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My new avatar and username combo is based on one of the all-time best anime characters.
I've had this idea for a little while, so don't think it's a coincidence that Jjs and I are into the same anime
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Hey, look who's back.
(Also, by the time the Christmas SWYAD comes around, expect the return of Cousin Mel.)
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Can someone explain to me what AJR and Theory of a Deadman are doing on the Alt charts and why we're still apparently making both groups a thing?
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AJR was pretty fine at first with "I'm Ready..."
But then they released one of the worst albums of 2017. It's not as horrifying as Spectrum Pulse suggests, who gave it a 1/10, but it still operates at least at a strong 2/10 for me. The Click is the kind of album that could've had some good potential, but yet it was completely ruined by the way it was executed.
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And in case you guys aren't warned, let me recap on some of the tracks on AJR's album.
Spoiler"Overture" starts off good before proceeding into a chopped and screwed drop. And when it tries to redeem itself with the emotional-sounding portion, it then creates a messy mashup with a few of their other tracks. "Weak" has those horrible pseudo-Beach Boys falsettos in the chorus. "Sober Up," the song currently on the Alt charts, entails the singer telling a girl he hasn't known since recess in second grade to make him sober and has a pick-up line that goes "My favorite color is you." In "Netflix Trip," the singer looks back on the most important times of his life (his first crush, watching his mother grieve his grandfather's death, his eighth grade graduation) and connects them to his experience with watching The Office on Netflix, which happened during all those times. In "I'm Not Famous," the singer flaunts about he has no haters, doesn't get judged so much, and that no one cares about what he does because he's not a celebrity. "Three-Thirty" breaks the fourth wall ("how am I supposed to fit this in 3:30?") and tells its audience that they should listen before they skip the song because the band is only human and they don't stay for long. There's even one line that goes "I thought I had ADHD, but that's a real thing, and I'm just lazy." "The Good Part" is one of the most ironic titles for a song and has the second-most annoying set of falsettos on the album. And "No Grass Today" has a drop that sounds like....well, something in which I can't provide a link to. (TubeChop is not working for me ATM.)
Really, if you want to indulge in an album with a similar sound, I suggest just sticking to Jon Bellion's The Human Condition. It's not a superb album, but it's definitely polished a lot better than The Click.
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Can I just say that I hate HATE Disney XD's new strategy in which they now air new episodes at a frequent pace for one month after stagnating them for few to several months? Over the course of this year, we've had two Milo bombs, one Star bomb with another one coming in November, one Pickle & Peanut bomb coming in October, and one Penn bomb (but then again, DXD had been yanking this show on a chain.)
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It'll change soon, but right now, Big Mouth has a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Now it looks like I'm gonna have watch one or more episodes to see whether or not I'm delusional for hating the show immediately after seeing the trailer.
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fred why did you like that cringy 2010 post that I made that I can never edit? why?
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R.I.P. June Foray.
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I'm not too late to notice that Disney XD has a new night block called DXD, which showcases video game variety programs. And IGN just so happens to have their own program on the network. Now, let me repeat that:
-IGN has their own show
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So, Spectrum Pulse gave an album a 1/10 for the first time, and that was when I decided to listen to that AJR album out of curiosity, and good god, Mark wasn't kidding about the album being downright awful. It's not too close to the worst album of the decade, but you know how bad it is when I say that I even have some new appreciation towards Lukas Graham.
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I've now come to realize that I despise "Shape of You" marginally more than "Don't Wanna Know."
I mean, the latter is basically the bare minimums in M5's part, but the same could be said for Ed's song. Like, the production is kinda lacking, Ed Sheeran's vocals are subdued. Besides that, it also has lines like "Your love was handmade for somebody like me," "although my heart is falling too," and in general, it's the type of song that doesn't quite fit in with the style of Ed's music. The rap-singing is nothing new to me, but he's done better with that tone in "Don't" and on some days, "You Need Me, I Don't Need You." Otherwise, "Shape of You" IMO is "Don't," but without the qualities that made the latter good. As for a few nitpicks, overplay killed it for me, and when I realized that it has a similar melody to "No Scrubs," it makes me wanna go back to that TLC song.
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"Castle on the Hill" is at least a much better song. I didn't like it at first because it sounded too much like U2, but it grew on me within a couple months. To me, it's become more of a homage to U2 than a shameless rip-off, and for the most part, it gets right in what "7 Years" got wrong in the influential, past life reminisce narrative.
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Queens of the Stone Age, The Killers, and Shania Twain release a new single on the same week <3.
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Confession: I'm loving both of Camila Cabello's debut solo singles.
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While the first episode of DSotH for Riffing Theater hasn't been published yet and that some of you guys haven't started yet either, but I just want to let you guys know that after skimming through some of the story, I'm already thinking of changing my mind about CYPPtF being my worst. Also, be warned: Part 4 has some sort of suicide joke.
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Song vs. Song vs. Song: "Heavy" (Linkin Park), "Feels Like Summer" (Weezer), "Young and Menace" (Fall Out Boy). a.k.a.: Which comeback single is the most disappointing?
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I'm currently in the process of writing an essay for one of my college courses, and I've been coming back to ADoseofBuckley's rant on celebrity deaths from overdose, cuz' I've been thinking of looking into it for ideas of making some counterarguments, and my god does that rant frustrate me more whenever I come back to it. I do enjoy some ADoB's videos enough and understand the content that he makes, but that one video was just distasteful, even if it's a rant from 4 years back.
Also, even though I'm talking about a video on drug overdose, I'm actually writing an evaluation on the causes of tobacco addiction. That sounds weird, but it's still true.
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what the heck is whatever's being popular on alternative/rock radio right now.
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I don't know about you
But now I'm 22, I can put this joke to use.
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For those who want to know how much progress I've made with my top 10 animated shows/movies list, I currently have a lock on 7 of these things, so I need three more contenders. This could spoil the future of what the list might look like, but some examples of shows and movies I need to get into include Sausage Party, Kung Fu Panda 3 and all of MLP Season 6.
As for my bottom/top ten lists for the hit songs of 2016, I've just finished thinking through my choices for each one. I thought I could've got it done earlier, but I had to do a lot of backpedaling.
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Nothing hurts me right now than to see that a Pokemon fangame that I've been anticipating to see completed has been killed off by Nintendo's lawyers. I can definitely understand why it had to happen, but still, those 8 years of development, man. R.I.P. Pokemon Prism.
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This is Steel Sponge. And yes, I'm questioning my sanity with my new username/avvie theme. But at the same time, I'm overjoyed that I've taken the opportunity to do this.
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My Pokemon Sun team in a span playing for one whole day:
Dartrix level 22
Slowpoke level 22
Oricorio (Pom-Pom Style) level 22
Mudbray level 22
Wishiwashi level 22Just got through my fourth trial. Oricorio as my temporary team member. I originally wasn't going to put Slowpoke on my team but I decided it would stick with me rather than I get Rufflet on my team because I already noticed Decidueye can know Flying moves, I needed a Trick Room user, and it has an Adamant nature to boot.
