[ SECRET POST #6290 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6290 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 21 secrets from Secret Submission Post #899.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

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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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DAILY LINKS:

General comments → Off-topic discussion thread

Games thread → Thread for games/memes/etc.

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01. https://i.imgur.com/gNLhnOS.jpeg

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes I forget how hot Gambit is.
Sometimes I forget Gambit even exists.
Then the internet reminds me on both fronts.
He really is delicious.
Like, damn.

[(Anonymous)]

I lost it when Gambit came on screen in that outfit! I literally laughed-yelled at the screen "Gambit what the fuck?!" And then decided I loved it.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't even go here but... what even is the issue? I saw a meme the other day about how the crop top was "woke" and I'm? Crop tops are "woke"? Why? Every day some random new thing is "woke (and the downfall of society)" and I am more and more confused.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, are the dudebros hating this? Because this t-shirt was fucking awesome and that makes it even better.

[(Anonymous)]

Was there, can confirm. Guys legit wore stuff like this, and weren't scared little snowflakes over it.

[(Anonymous)]

Were none of these guys alive in the 80s? Or ever seen an 80s movie?

[(Anonymous)]

My favorite response so far to Gambit in a crop top was someone on Tumblr posting comic art of Gambit's full man-tiddys-and-abes-out X-men uniform and proving that Gambit has always dressed Like That.
So with that considered, a crop top is just small potato in the grand scheme of things involving Gambits wardrobe.

[(Anonymous)]

I havent seen any of these reactions but can imagine. Honestly that's hilarious. I wonder if they're familiar with the character at all?

[(Anonymous)]

Crop tops used to be totally normal things for men to wear?? Crop tops used to be specifically something (cis! het!) sporty guys wore all the time. Including in pink, even, though that I think was more 80s than mid to late 90s. But it was the kind of thing guys wore to peacock for women as well as just while working out.

[(Anonymous)]

Well shit, guess I gotta watch it now... Thanks Nonny!

[(Anonymous)]

I can't convince my brain that this says ROCK because it is already convinced it says ROCA

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02. https://i.imgur.com/X5Ng1po.jpeg

[(Anonymous)]

What... what fandoms are you in, OP? I've never seen this.

I would back out immediately, too.

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03. https://i.imgur.com/ptBGDHt.png

[hey_hey_hey]

The music sucked so it has to be the latter.

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04. https://i.imgur.com/OugF10i.png

[(Anonymous)]

lemme break it down for you, as a former radio host/MD. the short answer is, the majority of radio frequencies are now owned by media conglomerates using satellite programming. and actually have been for at least 15 years.

In the 1990s where I worked it was already common to use satellite programming for overnights or other low-rated time slots so stations didn't have to employ any monkeys to push buttons. It saved money, which was crucial for anyone in the non-commercial end of the FM band and AM. However, technology limitations meant it was obvious that the programming was coming from outside the market. There were no station identifiers aside from the legal ID at the top of the hour (recorded) and recorded jingles IF the station had a computer that could sync with the satellite, while the rest of the time the station was "live" you'd hear them always using the statio ID/tagline to keep the listeners hyped. Well, in the early 00s technology began to allow for better computer/satellite syncing so that more pre-recorded elements could be loaded and remote-triggered by the national broadcaster, so there was one dude in LA pretending to be "live" on 20 different markets from Vermont to Seattle. But even that cost money because the one live dude still had to pre-record all those station IDs, and it was still kind of obvious. So they did away with the pretense of Joe Blow being your live, local DJ entirely, and at that point, stations already cutting corners to make money saw that the cheapest way to run a radio station was to leave it on satellite 24/7 - Iheartradio and Audacy being the biggest corporate blobs now. They only offer a certain number of programming formats, and most of them are not new music. That demographic doesn't listen to the radio - Boomers, GenX, and older Millenials who remember a time before Pandora/Spotify are the demographic still using radio, so the music formats are supposed to appeal to their nostalgia, not current hits.

Which, I agree, sucks, because the music industry is still limping behind new technology and the use of the internet to discover and promote new music. It's great for niche genres and international pop, rock, metal, and rap, but hard on the industry that thinks the mechanism of promotion is still vaguely similar to how it was in 1989. Radio doesn't make money at all anymore, let alone enough money to live-program a format that isn't being provided by Iheartradio or Sirius. Chicken and the egg, in that case.

tl;dr it's because of satellite programming's stranglehold on format and no one wanting to pay for an alternative when they can just rake in that sweet sweet ad cash for zero work.

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05. https://i.imgur.com/qQKdE9R.png

[tabaqui]

Wow, that's crazy.
And kinda funny. What a weird thing.

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06. https://i.imgur.com/cpxBR05.png

[(Anonymous)]

Ha, I knew a pair of identical twins who (as adults) had to get tested for a family genetic condition and it turned out they weren't actually identical after all, just very similar-looking siblings.

You're right, though, there's not many same-sex fraternal twins. Raistlin and Caramon from Dragonlance are the only pair I can think of off the top of my head.

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Transcript by OP

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[ID: On the left, partial images of the covers of Taylor Swift's albums Folklore and Evermore. Red text on a black background reads 'folkore and evermore are great albums... but they're only acknowledged as masterpieces because they're indie, not country or pop, and therefore 'acceptable' for intellectual music bros to love, even if they ARE by Taylor Swift.]

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NS, NF, etc.

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Official advertise your fandom-related event thread.

RULES FOR THIS:
1. NO images bigger than 600x600 in either direction (banners, et cetera).
2. ONE POST PER USER under this thread.
3. What IS allowed: roleplay advertisements, fandom comms, fandom events, things like that.
4. What is NOT allowed: anything for profit, any kind of fic/art commissions, seeking 1-on-1 RP, that kind of thing.

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General comments:

(If the thread contains spoilery/triggery content please warn/post as 2nd comment so it collapses!
Please collapse images, too!)

Who's your favorite character from the X-Men and why?

[(Anonymous)]

Goes without saying that this thread is inspired by today's Secret #1. Heh.

Always been fond of Nightcrawler and seeing all the different visual interpretations of him over the years. Just a great design that artists can have a lot of fun with.

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Games thread!

[(Anonymous)]

#WhenTaken #29

I scored 993/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 43 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 194 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 332.3 metres - 🗓️ 0 yrs - ⚡ 200 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 120.6 metres - 🗓️ 0 yrs - ⚡ 200 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 366.3 metres - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 199 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 50.7 metres - 🗓️ 0 yrs - ⚡ 200 / 200
https://whentaken.com/
My best result but I am really not happy about it. Because.

Also first one was just happy accident - this photo is pretty but vague as fuck. I only got it this close because I find this exact country pretty but extremely bland. Sorry