Honestly, I’m a fan of abolishing IP law too, but for some reason I suspect the implementation of that they support is very different than the one I support

First off, I’m American, but I understand your decision. Elbows up!

Beyond that, gotta be honest I’m not a huge classic rock guy, so I don’t even recognize about half those names. But that’s cool; I like stumbling into stuff I haven’t before.

I know Harvest of course (it’s great but I agree on Neil’s voice). And the Guess Who are one of those bands I know the singles from, but haven’t really explored deeper than that. Likewise I have never really dove into Gordon Lightfoot but I like what I know of his a lot; I absolutely adore Sundown. Rush I’ve listened to a bit but I’m more a Yes guy when it comes to classic prog rock.

Beyond that I’ve heard of but haven’t heard anything by Tragically Hip and Great Big Sea, but the rest are new names to me.

I’d say if I were to try to find something at the intersection of our interests and you say you like classic rock and Iron Maiden, the most recent Pentagram album ‘Lightning in a Bottle,’ which is technically a traditional doom metal/stoner rock album, but to my ears I think sounds a lot like Maiden mixed with a real classic rock sound and just a touch of doom on top (and obviously Bobby Liebling is no Bruce Dickinson) would probably be my first thought… but they’re American (from my neck of the woods, actually) and I don’t want suggest crossing the metaphorical picket line, so maybe bank the suggestion as something to check out if we’re ever freed from the insanity of our current situation. ✌

Oh god, I listen to a lot of music, so get ready, and fair warning I’m kind of a metalhead (but I genuinely do listen to everything), lol. Here’s a quick rundown of my recent listening, with minimal notes:

Sear Bliss - Heavenly Down. melodic black metal with a trombone!

Within Destruction - Animetal. deathcore goes pop sensibilities; I really think between this album and Left to Suffer’s ‘Leap of Death’ we’re on the precipice of the birth of a new microgenre that does to deathcore what easycore did to melodic hardcore and metalcore.

The Weeknd - Hurry Up Tomorrow. I’ve been a Weeknd fan since his original three mixtapes dropped, and finally got around to listening to his latest.

Dayseeker - Dark Sun. metalcore-tinged synthpop.

Watsky - Intention. kinda hippie-drenched indie hip-hop?

Rioghan - Kept. melodic and slightly djenty alt-metal; I was really hyped for Jinjer’s new album before it came out but honestly Rioghan’s Kept kind of sounds like what I wanted but didn’t fully get from Jinjer.

and I also recently caught up on some classics that somehow flew under my radar:

The Devil Wears Prada - With Roots Above and Branches Below.

Whitechapel - This is Exile

Emmure - Goodbye to the Gallows

As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us

and today I’ve been obsessively listening to:

Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power. just absolutely insanely incredible blackgaze post-metal.

If you’ve been listening to anything, I’d love to hear about it as well!

I’ve been so focused on active album listening lately that I haven’t been playing much, so I’m still chugging my way through Cyberpunk and Moonlighter currently, and enjoying both of them thus far.

Although I did pick up Furi while it’s 80% on steam, but honestly I only played it for a little bit so far so I don’t really have any opinions about it yet

Tbh I didn’t intentionally do that, so I think there much be some kind of trigger on this sub to automatically cross-post?

(edit: and to be clear, I’m glad it does!)

If you want an unorthodox suggestion, Metal:Hellsinger is a rhythm-FPS that’s not like GOTY material, but it’s a lot of fun. Great for turning your brain off and just going vibe mode while you shoot a bunch of demons.

Yeah having already played D a couple years earlier, when Silent Hill came out it didn’t look like anything revolutionary to me, and replaying D had already shown me that cinematic horror only works the first time through anyway. Still don’t get the appeal.

I had good times on WoW for a long time, and a good time on a private UO server for awhile… Maybe I should look into a private WoW server. Blizzard (as it is today) is a shithole I don’t want to give more money, but my love for WoW as a property is undeniable.

I picked up Cyberpunk on the Steam sale so I’m just starting that. Aside from that, I’m kind of casually working my way through Coromon, which so far isn’t great but it scratching the Pokemon-like itch well enough. That said, if other folks were looking for a Pokemon-like to try, I’d recommend Cassette Beast a hundred times over before recommending Coromon.

Yeah I have no idea what fucking losers are out here downvoting people for their personal recommendations, but I can’t think of much worse basement-dweller behavior.

Eyyy I hadn’t heard that yet! That’s awesome, thanks for sharing!

Will do! I just started playing Moonlighter recently which is currently scratching that itch a bit

I haven’t ever played BPM, I’m sorry.

Celeste is 75% off and is a near-masterpiece of a game.

Portal 1 and Portal 2 are on sale again of course on the chance you haven’t yet hit these absolutely classic legendary games.

Persona 4 Golden is 40% off and is awesome, and Persona 5 Royal is 60% and is even more awesome.

Metal: Hellsinger is 70% off and while it isn’t a GOTY type game, it’s a hell of a lot of fun if you’re a contemporary metal music fan.

but my biggest recommendation is probably gonna be

Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale at 80% for only $3.99 (US) which is an completely underrated hidden gem of a game and a huge recommendation for anyone who likes quirky cozy-hybrid games or who, like me, spent way too long on the shopkeeper segments in RPGs like Torneko Taloon’s chapter in DQIV.

edit: why in the world would anyone ever downvote a personal recommendation comment? Weird behavior, fam

The inability to resize the Undertale window without using a third-party program like Sizer continues to be INFURIATING to me.

Undertale is a good game, but it just makes me so goddamn angry every time I open it to not have control over the sizing on my own goddamn monitor that I haven’t been able to finish it.

Who cares? The Blizzard that anyone actually had any positive opinions on died years ago. All that’s left now is a zombie corpse animated by the worst of capitalism.

Fuck Blizzard, let them die

I wish Vivaldi wasn’t Chromium-based, because I think it’s the slickest browser out there.

But it’s chromium, so it’s time to move on to Firefox regardless.

Ladybird development can’t happen fast enough.

I have a Pixel. It is literally made by one of the largest advertising companies in the world.

Bigger screens mean bigger and more obtrusive ads.

I’m convinced this is 90% of the reason right here.

I would have pre-ordered Civ7, but then they announced it has Denuvo so now instead of pre-ordering I’m just not going to buy it at all.

Fuck denuvo and fuck corporations who think their customers should just bend over and accept whatever bullshit they offer for the “privilege” of playing their game.

There is so much good indie gaming content these days, we don’t need these abusive mega-corp games.