Oh god, I listen to a lot of music, so get ready, and fair warning I’m kind of a metalhead (but I genuinely do listen to everything), lol. Here’s a quick rundown of my recent listening, with minimal notes:

Sear Bliss - Heavenly Down. melodic black metal with a trombone!

Within Destruction - Animetal. deathcore goes pop sensibilities; I really think between this album and Left to Suffer’s ‘Leap of Death’ we’re on the precipice of the birth of a new microgenre that does to deathcore what easycore did to melodic hardcore and metalcore.

The Weeknd - Hurry Up Tomorrow. I’ve been a Weeknd fan since his original three mixtapes dropped, and finally got around to listening to his latest.

Dayseeker - Dark Sun. metalcore-tinged synthpop.

Watsky - Intention. kinda hippie-drenched indie hip-hop?

Rioghan - Kept. melodic and slightly djenty alt-metal; I was really hyped for Jinjer’s new album before it came out but honestly Rioghan’s Kept kind of sounds like what I wanted but didn’t fully get from Jinjer.

and I also recently caught up on some classics that somehow flew under my radar:

The Devil Wears Prada - With Roots Above and Branches Below.

Whitechapel - This is Exile

Emmure - Goodbye to the Gallows

As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us

and today I’ve been obsessively listening to:

Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power. just absolutely insanely incredible blackgaze post-metal.

If you’ve been listening to anything, I’d love to hear about it as well!

I’ve been so focused on active album listening lately that I haven’t been playing much, so I’m still chugging my way through Cyberpunk and Moonlighter currently, and enjoying both of them thus far.

Although I did pick up Furi while it’s 80% on steam, but honestly I only played it for a little bit so far so I don’t really have any opinions about it yet

This I agree with, and I think your call for a “suggestive” tag is a great way to fill in a lot that missing depth.

I think tagging is a wonderful system and a great kindness posts can perform for the sake of others, but that kind is a choice and lack thereof is not inherently problematic. The absence of kindness is not meanness, it’s neutrality.

Having empathy does not mean we have to work under the assumption that everything should cater to the most delicate of sensibilities (even if the reason for said delicate sensibility are well-justified). I am empathetic and I am sorry for the additional challenges navigating experiences like this can cause you.

I still stand by my point.

And to your point, yes tagging is a wonderful system and it does help those like yourself in your navigation. I support tagging and like OP mentioned, love systems that allow for robust tagging.

But let’s be clear, that kind of tag is a very kind and wonderful courtesy, the absence of which is not malicious, it is neutral.

Imo the Internet was a vastly better place when everyone practiced personal responsibility and assumed that everywhere online was inherently wild and potentially unsafe unless specifically deemed otherwise, not the other way around

I’ve never played any of the Battlefield games at all, tbh. I don’t even know what they’re about, really. Somebody convince me to try them!

But you know what game I do miss regularly? 1943. I just played the absolute hell out of 1943 as a kid, probably one of my most played NES games.

Hahaha yeah it took awhile for her to grow on me but I ended up pretty fond of her by the end of it.

And yes, I liked it more than any Pokemon game, but tbh I think it’s such a different thing that it doesn’t even feel entirely accurate to directly compare them in that way

This is exactly how I feel about it. It feels like the creators love and were inspired by Pokemon, but aren’t just making a carbon copy. There are so many Pokemon-clones out there, it’s great to see that Cassette Beasts merely took only the most basic foundations of Pokemon and truly built their own original game on top of that foundation, rather than trying to rebuild the exact same structure.

Tbh I didn’t intentionally do that, so I think there much be some kind of trigger on this sub to automatically cross-post?

(edit: and to be clear, I’m glad it does!)

I won’t say there is zero merit to the claims, obviously, but regardless a lot of you care way too damn much about the choices of others.

The sky is falling in so many ways right now, but Lemmy server distribution just isn’t one of them.

Bro maybe you’re just a fucking loser

If you think that bad dog owner entitlement is an exclusively Californian issue then I regret to inform you that I have terrible news about the rest of the country.

Yes, they are lying hypocrites with no actual morals who are more than happy to lie directly to our face.

This isn’t news, stop being shocked by this.

Yeah people are missing your point and thinking you’re praising Booker’s specific action as the solution rather than what (I think) you’re actually doing, which is praising action in general and encouraging others to recognize and take up whatever actions they can/will in lieu of inaction.

Good on you.

Bold of you to assume they believe in controversial hypotheses like “latitude”.

Who exactly are you shouting at, as if everything you’re saying isn’t obvious as day?

I loved Cracked so much before they fired everyone who people liked 7 years ago.

No, but humans have differences in scale also. Should a person gifted with hyper-fast reading and writing ability be given less opportunity than a writer who takes a year to read a book and a decade to write one? Imo if the argument comes down to scale, it’s kind of a shitty argument. Is the underlying principle faulty or not?

Advertisers didn’t change queer people, queer people changed advertisers.

You’re not immune to marketing and conditioning. It’s not a one-way street, it’s two-way.

How can someone have lots of sex without being pro-sex?

I dunno, maybe ask the Catholic Church, or the Mormon Church, or any other famously anti-sex organization that promotes heavy breeding but still uses harmful shame tied to sex as a a means of control?

You’re incorrectly conflating the idea of doing sexual things in general and the idea of doing sexual things in public; most Pride events are less overtly sexual now than they were in the past, but that’s not a reduction to the original goals of Pride.

No, I’m not. You’re conflating being pro-sex with being sexually active.