Anthony Flack wrote: Fri Aug 04, 2023 1:26 am This is what we have instead of bands and underground comics and stuff now.

Have we ever had more bands or underground comics (or stuff) than we have now?

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Fri Aug 04, 2023 3:19 am

Anthony Flack wrote: Fri Aug 04, 2023 1:26 am This is what we have instead of bands and underground comics and stuff now.

Have we ever had more bands or underground comics (or stuff) than we have now?

Good question....? Has there been any census done on stuff like this?

Certainly there is more mumblecore rap made in parents bedroom, Roblox fan fiction and memes of crudely drawn troll faces, but I can't imagine there are more actual kids making anything of "substance" than before, when there is no incentive to make anything that is longer than 15 seconds, and they are already so bloody distracted with feeding elves ice cream.

zorg wrote: Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:01 am Good question....? Has there been any census done on stuff like this?

Certainly there is more mumblecore rap made in parents bedroom, Roblox fan fiction and memes of crudely drawn troll faces, but I can't imagine there are more actual kids making anything of "substance" than before, when there is no incentive to make anything that is longer than 15 seconds, and they are already so bloody distracted with feeding elves ice cream.

This is all so Old Man Yells at Cloud. There's near endless amounts of substance, granted amongst a shitheap of noise and nonsense, but to think there isn't is at best disingenuous; at worst lazy.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:25 am

zorg wrote: Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:01 am Good question....? Has there been any census done on stuff like this?

Certainly there is more mumblecore rap made in parents bedroom, Roblox fan fiction and memes of crudely drawn troll faces, but I can't imagine there are more actual kids making anything of "substance" than before, when there is no incentive to make anything that is longer than 15 seconds, and they are already so bloody distracted with feeding elves ice cream.

This is all so Old Man Yells at Cloud. There's near endless amounts of substance, granted amongst a shitheap of noise and nonsense, but to think there isn't is at best disingenuous; at worst lazy.

I'm trying to bring back proper old man-core. There is too many old people listening to Taylor Swift and whatever, dressing like teenagers. But seriously, bands? Like an actual group of kids who are hashing out songs and practicing in a basement....there is more of that NOW? Maybe you're right, but I'm just seeing the shitheap.

zorg wrote: Fri Aug 04, 2023 6:02 am But seriously, bands? Like an actual group of kids who are hashing out songs and practicing in a basement....there is more of that NOW?

Just by weight of numbers, I imagine so, but to be fair I'm not interested in whether they're kids hashing out songs in basements or not.

Can't argue with this.

What is that, the Faschie Family?

kokorodoko wrote: Fri Aug 04, 2023 8:03 pm Can't argue with this.

GMO Von Trapps of the Corn?

“So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night
I hate to go and slit your throats tonight

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu
I do, to serve He who walks behind the rows

So long, farewell, au revoir, auf wiedersehen
I'd like to stay and taste my first blood of the slain

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
I leave and heave a sigh and say “Time to die!”

I'm glad to go, I cannot tell a lie
I slit, I stab, I flay and all must die
Der Sonnenrad (Schwarze Sonne) has gone to bed and so must I

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
Goodbye, time to die”

^ Austria's folk horror answer to Midsommar.

I wonder how many of those kids will be estranged from Father in ten years' time. He looks like the type that would pay his wife an allowance and conduct random inspections on her phone.