America: a [chat]rospective

simonwolf

Hey friends, I am currently in a car so I cannot write up my full review of America! This OP is a placeholder until I get back to my computer! For now here are some of my dynamite tweets from America

https://twitter.com/sparrowtimes/status/773968536637206529

https://twitter.com/sparrowtimes/status/774309758991949824

https://twitter.com/sparrowtimes/status/774763942535192577

21stCentury

Fascinating.

Writes notes in doughnut.

Blameless Cleric

I knew Kishibashi's latest album was going to be about his marriage, which was crumbling to pieces for a bit there and is maybe kind of stable now, but

jeez

he doesn't talk about it much in interviews but he like.. never sings like this, it's really different, and just really

like, knowing the rest of his work, this is really vulnerable and raw in comparison and it's almost hard to listen to

I'm amazed he's going on tour with this

simonwolf

also here's a tweet that isn't America (except that I acquired the second print in Atlanta) which has a heap of likes because both artists retwooted it

https://twitter.com/sparrowtimes/status/776692720593022976

Zephiran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9AoGc-OTCk

knitdan

You're killing me, Smalls.

Abdhyius

Bloody Beach was goddamn awesome live

One of my friends at the front with me knew nothing about them and then they started with this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wmO_JeFP3T8

And after five seconds she was like okay this is the best

It's the perfect song for starting a concert. Do you feel like dancing? Dang dam dadam

Blameless Cleric

I'd post some lyrics but the album just came out today and nobody's got them written up yet

navgoose

But did you go noodling with a fat redneck?

Blameless Cleric

also like, his attitude in interviews is so muted compared to how he usually is

I'm just like

uh

a-are you ok over there kaoru

are you sure

nexuscrawler

Simon may be more American than me now

*eagle weeps*

Orphane

As always, i dedicate this time at the burger joint to @surrealitycheck

spool32

Blameless Cleric wrote: »

I knew Kishibashi's latest album was going to be about his marriage, which was crumbling to pieces for a bit there and is maybe kind of stable now, but

jeez

he doesn't talk about it much in interviews but he like.. never sings like this, it's really different, and just really

like, knowing the rest of his work, this is really vulnerable and raw in comparison and it's almost hard to listen to

I'm amazed he's going on tour with this

I'm glad I ended up not buying tickets then

Coinage

Wow I finished a C project and it's more than an hour before it's due, it must have been divine intervention.

Evil Multifarious

On the one hand, Guinan feels poorly written in meeting the Borg; she should have been more forthcoming, more quickly and more urgently

On the other hand, this early Q who only cares about the lives of the mortals who interest him and then only barely is pleasantly unsettling like the classic kind of mercurial fey

Also weird that the Borg are a collective mind but preserve the individual bodies? The show really doesn't engage with AI too much aside from Data, and even then only through the lens of simulacrum

Oh man I forgot about the Borg babies

They did a really good job of making them super creepy and vast with minimal sets

Blameless Cleric

spool32 wrote: »

Blameless Cleric wrote: »

I knew Kishibashi's latest album was going to be about his marriage, which was crumbling to pieces for a bit there and is maybe kind of stable now, but

jeez

he doesn't talk about it much in interviews but he like.. never sings like this, it's really different, and just really

like, knowing the rest of his work, this is really vulnerable and raw in comparison and it's almost hard to listen to

I'm amazed he's going on tour with this

I'm glad I ended up not buying tickets then

I mean it's still dancy pop music and beautiful strings etc., it's honestly some of his better stuff in a lot of cases and I'll be happy to go see him perform (also I'm sure he won't just perform stuff of this album)

it's just

obviously written from a not-so-great place

Elki

Is there no goddamn way to tell Google to stop showing me NY Post stories?

