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  1. I borrowed Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot from a friend and finished it in a few days. I enjoyed it more than Girl's Against God, I think she does better writing a more straightforward narrative. Wasn't expecting the body horror towards the end – that was interesting.

     

    Started to re-read William Burrough's Junky for the 3rd or 4th time, and also have PKD's The Galactic Pot Healer set aside for a re-read.

  2. On 3/7/2022 at 7:22 PM, Squee said:

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    ^That's me playing that fucking game. Fucking witchcraft.

    I tried that cave like 10-12 times. Then at one point I fell off that wooden structure near the entrance and got attacked by old men and rats.

    the mining lads are weak to striking weapons, if you're just rocking a sword they'll seem more difficult than they are

  3. 44 minutes ago, toaoaoad said:

    I'm not sure what you mean... has it come across at all that I don't understand something?  It's my personal opinion that saying "I taught myself" is pretentious; it leads people to think "wow this guy is so smart, he taught himself!" when really it's something quite unremarkable, and teaching yourself actually more likely means that you've learned something somewhat incorrectly (or at least incompletely) and have blind spots. It's misleading and a bit self-aggrandizing. So I'm calling him out for that. In the following post I admitted that I didn't have a concrete basis for my overall impression that he's pretentious. We're all entitled to our opinions, but naturally fans on a fan site are going to resist the negative ones lol

    you don't know/understand clark's intention when he made this music, you've just read too much into things he's said in an interview.

    personally i'm not a big fan of the album, i'd rather he released something different too btw.

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  4. On 4/10/2021 at 9:52 PM, toaoaoad said:

    I had to ask myself why it bothered me so much, and the reason is I just really hate pretension. Tons of artists are pretentious of course, but it bothers me more I guess when it's an artist I originally liked, who showed a lot of promise but has made a series of choices that don't resonate with me (to put it politely). So it's that combo of... not only is he making terrible music but he's also inflating himself as this sort of genius about it. If that was any shit artist I wouldn't care because it happens all the time, but it's disappointing that it's Clark. I guess his music has always come across as a bit pretentious tho. But it just keeps getting worse and worse. 

    i think you're confusing his earnestness for pretentiousness. if you don't understand something/someone it doesn't make it/them pretentious. i wish people would stop using the term as a criticism.

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