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I recall seeing this claim many years ago, and holy shit it could not be more wrong about me. I scroll through youtube recommendations pretty frequently for anything that catches my eye, with pretty good odds of not being disappointed. Hell, I've even started listening to Pandora radio again (thanks, internet, for teaching me how to block ads for free) just to inject even more variety. I'll plug my weird thread for things I enjoy but might not necessarily seek out or listen to often. Been kinda thinking about making a musical world tour thread as well, to collect all the various international tunes that get my attention.. In terms of how often I actually add things to my personal library.. that shit can get kinda expensive, but I do splurge once a year or two on buying CDs from artists I've been digging lately. Yes, I still even buy CDs... even if all I really do is rip them to put on my iPod.. yes I even still have an iPod. In general, with all my music on shuffle, I tend not to even listen to the same song twice a month (or longer). Sometimes new stuff sticks with me and I'll seek it out a little more often. Pandora is kinda bad for this, what with leaning heavily on picking out more popular tracks, forcing me to skip or reject songs just to get to something different. Pandora's also kinda a little not great for someone like me, missing a lot of the smaller names I'd like to add, or international fare that it's unaware of.. but I suppose I can only expect so much from it..

Decided to give A Certain Scientific Railgun a look, since it seemed to kinda be part of the collective zeitgeist of the anime community at one point I guess? Idk, I just see the opening song come up a lot in karaoke streams. Anyway, not bad, I guess. Sorta ok. Then hit with the tragedy of a second season missing the dub. "Licensing issues" it's presumed. Blehhh. Started watching Index instead, but, sounds like that has the same issue....

I been listening to Pandora radio again lately, just letting it do its thing coming up with new station ideas to keep the variety rolling. (also helps discovering how to block the ads without paying....) This song came up at one point.. def a nostalgia gutpunch. It's been an age, but. It's fascinating how a good finishing song can just tie up everything with a big bow. And when you come back to it, that one song is enough to bring everything back..

Oh oh oh. This is one I legit was never sure if it was real or some [as] parody

This one counts as I legit remember seeing the remix on tv Bonus

Seemed like they'd gone way way downhill in recent years. Crypto scams and AI scams and low effort bots.. I'd imagine (but can only guess) you might have better odds on the other side of the gender fence. But better-than-shit odds might still be shit odds. I mostly used them as form of people watching, "socializing" without having to, y'know, interact with anyone. But was getting increasingly boring with shallow profiles that provided no info. But, like many, I just kinda stopped when I realized I had no interest or desire to add that disruption to life. I'm comfortable in isolation and routine, and accepted the fact that I ain't likely to meet anyone in an appropriate age range on the same wavelength.

Oh riight, that's what I needed to share with a coworker.. I've been getting back into listening to Pandora lately (thanks, internet, for teaching me how to make it ad-free for free...). I've got one station that's basically dedicated to dumb shit. I think that's honestly my preferences for most rock or metal groups. Ones that don't take themselves too seriously. So when something I've not experienced before comes up, like this, I just have to let out a defeated "goddammit"

Mostly Firefox, but evidently it's run or owned or whatever by an AI bro now, so.. now's as good a time as any to find a new one. Brave seems to show some promise. Heard nice things about I think Waterfox.

Bumping because been getting awful load times and timeout errors all day. At first I thought it was just work wifi somehow trying to block access or something. But no, even at home nothing wants to load at all.

Careful with that thing. A boombox is not a toy.

I still use mine, but I'm trying to get away from it. My big problem is finding anything that can replicate a feature of itunes that I use extensively. In iTunes, I have the option/capability of telling it custom start and stop times for every track. An absolute blessing for trimming out excess silence, live audience clapping, intros, etc etc. And when I move that music to the ipod, it remembers those settings. I've since found MusicBee, capable of the same settings, and just generally seems a nicer music library tool... but putting that music on my phone (android) won't actually remember those settings (although I think I might be able to force it by having it essentially create a new file with the truncated times.. maybe). Still using an ipod touch that's kinda coming apart at the seams (poor repair job). And I went out and bought a backup that's still new in box when I heard they were discontinued. But, if I can ever find a way to get my mobile music library to work how I want, I'll finally be free of it.