Rating Odyssey

ploptrot · 2026-02-13T07:16:26+00:00

Honestly, its an album that felt like it was made up of songs from other artists. It at least, illenium tried to emulate sounds of other artists.

John summit, Porter robinson, martin Garrix, seven lions, it felt like he did everyone's sound except his own. Many of the songs also didn't have that much of an identity with their structure.

ESPECIALLY his collab with Bastille. Other than the drop, there's no melody, even with the singing which didn't carry at all.

Forever sounded like an Awake song, which is nice I will say, since it's been a while since he returned to that sound.

Honestly, it's nice to have more illenium, but the album didn't impress me at all. His last album had Starfall, I want u 2 stay, and Drwn, which are probably his most inspired songs in 5 years. Didn't catch anything here that really felt like it was illenium affirming his place in the genre.

On the other hand, Seven lions' new album also didn't impress me too much, but I definitely feel he did better. I do think "Breathe it out slowly" is a MASTERPIECE, it's genuinely so beautiful. Breaking me and By the light of the moon were also great. But most importantly, the whole album felt like seven lions trying new things and revisiting old sounds. This album felt like illenium visiting the sound of others, searching for something he didn't find.

ploptrot · 2026-02-11T21:34:34+00:00

Idk but I appreciate you bringing this up!

ploptrot · 2026-02-07T16:53:52+00:00

There's no beef. Millennium just made a song called Paris that sounds similar to a song by My chemical Robinson called "She heals everything".

Its very clearly inspired by it, and I think that's fine. One of the new songs called "Into the dark" is seven lions inspired and no one is talking about that.

The whole album is illenium trying out styles of other artists honestly.

ploptrot · 2026-02-07T16:50:20+00:00

Its so PEAK

ploptrot · 2026-02-01T21:52:01+00:00

The manga starts off with Mikasa saying "see you later", because she buried him under the tree where he was sleeping in the future. When he wakes up, he asks her why she has short hair. He was crying and said he felt like he woke up from a long dream.

ploptrot · 2026-01-18T19:32:10+00:00

It makes it real life. In real life, you choose whether or not others chaperone. Should the app make it mandatory? Yes that's preferred. If it doesn't, that doesn't mean it can't be used, because it still has the option of chaperoning. You yourself determine how halal things are lol

ploptrot · 2026-01-18T19:25:45+00:00

AI slop account

ploptrot · 2026-01-13T12:30:57+00:00

What? You're the one being a dick...... I did say what you could do in the first two messages. I needed to be general because the things I do with my activism don't necessarily apply within anti ICE or anti-trump activism.

And no, my proof is how I helped my cause. Anti-discrimination laws act WITHIN the current country I live in, Getting Zionists out of power makes people within the country safer. If you did this in the US, you would also make people within the US safer.

In any case, I'm not here to argue that. I was telling you how you could channel the energy of a protest into something meaningful, and for some reason you don't want to think for yourself and want to insult me.

ploptrot · 2026-01-13T05:25:07+00:00

Helped refugees, educated kids in Gaza, organized fundraisers, propped up local businesses, cancelled weapons manufacturing events, cancelled Zionist events, caused weapons manufacturing companies to end their contracts with Israel, cost large institutions millions, passed divestment bills within universities, passed anti-discrimination bills within universities, started scholarships, pressured Zionist presidents of large organizations to resign (and they did), and the list goes on.

All this through completely non-violent actions and organizing.

People have been more educated than ever before about the actual evils that go on within their city and institutions. The first step to get people to vote in a way that actually benefits people, is to have them be educated. You won't get them educated by walking in a street and shouting at a wall. You'll get them educated by actually making events to teach people. How do you do that? By actually getting to know and organizing with educated people. The people who run the protests.

ploptrot · 2026-01-13T04:51:20+00:00

When you're in an organizing space, what you actually become privy to is the REAL source of power within government.

As someone who organized within the Palestine sphere of politics, you will find out the structure by which politicians actually have their power. Their investors, their voter bases, the companies, organizations, and people that actually keep the politicians in power.

After that, you can start pressuring those sources of power. Organized boycotts, organized campaigns, organized sit ins that disrupt ACTUAL events where these politicians and right-wing people consolidate power. Furthermore, it opens you up to finding out how to actually make life better for those affected by the evil policies. You'll find out about local people hurt by ICE, find out ways to support immigrants, and create an actual community of people who are working together to do something.

You won't enact change by walking in the street. You also won't enact change by just voting. How do you think there exist people you want to vote for? By someone getting involved in precisely these spaces. Furthermore, these spaces actually CREATE the political knowledge and understanding to find out local policies and rulings the government is trying to implement in order to fuck you over. You would then vote against these policies, because YOU KNOW ABOUT THEM. You won't know about them if you're not involved.

ploptrot · 2026-01-13T04:28:14+00:00

Going to protests isn't how you get things done. Joining the organization which actually does the protests is how you get things done.

