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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2010 18:35:38 GMT -5
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Post by doctoracula on May 24, 2010 19:16:32 GMT -5
the stranger article is pretty amusing
one man's repetitive is another's self-referential and consistent
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2010 19:46:13 GMT -5
the site's gone pretty downhill but i like the RPG articles
and one of the guys writes some really scary microfiction.... forget the name
and yeah they've got some halfway decent writers but i dunno... i prefer Cracked
Craig does tend to repeat himself and his themes. i like it, but you can't deny it
i wish the article had mocked the mythology more then the Springsteen stuff. 'cause i love THS but the detailed plot stuff could do with a little joshing
but i think the guys who write these are metalheads... 2nd page after dissing Craig praises Dio's skills (no offense to Dio, and i know they were written by two different people)
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Post by five on May 24, 2010 20:17:10 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure Garbage Day has wriiten pro-metal stuff in other articles too, yeah. I saw this a couple days ago and it just felt kind of lazy to me. I usually like reading takedowns of media I enjoy but Heaven is Whenever, while good, does feel like a transitional album to me. I'd rather read a negative review of Separation Sunday or something. The old music review did one for Coheed and Cambria's fourth (I'm not a fan, but I have a friend who loved them at the time) and they mostly talked about the really stupid stuff with the bike, when criticism of their earlier, stronger work would've made a better read. I read LF sometimes, the joke political forum on SA, but the front page is mostly just good for Lots of Dogs updates www.somethingawful.com/d/news/dog-classifieds8.php |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2010 20:25:00 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure Garbage Day has wriiten pro-metal stuff in other articles too, yeah. I saw this a couple days ago and it just felt kind of lazy to me. I usually like reading takedowns of media I enjoy but Heaven is Whenever, while good, does feel like a transitional album to me. I'd rather read a negative review of Separation Sunday or something. The old music review did one for Coheed and Cambria's fourth (I'm not a fan, but I have a friend who loved them at the time) and they mostly talked about the really stupid stuff with the bike, when criticism of their earlier, stronger work would've made a better read. I read LF sometimes, the joke political forum on SA, but the front page is mostly just good for Lots of Dogs updates www.somethingawful.com/d/news/dog-classifieds8.phpi agree a really clever takedown of Separation Sunday would work... i'd love to see somebody compare it to those prog albums with absurd stories and multiple hyphenated song titles Garbage Day did link to www.stuffyouwillhate.com/ which is nice and leads to a cluster of hardcore blogs and stuff at least SA is noticing us, even if it is in the laziest way possible. i always tell people that the band they hate for being a lazy Springsteen ripoff isn't THS... it's Gaslight yeah i used to spend alot of time lurking LF... it's actually really good (or was) and they've got some nice Aussie political discussion the Let's Play section in the forums is also good, and i loved Helldump problem is they randomly choose what forms you can and can't view... i was addicted to an epic thread about King of Dragon's Pass but it got locked... you can find the Let's Play stuff archived here: www.letsplayarchive.com/ |
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Post by five on May 24, 2010 20:39:15 GMT -5
I rarely post but I do have an account, so I don't get locked out anymore. LF's been pretty weak the last few months but the election-season high lasted over a year before it petered out. I know a shit-ton about the healthcare reform debates and ultimate bill thanks to a couple posters there. I haven't gotten into Let's Plays because I feel about videogames the way I do about tv/movies - There are some specific examples I really enjoy, but I can't say I'm a fan of the medium itself. Music and politics is pretty much all I care about  |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2010 20:44:36 GMT -5
I rarely post but I do have an account, so I don't get locked out anymore. LF's been pretty weak the last few months but the election-season high lasted over a year before it petered out. I know a shit-ton about the healthcare reform debates and ultimate bill thanks to a couple posters there. I haven't gotten into Let's Plays because I feel about videogames the way I do about tv/movies - There are some specific examples I really enjoy, but I can't say I'm a fan of the medium itself. Music and politics is pretty much all I care about Let's Play is great for two things, IMHO: mocking bad/weird games (Drakengard) or playing through adventure games that i don't have the patience to play |
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Post by bschultz27 on May 24, 2010 21:42:08 GMT -5
My friends tried to get me into the forums on Something Awful. Reading those is like reading a transcript of a group of 15 year olds shit talking while playing Halo on xbox live.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2010 21:45:52 GMT -5
My friends tried to get me into the forums on Something Awful. Reading those is like reading a transcript of a group of 15 year olds shit talking while playing Halo on xbox live. you gotta pick. General Bullshit is... bullshit but Laisezz Faire and Let's Play are decent reading Helldump mocking other users horribly nerdy habits kinda helped cure me of some of the worst of my social creepiness. or at least i hope it did the front page has gone downhill... Garbage Day is a perfect example. is it flamebait? mocking crappy music? a real review site? the first page on this week's is meant to piss us off.... the second is a touching tribute to Dio. weird |
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Post by mcstevepants on May 24, 2010 22:49:09 GMT -5
Meh. I'm gonna Stay Positive and not give these nerds my attention.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2010 23:14:07 GMT -5
Meh. I'm gonna Stay Positive and not give these nerds my attention. duh. if you respond you get mocked there's a decent Dio thing on the second page for you Dio fans there was some creepy as fuck horror fiction on SA tho |
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Post by hurricanejoe on May 25, 2010 11:32:20 GMT -5
Like I've said before, one of my favourite things about them is how often they reference their own lyrics. The SA article looks like it's been written by one of my close-minded school friends who won't listen to anything unless they've heard it on Radio 1 or covered on Glee.
