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« on: October 30, 2018, 11:32:55 PM »
External hard drive nigga
😬😬😬😬
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« on: October 30, 2018, 10:38:17 PM »
You don't have to live through someone else's exact experience to empathize with them. You may not have been through the same things, but you can certainly have experienced the same emotions and feelings and in turn connect with someone's expression on that level.
Not really. You can only assume you've felt something similar. I prefer not to assume.
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« on: October 30, 2018, 10:37:35 PM »
What about his culture is so different from your own? What themes or stories does he express through his music that make it hard for you to find his music attractive?
Institutionalised racism and growing up around gang violence.
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« on: October 30, 2018, 04:36:36 PM »
Unless you're listening to screamo you're not always supposed to connect with the message.
you're supposed to "get it." and i don't imagine many people do, so i'm wondering where the infatuation comes from.
You can empathize with people from different walks of life without experiencing their hardships first hand.
No, you can only sympathise with them. There's a difference. Also, I didn't suggest that his hardships are what disallow me from enjoying his stuff. I'm suggesting that the cultural distance between us is makes it hard to determine what's attractive about his music to so many people, particularly white people, who are even further away from him.
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« on: October 30, 2018, 02:38:43 PM »
Im curious, do you self insert in video games?
Sometimes. Depends on the game.
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« on: October 30, 2018, 01:43:38 PM »
Unless you're listening to screamo you're not always supposed to connect with the message.
you're supposed to "get it." and i don't imagine many people do, so i'm wondering where the infatuation comes from.
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« on: October 29, 2018, 05:33:01 PM »
your favorite tracks mirror mine, except i would throw in BLOOD. and FEEL. and GOD. as well i'll focus more on feel/blood next listen, but god kinda left me wanting more. it's starts off icy but he completely changes the flow early on and leaves me behind. HUMBLE. too, actually, but mostly because of its excellent music video i actually don't like humble at all. the main piano riff agitates me. i'll check out the music video, though.
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« on: October 29, 2018, 05:25:38 PM »
I have heard his music and really disliked it.
I'll let Kendrick know he should start sampling Gregorian chants for his next record.
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« on: October 29, 2018, 05:20:34 PM »
best songs: pride, lust, duckworth.
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« on: October 29, 2018, 04:44:04 PM »
Just bought the damn. record earlier today, and yeah i'm enjoying it a bit more. i'm through side a and b and the best track this far has been pride. diving in to side c and d now.
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« on: October 29, 2018, 04:42:00 PM »
Just work on your tongue game if you can't get it up for your girl. I've seen lesbians cry over fingers.
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« on: October 29, 2018, 02:17:03 PM »
i stopped almost two years ago, so
you haven't given it up entirely though if i'm not mistaken
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« on: October 28, 2018, 07:15:46 PM »
Jair Bolsonaro, Far-Right Populist, Elected President of Brazil
This is a man who routinely degrades women ("She isn't worth raping; she's very ugly."/"Women shouldn't be paid the same as men, because they get pregnant and that harms productivity."/"I had 4 male children and produced a 5th female child at a moment of weakness."), says things like "Respect homosexuals? They should respect us." or "I would be incapable of loving a gay son." A man who wants to reestablish military rule over the country, decrease the currently protected Amazon rain forest (which as a whole is responsible for something like 60% of the world's carbon monoxide production) and establish Brasil as a Christian nation, rather than a secular republic. Good job fucking up your country even more, idiots. This is why America needs to lead by example.
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« on: October 26, 2018, 11:42:11 PM »
If you don't have to work all the time, don't. But don't waste your freetime by playing video games or some shit. Work on self-improvement. That's what I do.
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« on: October 26, 2018, 10:02:16 AM »
Bruh, have you seen the statue of David?
You don't have to get a boner to see that it looks good,
Look at the penis size of that statue.
What're you gay?
Sometimes.
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« on: October 26, 2018, 08:41:51 AM »
Bruh, have you seen the statue of David?
You don't have to get a boner to see that it looks good,
Look at the penis size of that statue.
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« on: October 26, 2018, 01:49:38 AM »
Women are the most beautiful creatures in existence and I love them. They are however beautiful in more ways than just physically, and I wish we'd focus more on the other ways.
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« on: October 26, 2018, 01:47:53 AM »
Or it could just be a good looking woman instead of some old hag. Both would be impressive but there’s nothing inherently wrong with either.
