I wonder how various admins finally put a stop to that. Haven’t got a message from her in a while now that I think of it.

I got kinda (very) overwhelmed by this thread. I was expecting like 5 responses, so you thank you very much for all the suggestions. I have finally made a list from all of this and will be replacing just about my entire music rotation with everything here. Once I find my favourites, I’ll probably let you know some time in the future lol.

Thought I might as well drop some names that are already in my collection that I haven’t seen mentioned here, for the sake of anyone that might come past here in future. Including stuff that’s more on the alternative / hard rock side of things.

General Alternative / Rock:

• 4 Non Blondes
• Anneke van Giersbergen (singer of The Gathering)

Old School:

• Heart
• Janis Joplin
• Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees

Alternative because off-beat / weird:

• Portishead
• Tori Amos
• Björk

Punk:

• Destroy Boys (been on my list for a while, haven’t got around to listening to much yet)
• The Distillers
• Nekra (sadly they seem to only have a demo and this one EP: https://open.spotify.com/album/153G7zAHPl4hinlqhn1lvy)

Hard Rock / Grunge:

• DILLY DALLY
• Guano Apes
• Skunk Anansie

Heavy:

• Devilskin (band I discovered in New Zealand)
• Octavia Sperati (singer went on to do an album or two for The Gathering)

Yeah unfortunately true. I used to be fine just rolling with Firefox but ever since making the switch to using apps instead, it’s undeniable that there’s a lot of advantages. At least for now while I wait for more Piefed app support, Summit is pretty great and fills in a couple of gaps missing from the native Lemmy experience.

I’ll definitely carry on keeping an eye on things on the Piefed front though.

Hey Blaze, just wanted to say, I’ve tried out Piefed a little more. Can confirm mobile theming is definitely fixed. Think I might hold out a little longer for an app or more of certain options. A couple of things I’ll miss right now from apps is pinning favourite communities or being able to tweak my UI just right.

So I’ll probably stick with base Lemmy for a while longer. Thinking of moving to crazypeople.online though. Less de-federation but downvotes still disabled, which might just suit me better right now. If I do that, I’ll probably use the screen name that I’m using on this account right now as a username there. Although I’ll take your advice and link my accounts in my bio.

I think it’s a fun thought. Like, particularly when I’m thinking about past regrets and shit, there’s definitely a few key moments where things could’ve gone differently and my life would be drastically different right now. And I seem to be in the timeline where I made all the worst possible choices at these key moments lol.

But I don’t particularly believe in different timelines or dwell on it. For all that I can do in this timeline that I’m in, the only direction that I can go is forwards, not backwards or sideways.

As someone that likes to do a lot of scrolling, I’m also running into the same problem. There really just isn’t enough content here for it yet. There’s already a pretty small over all amount of users posting, and people have likes and dislikes and tastes and vibes, so out of that small amount, there’s only so much to interact with. Like, there’s a fair amount of content in ask and chat style communities and TV communities but no one likes everything or thinks the same topics are interesting.

So it really just needs more. So that there’s more of the same types of people watching the same shows and interested in the same topics. It doesn’t have to be packed in here, it could just do with a little more of something for everyone. It would’ve been nice if there were more than two people discussing Harley Quinn season 5 for example.

On Reddit I could spend all day every day interacting with my particular interests without ever feeling like I’m being a nuisance or repeating myself. It’s nice having a smaller crowd but I’d like something between this and Reddit.

Congrats! That’s a scary step to take but I’m sure it must be a relief having someone who really knows you as well. I hope that it all goes smoothly as you open up to more people.

Oof. I’d be me at the tail end of apartheid in my country. I’m going to assume (and hope) that this timeline magic also puts me in my home town of the vicinity of where I was at that time because then I’d at least know where to go to find the people I would want to be around. I’d go straight to where the alternative scene is and get in with the punks and goths and hippies, so that I’m at least around decent people. Might even meet some of the people that I knew when I got into the scene originally as their younger selves, which would actually be pretty cool.

