Extol.

I’ve mentioned this band a few times recently.

As a metal fan, Christian Metal has always rubbed me the wrong way. It was either way too preachy and constantly proselytizing or it was just straight up bad music across the board. Often both.

Metal is founded on rebellion and speaking truth to power, not bowing down and licking a boot (something Nazi fucks forcing their way into metal scenes need to realize and fuck off - you’re not welcome) so I always handwaved away Christian bands on that basis.

Well it turns out Extol is a shining light in that scene. Their lyrics can sometimes dampen the power but the delivery of the vocals usually keeps that at bay and the music is so immense that it doesn’t even matter.

Their album ‘Burial’ is a bona fide ripper of an album. Unique riffing and melodic choices on top of an absolutely killer drummer. Their later albums are excellent too, but nothing in this world sounds like Burial. 10/10 album for me and in my top 3 of all time for sure.

Just push them to darker parts of the internet why don’t cha?

All this “for the kids” shit is directly at the expense of the kids.

I remember the part about the RFID chips in every person being the most shocking part as a kid. Honestly with smartphones and the modern internet, we’re not really that far off from what was speculated on that topic.

The film is over indulgent claptrap but a broken clock is right twice a day or whatever.

No!

Fire BIG. Big fire bad!

Run away!

The Roman Forum. The Colosseum is cool but way overrated. The Forum is so huge you can easily spend multiple days just wandering around enjoying its history.

10/10 would recommend.

Just use the harmonic minor or phrygian dominant scales instead of vanilla major or minor and you’re off to the races.

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They are so underrated. It’s crazy.

I never hear anyone talk about it ever and it’s one of my favorite games. I think it’s a work of art, really. To me it’s underrated.

Hyper Light Drifter for gaming.

Extol (Norway) for music, specifically the album “Burial”.

Hannah Fry is great too. Becky Smethurst as well.

I approve of your list but Anton Petrov is a bit much for a 12 year old, I think. Kyle Hill gets a bit dark for a 12 year old sometimes.

It certainly doesn’t hurt to just start off on the right foot with Carl Sagan and Cosmos.

The main difference between Luge and Skeleton (beyond the obvious) is that in Luge you launch and accelerate with your hands and arms. In Skeleton you do so with your legs. That’s a big reason why they’re both valid as olympic sports.

You gotta block what you don’t wanna see or choose an instance that has similar values to you as they’ll be defederated from a lot of shit you don’t wanna see.

Ok, that makes sense.

Your downsides make me think you work for a pretty shitty company. I don’t work a second longer than scheduled ever. If I want to take a sick day I don’t even tell them why. They don’t care. If I go over my allocation they might ask what’s up but that has never happened.

I miss EVE. 2010 to 2015 was when I played. It was excellent.

These people have 0 usefulness outside of helping the guy print a pdf…

Until you click on a phishing link.

This is the curse of IT. Perpetually undervalued yet absolutely essential. If IT were ever to disappear, the businesses they support become walking corpses.

It chaps my ass that everyone working in business has grown up with computers being essential to business yet its somehow still acceptable for them to be functionally illiterate in using them.

Sometimes its so fucking bad that the equivalent would be someone being granted a drivers license and given a car but they have no idea how to put it in park, let alone use the brakes.

IT are the Dunedain Rangers protecting The Shire. They’re not popular, they’re barely acknowledged, often scorned, but without their presence The Shire cannot be.

It’s definitely not me. I don’t use that shit for anything. I hope it stays down forever.

Huh, that’s an interesting one. I’m glad I’m not the only one hearing something weird.

Haha! I’m so sorry. Plz don’t hurt me lol Also, you gotta let me know what you hear when you get around to it! I’m very curious.

I have tried to hear that instead of “Hot pickle!” for years and I just can’t. This feels like another of of those blue dress/yanni things to me.