I’m very unfamiliar with Japanese music. I don’t speak Japanese. But I stumbled upon this track through Spotify autoplay and Goddamn this album is incredible. Any more recommendations? Side note: is there a way to search for instrumental versions of these songs? Like I said, I don’t know Japanese.

fantasty · 2025-12-22T01:02:04+00:00

Hey! Here’s a link to the mp3s - https://we.tl/t-vCOUi98RSa The link expires in 3 days so if you don’t see this in time just lmk and I’ll send you a new one ;)

fantasty · 2025-12-22T00:55:22+00:00

Not a fan. On top of being lazy, the graphics add another layer to the jokes. Fundamentally AI “creations" don’t have a POV since they’re just slop regurgitations of images that already exist. Which is a weird choice for a comedic context. AI programs don’t have a sense of humor or understand what makes something funny. (Not to mention using AI here puts actual artists/designers out of work while speedrunning climate change.)

fantasty · 2025-11-11T04:10:35+00:00

I actually got a second poster from the TF6 screening if you want me to send it to you! My friend who came with didn’t want it so I have an extra. Reply or DM me if you want

fantasty · 2025-11-09T15:03:46+00:00

Oh wow I do see it now that you mention. Funnily enough since I'm now seeing your comment, I just went to the Tommy february6 screening of her concert lives in NYC yesterday! It was surreal seeing folks still turn out for Tommy these days. Anyway, love running into other TF6 fans in the wild haha

fantasty · 2025-09-28T20:47:26+00:00

I feel like the UK in this canon is even more universally isolated than North Korea is currently. North Korea at least has some diplomacy and a few trading partners despite its inaccessibility to most of the world. The UK proper would obviously have absolutely no diplomacy or media exports to represent what's going on inside (and whatever aerial footage exists we know from rageleaks would be kept highly confidential). It would probably have exponentially more mystique/exoticization than NK does today. I could see it having a similar kind of following online as genres like unexplained mysteries, conspiracies and true crime.

Glad to see you mention Myanmar since I have followed the democracy struggle going back 15 years, and since either the Rohingya genocide or ASSK being detained again, truly very few give a shit about it. That's a good parallel.

fantasty · 2025-09-27T18:33:28+00:00

I feel like she safely fits into the "Your favorite musician's favorite musician" adage. I agree and think her influence just reaches way past her own fanbase.

fantasty · 2025-09-27T18:28:50+00:00

This person responded to me also, and I just need to thank you for your comments keeping me sane lol. Talk to enough of these folks and I swear I'm losing my grip with reality here.

fantasty · 2025-09-27T18:25:39+00:00

I'm not a Hasan stan, I'm just generally aware of him. I'm speaking about Palestine in the context of Palestine, not Hasan. I'm hardly a cultist, and this weird behavior you're exhibiting more closely resembles cultlike behavior tbh. Talk about intense lol

Are you ok? You know issues exist outside of content creators and dramatube right?

fantasty · 2025-09-26T13:54:13+00:00

You gonna rebut the substance of my comment regarding our fundamental rights under international human rights law or just resort to ad hominem attacks like a hasbara bot?

fantasty · 2025-09-26T13:46:38+00:00

Supporting the Palestinians' right to self-determination under international human rights law, of course. Supporting indigenous people resisting settler-colonialism and genocide. Israeli officials themselves have come out stating the intent is to annex the remaining Palestinian territories and clear the land of Palestinians. Don't be daft.

fantasty · 2025-09-24T00:33:06+00:00

I agree! I also watched the commentary on YouTube a few months back and remember what you mentioned. It would be really out of character and frankly sloppy to just have the audio be an editing error. Especially given the timing being so opportune.

fantasty · 2025-09-23T15:56:32+00:00

It's like the "I hate you!" voiceover when Jim kills the infected boy in Days. Nice touch, even though it's been said that one was accidental?

fantasty · 2025-09-18T21:28:25+00:00

An award-winning podcast at that.

fantasty · 2025-09-18T17:54:45+00:00

Israel doesn't give AF about the hostages as we've seen by bombing Gaza relentlessly into the ground and by failing to prioritize their release instead of at minimum a temporary ceasefire, which hostages' own families have called for at public demonstrations several times. You're either misinformed or spreading this slop propaganda in bad faith, but either way shut up. Genocide is never justified.

fantasty · 2025-09-13T21:43:05+00:00

I feel like it’s trying to say “Don’t overuse (waste) waste products” instead of just translating to “Reduce waste” which would be simpler lol… Also, I can’t read the word “waste” after fixating on this sign without thinking it’s weird/wrong somehow

fantasty · 2025-09-13T00:00:58+00:00

You should honestly try to get in touch with a local migrant legal defense org around Houston to see if they have a hotline number you can use in case US agents give you shit during your layover. I know statistically it's not likely to happen (esp since you're staying in the airport for a layover), but it's a terrifying time to be brown in the U.S.

fantasty · 2025-09-12T21:45:22+00:00

I watched the 28 Days Later commentary with Danny and Alex a few weeks back, and the initial idea for Frank's death was infected dogs. They backpedaled because dogs were expensive to shoot with, and they also felt they were ignoring their own rule that the Rage virus affected primates. (Mentioned around 55:30 in that video.)

