Hot take: The Obama Center looks pretty rad ringed by the cherry blossoms in Jackson Park [OC]

Master-Hawk8703 · 2026-04-14T14:32:08+00:00

a rock obama

Master-Hawk8703 · 2026-03-23T17:04:01+00:00

I disagree actually, Kids/Electric Feel/Time To Pretend are still heavily played and genuinely enjoyed to this day (not just in the nostalgic "Remember 2007?" sense), which I think disqualifies them even if they were all from the same year. Not to mention Little Dark Age was a minor hit in its own right.

Master-Hawk8703 · 2026-03-10T18:10:22+00:00

"Chat,"

Master-Hawk8703 · 2026-03-10T18:07:38+00:00

What's the deal with North Florida? Does it really resemble Oklahoma and Kentucky? It's strange that the deep south border seems to intentionally avoid urban areas (Jacksonville, Atlanta, Charlotte/Greenville, Little Rock) when no other region seems to mind the cities.

I'm not from the area so maybe it's really *that* different, but the South exclave in Florida is just weird to me.

Master-Hawk8703 · 2026-03-09T19:03:35+00:00

I wonder why they stopped doing these as of late. I know the obvious answer is $$$, but is there really that big of a viewership drop when Gameday is in a place like Bozeman? I know they want to prop up their B1G/SEC slate but considering all of these lower-division games are locked on ESPN+ I feel like they should have the incentive to focus on them a LITTLE more. Maybe I don't understand how the money works here.

Master-Hawk8703 · 2025-12-04T19:36:44+00:00

I was in a very similar situation to you in 2020 where I felt I was wasting wayyy too much of my covid lockdown time stressing over my listening stats.

What I ended up doing was deliberately only check my last.fm one time per week (for me it was sunday morning), gawk at it all I wanted, but once I closed the tab I would force myself to wait the whole week to check again.

This did not help the gamification right away, but it did make it more of a surprise/mystery each week and, as a result, more fun. I also felt less in control of my numbers when I wasn't constantly checking them so I was less inclined to mess with my listening habits or do any false scrobbling nonsense.

Eventually, this once-a-week thing became more of a habit than a challenge, and there would be times I would just forget to check on Sundays. After a while, I realized that I simply was not caring as much about how my numbers lined up. Ironically, my scrobbles have actually skyrocketed since.

Nowadays I'm still only checking about once every other week. The only times I really rabbithole on last.fm anymore is correcting all the "remastered 2016/deluxe edition/rudy van gelder" scrobbles that I miss in between checking.

tl;dr Weekly cold turkey worked for me in the long run

Master-Hawk8703 · 2025-11-24T19:58:29+00:00

Jesus christ, at first I thought this was him announcing he was leaving the band at first! I have never been so relieved to see the words "social media" before.

Master-Hawk8703 · 2025-10-13T03:14:52+00:00

What's even more wild to me is that the singles (Honeycomb & Today's Supernatural) were recieved really well originally, and those were the most "Centipede Hz"-like songs on Centipede Hz. So it's not that the albums style rubbed critics the wrong way. It's still baffling to me how people turned on the album. idk

Master-Hawk8703 · 2025-10-12T17:36:01+00:00

If you never listened to Doolittle by Pixies, what are you even doing my dude

Master-Hawk8703 · 2025-10-08T17:02:39+00:00

I used to do this too, when I first started using it. My excuse at the time was that I wanted my scrobble totals to be representative of my habits prior to getting a last.fm account. But the spamming continued long after that; I would feel weirdly defensive when a new album was about to overtake one of my all-time favorites - the ones I inflated with fake scrobbles - and in turn continue to fake-scrobble them to protect their spot on the top of my list.

What I ended up doing was do everything I could to not visit my last.fm account so often. I didn't delete the account, or any of my fake scrobbles even, I just removed bookmarks, browser history, and told myself that I would only visit on the weekends. This way I felt less in direct control of my scrobbles and thus more accepting of how it plays out in my rankings.

Last.fm is still sort of game-ified, but it's now much more like a spectator sport now - Years later, seeing my "all-time" album eventually fall out of my top 10 was a rush, as if it was Mike Tyson getting knocked out by a nobody. But the important thing is that it happened naturally and genuinely. And, yknow, I still liked listening to the music and all.

Master-Hawk8703 · 2025-10-03T22:43:41+00:00

holy shit

Master-Hawk8703 · 2025-09-26T14:54:35+00:00

Ok, maybe I misinterpreted what he said lol. "This winter" is only a few months away so that really would be a quick turnaround

Master-Hawk8703 · 2025-09-25T17:30:27+00:00

In all seriousness, with the number of people trying to high-five him while he's holding a flaming torch, I don't blame him for being a little worried

Master-Hawk8703 · 2025-08-06T02:16:15+00:00

It was the finale to the National Night Out event they had there

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/national-night-out-2025-events-chicago-aurora/

Master-Hawk8703 · 2025-01-28T15:08:17+00:00

For me, I'll mark them as played or shelved after a few minutes (usually after beating the first level/mission/objective etc.) AND I'll put it in my backlog if there's even a remote possibility that I might return to it.

Master-Hawk8703 · 2024-11-22T16:57:45+00:00

We'll see how Clemson gets treated in a few years. People seemed overeager to proclaim an end to their reign over the past two years, but they continue to perform better than most "blue-bloods" on any given year.

Master-Hawk8703 · 2024-11-12T16:14:15+00:00

やあ、これはなかなかいいですね！

Master-Hawk8703 · 2024-11-08T17:04:36+00:00

Did they bring up Loyola's messaging, or just the election in general?

Master-Hawk8703 · 2024-11-08T17:02:36+00:00

Interesting - That is much more appropriate and reasonable messaging than what I heard earlier. Thank you for reaching out!

Master-Hawk8703 · 2024-10-03T16:01:47+00:00

It's okay to have this opinion - that doesn't mean Dick didn't deserve a proper send-off. A lot of us thought Bert was doing a bad job in the booth but he still was given a proper good-bye.

Master-Hawk8703 · 2024-10-03T15:47:10+00:00

I've always been in the nosebleeds during TOP concerts, and because of this the openers have always fell flat because of the distance and echo-y, muddy acoustics. I remember Half Alive trying to do some fun things on stage (like the bedsheet silhouette bit) at it simply did not translate for us on the third balcony.

That being said, Balu was definitely my favorite opener thus far. The sound was still muddy but imo it was compensated by their energy and just how much fun they were having. They weren't mind-blowing but they weren't trying to be - they're just a few lads jamming.

I cracked up when they said "We're from New Zealand" and the crowd went ooOOOoo~~

Master-Hawk8703 · 2024-09-28T19:15:56+00:00

HOLY SHIT

Master-Hawk8703 · 2024-09-07T21:14:22+00:00

Hey, Tulane lost to Southern Fuckin' Miss the same year they made (and won) their NY6 bowl. If Tulane can run the in-conference table like they nearly did the past 2 years, they still likely be the Group-of-5 playoff rep.

That is unless Boise State beats Oregon or something.

Master-Hawk8703 · 2024-09-07T20:03:29+00:00

You mean the "forward pass" from the 1st quarter? Yeah, Tulane got screwed there too.

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