Honestly, there are some flavors of pretentious that are just downright interesting. Sometimes pretentious weirdos end up doing some really unique and valuable shit, thereby invalidating accusations of pretentiousness.
Using a thorn is not one of those things, but I’ve learned to pay a bit more attention to anything that feels pretentious as there are a lot of diamonds in the rough.
Just push them to darker parts of the internet why don’t cha?
All this “for the kids” shit is directly at the expense of the kids.
No!
Fire BIG. Big fire bad!
Run away!
Just use the harmonic minor or phrygian dominant scales instead of vanilla major or minor and you’re off to the races.
The main difference between Luge and Skeleton (beyond the obvious) is that in Luge you launch and accelerate with your hands and arms. In Skeleton you do so with your legs. That’s a big reason why they’re both valid as olympic sports.
These people have 0 usefulness outside of helping the guy print a pdf…
Until you click on a phishing link.
This is the curse of IT. Perpetually undervalued yet absolutely essential. If IT were ever to disappear, the businesses they support become walking corpses.
It chaps my ass that everyone working in business has grown up with computers being essential to business yet its somehow still acceptable for them to be functionally illiterate in using them.
Sometimes its so fucking bad that the equivalent would be someone being granted a drivers license and given a car but they have no idea how to put it in park, let alone use the brakes.
IT are the Dunedain Rangers protecting The Shire. They’re not popular, they’re barely acknowledged, often scorned, but without their presence The Shire cannot be.
It’s definitely not me. I don’t use that shit for anything. I hope it stays down forever.
Huh, that’s an interesting one. I’m glad I’m not the only one hearing something weird.
Haha! I’m so sorry. Plz don’t hurt me lol Also, you gotta let me know what you hear when you get around to it! I’m very curious.
I have tried to hear that instead of “Hot pickle!” for years and I just can’t. This feels like another of of those blue dress/yanni things to me.
I heard “Hot pickle!” in a completely unrecognizable accent and have been confused ever since. Was it Mario that said that? Lakitu? Whose voice is that if not Mario’s and if it is Mario… What the hell? Lol
He says it when you select a level to play.
Sounds like something a dude named Deviled Egg Dan would do.
Might need to circle back on that one.
A summary of what you need to know about the state of “business” in 2026.
Its not like there are zero uses for AI, its that the use cases they’re trying to shove down our throats are the worst ones.
I’m a certified AI hater, but I still use it on occasion to help with spreadsheet formulas.
Quick! Delete this before the Trump admin declares that the existence of loanwords is a war on the American Language®
Prohibition of AI does indeed prevent Bandcamp’s servers from being overwhelmed by the storage needs of slop “artists” and the gruel they call their “music”.
I’ve been re-reading LOTR lately and I like to put on Middle-Earth ambience in the background. Do you have any idea how much LOTR themed ambient slop is on YouTube? There are channels with over 100 videos, each exactly a 3-hour slopfest of sounds with HD/4k resolution slop art playing on screen.
Considering the vast majority of real artists might put out 5 hours of music in their entire careers, why the hell would bandcamp want to host hundreds of hours of fake music from a single source and pay for all that storage?
AI is a plague upon humanity. Bandcamp is on the right side of history and I’m happy to have my music on their platform.
Major labels have a presence on there too though.
There’s plenty of life-affirming news. You just gotta filter for it. There’s whole communities dedicated to it. I strongly recommend curating social feeds. Keyword block lists are a godsend. There’s no politics at all in my Youtube feed because those topics don’t get my click.
A yacht full of NFT owners is just about the last place in this universe that I’d want to be.