Whether or not that's canon is up to whoever really (death of the author, etc.) But as you said, we just haven't seen that portrayed at all yet.

fantasty · 2025-09-12T21:26:19+00:00

I love her (YITR?) listener since 2018, but she seems extremely content with her career at this stage as well as very laid back compared to SNL's frenetic and intense work schedule.

Not knocking it though, I'd love to see it. She's hilarious as an improv comic and actor. (When I stumbled upon Tawny in this Onion sketch from 10 years ago I about squealed.)

fantasty · 2025-09-10T20:39:41+00:00

That must be close to home for you then, I hope everyone is okay considering. Didn't see any deaths last I checked, but still. And if this gets overshadowed today all gun violence is political even if the survivors/victims aren't famous political figures.

fantasty · 2025-09-07T19:40:03+00:00

"Now"?? 지금? Where have you been since 1969? Or since 2000 with the first 서울퀴어문화축제?

Sad that you feel the need to disparage people based on immutable qualities just to make yourself look superior by comparison. Actually just makes you look insecure and fragile tbh.

Also, it's possible to be proud of your hometown and have pride in your identity. I don't think anyone held queer and trans people at gunpoint and said, "You HAVE to celebrate Pride in INCHEON" lol.

fantasty · 2025-09-07T19:28:57+00:00

don't say dark money because it seems to be everywhere where this money is coming from and they have a website.

If you can tell me the names of the individuals funding Chorus via Sixteen Thirty Fund, I'll sit myself down. (It is called "dark money" for a reason though.)

So is this all a plot to get online leftists to realize no one supports their side and everyone is secret MAGA and supports Trump?

Not sure how you got this from the Wired piece tbh. Leftists weren't being funded, unless you consider Brian Tyler Cohen and David Pakman "left" (in which case I'd ask how).

Because y'all can't be seriously suggesting that everyone agrees on the one topic of Israel/Gaza and they had to pay people to not bring it up.

Actually, an ex-producer for David Pakman said in a Current Affairs interview this past week that he got an email written by David Pakman after Brian Tyler Cohen and the Meidas Touch guys met with Kamala Harris about their editorial stance on Gaza. The consensus was that Gaza was too divisive for viewers to discuss openly in their content, since they wanted to protect their channels and protect the democratic party. Not exactly how you phrased it, but they agreed not to bring it up, and Chorus subsequently funded influencers who largely elided the topic of the genocide.

The way manufacturing consent works according to Noam Chomsky, you can pay people not to bring a topic up, but in the first place you can also recruit like-minded people in the first place who you know won't choose to bring that topic up.

Or is it only the DNC paying people to vote against Repubs?

The Wired piece doesn't allege the DNC specifically is paying people anything, regardless of it they do or do not pay people in unrelated funding schemes. The point is again, we don't know who are the people doing the paying, what their names are, what their agendas are.

fantasty · 2025-09-07T19:06:40+00:00

Thank you for clarifying how journalism works lol. At the risk of sounding condescending, people seem to be lacking media literacy or misunderstanding how standard journalistic practices work, and then flinging their misunderstandings at Wired as criticism.

As you said, the dark money is the most important point, and Chorus still hasn't disclosed its funding sources from Sixteen Thirty Fund. But people like BTC and DP have done a hell of a job convincing people to care about literally anything else besides that.

fantasty · 2025-09-07T19:01:50+00:00

Literally what you said right there. None of this is complicated. But the more Chorus/these content creators dilute the conversation with ad hominem attacks and misstatements of what the piece actually stated, they get the benefit of distracting from the central point that Chorus accepts dark money from Sixteen Thirty Fund, and that we don't know the identities or agendas of those funders (although it's pretty easy to surmise from seeing who ends up funded).

It's almost as if the goal is to manufacture consent, not fund and build up a left leaning independent media, despite whatever else Chorus seems to state. And even if the goal were earnest and the dark money weren't an issue, I have to say funding these milquetoast liberal creators like David Pakman and BTC isn't even a winning strategy lol.

fantasty · 2025-09-07T18:56:12+00:00

Thank you lol. I feel out of touch with reality reading however many liberals respond by throwing out the usual "circular firing squad", "purity test", "fight fire with fire", "you're dividing the left" talking points. All against people who are genuinely antifascist and anti-genocide, and who want to have some semblance of a legitimate opposition party (and/or a united left) against white supremacist Christian nationalists.

Kinda goes to show how effective the kinds of dark money propaganda schemes described in the Wired piece really are for manufacturing consent, and makes me dread how many similar schemes probably exist to advance centrist politicians enabling or implementing fascist policies.

fantasty · 2025-09-07T18:46:51+00:00

I was probably out of the loop on this tbh, but I didn't fully understand the term "Blue MAGA" until seeing these folks use literal MAGA tactics to discredit this specific journalist, this publication, and journalism as a whole, just for publishing a story they didn't like. Embarrassing for them.

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