What Keeps ElNarez Alive?

are people beginning to see the shape and the design in the playlist, I wonder; could they guess tomorrow's track

It speaks to the deep truth of it all: America is America, and the two music genres it grew and nurtured found the same things to react to in the culture; Billy Ray Cyrus therefore fits in effortlessly, while taking a completely different melodic path; it's as pop as it gets

The pop equivalent of finding out the multiverse was invented in a Flash comic; a 19 year old Soundcloud rapper found the cold loneliness in a trap beat that sampled Nine Inch Nails, and realized it was a country feeling AND a rap feeling; and that's how Lil Nas X (love forever) Won Pop

#THETENX5 DAY FOUR

Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus
"Old Town Road (Remix)" (2019)
7 (2019)
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I DID IT THAT DOESN'T MEAN I HAVE TO LIKE IT

yeah yeah this expedition 33 fight is straight-up bullshit bad design, it's a bad game actually, most overrated game of the year winner since every single last of us game

and to reiterate, the punishment for missing parries in the later game goes from complete removal of a party member to total party wipe, and even being diligent in your picto and luminas WILL NOT cover you

I think the worst part of Expedition 33's parry system isn't the fakeouts, actually, a lot of those have tells and you learn anyway; it's the fact that some attacks have a dramatic slow-mo effect so you can nail the timing on a combo and get hit anyway because you don't expect that one timing

was Epstein blackmailing people or was he just surrounded by people from a class that believes it is entitled to anything including the bodies of children? these people on a fundamental level believe in a hierarchy between groups, which is how they're so permeable to fascism in the first place

I LOVE that if you miss a parry in Expedition 33 you can just get a character deleted for the rest of a cinematic multi-part boss fight, on fucking attack one; really GREAT game design there; game of the fucking year

Josh D’Amaro Is Disney’s Next CEO, Replacing Bob Iger The Walt Disney Co. has landed on its next CEO: Disney Experiences chairman Josh D'Amaro, who will take over the job from Bob Iger in 2026.

oh so you mean to tell me Bob Iger is being replaced by the head of theme parks and consumer products huh; this is what's happening; YEAH RIGHT variety.com/2026/film/ne...

ok but here's the wild fucking thing: you know what HAS 577 members? it's the French Assemblée Nationale

I am joining the great Parry Debate of 2025 and I am on the side of fuck Parrying

I don't know man, I'm an SMT player, maybe I just expect too much fucking honesty from my combat systems is the problem

I don't know man, I feel like it's just a cheap way to punish players because you felt you had to compensate for the power the game gives you when you master its systems and: you really did not need that punishment

I'm at the climax of act II of expedition 33 and what I'm going to say will shock you but I do think that the game's parry mechanic is vastly overrated

#THETENX5 DAY THREE

Kavinsky ft. Lovefoxxx
"Nightcall" (2010)
OutRun (2013)
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the semicolon is when the riff is not worth it

OF COURSE the Chappell Roan Grammys dress was a Mugler, OF FUCKING COURSE;

delta green books shipping some time in the next couple of weeks, we're gonna reach too many goddamn books in this house a year ago

a track so iconic you can close your eyes and picture yourself as the most haunted boy alive, behind the wheel of your impossibly cool car, riding through the lonely night and hearing the whispers of a love lost long ago; maybe you have the jacket; maybe you don't; the magic still works

#THETENX5 DAY THREE

Kavinsky ft. Lovefoxxx
"Nightcall" (2010)
OutRun (2013)
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it is admittedly pretty funny that Neil Gaiman went to "read this post on Substack", the last refuge of the Powerful Idiot; couldn't have been an apology or a quiet retirement; the man WANTS his power

obviously count this as my endorsement, obviously this needs to be canonized as the permanent record, obviously all of that

I thought "this is an implacable piece of criticism and journalism, dedicated to finding the truth in the work of a liar, which is astounding but maybe too much of a serious accounting for the Hugos", and, well, considering, it's a favorite now isn't it

in many ways it's like how in the Star Wars universe a lot of people in the Galactic Senate just went "actually we liked the fascism" and jumped at the chance to do the First Order

the original plan for Mafty was to release an EP called "She Jumped Buck-Ass Naked Into A Robot And Then She Died" but when that didn't take off it was all Interplanetary Terrorism

the Federation just Would Not Fucking Stop in the face of the evidence, and there's one guy with enough psychosexual guilt that's gonna DO SOMETHING about it

I think it's actually hilarious that Gundam Unicorn happens between Char's Counter-Attack and Gundam Hathaway; imagine you find evidence of humanity's power to transcend itself to achieve science-defying wonders, and by next tuesday we're doing home-grown terrorism again

#THETENX5 DAY TWO

Taylor Swift
"I Knew You Were Trouble" (2012)
Red (2012)
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