hills you are willing to die on

[einride]

Pedantry aside, it provides a way of distinguishing between physical and non-physical though, so I don't see what the harm is.

i really don't think it's pedantry. cd (and minidisc, and DAT, and a million other digital formats that aren't just a file on a computer) isn't a "technically" digital format or digital only in some sort of academic sense, it is very much straight up digital audio and have been referred to as such for decades.

now referring to a digital download as a digital download, that's fine (although redundant, because no one is really "downloading" analog data), but not solely "digital" because it makes no sense and does not convey what you're trying to convey. "digital" is a way of storing data, not a method of distributing it.

if you're trying to distinguish between physical and non-physical, you can say "physical" and "non-physical" imo

 

[einride]

Yeah, it might be more of a Norwegian/Scandinavian thing, but I'm thinking of classic "dad fashion" that all middle class blokes suddenly start adopting once they become fathers/married/turn a certain age. I know several guys who absolutely lambast anyone not wearing stuff like this whilst in the comfort of their own home:

lol

well honestly no i don't look like that at home

but i think there's something to be said for wearing semi-nice clothes at home, i feel like such a fucking slob when i walk around in stained sweatpants and a torn bathory shirt all day and it affects my mood

 

[Doom]

Just buy a new Bathory shirt if it's getting you down.

 

[einride]

but they're all so fucking ugly

tracklists on the back, who tf does that and why

"shit, what was the fifth song on blood fire death called again? *looks over shoulder in bathroom mirror*"

 

[Doom]

I think the worst thing you can do to a shirt is attempt to run some horrible lettering or print or whatever down the sleeves of a longsleeve. I like longsleeve shirts but refuse to buy any with that shit on.

"shit, what was the fifth song on blood fire death called again? *looks over shoulder in bathroom mirror*"

 

[einride]

I think the worst thing you can do to a shirt is attempt to run some horrible lettering or print or whatever down the sleeves of a longsleeve. I like longsleeve shirts but refuse to buy any with that shit on.

a true classic

 

[MFJ]

One of the greatest, actually. I recently paid $50 for a Vintersorg long-sleeve from the Cosmic Genesis tour.

 

[einride]

what the actual fuck is this supposed to mean

 

[NAD]

I know several guys who absolutely lambast anyone not wearing stuff like this whilst in the comfort of their own home:

I can't keep up with the dueling band thing anymore. Is this nowadays Entombed or Entombed A.D.?

 

[MFJ]

what the actual fuck is this supposed to mean

It perfectly represents his trademark "cosmic word salad" lyrics

 

[Hell Mike]

lol

well honestly no i don't look like that at home

or do you

 

[einride]

or do you

i have different pants

 

[rms]

- No sex scene has ever made a film better, and most love plots in movies are wack as

blue is the warmest color! Species?

store you're buying "download games" not "digital games" you absolute plonker

Yeah, it might be more of a Norwegian/Scandinavian thing, but I'm thinking of classic "dad fashion" that all middle class blokes suddenly start adopting once they become fathers/married/turn a certain age. I know several guys who absolutely lambast anyone not wearing stuff like this whilst in the comfort of their own home:





As long as you're always carrying a can of lager around with you, you should be fine (the bag is not mine, and it was used for beer transporation)

I was pretty surprised that Norway was such a male-preppy and women spray Tanny place when I went. Would never have guessed it

 

[einride]

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i'd never buy one of those, i prefer the warmth and life-like immersion of analog video games


to add to the confusion: if the optical drive survives into the NEXT generation (i really, really doubt it) i bet they're going to turn the rhetoric around

the PS6 (download only) will just be the "PS6", and then there will be a "PS6 optical drive edition", the weird niche one for the last people still on 56k and/or who cannot imagine living without an ikea bookshelf full of alphabetically sorted plastic discs in cases

 

[Reign in Acai]

Mulholland Drive?

First thing that popped in my head. I found that movie to be tripe, but the luscious paps of Laura Harring was a worthwhile counter weight.

before i stopped buying cd's, my routine was:

1) buy cd
2) put cd in cd-rom drive
3) rip cd to mp3
4) put cd in shelf
5) listen to the mp3's

Wouldnt work for me, I dont own a computer.

Thankfully I got enough cds to listen to as is, and any further purchase will be mere garnish. Bluetoothing off youtube is not the same as listening to a cd proper. No, im not going to buy a computer or any ripper to become "digital." Its just not in the cards. Id see myself dismissing a grim jpeg of a ripped album just as much as rifling through my cd storage.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Wouldnt work for me, I dont own a computer.

Thankfully I got enough cds to listen to as is, and any further purchase will be mere garnish. Bluetoothing off youtube is not the same as listening to a cd proper. No, im not going to buy a computer or any ripper to become "digital." Its just not in the cards. Id see myself dismissing a grim jpeg of a ripped album just as much as rifling through my cd storage.

I think you missed the part where CD = "Digital."

 

[Krilons Resa]

Also, you don't a computer? The fuck?

All this whoring is done through a dumbphone?

PS - And when you click on all of these links to music, I'm assuming you at least plug in a decent pair of iem's into your phone for a proper listen and not through the phone's speakers?

 

[Reign in Acai]

I think you missed the part where CD = "Digital."

Semantics, I meant " non-physical." Im sure you kids with DAC, DIC, FLAC, CACK, and all that other shit are listening to the same crud as my hair laden ears upon pressing play. Im just in too deep at this point, and mentally whether its all psychological or not, I couldnt get the same erection from buying a high quality rip off Bandcamp as receiving a physical package of some luscious polycarbonate in the mail. It would just be shallow, less intimate. If y'all leapt this mental hurdle I commend ye. I wouldnt mind getting rid of all these cds if I could do the leap.

Also, you don't a computer? The fuck?

All this whoring is done through a dumbphone?

PS - And when you click on all of these links to music, I'm assuming you at least plug in a decent pair of iem's into your phone for a proper listen and not through the phone's speakers?

Phone's a 1200 Dollah Samsung Note, shit better be capable of surfing an antiquated message board. No need to own a computer, as im forced to be on one at work 40hrs a week. Only way i'd purchase one is if I legit downgraded back to a dumbphone capable of only texting, which is tempting, but highly impractical in this day and age.

Albums were listened to in a variety of ways. Phone+15dollar bluetooth headphones. Or streamed to bluetooth adapter to home stereo system. (Ye know the one attached to that 6cd disc changer?)

I used to up until very very recent, walk around with a sony discman and some headphones that would make Jack Tripper blush.

 

[Krilons Resa]

It's not mere semantics when modern day colloquial speech equates "digital" to computer files rather than actual physical CD's. Erik will not die in vain upon this hill here, my friend.

 

[einride]

can't believe you're typing these walls of text on a freakin phone, that's nuts