EM & PoC bi-weekly thread 24/03/2025 and 31/03/2025
Hello my comrades
Remember no crackers
hello_hello [comrade/them] - 9mon
Me mentioning how I want to go to China for grad school or work for CS and my white CS professor being like "Why do you want to go to a repressive regime?"
I lightly explain that a majority of Chinese people hold the opinion that they support the government and that China's industrial sector is far more mature and exciting than anything the US can offer.
Then he says that the chinese government can make up anything they want because the people would be sent to slave camps if they didn't answer positively.
White people are so fucking racist and they don't care, little brown kids like me must realize that the Chinese commies are evil and want to take away my reddit.
2025 and this loser brings up "tiny man square" and how he saw bullet holes when he went there and that no one knows it exists bro NOBODY CARES but you fucks.
They're so fucking isolated from what matters. No one gives a shit about uyghur culture, or hong kong or taiwan. This shit is so far from mattering in the slightest to anyone yet it's somehow the center of the world to the most privileged people.
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Belly_Beanis [he/him] - 9mon
Ask your professor for a letter of recommendation for Lockheed-Martin's summer internship program as a bit.
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Lussy [he/him, des/pair] - 9mon
White people are so fucking racist and they don't care, little brown kids like me must realize that the Chinese commies are evil and want to take away my reddit.
Are you brown and have you been to China before? How are you sure of how you’ll be treated there?
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hello_hello [comrade/them] - 9mon
I'm more USAmerican than bangladeshi tbf once I open my mouth. I've never been to China before but they'll most likely just treat me as another laowai.
At least I wouldn't be detained at the border and harassed by state thugs for thinking genocide is bad. I'd take any weird stares/micro-aggressions from ignorant locals over having my life de-valued at every turn.
The worst thing about people like him is that they somehow have the gall to compare the US and China and say "at least here we have our FreeDUMBS!!! The US isn't perfect but at least I can learn about that" (conveniently not actually change anything)
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Sandouq_Dyatha @lemmy.ml - 9mon
I complain about the slightest issue to a first worlder, and their only response is to immigrate to Europe or America.
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CrookedSerpent [she/her] - 9mon
COME TO BRAZIL
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peripateticpeasant [none/use name] - 9mon
I have a university field trip coming up. I told the organizers that it would clash with Eid last year but they said that the schedule was tight.
I am still going to wear my traditional clothes on that day, even if we will be walking through mud and rain (it’s also off-white). I have decided.
Wish me luck
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hello_hello [comrade/them] - 9mon
you will come out relatively unscathed.
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homhom9000 [she/her] - 9mon
Couple of white people at my job were promoted to principal roles with little to no experience. They got it for being at the company too long and basically having no other roles to take. This is relevant because whiteys are back to complaining that black people only get things handed to them and "didn't earn it". I remember hearing similar sentiments in high school from white kids who just sucked at school. Whiteys have an inferiority complex and when Vivek called them dumb it was hilarious.
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Belly_Beanis [he/him] - 9mon
Black people with no felonies are less likely to get job interviews than white people with felonies. Most alumni scholarships go to white kids. Students with the highest SAT scores and GPAs are mostly Jews, Mormons, Ethiopians, Somalians, and Asians, yet cisshit WASPs have higher acceptance rates, scholarships awarded, and higher salaries despite the metrics for measuring academic performance being the same or worse than EMPoCs.
The list goes on for examples of minorities doing 110% of the work, while Whitey gets by on only 45%.
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homhom9000 [she/her] - 9mon
They need to come to terms that their mediocre can go far just because they're white.
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sweet_pecan [love/loves, they/them] - 9mon
mental health so bad but more productive then ive ever been in my life, i have so much responsibility its crushing but im holding it all together but barely. at least i have amazing comrades the best anyone could ask for.
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Rojo27 [he/him] - 9mon
I can relate, especially now that I don't really have anyone else can rely on like I did for the past 3 years. What's worse is that the team i have now is creating more problems than the usual bs I have to deal with so it's just made it more stressful. It's starting to affect other parts of my life where im just feeling a lot more negative about things and snapping at people a bit more than I had before without noticing.
