Yet another GAF thread - I still haven't got over it :( (No spergfits allowed)

[Shaka Khan]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=108983832
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=108984333
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=108986070
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=108986325

So glad this humorless, puritanical, Sony Jihadist got called out.

You can't make any remotely anti-Sony remarks without him staring you down.

[Yulwei]

e- ^^ "poor taste" lmao

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=108981693&postcount=156

getting paid enough not to rely tips = third world 

[Joe Molotov]

(Image removed from quote.)

Poor taste.

[doctavius bonbon]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=805599

Time to reset the counter for the days since the last potential suicide thread.

 

[Yulwei]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=109011132&postcount=138

nude.. 

[nudemacusers]

reminds me of this ether

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=108913521&postcount=190

and the softball response

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=108928377#post108928377

play it off cool breh

[Phoenix Dark]

get emotional over simplistic, disposable pop music with no longevity brehs

[Pickles the Firecat]

these Beyonce bleach gifs I'd never seen

mana from heaven

[king of the internet]

reminds me of this ether

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=108913521&postcount=190

and the softball response

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=108928377#post108928377

play it off cool breh

He's a contender for the most punchable face among all the real pic people. 

[Joe Molotov]

reminds me of this ether

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=108913521&postcount=190

and the softball response

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=108928377#post108928377

play it off cool breh

He's a contender for the most punchable face among all the real pic people. 

Really? That sounds like a pretty deep bench.

[doctavius bonbon]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=109011132&postcount=138

nude.. 

jungle booty earthquake music

[Great Rumbler]

Somebody make an official jungle booty earthquake music thread, please.

[Your Stalker]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=109011132&postcount=138

nude.. 

beef is a regular in the bct too

[thisismyusername]

GAF running "plz respond" into the ground already. 

[doctavius bonbon]

Somebody make an official jungle booty earthquake music thread, please.

it would be major lazer on rotation, 24/7

[nudemacusers]

Somebody make an official jungle booty earthquake music thread, please.

it would be major lazer on rotation, 24/7

any jungle booty earthquake music thread needs cex's classic dj no evil baltmix 6000 jam


http://mp3skull.com/mp3/dj_6000.html

[doctavius bonbon]

[Your Stalker]

in on page 777

[StealthFan]

GAF running "plz respond" into the ground already. 

Already? WTF. That meme has been around for years. Did those plebes just discover it?

[Atramental]

I even had it as my custom title not too long ago.

I must have tapped deep into the unconscious of the special fellow hivemind.

[thisismyusername]

GAF running "plz respond" into the ground already. 

Already? WTF. That meme has been around for years. Did those plebes just discover it?

Yes, I know. Which makes it even worse. 

[nudemacusers]

I even had it as my custom title not too long ago.

I must have tapped deep into the unconscious of the special fellow hivemind.

[Shadow Mod]

tl;dr

[benjipwns]

It's got a good beat and you can dance to it.

[Shadow Mod]

With all that in mind, the people who make pop got to their positions not by sheer money and shrewd business, but because they love music. Anyone who writes music for Rihanna fucking loves music and has made it their life.

Eh this is ignoring overall trends that show up time and again in pop and fishing for some popstar to make your stuff a hit after the last one passed on it. I wouldn't paint all music making as some artistic expression void of the dollar. Same with any art.

o it's a post over there, welp figures

[benjipwns]

That's because you're not an artist, you don't understand the true passion that drives them. If you were, you would.

[helios]

get emotional over simplistic, disposable pop music with no longevity brehs

No.

Let me clear that up for you: No.

Let me expound: I grew up in a musical family. My dad played and wrote music all the time, my mom listened to music and watched musicals with us all the time, my sister was in dance with classical and contemporary, my brother does stage shows, I write/play/sing. My life is music. I've done stuff in about any type of music you can think, been friends with hundreds of musicians of all kinds, worked personally with dozens. However you think music works is not how it works. You know how you write a song? You think of something that sounds good and write it down. That's it. Everyone who writes music does this. There is no way to "fake" it. There is no way to make a computer write something for you. You are the creative element of it's creation, and you decide how it turns out.