Evil Multifarious

Honestly though

After the trauma of assimilation I bet being part of the Borg might be a relief, or even a kind of paradise

Krathoon

https://youtu.be/MYjtx8xIsgY

spool32

Elki wrote: »

Is there no goddamn way to tell Google to stop showing me NY Post stories?

stop reading them, transfixed like a man watching a trainwreck

Blameless Cleric

Like, this is really fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nau9z_YiGJA

but in the larger context of the album it's like, painfully idealistic -- and his usual pop-sweetness is interspersed with these occasional lines that pretty much interrupt the theme, questioning it directly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNCKIautZzQ

and this one is also super fun and dancy and great and has been a favorite jam since it was released (these two were singles) but again, in the context of the album, it's kind of devastating

redx

garcon means boy.

Chanus

redx wrote: »

garcon means boy.

nothing
means
boy like garçon

Sir Landshark

Porp was bored waiting to pick #1 from school so she streamed on FB from the car...and got 60 viewers. What.

Regina Fong

@Hahnsoo1

RE: Scrubs as the most accurate medical show

It's always the comedies, isn't it?

Down Periscope is by far the most accurate depiction modern submarines in film, and it's a silly formulaic underdog comedy.

Krathoon

https://store.na.square-enix.com/product/282258/final-fantasy-plush-cactuar-plush
https://store.na.square-enix.com/product/313732/final-fantasy-plush-vivi
https://store.na.square-enix.com/product/282261/final-fantasy-plush-tonberry-plush
https://store.na.square-enix.com/product/282270/final-fantasy-xiv-plush-kuplu-kopo-moogle-plush

21stCentury

gars con means dumb guy.

the little ç is importante.

spool32

Sir Landshark wrote: »

Porp was bored waiting to pick #1 from school so she streamed on FB from the car...and got 60 viewers. What.

next step - streaming from the bedroom

Sir Landshark

spool32 wrote: »

Sir Landshark wrote: »

Porp was bored waiting to pick #1 from school so she streamed on FB from the car...and got 60 viewers. What.

next step - streaming from the bedroom

Ayyyyyyy

Krathoon

Cactuar Bling. Not committed enough to buy it.

https://store.na.square-enix.com/product/275358/final-fantasy-series-silver-pendant-cactuar

21stCentury

Hey Landshark.

Nice Avatar.

Sir Landshark

21st you have until monday

21stCentury

Sir Landshark wrote: »

21st you have until monday

i won't do it.

Put your money where your mouth is right now.

Regina Fong

Wearing a cactuar seems risky. Any random passerbye with a charged overdrive would unload on you on general principle.

Elldren

Vinnie Jones singing a love song still hasn't gotten old

https://youtu.be/T85y4s4RPPk

Krathoon

Amazing things built in DQ Builders. Read a review that that said it had great boss fights.

http://blog.esuteru.com/archives/8500251.html

Here is another cool thing about it. From Wikipedia:

"The game is set in Alefgard, the world of the original Dragon Quest. The game is based on a parallel ending of Dragon Quest: before the final battle, the hero accepted the evil Dragonlord's suggestion - each rules a half of the world. But that's indeed a trap, and the hero was eliminated, then the world was dominated by monsters. With time passing by, a new hero (the player character) appears to revive the desolate world. Players gather "material" all over the world in order to rebuild the land of Alefgard from scratch."

Blameless Cleric

there is literally a song on this album with the subtitle "A slow dirge"

I just

buddy

Sir Landshark

I dont post much over the weekend. Friends just came over to drink and game. See ya Monday.

navgoose

Regina Fong wrote: »

Wearing a cactuar seems risky. Any random passerbye with a charged overdrive would unload on you on general principle.

Or they may drill you instead, which may be fun?

21stCentury

Sir Landshark wrote: »

I dont post much over the weekend. Friends just came over to drink and game. See ya Monday.

Remember, Landshark.

Threats lose all credibility if not enacted.

BeNarwhal

21stCentury wrote: »

Sir Landshark wrote: »

I dont post much over the weekend. Friends just came over to drink and game. See ya Monday.

Remember, Landshark.

Threats lose all credibility if not enacted.

*monitors you from one province over*