[ SECRET POST #5888 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5888 ⌋

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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

(If you think something in this thread is a troll, please ignore it! Conversation is fine, but OT wank makes stuff harder to keep track of in this thread. Thanks.)

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01. https://imgur.com/Ye4Ixy2.png

[(Anonymous)]

I wanted to thrift for a record player, invest in a good needle and call it a day, but so many of them required help & replacement pieces, enough for someone who's casually into records (I pick up some I like and look interesting) to look for X piece and assembly instructions. Etc. It just would have been a lot of work without the guarantee that I didn't mess it up beyond. Spent $ on an orbit (don't recall how much I spent and it's honestly not my style aesthetically, but this was like...fuck five years ago? Maybe a bit more?) . Anyway. I'll just say I completed my set up with a decent preamp, and my Bluetooth speakers lol. Not the kind of set up the people you're referring to like, but it plays my records and that's what I want! To listen to my music!

[(Anonymous)]

Ugggghhh, expensive subcultures that gatekeep like this are the worst, since it ends up boiling down to a pissing contest over how much dispisable income you have. And that just kills the joy for casuals.

[tabaqui]

Sounds like every other 'hobby' that mostly caters to men who can't stop themselves bragging on how much money they have and how much random, useless info they know.

It's like the 'ask your question here!' Reddit I went into once to ask a research question for a fic, and got all sorts of nonsense, snotty replies, and 'well, ACTUALLY' crap.

I got a wee record player for Xmas, because I still have records but nothing to play them on. It cost about 50 bucks and is in a cute little case, turquoise blue. Works just fine for me!

[(Anonymous)]

You know what's funny? I've always felt way too poor and overworked to truly get into it. I was a huge Jack White fan and when he began moving the whole vinyl record thing I found it to be really cool and niche. Totally for my hipster tastes.

Cut to a few weeks ago and I've never been so glad to have been too poor throughout my 20s to get into vinyl record collecting. I was recommended Benn Jordan's video that questions if it's toxic or not on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/aZ2czFuIYmQ

I don't know if there's been further study on this, but based on the small investigation I did on this...I don't think I'll ever buy vinyl records.

This is the newest video by The Vinyl Guru one year ago that I just watched. Seems like...more or less nothing has really changed.
https://youtu.be/M5_Vm8F3UIw

[(Anonymous)]

Man, as someone who grew up lying on my dad's office floor while he worked and I did my homework and being in charge of flipping the record over when it finished, it makes me sad to hear that there's snobbery around this.

It's (no offense to vinyl lovers, I would love to steal my dad's collection if I had my own record player just for the nostalgia) like someone gatekeeping boomboxes or something.

Get what works and don't worry about what everyone else is doing with their music.

[(Anonymous)]

Gatekeepers are the worst.

[(Anonymous)]

Bought a 200$ POS with built-in speakers just because I wanted to listen to the hundreds of vintage records I inherited from my parents... Uh oh, look at me enjoying myself.

[scissorsevered]

Funnily enough I just bought a Crosley. It isn't awesome, but it does the job. Then again this is the first record player I've ever had, so I'd call it a decent introduction considering I'm pretty much broke.

Hmm.

[(Anonymous)]

Is vinyl picking up again? Because that would explain a few things (I was baffled when I recently wandered by the electronics section of my local Walmart and saw a Billie Eilish record).

[pantswarrior]

I'd been thinking of picking up a turntable again now that, well, they MAKE them again, because after my parents' record player that was older than I am died about 15 years ago, I didn't have any way to listen to all the Beatles/Pink Floyd/Moody Blues/etc. albums that either they had or I picked up at garage sales.

I guess I'm not a "serious" vinyl fan if all my stuff is vintage, lol.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know the first thing about vinyl listening or collecting or any of that, but my mom still has a ton of records from her youth but no way to listen to them-- when I've tried to ask if I can get her a record player for Christmas/birthday/etc, she insists that any turntable that doesn't have the three rows of little dots around the edge and a way to fine-tune the turning speed (??? I got the impression the dots are a way to gauge whether the record is turning at the right speed? and you can... adjust it?) is not even worth looking at.

and this seems like such a tiny issue to me vs not being able to listen to her records AT ALL, but she insists

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[(Anonymous)]

... I don't think classy gentlemen really drink their tea with their pinky finger up. I can totally RDJ doing that for a laugh, though.

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[(Anonymous)]

As much as I hate the man, I don't think it's entirely Musk's fault.
I think that there are more interests in investing in electric cars than in hydrogen cars right not.
The problem is how the governments are going to spend the least money at the moment and how the supply chain will be commanded now and in the future (wars,commercial partners etc). Right now the "best" solutions for them seems to be Electric cars.
Governments and lobbies' interests are almost always not linked to the most reasonable clean solution, if there is a lot of money to be invested. The world sucks.

I'm not American, though. My personal POV and the politics regarding electric cars where I live are very different than yours, I suppose?
Maybe over there it's really Musk's fault. IDK. Here I don't think he had such a huge impact overall.

BTW personally I'm all for hydrogen cars. They're objectively way better and electric cars.
My ultimate dream is that in the future private cars will not be necessary, but everyone will be able to conformably go almost everywhere with clean public transport.
A girl can dream...

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[tabaqui]

*raises hand*
Can I join your club?

Steve and Bucky make out on the big screen, YES PLEASE.

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05. https://i.imgur.com/IIcw5Yo.png

[(Anonymous)]

You do you, OP (I assume you are autistic or at least relate to autistic traits?)

I personally find super self indulgent hurt/comfort 'A is insecure about X and comforted by B' fic. It's just nice

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[(Anonymous)]

Same, and the reason at least for me is simple, OP. It's because in specificidentitylabel-fic, just like in realworldpolitics-fic or charactersarerandomlyrealworldreligious-fic, are invariably characters and plot are being used as vehicles to promote the author's thoughts on some issue, not a story being told because the author loves the characters in their own right.

It doesn't matter which side or angle the author takes and it doesn't matter whether or not I agree with the author's stances. Even if I 100% agree with what the author thinks, the fact that characters are just hollow mouthpieces for an author agenda, often a modern-day-specific agenda with terms that don't match the characters' original circumstances, world, or time period at all, makes the story itself invariably sub-par at best, because the priority and focus are not on character or story.

"But anon," you might protest. "There are plenty of stories that coincidentally show author stances that I wouldn't call specificidentitylabel-fic!" and I would reply that you are correct, but if you "wouldn't call it specificidentitylabel-fic" it's by definition outside the scope of what we are talking about. An story in which everyone is a pirate in warring factions with high seas drama in the age of sail and also one character happens to be what we in modern day would call nonbinary is probably not going to be referred to as "The Nonbinary Sam Fic" because that's not the focus at all, nor does the story revolve around that point. If it's egregious enough to be labeled a label-fic, it's already in its own category.

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Internet Bleeding into RL

[(Anonymous)]

How much of the internet do you feel has bled/is bleeding out into RL? In society at large and in your own life/day to day?

How do you feel about this? Does it feel like what was once a very separate thing from RL now blurs and toes the line with what's tangible?

I'd love to know people's opinions. I find it's a fascinating topic.

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