I didn't say it was wrong. I said it's selling out. I can't see many reasons why a woman would seek to design such a sexualised sculpture beyond appealing to a wider audience. Just like the designer of Bayonetta, and how she was a woman. There's an argument to be made that men tend to create overly sexualised depictions of men throughout time. From ancient sculture by the Greeks and Romans to modern stuff like Dragon Ball Z. There is a false equivolency between masculine and feminine conventions of beauty, though. The female conventions of beauty have inherently less utility than masculine conventions, so a woman sculpting the "ideal woman" is not akin to the work of someone like Glykon, who sculpted Hercules as a supremely muscular man. Men want to look ideal because these ideals embody strength and power, and holding these traits makes them more desirable to be chosen as mates and leaders. Traditional female conventions of beauty are entirely sexual with no utility beyond seducing men (barring something like child bearing hips, which this sculpture isn't concerned with emphasising if we're discussing utility), and can't really be held to the same standard as masculinity. I don't have a problem with female sexuality or beautiful women being depicted, but artists have an uphill battle in this regard. Have a beautiful woman battling a lion, ruling a court, or thinking earnestly. It's a disservice to objectify women by depicting their ideal form as nothing more than eye candy.
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« on: October 25, 2018, 09:32:46 PM »
Maybe it's something else about him, because I have no problem getting down with Nas or 2Pac.
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« on: October 25, 2018, 08:39:52 PM »
There's obviously a technical skill on display here that's impressive; anyone who can make stone look soft is clearly a master of their craft. I just would've preferred something a little less... exploitive, or artistically confident.
I'm not overly concerned with the unrealistic depictions of cloth and nipple prominence (realism is not something I'm ever really concerned with in art, generally speaking) but if you can already achieve hyperrealistic wind effects in sculpture, I don't see the point in doing "selling out" to the layman observer by making it conventionally attractive. For example, if she had sculpted a grotesquely disturbing woman battling the wind, she could still employ all those other techniques in a way that would emphasise them, rather than reducing their prominence by sidelining them behind perfect tits. The oversexualised nature of the piece betrays the more impressive techniques found under study.
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« on: October 25, 2018, 08:25:54 PM »
I don't really 'connect' with his music tbh. I just enjoy his artistic concepts and the musical production he employs on most of his records.
You don't necessarily have to connect with an album or find out the conceptual meaning behind it in order to enjoy said record.
No I guess not, I'd just feel goofy if other people saw me driving with Kendrick Lamar on blast knowing full well that he doesn't make music "for me."
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« on: October 24, 2018, 10:06:58 PM »
because he has bars like "Life ain't shit but a fat vagina" at one point, which really hits me where it hurts
i thought you liked lamar
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« on: October 24, 2018, 08:17:46 PM »
I've been listening to his music the last couple of days, and while I can respect the artistry behind them, his shit just doesn't hit me on any level. It's about his life and experiences and unless he's lying, I just don't have anything in common with kids from Compton and I doubt many other people do. I don't understand how someone in a relatively similar position to myself could vibe with his stuff. I've only listened up to To Pimp a Butterfly.
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« on: October 23, 2018, 05:45:35 PM »
I know that feeling. How’s your Portuguese, though?
It's coming along. I keep getting matched with Brazilians when I play online games and I understand what they're saying. It's not not anywhere near where I'd like it to be though.
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« on: October 23, 2018, 01:38:11 AM »
cold as fuck today
seein the mediterranean as the land of opportunity
a couple months to go
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« on: October 22, 2018, 11:26:36 AM »
You know regardless of what you do no one cares about you or your problems. ...that's my point. You need to take care of yourself instead of relying on someone else, which is what climbing a corporate ladder is. But a degree 'can' mean jack shit if you dont end up actually finding work that fits your qualifications.
Education is always worth something, instrinsically. Especially something like English.
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« on: October 22, 2018, 12:18:59 AM »
Education is a waste, fuck that off and climb the retail ladder and earn more in the long run without the giant debts you have to pay back.
Wow.
Hey personal experience, didnt do anything for me, especially cause I live in bumfuck no where.
You specifically could really use some more education. I've never once seen someone suggest dropping out of college to go into retail.
Well he clearly hates college, so drop out and if he doesnt find what he wants get into something easy, then he seems smart enough to climb the corporate ladder, not cause its fun but because theres money there, and youre not drowning in debt...but it does sound like hes too far in.
It was just a suggestion.
climbing a corporate ladder is even worse than crippling debt. at least you get a degree and you learn something from college. im not out here tryna work for someone else who dont give a fuck about me and my problems.
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« on: October 21, 2018, 09:40:56 PM »
Education is a waste, fuck that off and climb the retail ladder and earn more in the long run without the giant debts you have to pay back.
Wow.
Hey personal experience, didnt do anything for me, especially cause I live in bumfuck no where.
You specifically could really use some more education. I've never once seen someone suggest dropping out of college to go into retail.
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« on: October 21, 2018, 09:31:23 PM »
Education is a waste, fuck that off and climb the retail ladder and earn more in the long run without the giant debts you have to pay back.
Wow.
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« on: October 21, 2018, 12:27:30 AM »
It really bothers me that your parents (and apparently, so many others) refuse to allow their children to even consider taking a year off after high school to figure things out, get job experience and generally grow as a human being. I regret not finishing high school when I did but I can tell you first hand that not being in school for the last 2-3 years has been incredibly rewarding for me. To the point where I recommend to every senior I meet to take a year off to work full-time or do some soul searching. University/college isn't going anywhere.
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