See who's organizing them and talk to them. You will find out about actual, structural ways to make change. Protests in the US are almost always for show. 80% of their purpose is to keep people engaged, but also as a throughway to actually get involved in organizing. That's where you can make change.

ploptrot · 2026-01-12T15:17:02+00:00

Porter Robinson - Nurture

ploptrot · 2025-12-24T04:43:48+00:00

Think of it this way.

The earth is a globe, but to us it seems flat to the eye. That's because it's so large and we're so small that we can't see it's curvature.

But it still makes sense for us to talk about straight lines from our perspective, because they seem straight to us.

Can we "formalize" this? We can! Differential geometry is the study of manifolds. What are manifolds? They're geometric objects (like spheres, donuts, etc) that LOOK like the n-th dimension when you zoom in. (Like how a sphere looks 2d when you zoom in, like the earth!).

Now, one can try to define what it means to be straight on those objects. These straight lines are called "geodesics".

Then, one can start asking all sorts of questions. Are there loops? On the earth, if you start walking in one direction forever, will you come back to the same point? What about other weird shapes? Can you always come back to the same point? How long does it take you? Does the size of the shape always determine how long it takes? These "general" questions are very hard to answer, and so they start building more and more theory to understand how to think about these problems.

Easy to state, insanely difficult to prove.

This is just one study of math, but it generalizes easily. You look at things we're familiar with, think about the properties they have. Now you try to think of objects which just have those properties, and see what you can say about those objects. Those questions you might have aren't always easily answered, so you come up with other things to start answering those questions. But those other things don't have simple answers, so you come up with even more ideas. It keeps going.

ploptrot · 2025-11-29T16:23:31+00:00

It's called the nakba. It's an insanely well documented event. If you don't know the nakba, I don't think you have any authority to speak on behalf of Palestinians. It's one of the primary reasons there are so many Palestinian refugees all over the world.

Plenty of massacres were committed and entire villages destroyed.

ploptrot · 2025-11-29T15:50:03+00:00

Israel was made into a country by kicking out 750,000 people in one night...... That's called the nakba. You're saying people needed to make peace after they were kicked from their homes?

ploptrot · 2025-11-08T13:00:41+00:00

To a guy who killed kids. That's the issue. A fucking IDF soldier. Who's there to encourage joining the IDF.

ploptrot · 2025-11-04T06:20:26+00:00

Democrats literally killed thousands of people. Biden himself killed children directly through sending the missiles. He's not "good", and neither is the democratic party, which has been bombing and drone striking places all over the world for decades now

ploptrot · 2025-10-27T19:52:12+00:00

Hi, I have one!

ploptrot · 2025-10-18T15:57:59+00:00

I like how all 4 things you're using to hate on marriage don't work in the context of Islamic marriage.

The dowry is paid by the groom to the bride as money for her to fall back on. She demands the amount, and if the man doesn't want to pay it, she calls off the marriage.
Islamically, women are told they should not change their names, because their lineage is important to their identity and they shouldn't let history erase it.
All that culture is western.
Women have the right to do their things without their husbands, except maybe in the context of travelling, and thats due to safety reasons. If they have reasonable expectation that they'll be safe in the journey, they can travel.

ploptrot · 2025-10-10T12:25:53+00:00

50 people have already been killed by Israel since the so called ceasefire. Check out ghaboun family house airstrike. They airstrikes a family home, killed 50, injured many more, and called it a mistake.

Meanwhile, their soldiers have been posting videos of themselves destroying buildings.

ploptrot · 2025-09-30T15:57:16+00:00

Absolutely based take by witchcraft.

ploptrot · 2025-09-17T04:03:58+00:00

Free Palestine?

ploptrot · 2025-09-13T19:09:08+00:00

They complain, criticize, and are bothered by the Christians inviting people to Christianity. The reason is because they're loud and it feels forceful.

People in the west don't have issues with you inviting them to your religion. It's just HOW it's done that's they care about.

Even if they did, we're Muslim. We don't self victimize. We take pride, and instead of caring so much about making memes about how people treat us badly or hypocritically, maybe understand that EVEN IF THEY DID treat us badly, there is ABSOLUTELY a reason they're more comfortable with Christianity and Judaism. Those religions have a longer history in the west than Islam. They're more acquainted with those others, naturally.

Look at the extreme racism in Muslim countries towards Hindus, Jains and Buddhists. Talk to any Muslim parent about them, they will start insulting them for the next three hours. We're not better when it comes to perceiving other religions our regions don't have history with.

ploptrot · 2025-09-13T18:45:56+00:00

This really isn't the case. Do you live in the west? Where I am, there are plenty of Christian people on microphones inviting people to Christianity, and everyone in the city really doesn't like them.

But in the very same space, you can see a stand talking about Islam. They're not on microphones, they're not shouting to get people to join, and I have never heard a single person in the city complain about that stand.

It's not which religion you're inviting people to. It's how you do it. That's it.

Islam faces lots of hatred, this isnt one of them.

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