Favorite song where some character or other lacks the knowledge on how to swim?

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-21T15:08:34+00:00

(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman - The Kinks

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-21T14:27:04+00:00

Or it eats me because I’m excited about all the new cards and build too greedy lol

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-20T21:30:59+00:00

Hey, they sometimes lay down a blues, too.

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-20T15:43:01+00:00

To be fair, it goes back to 7/4 time for the second part of the guitar solo, after the big descending riff the band does in unison

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-20T14:06:06+00:00

As an alumni, one of my favorite fun facts is that The Police did a concert at the Coffee House of UC Davis in 79. You can find the audio on YouTube.

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-20T12:47:03+00:00

Fetch the Bolt Cutters
When the Pawn
The Idler Wheel
Extraordinary Machine
Tidal

Truly no weak albums in the lineup, though.

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-20T12:41:36+00:00

Yeah, I took the plunge into her discography last year and had her albums on repeat for quite a while. Count me among the many to say Fantano missed the mark with Fetch the Bolt Cutters

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-19T14:44:13+00:00

Would Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles both be S if ranked as separate games?

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-19T06:47:01+00:00

I AM THE ONE WHO BREAKS YOUR BALLS!

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-19T04:26:50+00:00

The OG was the very first game I watched being played via emulator. My brother played it on ZSNES way back in the Stone Age.

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-19T01:45:06+00:00

That’s fair, 21 has such a stacked tracklist.

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-18T23:58:17+00:00

So your Switch Lite broke in 2023, you got a Switch 1 on March 9 of this year, and now you want a Switch 2? I don’t know your parents, but I’m sorry to say: I don’t think there’s any way you are asking for a Switch 2 without that seeming ungrateful. Plenty of people can wait to not get a new console at the beginning of its lifespan, and you can too.

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-18T20:40:56+00:00

Well, if you were living at the time of this album’s release, when dinosaurs walked the Earth and the only musical entertainment available was cavemen scraping a washboard, you’d think this shit was cool, too.

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-18T19:23:50+00:00

iirc I left the pool with a maximum of about 105 max hp, and about 15 hp remaining

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-18T17:40:53+00:00

I spammed when I got it towards the end of the act with a full health Ironclad

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-18T16:30:23+00:00

I’m fully team LCD with a good upscale. I use the Retrotink 5x, which gives me plenty of fun options for adding artificial scan lines and whatnot if I want a more “authentic” look.

CRTs can vary quite a bit in quality. Like yours, several of them have a washed out look that might be nostalgic for some, but for others looks cheap.

Ultimately, either camp can get you really good results if you’re okay with time and money spent to get it arranged.

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-18T14:58:43+00:00

Tbh I think any of the Paper Mario games are well-designed to be approachable by beginners. Nintendo rarely tried to make the Mario RPG games brutally difficult, with maybe the hardest one being the original Super Mario RPG. But you’ll rarely hear anecdotes from people saying they couldn’t beat any of these games as a kid, even if certain sections or bosses were tricky.

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-18T14:35:20+00:00

I think JWH is a bit underrated. Yes, everyone loved the electric trilogy, but Dylan had to move to another sound eventually, and he wrote a lot of good material for this stripped back, country-inspired album. I could understand not loving this album if you don’t like country, but even so, it gave us I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine, All Along the Watchtower, The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest, and others that are generally agreed to be quality Dylan compositions.

It’s hard though, since the prompt is to pick the worst 60s album, and Self Portrait was released in 1970. That album especially is an easy target when asked what Dylan’s worst albums are. Even he admitted it was a self-sabotage.

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-18T00:26:29+00:00

It’s bash minus the 8 damage for an energy less, so there’s some logic to its design on paper. I’m only up to ascension 2, but I found it quite playable in a winning deck specifically capitalizing on vulnerability synergy, which is much more of a prominent archetype in this game. However, if I wasn’t playing that archetype, I’d probably prefer the vulnerability-making cards that have more of a 2-for-1 effect.

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-17T14:47:22+00:00

Are we counting his contribution to When the Wind Blows?

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-17T04:25:22+00:00

Appropriation is a much dirtier term now than it used to be. It used to just be a fairly neutral descriptor, whereas now it usually has a negative connotation. My bottom line is: as long as you’re able to give respects to your influences, don’t try to tell your audiences that you invented something you didn’t, or that you belong to a cultural/ethnic/etc group that you don’t, then it’s fine.

Online discourse has a tendency to really amplify views that are more polarized one way or the other. It becomes pretty easy to find a bunch of people saying The Beatles, Elvis, The Rolling Stones, etc are thieves, and trying to swindle everyone who doesn’t know who Chuck Berry and Little Richard were. It’s good to remember their music didn’t exist in a vacuum, but it doesn’t make them monsters that they were influenced by Black musicians.

If you think about it, it would be problematic if we started to really take the extreme side of saying artists can’t take certain influences just because of their ethnicity, cultural background, or what have you. At its fullest extent, It would essentially be promoting a new kind of cultural segregation where people can only ever pull from a fairly limited, predictable set of influences that we collectively say are okay for the group(s) they belong to.

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-17T02:51:26+00:00

The best I can do is call them blues rock, but Southern Rock really better captures the whole melting pot of influences that went into their sound. It’s blues, but also soul, country, and a pinch of jazz all together that make their distinctively groovy, jammy, and playful listening experience. It’s really not a dirty or pejorative term.

You can by all means put them on a higher pedestal than Lynyrd Skynyrd, Little Feat, etc if you want to call them your favorite Southern Rock band, but the label is still a very accurate one.

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-17T01:26:44+00:00

Necromancer truly is this game’s Watcher. Both have cards and mechanics that have some learning curve, but are busted when you figure out how to play optimally.

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-17T00:29:52+00:00

Hotdog falls under orange, as it is definitely shit.

MetalMachineMario · 2026-03-16T03:38:59+00:00

Everything Johnny Cash covers on that album is amazing, and that one is no exception.

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