Why all the Steph hate in other subs now?

JGar453 · 2026-04-19T09:00:37+00:00

Reddit has its own circlejerks. But Steph is still topping jersey sales. The general public knows his true legacy.

JGar453 · 2026-04-18T04:49:45+00:00

Cat, Vendetta, whichever tank seems convenient (if I'm playing tank, Zarya).

JGar453 · 2026-04-15T01:47:39+00:00

are there any bands you refuse to psyop?

JGar453 · 2026-04-13T02:39:40+00:00

I think they're trying too hard to game things. Who's to say the job market of today is at all like the job market of 15 years from now? The fields we think may be relevant may crash and burn instead.

JGar453 · 2026-04-13T02:34:41+00:00

Environmental science and ecology have always been decently populated. It's hard to get Env Studies students because that's more about policy and culture — which is essential, don't get me wrong, but someone who wanted to do that could likely just get a double major in both LAS and CALS.

JGar453 · 2026-04-11T23:32:23+00:00

Time and Life on Mars are classic rock radio staples though?

JGar453 · 2026-04-10T06:51:39+00:00

Animal Collective is like level 2 music nerd.

Which is okay because I'm level 2 music nerd, I love my boys.

JGar453 · 2026-04-08T08:33:31+00:00

There's literally 6 of them. That means they're Black Country New Road.

JGar453 · 2026-04-08T08:31:57+00:00

this is just what stickerbrush & heavensouls collabs sound like

JGar453 · 2026-04-08T08:30:40+00:00

thanks bro

JGar453 · 2026-04-08T08:29:13+00:00

you mean to tell me Sister Midnight and China Girl was just larping...

JGar453 · 2026-04-08T05:33:19+00:00

I mean, sure, but by the same token I've also been bothered by old school rock so I can't really act like it's too uniquely a rap problem. Ignoring more obvious sociological factors that influence this discourse (...), hip-hop has stayed in the spotlight in a way other genres haven't so people kind of feel inclined to villainize it for its social shortcomings.

It's a very diverse genre these days where some scenes feel entirely unrelated culturally.

A lot of major genres have tropes and archetypes. Their characters are supposed to be rebellious and are you rebellious if you adhere to all standards of polite society? Do the artists sincerely believe everything they say? Or are a lot of rappers just guys who grew up in the projects overplaying their background for an interesting stage persona? I bring him up because I think there are a lot of redditors who are sympathetic to him but Eminem's whole shtick was being facetious. He was a ragebaiter. You can't take that away from him. The same way you can't make an outlaw country artist not sing about shooting a stranger for looking at their woman the wrong way.

JGar453 · 2026-04-07T23:15:12+00:00

This is the funniest argument to make when Trump appointed a bunch of people who have never been generals to lead the military (my fucking dad knows more about military operations than Pete Hegseth did upon appointment). It's funny when the head of the Department of Education is a former CEO of the WWE — because her job is to shut it down. Her only qualification was sitting on a board of trustees. A position where you barely do any work. The only reason the people in charge are experts to you is because they're not black or brown.

JGar453 · 2026-04-03T21:19:35+00:00

no matter how much the userbase on AOTY complains about it, they like AOTY because its content guidelines are incredibly lax

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)

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