bortsampson [he/him, any]

Mountain Falcon

RAD

I’ve long connected the folklore of vampires with the predations and tyrannical whims of the ruling class of medieval Eastern Europe.

It’s speculated that the accusations of blood draining, impaling, servent torture, and virgin killing against aristocrats and royalty came from rival political families. These stories were spread to common folk and likely became the influence for vampire folklore. It was an early form of a psyop on the public to roust support for ouster or execution.

I’m not sure the guy who killed 1000s of black folks in multiple countries should be giving out a lecture like this.

The amount of subterfuge, loopholes, bribery, covert operations, and various chicanery PACs have introduced into US elections is enough to make John Foster Dulles squimish.

Damn, this is a really good idea.

Reminds me of when I donated to Bernie Sanders in 2016. You donate to one politician and they all show up asking for favors and leaving shit at your door.

I think that’s probably it. He seems to be pushing the idea that AGI is just around the corner. It smells of self-promotion over good science.

Hinton gives off grifter vibes. I can’t put my finger on it but I don’t trust him.

I looked through the albums and listened to some of the ones I didn’t hear from bands I find ok to very good. I didn’t listen to the LatAm artists. I’m unfamiliar with those artists normal work.

Key Takeaways:

• Nirvana was the best of the lot.
• The hiphop was really badly executed in this format overall with the exception of Lauren Hill. Still prefer the album versions of songs.
• Maxwell’s cover of NIN’s closer is odd. NIN music is closer to funk than most people realize but he chose to cover a track that is not funky at all. Daring move.
• MTV should have targetted indie bands instead of the washed up corporate rock bands they padded the episodes with.
• MTV Unplugged is very plugged. Every band/artist used at least one or all of electric bass, digital reverb, or backing tracks. This is the nature of live sound. These things are never purely acoustic.
• How you gonna do an acoustic “Can I kick it?” without an upright bass??? That would have sounded great. At least it was acoustic.
• The Police suck. Eric Clapton is boring as a solo artist. Fuck Kiss.
• Rod Stewart should have done “Do ya think I’m sexy”. Boring.
• Korn…was…ok? Amy Lee has a wonderful voice. No Auto-tune warble on her vox*. I wouldn’t go out of my way to listen to Korn but I would not be annoyed by this album if it was on.

I would say for the most part the “plugged” in versions are better but there are a few surprises.

• I heard light auto-tune on some of the post 03 stuff. They actually used the rack auto-tune at first and you can sort of tell with light warble on the higher frequencies being more apparent. It was a common limitation in the early hardware. I though I heard some in the Florence and the Machines set too but I could be wrong.

Every band/artist’s song that was covered is better than Nirvana lol.

That might be the must fucked up thing I’ve read since hearing about Josef Fritzl almost 10 years ago. If half of these claims are true anyone aware of what was going while working at Roblox should be executed.

But I was promised trains!

I hope they release an undubbed version.

They build a lot of malls over there huh? I have seen so many clips in malls.

They are using the great winds to glide across the sea to attack us!

It’s only rapidly escalating levels of harm from here on out.

Guess I’ll reserve judgement on the story until I know more. The mod looks good given the age of the engine though.

This is far more interesting than London. The New Vegas engine is also much more to my liking. Hopefully the cartel part isn’t a big part of the story.

Cybernetic Love is a classic! Outside of Hercules and the Love Affair a pure revival never really took off. I think in the US the momment it would have happened it was overshadowed by Electro Clash/Blog House then Big Room and Brostep. This Aeroplane set is incredible. Never heard it. I was a big fan of the essential mixes and breezeblocks from back then. Surprised I had haven’t heard this before. The liberal use of the kaoss pad effects needs to make a come back. I love that cheap ass digital sound.