Not only wacky but hideous? I mean if you are going to re-logo (forget that it be for idiotic reasons…) the least you could do is make the design look decent… this?? 😂

Z, because the “Spe” was just an afterthought this whole time…

pardon me… I have been laughing so hard reading this thread, it was the best I could come up with! 😂

I’ll take some…😂

You can throw Warner Brothers Discovery in there while you are at it (HBO now stupidly referred to as “Max”)

Those names read like some characters in a bad novel…

For my fellow space lovers: 2003

EvE + Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

You are welcome 😄

Pretty astonished to see anyone list Zappa, considering most people I have seen in other places posting on these kinds of questions either don’t even know who he is or they just say they hate him. Have also seen a lot of Tool hate elsewhere which always baffles me, so I guess I am in the right place. 😊

Aside from the above, I guess there would be a lot more to list but some other of my most favourites include:

David Bowie, Small Faces, The Stooges, Lou Reed, The Doors, Roxy Music, T-Rex, The Kinks, The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers, The Fall, The Jam, Buzzcocks, Blondie, Heart, Joy Division, The Cure, The Specials, Madness, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Curtis Mayfield, Eric Burdon and War, Humble Pie, Faces, The Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam, Paul Weller, Tom Petty, SoS Band, Soundgarden, Rage Against The Machine, Nine Inch Nails, Pixies, No Doubt, Moby, The Crystal Method, Sounds From the Ground, Thievery Corporation, Faithless.

edit: I suppose technically, these are not all “rock” bands. Apologies for the cross genres.

As long as it doesn’t have crown molding for any Hereditary film-type of ghost drops from the ceiling when I walk by, I’m good! 😂

As a dog person, I haven’t enough personal experience to know if keeping cats indoors is actually as bad for them as people might think, but I can share that a best friend of mine who has a now 10 yr old cat named Buddy has kept him in their house since he was a tiny kitten. You can put Buddy on the deck outside their kitchen, the patio in their yard, or just in front of an open window and he appears to literally care less about even thinking of leaving the spot. He is a skinny cat but pretty strong for his age, playful, seems very affectionate, and totally disinterested in being anywhere my friend and his family isn’t. Maybe it’s a question of socialization for the cats?

Aquaria is one probably not too many people played to make it a cult classic, but it has a dedicated following of people that love it. Was pretty popular as a 2d indie adventure. I never thought I would like it, but was glad I gave it a try. 😊

Wait. I really don’t mean this to sound rude here, but I have to ask… they actually needed a study for this??? Because I feel like it’s pretty obvious if one has spent any time working in the real world and not living in a vacuum of privileged wealth.

I have a lifetime account at LoTRO. Whenever stories about games based on LoTR come up, I am always hoping it will become something awesome, but they all just seem to flop. The ownership rights of the IP are also so fractured and convoluted, it’s kind of a miracle anything actually gets made let alone made well. Maybe someone will actually step up at some point to make a game that really embraces the magic in Tolkien’s universe, instead of trying to change it and them calling it lightning in a bottle.

Because apparently one thread about your creating one this wasn’t enough?

😂

There are plenty of other ways to track how your posts are doing though, if by that you mean relevance, exposure, engagements, etc. On this, it was at least one aspect of positives that Twitter offered in terms of their Analytics feature. I guess we don’t have the tools for something like that here but it might be a nice middle ground.

For me, the entire concept of Karma from a Reddit fashion is that it completely blows up any notion of genuine discussions. It too often lead to people fishing for approval vs saying what they actually believe. Too many like minded people also following and posting after each other, ganging up on opinions opposite their own, hive mind issues everywhere. I tried to comment something similar about this on Kbin and immediately got down-voted for it, so it was pretty clear to me there are people who don’t want to be told their karma was not a real measure of their value, nor of their contributions to the site.

which person? I got confused here, lol

Agree. I also feel like the monetization behind use of Google tools, user information, etc just further complicates it.

I think back on when the internet was first getting started and how everyone was so excited by the prospect of have an essentially “living library” at their fingertips, full of potential to share information and learn in what was perceived by many to be a more open source type model — initially. It didn’t take long to see it succumb to all the same practices that have plagued free exchange of ideas in the real world since forever.

Add to this the stand by the “free press” of the world, which is no longer free, bent as they are with guarding information access behind paywalls since they continue to decry loss of paper readership and revenue from it as the reason for doing this; that may be true in part but it’s only a fraction of the issues at stake.

Bravo x 1000, I say! I was truly disappointed that the mods at sub Reddit for GW2 did not do the same; after initially going on blackout for a few days, they are now back to business as usual.

This thread has been fun to read.
I confess my first thought when reading the question though was: “none.” I used to be quite comfortable drawing the line in the sand and picking such stands (totally love the “could care less” example, lol) but as I have gotten older, I have often been far more amused by people’s unwillingness to see reason than annoyed by it, so I just sort of move off those hills now and just watch the fireworks from other people fly instead. 💥😂

Currently investing some time back in ESO for a bit to check out the newly released Archanist class… not super impressed so far tbh. I mostly play GW2 these days so coming back into ESO again everything feels super clunky and slow for some reason, yikes. On single player titles, I have been dipping into The Witcher 3 a bit since I recently got a new rig that can run it at top settings, which is nice.