Best Of
Re: What are you listening to?
It's strange how absence makes the heart grow fonder. As an ideological angry member of Generation X, I hated the 80's and everything it stood for, all that glossy overproduced excess. I thought that decade was mostly a cultural wasteland save a few really great films, R.E.M's Document and U2's the Joshua Tree, everything else sucked in my mind. Give me anger rock, give me grunge, we had a movement that said no to style and glossy excess, put on your flannel and ripped jeans, play a beat up straight from the pawn shop Fender Mustang and scream it out....
Flash forward, I dig me some poppy glossy electric sounding 80's new wave. I appreciate it as experimental and more layered than I thought it was at the time. 1993 me, fuck Erasure, 2019 me, play me some more of those funky electronic new wave jams. I may need a copy of The Innocents on vinyl now.
Re: What are you listening to?
Warning, Erasure dump incoming.
I'm not big fan but I've always enjoyed their songs when I hear them. Lately though I have gone out of my way to listen to more of them and it's been worth it. This duo deserves more recognition than I think they ever got. It's good stuff.
Canti
Re: A heavy blippin' confession
I kind of hate to do this, but I posted this in July on Discord.
See, this doesn't look like much. 1.2 Billion? Nub blops. But that B is a poorly chosen abbreviation (initialism? whatever). That's what it shows you after A. And *A* doesn't even make sense for what comes after trillion.
That 1.2B is 1.2 **quintillion** blops.
This was from a few days before that:
And this was blippin' screen the last time I blopped:
Garg
Re: What are you listening to?
13 years since the last album. If the rest of the upcoming record is on the same level it's been worth the wait.
Canti
Still Alive and Kicking
Hey Peeps - popping in after a 6 year hiatus to let you know I am still hale, hearty and thinking of you guys. For the oldies that may still remember me, 🖐️🤘
I may well be heading to your side of the pond in the near future. Alas my journeys will take me to Cali so may not be able to stop by for a visit, but am really excited to see that you still holding your annual fests and that the community is still so strong. I will never forget the help you guys gave me and everything you taught me about building PC's. Good times good memories. 😎
I really hope I can pop in a lot more regularly and catch up with everything that has happened since my last visit. I know Prime and Link were still fixing up the house and were getting awesome support from the icrontic community. Im dying to see how everything turned out and look forward to trolling the archives.
Winga
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Thanks everybody!
