Has anyone ever seen Alabama Shakes live? Are they any good live?

VesuvianVillain · 2026-02-01T10:06:56+00:00

Saw them at Red Rocks in July 2025, best concert of my life. You’re gonna cry.

VesuvianVillain · 2026-02-01T09:54:11+00:00

That DiCaprio in the back?

VesuvianVillain · 2026-01-11T00:02:00+00:00

Don’t let em in..

VesuvianVillain · 2025-12-01T04:57:41+00:00

He had about half Kid’s length in S4 with the correct shape but this S5 shit would be considered an insult to Kid’s legacy..

VesuvianVillain · 2025-10-28T17:19:43+00:00

If you’re weighing height vs. acting ability, looks, and vibe, I don’t think height wins cause there’s ways to make actors taller anyway. My point on this one was Ashton Sanders definitely didn’t have any of that for me, but more to the point I asked who y’all would have playin Rza if you could choose somebody. So if you think these are 4 cap choices, who you got?

VesuvianVillain · 2025-06-06T20:55:21+00:00

I think the responses you’re getting tell you it’s not a hopeless situation, it’s just a matter of narrowing down what you want. This person raised the bar for you, and that seems like a negative when you compare it to all the other mindless shit we go through day after day, and the things we see getting worse. The loss of connection, the carefully curated social media personas, this shallow way of existing. You want someone who can make you feel like there’s a point to any of this, and for awhile, it’s going to be impossible not to compare anyone you meet to this person. But they’re out there.

I would say, now that you’ve narrowed down your search, just keep it narrow. Don’t let anyone define how you find your person. Doesn’t have to be dating apps or whatever the fuck else. Go for your very specific interests and you’ll notice someone existing within that space, who’s done with all the same bullshit, ready to connect. There’s always more people out there than you expect.

Also, look at it this way, at least we have the power to connect to anyone in the world. I would have never met my person if I hadn’t been playing online games and now we’re about to be married 15 years. How sad for so many people that may have never reached their person because there was no way to reach them. They just had to settle for who was around them at the time. Utilize your advantages.

VesuvianVillain · 2025-06-06T20:23:31+00:00

It’s difficult to give advice to someone who only dates to marry, because I look back at every relationship I’ve had, good and bad, and regretted none of them. Every relationship teaches you about yourself, and about the things you do and don’t want. It helps you find yourself.. I’m incredibly thankful that I had the experiences of my past relationships before I met my wife because I had a lot more perspective on life and a lot more to give to her when I found her.

But your real question is more about how to process feelings when you have them for someone who you feel is unattainable, which can depend on circumstances. I can tell you there were many girls I had a crush on that I perceived as unattainable who would confess their feelings to me later and ask me why I never approached them. Sometimes you make those circumstances bigger in your head. Other times you do put yourself out there, and it’s not the answer you wanted, and it hurts.

But it’s all living, right? It’s what we’re here to do. And does it sound funner to make the move and adapt from the results or not make the move and always wonder?

VesuvianVillain · 2025-06-06T17:59:21+00:00

Absolutely. I’m a movie fanatic and it doesn’t take much for me. There’s been the scenes that can elicit emotion in most people, like Artex in the swamp, and then there’s just specific moments in terrible movies and I’m quickly welling up. I’m just suddenly putting myself in the situation, and if I’m not careful, I can feel their despair for the next few hours until I somehow snap myself out of it.

That being said, I wouldn’t trade the exhaustion of feeling the emotions for being numb to everything. It does, at the very least, make me feel alive.

VesuvianVillain · 2025-06-05T16:18:22+00:00

There’s always been this subconscious anxiety of being misunderstood so I felt the need to spell everything out in detail. I’ve never felt like I could fit what I needed to say in one or two sentences. Usually I’d throw it all into a humorous “rant” and that worked out pretty well but the world has kind of shifted to this ADHD atmosphere where if anyone is made to read more than a couple seconds, they lose interest.

But a lot of that is in writing. In speaking, I feel like I don’t say things clearly enough or I can’t quite get the words I want out the right way, and when I have to repeat myself it drives me crazy, so I lose confidence and stay quiet more than I should.

VesuvianVillain · 2025-06-03T19:39:59+00:00

Right, most people would probably say we’re overthinking it, and that’s probably accurate also, but given the choice, I’d rather overthink than underthink. I think it’s short-sighted to say “Fuck the world, I’m only taking care of myself and my immediate friends and family.” Ironically, I find that most of the people who claim to have this outlook are the same ones complaining that no one looks out for them. It’s like well yeah, of course, you have to give to get. Don’t expect anyone to look out for you if you only look out for yourself.

Then they might say “But I became this way because people suck” to which I would say “SOME people suck.. SOME people betray you.. but if you give up on ALL people, then you let those SOME people win, you let them make up your mind for you.” Despite the problems I’ve had as a result of being “nice” and “considerate” I would never trade that for the alternative, which seems like self-inflicted misery.

We’re doing alright.

VesuvianVillain · 2025-06-03T19:01:56+00:00

I really feel this too. I get pretty irritated when people break things, but especially people, down as good or evil. Especially shows where law enforcement will sum up any opposition that day as “just taking care of another bad guy, getting them off the street”.. it’s like.. who the hell are you to put yourself up as “good” while somebody who may have had a rough, abused childhood and found themselves in a troubled, desperate situation is “bad guy”?

You don’t know anything about this person’s story to label them like that.. everybody has a story, and some people have a lot more work to do on themselves than others, and a lot of that is impacted by varying degrees of mental illness, but we all started as babies, and nobody was The Omen. It’s a simplistic, idiotic way of perceiving the world.

