Gesu

2 hours ago, platy said:

Kissing someone's ass because you fancy them isn't attractive. Find a better way to show it 🤢

I once had a guy try to flirt with me (even though he already had a girlfriend, and she was the thirty-seventh one, I believe) and he kept going on about how he was a gentleman and he wouldn't stop flirting/calling me pet names until I started being snarky and withdrawn around him (I initially just told him I wasn't interested, but apparently that wasn't enough). He's not so bad now that he's taken the damn hint, but it shouldn't have taken as long as it did. I just hope girlfriend #38 is happy (if they're even still together, that is).

In short, I feel ya. People need to learn that some degree of modesty and actually trying to get to know someone for who they are is a lot more attractive than just smothering them because they caught your eye once. If that guy had known what a cheeky bitch I was when he first saw me, he most likely wouldn't have bothered. 😕

1 hour ago, nullmoon said:

FFVII looks great but I'm concerned that Cloud will be all mopey and boring like in Advent Children as opposed to his badass, wise-cracking original self. 

I'm also worried they'll make it all a bit too sombre. They'd better not take out some of his most golden lines, such as "let's mosey".

One of my favourite hobbies is going into makeup shops and trying on lipsticks I'll never buy. None of them are as good as the one I actually have.

4 minutes ago, monkeybanana4 said:

Looks like it's actually happening.

 

 

IT LOOKS BEAUTIFUL, I NEED IT ON STEAM NOW ❤️ but y'know, ever since I heard mention of this remake, I've been wondering what they're gonna do about the whole Wall Market scene with Don Corneo and the Honeybee Inn. They probably won't change the Don Corneo part too much, but the Honeybee Inn? Mayhaps. It was an optional scene, after all... still, they'd better not. If they do, I shall be severely disappointed. I kinda miss the more comedic elements of the older games.

Anyways, A Plague Tale looks quite good. It's coming out on May 13th on Steam, and I might just buy it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/752590/A_Plague_Tale_Innocence/

I just hope it's a long game because it's £39.99 and I want my money's worth.

16 minutes ago, YuyoDrift said:

Honestly, I'd say the TOXIC era played a BIG role in the birth of the new/current generation of VK fans, solely by this song being in that anime.

After the concert the other day and seeing the fans and hearing their little knowledge of the scene itself,  this statement is very accurate.

It's true that there exist GazettE fans who don't really know much about VK, but I don't actually think that's such a bad thing in itself. I've heard a lot of people saying they don't like when people only like one VK band and don't know much about any others, but so what? Maybe they don't want to be a part of the VK fandom as a whole. Of course, it is kind of annoying when people claim to be huge VK fans who know everything about loads of bands when they really don't, but even that's something I can turn a blind eye to. It's not like it's the worst thing in the world, and they might just be newcomers who have a lot to discover but don't yet know it. We all started somewhere, after all.

I don't like all oshare kei, but it's not inherently bad at all and can be extraordinary at times. I have nothing against it.

Well, while we're on the subject of Alice Nine, I won't say I absolutely hate them but I will say they're very overrated. I just never saw the appeal, personally.

I swear Norwich is the most boring fucking city in the world.

13 hours ago, Gesu said:

And on that note, I'm going to bed to have another weird dream.

And have another weird dream I did! I dreamt that my high school crush murdered someone right in front of me. Not much else to say about it, really.

It's alright. Not as good as Mr Moonlight, though. Still, I'll watch out for them.

Me again. I dream a lot.

Last night, I dreamt that I found a cuboid-shaped splinter in my little finger. For some reason, I had a gap in between my finger and fingernail where a hangnail would be, so I could peer inside it slightly and see a little fraction of it... and I just pulled the thing out. It ripped my hand open and revealed more splinters, so I just kept pulling them out until the entire inside of my hand was revealed. It was just a bloody tangle of flesh and wood, like the inside of a human marionette. That was exceptionally creepy.

And on that note, I'm going to bed to have another weird dream. It's half three in the morning, so about time. Thankfully, I don't have college tomorrow.

Yuck.

4 hours ago, saiko said:

1) What are the indicators that make a song "ghostwritten" for you? And that it is not?

2) What are the indicators that make a band "idol kei"? And that it is not?

3) Where would you put its birth date?

4) Do they qualify as "good music" or not? Do you enjoy them? Do not? 

