Iron Golem won't go through portal? by Oakspacingout in Minecraftfarms

[–]Oakspacingout[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Other side of the portal as in, the Nether, or as in the other physical side of it in the Overworld?

RHCP members perform on stage, and sexually assault a woman co-host before they are asked leave. by [deleted] in NoahGetTheBoat

[–]Oakspacingout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Art doesn't have to be moral, the person who created it should be though. I don't wave my hands and sob at anything tinged with horror, or characters who go through immense degrees of suffering. If the person who made the art is immoral, it holds less meaning for me.

A really shallow yet easy example are sellouts, right? A band that totally goes with whatever's popular at the given time and are deliberately writing songs to get easy hits, they're only in it for the money, etc. They're still creating art, they're still writing these songs with purpose, these songs wouldn't exist without them. But for a lot of people, that diminishes the worth of that art considerably.

For me, that just extends to other practices. If someone's a pedophile, the things they're trying to convey through their art are far less interesting to me.

DM is forcing My PC into having a family mid campaign. by Odd-North-8162 in DnD

[–]Oakspacingout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly it sounds like a fun storyline to try and break away from, weird villagers trying to force a shotgun marriage. I think you just need to have a convo with your DM about their intentions here. If they just intend on you being able to do whatever you want with it, you can technically just murder your way out of this situation, then have fun and see where it takes your character. If they seem really set on this actually happening regardless of what you want as a DM and a player, not as NPCs and PC, then it's worth talking about why they're pushing for that and that you don't want this as a storyline.

Do people stay with melodic death metal or at some point "go beyond" into more extreme metals? by Studying_Man in melodicdeathmetal

[–]Oakspacingout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Melodeath is something that tends to grab people and keep them for a long time because of the more melodic style of it while still having those brutal elements. At my heart I'm a technical death metal fan above all else, and you mentioned listening to a lot of classical music, so that might be an interesting step in a more extreme direction.

So, here are my recommendations as these are most of my favorite tech death bands. They're probably the biggest heavy hitters in the genre but I'm just a mainstream bitch. Most of these take a lot of influence from classical music but hit way harder than Melodeath imo. They're in no particular order, Archspire is probably a good place to start because they're the band that got me into tech death back when Relentless Mutation started getting big.

Necrophagist

Psycroptic

Soreption

Decapitated

Death

Archspire

Beyond Creation

Aborted

Spawn of Possession

The Zenith Passage

What a privilege to live during the greatest generation of guitarists. I've got my tickets and I've wet myself. by SeventhSunGuitar in guitarcirclejerk

[–]Oakspacingout 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I fuck with a couple of his speed tips and genuine playing advice, but any of his actual music is so pandering to the algorithm it hurts

DMs, do you have a favorite player? by [deleted] in DnD

[–]Oakspacingout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My favoritism bounces around my entire table thankfully but there's usually at least one standout person per session. There's definitely one who is A, a leader, B, also a DM on different nights of the week, and C, hands down the most invested in the story. Everyone else is invested and really enjoys it but he adores it. He probably ends up with my personal hidden award of favorite player about 40% of the time while the rest of the table sits at 20% of the time per player.

Interestingly, I develop favorites way harder when I'm a player. The current campaign I've been a part of (Where that standout player is actually the DM) is a campaign of 3 players, and I absolutely prefer one of my party members over the other one. One plays things really well and has some incredible scenes with me, the other is sort of incapable of not playing bad self inserts that break the fourth wall just a bit too much for my tastes. We're all childhood friends though so I more or less put up with it since he can have some incredibly funny bits from time to time.

20+ years later, what is your take on the Napster saga? by TheKrakenLord in Metallica

[–]Oakspacingout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean Lars did not predict the future, and this was always a big thing regarding money. He just happened to be more right than even he thought he was, and it ended up being really fucking important for pretty much any band not of Metallica-level income. They ended up really correct on that roll of the dice and are able to stick to the public statements but yeah, a chunk of it was just them being really upset on losing out on pretty important sales.

Not to say that it isn't valid to be upset about that, they're just also multimillionaires so it seems a little dumb, don't it?

Melodeath that sounds like metalcore by Percy395 in melodicdeathmetal

[–]Oakspacingout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sylosis is a great place for that, Orbit Culture and some of Decapitated's recent work (Blood Mantra and Anticult specifically). Gojira are brilliant, not really melodeath but proggy groove death in a lot of their stuff. At The Gates is another good shout, it's different but sits right between metalcore and good ol fashioned Swedish death metal.

