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[M3xus]

marvel/dreamwave/idw comic only guys

That's pretty much it. I read the UK comics decades ago, so I'd recognize some of those dudes (Flame, Straxus, and Skyquake, for example), but the more modern stuff escapes me. At least Beast Wars designs are mostly unchanged.

 

[AnZero]

Went to a cafe recently and wanted to say how they play popular music, only to realize none of that music was popular for years. I wonder what the music topping the charts in the early 2010s will be called, apart from garbage marginally better than garbage we have now. Do you remember when songs used to have understandable and sensible lyrics?

I'm not a 30-year-old boomer, i'm a 20-year-old-boomer.

Pop music from even like 2011 is practically Beethoven to what we have now. Turn on the radio, it’s all tiktok clip music, fat lesbian, or shitty rap-pop fusion (since we are blessed to live in the period where rap is the prominent genre). I am 20 as well. I should not already hate the radio. It feels like literally every aspect of life got significantly worse post lockdown, I don’t know if society will ever recover. I miss the days when the worst thing you could hear on the radio was Wrecking Ball and not this auditory hell I’m subjected to every time the car stereo switches on. Oh it’s bad!

 

[seri0us]

Pop music from even like 2011 is practically Beethoven to what we have now. Turn on the radio, it’s all tiktok clip music, fat lesbian, or shitty rap-pop fusion (since we are blessed to live in the period where rap is the prominent genre). I am 20 as well. I should not already hate the radio. It feels like literally every aspect of life got significantly worse post lockdown, I don’t know if society will ever recover. I miss the days when the worst thing you could hear on the radio was Wrecking Ball and not this auditory hell I’m subjected to every time the car stereo switches on. Oh it’s bad!

who artists/albums do you like ?

 

[AnZero]

who artists/albums do you like ?

Listen to mostly post hardcore stuff (at least that’s the cope name for it) from the 90s-00s. I won’t pretend that my music taste isnt also faggy, I just think there’s been an abysmal decline in radio slop. Before it was just kind of there, or at worst overplayed and annoying. I cannot listen to pop stations now, it’s just gotten too bad.

It’s real late, I could have probably worded my comment better to sound less like a autist. I’m not a lawyer or a scholar, so rap does nothing for me, and the shortform “clip” music that’s certainly made to be spread on one of the various Brainrot apps is just so totally lifeless. There was a major cultural shift right around 2020 where things seemingly “fell off” real hard for radio pop. I don’t even know who is listening to this stuff either, you never meet anyone who is actually saving these songs. It could be some rock-ola deal l guess. Maybe things just move so fast now that even zoomers are being left behind by it, I’m not entirely sure.

 

[Loris Yeltsin]

That's more a sign of the collapse of the music industry. Fans of those old bands are the only people who actually buy music and can afford to go to concerts on the regular. Zoomers and Gen Alpha just pirate and stream and can't afford a concert ticket without taking out a second mortgage.

Record companies are as risk averse as the equally failing film industry. Paying for another RHCP album or sending Alice Cooper out on tour again instead of taking a risk on a young artist is the music equivalent of spending $300m on Iron Man vs Spider-man: Dawn of Star Wars instead of an original IP. And when they do promote a new artist it's always nepo baby industry plant bullshit like Billie Eilish or Yungblud rather than a real unsigned indie artist working their asses off on the toilet gig circuit the way those 80s and 90s bands started.

PSA: If you're in an unsigned band trying to "get noticed", give up. It's not 1993, the talent scouts aren't even looking for you any more. The band they're going to sign instead are going to an elite music school paid for by their industry parents. If it makes you feel any better, they're probably not making much more money than you and they have to give sexual favours to cigar-chomping Jews just to get an advance on a debut album that will put them in debt for life.

While all of this is absolutely true, I think it's worth mentioning that what you should give up on is the wish for the classic "record deal" scenario. Way back when talent scouting and even outsider signing were common, getting signed was pretty much your only means of gaining any kind of national/international exposure and traction. Nowadays, music production (even the classic "We actually sing without autotune and play physical instruments" variety) has become such a trivial process that most acts can easily produce and sell their own albums, and promote themselves. Sure, music has become even more of a generic commodity because of this, and it's also true that there's an entire generation of people to whom paying for (physical or digital copies of) songs is an alien concept, but I haven't really noticed a significant dip in concert/festival ticket sales for lesser known/local acts in recent years. There was even a noticeable increase post-WuFlu, though this has flattened down again.