5) Does it seem to you that this certain music goes "against" (to put it somehow) of certain "well-being" of the scene, or of the music itself?

6) Why are you still listening to VK in the 2010s? Are your reasons the same as before? What does it give you that other music does not give you?

1. Well, I agree with @yomii's point of not accusing a song of ghostwriting until I know for sure that it is. Better to let a guilty person go than to condemn an innocent person (in my eyes, at least).

2. I guess "idol kei" is a somewhat broad and debatable term, but when I first saw this term used, I assumed it meant simply generic and mass-produced instead of created from individual passion, so I'll go with that. To me, the indicators of an idol kei band would be nowt more than bland looks and music, possibly accompanied by some quickly overused gimmick (*cough cough* face reveals *cough cough cough*) and a relatively short, forgettable career.

3. Difficult for me to say, as I wasn't active in the community again until about last year. I took a bit of a break and I didn't really find out anything that was going on at the time. As much as I'd like to try, it'd be pretty much impossible for me to pin a date on this.

4. By definition, no. If it's bland, I won't care for it. Everyone's definitions of "bland" are different from each other, so if I personally find something that fits my description of the word, then I won't like it. There are, of course, bands forming today that I do like. For example, SHiSHi are pretty much one of my favourites already. Also, whatever happened to Blue Blood Boa? That one song I heard from them was fantastic. Please tell me I didn't simply miss anything from them. But I digress...

5. For me, personally? Somewhat. Just because something doesn't adhere to my tastes, that doesn't mean for sure that it's hurting the music scene, however I do have a very low opinion of ghostwriting, so if that is indeed the case and I see cold, hard proof of that fact, then it's a cold, hard yes.

6. Because I'm a young'un who didn't discover it until the 2010s! To answer the last point of "what does it give me", that's actually quite difficult to say. Obviously, the visual aspect caught twelve-year-old me's attention because the arse-end of England doesn't exactly have an abundance of middle-aged men with animoo hairstyles who look prettier than women in their twenties, but it's the musical aspect that's more important to me, and as long as there are existing/disbanded bands who formed some time ago that I love (e.g. Moran, Sugar, DIAURA, etc) and the odd band forming every now and again that can really hold my attention (SHiSHi probably being the best example of this), I'm going to stay. I guess you could say I came for the hot guys and I stayed for the great music, so if the music does indeed turn completely stale (which, tbh, probably won't happen because I don't think there's ever a 100% terrible music genre), I'll go somewhere else... although I can't think where. I genuinely cannot imagine what kind of music I could get properly into like I have J-rock, and I am not going back to my emo phase. People see my hair and they think I'm still in it sometimes, but they shoulda seen me back then 😮 hoo, boy.

Anyways, I've spent longer typing this than I probably should have and now my dinner's likely getting cold.

Welcome to MH! Hope you have fun here~

Just now, Reikatsumi said:

Well even if this sounds rude it’s true 

Well, yeah. He was only saying what needed to be said. It's his life and his business and anyone who would shame him for that does, indeed, need to keep quiet. Why is that "fans" can say whatever the hell they want, but celebrities have to just remain within the confines of their careers? I get that they have this image of their idols, and that's okay. What's not okay is when that image begins to distort your perception of reality, which is what's happening here and I just can't wrap my head around it.

2 minutes ago, Nighttime Jae said:

Japanese fans literally can't accept their faves being in a romantic relationship, whenever stuff like that gets leaked it's always treated as a huge scandal. 

It surprises me that that Takamasa has decided to acknowledge it and speak out about it, truly shows the role that Tanuki plays in the vk scene.

It's really sad that bandmen have to be paranoid about their private lives simply because fans aren't mature enough to accept them having girlfriends/wives.

It's the "I spend money on you therefore I own you" mentality that is exclusive to Japanese fan culture. Crazily enough, western fans are much more respectful and understanding in that sense.

Couldn't have put it better myself!

Last night, I dreamt that all the machines/AI in the world had developed an inexplicable hostility towards Bobby Hill from King Of The Hill. According to my meter (which I had for some reason), 81% of them wanted to physically hurt him while the remaining 19% merely wanted to bother him.

It was such a strange dream. Even though it feels hazy in my memory, I can still recall that much with clarity. It feels like the sort of dream I should have forgotten, but for whatever reason, I didn't.