What about "copying" what other people do? Literally everyone does that. There is no way to be 100% creative. We all take what has been put in our minds as to what music is and try to put our own twist on it. What about "soul" in music? Often just as made-up as the tune. If you can think of a happy tune, you can think of happy words, and the same goes for any other feeling or sentiment on earth, even subjects and topics you can only speculate and empathize on because you personally haven't gone through it.

You know, I've written many songs like that, some directly addressing stuff my friends dealt with that I only watched. People heard those songs and liked them and thought that it was legit, but I was only manufacturing something I witnessed. Same thing can happen in any other aspect of music as well. The ability to imagine and convey feelings is separate from the blueprints of the composition itself. Everything is manufactured.

Oh, but perhaps not the actual personal stuff, right? Well... yes and no. I've also written songs from my own personal feelings, but even when it is really deep, raw shit that came from the most real part of you that you know, time moves on and you move on, and you stop feeling that way. And what happens when you have to perform it? You just make it up. You might be really cheerful and you have to sing a sad song. You can still do it, even though you don't feel sad, but the crowd will feel the sadness anyway if you are good. It has nothing to do with your actual feelings. It is fake, contrived, manufactured.

You know why it works that way? Because music is just like language, it is symbolic. We can write words that direct the mind to certain topics and specific situations and feelings, and we can use music to enhance that stuff. An example I like to use is The Lumineer's song "Ho Hey" where after a fiarly lighthearted and sweet sentiment in the chorus, after a break he just blurts out "I don't think you're right for him!" rather loudly and confidently. It is rather bold, unexpected, against the sweetness of the prior sentiment.

I mean, you'd never say that in real life, right? If the person you loved was with someone else, most people would try to be polite, understanding, even make a genuine effort to change their own heart around and be happy for them. But then in this song he comes out and practically shouts that selfish aspect most people would silence. Even if you weren't in an unrequited love, if that is something you ever experienced in life, it probably resonated with an old feeling you stuffed away. It pulls out this raw thing from the heart and says "don't forget this, this makes you human" and the sting of his sentiment in that line just feels humanly good.

So in this way, music and all art in general is just a lens into the human experience. It focuses on things we normally put out of sight in order to function politely as a society, it reminds us of things that are true of ourselves. But does that mean it has to be deep to be "legit" art? Hell no. We don't go around reading nothing but poetry all the time, do we? We don't make every building look like a cathedral, do we? Humanity has some depths to it, but it also has some shallowness to it. The shallow parts of ourselves are just as legitimate, just as often constrained, and just as wonderful, only in different ways than our deeper aspects.

The truth is, we need all of these experiences. Sometimes you are in extreme depths of sadness, extreme heat of anger, extreme heights of love, but you can't remain in any of those states, you have to come back to center. And just as you can go to extremes, you can also experience moderate moods. Maybe instead of sadness you're bored, maybe instead of angry you're dismissive, maybe instead of in love you're just happy. And so we have songs that more accurately capture these common everyday moods, and they serve those sides of ourselves in the appropriate moments.

Ultimately, with music we are taking a mundane world of mundane sounds and making something more beautiful that we can enjoy in its appropriate contexts. It is often an aural and emotional sort of aestheticism, supplementing ourselves and existence to be more pleasing, but often in ways not too outlandish, because nothing but outlandish things everywhere is stressful to us. Just as with fashion or architecture or food, music has more easily received forms. That doesn't make it worse, it is simply playing the role it is meant for as a more pervasive and moderate expression and acknowledgement in our lives.

With all that in mind, the people who make pop got to their positions not by sheer money and shrewd business, but because they love music. Anyone who writes music for Rihanna fucking loves music and has made it their life. The way they use music may be different from the way you personally would, or from how you would understand, but it is just as real and legitimate as anything you or the artists you prefer would produce.

  http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view4/20140101/4941316/tldr-o.gif

[benjipwns]

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view4/20140101/4941316/tldr-o.gif

She saw what I wrote on my dick.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

"When plunde"

[close]

[Momo]

wait why are we talking about hot asian men

Why do you feel there needs to be a reason?

