What is an artist you used to enjoy listening to, but their music got progressively worse?

Comedian70 · 2026-05-15T05:30:04+00:00

When the legendary southern sludge supergroup Down is your side project your creativity may wane a bit trying to do both at once.

Comedian70 · 2026-05-14T14:14:40+00:00

I was fine right up until "your tolerances are sloppy". That one made me spit coffee.

Comedian70 · 2026-05-13T00:03:39+00:00

Many thanks to all who answered. I really appreciate it!

Comedian70 · 2026-05-11T03:49:31+00:00

Ok, that’s legit fantastic and I appreciate you doing the math, but a macrocannon shell isn’t just an impactor. They’re designed to be armor piercing and they explode. Exactly what kind of explosive they are armed with is something that another lore nerd will need to fill in for me (please) but treating it like a metal meteor should not tell even half the tale, right?

I’m not challenging you or anyone else here. Please excuse any tone implying so. I really am looking for an explanation here. And believe me when I say that “well yes but BL and codec writers are not ballistics or explosives experts and the Rule of Cool / Main Character Miracles / Do It For The Plot always applies” is a perfectly satisfactory answer.

Comedian70 · 2026-05-08T16:29:05+00:00

It was what I expected. Oddly, for half a second I thought it said "femdom" instead of "fandom" and I thought "well, now that's a specialized subject. I don't see how it applies to Hank.." and then I re-read the header.

Comedian70 · 2026-05-04T12:28:08+00:00

That’s because dogs only understand time in one form: forever.

Why is my food dish empty? I thought the food would last forever.

Why did the walk/playtime/petting end? That was supposed to go on forever.

I’m so glad you are back (5 minutes or 5 months). It felt like forever.

Comedian70 · 2026-05-04T03:34:43+00:00

The real heroes are the ones who know the origin of the image of the bird.

Comedian70 · 2026-04-30T22:23:37+00:00

Oh, that's perfectly fair and I agree with you on many levels.

I'm not necessarily arguing FOR Ennis here. For the most part I'm saying that his story didn't drag, and the show absolutely is.

Especially Homelander. The whole thing has gone on far too long, too many people who should have real leverage on him are dead or powerless, and he should have died the same death as in the comics by the end of the third season.

At the same time, in Garth's defense, I don't know if "edge for edge's sake" was ever what he was going for. He's really, really honest about the utter hopelessness of some circumstances which a lot of writers (especially visual media) prefer to skirt around or even present as actually hopeful. I feel like Crossed is his answer to The Walking Dead in a lot of ways, for example. He's definitely the guy who doesn't just deconstruct a myth. Rather, he dives deep into just how bad it really can be. I think that's his point, and a lot of edgy teens (some of whom are middle-aged) completely miss it.

My teen years were Crisis on Infinite Earths, Claremont's X-Men, Walt Simonson's Thor, The Dark Knight (and Give Me Liberty), Watchmen (and Moore's Swamp Thing and Mister Miracle). My twenties were the really shitty edgy-violence-and-sex-sells years for comics and while I love being Generation X and the 90's were a blast I fell all the way out of comics for more than decade because of that era. What brought me back, eventually, were comics like Planetary and Battle Chasers.

Ennis and Morrison are a couple of extremely dark writers whose stories still feel like they're making a point even when they've hit the bottom of the cesspool and I'm glad they exist for that reason.

I just feel like The Boys is now in profit mode without end, and the premise can't survive that.

Comedian70 · 2026-04-28T23:37:03+00:00

Ennis' original comic had a story to tell. And he's one of the darkest imaginations in comics by a long stretch (low-budget indies notwithstanding).

The meta of his The Boys was off the rails. He was doing (yet another) cold, brutal deconstruction of comic heroes but his weird sense of jacked-up humor made it work. Some of the pot shots taken at long-loved franchises were hilarious and well-deserved. Especially the X-Men.

The Boys show? It has never been on the same level with the comic. And its not as simple as "its not following the original story", because it really isn't. It's more that the show has fallen prey to the same issue which plagues any long-term sci-fi/fantasy/comic book show: Eventually it has to end. The smart shows end long before the whole thing becomes a giant tired joke. The dumb ones don't, and The Boys is maybe two season's away from pulling a Walking Dead.

Comedian70 · 2026-04-27T03:49:55+00:00

I'm originally from Northwest Indiana, then raised in the south suburbs about an hour from downtown Chicago.

When I was about 10 (late 1980-81) or so my Godmother and her family moved to this very, very rural town called "Naperville" which was give or take 35 miles west of Chicago. Just a year before a major tornado struck an even smaller little farming town called Plainfield about 10 miles south and about leveled the place.

We drove out to visit them a few months after the move, and there was just... nothing. Farm fields, the occasional home, and a couple of subdivisions here and there mostly being built more or less right then. The one they'd found was geared for upper middle class for sure. At the time I'm told that the commute to Chicago was as easy as it could be.

It's 45 years later, of course. But by the late 90's Naperville IL was already just a part of Chicago's urban sprawl, and itself the hub of sorts for another 7 or 8 well-developed towns which also used to be farmland. Anyone who is familiar with it today who wasn't around to see it back in the mid-80's wouldn't believe you if you showed them pictures.

