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trza-hawk

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  1. The result from the Man city game on Wednesday was a disappointment. But Dial Square FC beat Lightwater University earlier and Chiddingfold yesterday to pull into second place in the Surrey County Intermediate League (Western) Division 1.

  2. What Numero and other boutique reissue or compilation labels release is just miles away from the stuff that could be more accurately described as "nostalgic". Its like you have some music fans who listen to the same music from their teenage years and keep listening to it over and over again. Then you have other music obsessive types who are constantly listening to something different and moving on and discovering things that are new to them. Numero goes to great lengths to get their licensing and other legal things in order and get the reissues done the right way. Its for the type of music obsessive for whom the past is almost infinite.

  3. In theory the Super Big Game today should be a blockbuster advertising day for twitter. With a huge portion of the live viewers reloading the app over and over again for video replays, commentary, news reports, memes, anything else. Tens of thousands of tweets every minute, fans reloading and seeing a video ad in every fourth of fifth post in their feed. In practice, the same annoying guys who try to go viral with bad takes at every live event will be doing the same routine. Last year it was one guy tweeting about "sexual anarchy" or something like that then the other guy who gets exposure for tweeting about how great Kid Rock is. Some of these guys probably already have their hot takes about the half time show already loaded up.

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  4. Late night talk shows have been declining since the proliferation of dvr's well over ten years ago when people would rather spend the last hour of their day watching prime time shows and skipping through the commercials. The days of monoculture where a huge portion of the population watched Johnny Carson, or the Late Night wars between the hosts competing for viewers in the 90s, trying any crazy stunt to get and keep people tuned in, they were like a different world.

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  5. The problem is its the adult star wars superfans who act like children because they have invested too much of their time and do weird things like review bomb the shows or harass the people behind them on social media.

  6. The one thing about Star Wars is it usually appeals to kids and adults at the same time, and I can't see younger keeps staying awake for the first six episodes of this series. This series is a winner for teens and older folks.

  7. After TCU went to the College Football Playoff in their first year with a new head coach in charge. Now every team with a losing record and a new coach thinks that they are bound for the playoffs or at least a conference championship next season. With the portal and nil money and recruits coming in, who can possible argue against this.

  8. Portuguese music tends to not be popular among world music obsessives, or fans of foreign language music. The best and most clear explanation for this is the lack of rhythm and african influence that has made Brazilian or Cape Verdean music successful in the various ways "world music" has been used as a category form music in the past several decades. In Portugal today, Fado is known as music for tourists in seafood restaurants.

  9. I remember playing the game and recognizing one of the voices, the old Native American guy, and looking up the voice cast. The guy who did the main character in the first game had given up acting and moved home and was pulled back to do this game. The voice actors aren't unionized, and their share of the money from the hundreds of millions a game like this makes, it ends up being like a couple hundred bucks per day that they spend working on the game and basically nothing after. Rockstar and RDR are hardly the only studio that does things like this.

     

    Anyway, the voice work was really good in the game. 

  10. You bumped a thread to compliment your own batch of reissues. Each one with a little stripe at the top to mark it as an of the moment reissue.

  11. On Monday night there was a football game that stopped short because a player was injured on the field. The video was shared on every social media platform, the story was everywhere just minutes after it happened. Twitter gives tons of exposure to the most awful accounts, like a handful of people who try to trick others into retweeting and reacting to them. Hot take artists, Hack doctors, political people who made veiled references to vaccine denial. Those are the people who were the "winners" on twitter over the past couple days. One of the big accounts had a couple million views in just a couple hours after the sports event. And this repeats every time something happens anywhere. Its an awful platform, the incentivizing structure, the exposure and views and retweets, the biggest gimmicks and scam artists wind up rising to the top.

     

    The social network has a big problem with young people. I would go into it but younger people, especially ones with high internet iq or who understand what they read online, they just don't go to twitter.

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  12. Its endless audiophile jargon and marketing blabber designed to get middle aged dudes to part with their spare change for a reissue of an album where you can usually pick up the pressing from the original era for less than ten bucks.

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