I mean how many good games do Nintendo and Fromsoft even release a year? Like two or three? Just play those. And if they are good they are not a waste of time (or at least a fairly decent waste of time, certainly a much better one than watching youtube or scrolling social media). Just don’t play any of the stupid skinnerbox/engagement bait type of games and you’re fine.
I like '80s/'90s synthy new age music and that’s got basically nothing outside RYM and whatever Vaporwave artists are sampling, or if it’s a side project of someone who became a movie or game music composer.
here you go my friend
It’s actually never been easier to find new and fantastic music, you just need to know where to look, here’s where I go digging when I feel the need to:
1 Music Labels on Bandcamp There’s been an explosion of fantastic music labels over the last few decades, often specializing in reissues of forgotten classics and music from the global south, here are a few that I like, with a lot of them selling their stuff on bandcamp:
Light in the Attic Records, who do stuff from classic japanese ambient releases to forgotten soul classics from the early 70s (both of these albums are absolutely fantastic and come highly recommended by me)
Habibi Funk, who de reissues and new releases from everywhere in the arab world Analog Africa, who deliver the hottest dance tunes from all over africa from fifty years ago
Music from Memory who do absolutely fantastically curated reissues of anything between pop (<this one is another absolute fav of mine) and ambient and experimental
This is just a small selection of stuff I am into and my interests are admittedly fairly narrow, but you can do this for every genre you like. Just pick a band/an album you love, look up what label it was released under and look up that label (you can also use discogs or rateyourmusic for this if the label isn’t active anymore/their website sucks).
2 Internet Radio
Now I don’t listen to as much of this as I probably should, but there are great radios out there, but if you wanna be really hip you should listen to NTS who have in the past done tons of collabs with famous musicians and have tons of DJs who play weekly programs.
Now this website is definitely full of stupid nerds, but if you are looking for popular and famous releases in specific decades, genres or countries I don’t know of a better place to look for them. As soon as you go to actually lesser known music it sucks, but if you want a good overview of a specific genre or decade of music you will get it there (if obviously with a heavy internet-music-nerd bias).
Now this is already more good music than you could ever hope to listen in a lifetime, so you could also just do what I do, which really is the only sensible thing left to do, which is to solely listen to the Beach Boys and Beach Boys bootlegs.
because they need to somehow fool themselves into thinking spending 500 bucks on a console with no games is worthwhile
also ideologically they can’t accept a world in which relevant technological progress has basically slowed to a stop
These games have always sucked. I don’t know in what possible world I would possibly want to play a videogame and listen and watch fake ads. Not to mention what terribly uninterested these games are in the cities they are actually set in besides their bare physical construction.
The only reason to ever play these games is to drive around on a motorcycle, which is arguably pretty damn fun.
capitalism is specifically designed to make you feel useless when doing anything that is not producing profits for your boss. it’s all nonsense dude, nothing that has anything to do with getting a job has anything to do with who you are as a person.
I really have no clue how reposting transphobia again and again and again and again does even a single thing to stop or halt or slow the normalization of violent anti-trans rhetoric, especially when its as low-effort as here and only leads to low-effort posts like anything else in this thread.
of course we should talk about reactionary facist ideology taking over the mainstream , but there is literally no reason to post the same shitty takes by the same shitty facist assholes over and over and over again. it’s not productive, fun or anything else. it’s just fucking miserable
no stop giving this clickbait shit your attention. stop posting this
i fucking beg you dude just delete it and post about things that are actually good or fun or matter
like seriously stop giving this shit attention
god who gives a fucking shit stop it with this low effort posting just ignore these people
like come on people how are you not bored of this???
more like being depressed all the time for good and obvious reasons but then also getting happy randomly for no good reason
Cool that you’ve decided to be a fucking asshole now go fuck yourself
Completely disregarding the ethical stuff of just being a landlord no matter how smol, don’t fucking hide the fact that you own the apartment. That’s a classic dick move if there has ever been one.
Frankly I don’t know how one would even think it’s okay to consider hiding it, but since I can’t stop you I can only tell you that if you do decide to hide it you’re a fucking asshole and you can go fuck yourself.
Cannot wait to watch this (probably pretty shitty) movie
I genuinely pity the poor folks who have to work on the Sims 4. EA seems to be completely determined to push out nothing but the minimum-viable product year after year, while you also have a fanbase that all care about wildly different things and the base you build your game on just isn’t very technically or mechanically sound.
It’s genuinely crazy to think just how ambitious and big The Sims 3 was in comparison, if sometimes to its detriment. Like just the first expansion pack added three entirely new worlds with tons of unique assets and mechanics and people didn’t even like that one when it came out and it’s probably got more content in it than like five Sims 4 packs combined. The later DLCs also had wild features like being able to build houseboats and actually drive them around, which is completely inconceivable within what Sims 4 can do.
Certainly doesn’t help that since they ported the game to console they seemingly have to really abide by strict memory limits, where they have strict limits on how many items they can place on prebuilt lots and some of them really really feel empty.
The top two that one really needs to see in my humble opinion are “Man with a Movie Camera” by Dziga Vertov and “Battleship Potemkin” by Sergei Eisenstein. Both directors tried to find a filmic language that would serve the communist cause and both succeeded. You’ve never seen films like these before.
Being extremely fucking rich probably helps
Dragon’s Dogma 2 alone disproves your theory
There are definitely tons of issues with the whole reissue/comp scene and with how all media is distributed in our digital age of cultural overproduction. Compilations are pre-selected for you and can only ever offer you a shallower, but wider look at whatever they are compiling, be it a genre, a specific time and place or just a specific band.
The medium has always been the message. In the broader picture there’s barely a difference if you were to somehow find an old authentic vinyl in a record store of afrobeat from 70s ghana or just get a comp of the same music from bandcamp. The music is just as dead (or let’s say non-alive) either way and the only time it truly was alive was in the 70s in ghana when they were playing it, when there was even a tiny chance of it being more than just a commodity.
I’ve recently downloaded a whole bunch of my spotify library with the intent to delete my account there. My problem with spotify isn’t that it is bad (its algorithm has actually been fantastic at recommending old and new and often obscure music to me and it is obviously very convenient) or that it is bad for the artists (my alternative is piracy not buying albums, i don’t have any money), but there is just something about it that cheapens the whole thing, that takes the soul out of it. Having every album ever (or at least a pretty large amount of them) right next to each other just do them justice at all.
But obviously downloading music doesn’t magically put the soul back into the music either. Like recently I’ve kinda gotten into Miles Davis. And he’s got a giant discography full of fantastic records. And there’s probably very rarely been an artist that had as long and as interesting an artistic development than him, starting in the early 50s and ending in the late 70s. And how much of that gets lost when you just have all the albums as mp3s on your computer, the little icons right next to each other? You cannot possibly give any of these albums the time and attention they deserve and that they got back in the day.
I dunno. I might do a longer post on this, but I really feel like there’s something deeply wrong with music as a medium today and spotify and the internet are certainly only a part of it.