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this is the "Ride the Lightning" of the 2000s. no exaggeration.

no other young band could match COB's infectious energy and raw talent, nor did they have Alexi Laiho's once-in-a-generation songwriting savvy. he made ancient metal tropes sound brand new, and made it look piss easy.

GO LISTEN NOW!

seriously, think of how different things would be if Metallica had sprung for a plane ticket instead of putting him on a 3,000-mile bus ride back to LA. he spent that whole trip mapping out the rest of his life with being mad at Metallica as his compass and here we are.

the video being projected behind all the performers on stage

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight

hihi, reminder that if you're looking to help during the coming republican made SNAP crisis your dollar goes waaay further with a food bank than it ever could with canned goods.

their buying power is significantly higher than yours and they are much more in tune with the needs of their clientele

seen drug deals go down three rows over, people get into fights, mental health crises escalate into having to stop the train and a host of other shit and I'd still rather take a bus or train than even a short drive to work where any jerk piloting a two-ton machine can instantly ruin or end my life.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

One final push on this, given that I won't be receiving SNAP benefits next month or for the forseeable future? I hate sharing this, hate doing this, hate seeing the cat I couldn't save, but I'm just so tired and in so much pain from work.

Thank you all <3

the original poster of this is going "it'll get better!" at what? stitching together the most-watched parts of every AAA shooter's gameplay trailer? what would that even mean?

if there's a good outcome from any of this, it'll be the insight offered into the minds of the people who're looking to generative AI as some kind of shortcut to creativity, which must be an unutterably dull place to inhabit.

(happy one-year anniversary to this thread btw. when I start next year's I'll make a hashtag so all this shit is easier to find and organize lol)

YouTube video by AKERBELTZ 999 DAMN YOUTH "No mercy to Nazi Sympathy" - Live Studio Grava [HD]

Damn Youth - "No Mercy to Nazi Sympathy" (2017; Insana Programa Harmonia at Studio Grava; Brazil) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRNx...

YouTube video by Sing for America Foundation - San Francisco 2014 Sing for America Benefit Concert - Nicolle Foland & Shawnette Sulker

Nicolle Foland and Shawnette Sulker - "Sull'aria" from Li Nozze de Figaro, Mozart (2014; Palace of Fine Arts; San Francisco)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjWQ...

YouTube video by John New Major Parkinson - Lover, Lower Me Down - Live 2020

Major Parkinson - "Lover, Lower Me Down!" (2020; Bergen Public Library; Bergen, Norway; from "A Night at the Library") www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMQx...

sorry to break it to you but this confirms my suspicion that A7X always sucked

I'm gonna say it

death to false metal

Devastating news for Italo/Eurobeat fans. Reports that legendary singer/producer Mauro Farina died at 68. HUGELY prolific, releasing under over 80 names incl. Max Coveri, Alphatown, FCF, Radiorama, King Kong & D'Jungle Girls, Danny Keith and Styloo. Probably wrote 60%+ of my favs.

Mountain Guardian, by Justicar 1 track album

Important update: power metal outfit Justicar has a single entirely about Joruus C’Boath, the insane Dark Jedi clone from Heir to the Empire justicar.bandcamp.com/album/mounta...

YouTube video by Stan Merrell John Candy as Orson Welles on the Billy Crystal Comedy Hour (1982)

one thing I love about this video is that the height difference between Candy and Billy Crystal is like a visual metaphor for how much funnier he was www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOmY...

YouTube video by One Little Warrior Team Me - F is for Faker - live from Frydenlundvegen

Team Me - "F is for Faker" (2014; Frydenlundvegen, Elverum, Norway)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw7Z...

(it's been a while and this thread is approaching its first anniversary so get ready for a flood)

YouTube video by rafametalvideohd Yngwie J Malmsteen - Rising Force Live in Leningrad, 1989

Yngwie Malmsteen w/ Joe Lynn Turner, Jens and Anders Johansson, Barry Dunaway - "Rising Force" (Leningrad, 1989)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXCu...

(Yngwie transposed this piece, so this performance is not in B minor as the title suggests. probably B flat?)

YouTube video by Official Yngwie Malmsteen Yngwie Malmsteen - Badinere (Tokyo Live)

Yngwie Malmsteen - "Badinerie" from Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV 1067 by J.S. Bach (2024; Zepp Diver City; Tokyo) www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Qc...

Made it even easier to see if you have this and access it if you do! Copy this into either your web browser or File Explorer address bar. It will take you right to that screenshot (or if it takes you to the main Settings window, you don't have that screen yet.)

ms-settings:privacy-systemaimodels

the guy was legendary for showing up to work rip-roaring drunk and called the women in DOA his daughters. respect for his accomplishments but what kind of person would see stuff like that and not think he's kind of a weirdo.

come to think of it, Fromsoft has been mostly allergic to this idea for a long time which is why I can't stand most soulslikes. like yeah sure you can create cheap builds but combat is always so sluggish and sauceless. it doesn't have to be this way!

that sort of thinking resulted in so many of the greatest action games ever made: Final Fight, Shinobi 3, Metal Gear Rising

and the actual greatest action game of all time, Ninja Gaiden 2 (2008).

I didn't think extremely highly of Tomonobu Itagaki as a game designer, but I have great respect for his vision of games as something that can and should be a huge asshole to the player as long as the player gets to be a huge asshole right back.

Drew Struzan, 1975

Drew Struzan, 1975