Random thoughts thread

Don’t worry, pissing twitter folk off means you haven’t lost your last brain cell to the internet.

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As the real coward I am, I deleted all my comments :joy:
Also like that I won’t upset any more DeG fans.

It was nice knowing you. I think they’ll burn you alive. I criticized Kyo once by saying that I preferred Takumi and Mika in Sukekiyo over Kyo and I was immediately trashed

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You’re not wrong tho lol (said as a DeG fan)

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thank you for your service :saluting_face: i’ll make sure to play the best music and feed the guests at your funeral. who do you want as your bodyguard

(once i got sent death threats on twitter dot com because i criticized the Yokan remake - yes, it’s technically improved, but to me it sounded really hollow and didn’t have the same passion as the original. i wish i kept them, one was a 13 year old threatening me but she lived like 38737273737 miles away. definitely a moment of terminally online syndrome.

once i got a HATE EMAIL - no clue how they found my email address because i mentioned i liked Trembling Bambi. “but but but IT’S AWFUL”
yeah and??? it’s FUN??? give me questionable EDM anyday. i literally stan the japanese version of erasure, you cannot sway me from questionable music :sob: the internet is a wild place)

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My mission for this weekend is to go through my t-shirts, and just ruthlessly get rid of anything that has noticeable sweat/deodorant stains.
However, I really don’t want to get rid of all of my band shirts, so I’m thinking of taking the most disgusting looking ones, cutting them up and resewing them into raglan shirts or something…
Does anyone have any other ideas for stained shirts? I thought about making a patchwork quilt of some sort, but I don’t think I have that many unusable shirts

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Plays Breath of Air by Sailing Before the Wind

A couple years ago I had a poorly managed Nightmare fan account and it never popped off BUT Madmans Espirit followed me which I was very excited about even though I didn’t know the band. Checked the page and saw they’re no longer following. They must’ve unfollowed at some point in the last 6 years.

The singer/gutarist for Mr. Fuzzy also comented on a video which I deleted. Don’t even know if they’re still active. But the song Voice was pretty fire back then.

I’ve been looking at the Sena piercing drama + people’s reports on the terrible crowd management on twitter and what is going on?
It reminds me of the videos of people in pop concerts screaming their heads off for no reason.
I’ve never been to any concert outside japan. Is this behavior common? Are fangirls always this feral? Or is it that they don’t know how to behave because they only see bandmen irl every 5-10 years?

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Honestly, it’s a combination of the difference in concert etiquette in Japan vs everywhere else, the relative youth of new Jiluka fans, and the nature of the overseas VK fandom changing to where some fans “expect” Japanese concert customs to be followed, leading to disappointment when they’re not during overseas lives (because not everyone in attendance will be a dedicated “VK only” fan, not everyone will have participated in online discourse, some will try and get away with whatever they can, etc)

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what is overseas concert etiquette like? Is it an anything goes situation? Like the screaming so loud that no one can hear the music–won’t the security do anything about it?

Oh, I’ve seen just about everything. Exact etiquette depends on the genre for the most part, but screaming has never been against the rules at any concert I’ve ever been to. You’re also free to yell at people to shut up.

Anything goes is a fairly accurate statement, but security will often try and prevent people from doing something too dangerous. I almost had a dude fall on me during Avenged Sevenfold once when he tried to jump on stage and got caught by the ankle in mid air.

But yeah, pushing your way to the front, being packed in like sardines, hollering, starting a mosh pit, even hitting other people (specifically hardcore shows), not uncommon.

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Damn, that’s crazy. I would not survive that environment for sure.

I mean… R-Shitei fans apparently ate the nail clippings the singer sold.
So in regards of doing weird shit I guess japanese fans and oversea fans can shake hands.

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yes but i doubt they were doing it while the show was still going on.

I wanted to translate his songs :pensive:

If you don’t want to stand in the front rows it’s not that bad, honestly.

I have been to more overseas concerts (38) than concerts in Japan (18) and they are diffrent but I would not say one is worse. In the end you just need to know what is diffrent and what you can exspect.

And yeah the crowd for a pop act will be diffrent from the crowed for a metal act.

It’s really not “everything goes” in western concerts and Bands can ask for certain things. Like Kamijo wanted a no photo/video policy and that was enforced at the concert I went to in Berlin.

And in the end the west is not one homogenous place. To the point that there is often complaining about the Polish crowds being to silent. And you wouldn’t find the strict age seperation of Finnland because of alcohoI in Germany.

Don’t let the extrem examples scare you. I am weak and always had a good time :blush:

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A week ago I was heading to northern Germany somewhere between Bremen and Oldenburg, and when I was online at JRO I saw a person in front of my seat also online at JRO!

Of course I snooped, but I think it was just another one of the spies.

:disguised_face:

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Yoshiki and Weird Al Yankovic collab when???

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curiously horrified sputtering noises

as someone who has seen weird al 8x and has a photo with him… …i do kind of want to hear this collab. will i be terrified? absolutely.

your brain is fascinating (real compliment, not sarcasm). 10/10

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