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ideal living situation is what i call the 'sitcom special' : having all your closest friends live in the same apartment building or neighborhood where you each have your own space but can wander in and out of eachothers homes at will, seemingly always welcome and never at bad times. and also all of you only have jobs when its important to the plot.

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borb (bunny orb)

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buny stream, hop in

it's time for the finale of Penny and Cherie's gay little pokemon adventure (i think), cuz tonight I'm hoping to finish off the rest of PMD Explorers' postgame story! not satisfied with merely pissing off Time, Team Funy Buny now has to punch Space too. let's do it! come hang out!

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Finally finished up this comic based on this post

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so I have a fren that just downloaded all the songs she likes and plays em using VLC media player on her phone, I'm planning to do the same. I'm kinda confused why people would bother switching to another streaming service at all instead of just doing that? Idunno I have all my songs downloaded on spotify atm anyway, so I don't think I have to worry about it taking up too much space on my phone, but maybe some people are worried about that

I dunno, I think to some extent it's just a matter of making a big, somewhat complicated step (quitting Spotify and locating/downloading ALL your music to play on an offline player) into a less big, less complicated one (quitting Spotify in favor of a better platform that actually pays artists but also has similar and familiar functionality to what you're used to). telling people to go buy stuff on Bandcamp or wherever is great if it's actually available for sale in those places (and I think the stance of "literally just pirating music is ethically equal or better for artists than using spotify" is fairly reasonable), but some artists seem to JUST put stuff on streaming services, so if a person feels particularly scrupulous about supporting them in some way then just moving to a better streaming service is a more natural choice.

personally, the main appeal of streaming services for me in the past (mostly just Google Play Music, which later became YouTube Music and now completely sucks shit so I stopped paying for it years ago lol) hasn't been algorithmic recommendations or whatever - I literally avoid those like the plague and immediately tab over to my library whenever I open the app. mostly I just like being able to hear/be recommended a song or artist, look it up quickly, and if I like it I can 1. add it to my manually-curated playlists on the spot and 2. listen to other stuff by that artist and see if they've got other stuff I enjoy, all in one place, without needing to get on my computer and convert files or whatever. it also makes it a lot easier to find out when artists I like put out new stuff, because before streaming services I literally went like a decade just playing offline files without realizing two of my favorite bands from highschool had put out multiple new albums.

there IS value to that kind of streamlined convenience for those who want it, it just isn't worth the cost (monetary OR moral) of using something like Spotify specifically. if you can find a way to get that functionality without supporting dogshit companies that fund military AI and don't pay their musicians, then I think that's a totally respectable thing to seek out. you should definitely still buy/download music where possible tho, since none of these platforms are gonna last

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"people just don't seek out music anymore and that's why spotify is such a vital service in helping artists get discovered and paid"

hey. buddy. listen 2 me. my fixation on the band sElf is because twenty seconds of a song of theirs was backing a monster hunter world gameplay clip someome posted to a now-dead twitter account. A hand-curated music playlist for a VRChat world I accidentally typo'd my way into introduced me to Superorganism's "It's All Good" a few years ago. Crumb's two albums Jinx and Ice Melt are among the highest number of full-album playthroughs in my library because i caught a shitty recording of Locket playing in-car over a snippet of someone's dash cam footage audio that was lifted for a youtube clip compilation channel someone else runs. back in 2011 my high school forced my entire grade to watch an anti-bullying PSA that ran on for 40 minutes but the credits had Dabrye's "Making It Pay" playing over it and that set me on the path to exploring all of Ghostly International's available music releases i could get my paws on at the time.

like. i've discovered music in the most obtuse places, often via the most unlicensed conduits those tunes could've possibly accompanied, and i can say with one hundred percent sincerity that the $9 i've spent just once on a digital album or two so i could listen to it again and again has probably put more food on the table of these musicians than spotify's "minimum one thousand streams annually per-song before payouts" discovery playback ever could achieve across a decade for many of these folks. i promise this isn't a brag, I just don't know how else to explain that spotify really isn't the only viable path forward when music permeates every facet of this world and all you have to do is take note when something catches your ear. the only thing truly making it harder to discover new music is licensing restrictions, automated Content-ID matching, and the universal/sony/warner music trio regularly leveraging both of the former to ensure your favorite song has an expiration date by tamping down on all of this, and unless you can hunt down a copy to save locally, a time will come when you'll never be able to hear that favorite song again. this isn't a threat; you and me both are going to outlive this service, as we've outlived many other online-only services before it.

(and i say this with complete sincerity to those not in a financially viable place to buy albums on the reg: just slurp the .wav off youtube homie. compared to spotify, the net gain to the individual artist is exactly the same. who knows, maybe you'll be able to inadvertently pass it along to someone else who's able to go and make that purchase, as others have unknowingly done to me. word of mouth alone is a /very/ powerful discovery tool)

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This is what it looks like when the pile of fluff from grooming your bunny finally gains sentience

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what the hell ever. swamp rabbit ^

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whatever cute shit a game has got going on is never worth a gambling addiction

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FINALLY got around to dumping Spotify after their CEO continued to prove he's a fresh turd. (As if being a billionaire, not paying musicians, shoving AI garbage at us, and having an atrocious carbon footprint wasn't bad enough, he's now the chair of a AI-based weapons manufacturing company.)

I used TuneMyMusic ($24 annual fee you can cancel immediately, effectively paying only once) to transfer almost every single song from our Spotify account to Tidal. Tidal already has much better sound quality and they pay their artists much better. It migrated over 99% of our music, too, so there wasn't a huge loss.

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seabuny stream, hop in

damn, I just finished the first Splatoon and they've ALREADY got a second one for me to play?? wild. what WILL they think of next...

anyways hi i'm gonna play through Splatoon 2's Hero Mode (the main story campaign) on stream tonight! come hang out and enjoy squid games with me

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