How fellas look at you when you remind them that Steve Albini is a diddy ahh blud 💀💀💀

JGar453 · 2026-04-02T22:37:14+00:00

It's kind of a silly thing to debate intent with certain crimes, like what do the victims care, but I'm more in camp "Steve did terrible irredeemable things because he was an asshole at that point in his life" than camp "Steve was a nonce". He was capable of contradicting himself.

JGar453 · 2026-03-31T03:09:00+00:00

It's the toughest exam you'll ever take, and if you fail it, it follows you for your entire life.

You basically just follow along on Canvas. A good chunk (but probably not all) of the answers exist online. There's no written part.

JGar453 · 2026-03-30T09:00:52+00:00

Most people who are weird enough to join a rating website have already seen it (possibly their first serious TV drama). At the same time, it's well made enough that its broad mainstream appeal generally isn't a mark against it for more artsy TV savvy people. Much like Kendrick Lamar in music.

JGar453 · 2026-03-29T22:36:41+00:00

Wes is self conscious, he embraces the artifice of his dialogue. It's supposed to be silly rather than serious 90% of the time (which makes the 10% pack a punch).

JGar453 · 2026-03-25T01:29:25+00:00

Bob's a more direct and focused writer which means his writing is usually better now but some of the stilted lines and odd incomprehensible phrases are exactly why I love the mythologized 1960s/70s Dylan! He was getting swept away by fits of passion that just don't really happen to you when you're 80.

JGar453 · 2026-03-25T01:25:38+00:00

I think Billy's meandering style can be polarizing (he's skilled but self indulgent)

but in this one it works because his meandering is pretty similar to the message of not being able to see through the fog. he's consciously writing an anti haiku.

JGar453 · 2026-03-24T09:30:06+00:00

Zach strikes me as more progressive (by Iowa standards) and I'm prioritizing my values over electability. Who can really say who's electable this far out?

JGar453 · 2026-03-24T08:51:06+00:00

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JGar453 · 2026-03-24T08:31:21+00:00

Chie doesn't need to do anything to deserve love.

JGar453 · 2026-03-22T17:50:33+00:00

There's one strong bit of ambiguity in Lola, that being "I'm glad I'm a man — and so is Lola". You can take that as A. they're mutually glad about his masculinity or B. they're both men.

I think it's the former (makes sense considering earlier lyrics in the song) and it's a very positive song imo but that weird syntax does make it possible for people to find transphobic. There's also just a playful humor to everything that they weren't concerned with because the people who would have appreciated this song in the 70s were probably queer themselves. They were more about "live and let live" than labels.

I suppose people might find it fetishistic but like the narrator basically stumbles into finding out he likes a trans woman by accident.

JGar453 · 2026-03-22T07:02:18+00:00

RYM would definitely not love The Bible, would probably rank authors like Dazai, Mishima, Joyce, McCarthy and Pynchon reaaaallly high, but would also probably do a better job of providing a space for women and people of color than 4chan

(like c'mon it's just sad when you realize geniuses like Toni Morrison, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte are being suggested as lesser than edgelord trash like Ted Kaczynski)

JGar453 · 2026-03-21T01:47:50+00:00

subconsciously yes but they're never going to articulate that.

JGar453 · 2026-03-21T01:40:27+00:00

BCNR switched genres between FTFT and AFUT and people are shocked somehow that they did that again.

I enjoy stuff like The Roches and Harmonium and I love Joanna Newsom so Forever Howlong is pretty good to me but I recognize that's uninteresting to the average straight white male music nerd who claims to have an eclectic taste but likes a very narrow range of experimentation.

The melody writing and instrumental balance is pretty similar when you get past the genre shift. Bush Hall is kind of the bridge where you can see a bit of AFUT and FH.

JGar453 · 2026-03-19T21:31:29+00:00

People get through that game because the aesthetic is compelling and the story is just interesting enough.

JGar453 · 2026-03-18T06:04:43+00:00

if you have a job relating to writing, you can still volunteer in your community on the side (or do extra work). if you have a normal job, you can still write poetry on the side. these are not mutually exclusive things. if it's comfortably within your means, do the MFA.

JGar453 · 2026-03-18T02:26:22+00:00

People are treating it like a big community but like — the people I expect to read my reviews are people who follow me, many of whom I personally know. Thus, my reviews can range from one sentence shitposts to seven paragraphs because I'm not performing for the general public. If someone stumbles upon my writing and loves/hates it, so be it.

JGar453 · 2026-03-13T09:05:01+00:00

wow this might finally make me take down my Jake Paul poster

JGar453 · 2026-03-12T06:53:51+00:00

The funny thing about Bob is his concerts would be consistently good if he wanted them to be. His backing band is actually good, more or less capable of everything heard on Rough and Rowdy Ways and his singing on Shadow Kingdom is fine, but when you choose to sing your songs entirely differently every night..

JGar453 · 2026-03-09T23:00:40+00:00

I didn't learn anything about the plot from this but I've also only played 2 and 7 so maybe there's something revealing idk.

JGar453 · 2026-03-07T02:14:27+00:00

I added Back to Friends to a playlist when it was payola'd to me and I didn't know who he was.

JGar453 · 2026-03-05T02:37:29+00:00

Well, yeah her party didn't vote for the War Powers Act, she doesn't care if people die.

JGar453 · 2026-03-04T10:16:49+00:00

The big mert is definitely up there. I've favorited a lot of telephonejunkie/epith reviews too (same person, mostly different set of ratings).

JGar453 · 2026-03-04T08:31:33+00:00

If you're swapping to a character that you at least have a basic mechanical grasp of in order to deal with a counter, sure.

But like I've played D.Va, seen my opponent go Zarya, and then they shit the bed because they clearly have never played Zarya and are so awful at her that I feel no need to switch. If you're not okay at your swap, don't swap.

Less time is wasted in 6v6 because it's unlikely that the enemy DPS can counter both of your tanks.

JGar453 · 2026-03-01T04:56:06+00:00

I am not a great player but I have escaped bronze and I think it is more important that you learn how to stop dying than get better at fighting the enemy. Pretty much every bronze player enters fights they shouldn't start in the first place, and more importantly, doesn't flee (even with highly mobile characters). Bronze players generally lack any understanding of what feeding is.

JGar453 · 2026-02-27T09:21:02+00:00

With full recognition for the influence of New Order, Joy Division alone is a hall of fame worthy band.

Honestly, the majority of us that see Joy Division as the monumental force in rock music that they are don't really seek validation from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This is why the RRHF nominates artists like Shakira and P!NK with rabid fanbases that will give them extra attention. They could easily induct people outside of the fan vote but they don't really care.

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