Not a robot.
Yay, I’m glad you like the idea! As I say it might take time though. And depending on how much, I might split up punk, heavy and general alternative. There’s already some good stuff in this thread, stuff that was out when I was going out to clubs and shit but that just never got played anywhere. Apart from the obvious stuff like Arch Enemy and Nightwish. Funny that.
Anyway, at least now my next stint of making lists won’t be so pointless.
Hello… Hope you’re hanging in there and taking care of yourself this evening. Sorry for taking so long to respond to this, I meant to get back to this thread sooner.
It’s a real pity that I can’t even see that community (and a couple of others there) from here. I wish you could convince your friend to open an alt community in more neutral ground. Or try to make some sort of amends with all of the instances that are de-federated with hilariouschaos. There’s some big ones de-federated from it, even piefed.social, which I tried the other day.
If you’re interested, now that I’m attending to this post, it seems likely that my next fixation on something to categorise and make lists of is going to be this very topic lol. I’ll probably only be done in a couple of months from now but if you would like, I could post my results in Women’s Stuff (or I could pass it on to you to post, if you prefer). Otherwise if you think it’s a better idea, I could post it to gpral from another account, although I wish I could do that without feeling bad about Blåhaj people being blocked off from it.
And, just gonna ping your new account in case you never look at the old one anymore: @LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al
Just want to say, after reading that, including the statement from the band themselves, it reads to me like these members got kicked out, then vented their frustrations. Maybe I’m missing something but this all sounds like pretty standard band politics to me, especially when egos and perfectionism are concerned. At least I don’t see anything about nazi salutes or groupie abuse or some shit in there.
Anyway, sorry for the late reply. Got to this late. Finally got everything listed and categorized and decided to start to with the punk kind of stuff first. Just started listening this morning and I was hooked from the first track on the first album. I can even say it’s exactly the kind of punk rock I’ve been missing and looking for for a long time now. So thanks for this suggestion!
I got kinda (very) overwhelmed by this thread. I was expecting like 5 responses, so you thank you very much for all the suggestions. I have finally made a list from all of this and will be replacing just about my entire music rotation with everything here. Once I find my favourites, I’ll probably let you know some time in the future lol.
Thought I might as well drop some names that are already in my collection that I haven’t seen mentioned here, for the sake of anyone that might come past here in future. Including stuff that’s more on the alternative / hard rock side of things.
General Alternative / Rock:
Old School:
Alternative because off-beat / weird:
Punk:
Hard Rock / Grunge:
Heavy:
I think it’s a fun thought. Like, particularly when I’m thinking about past regrets and shit, there’s definitely a few key moments where things could’ve gone differently and my life would be drastically different right now. And I seem to be in the timeline where I made all the worst possible choices at these key moments lol.
But I don’t particularly believe in different timelines or dwell on it. For all that I can do in this timeline that I’m in, the only direction that I can go is forwards, not backwards or sideways.
Winter. I also like the Autumn that I’ve read about, seen pictures of and seen people talk about. But we don’t get much of a noticeable Autumn or Spring where I’m from. A few leaves on a few trees here and there will start changing colours but that’s about it.
So Winter. Because you can wear your cool shit, you can do things without sweat and I prefer being snug and cosy under a duvet or two to lying naked under a fan and still not escaping the heat.
This “Autumn” that people speak of sure seems lovely though. Like the perfect season if it really existed here.
Daydreamer that dreamt themself out of a functional life. Not just a late bloomer but still a sprout. A hopeful idealistic child in the body of a jaded misanthropic adult. I dance to a tune playing in my earphones where only I can hear it most of the time, unless someone is close enough.
I feel like maybe some more context I could add is that we have “tomato sauce” that’s pretty similar to ketchup. Comes in a bottle to pour from and is one of the most regularly used sauces. Still processed I guess but thicker and better tasting and definitely not as sweet as the American stuff. As opposed to tomato paste or tinned tomato or whatever.
I think that is kinda true. Like, American brands that sell here are branded as “Heinz Ketchup” for example. And it’s definitely more processed or whatever. But I feel like most people would still say “pass the tomato sauce”, or if they say ketchup it’s in a joking way. I couldn’t speak for my whole country though.
One thing I’m starting to find though is that the yellow emojis are maybe looking a little too much like Reddit style awards at first glance, or at least making me think of them. Might look for purple alternatives or something else that looks a bit more toned down along with a dark theme.
I like your idea. Seems like a good way to be reminded of something random and get a laugh while you’re scrolling.
I didn’t even know that “catsup” was an option until now. Where I’m from, we call it “tomato sauce” and “ketchup” is the American word as far as I’ve ever known.
