southsamurai

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southsamurai @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

Bold of you to assume anyone has thick and healthy enough hair to have layers

southsamurai @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

Which, btw, I had to get some and enjoy them because of this lol

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southsamurai @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

That is a very confusing set of criteria. You want someone like two specific artists in the title, then name two specific bands/artists in the text that are radically different from those in the title (not to mention each other tbh)

That being said, you might like Norah Jones. Haim has a similar vibe to Merton, though I'm not sure either is specifically "romantic" overall.

There's Sade for another smooth soul voice.

Toni Braxton might scratch an Adele-ish itch. At least her early stuff.

Kinda spitballing here. But there wouldn't be an Adele without Aretha, Nina Simone, and Etta James. I would even argue that those three are the greatest voices in soul, and rank high with any genre open to comparison. Shit, even if you don't like them, you gotta listen to some of their stuff (assuming you haven't) just to understand the foundation of soul. Yeah, there are men that could have their own top three like that, but op specified female singers by their examples. (Shout out to Barry White and Marvin Gaye in particular)

Ooh! Joss Stone! Gotta give her a listen. Not as smooth as some of the queens listed above, but just as much depth.

Corinne Bailey Rae is worth it too.

A bit less well known, but Allison Young does a solid retro-jazz style that's not quite in the same zone, but her voice is so good you should try her out anyway.

I dunno, my brain has hit a wall trying to circle back into Motown, which is n amazing musical destination to hit, but not quite the same vibe as Adele brings, but informed the underpinnings of a lot of later singers. Diana Ross alone could take the crown in that regard. But Motown covers a wide range of styles, which makes it a great music era/genre/whatever-you-wanna-call-it to dive into when looking for romantic music.

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southsamurai @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

Baldur's gate 3, tiny Tina's wonderlands, ff7, annnnd I'm not sure. The fourth and fifth slots are harder.

I would say pacman, but even if you gave me the arcade game for free, I don't think I could play it worth a damn now. Same with centipede (they were my favorites back in the day, but pacman I was good at).

The original Mario Kart could be in there. And I can't pretend that need for speed carbon couldn't compete for a spot either. I think I'd take Kart over Carbon though.

Yeah, fuck it, pacman and Mario kart. Those are the last two spots.

No! Wait!

Neverwinter, the mmorpg. Fuck mariokart, I'd take that one, assuming I could either have ai teammates that didn't suck, or could just keep a server for it running without cost/effort. Loved that game. Technically still love it, but when I stopped playing for a while, I got power crept and didn't want to play ptw style like it turned into. But my haste cleric? Fuck yeah!

southsamurai @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

I'm not giving up drumming >!my fingers on my phone while waiting for the damn nurse to get off hers and take my damn blood pressure before hearing her personal life on blast makes my heart explode!<

southsamurai @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

Yeah, shit creeps up on you.

southsamurai @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

So that's what those wands are for! Mixing cookie dough. No wonder the motors are so strong

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southsamurai @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

Three chocolate chip and one oatmeal!

southsamurai @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

I mean, dude does seem pretty rapey. I wouldn't leave my chickens alone with him.

southsamurai @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

Exactly :)

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southsamurai @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

Well, yeah. Getting poetry published in the first place is an uphill battle, even compared to prose publishing. It's been a long time since poetry was core to pop culture, despite the occasional surges. Which means there's no money in it unless you somehow manage to have the right connections and a lot of luck.

That, in turn, disincentivizes writers from after actively working on poetry. It becomes a much more casual thing, which means that the craft of it rarely gets honed the way other branches of writing do.

There's less written, in part because there's less read, which leads to lower quality work, which decreases interest, which decreases cash flow, which means less gets written. It's a spiral.

Poetry as a hobby is viable. Poetry as anything to try and get others to read is much less so.

Hell, i don't think I've written a serious poem in a decade. Some occasional lines will pop in my head, I jot them down, but they never connect or spark a continuance. I do the occasional bit of drivel, or a rhymed joke. Even a jokey song once, but even if I was cranking them out like I did as a teenager, I wouldn't even bother posting them on lemmy, much less a more poetry-centric place

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southsamurai @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

I mean, a knife is a great gift. I wouldn't recommend storing one in whiskey though.

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southsamurai @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

Nah, it's only gay if you like it

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southsamurai @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

I think the app ecosystem of Smart Cats is good enough to make up for the loss in simplicity from Stupid Cats

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southsamurai @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

One problem

Batteries.

I've used old devices as many things: security cameras, a form of intercom, digital picture frames, etc. The real problem is that the batteries eventually go bad, and become dangerous.

For the few devices that have realistically replaceable batteries, that's no big deal, but how many of those are left now?

No thanks to the potential fire, I'll pass. The few devices I have left that I can swap batteries out are becoming harder to find new batteries for as well, so that's an issue beyond their anemic hardware (I'm talking really old tablets at this point)

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southsamurai @sh.itjust.works 1mo ago

Oh boy! Dogging in the park at night! Can't wait to get into some of that!