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star_sparkling_soda [they/them, he/him] - 9mon
Hug!! 🫂🫂
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Frogmanfromlake [none/use name] - 9mon
I’ve been noticing a growing trend in my area of brown women dating black men. Something you would have never seen twenty years ago without significant backlash. We’re in a more rural area where white worship is unfortunately more common so it’s nice to see the trend being bucked. Brown men disappointingly continue to shun dating black women
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Frogmanfromlake [none/use name] - 9mon
I just realized Kat Blaque has more subscribers and gets more views than Vaush now lmao
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SevenSkalls [he/him] - 8mon
That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I think I watched a couple of her videos back when I watched a lot of the Breadtube creators (Contrapoints, Lindsay Ellis, T1J, hbomberguy, Shaun, etc).
Most of that old guard either got less political and less interesting to me as I continued my political journey left, or just made a lot less videos as time went on. Which I get, sometimes you can only talk about a topic for so long before saying everything you wanted to say. I still watch the occasional one a few of them release every blue moon, but that's every 1-3 years for a Shaun or hbomberguy, maybe slightly more often for someone like Thought Slime, but still rare.
Wonder how Kat's videos have been all this time. Surprised the algorithm hasn't sent her my way.
::: spoiler Kinda Unrelated rant
She's probably way better than Vaush, but man I'd love to find a good, unapologetically commie black content creator, just applying Marxism and materialism to black liberation and revolutionary thought, not attached to the Democratic Party, solidarity with AES states, etc. Closest I have is FD Signifier, who's great, but would would love to have someone else I could develop a parasocial relationship so as not to feel like such a minority in my area lol. His latest video about where YouTube is throwing his suggestions made it even more obvious that other than Lil Bill (who's also great but doesn't like USSR or Mao, which makes me cock an eyebrow) there's no one else really in this radical black space, it has to throw him to either white leftist creators or black liberals in the suggested list after his videos. But then, it's a niche of a niche, so I get it. Just don't like it.
:::
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Frogmanfromlake [none/use name] - 8mon
I can imagine it being difficult with the social environment in the US being what it is. There was an African Communist from Kenya I remember being active at one point but can’t remember their name for the life of me.
Breadtube’s old guard seem content to cover pop culture and that’s fine. Never really saw most of them as hard leftists. Is Shaun still making videos? His videos on political topics were some of the most impactful to come out of breadtube.
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SevenSkalls [he/him] - 8mon
Ya, exactly, it's fine. They were all good Dem Socs / progressive liberals that could move people left through pop culture analysis, and it was good enough to kickstart the pipeline left they had going for awhile there. They don't really need to be anything more political or theoretical than that and I don't really expect them to be.
I think Shaun still does one every 3 or more years years. Like the last one was a year or so ago about conservatives freaking out about woke video games, so the next one won't be for awhile lol.
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Frogmanfromlake [none/use name] - 8mon
I always find it interesting when hearing stories about white Americans suffering from dementia. They forget everything from the name of their kids to what they even look like. But they never forget to say the n word when a non-white person shows up.
Shows just how deep the racism runs for them.
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anarchoilluminati [comrade/them] - 8mon
So true. My grandma got Alzheimer's for many years and forgot her own children, couldn't remember anything, but would go around and tell everyone she saw how beautiful they were and how much she loved them.
People pretend like every person who loses their mind is going to be some wildly racist angry person, as if it's a given. Nah, they're just saying that shit because that's what was actually living inside them the entire time. A whole ass country like that.
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vegeta1 [he/him] - 8mon
Shit how many mental breakdowns have you seen that becomes racial right quick? A fuckton. It runs real deep.
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Sandouq_Dyatha @lemmy.ml - 9mon
"THANK YOU FOR VISITING OUR COUNTRY", he's here to do tourism at best and exploiting people at the worst, why are they thanking them? if you visited their country do you think they'll be thanking your colored ass too?
Read that Anders Breivik dated an eastern European. She said that a lot of the convos were him shit talking her culture, saying how backwards they are, how their food was radioactive due to Chernobyl all that. If I had a nickel for all the similar stories like I hear from people around here......
