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MA History. MAcc. Expat in S. Korea. I watch a movie every single day. Tweets mostly about those things.

He/Him. English/한곡어.

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@bsharbaugh This album fucking rules. People weren't ready.

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@TShirtnJeans2 @jordanschneider @ReedAlbergotti Still doing comebacks from covid-era huh? No one is gonna give two shits about this in 2028 and them Dems structural advantage in it is so great that it's basically impossible for them to "get slaughtered".

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@quattro2240 Spoon has persistently been talked about to the same exact degree for the last three decades basically and there's no reason to believe it'll change for the next three.

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@TShirtnJeans2 @jordanschneider @ReedAlbergotti Lmao.

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@forcefieldpr Oh you're like really dumb.

[ryan @ryanallen316]

the list shows indie as downstream from punk/art/folk/psych/noise, and only becomes recognizable as a genre once those traditions are made a little less unruly. Beat Happening seem like the great exception, perhaps the blueprint, w/music that embodied an entire subcultural vision

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@ryanallen316 Very good take.

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@thatscottcarney This was one of the absolute best albums of that very good year.

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@forcefieldpr Can't tell a human from a bot. Can't tell an all time great album from disposable mid. Unsurprising combo tbh

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@EricLevitz Crooked Rain is definitely the better album and it's only because it's the canonical "before they we're famous", choice that people are saying otherwise. Summer Babe, Zurich is Stained and I the Mouth a Desert are undeniable, but the rest of the album is a bit all over the place

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@B45H12322 @RossBarkan And I think, now importantly, many people still do.

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@B45H12322 @RossBarkan You didn't but many of the early bands and fans did and it's the definition they went with.

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@itskennyyyyy5ys @RossBarkan This is nto how notoriety works.

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@GregoryDou37332 @RossBarkan There's an arg that because their main record were released in the US by Elektra they don't meet the definition of indie.

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@B45H12322 @RossBarkan Major labels is immediate dq.

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@RossBarkan Strawberry Jam has always been the better record. They made the right choice on AnCo.

The real glaring flaw is the a sense of the Replacements.

[Ethan @Eslayzzzz]

WoW Forever would be way more fun if not every single thing about the game insisted on wasting my time:
waiting during gryphon, walking 6k miles, competing for 3 npcs, waiting for players who dg queue who arent even in the same town as dg...
these things are not immersive or fun

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@Vangler42 @Eslayzzzz The solution, of course, is to make more content that isn't empty fetch and gather quest bullshit for lifeless nobody PCs. But that would require making a game that doesn't suck shit.

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@Dimir_Knight @icyveins That will result in at least one layer where the gap is way greater than 60:40.