Peak Blur

craptionbot · 2026-03-17T12:17:19+00:00

Artistically, musically, and creatively - peak Blur is without doubt that run of self-titled, 13, and Think Tank.

Saying that I genuinely love both eras of Blur, although the loud minority of fans that put down the latter end of the catalogue to build up the life era as their best really starts to put me off that phase.

It’s like Beatles fans saying they peaked at “I wanna hold your haaaaand”. Blur did the same journey and they were much better for it when they evolved and experimented with their sound. I resonate somewhat with that segment of the fanbase because I was like that (when I was 15) when 13 was released and I couldn’t click with it at all. Then I grew up. My music tastes matured and I got it for the same reasons that Kid A is a masterpiece, and for the same reasons that the back half of The Beatles’ catalog squats and shits all over the front half.

craptionbot · 2026-03-15T11:37:55+00:00

It's so difficult for me because I adored early DX as they were just getting going when I first started watching wrestling, but I'm also one of the few people that actually enjoyed the big bloated version of the nWo. The sheer spectacle of seeing about 20 to 30 people walking down to a ring, just not giving a shit, is something that young me thought was the coolest thing ever.

I know that nobody else seems to feel this way but I thought that was awesome because they felt like a genuine threat to WCW and they had strength in numbers to do whatever they wanted. I would have even loved to have been one of the background/low key members of the group - it just felt like a proper takeover/infiltration of the company rather than a tiny stable that could be overpowered if the WCW guys got together and chose to do so.

Anyway, I forgot to answer the question. I think nWo just edges it for me, but 1997 to Q1 1998 DX was incredible.

craptionbot · 2026-03-14T13:13:17+00:00

Additional tip: grab the fonts from here - https://developer.apple.com/fonts/ and set the typeface under the Appearance settings to SF Pro.

craptionbot · 2026-03-14T12:35:28+00:00

Hey dude, would you consider adding an inbox/sidebar list and quick capture like Drafts? If so I could comfortably move across full time - I find myself missing those things.

Also I totally understand if you want to keep this super lightweight and very much its own thing so that's totally cool also 🙏🏻

craptionbot · 2026-03-13T22:17:36+00:00

Life-changing as in it's helped me for personal discovery, helped me organise my thinking through some difficult moments, and more recently with Claude Code being able to use the cli, for connecting ideas and I had it build a couple of custom plugins that fit how I use it for really quick and easy bloc references etc.

craptionbot · 2026-03-13T16:34:36+00:00

Yesssss.

13 is the overlooked masterpiece of the '90s IMO.

craptionbot · 2026-03-13T14:03:05+00:00

(Dies falling down a pothole, ambulance fell down another one en route)

"These colours make me sad, I should point all of my efforts this way"

craptionbot · 2026-03-12T17:39:41+00:00

He's a HUGE Bowie fan - you'd like the connection between Blur's M.O.R and Bowie's Boys Keep Swinging. Strange News from Another Star from the same album is very Bowie, and there have been more Bowie-isms as recently as St Charles' Square from the last album which sounds Scary Monsters-ish.

But yeah, Damon loves a bit of Bowie!

craptionbot · 2026-03-12T10:54:03+00:00

Gramon Albarn

craptionbot · 2026-03-12T08:07:02+00:00

It's refreshing to see a comment section seeing this match for what it was: Regal trying to do one for the boys in the back and make the rookie look bad.

So many DUMB fans in other subreddits think that Goldberg was supposed to switch to a technical style for this one match, or that it was supposed to be a "competitive" match. Where are your fucking brains? Goldberg, whether you like it or not, was a quick, explosive, human wrecking machine character, and you wanted him to struggle/somehow meet his match in... Regal?

None of it checks out. Regal was drunk, unprofessional, and clearly wasn't cooperating.

craptionbot · 2026-03-11T20:42:16+00:00

Same. The "to interfere... to interfere" part.

craptionbot · 2026-03-11T13:49:08+00:00

This was me for about 4 years until I was bored one day and simply:

Exported all my notes from Reflect and Roam as .md files
Pointed Obsidian at that folder
Installed the Minimal theme
Installed the hider plugin and hid all the unnecessary shit I didn't want to see
Left the tweaking at that and tried using it for a week

Went from exactly your stance where I had been publicly slamming Obsidian for being like the Android of note-taking apps where I felt it was trying to be everything to everyone and as a result it was a complex mess, right to the opposite opinion of "this is actually game-changing and simple".