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anarchoilluminati [comrade/them] - 8mon
Anti-Slav shit in Europe is so wild to me. Even the Italians are accepted now.
I don't have a good analysis of it. They must really see them as 'Asiatic'?
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vegeta1 [he/him] - 8mon
I've got nothing. Its so weird to me. They use em when convinient like when talking about "traditional" values like fox news does but make sure to create that seperation with the quickness
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Frogmanfromlake [none/use name] - 9mon
Welcome Lemmygraders! Good to have you all back.
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vegeta1 [he/him] - 9mon
You choke out the bare minimum DEI and you're giving out military secrets, ya planes crashing, you're considering hiring kids because the immigrants you're exploiting are being deported and your govt is in shambles. Sliding into chaos like
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Angel [any] - 8mon
"There's no such a thing as anti-white racism!"
vs.
"There is such a thing as anti-white racism, and I harbor tons of it."
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Belly_Beanis [he/him] - 8mon
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Belly_Beanis [he/him] - 9mon
Baking wood and tea leaves makes the kitchen smell really good tbh
What are you using to make these? Or you playing everything yourself and mixing it together?
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Angel [any] - 9mon
It's MIDI!
I'm only the bass player and vocalist, but I don't have band members right now so I just use an easy programming of guitars and drums. I also still program the bass too because my tracks are written for 7-string bass, and I currently don't have a 7-string. I used to play 6 string basses regularly, but I lost that after leaving [man responsible for my birth]'s house and never coming back to retrieve it.
I write music two ways, depending on whichever I'm vibing with: MuseScore and Songsterr. Songsterr is good and easy for tabs, and it's a website rather than a program so you can handle it all in a browser, but MuseScore is better for sheet notation.
Songsterr comes with high-quality audio, and I typically just plug that into my DAW (Ableton) and mix it to sound a bit better; that's how I made this one.
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 9mon
Got the whole colorism stuck in my mind, I'm pretty brown as is but like I need to go out and get some vitamin D more often. I know I just need to debrainworm and use sun screen but yeah. Moreno what I'm called, hate how it's been so ridgedly tiered in my mind.
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Angel [any] - 9mon
I decided to add a chilling interlude to the song, and honestly, I gotta go 100000000000000% with the breakdown I plan to add after this.
Hearing something eerie and unsettling like this only for it to lead into a weak section would be a disgrace! It starts around 1:48.
It sounds somewhat spacey, and I like that because I decided to name this song "Supernova Funeral," so it fits.
What I got so far is, of course, quite repetitive, but I thought that fit the song, as sometimes variety can ruin the vibe. With this just being Earth-crushing heaviness, I thought it would work well. I intend for the sections with the ambient clean guitar to serve as the verses and the portions without it to be a refrain/hook of some sort. Obviously, I'm doing unclean vocals over this, as this is the most death metal thing I've written so far.
Originally, I was doing the typical drop E guitars and B standard bass, but I decided to downtune it by a whole step, making the guitar tuning an 8-string drop D₁ (D₁–A₁–D₂–G₂–C₃–F₃–A₃–D₄) and the bass tuning a 7-string A standard (A₀–D₁–G₁–C₂–F₂–B♭₂–E♭₃). It gives me "What if Death was a modern djent band?" vibes.
I kept the bass a bit loud so you can hear them fills bleed through.
Kinda mid. I may have an update on my weird ass stomach pain, so hopefully the upcoming test I have to do will finally find the problem. Still stuck around too many white liberals and have restrictions on what activities I do because disability.
Oscillating wildly between rage, fear, and delusional optimism. The usual.
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thelastaxolotl [he/him] - 9mon
Im doing well, only hard thing this week is an exam tomorrow
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peripateticpeasant [none/use name] - 8mon
Update
Just finished the university fieldtrip.
Was able to wear the traditional clothes for Eid without much issue. The weather was quite nice that day. Got some insane golden hour pictures at the beach thanks to a coursemate.
