Boston Dynamics recently made a statement that they promised they would never "weaponize" their robots, which reassured everyone that they already have. "Sounds like Google's promise to 'not be evil'", said everyone upon hearing this news. (Argh, I can remember the day Google went public and remarking on it negatively at work.)
I've never watched Tim & Eric, so I haven't seen that before. I watched that one first because who cares about light bulbs? It made the light bulb one so much better the first time.
It makes me very happy to hear that.
There was a period where I thought Eurobeat was the cheesiest music in existence.
It is pretty good as a liminal soundtrack,
no wonder it pairs so well for driving around.
The vaporwave scene is a curious beast. It reminds me of that internet definition debate on what is kusoge (a game culturally considered defective in a notable and entertaining way by its community. Ex. The Fist of the North Star fighting game where you can infinite combo by bouncing your opponent up and down off the ground like a basketball. Its fans
love it.) - Vaporwave went from stealing cuts of other people's songs and playing them back at a slow pitch - "like drowning in a fountain at the mall" to basically just being j-pop/funk/disco.
...
that still uses other people's music. Stripped down, few words, repetitive, liminal, just like Eurobeat.
... I just feel like mentioning someone made an album dedicated to gas station convenience stores....
Mischief Maker wrote:Psh!
I'll see your programmable lightbulb dystopia and raise you my
Headphones Rave dystopia!
This makes me very sad. It might make you happy to know that I was unable to look away, my eyes locked to the video with my mouth agape the entire time.
I've spoken about our entertainment culture fragmenting; hell I'd talk about AI making like custom TV shows suited to a specific person as far back as highschool. Still, it hurts my heart to see us so isolated and broken as a people that it's come to this. Being alone together with other people, like in a bar or an MMO.
It has made me get more serious about expediting learning how to dance this year. Even crippled by my whiteness as I am, I'm only 13% as bad as what was on display here. A terrifyingly high number, I need to get a decimal point on some significant digits, there.