The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[RealAlHazred]

Funny, I was looking at this book called The Dungeon Masters Guide, not The Planescape Setting Book. Why do you think the DMG should be set in Planescape and nowhere else?

Because it ties the whole edition together.

"That book really tied the edition together, did it not?"
"Fuckin' A."
"And this guy peed on it."
"Donny, please."

 

[Gradine]

Not sure how anyone could forget "Just What I Needed" when it played roughly 18 times every commercial break throughout the 00's.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Not sure how anyone could forget "Just What I Needed" when it played roughly 18 times every commercial break throughout the 00's.

Weird .... all I remember is people demanding money in exchange for tote bags.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

But, in English words, you always begin a syllable with a consonant sound.

You are an op-ti-mist.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

ETA- Weirdly, I think that The Police are in a similar situation. Weirdly unrepresented for how massive and popular they were.

Sting getting weirder and less pleasant as the years have gone on, and having an absolutely toxic relationship with his old bandmates are big parts of the problem, I think.

 

[prabe]

You are an op-ti-mist.

Someome really pedantic might point out that needing that consonant sound for that starting vowel is why that indefinite article you used is "an" instead of "a.'

 

[payn]

Sting getting weirder and less pleasant as the years have gone on, and having an absolutely toxic relationship with his old bandmates are big parts of the problem, I think.

About 10 or so years ago The Police were on tour. They came through the Twin Cities on a Sunday, which happened to also be the 3rd of July. They had like 2500 people in attendance.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Are the Cars really classic rock? They kind of are, but late 70s/early 80s new wave isn't a great classic rock fit. The amount of times they get played is, I'm sure, thoroughly dwarfed just by the number of times commercial classic rock radio stations play Van Halen's "Jump" alone. Add in Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" and I'm sure they're just a blip on classic rock radio.

Yeah, New Wave doesn't have much of a home on the radio dial, unless you live in SoCal and can listen to KROQ.

And everyone now largely listens to hyper-specific curated streaming feeds, so unless you somehow convince an 18 year old that New Wave belongs in their 2022 pop or EDM feeds, no one's going to hear about it.

It also doesn't help that New Wave is largely the music of Gen X, not Baby Boomers, and so once the Baby Boomers stopped being catered to by Madison Avenue, advertising and film soundtracks have skipped ahead to the mid to late 1990s and the 21st century. There really are too few Gen Xers, even at our height, to be worth marketing to extensively.

We shouldn't be able to name the handful of seminal soundtracks aimed at us -- Reality Bites, Less than Zero, Singles, Romy & Michelle's Wedding and Gross Pointe Blank -- on the fingers of one hand, but we can.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Someome really pedantic might point out that needing that consonant sound for that starting vowel is why that indefinite article you used is "an" instead of "a.'

Oh, for sure the initial vowel sound affects the preceding article, but the argument was that individual words "never" have a syllable start with a vowel. English is a lot more "complicated" (i.e. a disgusting mess) than that.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

They make the description of the SiriusXM Classic Rewind station over on fandom.com. And are #94, 54, and 32 on the stations Top 100 party song list.

Classic Rewind

Classic Rewind is a classic rock radio station on Sirius XM Radio, which centers on the Mid 1970s and 1980s, picking up musically where Classic Vinyl ends. It is heard on channel 25 on Sirius XM Radio. The channel is often billed as classic rock from the cassette era, from where the channel's...

siriusxm.fandom.com

But SiriusXM also skews very old. It's a service mostly used by truckers, not high school students.