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william_kent
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pedantic bastard here - I think what you're talking about is "gated reverb" ( re: Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight for the genesis of this trend )
Benny Bunter
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The concept creep thing is a real problem ("problematic?") cos every time someone comes up with a genuinely great new way of expressing something that catches on, it's gonna get abused. Hard to see a way out of that really.
william_kent
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"unhelpful"
Benny Bunter
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I can sort of see why Luka hates 'concepts' so much now
Benny Bunter
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We can - and do - do without concepts just fine on the whole. It's nice when some clever person expresses something in a concise way, but it's rarely anything new and is open to abuse when it becomes popular, or just a crutch for lazy thinking.
pattycakes_
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The whole culture of internet buzzwords including woke and all the 'look how good I am!' posturing is fucking sick and about as unwoke as you can get. There was this thing back in the day called being a decent human being, and there was no need to talk about it, it was simply understood. The culture right now feels like some GDR Stasi shit where everyone's spying on each other and reporting all dissent to the authorities, except the authorities have been replaced the frothing mob who are rabid with blood lust and can't wait for the next pile on. Sick!
william_kent
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"virtue signalling"
pattycakes_
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Sick!
william_kent
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I recently visited the Stasi museum in Leipzig and it was shocking
but a decamp to the former DDR is my "plan B" if Scotland fails to secede from the UK
we're fucked ( UK people ) , but DMT has taught me not to worry
but a decamp to the former DDR is my "plan B" if Scotland fails to secede from the UK
we're fucked ( UK people ) , but DMT has taught me not to worry
pattycakes_
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william_kent
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no, but I've been recently spending some time visiting the former DDR / GDR
if the Scottish heritage route doesn't work out then I might end up in Leipzig ( Connewitz ) or Dresden ( Neustadt )
as much as I love Manchester it seems as if i should have an escape plan in hand due to the Tory bastards
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blissblogger
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"main character energy" and "hero ingredient" are a couple of recent ones I've noticed getting used a lot
pattycakes_
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Cool, I lived in Leipzig for about 4 years. Am in Berlin nowadays but do miss it's little counterpart at times.
william_kent
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there are reasons that Leipzig is dear to me,
but it will always be my "plan B"
* this is a lie!, ( the plan "b" part ) but it rhymes...
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Mr. Tea
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This is a good example of hypercorrection. Lots of Brits wrongly think that -ize is an Americanism, and therefore wrong in UK English, whereas for many words both spellings are valid here.
(I assume we're talking only about the suffix -ize here, and that your old boss didn't, for example, takes his kids to the soo to see the sebras...)
i've seen the "main character" trope a lot in memes and social media recently and it bugs me. fits in with other phrases i've seen used like "arc", "villain origin story" etc.. the idea of narrativising your life, adopting some kind of third person perspective to your "self" is obviously completely aligned with instagram and social media ("add to story") so not really surprising. but i feel like it shows how much popular social media culture is seeded by the alt-right 4chan gamer-bro types - it's basically the "NPC" (non player character) trope for the mainstream. detached individualism and a good excuse to treat other people, particularly the ones who don't seem to be as intent on narrativising their life in the same way, like shit
Mr. Tea
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The NPC meme may have originated on 4chan, but pleasingly I think I've seen far more instances of it where the NPC is wearing a MAGA cap than I have of the original, right-wing version. In other words, it's not just reactionaries who can co-opt things.
shiels
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I think this is the crux of it for me. What I have previously referred to in my lectures as template craic, what limmy calls template patter
Constantly connected global communication has led to a kind of deterriotorilazation (to reference your boys D&G) and homogenizations in language, and, at least in english, a collective self awareness and insecurity in how its used. What most of us here are complaining about is essentially this, internet speak…. because our language is so intensely tribal and binding, and the internet is doing something weird with that process. The reterritorialization is taking place at the level of another form of identity, tribes basd around beliefs. Transient affiliations, and academic constructs. And the gap we feel here, the difference in speed and immersion, is what makes things jar and feel cringeworthy
‘Narrativisng your life’ as glasshand says, is related that shift in perspective,the exposure to massive audiences, and the horror of viewing yourself trough social media and corresponding metrics, it wil be seen as traumatic in retrospect. This icky commodification of irishness we see across the arts is something i keep coming back to in this context. And i think what this comes down to is how modern life more regularly exposes you to very large audiences, and more specifically audiences who you dont know, like, or understand.. And the ways we contort ourselves to conform to this big ugly world
pattycakes_
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Self awareness feedback loop ftd*
(*for the death)
(*for the death)