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Harfoots are literally described as “browner of skin” by Tolkien so I have no idea what you are talking about.

I think they underestimated how dramatic this community can be. Which is surprising considering the map size whining that happened.

808s, his most depressive album of his career is his stadium album? Was this a typo? I could accept Grad maybe.

There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism. I think you’re right.

Are you serious? Dude completely changed hip hop, multiple times. Absolutely massive innovator in production style, and basically created the chipmunk soul style of production. He would be considered one of the most important figures in hip hop even if he never even released an album, just for his production work with Jay Z.

The College Dropout was a landmark record for hip hop, for many reasons.

Then he had another landmark record in 808s, popularizing the use of auto tune and melodicism in hip hop (not a trend in hip hop I loved, but you can’t deny the influence here).

Then he had another landmark record in MBDTF, bringing hip hop to the absolute front and center of pop culture. Completely bombastic and basically the HH equivalent of a stadium rock album. Collabs with Justin Vernon and samples from King Crimson brought in fans of rock to hip hop like never before.

Yeezus is slowly showing itself to be more and more influential as well, though this one was delayed a bit but we’re seeing more and more high profile disciples.

Anyone that denies the influence of Kanye is completely ignorant. He’s a piece of shit, sure. But his music has been incredibly important and to deny that is absolutely ridiculous.

Fuck Kanye but at the same time he’s one of the most important and influential musicians of my generation and you bet your ass I’m gonna listen to it and everything he’ll put out from now until perpetuity. I’ll just pirate it so he doesn’t get the proceeds.

It’s incredible. Probably the most “human” book I’ve ever read in my life. It sounds boring but I was absolutely enthralled with this old butler taking a road trip from the first 3 pages. There’s a bit of unreliable narration and a lot of nuance to the writing. The prose is beautiful and the characters are incredibly memorable and amazing.

Remains of the Day is maybe my favorite book of all time. Never Let Me Go was fine but paled in comparison. I wanted to like it a lot more than I did. I’m glad you’re liking it. I think RotD set up some unrealistic expectations.

Yeah I realize now that my comment was a tad more aggressive than it was meant to be. I think there’s some value in Day’s stuff. He gives some interesting perspective and analysis on Tolkien. You just need to remember to take nothing of his as fact.

Nothing David Day writes should be given any credibility. He made stuff up, like, all the time. Treat it as fan fiction.

This and Homage are his two best imo. His fiction is a little too on the nose and heavy handed.

It’s literally the most basic and textbook form of allegory you can find in literature. There’s absolutely no depth to it at all.

Orwell paraded as a socialist which is why he knew who were true leftists and who weren’t. Dude was a narc of the highest order, and a traitor to the cause any way you look at it.

Which is true in real life too so I don’t see the issue. Think of climate activists and how they’re treated in the US. Or those supporting socialist policies like right to housing or food. They are treated as an absolute joke, just for wanting to do the right thing at the expense of those in power.

If I had to pick a character who does the right thing more often than anyone, it’s probably Hermione.

Ok there’s a bit here I disagree with.

1. I feel like one of the messages I got out of HP is that chosen family means more than given family. Such as when Harry gets sweater from Mrs Weasley and nothing from Dursleys

2. Just because slavery exists in the story, doesn’t mean it’s treated positively. There’s an entire revolutionary movement for them in one of the books and Hermione is active in it. And Hermione is often a pretty safe moral compass.

3. No defense of the Goblins, this one is pretty bad.

4. Again, just because this idea exists doesn’t mean it’s supported. In fact, the bad guys are the ones always supporting it so it’s pretty clearly a villainous idea.

Your arguments remind me of the illiterate folk who claim that Lolita supports pedophilia when the opposite is true. Just because something is present in a story doesn’t mean it’s presented as a good thing, or something worth supporting.

For the record, I do not support JKR and kind of wish HP would fade into obscurity, even if it was a defining moment of my childhood/generation.

Beatles: Hard Days Night - Tomorrow Never Knows

David Bowie: Suffragette City - Warzsawa

Miles Davis: 'Round Midnight - Miles Runs the Voodoo Down

Radiohead: Creep - Kid A

Beach Boys: California Girls - Wind Chimes

Kanye West: Jesus Walks - Black Skinhead

Actually I think I’m the opposite. I hate encumbrance more when it’s massive. When I played survival mode in Fallout NV, I found it so much more fun to only pick up essential items. I would commonly pick up water bottles and food instead of valuable weapons or ammo. I was usually way under my low encumbrance because I had a mindset switch to only pick up stuff that will allow me to survive the desert.

It is when you start assuming non-bigots are bad people because of what they look like.

You know, people say this, and I agree to an extent but if the major dystopias, I actually think it’s the least relevant? Brave New World is probably #1 for me for relevance, with Handmaid’s Tale sadly not far behind it.

I have. Been stuck on them for about a month with not a ton of progress on books.

Paved Paradise would be fairly interesting to someone that knows nothing about city planning and such. It will definitely make you notice just how much useless space is around you for parking, and probably make you mad about it. It also goes into some be interesting history about how the mobs controlled parking in cities like New York and Chicago.

It definitely makes you look at things differently, which is always a good thing.