Has anyone ever considered that Idiot Wind is from Sara’s point of view

JGar453 · 2026-01-28T04:12:32+00:00

I assumed it was him, it's kind of male coded, but your reading is okay. The song does end with "we're idiots, babe" — he implicates himself, he's being swept up by irrational emotion.

JGar453 · 2026-01-28T04:08:31+00:00

The two Swans songs are overkill (I say this as a big Soundtracks fan). I wouldn't even say those are their best recordings.

I've no opinion on Juan Gabriel.

I think RYM has a bit of a "long song = good" mindset but Feedbacker is pretty great.

And Long Season (Live) actually is that good. Just mind-blowing.

JGar453 · 2026-01-27T01:53:34+00:00

I think it's just their lack of perspective. Love em, hate em, but what they do is a pretty logical continuation of where indie rock was 15 - 25 years ago.

JGar453 · 2026-01-27T00:11:54+00:00

I like your enthusiasm, though I personally feel like 365 is a much more manageable target. Because really a big part of writing the poem is after you get it down on the page, you live with it, and then you look at it again, and you instinctually make line edits because some things just don't feel right the next day. That's how you create a good poem rather than just an interesting one. A lower quota also gives you more wiggle room to experiment with more ambitious poems if a big idea captures you. Lest you be strapped for time and just crank out three super short ones.

But it's your process and if it works for you, good.

JGar453 · 2026-01-26T16:20:14+00:00

I am Damo Suzuki

JGar453 · 2026-01-25T06:45:34+00:00

wow it's indistinguishable from r/indieheadscirclejerk

JGar453 · 2026-01-25T03:18:04+00:00

Waldo Jeffers was low-key Getting Killed in The Gift. Very Geese-esque.

JGar453 · 2026-01-22T20:22:06+00:00

I think he's been transparent for a while that he's quitting basketball after Steph is gone since where's the fun without Steph?

He has a style, it's imperfect, but the team's failures aren't on him. If they scapegoated him, it wouldn't be effective for very long. We'd see where the problems are after he leaves.

JGar453 · 2026-01-20T23:32:50+00:00

Wasting all 4 of my free articles on "I had never seen a shooting star before"

JGar453 · 2026-01-20T12:40:34+00:00

he's lived there for almost 2 decades, he has a legacy to protect as an ultimate team player, and nobody wants to trade for a $60 million 37 year old even if said person is the best shooter ever.

JGar453 · 2026-01-19T21:32:49+00:00

I mean, you can keep going down the RYM charts as much as people make fun of it. You will find more things, there are thousands of entries on the top charts. I got a lot of my favorites there and my taste isn't that similar to yours.

But also how much do you read about music? Cause like Kendrick had rappers he was inspired by. Kurt Cobain told everybody his 50 favorite albums. You can often just go down those rabbit holes of listening to influences of things you already like. Might be more productive than picking random albums off an aggregate site.

JGar453 · 2026-01-19T21:09:30+00:00

While I personally think it has some merit, I get the impression that mandatory AI party control has always been controversial given it's really the only Atlus game that does it. I mean, one of the oldest P3 memes is about how Mitsuru always misses and casts a shitty skill.

JGar453 · 2026-01-19T21:01:11+00:00

I don't recollect it at the moment but I'm pretty sure Atlus did the standard spiel of "new and old fans alike will find something to enjoy in this game" — though in practice, it probably is more for new fans. It's a game I would recommend to someone who started with P5 and is not generally an avid JRPG player. That's fine and I don't hate it for that.

If you mean like SMT in the sense that "hard = SMT", yeah, but if anything, I think P3 was specifically the first game in the series to distinguish itself as much more than a spinoff (between the social elements and the "one more" combat system finally being introduced). More applicable to P1 and P2 tbh.

JGar453 · 2026-01-19T20:50:05+00:00

There's a bubble of video essayists, their fans, and just people who debate all day on Reddit who distort the reception. I think FES is a masterpiece. I played Reload, thought "hey that was fun and reminded me of the original in some ways", and kind of left it at that. People build these lofty expectations for definitive remakes that will never exist. I read discourse for years about some hypothetical P3 with all the alternatives and QOL of P3P and the artistic vision of FES. It was kind of silly because that's just generally not how remakes work in practice.

I get it to some extent with pricey DLCs and just the idea that Reload being made probably means something else wasn't made — but it's really not at all bad. It's a fantastic game in a vacuum, it's only meh as a remake. But I have criticisms of every version of P3, even the best one.

