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Hastur first appeared in Ambrose Bierce’s short story “Haïta the Shepherd” (1891) as a benign god of shepherds.

Oh hush, we all saw your cute beginnings, your fluffiness.

And here I thought it was because you’re an old one.

bobbel bubble

Or… was… that the joke?

Tree-fiddy.

Can you link the video, if you have time?

There is something distasteful about elder generations prejudicially dismissing new ideas, especially in such a subjective artform as music; in that sense, we can find common ground.

However, I am now 42. An elder millennial. I have been a player of instruments since childhood. I read and have composed music in western notation. I’ve been in a few touring bands. I’ve been around and played with virtuosic players. I’d like to think I’m half-decent myself.

At this point, technical ability or mastery of the instrument doesn’t matter to me anymore. Voices and lyrics are instruments too, so this goes for singers as well. If the selections of notes, harmonies, dynamics, <<and rests>> a player makes don’t evoke some sort of emotional response out of me (joy, sadness, laughter, nostalgia, fear, etc.), I’m just not impressed nor interested.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m discovering new music from younger artists and bands all the time, but what they have in common is that their music and musicianship expresses more than just their technical proficiency at their instrument; they’re showing me something that transcends the song.

“Boomer” bends from Gilmore on his strat live as a part of the entire soundscape of Pink Floyd’s albums, for the better. They’re triggers of ennui, nostalgia, and longing, with just a few notes. If you think his playing style is only about pentatonics, I don’t think we’re hearing the same thing.

But I do agree with a different commenter, in that the most “OK, boomer” guitarist is Ted Nugent, by a country mile, as they say.

I prefer expressive playing with unique chord voicings versus “shredding”. Technical ability combined with expressiveness is the zenith, but I much prefer “boomer” bends versus Polyphia-esque “Shreddy-Kreuger” guitar-neck masturbating, if it’s one or the other.

To me, it’s the equivalent of someone who brags about typing at 200 wpm, but makes no points, arguments, or revelations of new ideas in their content.

Brevity is the soul of wit, as they say, or even better: write tight.

If that’s a generic “boomer” take, then I suppose I should yell at my fellow xennials for eating Avocado toast and clown on the young Broccoli-haircuts for getting anxiety at answering a phone call or some other dumb shit.

Me, an elder millennial, finding out that I used to (and still do) enjoy David Gilmour’s playing on a Stratocaster:

Fear of death and the implicit threat of violence from true believers for disbelief, criticism, and/or apostasy.

“Whatever else we may be as creatures that go to and fro on the earth and walk up and down upon it, we are meat.”

“Why should generations unborn be spared entry into the human thresher?”

“…nonexistence never hurt anyone and existence hurts everyone.”

“Every one of us, having been stolen from nonexistence, opens his eyes on the world and looks down the road at a few convulsions and a final obliteration.”

“…this new Adam and Eve are only being readied for the meat grinder of existence…”

“…non-coital existence… the surest path to redemption for the sin of being congregants of this world.”

• Thomas Ligotti, Conspiracy Against the Human Race

That’s bait.

Have you ever fought/served in an armed conflict?

The phrase “Russia is kicking Ukraine’s ass.”, to me, comes from someone who is, at best, an AirSoft cosplayer.

It’s hyperbolic propaganda at face value, and doesn’t match up with credible intelligence analysis reporting from news agencies both in and outside of NATO countries. The narrative spun by such hand-waiving talk is that casualty attrition rate per kilometer gained has no bearing on logistic or strategic capability.

Anyone who has been seriously involved with warfare knows that the casualty rates of the supposed 2nd/3rd most capable military in the world are appalling considering the relatively small size of the Ukrainian military. This is an absurd gamble Putin has made. The men lost now will not be there to finally take Kyiv.

On top of that, there’s very little to stop the PLA from rolling his entire South-Eastern flank and putting their giant dick in his puckered asshole. It’s convenient for them for the Russian Federation and NATO to be occupied so they may sell their influence with relative ease, and continue dicking with their other Asian neighbors.

Do you believe that the Ukrainians will just stop fighting after Kyiv has fallen, by the way?

I also don’t take the view that the Russian Federation is “losing”. The Ukrainians are certainly barely managing a desperate struggle for survival; their only hope is international military pressure from other geographic theaters of operations and/or a collapse of Putin’s regime. They must also try to keep engaging the invading forces in a war of maneuver instead of static defense with dwindling man-power and arms.

However, despite all of that, the Orcs are far from “kicking Ukraine’s ass”. If they were, in my opinion, we’d see Russian Federation flags a few kilometers outside of Kyiv, and even more probing of Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian, Latvian, and Finnish airspaces.

I had to say something. The bullshit of “Russia is kicking Ukraine’s ass,” is too strong of an odor to ignore.

Russia still kicking Ukraine’s ass

What, in your mind, is the attrition/casualty rate per kilometer of advancement by the Russian army?

I don’t think you’re getting information from an impartial news source.

But gravity believes in you!

That depends on the gravity of the situation.

Admit it. You did.

No, if they strike the owners will have to clean it up.

They won’t have to if they strike.

This isnt a comic per se

Why the fuck are you posting it in !comicstrips@lemmy.world?

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