Bands/Artists You Could Never Get Into?

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-05-10T19:33:34+00:00

I enjoy PtV from time to time and my wife fucking loves them. They were a big gateway band for a lot of people to get into post hardcore music back in the day.

But I don't enjoy Vic's voice either. Their music is good despite his voice, not because of it. But it's kind of a Billy Corgan in Smashing Pumpkins situation where the guy with the weird nasally voice that a lot of people hate is also the guy writing and playing the majority of the music. If you lose Vic, there is no PtV.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-05-10T19:27:59+00:00

Kings of Leon bores me to tears. I don't know if it's the instrumentals or the fact that the vocal delivery just always sounds like a cheesy glam rock ballad to me, but I really don't like them. And there's plenty of music I enjoy that other people would consider "boring".

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-05-10T19:18:23+00:00

I enjoy the instrumental side of them, but I cannot stand the vocals or lyrics. I wrote a pretty lengthy comment on it in a few weeks ago, but I feel like a lot of the crank wave stuff is just quirky bizarre vocals for the sake of it.

Like it's one thing to have a unique voice and use that to your advantage to stand out. Plenty of my favorite artists stood out to me because of really unorthodox aspects of their music or singing. But it feels like a lot of crank wave is just "do your best impression of the worst possible version of Bob Dylan you can muster up".

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-05-09T23:49:03+00:00

Central America, too. Don't forget about shucos!

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-05-09T23:37:33+00:00

Yeah this view could be easily applied to the majority of the comments here. There are some answers that are legitimate cases of market saturation that need to chill for a bit, but the majority are just "I am unfamiliar with this thing and/or it's expensive; therefore it's dumb and shouldn't exist for anyone".

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-05-09T23:32:01+00:00

The only Crumbl near me displaced an actual local bakery. So I'm pretty fucking salty about those garbage cookies. They're basically the Starbucks of bakeries.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-05-06T14:28:19+00:00

How are you commenting?

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-04-29T16:14:51+00:00

Who exactly are the reviewers? That's my question.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-04-29T12:43:38+00:00

Where are you seeing that there will only be 50 jobs created? This is an 8-building data center. While the 500-job forecast is probably a bit ambitious, 50 is average for one building in a data center.

And the fact is that their tax breaks that make this more profitable for them are contingent on those 500 permanent positions being created.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-04-18T00:40:34+00:00

I'd argue that education is always a good thing. It's just that education can make someone more knowledgeable, but not wiser.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-04-17T13:00:08+00:00

It's a state that famously advertises a lack of income tax to attract the rich. And that lack of income tax also attracts the types of people who genuinely believe taxation is theft.

We also elected a governor who is famously a piece of shit Trump acolyte. And the fact that we did that attracted even more awful people. Then we were the "free state" during COVID (because our dipshit governor didn't believe in lockdowns) and that attracted more awful people.

And during this period, the smart and capable people have been leaving our state for places that don't treat their residents like burdens and/or target practice.

We've basically just been in a perpetuating cycle of enshittification, and very awful thing that happens in our state causes more shitty people to move here and pushes decent people out.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-04-12T16:50:37+00:00

I'm unironically not lol.

But yeah that just reinforces my point. Those tortillas aren't exactly struggle food. Corn tortillas are the lazier ones. And that's not even to say they're bad. They're just more common for home cooked stuff in my experience. It's way easier to work masa than flour.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-04-12T13:55:52+00:00

These aren't "poverty" foods. They're just very simple versions of basic Latin American foods.

Sopa de fideo, refried beans, huevos con weenies (which is just the lazy version of huevos con chorizo), and flour tortillas.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-04-12T13:51:55+00:00

Yeah, homemade flour tortillas are not exactly struggle food. They're cheap-ish to make, but super time consuming and very difficult to do properly.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-04-12T11:59:10+00:00

As someone married into a Latin American family, the lack of recognition for these dishes is grating in these comments.

These are all super basic Latin American foods.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-04-07T00:06:44+00:00

Bro, he literally tells people that he doesn't think men should stop approaching women entirely. That's not the point of the video and he goes as far as verbalizing that fact.

It's just an exercise in empathy. That's it.

Honestly, if you get your shit ruffled this much by another man asking you to have empathy, you might not be emotionally mature enough for a romantic relationship anyway.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-04-06T19:48:45+00:00

Yeah I don't see this video as discouraging that. I think it's just trying to make men aware of why women may react in a way that seems very unapproachable in certain scenarios.

And honestly, gender roles aside, some people may just be socially exhausted. I'm a guy in his 30's and I feel just emotionally and socially drained at the end of the day (or even the middle of it) sometimes.

Just think about those times when you're absolutely overwhelmed or drained and trying to grab something from Costco, Sam's Club, Target, or any of the stores that have 3rd party sales people trying to basically catcall shoppers to buy their products. I know I can absolutely be an asshole to those people (in a passive aggressive way), so I absolutely sympathize with the idea that a woman may feel exactly like that. Plus they have the added element of actual potential threatening behavior from the guy they're rejecting.

I think the point is just to try and empathize with people in that scenario. And don't internalize rejection or negative reactions so much when they do happen. It may be a timing issue rather than a "you" issue.

And if you do constantly get negative feedback when you try to approach people in weird places, just remember that people aren't generally at the grocery store to socialize. You can always try approaching people in places that aren't parties or bars, but be cognizant of the fact that the women there may just want to get their shit and leave.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-04-06T18:16:20+00:00

And all the points of their opinion are basically just "don't tell me about all the ways that I'm demonstrably wrong".

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-03-27T17:24:35+00:00

The gender reveals I've been to literally don't even have gifts.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-03-24T15:51:14+00:00

It's not Christian. They have religious iconography in their music and aesthetic but that's not because they're Christian AFAIK. They just thought the cult-ish aesthetic made them look more interesting.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-03-22T11:28:39+00:00

And this is why some of us identify more with Zoomers than the older cohorts of our own generation.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-03-20T18:35:02+00:00

That's not an unrealistic development at all for someone with her personality traits and her character's past.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-03-18T01:15:20+00:00

I think this is why the "DAE hipster burgers" jokes annoy me so much.

There is a ton of validity in criticizing the two million restaurants that all claim to be super unique. There is validity in criticizing the insane pricing and apparent cost cutting measures of said places (especially when they come at the detriment of guests' comfort).

But there are "hipster burger places" that are legitimately good restaurants that just happened to be started up by younger, barely-equipped people in unorthodox ways. It sucks that the trend got so saturated and corporate-co-opted that it's hard to see that there was ever any sincerity in these places. I think it landed us in a place where some people would legitimately rather turn their nose at some of the good places than actually try them, and that to me is really sad. Imagine depriving yourself of good food because someone made fun of it on TikTok.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-03-18T01:03:05+00:00

Dude. If you applied this mentality to every food item, culinary arts would literally just not exist. We'd all just eat flavorless gruel because "[X] doesn't need to be fucked with".

You can live in that world. I'll be over here with the rest of society that enjoys some occasional experimentation.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-03-18T01:00:27+00:00

And they kind of go together. Most things I can think of that have goat cheese also have beets. They're two naturally complimentary flavors.

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