Now I’ll have some time to chill with family before deadlines come up.
reading the comments under IShowSpeed clips is something, it can literally be "speed getting called a monkey compilation" and comments will be "he's bringing people together" "he's so cool because he knows it's a joke" "he doesn't take himself seriously", anyhow, thoughts on him?
It is an example of Black culture and expression being commodified and repackaged after being stripped of what made it unique and valuable in the first place. His content is extremely low brow but it's a reflection of the current Silicon Valley internet zeitgeist.
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HexReplyBot [none/use name] - 8mon
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
thelastaxolotl in em_poc
EM & PoC bi-weekly thread 24/03/2025 and 31/03/2025
Hello my comrades
Remember no crackers
Me mentioning how I want to go to China for grad school or work for CS and my white CS professor being like "Why do you want to go to a repressive regime?"
I lightly explain that a majority of Chinese people hold the opinion that they support the government and that China's industrial sector is far more mature and exciting than anything the US can offer.
Then he says that the chinese government can make up anything they want because the people would be sent to slave camps if they didn't answer positively.
White people are so fucking racist and they don't care, little brown kids like me must realize that the Chinese commies are evil and want to take away my reddit.
2025 and this loser brings up "tiny man square" and how he saw bullet holes when he went there and that no one knows it exists bro NOBODY CARES but you
fucks.
They're so fucking isolated from what matters. No one gives a shit about uyghur culture, or hong kong or taiwan. This shit is so far from mattering in the slightest to anyone yet it's somehow the center of the world to the most privileged people.
Ask your professor for a letter of recommendation for Lockheed-Martin's summer internship program as a bit.
Are you brown and have you been to China before? How are you sure of how you’ll be treated there?
I'm more USAmerican than bangladeshi tbf once I open my mouth. I've never been to China before but they'll most likely just treat me as another laowai.
At least I wouldn't be detained at the border and harassed by state thugs for thinking genocide is bad. I'd take any weird stares/micro-aggressions from ignorant locals over having my life de-valued at every turn.
The worst thing about people like him is that they somehow have the gall to compare the US and China and say "at least here we have our FreeDUMBS!!! The US isn't perfect but at least I can learn about that" (conveniently not actually change anything)
I complain about the slightest issue to a first worlder, and their only response is to immigrate to Europe or America.
COME TO BRAZIL
I have a university field trip coming up. I told the organizers that it would clash with Eid last year but they said that the schedule was tight.
I am still going to wear my traditional clothes on that day, even if we will be walking through mud and rain (it’s also off-white). I have decided.
Wish me luck
Couple of white people at my job were promoted to principal roles with little to no experience. They got it for being at the company too long and basically having no other roles to take. This is relevant because whiteys are back to complaining that black people only get things handed to them and "didn't earn it". I remember hearing similar sentiments in high school from white kids who just sucked at school. Whiteys have an inferiority complex and when Vivek called them dumb it was hilarious.
Black people with no felonies are less likely to get job interviews than white people with felonies. Most alumni scholarships go to white kids. Students with the highest SAT scores and GPAs are mostly Jews, Mormons, Ethiopians, Somalians, and Asians, yet cisshit WASPs have higher acceptance rates, scholarships awarded, and higher salaries despite the metrics for measuring academic performance being the same or worse than EMPoCs.
The list goes on for examples of minorities doing 110% of the work, while Whitey gets by on only 45%.
They need to come to terms that their mediocre can go far just because they're white.
mental health so bad but more productive then ive ever been in my life, i have so much responsibility its crushing but im holding it all together but barely. at least i have amazing comrades the best anyone could ask for.
I can relate, especially now that I don't really have anyone else can rely on like I did for the past 3 years. What's worse is that the team i have now is creating more problems than the usual bs I have to deal with so it's just made it more stressful. It's starting to affect other parts of my life where im just feeling a lot more negative about things and snapping at people a bit more than I had before without noticing.