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Post by mikeflynn on May 25, 2010 12:29:19 GMT -5
I was just thinking to myself how much I hate The Stranger this morning. It is definitely in my top 3 things that I dislike most about Seattle.
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Post by gettinincredible on May 25, 2010 12:37:39 GMT -5
I'm a SA goon. I love the site, love the forums, etc. I even found myself chuckling at the Hold Steady article, particularly saying that Craig "must be dealing with some Rain Man kinda shit".
So anyway, yeah, they criticized the band we really like. So what? Don't take yourselves so seriously. It was a funny article, dudes, which is exactly what SA is supposed to be about.
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Post by hurricanejoe on May 25, 2010 14:11:38 GMT -5
"One really can't push too much of the blame on Craig Finn... He's clearly a fucking idiot. And, perhaps, borderline retarded."
I particularly lol'd at that bit.
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Post by doctoracula on May 25, 2010 23:51:35 GMT -5
somethingawful is SUPPOSED to be funny, but mostly fails at that
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Post by smugsy on May 27, 2010 14:57:53 GMT -5
Yeah, the only thing SA is good for to me is just sheer amount of information available. For that it's pretty great. But these opinion articles, bashing literally anything that might get a rise out of a group of people... if they were amusing to me I'd feel different I'm sure, but they aren't, so they just seem childish and sophomoric.
I COULD let this get me upset, but it wouldn't get me anywhere.
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Post by flashfantastic on May 27, 2010 15:53:57 GMT -5
Honestly, no one really reads the front page on SA. Most of us are on the forums, which have their own sort of small separate ecosystems. I post on or read the boards every day, but didn't know about this article until today. Needless to say, I'm pretty meh about the whole ordeal.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2010 18:42:31 GMT -5
Yeah, the only thing SA is good for to me is just sheer amount of information available. For that it's pretty great. But these opinion articles, bashing literally anything that might get a rise out of a group of people... if they were amusing to me I'd feel different I'm sure, but they aren't, so they just seem childish and sophomoric. I COULD let this get me upset, but it wouldn't get me anywhere. the problem is that there's no way to tell if they're being serious and i don't mean that in a clever, Onion style way. i mean the movie reviews (except Truth Media) are mostly serious, the music articles are half slagging off and half real stuff (like the interview with the guy from Strapping Young Lad) they've still got some talented writers. the Fashion Swat/RPG stuff is great, the weird horror microfiction is great.... but mostly all the good Internet comedy writers are at Cracked i care/know way too much about this website i wonder how Newgrounds is doing? |
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Post by doctoracula on May 27, 2010 19:56:12 GMT -5
SA is buddyhead's misbehaving, attention-starved little cousin
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2010 20:24:10 GMT -5
nah it's getting old... it's ancient in Internet years and trying to figure out if it's about the community or the funny. 4chan's surpassed it in meme generation, Cracked in humor....
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Post by doctoracula on May 27, 2010 20:28:58 GMT -5
but its younger than buddyhead, isnt it?
or is my internet timeline all fucked up
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2010 20:32:59 GMT -5
i dunno... probably. i've never seen Buddyhead until now. but it looks like a music site while SA is/was a humor site
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Post by doctoracula on May 27, 2010 20:39:29 GMT -5
yea, buddyhead was all about music. but it had that super snarky sense of humor thing. mainly people just read it to see who they were making fun of
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2010 21:00:03 GMT -5
oh cool...i'll check it out then. i go to lots of sites mocking bad movies
SA is just... i dunno any more. wish i could remember who writes all the cool modern day Lovecraftian shit. i think it's Dave Thorpe
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