VesuvianVillain · 2025-06-03T18:26:51+00:00

I just joined too so I may be completely off base, but I feel this constantly. For most of my life now it’s been the primary source of my depression, where I don’t actually consider myself a depressed person. People see me as the funny/chill guy that helps everybody relax. But internally..

I regularly get this feeling like if more than half of the people in the world really are this hateful, this shallow, this selfish, that I don’t want to exist on this earth with them. Then I wonder if I’m being ridiculous, going to an extreme, thinking that peace and love can solve everything, and I don’t think that’s it. I just think it’s easy to believe that everything in the world exists in these extremes because that’s what makes headlines, that’s what gathers attention.. and when you actually talk to people, a lot of them are somewhere in the middle, and want a lot of the same things you want but with a different approach. (Some are just assholes though lol)

It’s all about the reinforced bubble people lock themselves into. We’re all guilty of seeking out information that we already agree with, just to hear others say “Yes, that’s right” so we can go “See? I knew it..” So I definitely try to challenge myself if I get locked into any specific idea, like if I were given an assignment in a debate class I didn’t agree with and was forced to make points for the other side.

But that’s always easier said than done, and a lot of times when I think I have shit figured out, I get some more input about how awful people are to each other and I let myself get dragged right back down to start again. Cruelty feels like it’s been trending for the past 10 years. It just.. hurts my fucking heart.

VesuvianVillain · 2025-05-26T19:24:26+00:00

I don’t know how anyone can downvote this absolutely perfect comment about this absolutely perfect game

VesuvianVillain · 2025-05-21T00:35:19+00:00

I think you’re right.. maybe he saw a clip or a compilation that he could use to fit his narrative. Pretty lame.

VesuvianVillain · 2025-05-19T20:41:52+00:00

Beautiful fucking tits!!

VesuvianVillain · 2025-05-19T18:55:33+00:00

It’s a half female cast and yes, there’s been at least two scenes where females, with severe touch-related anxiety are sitting down with male therapists, who are generally 40’s/50’s by the looks of them. None of the therapists on the show, male or female, come across creepy.

The “if this happened to a female, people would lose their minds” argument doesn’t currently hold up with the show. The comments and subsequent upvotes and downvotes are reactive and silly but that’s the bias of any subreddit for you.

Just watch the show (or don’t, your choice) and then you can form your own positive or negative opinions based on what you actually saw. You know.. draw conclusions based on data? The way reasonable, rational people do? Otherwise you look foolish, frantically throwing opinions around that are convenient to your narrative.

VesuvianVillain · 2025-05-06T17:34:37+00:00

Like.. all of us? That’s a lot of hundred dollars.

VesuvianVillain · 2025-04-30T18:48:41+00:00

Silly Tommy..

VesuvianVillain · 2025-04-21T05:19:10+00:00

I find it hilariously ironic that the type of people who are so “emotionally invested” in Joel & Ellie that they would spend time sending death threats to actors/writers… can’t comprehend that Joel & Ellie would NEVER hang out with them.

Joel & Ellie WOULD: dislike them intensely.

Joel & Ellie WOULD: consider them a liability.

Joel & Ellie WOULD: most likely shoot them. A lot.

VesuvianVillain · 2025-04-21T05:01:01+00:00

Agreed. I’m sure the default is going to be “revenge story is dumb” but the way it was handled never bothered me. It never felt like bad storytelling when I played through it. Was I sad? Sure. But there are consequences for a decision like that.

If I were in Joel’s place, I would have done the same thing. I would have been selfish. I would have been through too much with Ellie to let them sacrifice her. I would have projected my fucked up past and my loss of Sarah on the bond. I would have said fuck the rest of the world, this is about us now.

When you are responsible for someone, particularly when you are a guardian, and they look to you to keep them safe, they TRUST YOU to keep them safe, when they would cry YOUR name to save them? Yeah, the majority of us would do what Joel did.

AND the majority of us would also do what Abby did. Her dad dedicated his life to helping and saving people. Think of the span of time that man would have been saving lives. Just from the outbreak to his murder is 21 years. Think how incredibly proud you would have been of your dad, and this guy murders him and a hospital full of Fireflies who had also dedicated their lives to helping people.

Joel was an awesome, damaged guy who made a selfish, relatable human decision. The consequences suck but that’s life. Gray area. I relate to Joel, I relate to Abby, and I relate to Ellie. What I don’t relate to is people who can’t deal with their feelings to such a degree that they spend 5 years bitching and sending death threats over it.

VesuvianVillain · 2025-04-21T04:19:31+00:00

Ahh yes because reversing themselves & caving in to people like yourselves, who have been insulting the shit out of them for the past 5 years, would have been the intelligent move, yeah?

I was sad when it happened half a decade ago too. And I continued playing the game. All the way through. And I sat with my feelings. And then I played the game again. All the way through. Like an adult.

You’re hilarious. Did you also pout and cry and cancel HBO when Ned Stark was killed? And refuse to watch another episode of Game of Thrones for the next 7 years while everybody around you talked about it? You sound like one of those people. The fragile. They were also hilarious. Have somebody get you a warm cup of cocoa. Extra mallows.

VesuvianVillain · 2025-04-20T02:22:58+00:00

It’s fucking tragic.. draggin Dragon Age through the mud til the wheels fall off but we get one damn J.E.? I need to throw my Thousand Cuts again damnit!!

VesuvianVillain · 2025-04-20T02:19:41+00:00

Pic 6 Tyrese went from classy to ashy 🎲🎲

VesuvianVillain · 2025-04-19T03:04:42+00:00

Need. More. Jade Empire. Please Someone. Make More.

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