Hug!! 🫂🫂
I’ve been noticing a growing trend in my area of brown women dating black men. Something you would have never seen twenty years ago without significant backlash. We’re in a more rural area where white worship is unfortunately more common so it’s nice to see the trend being bucked. Brown men disappointingly continue to shun dating black women
I just realized Kat Blaque has more subscribers and gets more views than Vaush now lmao
That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I think I watched a couple of her videos back when I watched a lot of the Breadtube creators (Contrapoints, Lindsay Ellis, T1J, hbomberguy, Shaun, etc).
Most of that old guard either got less political and less interesting to me as I continued my political journey left, or just made a lot less videos as time went on. Which I get, sometimes you can only talk about a topic for so long before saying everything you wanted to say. I still watch the occasional one a few of them release every blue moon, but that's every 1-3 years for a Shaun or hbomberguy, maybe slightly more often for someone like Thought Slime, but still rare.
Wonder how Kat's videos have been all this time. Surprised the algorithm hasn't sent her my way.
::: spoiler Kinda Unrelated rant She's probably way better than Vaush, but man I'd love to find a good, unapologetically commie black content creator, just applying Marxism and materialism to black liberation and revolutionary thought, not attached to the Democratic Party, solidarity with AES states, etc. Closest I have is FD Signifier, who's great, but would would love to have someone else I could develop a parasocial relationship so as not to feel like such a minority in my area lol. His latest video about where YouTube is throwing his suggestions made it even more obvious that other than Lil Bill (who's also great but doesn't like USSR or Mao, which makes me cock an eyebrow) there's no one else really in this radical black space, it has to throw him to either white leftist creators or black liberals in the suggested list after his videos. But then, it's a niche of a niche, so I get it. Just don't like it. :::
I can imagine it being difficult with the social environment in the US being what it is. There was an African Communist from Kenya I remember being active at one point but can’t remember their name for the life of me.
Breadtube’s old guard seem content to cover pop culture and that’s fine. Never really saw most of them as hard leftists. Is Shaun still making videos? His videos on political topics were some of the most impactful to come out of breadtube.
Ya, exactly, it's fine. They were all good Dem Socs / progressive liberals that could move people left through pop culture analysis, and it was good enough to kickstart the pipeline left they had going for awhile there. They don't really need to be anything more political or theoretical than that and I don't really expect them to be.
I think Shaun still does one every 3 or more years years. Like the last one was a year or so ago about conservatives freaking out about woke video games, so the next one won't be for awhile lol.
I always find it interesting when hearing stories about white Americans suffering from dementia. They forget everything from the name of their kids to what they even look like. But they never forget to say the n word when a non-white person shows up.
Shows just how deep the racism runs for them.
So true. My grandma got Alzheimer's for many years and forgot her own children, couldn't remember anything, but would go around and tell everyone she saw how beautiful they were and how much she loved them.
People pretend like every person who loses their mind is going to be some wildly racist angry person, as if it's a given. Nah, they're just saying that shit because that's what was actually living inside them the entire time. A whole ass country like that.
Shit how many mental breakdowns have you seen that becomes racial right quick? A fuckton. It runs real deep.
"THANK YOU FOR VISITING OUR COUNTRY", he's here to do tourism at best and exploiting people at the worst, why are they thanking them? if you visited their country do you think they'll be thanking your colored ass too?
You read my mind.
Hope all of you comrades are doing well!
You too, tovarshi
Read that Anders Breivik dated an eastern European. She said that a lot of the convos were him shit talking her culture, saying how backwards they are, how their food was radioactive due to Chernobyl all that. If I had a nickel for all the similar stories like I hear from people around here......
Anti-Slav shit in Europe is so wild to me. Even the Italians are accepted now.
I don't have a good analysis of it. They must really see them as 'Asiatic'?
I've got nothing. Its so weird to me. They use em when convinient like when talking about "traditional" values like fox news does but make sure to create that seperation with the quickness
Welcome Lemmygraders! Good to have you all back.
You choke out the bare minimum DEI and you're giving out military secrets, ya planes crashing, you're considering hiring kids because the immigrants you're exploiting are being deported and your govt is in shambles. Sliding into chaos like
"There's no such a thing as anti-white racism!"
vs.
