@wizardofloneliness.bsky.social

The Boom Bap Ambassador of Whatever This Is Halcyontapes.Bandcamp.com

Hot take: I’ve been sick of this shit since day one. NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS A MUSICAL. One of the defining characteristics of lost boys is the LICENSED SOUNDTRACK. If you like this shit, you lose your rights to like the original. It ain’t gatekeeping. We ain’t even on the same planet.

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I want to talk about Grandia, and more specifically the idea of storytelling through gameplay. The story. Revolves around children trying to be adventurers and proving others that you don’t have to be an adult to make a difference. While Justin (the protagonist) is a child himself, his friend Sue1/4

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The main defense for hitting or spanking kids I’ve heard is, well it worked on me. Did it? You’ve grown into someone who views harming a child as an effective way of educating them. The only thing it teaches kids is that violence is permissible if the victim can’t fight back.

It will always f me up that adults call people lightly pushing them away physical assault, but go home and hit their kids as if that’s discipline. So it’s not ok when someone your size touches you but when it’s an adult hurting a defenseless kid that’s fine?

As much as I criticize the state of releasing in 2026, I’m still in it for the love of the genre and the medium. When I ask about costs for others I’m always hoping to hear something about where the passion for the hustle is. There’s a thrill to getting music out to people and working with artists.

ミレニアムハウス (millennium house) will be released as a cassette and VHS tape on Friday, August 21st over at Halcyon Tapes! The VHS contains a full visualizer for the album, created by as well as some friends in the slushwave community.

Here’s the brass tacks: running a vapor wave tape label is not very profitable unless you are one of the bigs or a bootlegger. The community is much different now than it was 10 years ago and not in a good way. Was it an Icarian inevitability that this would happen when we branched into vinyl?

Every person deserves love, but for some it will never come because the path they’ve chosen is hate themselves and project that onto the actions they take with others.

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When I was younger I thought anyone could love me if I gave them my time. As I get older I realize there is barely enough time to love myself, but it is necessary to love oneself if one expects to love another.

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Some people look dumb af smoking. Ain’t no way around it. You look like you suckin a stupid straw. Now other people? They look cool as hell, so they should keep puffin! (Assuming the only metric for success is looking cool)

Now not everyone feels comfortable doing that, or perhaps feels unsafe confronting injustice. I get that. But recording has scientifically been shown to aggravate situations, making them MORE dangerous. You stand to be harmed by recording, reducing how “comfortable” it rlly is

I do believe it is the responsibility of anyone seeing injustice to do something about that injustice. HOWEVER I personally find that directly addressing the offending party is best for getting results in instances of social rebuke.Ex:You say the n word.I call you out to your face.We talk.You learn.

When recording someone with the intention of posting, just ask yourself “who stands to gain from my surveillance?” In cases like a little known band playing a show, the answer is along the lines of “well they gain exposure and I get to share my experience, so we both win” but in social policing…