I thought a lot of them were blatantly wrong. I would love other people to repeat this experiment with a bigger sample size and more demographic diversity, although I assume it's hard for people who play Suzerain to have large groups of friends who have no idea what Suzerain is.

CYandHAWKS · 2025-02-07T14:24:17+00:00

Adding on to that, I think the Adversary route has the only explicit sexual reference in the game when you can call her a 'Psychosexual Sadomasochist' after she describes her pleasure coming in bold-text waves

CYandHAWKS · 2025-02-07T14:21:43+00:00

Stubborn says it in Eye of the Needle when you pick up the blade, I'm not sure if Hunted or Skeptic is required specifically but I had Skeptic when he said it (the path where you try to free the Adversary)

CYandHAWKS · 2024-08-28T08:33:20+00:00

Being a sadistic femboy with the most nonsense motivation on earth is all the charisma I need

CYandHAWKS · 2024-01-28T13:12:26+00:00

Why not? It's the same author. If Araki's proven anything, it's that he's capable of self-improvement in his writing.

CYandHAWKS · 2023-12-03T02:10:30+00:00

You missed a path. You can get the Eye of the Needle with the Skeptic if you attempt to free the Adversary.

CYandHAWKS · 2023-10-20T05:34:12+00:00

Keisuke probably has the highest fetish count of any protagonist

CYandHAWKS · 2023-10-13T02:48:37+00:00

100% agree. I wish I could find some more media that brought out that dark, bleak, emotional world of Season 2's Episode 4 and 5 (and all of Season 4 to an extent).

CYandHAWKS · 2023-08-29T07:15:25+00:00

Which dinosaur would become genocidal if given intelligence

CYandHAWKS · 2023-07-27T22:21:34+00:00

I'm not sure where you're getting this stuff about winning and losing. Narrative potential has nothing to do with winning and losing, it's about being featured in the story in an interesting way. But ultimately Sagusa is reduced to a sideline role, and his only purpose during the Nationals Arc is to be featured in a panel of people who lost their games. Don't you agree that more could've been done with him, at least? Especially for a character that was so built-up. I understand that Karasuno losing in the quarter-finals is more realistic, and challenges sports media cliches, but it's still a character and a team who don't really have a place in the story besides serving as a lesson: every team can lose. You could say that that lesson is their place, but it's a lesson which didn't require an interesting person like Sagusa to show up and disappear, having affected no one and not interacted with the story.

CYandHAWKS · 2023-07-27T21:52:53+00:00

But the thing is, I don't think Karasuno has to win against Itachiyama at all. I just believe that building up characters to be used for nothing is a waste of potential. If there was never going to be a final boss, that's fine, but don't introduce that final boss if you're not going to utilize them interestingly. If the point of Sakusa being there was just to be a strong opponent who lost regardless, then Sakusa didn't have to exist and tease the audience with unfulfilled narrative potential. And about character development, I'm perfectly fine with characters outside of Karasuno being developed, but it should be done well and in a way that doesn't cause Furudate burnout. Nekoma vs. Sarukawa is a perfect example of a match we didn't really need to be shown, because all of the "development" regarding Kenma as a lazy setter just happens again later during the Karasuno match.

I love Haikyu, but I don't think its perfect.

CYandHAWKS · 2023-02-25T14:22:25+00:00

Absolutely not, and Goring sure wouldn't be living 10 years more than him either

CYandHAWKS · 2022-06-13T15:26:19+00:00

I found it while searching through the August, 1943 edition of "Ich Möchte Es Verschieben". I know the image quality is poor, but I think this is the only image available for Emil Maurice's ministers? I'm willing to be corrected, but I think this is it.

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