Death Cab for Cutie were/are basically a perfect specimen of that period when emo aboveground had lost most of its post-hardcore qualities but still had the residual whiff of ambition and aggression beneath the earnest poppy inflections. Which is to say that they are the exact sort of thing to annoy both obnoxious teen rockers and budding hipsters alike.
really liking Young Team so far. "Herod" was a bit heavy for me (by which I mean a lot heavier than I normally like to listen to) but I like it otherwise.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Even in context, it took me a moment to realize you weren't referring to PlayStation.
really liking Young Team so far. "Herod" was a bit heavy for me (by which I mean a lot heavier than I normally like to listen to) but I like it otherwise.
"Like Herod" is a fucking beast and I love it. That creepy bass part is amazing.
(Also, despite the fact that the title "Like Herod" was essentially arbitrary, the title really fits the queasy apocalyptic mood of the song, particularly when juxtaposed with the Jewish hymnal core of the similarly epic "My Father, My King".)
@tachyon sorry to possibly bring up an old topic of dispute but
when people are using a certain phrase in language to mean two different things, when one of those meanings is unambiguously covered by another phrase, would you support encouraging people to use the first phrase to mean the meaning that's not covered by the second phrase?
To those not familiar with religious history: Herod was the Roman regent of Judaea around the time that Jesus was born, notorious for his authoritarian attitudes at the time and later dubiously accused of massacring infants in fear of a prophecy that he would be dethroned as the King of the Israelites by a child born beneath the passage of a certain comet.
Most historians who say that this was invented by Christians in the Dark Ages still wouldn't put it past him.
His Royal Majesty, King of Prussia and of Denmark, Duke of Brandenburg, Duke of Pommerania, Duke of Thuringia, Duke of All Lower Prussia, Lord Protector of the Count of Ulm, and Prince-Elector of The Holy Roman Empire, Frederick William III, of the great House von Hohenzollern. Son of King Frederick Albert von Hohenzollern and Queen Mary Bedford.
I don't think I've ever read a kind thing about King Herod.
Yeah, no-one liked him.
The Jews in the area thought that he was a corrupt tyrant who believed himself the keeper of the faith despite being in the pocket of the Romans; the Christians called him a baby-killer; and the Romans thought that he was overzealous, paranoid and excessively violent.
Which, again, makes "Like Herod" a great title for a song that explodes into musical hellfire out of nigh-total silence in the most unsettling way possible.
I think one of the things I like most about this Prussia game I'm playing in EU4 (and it has nothing to do with me) is that Bosnia got super strong, so I then downloaded a mod that enabled Slavic nations to form Yugoslavia, and Bosnia promptly did that. Apparently the decision also grants the Western tech group, because Yugoslavia is now a regional powerhouse (and in fact, are the most powerful nation ruled by the von Habsburgs now that Austria is in heavy decline)
also who in the western world doesn't know who herod is
seriously
That's actually not Herod himself, but his nephew Herod Antipas.
The latter was a dick and liked to quell heresies and political threats with lots of crucifixions, but he was better known for being an incompetent spendthrift and possibly a pervert than he was a brute like his predecessor.
Then again, the former did get the appellation Herod the Great from his conquests, so he did... something right?
Actually, to be fair to Herod - and I had forgotten about this, so shame on me - he did reconstruct the Temple of the Mount and enacted a lot of massive civil engineering projects (like rebuilding Samaria to honour Augustus) that earned him a great deal of praise both at the time and in hindsight.
However... as noted, he had tonnes of people assassinated, including his own brother who he had appointed as High Priest of Jerusalem a few years before. He also had his first wife and son executed, and was generally fucking insane. People did not appreciate that.
also, metroid fusion is proof that you can have a game with very vivid and vibrant color palettes yet still make it really, really, scary and tense as hell
metroid fusion is awesome, above the objections of people who complain that sequence-breaking isn't possible. yeah i know it isn't; it's still awesome despite that.
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always wondered what those guys were talking about
when people are using a certain phrase in language to mean two different things, when one of those meanings is unambiguously covered by another phrase, would you support encouraging people to use the first phrase to mean the meaning that's not covered by the second phrase?
pacific sun
personal system
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
do not underestimate the ignorance of the general public, I say this in all seriousness
also who in the western world doesn't know what heroin is
also who in the western world doesn't know what hieroglyphics are
also who in the western world doesn't know what homeopathy is
also who in the western world doesn't know what heroism is
also who in the heosle world doesn't know what hesod is
I'm playing Starflyer 59 until someone else shows up.
allegedly it's a copy of TNT but thing has taken like 900,000,000,000 years to finish.
Except Johann Struensee, and Mongkut.
They were okay.