1 minute ago, Komorebi said:

I'm pretty sure they KNOW but don't wanna talk about it/don't want it to feel so real.

They don't have to talk about it, or even think about it. What they feel is up to them, but for God's sake, they could keep their mouths shut once in a while.

2 minutes ago, yomii said:

i hate that he wears that poop thing on his head after confessing he's married

it screams "i'm a piece of shit for getting married "

and doing it in such indirect way like it's just a joke makes it even worse for me

 

Maybe he feels guilty because he knows there are some people who would be resentful? It wouldn't surprise me, unfortunately

1 minute ago, nekkichi said:

my swussy hurt watching

Did he swooce in too fast?

Hypnotise me, boiz

2 minutes ago, colorful人生 said:

 

Gotta go fast. Mayhaps they'll make a live-action film about him and give him human teeth?

NAZARE. Their songs are a complete mess and just to top it all off, they have petulant crybaby Issei in the line-up. I can separate the art from the artist (as long as they haven't done anything too nefarious), but he just adds insult to injury, IMO.

12 minutes ago, Prophet said:

DELUHI解散理由についてのMC
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2019-04-19 23:58:17

O-EASTアンコールにてAggyから脱退とDELUHI解散の理由が説明されました。短文の一部のみをRTされると誤解を招くためベッターにまとめます。

みんな俺が脱退した理由知らないでしょ？そりゃそうだよな話してないもんね。
俺が脱退した理由は2つ。細かいこと言えばもっとあるけど。
1つはレコーディングで俺のベースの音が差し替えられたこと。もう1つはJuriの声が出なくなって活休してる間にJuriを切って新しいボーカルを入れようってなったとき。もうついていけないって思った。
俺が脱退するせいで解散するって話になって、俺どの面下げて解散ツアー回ればいいんだよって。
でもあのツアーが本当に楽しくて、LedaがMCで「誰か一人でも欠けたらDELUHIじゃない」って言ったじゃん？あ、これ、俺がCCレモンホールで「やっぱ脱退やーめた」って言えばこのまま続けられんじゃねぇかって。それは直前までずっと考えた。
解散した後Juriはボーカル辞めて。
LedaとSujkがやってるFEDのワンマンに遊びに行ったのね。俺は2日目に行ったんだけど初日にJuriが行ってて。そこでLedaからJuriがまたステージに立ちたがってるみたいだから連絡してみたらって言われて。でもJuriは自分がクビ切られそうだったなんて知らないし、わざわざ俺から話すことでもないし。Juriからしたら俺なんか自分が大切にしてたバンド壊した張本人のクソヤローじゃん。それでもAggyと一緒にやりたいって言ってくれて嬉しかった。
今回復活の話もらって断ろうと思ったけど、Juriが、辛い目にもあってきたJuriがそれでもLedaのことリスペクトしてるから。
赤坂でLedaが言った「誰か一人でも欠けたらDELUHIじゃない」は今度は嘘じゃないなって。俺だけじゃなくJuriのことも含めて心から言ってると思えた。
4人で集まって音出して今こうして楽しくライブできて、もしあの頃今みたいな4人だったらあのまま続いてたんだろうなって思うよ。
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思い出せる限りで。なるべくニュアンスも伝えたくて箇条書きでなく話してくれた言葉を書いています。

AggyのMCを受けてLedaも当時の自分は子供で自分がやりたいことにメンバーがついてこれてないことに腹を立てていたと話してくれました。

CCレモンホールのライブで「自分の力だけではどうにもならないことがある」って言ったけど、当時の自分のビジョンとして会社を創ってDELUHIだけでメンバーやスタッフを支えられるようにしたいという目標があった。でもそんなに簡単にできることではなく、Juriが自分の歌を歌いこなせていなかったりメンバーの技術が追いついていなかったりでステージにギター置いて帰ったりしたし、楽屋で殴り合いの喧嘩したり。かと思えば一緒にバスケしに行ったり、本当に学校みたいで。今大人になってあの頃の自分は子供だったなと思います。

 

run it through gtranslate and get mind blown

So, to summarise, they replaced Aggy's bass track without him knowing and then he tried to get in a replacement for Juri when he lost his voice until he got it back, only they were actually gonna fire him completely, so Juri got pissed off and refused to speak with him. Juri still gets on with Leda but Leda hates Aggy… unless I read this completely wrong.