metaphortune

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[–] metaphortune@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I don't know that my absolute favorite artist has a bad song. But here are a few songs I hate by artists that I love:

Bloc Party (original lineup/first 4 albums): 3 x 3. Not sure why, just feels anxious in a bad way? Always a skip for me.

Keane: Ishin Denshin (You've Got To Help Yourself). This is a cover from an EP so maybe too deep of a cut, but man do I hate this track. Just feels cloying and awkward. Like they were trying to recreate the original but were too in awe of it.

Peter Bjorn and John: The Feeling. The first track from their true followup to Writer's Block. Just feels like it's a song that's weird for the sake of being weird.

[–] metaphortune@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I've done it once or twice in the early days to see what was up, never since then.

[–] metaphortune@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I read this article and my main takeaway was: that Bling Bling song sucks.

[–] metaphortune@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

"Flavor Flav is a swiftie" - Flavor Flav. This article just keeps hitting.

 

Whether it be to do your job, get your schoolwork done, clean your house, work on your creative passion, etc.

Bonus points if you're someone without reasonable self-control so saying something like "I can only have a cookie after I do this/while I do this" doesn't work for you and you're just going to eat the cookie and not do it.

[–] metaphortune@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm always telling people to REALLY watch Napoleon Dynamite. I think it got quoted and proto-memed to death when it came out, leading to most people having an unfair idea in their head of what the movie is.

The soundtrack is phenomenal. The acting is (mostly) way better than you may have thought it was. Jon Gries (Uncle Rico) was nominated for an Independent Spirit award and he absolutely deserved that nomination. The cinematography is excellent, especially knowing how much it cost to make + how much experience the crew had. Though it's not explicitly said, I think it's ultimately a story about neurodivergent people finding friendship, solidarity, and happiness in a world not made for them.

Also, the scene where Uncle Rico throws a steak at Napoleon is still funny.

[–] metaphortune@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Honestly: I cannot have the Instagram app on my phone (both for privacy and for addiction) - I have it installed on Waydroid and the fact that it works like 50% of the way keeps me from using it more than a couple times a week.

[–] metaphortune@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

25 cents have been added to my swear jar, don't worry!!

[–] metaphortune@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"Sending climate protesters to prison shows the law is an ass"

[–] metaphortune@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I love clarifications like this! Good on ya.

[–] metaphortune@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Win's is still so tough to me. I read through each of the statements and my final thought was: he did some bad things, but nothing that's going to get him thrown in jail. Similar to Aziz Ansari if I remember correctly. Now whether or not punishment would be morally right is another discussion, obviously our legal system is Very Flawed.

[–] metaphortune@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

It was to me too, had to go looking - guessing this from Wikipedia is what it was:

Kiedis acknowledges in his autobiography Scar Tissue that he had sexual relations with a 14-year-old girl when he was 23, before and after learning of her age, in the 1980s. This inspired him to write the song "Catholic School Girls Rule".

[–] metaphortune@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I love the idea! If there was good support from something like GrapheneOS or /e/OS I would be looking at one of these.

 

Doing some research on things that I will absolutely never do. Let's say a nefarious party wanted to download a video from Youtube, say, an episode of the TV show Community. The downloaders I have researched for Linux (Youtube Downloader Plus + Parabolic) will not let me download any episodes that have DRM. Are there any that DO let you do so, preferably while removing the DRM so it could be used on Jellyfish or Plex?

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