As for what I’d do to survive, honestly not sure, considering that I would still be the same age that I am now with the same lack of career and shit. I guess I’d just keep doing this or that for a while. With my limited knowledge, maybe invest a little in Microsoft, then Facebook at the appropriate times. Until Bitcoin is a new thing, then I’d definitely dump whatever cash I had into a few Bit oin. Then be rich enough to never worry about anything again at like 70 years old or something lol.

Too many. I like to have favourites, not just one. So (I’ve probably missed stuff), I’m gonna list general favourites, going mostly by what I’ve rewatched and plan to rewatch more. My favourites could change over time and if I included stuff that was my favourite once but I’ve never had the urge to rewatch, this list would be much longer (I wish I could have simple answers to things).

Pre School nostalgia:

• The Neverending Story
• The Princess Bride
• Drop Dead Fred

'90s nostalgia:

• RoboCop ('80s movie but I first watched it in the '90s)
• The Crow
• Tank Girl
• Barb-Wire
• The Island of Dr. Moreau

Other:

• Hellraiser franchise (none are perfect, many are awful, some are pretty great; there’s just something I love about all of it)
• Candyman franchise (better quality films over all; between this and Hellraiser, Clive Barker is just my kind of horror)
• Studio Ghibli movies (all of these movies are worth watching more than once eventually)
• DC Comics animated movies (DC adaptations over all have been my main source for finding things to watch over the last few years)

Up and comer:

• I Kill Giants (looking through my personal rainy day collection, this is the most recent ‘new’ movie that I’ve absolutely loved and might watch again some time. Time will tell if this will be on my list in the future.

Just finished Metroid Fusion earlier, started Metroid Zero Mission. Replaying both. Probably going to get to the GBA Castlevania games soon as well.

Although I’m starting to get an itch for a Phantasy Star run again so by this time next week I’ll probably be busy with that. Thinking of going straight to Phantasy Star 3 this time. I’ve played PS1 the most by far and PS2 multiple times as well but I’ve only fully completed PS3 once so far.

Tf is your problem. Asking questions is literally the point of this community. And it’s fun to have daily random questions around here and to read the answers. Not everything has to be political or serious all the time.

I love this wallpaper.

That actually sounds really interesting. And almost like a creative line of work. I’m sure you never dreamt of working in something marketing related when you were a kid but as far as things that actually pay the bills go, sounds like a pretty cool career.

Whichever animal I’m currently looking at.

Oh, now that you say it, I think I might’ve even seen you mention that before around here somewhere. But not something I’d expect lol. Not entirely sure what it entails so I’m making assumptions but I could see researching and categorising and sorting things for a living being pretty stimulating and not as mind numbing as a lot of lines of work.

It would probably end up sounding the same or similar because it would be years worth of clubs and live music and band practise and listening to music in my earphones too loud all jumbled up together and playing at the same time.

Yeah I guess there’s two different categories of sci-fi in this regard. Personally, I think stuff that’s as far ahead in the future as Star Trek is pretty close to fantasy. But then there’s also the Philip K. Dick style near future dystopian sci-fi that serves more as a warning about the future we’re headed to (or instruction manual if you’re a techbro CEO).

Fantasy is probably the same actually. I usually think happy thoughts if I think about fantasy as a genre but then there’s also stuff like Game of Thrones.

Haha I love Glimmer’s placement. Somehow I can definitely see that.

I say take as long as you need with these. If you’re anything like me, if your heart and creativity isn’t in it 100% and especially if it starts feeling like an obligation or chore, then you wouldn’t be happy with your work anyway.

That said, your writing and presentation and whatnot is awesome. You have a skill of pulling the reader in from the start and wanting to know more. If you don’t do writing related work, you should.

Also, I very much get the impression that this is just scratching the surface with this woman. Sounds like someone definitely worth doing more reading up on. Her fate at the end there makes me feel like stocking up on Molotov cocktails.

I honestly liked Gen V more, personally. The Boys has kinda ended up in a position where it’s constantly trying to one up itself and do more and more outrageous things. Gen V had the gore and edge but doesn’t necessarily revolve around it. And it’s nice to watch a show where the people you’re supposed to be rooting for are actually likeable.

Don’t get me wrong, The Boys has been a wild ride, but at this point I’ll be glad to see a final season.