Y’all Qaeda

As someone that likes to do a lot of scrolling, I’m also running into the same problem. There really just isn’t enough content here for it yet. There’s already a pretty small over all amount of users posting, and people have likes and dislikes and tastes and vibes, so out of that small amount, there’s only so much to interact with. Like, there’s a fair amount of content in ask and chat style communities and TV communities but no one likes everything or thinks the same topics are interesting.

So it really just needs more. So that there’s more of the same types of people watching the same shows and interested in the same topics. It doesn’t have to be packed in here, it could just do with a little more of something for everyone. It would’ve been nice if there were more than two people discussing Harley Quinn season 5 for example.

On Reddit I could spend all day every day interacting with my particular interests without ever feeling like I’m being a nuisance or repeating myself. It’s nice having a smaller crowd but I’d like something between this and Reddit.

Just finished Metroid Fusion earlier, started Metroid Zero Mission. Replaying both. Probably going to get to the GBA Castlevania games soon as well.

Although I’m starting to get an itch for a Phantasy Star run again so by this time next week I’ll probably be busy with that. Thinking of going straight to Phantasy Star 3 this time. I’ve played PS1 the most by far and PS2 multiple times as well but I’ve only fully completed PS3 once so far.

Whichever animal I’m currently looking at.

It would probably end up sounding the same or similar because it would be years worth of clubs and live music and band practise and listening to music in my earphones too loud all jumbled up together and playing at the same time.

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Omg twinsies except for the doing well and having a good life part.

If they all used it at the same time, there’s a possibility that it would result in 5 different alternate realities, one where each of those countries has achieved their goals. Maybe 6 different alternate realities, including the original.

Absolutely. Also Power Rangers for having a diverse cast that includes girls who kick ass too, and Captain Planet for having both a diverse cast and ecological consciousness. And X-Men for the same reasons they shat on X-Men '97. And Sonic the Hedgehog for being anti-authoritarian and having little PSAs about tolerance and being a good person. And Justice League Unlimited for showcasing female heroes just as much as male heroes. Powerpuff Girls for obvious reasons.

Back then they called everything they didn’t like “satanic” or “evil” anyway. Before they realised they could trick idiot kids into joining their cause by calling it “woke” and packaging it as rebellion instead of pearl clutching and puritanical nonsense.

If Legend of Zelda first came out today, you can bet your ass these people would be complaining about Link not being ‘manly’ enough.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3. I wish I could say Sonic 3 & Knuckles but we weren’t swimming in money so I very rarely got a new game (and just to add, I never threw controllers or punched TVs either because mommy wouldn’t just buy me a new one if I did that).

I did rent out Sonic & Knuckles occasionally though. But I can practically picture the early level layouts of Sonic 3 in my mind like they’re familiar streets that I grew up in.

When I was a kid, for a while my mother, one of my sisters and I lived with my grandpa. Grandpa loved his caine and other white spirits and would drink until he went and passed out in his room. Then he would start shouting in his sleep and have big fights and arguments with someone. Usually when this started, someone would go to wake him up and tell him to shut up (as suggested by him).

Anyway, one day the three of us excluding grandpa were sitting around in the lounge doing whatever, when next thing we heard grandpa shouting in his sleep from his room. So both me and my sister go to tell him to sit up. And we both saw the shape of a person in his bed and heard him sort of mumble “ah, fine, ok, sorry.” And that was the end of the shouting and we went back to the lounge to carry on watching TV or whatever we were doing.

Next thing, a car pulls up outside and out gets grandpa and his friend. They had both been out the whole day and grandpa wasn’t actually home that whole time.

That’s easily the biggest unexplained experience I’ve had in my life. The fact that all 3 of us heard him shouting and that both my sister and I saw him in his bed still freaks me out today.

Courtney Love called them (and Marilyn Manson) out early on for their activities with young female fans

Ouch, that’s disappointing. I know about Manson these days but in the early days of Korn, I was still watching Saturday morning cartoons and didn’t even know they existed yet. So I missed them getting called out. I guess the moral of this story is, kill your idols.

This whole year so far, it’s been The Gathering - Shot to Pieces for me. It’s not even a new song I discovered, I first heard it when it was new on a Metal Hammer compilation CD. But it’s just been speaking to me this year. The lyrics, the vibe, the sound, everything. It’s the song in my soul currently.

I love blues and blues rock, but the lyrics are often full of misogyny, unfortunately.

Same with old school rock and metal. Cocaine and lolitas. Then once hair metal was over, the macho men came in and you’ve got Metallica going “don’t tread on me” like racist rattlesnakes under a boot and Pantera with their secret white power bullshit.

Honestly the only old school rocker I’m ever really in the mood to listen to these days is Alice Cooper. Don’t think I’ve ever come across a track of his glorifying underage groupies or anything.

And it’s only really from nu metal onwards that I’m not listening with my guards completely up. The funny thing is, a lot of metalheads shit on nu metal and act like it’s a dark period in history. But at least Jon Davis was vulnerable and real and didn’t spend his time doing the helicopter and singing about how awesome it is to be popular with little girls.

I didn’t even know that “non-binary” was a thing until later in life. I knew that I wasn’t like the boys but we wore uniforms and had to have gender specific haircuts and were all seperated and categorised, so it’s not like I was spending all my time with the girls either. I just thought I was a weirdo that hated sports and stupid immature behaviour, who preferred reading fantasy and sci-fi books alone.

And I still didn’t even know that it was a thing for years after school. We’re kinda progressive in my country but probably still at least 10 years behind the first world in that regard. So it’s something that I was just never exposed to. When I finally did sit down and do some homework about it, it felt like I had finally found the picture to use as reference to put the puzzle of my life together, if that makes sense. Before that, I was just building the puzzle blind and not doing a very good job at it. So many things in my life would’ve made more sense or been easier (and I would’ve made better decisions along the way too) if I had only known who I was.

This meme might’ve done the trick for me lol. Still gonna go with 16 though because that’s the age I started sneaking out on weekends to go to the alternative club. I think that if I had a clue back then and wasn’t still in denial, I would’ve done everything better, especially relationships with people.

Either an egg meme or a neurodivergence meme. Or both in one. Preferably with the word ‘non-binary’ in it so that I’m exposed to that concept young. Then hopefully I’d get a clue and live my best life before that life turns into a dark tunnel where the only light ahead is an oncoming train.

Tempted to send it to my 5 year old self before starting primary school. But I mean, 5 year old me wouldn’t get it. I could send it to 12 year old me before high school but then I’d still get sent to boarding school in a religious conservative shit hole town and probably feel even more trapped there armed with knowledge of who I really am.

So I’m gonna send to my 16 year old self. Second to last year of school when I was already done with this shit and just before starting my adult life.

Reddit. First strike was an anti religion comment. Got back after my 3 days and the first thread I saw was something in one of the popular subs where everyone was shitting on religion. Second strike was cheering on the bear in a clip where a bear turned on a circus trainer for “wishing harm”. Third and final strike was for shitting on the manosphere for, and I quote, “hatred towards vulnerable and marginalized groups.”

All three came in the last two or three years, after being on the platform for more than a decade and never being suspended before that.

I know that ‘Christians’ exist. Not sure I’ve ever met any Christians though.

Strange. I didn’t see a single mention of drag queens or trans people in there.