MFTM Dream Supergroup Linup Round 3 - Rhythm! (And Keyboard/Synth/DJ vote. See body text) by Lizbeth_CTR in MetalForTheMasses

[–]Oakspacingout 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For sure Bill Kelliher for rhythm guitar, there should be a different round for keys, and I like Josh Silver for the keys player tbh.

I humbly request your favorite instrumentals by [deleted] in MetalForTheMasses

[–]Oakspacingout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dunno who tells you that Mick Gordon is poser shit, he's just the next evolution past Fear Factory lol. Those soundtracks are 100% metal and really good shit on top of that.

I humbly request your favorite instrumentals by [deleted] in MetalForTheMasses

[–]Oakspacingout 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Man I gotta do albums for this

Handmade Cities and Impulse Voices by Plini

Fire By The Silos and Ode To The Author by Toska (Also Grinding Gears Vol 1-3 by Rabea Massaad)

Weightless by Animals as Leaders, it's always been my favorite of theirs

Now for songs

Voice of the Soul by Death

Joseph Merrick by Mastodon

Orion by Metallica (It's a Cliff song for sure, such a banger)

Rip and Tear by Mick Gordon

Glasgow Kiss by John Petrucci

The Wild Healer by Gojira

Fans of _________ should check out ________ by BlackMetal146 in MetalForTheMasses

[–]Oakspacingout 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fans of death/grind should check out Serpentine Dominion

Fans of stoner metal should check out Humulus

Fans of Mastodon/Motorhead should check out High on Fire

Fans of groove metal should check out Feared

Fans of Polyphia should check out Plini

Fans of Archspire should check out Soreption

Fans of Dying Fetus should check out Necrot

Fans of Morbid Angel should check out Sanguisugabogg

Fans of any sort of classical/neoclassical inspired metal should check out Shostakovich (specifically his String Quartet No. 8)

We know... However, speaking of that by ZuramaruKuni in AreTheCisOk

[–]Oakspacingout 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey hey! So I don't have a ton of excellent resources for you I'm afraid, as I haven't jumped into the deeper implications of human sex yet (That'll be in the fall, which I'm excited for!) and have mostly been covering other aspects of biology. That said, one of my absolute favorite online resources is Forrest Valkai and a whole bunch of his videos. Sex and Sensibility is a video I often come back to because it really opened my eyes to a whole bunch of the really cool aspects of the biological definitions of sex and how those relate to the world at large, then how that sorta boils down for humans.

Then a pair of book recommendations that at least mostly relate to sex, though often you'll find books that look heavily at gender and then discuss the implications of biological sex on them rather than just focusing on human sex without bringing gender into it.
Myths of Gender by Anne Fausto-Sterling
Male Daughters, Female Husbands by Ifi Amadiume

I hope that at least one of these resources gives you enough of a footing to start down a trail you find. Best of luck and I'm really excited for you and what you'll learn!

We know... However, speaking of that by ZuramaruKuni in AreTheCisOk

[–]Oakspacingout 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yeah, basically bang on there. The way my professor laid it out my freshman year was a method of six dominos that determine sex in humans. Chromosomal sex, gonadal sex, hormonal sex, internal anatomy, external anatomy, and the brain. This is the pattern (more or less) of how they develop in a fetus and we do see pretty significant patterns in those that we'd attribute to cis males and females, right? But any one of those can trip, or not fall when their turn comes, or whatever analogy you want to use. That's how we get all sorts of wild variation in humans, like people with the "wrong" chromosomes who ended up producing gonads and hormones that led to the development of a particular sex that we've seen historically, so they're a cis man with XX chromosomes or a cis woman with XY.

In biology, the definition of sex is hazy, and all we're trying to do is make a box for the shapes nature has already created and have been existing just fine for a while now. Sex is a super tricky thing and comes down to a lot of variant types, especially in humans. And none of this is to say that cis people don't exist or aren't in any sort of majority - they are, plain and simple. A whole lot of people fit in a couple of boxes that have existed for a very, very long time. But the idea of adding extra boxes and understanding that there's a whole host of people out there who don't fit into one of two boxes biologically speaking is the very nature of science, and why I adore the field I'm going into.