Gosplan14_the_Third

joined 2 years ago

Tfw even Israel gets fucked over by this

I'm a young person. I hated my childhood.

Also "not allowed". I'm not scolding anyone for it, I'm complaining.

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Stomp and Holler, an abomination of a music genre. (maybe there's good examples around, but the bands that got big sucked ass)

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The particular trend that prompted this rant is me reading posts about why the 2010s nostalgia in pop music - the return of electropop etc., and it being a bunch of annoying redditors praising Obama etc.

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I was 11 in 2010, but I still hated it. Who cares that I had a PSP when I lived in Southern Europe during Schäuble's reign of terror?

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Subway Surfer revival

 

Of all the things young people could have latched onto, it's the decade of the great recession almost no place on earth really recovered from, a head bozo in the US that's somehow popular but turned the world into his personal drone playground, while the empire continued as it did.

It was the decade every social movement failed in, and mostly retreated back to moralistic forms of liberalism, just as every equally moralistic right wing reaction grew exponentially, leading to the current issues.

It was the decade climate change was decided to be fixed through a bunch of treaties worth less than the paper they were written on.

It was the decade of the start of the return of the malaise of collapsing empires. Poverty, hunger, climate change caused disasters. War had not went away, but resistance to it did.

Plus, pop culture (the thing most of the nostalgia is directed to - the eternal "It's Christmas ~~1996~~ 2013 and my parents got me ~~a Nintendo 64~~ the new Call of Duty" of obnoxious liberals) sucked ass.

So you're rich because others also bought into the completely unproductive ponzi scheme. Go brag somewhere else, loser.

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Make sure to go to the church once it becomes available.

Personally I think DS9 started strong and lost steam gradually

I like all seasons of DS9, but this isn't wrong, at least in the overarching plot. The single episodes were bangers even in the last season. And while season 7 is a bit too science-fantasy at times, I think it sticks the landing significantly more gracefully than Voyager.

The season 1 and 2 versions, yes. Season 3 and 4? Nah.

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, Planetes was a big disappointment for me, especially since there was good stuff in it. Just more liberalism.

Caleb Maupin's nazbol grift.

 

Delayed a bit to let the new seasonals start.

Manga:

I started Five Star Stories (1987) and Kowloon Generic Romance, but have not gone far into them. Good to see some quality world building though. Something often missing these days.

Anime:

Super Robot Wars W is excellent, and it convinced me to watch Tekkaman Blade. A good early 90s sci-fi mechanime. So far it's pretty lean in story, but what's there is good. B+

I've been continuing shows I've been watching with comrades, and Full Metal Panic is still peak.

Not much of a status update, but I figured to make this month's thread, because nobody else did.

 

RIP the home of Lina Inverse.

 

And I'm sad that 80% of the games are either untranslated or force you to follow along a often incomplete script translation.

 

I've been thinking of watching some more movies recently and comedies are my favorite genre. However, it's also a genre that's difficult to pull off well, and probably at least somewhat subjective.

So, sneakily asking for recommendations, I'm going to ask what your all time favorite comedy movies are.

I'll share my personal favorites too, as well as some I recently had seen and enjoyed. I'll limit myself to movies that are available in English, otherwise a few Italian movies would also make the list.

Blues Brothers (1980) Mix together a cool retro music act, the Chicago Police Department and Carrie Fisher with a rocket launcher, and what do you get? One of the coolest and most fun movies ever, even if not laugh out loud material.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Love the Bomb (1964) A timeless classic slash terryfing 1960s satire of warmongering that feels still fresh and relevant today, for better or worse.

OSS 117: Cairo, a Nest of Spies (2006) Spy movie parodies are a favorite of mine, and this French movie is one of the best. Taking the reactionary undertones of those old movies, and mercilessly mocking them.

A Shot in the Dark (1964) Fun classic whodunit movie. Not much else to say.

 

2024's not as strong as 2023 was in my opnion, but there were a bunch of good albums this years as well.

The chart was made with Topsters 3 and is in arbitrary order. My favorite album this year is probably Imaginal Disk though.

 

I'm lowkey awed that an organization claiming the name still exists.

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