Ben Sailer

The Deftones Are the Weirdest Metal Band on Earth - Unwinnable The Deftones have influenced everyone, but no one sounds exactly like the Deftones. That’s because their improbable career trajectory is impossible to follow.

"However you categorize them, the Deftones have always seemed to exist in their own space."

Upon listening to the Deftones' latest album, @bensailer.bsky.social reflects on how truly weird the band is -- in the best way possible:

Random idea while watching Nick Folk: If your kicker is over 40 years old, field goals should be worth 4 points

Over 45? 5 points

Over 50? 8 points

finally, someone is talking some sense

I watched this happen in real time and I still think it was AI-generated.

Gonna treat this one like I'm a European soccer fan and con myself into believing a tie is fine and that wasn't one of the stupidest things I've ever seen

I witnessed history and I'm still dissatisfied!

You know that episode of the Simpsons where Mr. Burns tried to put a bunch of MLB players on a beer league softball team? That's what NDSU football is like.

They've been doing this nearly every game for over 10 years and people outside the area still don't understand exactly how dominant they are.

Cursed email subject line

can't decide if this is terrifying or just good product design

The landscape of videogames criticism and discussion cannot be considered "healthy" until it easily clears bars like this.

finally some good news

Odds DJ Moore gets traded?

LETS GOOOOOOO

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NINETY-NINE, this is nuts

Hand over your credit cards for more good content like this.

Same, Around The Fur is a top-five record on my all-time favorites list. 30+ years in and they're *still* peerless. They're the weirdest band!

DUDE YES! The new Deftones is so sick, excellent choice.

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That is 1) incredible and 2) a level of ignorance that I'm somehow forced to respect.

Two Rats

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please tell me it's called Refused 2: Still Refusin'

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We all laughed, but Bourdain was right. RIP.

oh to be one of the ePeople in eWorld

petition to return to when online looked like this

Descent was one of the first games I bought on the original PlayStation (along with Kileak, which was ... less good) because I couldn't find a copy of DOOM anywhere in town, and heard from PC-owning friends that it was mind-blowing. This was such a great read.

Glad to work under an organization that's doing the work to make sure online publishing stays open and secure.

I'm taking this to mean it's possible to go *even higher* than number one.

An extremely annoying prompt to get notifications. No thanks, Reverb.com!

Really hate that the opt-out button is placed where I literally can't press it.