(Image removed from quote.)

what ever happened to kaneshiro?
[/quote]When he isnt accused of being the gayest gay man on earth, he squeezes in a movie here in there. It's been slow over the last 6 years but this year he has The Crossing coming out

[Oblivion]

get emotional over simplistic, disposable pop music with no longevity brehs

No.

Let me clear that up for you: No.

Let me expound: I grew up in a musical family. My dad played and wrote music all the time, my mom listened to music and watched musicals with us all the time, my sister was in dance with classical and contemporary, my brother does stage shows, I write/play/sing. My life is music. I've done stuff in about any type of music you can think, been friends with hundreds of musicians of all kinds, worked personally with dozens. However you think music works is not how it works. You know how you write a song? You think of something that sounds good and write it down. That's it. Everyone who writes music does this. There is no way to "fake" it. There is no way to make a computer write something for you. You are the creative element of it's creation, and you decide how it turns out.

What about "copying" what other people do? Literally everyone does that. There is no way to be 100% creative. We all take what has been put in our minds as to what music is and try to put our own twist on it. What about "soul" in music? Often just as made-up as the tune. If you can think of a happy tune, you can think of happy words, and the same goes for any other feeling or sentiment on earth, even subjects and topics you can only speculate and empathize on because you personally haven't gone through it.

You know, I've written many songs like that, some directly addressing stuff my friends dealt with that I only watched. People heard those songs and liked them and thought that it was legit, but I was only manufacturing something I witnessed. Same thing can happen in any other aspect of music as well. The ability to imagine and convey feelings is separate from the blueprints of the composition itself. Everything is manufactured.

Oh, but perhaps not the actual personal stuff, right? Well... yes and no. I've also written songs from my own personal feelings, but even when it is really deep, raw shit that came from the most real part of you that you know, time moves on and you move on, and you stop feeling that way. And what happens when you have to perform it? You just make it up. You might be really cheerful and you have to sing a sad song. You can still do it, even though you don't feel sad, but the crowd will feel the sadness anyway if you are good. It has nothing to do with your actual feelings. It is fake, contrived, manufactured.

You know why it works that way? Because music is just like language, it is symbolic. We can write words that direct the mind to certain topics and specific situations and feelings, and we can use music to enhance that stuff. An example I like to use is The Lumineer's song "Ho Hey" where after a fiarly lighthearted and sweet sentiment in the chorus, after a break he just blurts out "I don't think you're right for him!" rather loudly and confidently. It is rather bold, unexpected, against the sweetness of the prior sentiment.

I mean, you'd never say that in real life, right? If the person you loved was with someone else, most people would try to be polite, understanding, even make a genuine effort to change their own heart around and be happy for them. But then in this song he comes out and practically shouts that selfish aspect most people would silence. Even if you weren't in an unrequited love, if that is something you ever experienced in life, it probably resonated with an old feeling you stuffed away. It pulls out this raw thing from the heart and says "don't forget this, this makes you human" and the sting of his sentiment in that line just feels humanly good.

So in this way, music and all art in general is just a lens into the human experience. It focuses on things we normally put out of sight in order to function politely as a society, it reminds us of things that are true of ourselves. But does that mean it has to be deep to be "legit" art? Hell no. We don't go around reading nothing but poetry all the time, do we? We don't make every building look like a cathedral, do we? Humanity has some depths to it, but it also has some shallowness to it. The shallow parts of ourselves are just as legitimate, just as often constrained, and just as wonderful, only in different ways than our deeper aspects.

The truth is, we need all of these experiences. Sometimes you are in extreme depths of sadness, extreme heat of anger, extreme heights of love, but you can't remain in any of those states, you have to come back to center. And just as you can go to extremes, you can also experience moderate moods. Maybe instead of sadness you're bored, maybe instead of angry you're dismissive, maybe instead of in love you're just happy. And so we have songs that more accurately capture these common everyday moods, and they serve those sides of ourselves in the appropriate moments.

