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
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I just...always assumed the song was about self-harm?
It never occurred to me that "scars" could be referencing plastic surgery.
anyway I'm surprised he spent so little of the video talking less about the lyrics and more about how it's horribly overproduced. It's just this offensive fog bank of sound
Yeah, it's like there are a few decent ideas and touches buried in the mix, but it's like this cloudy mass of fake bigness, with a lamer version of the chanting from Arcade Fire's "Wake Up" smeared all over it like in every wannabe anthem this past few years—or past twelve, since Funeral came out in late 2004. (God, I feel old.)
1: I post on SA about how I think Lindsay makes too many factual errors in her videos
2: Someone asks for an example
3: I talk about how in her Aphrodite video for Loose Canon, she said that Socrates wrote a statement and then quoted it. I pointed out that Socrates famously never "wrote" anything and the statement she quoted was in actuality a paraphrase of two separate dialogues, and one of the two halves of the paraphrased statements was made by Timaeus, NOT Socrates
4: The SA thread immediately gets fucking angry at me, goes for the old "hahahahaha your degree is useless" and spends like two pages calling me pedantic
5: Lindsay teleports into the thread to tell me that because she has fact checkers, it is unfair of me to point out that she made a mistake, misrepresents my criticism as a mere slip of the tongue from "said" to "wrote" and calls me an asshole
6: The thread rallies behind her calling out some random dude on the internet and agrees that I am indeed an asshole
Okay, question. Didn't the NC do a Cool World review at some point before this? Because I'm almost certain that a big name at Channel Awesome did a Cool World review at some point
dropping in to say that the picture of Timon and Jake from The Rescuers Down Under making out while wearing diapers he shows in that video was drawn by the significant other of a friend of mine
The whole "family saga about three people who are only doubtfully descended from each other" is a pretty elegant metaphor for the kind of story a nation tells about itself in its history, especially European ones.
I actually knew all about Trevor Horn from reading Rip It Up And Start Again. The man is genuinely fascinating, particularly his work with The Art of Noise and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The fact that he produced "Can't Fight the Moonlight" actually shocked me, though.
It's nice when somebody talks about something and it makes you understand why it matters as much as it does to them, particularly when it leads you to find a certain admiration for something that you previously never would have given a second thought—or, rather, tips the scales on it.
Also I might be mistaken here, because my knowledge of Kabbalah is fairly weak, but that ego stuff seemed more like watered down Buddhism or some Eckhart Tolle shit than anything Jewish
The most recent episode of Extra Credits is the second time they've came to the weird conclusion that turn based JRPG combat is inherently some sort of concession
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It never occurred to me that "scars" could be referencing plastic surgery.
What exactly did Lindsay do/ Lindsay lives in LA, Todd in NY.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Also
I will check that out after I finish watching random Undertale LPs again, as I felt the itch again...
He shares the sort of "the past's version of the future" attitude that permeates through everything by that band.
Woolley is the more technically accomplished singer, of course, but Horn definitely has his own vibe going on, much like Jon Anderson does.
His work as producer for them was more compelling than his work as a frontman.
It's nice when somebody talks about something and it makes you understand why it matters as much as it does to them, particularly when it leads you to find a certain admiration for something that you previously never would have given a second thought—or, rather, tips the scales on it.
Also I might be mistaken here, because my knowledge of Kabbalah is fairly weak, but that ego stuff seemed more like watered down Buddhism or some Eckhart Tolle shit than anything Jewish