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S-Tier ELIdumb, thank you for your service.

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.

Very telling that you didn’t acknowledge that you were flat out wrong.

Can you link the video, if you have time?

Draw a clock, Donnie.

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:

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Have you served or been involved in armed conflict before? Ever conducted or been involved with combat operations in any theater of asymmetrical warfare?

Edit: @WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca that was an earnest question. If it was you, I take it that down-vote means “no”. However, I suppose there’s nothing stopping you from saying “yes”, and just lying about it.

also called Navy corpsman in the military Navy/USMC

I would add unscrupulous, but it may be redundant.

Having or showing no regard for what is right or honorable.

This past early autumn, I was just in the Idaho/Montana/Wyoming region visiting Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons before the government shut down.

What a gorgeous area. I really wish I was wealthy enough to keep a residence there. I’ve only been there once before as a child. The pictures don’t really do it justice.

Fuck this drivel.

Everyone (at least in the West) seems to know about tank man, but there’s another story that’s not as widely known and I never understood why. It shines a whole new light on this and explains why the Chinese government is so heavy handed when it comes to this subject. It was more than just another autocratic crackdown on protestors, which, while terrible, are par for the course.

A good chunk of military units sent in to squash the protestors refused to carry out their orders, refused to brutalize and kill their countrymen. Some actively joined in on the protests, then units sent in to put a stop it joined in as well. This terrified the Chinese leadership so they sent in the 27th army group, largely comprised of illiterate peasant farmers with no connection to Beijing or its people,  headed by a politically reliable officer. The 27th army group then proceeded to massacre everyone, not ‘just’ students and protestors, but their own comrades in arms, other PLA soldiers.

Read the British embassy report and tell me it doesn’t completely change your perspective. The CCP wants everyone to think this was just another protest, no big deal. It wasn’t, it was the time they almost lost control, and they know it. It’s why they’re so fearful.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/UK_cable_on_Tiananmen_Square_Massacre

Scientism is the belief that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality.

While the term was defined originally to mean “methods and attitudes typical of or attributed to natural scientists”, some scholars, as well as political and religious leaders, have also adopted it as a pejorative term with the meaning “an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social sciences, and the humanities)”.

It’s referred to as “Scientism”.