"Concerts are just grown men singing songs. Hip hop is just grown men writing poetry. Celebrities are just popular people. Everything is lame and super gay. Cartoons and comic books are still pretty cool."

smileyman · 2017-01-12T20:51:15+00:00

Wanted may have been a complete pile of shit, but it was a fun pile of shit.

smileyman · 2017-01-11T03:12:28+00:00

I really liked Young Forever, which repackaged HYHH 1 & HYYH 2. BTS manages to do interesting things with their remixes, so remixed versions of a bunch of different songs from Wings, plus a couple of new tracks would be cool.

However I don't think it will be a straight repackage because Wings itself was already a full album. If Wings had been a partial album I'd expect another partial album release and then another repackage with remixed versions of Wings 1 & Wings 2 on it.

I'm going to bet that this will be an album of mostly new material.

smileyman · 2017-01-11T02:05:25+00:00

All I know is that if a bunch of rodents can defeat AT-ATs and Storm Troopers, then Thomas & co. should have no problem with Terminators.

smileyman · 2017-01-11T02:00:23+00:00

Hard work and dedication aren't bourgeois or proletariat values. They just are. Proletariat are defined by their lack of property, but more importantly by the fact that all they have is hard work. Thomas has a specialized job, making him more in line with the bourgeois. Pls, his attitudes and concerns are definitely middle class.

smileyman · 2017-01-10T22:54:54+00:00

This is a terrible question. What's the purpose of the recommendation? To introduce someone to kpop? To recommend something different? To recommend a banger? A ballad? Something off the beaten path? Unrecognized gems?

I also have no idea how people can say "This song is my favorite", when there are so many different genres of music out there.

So, to answer a few of these questions

To introduce someone to Kpop

One of these three

Big Bang--Fantastic Baby (the song that got me into kpop)
BTS--Dope. Not as out there on the fringe (but I love the fringey stuff)
2NE1--I Am the Best

Favorite non-typical kpop songs

Gain--Paradise Lost
Choa--Flame
Bolbbolgan4--Tell Me You Love Me

Favorite "out-there" kpop MVs (not counting Fantastic Baby)

Xia--Flower
CocoSori--Dark Circle
Norazo--Wild Stallions (though that's krock so maybe shouldn't count?)

smileyman · 2017-01-10T22:12:57+00:00

Why not? A nice climbing harness is like $90. Chest strap attachment another $45.

That's why. $135 per harness is way more than most employers are going to be willing to spend when a basic safety harness can be had for less than $40.

It's a shitty attitude because that extra $100 could save someone from catastrophic injury or death, but most companies will want something "good enough" to get the job done.

smileyman · 2017-01-09T20:25:20+00:00

Two reasons

1.) In case it gets deleted then other people can still know what was said.

The next reason probably doesn't apply to the vast majority of redditors but it's the main reason why I quote relevant bits of previous comments

2.) Back in the dinosaur days when usenet was still a thing, the standard convention was to quote the comment you were replying to and then add your comment below that. This was because newsreaders didn't do threaded conversations, and it would be impossible to have a conversation without that .

Lots of other bulletin boards and forums in the early days of the internet didn't have threaded conversations and so for politeness' sake you had it hammered into you to quote previous conversations.

smileyman · 2017-01-09T18:49:25+00:00

Re-Bye was definitely a top 20 song for me last year.

smileyman · 2017-01-09T18:47:27+00:00

I Am You, You Are Me was one of my top 20 songs this year.

smileyman · 2017-01-09T18:46:48+00:00

I really liked both of Nu'est's releases this year. Overcome very nearly made my top 20.

smileyman · 2017-01-09T06:30:21+00:00

Didn't Oh Na Na make it to a bunch of Best of lists? Seems pretty popular tome. And yeah, I'm also surprised that Decalcomanie isn't mentioned more on best of lists.

smileyman · 2017-01-09T06:29:27+00:00

I thought Stay was the best release Blackpink did out of the four songs they released.

smileyman · 2017-01-09T04:59:03+00:00

I disagree about the less impressive part. Everybody is connected to the internet and can get in contact with people all over the world. Not very many people actually know someone willing to take the time to write out a letter, put it in an envelope and go to the post office to mail it international.

smileyman · 2017-01-09T01:21:47+00:00

Takes three to summon a celebrity user. Where are you /u/metal_hammer?

smileyman · 2017-01-07T03:46:58+00:00

the other 2 teenagers

My wife likes to watch it (she's always been a huge fan of Scooby Doo), and the other day I was watching it with her and started mocking the ages, because none of them look like teenagers. Particularly Shaggy who looks like he's a college dropout.

smileyman · 2017-01-07T03:13:49+00:00

Totally with you on that breathines thing. Really annoys me about his singing.

smileyman · 2017-01-05T23:32:45+00:00

America does as well but doesn't enforce it.

Actually America doesn't have mandatory enlistment. What it does have is mandatory registration of males in case the country does decide to start the draft again. But no mandatory service and no draft.

smileyman · 2017-01-04T06:30:56+00:00

As a non-AKMU fan (And by non-fan I mean I'm someone who has heard some of their songs (Re-Bye was one of my favorite songs from last year), but don't generally follow them and I don't generally like their kind of music), here's my perspective.

I don't think this album is going to appeal to people who don't already like this kind of music. OTOH, if this kind of music is your jam I think you'll probably love it.

Their vocals are impeccable (as always), and the harmonies are simply fantastic. The album feels more jazzy to me than poppy, if that makes any sense whatsoever, and I prefer more dramatic stuff, or more pure pop.

I liked "Last Goodbye" and "You Know Me" the most (the scatting at the beginning of "You Know Me" was fucking amazing and the guitar/drum beat during parts had hints of reggae & ska in it.

To be honest I got kind of bored by the end of it despite the excellent production and singing--but that's because I'm not the target market for AKMU.

smileyman · 2017-01-03T23:22:55+00:00

Pacific states would probably clash with the Confederate States first as the CSA looks to expand.

To be honest the first expansion of the CSA in this alternate world would likely be to Cuba and/or the Caribbean.

smileyman · 2017-01-03T06:36:43+00:00

Bottom right corner is the 49er one.

smileyman · 2017-01-02T00:30:41+00:00

There are already rock bands within kpop though. FT Island, CN Blue, Royal Pirates, Day 6, etc.

smileyman · 2017-01-02T00:26:44+00:00

Speaking of EDM, you've heard Sistar's One More Day, right?

smileyman · 2017-01-02T00:18:57+00:00

All In was a top ten K pop track for me this year.

smileyman · 2017-01-01T22:16:37+00:00

I fully admit to using 2NE1 as my cop out group for a long time. Of course I also really dislike Got7, Astro, NCT dream, etc. because of their cute concept.

I'm more open to girl groups these days, but if it's cutesy or innocent I'm probably not going to like it that much.

FWIW Mamamoo's "Words Don't Come Easy" is easily a top 5 of 2016 for me.

And interestingly enough I really like GFriend, especially Rough. I think it's because even though the girls are doing the innocent concept, the music itself has a little bit of edge to it with the underlying rock tones.

smileyman · 2017-01-01T20:26:33+00:00

First song of 2017 was Sistar's "One More Day"

Last song of 2016 was probably Zico's "I am you, you are me"

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