THIS IS A HIGH-CONCEPT BLOG. GET ON MY LEVEL.

I’ve become obsessed with Joel’s new album. Or, I’ve become obsessed with the reason behind it. This is two hours of vitriol towards his gearhead landlord, whose truck leaked exhaust fumes into his tenant’s building because he couldn’t stop revving it outside to show it off. So Joel just writes a rock opera about an absolutely demented gear head out of spite.

The idea that someone could focus their petty rage into an art project is beautiful. It’s why I made the villains in my webcomic family YouTubers. And it’s why generative ai just can’t compete with human artist in the end. The whole purpose of art is to convey a feeling the artist has to whoever’s consuming it. Generative ai can’t “write a shitpost rock opera about a man named Carlito Benz who gets possessed by his ancestor, Carl Benz and his council of car wizards, to fuck every car he sees, driving his wife to divorce him, and become so powerful he defeats death itself” with any of the impact Joel did, because generative ai does not have a landlord, cannot get pissed off at its landlord, have no feelings in general and therefore cannot convey its emotion to the audience in any meaningful way. You have to have a point and generative ai doesn’t have one.

Vinesauce Joel is one of the very few Let’s Play streamers I fw because he legitimately plays games for fun and wants to entertain, he never takes ad sponsorships and the only time he asks for money is during a Vinesauce charity event. So the message behind the album hits a specific way because he made it, because of COURSE I can feel his rage twds people like Jay Leno who show off their massive car collection like it’s an impressive hobby and not a multi-millionaire dick measuring contest. Would it have hit if it was written and performed by Suno? Does Suno have a reason to sing about previously consummated cars rising from hell to beat the shit out of the grim reaper? OF COURSE NOT. And I KNOW!! This album is a shitpost. But it’s a high quality shitpost Joel put a lot of effort and time into because he’s a human artist who wanted to vent about his awful landlord because the alternative was complaining and possibly getting evicted for it. So we have this, because someone got mad. And it’s awesome.

Cut to the next day and I was in the Students Union, when a friend came up to me and told me how funny that video was of me falling asleep in class was. What? I asked her about it, what did she mean, who made the video, and she realised I literally had no clue about it. Kindly, she told me who to talk to and I thanked her. I was already upset, but I knew it wasn't the messenger's fault. So, I took to Facebook and messaged the girl who made the video -- a girl on my table in the class from before. I asked her about it, and she admitted it right away -- she took the video on her phone during class and posted it to her snapchat. That's how the other girl saw it, not to mention countless others.

Sorting this out was an absolute toil. I felt betrayed and violated that someone would do that while I was obviously not in a position to have any say about it. I lost friendships with the people who took the girl's side, as if it was no big deal or "funny". I had to tell the lecturer about it, because let's face it, that's a shit thing to allow to happen during class itself, the department moved to be more alert and proactive about restricting phone use in class, and all that girl had to do was give a half-hearted apology. The next semester, she was still openly using her phone in another class we had.

For a long time, I couldn't trust anyone who held their phone up around me, as if to take photos or video. It would make me so anxious and put me on edge. I never did speak to the people who cosigned her behaviour, who acted like it wasn't their problem that their bff video-recorded a person in class over their health condition without their consent.

Tomoe Tachibana from Trauma Team shares a voice actress with Metis from Persona 3 FES.

You are invited to meddle in the affairs of a major political power. These events with extremely serious ramifications for global politics include gardening, animal herding, mountain climbing, and a bake-off.

Night City travels diagonally through time and fuses with a small town in Arizona.

An uplifting Hollywood movie pop-gospel song about unity plays over a montage of you and your friends building a bomb.

You down a suspiciously beaver-themed energy drink and briefly go super saiyan.

The temporally anomalous catboy dad deepthroats two scoops of nothing-flavored ice cream in an attempt to ease the tension at his work friend's family reunion. Somehow, this actually achieves the desired effect.

An AI-generated ghost attempts to burn all of the world's people and resources to extend the life of their metaverse Disneyland for other AI-generated ghosts. In response, you proceed to fight a robotic biblically-accurate angel inside their mind palace.