Yep, a town crier like role.

Hell even in the American West, people would gather round for someone actually literate to read the latest newspaper.

“And they say, ‘whoah, ain’t you glad you’re single~!’…”

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Boone?

… oh. fuck. right.

… ‘Bansky goes to Space’ …

That would make for quite a story.

Its funny looking back.

I thought it was hilarious.

… A fair number of people I knew thought that me thinking that was callous, which baffled me.

… Then those same people started trying to explain to me that I should stop ‘overusing’ the term fascist.

… Same people who… liked The Boys, untill it became ‘too political.’

At that point, I realized the table I was sitting at, and excused myself before making the wrong hand gesture to indicate ‘three’.

Anyway, last I heard, yep, they’re all fascists, and wouldn’t you know it — !

At least a couple of them were grooming kids and trading CP and such, and/or were still associating with people who they knew were doing that.

Word to wise: Avoid the game ‘The Isle’ and anyone who has ever been connected to it.

Yeah, there is no denying that NiN and industrial in general was… running through the blood of the late 90s / early 00s FPS pioneers.

Heck, not even just FPS:

Frank ‘Motherfucking’ Klepacki.

… who the fuck comes up with both Hell March… and IndustroFunk?

He just like invented a subgenre, as a song.

Ok, I was going to edit this in to my last comment, but you already replied, so:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9F030ERnQ84&list=PL059AC88C849E7A20&index=24

‘You’re Not Supposed to Be Here’

Ok so we open with… I think:

Either a very distorted bass guitar or synth… and… a marimba?

At about 10 seconds we start the action, angry synth and … drum kit that includes a steel drum?

We’ve also got another kind of haunting synth doing a more complex melody…

Then at about 35 seconds, the song basically explodes into… all the synths are here (maybe some are guitars with lots of effects/delays/fades?) now, big sound range from the synths/possible guitars…

And then at about 55 seconds, slight lull, piano is here now,

Some synths/guitars? are still going, piano is somber, breakbeat drumming is intense … thats quite a juxtapostion…

Synths get more prominent, piano fades out…

Then by about 1:35 we downplay the synths a bit, piano is sad again… drumming is still happening.

Ok, then by about 1:55, pretty sure this is a guitar, that uses a delay pedal/effect to basically punctuate itself for 1-2 second melodic bursts, gets accomoanied by either another heavily modified guitar or synth untill…

About 2:25, sad piano is back again, to basically play us out, but the breakbeat drumming is still here, untill it isn’t, and we actually fade out on bass guitar/synth… and the marimba.

This is a 2:41 song.

It took me like 15 minutes to attempt to comprehend what is happening.

I do know Master Boot Record and yeah I agree, its more like chiptune metal…

I will have to check out The Algorithm and Ishkur’s site… though probably tomorrow.

I know that if I start now, I will not get to sleep untill 4 am.

You’re good at this.

Yeah, actually, this is pretty close, if you had these guys make ‘instrumentals’, no lyrics songs.

Like if you took all of the differing elements, and patterns of maybe 3 of their songs, and essentially remixed them into one song, stripped out the vocals… that would approximately be pretty close to a good deal of HL2 songs, imo.

Maybe increase the range of effects and synths used a bit, but yeah, this is pretty close.

I guess the main difference left that I can think of is that… a lot of this kind of 90s/00s industrial, it will be built kind of around a guitar riff, like the distored/noise guitar is kind of the foundation, the thing that is basically always there, keeping the tempo, driving the song.

But a lot of HL2 songs will… kind of swap this idea: The driving melody is synthetic, the guitar is used for the occasional/repeated kind of bits of flavor.

… I feel like I don’t music theory to know the right words, lol.

Hehe, the top one is slightly off for me, but uh… yeah, lemmy has like 20+ client apps … so… lol

I mean, NiN and industrial in general has many elements in common with it…

I dunno, its less … orthodox, in time signatures, than basically all NiN I can remember listening to, with the exception of Ghosts.

Ghosts has a lot more just… weird timings, but they’re also paired with melodies and chords that are dissonant or off in some way…

Not much of Ghosts is high tempo, ‘action-y’, and HL2’s melodies are actually not as odd and dissonant, they’re more conventional, just often played with unconventional instruments/synths.

And, NiN’s drumming, cymbals and such is usually nowhere near as frantic.

… Maybe I just don’t have a wide enough industrial palette, and I guess maybe yeah, ‘HL2 style’ is best described as a subgenre of industrial?

He thought he had protection.

Like he was some kinda made man, had the Godfather’s blessing.

Turns out…

You can’t out pizza the hut.

Well, at least we’ll always have Sinatra.

theoretically

Ok uh, barely related, but:

Is there an actual name for the genre of music of Half Life 2, Ep1/2, Alyx?

Its like… progressive rock but sometimes also hardrock guitar riffs, but also with … basically ‘experimental’ industrial/techno usually mixed in quite well, and then also very often with essentially breakbeat drumming, and a lot of it also uses some pretty uncommon time signatures and switchups.

And then sometimes there is either classical instrumentation, or, essentially some kind of filtered or synth version of it.

… I literally fail to describe it succinctly, I don’t know how, I’m not aware of anything else that really sounds consistently like it.

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… fuck.

… be careful not to suffer a terrible fate…

Yeah, so add stretching/yoga a bit beforehand, add in some reps of crunches/situps/squats, do an hour routine like that that 2 or 3 times a week, go for a 30 minute walk/jog/run on off days.

Its… really not that hard or complicated for a person who is already in reasonabley ok health to put together a simple workout routine, that will hit most of your muscle groups, get you into decent shape.

Hell, just going for a 20 minute walk 3 times a week is I think more excercise than half adult Americans get, and that’s actually significantly better than nothing.

Get some stretchy bands, do resistance training positions.

Fill up some empty milk jugs with water, do some curls.

Pretty much the only thing I think you might actually need would be a solid pullup bar, but if you’re doing pushups correctly, maybe not.

Or, you could just find a place to go swimming.

Easier to get into for people who are in less good of shape, and basically works every single muscle group, if you have do a variety of strokes.

Theres ‘getting into decent shape’ and then there is ‘bodybuilding’/‘sport-specific athletic training’.

Its not very difficult or money intensive to ‘get into decent shape’, so long as you don’t have serious pre-existing health issues.

Elon Musk is such a goddamned literal supervillain that he managed to make the theme of Firefly wrong.

Apparently, they can take the sky from you.

Also Mario 64.

Basically its ‘thanks Koji Kondo’.

Call your bank/credit union, freeze your cards/accounts, get new card.

If you have emails like that, there’s a pretty good chance they’ll go ‘Well, yeah, that’s horseshit.’

If you can, go to the nearest actual physical location for your bank.

Alpine wedding PTA Conference.

I don’t get it either.

There are tons of cheap, decent slip on shoes, in mens womens and neutral styles, with substantial padding… and you can just put an off the shelf ortho pad in em, if you want them to be even more comfy/supportive.

I guess some people just don’t mind looking goofy as hell.

Like, they make sense as beach shoes… but… you can just… maintain shoes, you can clean them… I don’t see why you need the literal holes for venting.