I disagree on that one. If you listen to Adrenaline and then skip forward to Private music there’s barely any resemblance left.

I will agree though that their overall vibe has remained consistent, but I think that speaks to their vision of the band instead of a lack of creativity.

Glad to hear you managed to get away from that situation, and thank you for sharing. I appreciate learning about things like this, and to see that empowerment enabled you to take active control of your life.

Please feel free to ignore this if you’re not comfortable talking about this with strangers on the internet, but I’ve always wondered what keeps people persisting in a relationship like that. It’s easy for me to say, but I’d imagine having sex would definitely stop being appealing if it’s a one-sided affair. Not sure if I’d have the fortitude to put up with that to such an extent it’d result in three kids.

Please enlighten me if you can, I’m honestly hoping to learn what mindset or circumstances got you to this point.

What a way to tell on yourself there dude.

Yeah. That song even has the benefit of being in English, so you don’t need to find a translation as an English non-German speaker.

Rammstein got so sick and tired of being called Nazis just because they make harsh music with German lyrics that they put out “Links 2 3 4” two decades ago to clear up that they lean socialist. And Till Lindemann himself has said repeatedly that they hate Nazis. And yet, people still associate them with it because they can’t think beyond “Scary German music = Nazi”.

I agree with the sentiment, but in going to “uhm acksually” you on the size of the nuclear stockpile. Russia still holds more nukes officially: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons

I think you’re on to something here honestly. Windows Phone was Microsoft’s last big new bet in the consumer market (you could argue Game Pass here, but the scope is more niche than a general compute platform), and I am sure that if it succeeded there would’ve been a significant cultural shift at Microsoft, similar to how the success (and subsequent revenue stream dominance) of iPhone/iOS did at Apple.

Sadly, we don’t live in that reality, so now everything Microsoft makes (again, with exception of the aforementioned and dreadfully mismanaged Xbox/Game Pass efforts) for consumers needs to have some kind of enterprise revenue angle to get greenlit at all. From experience I can tell you that a large number of great product ideas wither on the vine at Microsoft simply because management doesn’t consider anything that won’t move the needle on enterprise revenue.

Fine. Keep your Napolitan pizza, while I get to enjoy the wonders of focaccia and flammkuchen :D

Exactly. Plus, get me a foccacia with some great toppings and I will happily trade you a Napolitan pizza.

We were talking about national cuisines. To my knowledge Naples is part of the country of Italy.

B is being slept on in this thread. I mean, look at it - you get northern Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the northern Balkans, Sweden, and Finland. If you like pasta, pizza, grilled meats, fries, potatoes, sausages, licorice, a mindbogglingly large number of breads and cheeses, etc. etc. you’d be stupid not to pick that region.

For some reason this made me feel much older than knowing GAT V launched 11 years ago. I grew up with an NES.

That reference is going to (sadly) go over wore a few folks’ heads, but I remember Bush and Powell’s insane justifications.

Since nobody mentioned them yet, Strapping Young Lad - Detox.

Honestly though, anything that Devin Townshend touches is gold.

It’s the same mindset that causes people to call every photo AI generated.

It’s almost like they’ve lost faith in human capabilities to the point of assuming humans are incapable altogether.

This is literally the same mindset that “aliens did it” conspiracy thinkers use, and I think it’s incredibly sad to see.