Ultimately, with music we are taking a mundane world of mundane sounds and making something more beautiful that we can enjoy in its appropriate contexts. It is often an aural and emotional sort of aestheticism, supplementing ourselves and existence to be more pleasing, but often in ways not too outlandish, because nothing but outlandish things everywhere is stressful to us. Just as with fashion or architecture or food, music has more easily received forms. That doesn't make it worse, it is simply playing the role it is meant for as a more pervasive and moderate expression and acknowledgement in our lives.

With all that in mind, the people who make pop got to their positions not by sheer money and shrewd business, but because they love music. Anyone who writes music for Rihanna fucking loves music and has made it their life. The way they use music may be different from the way you personally would, or from how you would understand, but it is just as real and legitimate as anything you or the artists you prefer would produce.

  http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view4/20140101/4941316/tldr-o.gif

Those are some might fine melons.

[Vertigo]

The GoT no book spoiler thread on Gaf is an absolute hoot. Loads of people pretending they haven't at least read character summaries.

[Momo]

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=161488763


Oh god

[hampster]

We apologize.

Indie dev decides to apologize to gaf. His offense? He said "real gamers" in an interview and some message board champions got upset

[king of the internet]

We apologize.

Indie dev decides to apologize to gaf. His offense? He said "real gamers" in an interview and some message board champions got upset

TBH he should be cast out of the industry and forced to work on a salt mine for the rest of his life. Unforgivable.

[king of the internet]

We apologize.

Indie dev decides to apologize to gaf. His offense? He said "real gamers" in an interview and some message board champions got upset

SmokyDave shouldn't be allowed to be annoyed at others.  He is singularly one of the most irritating posters I've encountered on a message board, and he acts that way intentionally. We get it, dude, come on...

STAMOS!!!!

I always liked him until he decided to take on the 'mentioning the fucking Vita in every goddamn post' shtick.

[SmokyDave]

We apologize.

Indie dev decides to apologize to gaf. His offense? He said "real gamers" in an interview and some message board champions got upset

SmokyDave shouldn't be allowed to be annoyed at others.  He is singularly one of the most irritating posters I've encountered on a message board, and he acts that way intentionally.

STAMOS!!!!

I didn't expect the dude to fucking apologise! I was just blowing off some steam.

'Real' gamers is bullshit though. It's the kind of shit I'd expect to hear from someone that's been wearing the same Sonic The Hedgehog t-shirt since 1993.

[SmokyDave]

Your "champ" shtick ain't much better, fella.

You might want to look into that chap. I used the term in one Media Create thread for shits 'n' giggles, and it just took off (sarcastically and sincerely). I don't think I've typed the word at all this year. It's a similar story with the ridiculous Vita hashtag I made up to riff of '2013DS'. I see that pop up on other gaming sites and it fucking cracks me up.

I can imagine how much it grates if you're taking all this stuff deadly seriously, but I struggle to sympathise with that particular predicament.

[SmokyDave]

Dave, how well do you think you'd do on a salt mine?

I'm pretty well trained in dealing with excessive sodium, so I reckon I'd get on OK. Plus, I could take a bag of slugs to work and keep myself entertained through dull points in the day.

[Momo]

A lot of the first page of that "You could be a rapist" thread is people insisting we remember that women can be rapists too. So annoying.

Yeah, people should all instead remember that duckroll is a legit rapist.

[SmokyDave]

Your "champ" shtick ain't much better, fella.

You might want to look into that chap. I used the term in one Media Create thread for shits 'n' giggles, and it just took off (sarcastically and sincerely). I don't think I've typed the word at all this year. It's a similar story with the ridiculous Vita hashtag I made up to riff of '2013DS'. I see that pop up on other gaming sites and it fucking cracks me up.