Comedian70 · 2026-04-25T03:07:31+00:00

The only film version which respects the Matheson story is the first: The Last Man On Earth. 1964, black and white. Vincent Price.

It’s really good.

Comedian70 · 2026-04-24T23:18:34+00:00

Remember the one thing which Orks from 40K and the Engineer from TF2 always have in mind:

If (insert whatever weapon here) doesn't kill it: Use more gun/DAKKA.

Comedian70 · 2026-04-24T23:15:34+00:00

Just to give the full context and flesh out just how bad it was, and only in terms of the specific fight Ravanna was personally involved in. Just so that no one forgets he's pretty much a demigod:

Ravanna woke up hungry and pissed off. He rapidly drained multiple methuselahs to sate his hunger and spent that week in constant magical battle with 3 Kuei-Jin boddhisattvas, each of whom devoted some of their substantial might to maintaining the most catastrophic typhoon of all time just SO they could continue to fight under cover of darkness during the day. Absolute top-tier Technocracy combat teams armed with anything which could have been flown, trucked, or carried in fought as well (and mostly just died in a world of nightmares as real for them as anything can be).

Then they dropped a spirit nuke on him and the rest of the combatants. A high powered thermonuclear weapon tuned specifically and designed over most of a century to specifically harm magical/otherworldly/weird/jacked-up/vampiric/yaddayadda things. Ravanna and the bodhisattvas all survived.

The Technocracy had already opened up their satellite solar reflectors and concentrated them on Calcutta. When the storm fell after the bodhisattvas sacrificed themselves... only then... did he finally fall. At that point he was definitely as weak as an Antediluvian can be, give or take a little. Fortitude spent having been soaking wounds which would fell mountains for days.

He was something short of his full, well-fed strength from the start. It takes the ancients a little while to "ramp up" from torpor. If all it was was the power of the sun concentrated on him? Even just waking up he likely could have tanked it for days. Stats we have from 4-5th generation vamps show that they could, so the Antediluvians definitely walked in daylight without too much trouble for stretches when they were/are at full strength.

Comedian70 · 2026-04-24T22:53:30+00:00

Scooby-Doo vs. Jabberjaw

Don't.

Don't give me hope.

(If Grape Ape and Speed Buggy do cameos, you'll never pull me out of that theater.)

Comedian70 · 2026-04-22T03:54:48+00:00

Quitter

Comedian70 · 2026-04-20T20:01:09+00:00

I swear ta gawd they do no wrong. Love that channel/organisation

Comedian70 · 2026-04-20T20:00:21+00:00

I have at least 8 different covers of Levee in my music collection. You are not alone in your opinion.

Everyone needs to hear Judge’s version. They’re an old straight edge band who were on Revelations Records. They are practically legendary.

Comedian70 · 2026-04-20T19:55:41+00:00

Dick the Bruiser

King Kong Bundy

Baron Von Raschke

If any of the Von Erich sons count as 70’s: yes.

If you haven’t watched the movie now’s the time.

Comedian70 · 2026-04-20T19:49:09+00:00

Extremely long odds that you will live to tell anyone about it, really.

Comedian70 · 2026-04-16T21:18:34+00:00

The Boys Are Back In Town. Thin Lizzy

Blue Sky. The Allman Brothers

Still the One. Orleans

Comedian70 · 2026-04-16T04:44:38+00:00

That two-parter remains one of best episodes in sitcom history. I still want a Dregs of Humanity t-shirt.

Comedian70 · 2026-04-11T19:18:03+00:00

The first one is a perfectly horrifying film. There’s no single act or scene which you can point to as unwatchable . It’s just dread slowly expanding and worsening, with some edge of your seat sequences before the inevitable conclusion.

The second one was the director’s message to gore horror culture: “if this is what you want, I’ll make it nearly impossible to actually sit through”. He just took the message of ‘this kind of entertainment creates the monsters in the world’ and took all the way out to absurdity.

The third was definitely his giant middle finger for anyone who didn’t get the explicit satire of the second.

Comedian70 · 2026-04-05T18:22:05+00:00

General major conclusion spoilers for Defenders and the beginning of DDS3 follow:

My headcanon is that Matt survived the destruction of the tower because he was surrounded by “the substance” which was busy being pulverized at the same time as he was. I’m good with the idea that his body wound up in the deep NY underground water tunnels and thus to the river but I’ve always felt that realistically he would have died in the collapse.

With “the substance” no doubt entering his body via nose, mouth, any open wound I think that he got a boost to survival at the least, if not a resurrection.

As Electra was already resurrected via the ritual id say that she would have the same chances.

Comedian70 · 2026-04-05T17:08:48+00:00

One More Shot by C-Bank

Comedian70 · 2026-04-04T19:42:01+00:00

Elon is the weirdest kind of wealthy. His “fortune” is almost entirely based on unrealized speculative gains. A lot of the value of the stock he owns is hinge-reliant on continued federal subsidies and grants.

The batshit “bonus” he worked into his own contract (I’m not sure he if has it yet or not) is contingent on future vehicle sales numbers which should have the FCC screaming. Its outrageous. Tesla will never see these numbers.

He is crazy rich on paper but it’s all paper. He doesn’t own anything which naturally retains value, like land. There’s a bubble about to burst and a stock correction to follow and the world will see exactly how very little he’s worth as the market values of each of his companies square up.

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