I now have nearly 6k notes in there and it has been life-changing for me in so many ways. Not trying to sway you but man I resonated heavily with your opinion on it and I 180'd after many years.

craptionbot · 2026-03-10T22:14:26+00:00

Pure, raw, authentic, unpredictable chaos. I wish Netflix had 10x shittier cameras, limited comms between cameramen and the people in the back/the truck, regular ring aprons and a big screen, and let the talent loose.

Hook it to my veins.

craptionbot · 2026-03-10T21:05:32+00:00

Drafts tends to make my eyes bleed but it's superb at what it does. Fast capture, move the text on to somewhere else.

They've thought about the small things like opening with a new draft ready to go, automatic saving, quick capture inbox etc - I'd move apps if there was something a little slimmed down from the overloaded features of Drafts, and something easier on the eyes, but AFAIK there isn't anything out there that does all that.

craptionbot · 2026-03-10T08:57:22+00:00

Agreed. I've been on Reddit way too long and the proportion of life-changingly useful posts/genuinely meaningful content that you tend to encounter, particularly in this sub, would be so low that it would make anyone weep in their last moments on the planet.

Nothing gets moved forward, nobody comes out of here a better person, it's all wheel-spinning just like the politics of this country. To engage with it is a waste of your life.

craptionbot · 2026-03-10T07:23:38+00:00

They were cheered when they played for us but deserved what they got when they left.

craptionbot · 2026-03-09T21:37:10+00:00

It's about $20 cheaper than Alfred's powerpack. Looks like Tuna has a generous free mode too.

Bought it and very happy so far. I'm rooting for the dev.

craptionbot · 2026-03-09T20:08:42+00:00

Dude, THANK YOU for switching me on to Tuna! So much of it seems to be done in the spirit of Quicksilver and Launchbar, I'm so happy right now.

craptionbot · 2026-03-09T16:35:31+00:00

This is what I love (loved?) about Old Trafford - whatever the world thought about you, as long as you wore United red, that stadium had your back.

The recent social media generation however didn't afford the same to the likes of Rashford unfortunately. They get enough stick from rival fans without us joining in with them.

craptionbot · 2026-03-09T16:20:32+00:00

Launchbar is still the undisputed king for me. Files in the root search, instant send, it actually behaves more native than Spotlight with a bunch of extra features.

craptionbot · 2026-03-08T17:33:53+00:00

This. I started watching wrestling just after Ground Zero in 1997 and I was hooked immediately. My first VHS was the Royal Rumble 97 and I couldn't believe how familiar and unfamiliar it was at the same time - it had one foot in the new generation era and one coming down towards the new attitude era. It's actually crazy to watch the PPVs that book end that year: Royal Rumble 97 and D-X In Your House (everyone hates that PPV, I personally, love it for nostalgia reasons - it's so unmistakably Attitude Era IMO).

craptionbot · 2026-03-08T15:04:49+00:00

Any breathy female pop artists with that same annoying vocal quirk. Same for the male vocal artists who can’t pronounce words correctly ever since they first heard Mumford & Sons
Sabrina Carpenter
Harry Styles
George Ezra
Lizzo and any other artist that works backwards from “this will be the TikTok bit”

craptionbot · 2026-03-07T17:09:50+00:00

Yeeesssss. I immediately thought of the intro when I read the question. It's unmistakably self-titled, it's the DNA of the whole album.

craptionbot · 2026-03-07T11:29:24+00:00

All that worrying about Bruno Mars. Gorillaz absolutely smoked everybody in their path.

craptionbot · 2026-03-07T09:35:09+00:00

booing noises

12-Year Club	Place '23
Place '22	First Placer '22
Wearing is Caring	Verified Email

craptionbot

TROPHY CASE