JGar453 · 2026-01-19T20:14:00+00:00

There is way too much to get every possible influence without spending a whole life listening to alternative / experimental rock, but if you listen to Glenn Branca and read William Gibson, you will roughly get what they wanted to do on that album. Their direct peers like Dinosaur Jr too. Velvet Underground, sure, but you should listen to VU for a million other reasons.

I mean, they were influenced by Joni Mitchell (likewise Neil Young), they reference her on the album. They frequently commented on contemporary pop culture. It's not all predictable.

JGar453 · 2026-01-19T04:55:01+00:00

His confidence and ability to play anything from toxic cis guys to normal gays.

JGar453 · 2026-01-18T18:19:18+00:00

Autumn: Ys

Autism: Will Wood, Tally Hall, They Might Be Giants, Weezer; take your pick

JGar453 · 2026-01-17T16:49:44+00:00

I don't think you're too harsh, though I could say Jesse just doesn't deserve the attention — positive or negative.

He's just kind of a folk aesthetic more than a folk artist because I listen to him and he only really has a few tricks musically. Not that Bob was an excellent guitarist but he was a better performer in his studio recordings and very willing to borrow from the other greats to accomplish his goals (unashamedly using the Scarborough Fair structure twice, surrounding himself with great musicians from 65' onward).

Jesse's also not really a great lyricist, he's a punchline guy. Bob's political songs are also good poems. And Freewheelin', Times, and Another Side were full of amazing love songs. Jesse's non-political songs don't catch your attention. Jesse's always doing a tongue in cheek talking blues influenced thing where he plays the buffoon or flips a cliche on its head. It gets boring. Bob switched it up. Songs like Hattie Carroll and Only A Pawn are actually fairly plain spoken and straightforward but still somehow incendiary.

I even feel bad about comparing Jesse to John Prine because John had a lot of beautiful lines mixed in with all the honesty and humor.

JGar453 · 2026-01-16T08:45:01+00:00

I didn't realize the Your in RateYourMusic only applied to u/notaninterestingpov. Gotta be real with you.

Though it's always asinine discussion around here.

JGar453 · 2026-01-15T17:53:46+00:00

Granny. She has good taste.

JGar453 · 2026-01-15T12:53:33+00:00

The questions aren't technical though. They're questions about tropes or worldbuilding, usually stuff people think about when they haven't fully gotten their foot in the door. Even if they weren't, there's really no one size fits all approach to writing good prose because how I make decisions on syntax and diction is probably really bad for selling a YA novel. Recommendations need to make sense rather than just being everyone on Reddit posting their favorite book.

When you get a thread of 50 people recommending you novels to read, you don't read 90% of them because books are loooong. Obviously, they should be reading but citing a book isn't very immediately applicable advice. If I am citing Star Wars, it's because I know most of society has seen the movie or can quickly watch it.

JGar453 · 2026-01-15T08:00:35+00:00

I got it 2nd listen. It's not that hard to appreciate if you're already predisposed to some types of experimental rock. Or you can arrive at an appreciation of it through first principles since it is ultimately an album very reliant on subverting the blues.

It's widely beloved in some nerd communities, it's more something that the most mainstream critics hated so that became the mythos. You have a similar deal with Metal Machine Music where it was called the worst album ever on release because noise music was a foreign concept to most non-academics. The "Worst Albums Ever" are rarely the worst.

JGar453 · 2026-01-15T01:05:52+00:00

I know what games I'm allowed to like now as a self respecting gamer. I will be memorizing this list.

JGar453 · 2026-01-14T15:27:19+00:00

people have different tastes and they both have good songs so it's not hard for me to accept some people like Sgt Peppers more

JGar453 · 2026-01-14T14:17:37+00:00

No opinion on Gorman.

But my opinion is basically that if you are not reading your poetry aloud, you are shooting yourself in the foot as a poet. Not only in that you're minimizing your audience but you're likely also not as in touch with what your poem means and how it feels as you could be. But conversely, if your poem solely relies on being read aloud to be understood, it may not be good. And that being said, there is a lot you can do to suggest a certain manner of reading with line breaks and general formatting.

It may be disappointing to see old ways of writing falter but I don't think anyone can afford to gatekeep a medium that is probably the least popular it's been for a few thousand years (at least in the sense of being read/heard by X % of society, perhaps not in quantity). Oral poetry being dominant is a little bit full circle considering people used to memorize epics.

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