You just did the thing I was talking about, you said it’s terrible with no justification other than ‘it’s been done’. There are thousands of singles released each year, if originality is what’s required for any good music I have bad news, just about anything is going to have other similar work already created. Which…

My thoughts exactly. It was really impactful for me when I first got in to TOP (I actually was turned off by them the first performance and song I heard, but then they grew on me the next time around). Thank you for sharing your valuable experience. I think a lot of people are in the same boat, and it is good to feel…

You could insert virtually any contemporary music artist in there. Hopefully you’ve already gotten numb to it by now.

I first heard of TOP when the local alternative station started playing “Tear In My Heart”. I mentioned them to a friend of mine, who was a big fan...she also deals with suicidality, so this article really helps me understand their appeal to her. If any of their music - or the other bands she listens to when she’s in…

It is you. The lyrics are about taking control over suicidal thoughts and living with purpose.

Here’s something for your consideration: they are not. They’re actually very good.

It's the internet. There are a zillion assholes desperately trying to act out.  

And this is why the world is shit. Someone posts that they found something uplifting, something positive, something that helps, and the first fucking comment is to shit on it. I don’t care if someone likes the band or doesn’t like the band. But to tell someone, someone that you know for a fact (if you read the…

I played EQ and I absolutely do not really remember it like this at all. Grab quest, go somewhere, kill mobs in that area for the next thousand years, and do raid bosses that have obscenely long resets and only one guild on the entire server can kill per reset. Grind for an eternity to level up crafting in-between.…

It’s nostalgia that makes you want to go back. Those days were great, but only because we didn’t know any better.

Admittedly I was not a big MMO player before WOW and only dabbled into some F2P MMO’s after a year of WOW. But FF XI (which came out about two years earlier) was my jam. I believe there were quests that took you from zone to zone, but once you were in an area, you were kind of blocked from safely progressing to a…

Nah, that’s how MMO games were before WoW for sure. Not much in the way of quests, you just kinda wander and explore and find/make your own adventures. Ultima came first, but EQ and AC followed very closely in those steps.

Final Fantasy XIV recently did something like this where they added the a new zone (Eureka) that had ZERO quest chains. It’s literally a giant open map with hundreds of mobs that you have to kill for dozens and dozens of hours to reach the max level of that zone.

It is, far and away, the most hated content FF has ever…

What an incredibly specific nostalgic memory of an MMO you have that does not in any way describe any MMO I can think of that was released that long ago, save perhaps for Star Wars Galaxies.

I mean the true test is testing the cables—but starting with good cables certified is a nice start for people so, you know, I stand by what I wrote? Particularly as I’ve seen cables been the problem PLENTY of times.

They also said “The only way to verify it works is to test it.” at the end of that. Which you also said in so many words, but it is buried in the midst of creating paranoia about cables and isn’t as complex as you are making it out to be. The CNET article was much more accurate and informational and written over 6…

“Even if it says “High Speed” on the jacket, that’s not 100 percent useful. A cable can be considered “high speed” if it passes 1080p, but not be well enough made to handle 4K.”

do we care? are we caring about this?