I'm saying, you can still "make it" if your idea of "making it" is simply to make a living off of your music.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Necro'ing this post a bit, but that is absolutely when it happened.

'90s Simpsons had good jokes constantly. While Zombie Simpsons is like "THIS IS A JOKE AND HERE IS HOW IT IS FUNNY", here and there. I noticed the changes in the '00s and started calling the new episodes "crappingly new", and pretty much stopped watching any episode if I could tell right away if it was a "crappingly new" from the start. And that's the '00s episodes. Current Year ones are likely worse.

Back in the 1990s in Burgerland , new episodes would air on Fox every Sunday, and a local channel would air 2 reruns back-to-back at night after Star Trek: TNG, both on broadcast TV. I liked. But, by the '00s, ST:TNG got replaced with some unappealing sitcoms, and it was only one episode of Simpsons which, due to licensing issues, was always a "crappingly new" episode instead of good older episodes.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

a local channel would air 2 reruns back-to-back at night after Star: TNG, both on broadcast TV. I liked that

ngl local syndication really had some banger playlists in the day, before "flip over to the cytube/pluto channel that's just that show" was the way to go

 

[cactus]

ngl local syndication really had some banger playlists in the day, before "flip over to the cytube/pluto channel that's just that show" was the way to go

Fox was great in the afternoon in the early 2000s: watch some Digimon and then after Fox Kids, they played King of the Hill and the Drew Carey Show, then the Simpsons, each for an hour. At least, where I lived, I know different areas did their own thing.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Fox Kids

I still have one episode of Digimon on a VHS tape I taped off of Fox Kids on broadcast TV: that one episode where that kid with the wild brown hair and goggles somehow winds up back in the real world, along with his Digimon friend who can turn into a little yellow T-Rex. I dunno or forgot how he wound up in the physical and how the episode ends.

Oh yeah, back in the '90s, Fox Kids would also air Eek! The Cat, this show about a purple or violet cat, and part of that show was The Terrible Thunderlizards. The latter of which was about the world of dinos with modern techs, and 2 caveman humans (Bill and Scooter) who lived in the "X-Zone" that this team of dinos (Doc, Squat, and Kutter) were always trying and always failing to exterminate. Also happy Scooter was always trying to invent stuff, and not-so-happy Bill was always wondering when does the hurting stop.

 

[cactus]

I still have one episode of Digimon on a VHS tape I taped off of Fox Kids on broadcast TV: that one episode where that kid with the wild brown hair and goggles somehow winds up back in the real world, along with his Digimon friend who can turn into a little yellow T-Rex. I dunno or forgot how he wound up in the physical and how the episode ends.

Oh yeah, back in the '90s, Fox Kids would also air Eek! The Cat, this show about a purple or violet cat, and part of that show was The Terrible Thunderlizards. The latter of which was about the world of dinos with modern techs, and 2 caveman humans (Bill and Scooter) who lived in the "X-Zone" that this team of dinos (Doc, Squat, and Kutter) were always trying and always failing to exterminate. Also happy Scooter was always trying to invent stuff, and not-so-happy Bill was always wondering when does the hurting stop.

You're thinking of Tai and Agumon. But the mood of that episode is something, my favorite episode of the first season.

I miss seeing hand drawn animation on TV, it's all ToonBoom Harmony now. All that stuff was more than a quarter of a century ago.

 

[Dysnomia]

Pop music from even like 2011 is practically Beethoven to what we have now. Turn on the radio, it’s all tiktok clip music, fat lesbian, or shitty rap-pop fusion (since we are blessed to live in the period where rap is the prominent genre). I am 20 as well. I should not already hate the radio. It feels like literally every aspect of life got significantly worse post lockdown, I don’t know if society will ever recover. I miss the days when the worst thing you could hear on the radio was Wrecking Ball and not this auditory hell I’m subjected to every time the car stereo switches on. Oh it’s bad!

I just listen to the local rock station which did a Rick Derringer tribute about an hour ago. You might have to really look around the dial for anything decent in your locale. If your locale sucks then you might need to download a radio app or look for online stations. There's still good radio out there. It's just getting harder to find.