I can imagine how much it grates if you're taking all this stuff deadly seriously, but I struggle to sympathise with that particular predicament.

All I'm saying is, when you dedicate yourself to being an annoying joke character, it looks pretty goofy to get "seriously" annoyed by a simple phrase.  You don't get to have it both ways.

STAMOS!!!!

I'm pretty sure that Newton's third law of motion dictates that for every annoyance I create, I get to be equally annoyed in an opposite manner.

Might have been his fourth law, but I'm almost certain he said it.

[Trent Dole]

Pop GAF came out in force for Rih. Truly they are subhuman scum, possibly below Pony GAF.

And I like the salt mine idea above.

Rhianna is a bad vocalist who is famous cause she fucked Hov. It is known.

[El Babua]

Pop GAF came out in force for Rih. Truly they are subhuman scum, possibly below Pony GAF.

And I like the salt mine idea above.

Rhianna is a bad vocalist who is famous cause she fucked Hov. It is known.

Still better than those other two dweebs. 

[Phoenix Dark]

No ass, no breasts, herpes.

[Momo]

No ass, no breasts, herpes.

[Phoenix Dark]

For the record, I'm not saying she's ugly nor am I saying I wouldn't smash. But she's not my type or on my "hottest chicks in music" list.

[Himu]

People are talking about her music not whether they want to fuck her.

[Phoenix Dark]

How does that change the fact that she makes bad music and can't sing? Making fun of haters is cool and all but let's be real.

[Broseidon]

Rihanna only has like one song I like but then I don't really like contemporary pop music and my taste is admittedly shit and weird so

[nudemacusers]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=806103

[Tasty]

GAF'S on a role today. First four threads in OT:

[StealthFan]

Stanning Rihannus? What part of the game is this?

[king of the internet]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=806103

"I expected rightful compensation for my contributions."

[Broseidon]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=806136

[demi]

Would dutifully explore Adele.

[Your Stalker]

 

[Shadow Mod]

GAF'S on a role today. First four threads in OT:

(Image removed from quote.)

OP of "she doesn't owe you an explanation" is the dude who left a creepy note on his coworker's car.

[benjipwns]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=805800

lol at this thread, all sorts of great advice

Do you have a car? Deliver Pizza for the meantime until you get something better. I know it's not that well respected, but the job is fairly fun, has short evening hours, and you can make anywhere from 12-25 dollars an hour. I work 20 hours a week, and I have enough to pay for a small (very small) apartment, keep my car going, and I can eat decently.

JFC. I would recommend that you start seeking council and/or union representation. Talking about the workplace environment. Is there no regulatory body or way to evaluate/discuss the issue that would allow you to circumvent your 'boss'?

Probably a silly suggestion but OP is it possible you could work as a video game journalist? I enjoyed your thread about PC video game coverage getting the short thrift in gaming journalism.

Your health problems sound very similar to mine (which ended up being fibromyalgia, which can be triggered by sensitivities to chemicals like you describe). I ultimately wasn't able to sustain a career and had to retire on disability in my mid-20s.
...
I had a fast shot to it because I was already considered mentally disabled so I get supplemental disability (which is less money but it doesn't require past work experience). If you don't have an illness with a concrete name and the symptoms are invisible, you're going to have a difficult time getting disability and the process will probably take months, if not a couple of years, along with many appeals and even possible lawyer intervention. And the younger you are, the harder it will be because there's a lot of money at stake.

[Shadow Mod]

Dear White Chevy,

My owner caught a glimpse of your owner this morning and wanted to come say hello but she was too fast. Do you think if I left this note she'd text/email him sometime? He'd love to hear from her. If not, no big deal.

Sincerely,
Blue Audi

Betting most women who deal with some of these dudes just get major creep vibes and don't want to bother. And a real straight forward answer is something they love to pretend they can handle but pssh.

[Steve Contra]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=109111059&postcount=347

Superior Japanese women would appreciate me

[Shadow Mod]

Is every thread this week just about fedoras, nice guys, and social ineptitude?