Josh D | Vaulted Pyramid

I imagine a small band returning to their minimum wage service jobs after going on tour supporting a more noteworthy act has a similar feel to a hero retuning to their mundane life after they’ve completed their hero’s journey.

Nearly every day do I wish for the return of the lemonade that kills you.

Getting dangerously close to "How dare you?!" territory here. What a slick design.

Living with my partner means that the algorithm occasionally dumps girlie-pop drama into my feeds. Which is great, as I don’t really care too deeply about the topic, but these folks are just as insane as the ones who get wrapped up in RPG discourse.

I went with the unsatisfying “metal cylindrical handle” here, which is usually how these things end up going, as I agree with you haha.

Lmao, and here you have unlocked the secret as to why it’s taken me an ungodly amount of time to finish Einfuhlung and Cult Classic.

"No, prong isn't the right word here. But it's not really much of a peg either. Handle gives the wrong imagery. Shit."

I think about 90% of my time spent writing is some variation of "shit, I know there's a word or term to describe this exact thing, but what the hell is it????".

A cardinal sin of a survival horror game is when replacing an item in your full inventory just obliterates the item. I don't need a magic storage box, but just let me drop shit on the ground!

Also, how are you going to get mogged by Sabrina Carpenter on your own damn album that you invited her on????

9/9

Swift also isn’t cool enough to pull off a diss track.

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Swift also *really* needs to stop working with ill suited producers. The album would have hit so much harder with a studio band and backup singers, but instead sounds instantly dated by the production choices. At least get your boy Jack Antonoff back!

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So I don’t think it’s a *bad* album by any stretch, just rather uninteresting. I think I’d be happier is it actually was a bad album, as at least that’s interesting!

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I want the pillars of pop like Swift to be the ones who are setting the trends and actually influencing the music of the scene, but this is largely exactly what Swift has been doing her whole career.

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So for Swifties, this is pretty much a slam dunk. Inoffensive and pretty much exactly what we’ve gotten before. But for someone who isn’t really into this specific type of girlie pop, it’s rather boring.

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There are a few valiant attempts at deviation, but Swift isn’t really well versed enough in the subgenres beyond her own specific skillset to really nail them. Could have definitely used a vocal coach to help out here.

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Overall, this might be the most Taylor Swift album to ever exist. With a few exceptions, this largely could have dropped at any point over the last ten years and you’d probably never know the difference.

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And now, the reason you’ve all come to my feed, a review of Life of a Showgirl from someone who once submitted a music theory analysis on iwrestledabearonce for a serious music class.

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Big fan of how the extended series of sequels to the classic slasher films usually work along the lines of “the killer’s return doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense, but we need a new movie so fuck it, it’s your turn to deal with them”.

Right, like the Dems are bog standard neoliberals. Beyond a handful of members, there’s just not much radical or leftist about them as an institution. Which is ultimately why they’ve been generally unable to combat right wing populism that we’ve been dealing with since the Obama administration.

I definitely agree with you there.

And the worst part is that there are people who support these idiots when they have literally no redeeming qualities and no policy that isn’t based in the social hierarchy of white supremacy.

How can you even play the “tough guys” wrong?? Like “the Dems are spineless bureaucrats, but we get things done” is right there, but they can’t even do that right. We’ve got the biggest whiny baby fascists in power.

One of the more embarrassing things about this whole affair is the insistence on calling Democrats “radical” and “the Left”. I know it’s intentionally stoking Red Scare rhetoric, but that’s just cringeworthy when there are plenty of bad things to call them that aren’t complete lies.

The creative freedom to "pay for the program just when you need it", to "subscribe" to Affinity like you would a magazine, to partake in a "flexible spending plan" instead of a silly upfront one-time payment.

Publisher pretty much already does this anyway if you've got all 3. You don't get access to some of the "sub personas" under Designer and Photo, but you can swap over and get basic functionality without having to actually open the other programs directly.

Very excited to share that I will be designing the micro TRPG for this collection!

That’s why I’m so confused. All they do is dribble lies from their mouths, but they can’t even to lie about here. Just utterly no ideas.

I know the reasons why, but it’s still genuinely baffling that the Republican Party has spent 15 years trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act and at no point in time have they had a coherent policy that would replace it without immense harm to their constituents.

Holy shit dude! That’s nuts.