Pop music just keeps getting more cut and paste. I think anyone could get a hit these days with the right producer or even just really good protools-fu.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Pop music from even like 2011 is practically Beethoven to what we have now.

I stopped really listening to what's on the radio after 2000, so my experience with what came after is pretty much limited to what stores would play on the intercom, or what inconsiderate people would blast out. From that, it seems that at least with Western pop, 1980s is best, '90s got more "hip hop" and later "grunge" but not that bad, '00s is sorta annoying ("Hey, Soul Sister" being the worst offender I've had the displeasure of hearing). And then 2010s music is "cucked soy songs" or that one Katy Perry song with the "Millennial whoop" and "hear me roooar" in part of the lyrics? Haven't really heard what's out now, but I imagine it's even worse and likely has much of "woke" crap too.

this auditory hell

Sounds like "smartphone" and "social media" "cultures" are to blame -- and maybe "social justice" as well. It's like how now it seems new media always has that "watered down smartphone feel" to it, from movies to vidya. And 2020 really made Current Year Clown World even moreso so it's not surprising the post-coof crap on the radio is even worse.

You're thinking of Tai and Agumon. But the mood of that episode is something, my favorite episode of the first season.

That was only the first season?!

Also since then, Western animation went from hand-drawn to looking like it was made in Flash. Now in Current Year it seems it's either crap like "Cocomelon" or "Bluey" crap.

 

[cactus]

That was only the first season?!

Also since then, Western animation went from hand-drawn to looking like it was made in Flash. Now in Current Year it seems it's either crap like "Cocomelon" or "Bluey" crap.

Yeah, they played the 2nd and 3rd on FoxKids in 2000 and 2001. They're on Hulu. Then there's a few others but they've been hard to keep up with since the rights out here changed hands a couple of times.

I heard Bluey isn't too bad, but yeah, everything is too smooth looking nowadays. Started rewatching Gundam Wing and the look of cel animation is just so comforting.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

heard Bluey isn't too bad

It still looks really obnoxious though. It's all flat and ugly-ish or annoying somehow.

I imagine it's something "Generation Alpha" kids watch on a "smartphone" in a stroller.

 

[cybertoaster]

I can't have sex without falling asleep anymore, is like before I could get up and do something like get a drink or whatever but now I've to catch some Zs.

Oh well at least I don't need any blue pills, weird how many young guys are buying blue chew and all that crap, like bro you're not even 30 and need those?

 

[skjora]

Suddenly and somehow, I'm one of the people at work who people ask for advice rather than one of those asking others. I even have something useful to say much of the time. There's some "impostor syndrome" feelings going on since I'm still just some dude with no clue in my head, but it also feels good to get to explain a bunch of basic (to me) things straight away to new employees that I myself had to learn the hard way. Seeing a junior employee perform a task better than a senior one when I was the one to teach them is rather fulfilling.

 

[Argos]

Getting described as "wise" when a WoW guild mate wanted advice dealing with another player making her uncomfortable in their role-play.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

rice burner in-progress

 

[Pale Empress]

Sometimes I'll shuffle my Plex library and watch whatever pops up. The other day I watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall for the first time.
In my mind it feels like it came out fairly recently, maybe six or seven years at most.

Nah, this movie came out almost twenty years ago. I was gobsmacked.

Spoiler

the movie is utter dogshit and has aged very poorly but it's a novel time capsule. I don't feel special nostalgia for the 00s but I do miss the time before smartphones

In that same vein, I've noticed people being nostalgic for movies from their childhood like Despicable Me and Hotel Transylvania (and in one memorable case, Boss Baby) and feel especially disconnected.

Oh well at least I don't need any blue pills, weird how many young guys are buying blue chew and all that crap, like bro you're not even 30 and need those?

Porn addiction. What extended and unsupervised access to the Internet will do to a mf.

 

[cybertoaster]

Porn addiction. What extended and unsupervised access to the Internet will do to a mf.

Every guy I know under 30 has been watching hardcore porn since before they were 10, its insane what they got access to compared to millennials. But the worst part is their parents were somehow okay with this, meanwhile I remember some kid who had found a softcore VHS and brought it to school got into so much shit he almost got spelled, and his parents were considering military school just for that.

Sure overkill, but look at the consequences of doing nothing at all.