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World in Conflict + Doom (2016) = World War Doom Set in an alternative 20th century in which both world wars and the subsequent cold war took place despite no major leaps in weaponry or aviation technology. Instead, demonology and necromancy are the norm in this world and the great powers duked it out with increasingly abominable conjurings and undead outrages against nature.

The Powerpuff Girls are not victorious, Zaraki, you're just being paranoid.

Giuseppe Spagnulo, Senza titolo (Ferri e Fuoco series)

Shine the brightest torch you own into it's face, and see how it likes it. There's a dozen or so giant crane flies in my living room and I'm afraid they know that I'm more scared of them than they are of me. What should I do?

Whilst I'm pretty sure nobody here will be particularly interested, I just found out that an Italian artist I was rather fond of called Giuseppe Spagnulo died last wednesday, at 79 due to what I assume are natural causes. He made abstract sculptures and paintings that tended toward concrete literalism and a degree of conceptual rhetoric prevalent in the 60's and 70's. I've always liked his artwork because, to me, they resemble some hitherto unknown species of urban growth, undeniably and shabbily organic in appearance despite their formalist shapes. A sad day for the ever diminishing family of arte povera ("poor art") advocates.

This is right up my street DeWolfeJV, I'm not surprised to find out you're a fellow midlander As a region we seem to have a knack for dark and disquieting music. I find the harsher spectrum of ambient that this piece exemplifies is harder to come by in experimental circles, most artists leaning towards gentler and more introspective sound manipulation or else emitting full blown walls of noise - neither of which is a bad thing by any means! It's just good to hear something that sustains a tension between "noise" and "ambience" so effectively. If you haven't already heard of them, I dare say you might enjoy the Swedish band Ulwhednar and the the American musician Daniel Menche. Both excel at composing long dread-inducing songs that hover between the extreme/mediative spectrum.

Pink Metal ^ I don't see why black metal musicians don't find contrasting backgrounds more often in their promotional photographs more. Just have corpse-painted Norwegian bandmates standing in Subway or next to a bouncy castle. A subgenre that would both anticipate and subvert the macho and suspiciously heterosexual expectations of many metalheads. The tag Pink Metal might sound like a either a desperately ironic tribute to a much more sincere strain of metal, or else some cynical ploy imagined by a feverish marketing executive to push metal onto a decidedly un-metal demographic. But does it inadvertently have to be like that? What if someone took the camp, garish, historical and abstract qualities of "pinkness" to heart? Beyond the binary attachments to the colour shackling pinkness to a mainstream and painfully limited notion of femininity? Could it not be something equal in extremity and uniqueness that Black Metal has evolved into? Pinkness isn't entirely alien to Black Metal. There are rare LP copies of Venom's record Black Metal pressed onto hot pink vinyl, and if we take pinkness as an inevitable (though sometimes unwelcome) symbol of queer culture, I could think of a few underground French BM acts that embrace the harsher and subversive elements of that counter-culture. Pink Metal could be an equal but antithetical answer to the less liberal more masculinist tone of Black Metal, like queercore did for the slow burning crisis that left punk to fend off appropriation by NS losers and general manly boneheads. Sub-Pink Metal Genres: Magenta Metal, Puce Metal, Pastel Post-Pink Metal

I wanted to make a joke about this thread has become the "Rarity Hates Everything" subforum, but I figured he/she might fly through the internet and punch me into another plane of existence... (you know I'm just kidding, I also apologize for not actually knowing your gender) I really wish the managers at Asda would grasp that I'm actually capable of doing my job without spending the entire time micromanaging my shift and fixating on desperately unimportant things. Like the fact that one beige crate turned up on a shelf filled with black ones - which I didn't even put there. I've honestly had so many altercations with senior staff over the last decade or so that it's a miracle I haven't been sacked. I guess they figured they can't afford to let go of the one person working on my department who actually knows how to put a box on top on another box, or put food on an empty shelf without immediately falling over and mysteriously combusting into flames. The store manager asked me for the seven billionth time in several hours if I was working the stock I was in the process of working as I was working it, and I sarcastically replied that I wasn't and was instead planning on starting a back-alley abortion clinic in the produce department. Working in retail will turn you into a genocidal maniac, trust me.

(I'm not on Deviantart, I'm afraid) I'm always said "wav" to be totally honest with you Jeb. After you've read BTG's Wiki link it'll probably turn out that we've all be pronouncing wrong the whole time. I'm sure some smarty pants has worked out that it's actually pronounced as a high pitched "QVVVVVB" drawn out for as long as your breath can allow, or that the correct pronunciation completely lacks any vocal or even auditory components, instead we are supposed to refer to the file format by holding up a blue tinted photograph of a King Charles Spaniel. You never know! :3

Dark Allies by Light Asylum

I vaguely recall playing Black & White, I enjoyed those two floating guides that represented your good and evil qualities. I also found the idea of god just being a giant disembodied hand deeply amusing for reasons I can't quite explain.

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+1 Make that a +2 BTG. Trump didn't waste any time leaping on this to further his black and white narratives for the kind of people that the lowest common denominator regard as being the lowest common denominator. The man's cynical political careering is like the best parody of a statesmen I've ever seen, except he is a living, breathing, actual person. How long will it take America to do something about its gun laws? Are we talking years? Decades? A few more centuries of wilful denial and flimsy excuses of a distressing tendency towards advocacy for gun access.

Hmm. The 23rd is inexorably creeping up on us, and I'm still not 100% certain about my vote. I guess I'm still leaning towards remaining.

I like it! Personally I wouldn't just stick to guns either, why not start at a prehistoric/pre homo-sapien level with only your fists and low cunning to get by. Eventually through levelling up you can gain access to improvised weapons, the advent of metallurgy, armour upgrades, and then somewhat later on you research and earn guns. Much much later on you can even acquire advanced explosives, and then veer off into sheer sci-fi territory with genetically pre-programmed nano-swarms and psionic augmented attacks?

Fentiman's Dandelion & Burdock.

(It's okay, I like games with absurd titles) Planetside 2 + Worms World Party = Vermisapiens: Online The massively multiplayer and online release of the extremely famous and not-in-the-least-bit-made-up game franchise about the last remnants of an ugly and primitive humanity waging war with the far more intelligent and dominant species of sapient giant earthworms.

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It's an extremely bigoted forum populated by very un-bigoted users.

"They call me Mojo Ball Z..."

Pfft. Only someone who doesn't listen to hypnagogic doom crunk would say that.

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