"There is such a thing as anti-white racism, and I harbor tons of it."
Baking wood and tea leaves makes the kitchen smell really good tbh
I started drafting the next song, and I came up with this riff.
WARNING: heavy af
Edit: expanded upon it a bit. Added variations, a quiet drum intro, and that fucking bass fill, my God
\M/
What are you using to make these? Or you playing everything yourself and mixing it together?
It's MIDI!
I'm only the bass player and vocalist, but I don't have band members right now so I just use an easy programming of guitars and drums. I also still program the bass too because my tracks are written for 7-string bass, and I currently don't have a 7-string. I used to play 6 string basses regularly, but I lost that after leaving [man responsible for my birth]'s house and never coming back to retrieve it.
I write music two ways, depending on whichever I'm vibing with: MuseScore and Songsterr. Songsterr is good and easy for tabs, and it's a website rather than a program so you can handle it all in a browser, but MuseScore is better for sheet notation.
Songsterr comes with high-quality audio, and I typically just plug that into my DAW (Ableton) and mix it to sound a bit better; that's how I made this one.
Got the whole colorism stuck in my mind, I'm pretty brown as is but like I need to go out and get some vitamin D more often. I know I just need to debrainworm and use sun screen but yeah. Moreno what I'm called, hate how it's been so ridgedly tiered in my mind.
I decided to add a chilling interlude to the song, and honestly, I gotta go 100000000000000% with the breakdown I plan to add after this.
Hearing something eerie and unsettling like this only for it to lead into a weak section would be a disgrace! It starts around 1:48.
It sounds somewhat spacey, and I like that because I decided to name this song "Supernova Funeral," so it fits.
What I got so far is, of course, quite repetitive, but I thought that fit the song, as sometimes variety can ruin the vibe. With this just being Earth-crushing heaviness, I thought it would work well. I intend for the sections with the ambient clean guitar to serve as the verses and the portions without it to be a refrain/hook of some sort. Obviously, I'm doing unclean vocals over this, as this is the most death metal thing I've written so far.
Originally, I was doing the typical drop E guitars and B standard bass, but I decided to downtune it by a whole step, making the guitar tuning an 8-string drop D₁ (D₁–A₁–D₂–G₂–C₃–F₃–A₃–D₄) and the bass tuning a 7-string A standard (A₀–D₁–G₁–C₂–F₂–B♭₂–E♭₃). It gives me "What if Death was a modern djent band?" vibes.
I kept the bass a bit loud so you can hear them fills bleed through.
Here it is.
UPDATE: I'd argue that I was successful.
I finally got around to wrapping this one up.
I honestly was procrastinating. I decided to make this one under 4 minutes.
Here's a rough mix.
Funky slap bassline in the chorus, hehe.
EM & PoC Nation.... How we feeling?
Kinda mid. I may have an update on my weird ass stomach pain, so hopefully the upcoming test I have to do will finally find the problem. Still stuck around too many white liberals and have restrictions on what activities I do because disability.
Breaking, but hanging on
Good, how of you?
Oscillating wildly between rage, fear, and delusional optimism. The usual.
Im doing well, only hard thing this week is an exam tomorrow
Update
Just finished the university fieldtrip.
Was able to wear the traditional clothes for Eid without much issue. The weather was quite nice that day. Got some insane golden hour pictures at the beach thanks to a coursemate.
Now I’ll have some time to chill with family before deadlines come up.
Chill well, peripatetic
reading the comments under IShowSpeed clips is something, it can literally be "speed getting called a monkey compilation" and comments will be "he's bringing people together" "he's so cool because he knows it's a joke" "he doesn't take himself seriously", anyhow, thoughts on him?
Tirrb made a video on it that I'd recommend if you haven't seen it: https://youtu.be/teyZIt7M7Sk
It is an example of Black culture and expression being commodified and repackaged after being stripped of what made it unique and valuable in the first place. His content is extremely low brow but it's a reflection of the current Silicon Valley internet zeitgeist.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/06/us/national-parks-underground-railroad-harriet-tubman/index.html Truly a racist shithole and always has been
Yo, this thread still open