Young Justice rocks. I love the stuff that showcases a little bit of everything in the universe.
Currently distracting myself with a rewatch of Batman Brave and the Bold while eating and stuff. If you’re ever in the mood for something funnier, would recommend. Even if you’re sick of Batman, this is a fun version that’s friends with everyone and isn’t an asshole. And there’s appearances from everyone from Kamandi the last boy to Doom Patrol.
Personally I’m looking forward to that same kind of idea where everything exists in the same universe from Gunn’s take on things. And hopefully not counting my chickens before they hatch. But I get the idea that’s what he’s going to go for.
As far as Marvel goes, I’m more of an X-Men fan than anything else personally, so I’m really hoping there’s going to be an X-Men '98 and '99. Not particularly looking forward to MCU X-Men but maybe I’ll be entertained.
Digging up a struggling lawn to make way for stone blocks and planter boxes and maybe a few plants in between here and there. Going to be attempting to make some stone blocks too with cement and stuff.
Might be meeting up with my weed guy for a smoke and whatever he’s philosophising or excited about this time. Sometimes it’s soccer, in which case I mostly just smile and wave; sometimes it’s interesting socio-political matters.
And in between that, probably wanting to play a game or address my growing watch list of movies / series / pro wrestling but actually just mostly bed rotting and scrolling.
Edit: think I’m actually gonna start a new run of Burnout Paradise. Doesn’t need research and wikis, maybe just a map or two. But still scratches that exploration and collecting things itch.
Edit 2: actually, now I’m thinking either Castlevania Circle of the Moon or Metroid Zero Mission.
Edit 3: so I went with Metroid Fusion first this time.
Ah, thanks for the being the first person ever to let me know after mentioning that I’m unsure how similar the two are, on any platform. Glad to hear it, I’ll definitely add the UK to my growing watch list then.
Yes. 💜 for my favourite people. 🙂 for people I’ve interacted with once or twice and would like to interact with more. ⭐ for people that I haven’t interacted with but always enjoy their posts and comments. ✊ for similar reasons to the star but I like their politics.
I’ve also given one person a red flag 🟥 but haven’t seen them again. There’s a couple more I could probably give red flags to but also I would prefer to see more friendly symbols in my feed than danger warnings.
And seeing as you asked so nicely, I haven’t tagged you yet but I think I’ll give you a 🙂.
Ghosts (US). The reason I’m watching the US version and not the original UK version is that I followed Rose McIver there from iZombie. I’d like to check out the UK version but I’m not sure how closely the US version follows it and I don’t want spoilers.
Other than that, I think I get most of my comedy from cartoons these days. Like Harley Quinn or Hazbin Hotel or whatever.
The behaviour was based on Windows desktop apps in the 90s
Ah, so that’s why it was chosen as the default here.
When I first signed up here, or tried to sign up here, join-lemmy just didn’t want to load anything. So I ended up going to bed and trying again the next morning. The next morning, it finally loaded the list of instances and going by the experience I had just had with the website battling to even load anything, I chose an instance advertised as “join here to reduce load on larger instances”. And this instance just didn’t want to load anything properly. Half of the images in posts just weren’t showing up. And when I searched LGBTQ+ and feminist communities, only dead communities showed up and I’m pretty sure nothing from Blåhaj.
Then I went to world and still found it to be a ghost town. Eventually I realised that it was because ‘English’ wasn’t selected in my language settings. Because I didn’t realise that you have to ctrl click to select both ‘undefined’ and ‘English’. I’ve used software where you have to ctrl click but I’m not sure I’ve ever come across another website where this is the case. And on this note, the whole fact that ‘undefined’ even exists as an option comes across as bush league and makes it look like a beta version.
Then there’s another issue here. The god damn internal politics. So someone signs up on the insurance that says “focused on programming and development”, then have everyone calling them a tankie or be cut off from multiple instances that have de-federated. It’s clear to me now that ‘ml’ stands for “Marxist Leninist” but when you’re new here and just looking at descriptions in join-lemmy, it just looks like a unique url like all the others.
Personally I think there’s a lot of reasons that people would give up trying to get started here. That’s before even trying to break them ice with a silly question in AskLemmy and getting snarky snark and smart asses in the replies. And I use that as an example because in my first week here, I saw someone post an innocent question in AskLemmy, get hostility as a response, then leave.
Haha no I’ve spent a lot of time working on things that ultimately don’t matter much. And sometimes get consumed by it to the point of starting to pull all nighters. But I do enjoy it, yup lol.
Hope you’re feeling better and thanks for the encouragement!