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not to be pretentious but yall should really read this… C.H.A.T. (Come Here for All Talk)

Extremely rare Bliz appearance in the chat thread, bc I started typing this story out in mafia, decided it made more sense in smogoff, but like it doesn't deserve its own thread lol

Fiancé isn't really into concerts, but I'm in his city for a few weeks, and when we settled in I decided to look and see if any good bands are playing. Most notable thing I could find was Wheatus, and I was like "hey I like Teenage Dirtbag, I've heard some other stuff of theirs that's good. Probably a fun time, seeing a band from where I grew up on the other side of the world would be funny. And it's probably gonna be lowkey so he won't hate it."

Anyway, we get to the concert and one of the openers is like, "yeah I'm really bummed that one of my favorite bands is playing here tomorrow, but I can't go cuz I gotta be in Perth. So to make my peace with that here's Everlong." And uh, yeah, Foo Fighters are playing in Tasmania tomorrow and I just completely fucking missed that somehow. Great job to all the "concerts in your area" websites!!

But my fiancé agreed that we should go see them too. I bought the tickets. The stadium they're playing at sounded like it should be in this city but actually it's about 2 hours away. My fiancé, being not American, did not react positively to realizing he had just agreed to drive four hours round trip. The face he made is the kind of face I'd reserve for, like, if someone killed my dog :psycry:

He did come around on it eventually though. I think he recognizes that Foo Fighters are going to be substantially better than Wheatus, lol. Wheatus was good too btw. Impressed by any band that will just get on stage and take requests for basically their whole set
 
Blizihguh said:
Hey so it turns out Foo Fighters are really good

Did you guys know that? I feel like nobody is talking about this!
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listening to an interview with ashley st. clair (from off of having elon musk's child) and she talks about getting radicalised on the internet as a teenager (thru online right-wing spaces' fulfilment of the inherent adolescent need to find community). really makes me think about how different things could have been for me. i could've been raking it in as a fashy grifter but instead i became a regular on a godforsaken pokemon forum. really dropped the ball there eh.
 
BIG ASHLEY said:
listening to an interview with ashley st. clair (from off of having elon musk's child) and she talks about getting radicalised on the internet as a teenager (thru online right-wing spaces' fulfilment of the inherent adolescent need to find community). really makes me think about how different things could have been for me. i could've been raking it in as a fashy grifter but instead i became a regular on a godforsaken pokemon forum. really dropped the ball there eh.
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split the difference and become a poke-grifter on the smogun forums
 
Cancel cult said:
who is this?
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ray william johnson

og youtuber, first person to reach 5 million subs. probably one of the most important and influential people in internet history, a good chunk of immensely successful people got their start by getting his attention

and I genuinely cannot overstate just how influential he was and still is to a degree. he was a central driving force behind like 70-80% of the attention economy throughout the 2000s and up to the mid 2010s. he still gets millions and millions of views and has a subtle, but powerful sway on social media as a whole

and he never put any effort into his "work". he really just featured things he found. that was and still is his entire shtick
 
Wondering if it is possible automatically lock threads that have not seen activity in one year or similar?

P.S. cool that we are getting more threads into the Smogon Gallery honestly really cool
 
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It's been a few years since ToTK release and I still find more absolutely bizarre and insane decisions in the game. Like I just figured out that you can only get the frog armor at the very tail end of the game, when you've already had to deal with the rain for dozens of hours

I wish someone who worked on it would come out and tell us exactly what happened during its production. I think it's genuinely one of the oddest games ever made, simply due to the thousands of little and big decisions taken with it that have seemingly no rhyme or reason. And I really wonder what the hundreds of people that worked on it over these 6 years of development have actually done
 
You can tell Bad Bunny is an ally, or just knows that the gays tune into the half time show and knew how to capitalize on it, with that surprise Lady Gaga performance followed by an insane Ricky Martin jumpscare. Man couldn't sing for shit himself but he put on a pretty good show
 
Oglemi said:
You can tell Bad Bunny is an ally, or just knows that the gays tune into the half time show and knew how to capitalize on it, with that surprise Lady Gaga performance followed by an insane Ricky Martin jumpscare. Man couldn't sing for shit himself but he put on a pretty good show
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I don't know what he'd label himself as, but he's definitely got some fruit in his drink. He's described his sexuality as "fluid" in interviews, and he's been vocal about queer issues for a while. Basically, that stuff wasn't just for the audience.
 
If I was rich, I'd get a fancy CRT, a homebrewed PS2, a homebrewed backwards compatible Wii, and, uh. Honestly I think that's all I'd do. Not like I'd need more. Already have my 3DS and Steam Deck for handheld emulation. I actually don't need to be rich for that, now that I think about it
 
Local Dog said:
If I was rich, I'd get a fancy CRT, a homebrewed PS2, a homebrewed backwards compatible Wii, and, uh. Honestly I think that's all I'd do. Not like I'd need more. Already have my 3DS and Steam Deck for handheld emulation. I actually don't need to be rich for that, now that I think about it
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Being rich means you can quit your job and have more time to play your emulated games
 
Local Dog said:
If I was rich, I'd get a fancy CRT, a homebrewed PS2, a homebrewed backwards compatible Wii, and, uh. Honestly I think that's all I'd do. Not like I'd need more. Already have my 3DS and Steam Deck for handheld emulation. I actually don't need to be rich for that, now that I think about it
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if i was rich i would create a competitive pokemon super pac so presidential candidates would be forced to talk about whether or not they would ban kingambit if elected

i mean i'd do other things too, i have an in-depth plan to mitigate sea-level rise and end world hunger with less than $30 billion but making politicians argue about competitive mons is the main thing
 
DaddyBuzzwole said:
if i was rich i would create a competitive pokemon super pac so presidential candidates would be forced to talk about whether or not they would ban kingambit if elected

i mean i'd do other things too, i have an in-depth plan to mitigate sea-level rise and end world hunger with less than $30 billion but making politicians argue about competitive mons is the main thing
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ok but wheres your plans to get the 30 billion? and can you hire me when you get rich?
 
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