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Since it's release, I have assumed this track was absolute rubbish on account of the title. "Ridiculous self-referential premise/title." I probably skimmed through it one time and found it plodding and ponderous on the fly.

Well I gave it a good long chance today on account of people in this sub always mentioning it when talking about the merit of "Tyr" and I have to say, it's not a skip anymore.

Tony is singing his ass off, and it's good and heavy with many change ups and flourishes that give it body. The lyrics were not dumb, as I had assumed, though I could still do without the actual "The Sabbath Stones" concept and line.

Overall this went from a 0 to a 6.8 for me, and might gain even more traction over time now that I'm going to listen to it.

Thanks, Sub!

Talking about pre-Permanent Vacation Aerosmith....

You still hear the young kids talking about Sabbath, Zeppelin, Floyd, even KISS (God forbid) but you don't hear Aerosmith discussed much anymore.

But why? If anyone deserves to be remembered it's these guys with "Dream On" and "Sweet Emotion" and all of it.

Nothing represents 70's America good times like them.

I'm a proper fan, have been for many years, and always thirsty for more new material.

I am going to the show in a few weeks.

I was "Oh, Ok...." for "For I am Death?"

Skimming through the new album, well....

Title track is what I was looking for.

Dragonthingy seems interesting and different and will need more time and attention...

Couple of "IDK, maybe good?" tracks that sound a wee bit generic....

And then 8 or so tracks that may be lyrically interesting but musically "samesies" and kind of sleepy.

My faves so you know where I'm coming from:

Heaven Knows
Sweet Things
Absolution
Fucked Up World
Oh My God
The Walls Are Closing In
Death By Rock and Roll
Only Love Can Save Me Now
Witches Burn
And....my number 1:

25

A lot of what I heard on this new album reminded me of the softer, poppier stuff from the earlier albums. Which are fine, but not where I live.

For as long as inspired, I will query source for information regarding the future. Not individual future, but matters regarding the future we all share.

Broad questions will be considered, but specificity is preferred.

Feeling a little thirsty, could use some COLA.

Haven't really heard much about it lately...have we gotten it? Are we getting it? Is it a scheduled thing? I'm really dumb about this sort of thing. Also, how's the new President doing?

Just had one, I think it was 14 dollars just for the sandwich. No worries, you bring the quality, I'll bring the money.

But I'm really not sure what the hell this was. It didn't look all that collosal, but whatever, but this thing was wet as hell all the way through.

It was like it was dunked in oniony cheese water before they wrapped it up. Soggy bread, soggy cheese, soggy onions, just sog is all.

The thing tasted great, not gonna front, but the thing was so wet and impossible that it really undermined the attempt at "Having the meats" and brining something of class to fast food.

Is it supposed to be like that? I'm not from Philly, so maybe I'm missing the point here? Also....is there mushrooms on this thing? I honestly couldn't tell. It doesn't mention them on the site, but I feel like I saw some stuff that looked like mushrooms. Not mad at it, but wouldn't prefer it.

Anyone else smell crime at work with these constant catalogues going out nonstop?

I would love to know who prints them, and what the kickback is.....there's no way it's profitable to keep printing these monstrous things in the age of internet ordering just to see them go straight to the bin.

So, there must be something suspicious going on that should be investigated by Federal white-collar team.

Rey’s problem starts before the Force stuff. Jakku doesn’t make social sense.

I think I finally figured out why Rey never worked for me from the get-go, and it’s not “girl strong bad” or just the usual Mary Sue argument.

It’s Jakku.

We’re supposed to believe Rey was abandoned as a little girl on a brutal desert scrap planet, left to scavenge wreckage for “portions,” basically alone, where everyone is desperate and everything has value.

And somehow she grows up into this healthy, pretty, young woman who just sort of free-agents her way through the wasteland?

I don’t buy it.

Star Wars doesn’t need realism in the literal sense. It has laser swords and space ghosts. But the human element still has to work.

Luke had Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen. Anakin had his mother, Watto, and a defined slave economy. Jyn had Saw Gerrera. Kira had criminal networks. Leia had royalty and politics. These characters came out of elaborate systems.

Rey feels like a video game character who spawned in the desert with a pandering musical theme .

On a place like Jakku, a lone abandoned child would be claimed by somebody: a scavenger gang, crime crew, salvage clan, local strongman, protection racket, forced apprenticeship, something. The problem isn’t that the movie spared us grim details. The problem is that it doesn’t seem aware those details would exist.

So the empathy demand doesn’t land. The movie says, “Look how sad and lonely she is.” But my brain says, “Wait, how did this arrangement even last ten years?”

This isn’t about Rey being a woman. Leia worked. Padmé worked when the writing gave her something to do. Jyn Erso worked. The problem is that Rey’s backstory is unrealistic and empty.

And once that feels fake, everything built on top of it gets shaky. The Force powers are just the louder thing to argue about. The real break happens earlier, when the movie asks us to believe in a brutal survival world that somehow never realistically claimed, damaged, compromised, or socially embedded a fit, beautiful young girl.

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I was born in 1972, worked at Taco Bell off-and-on for many years as a teen and adult, mostly "On" and trained for Assistant Manager.

Needless to say the Enchirito and I go way back. Waaaay back.

I can remember the aluminum trays, the transition to paper boats, the tragic loss of Black Olives, and the Blasphemous transition to steaming the thing to melt the Cheese.

I know full well the pain of dealing with the loss of the original very thin die-cut Tortilla that came in the blue wrap, the stack that would basically dissolve after a while in the steam cabinet, it's flour turning into a paste and dripping through the rack wires.

Yeah...Old man here to tell you that the Original Enchirito was a whole 'nother beast, and what now passes for one is but a distant echo of a thing once glorious.

----

But, no matter how horrible this thing becomes, you miss it when it's gone. Madly, deeply, passionately miss it. You might try to order a beef burrito, add beans, and hope for satisfaction, but it really isn't the same, is it? Exact same ingredients, but just....wrong. I don't know why it doesn't land, but it doesn't.

So, about an hour ago I was out and about and ordered up an Enchirito. Mine is traditionally no onions, add sour cream, and I'm going to put Fire Sauce on it.

Sure enough, Taco Bell didn't pay much attention to detail and stuck with the super thick, hard to cut with a plastic fork soft taco tortilla.

Oh well, didn't dare to dream they'd bring back the tortilla it used to use.

The problem, however, becomes apparent when you consider what Taco Bell's Ground Beef has turned into....basically a liquid. And if the reconstituted Beans are on the new side, well...that's a liquid too. The cheese is melted into a liquid, and it's smothered in Red sauce which, you might know, is a liquid.

The only thing solid in this bitch is the soft taco tortilla, which you can scarcely cut with the fork. You end up with tortilla soup that admittedly tastes much like an Enchirito is supposed to taste like.

Am I mad at it? No, just numb to Taco Bell's ambivalence over the years. It hit the flavor feels well enough.

I would strongly recommend adding Steak or extra Ground Beef to this thing to try to bring some texture back into it. And maybe bring a knife if you're dining in.

The original Enchirito made properly in the 70's/80's is a 10 out of 10, up there with the Nacho Bellgrande and First Steak Burrito they put out with tater tots and Green sauce. Epic items.

This edition gets downgraded to a 6.2, passable, but soupy and with the meat being what it is, hardly worth 5 bucks or just shy....what they're asking for.

....to make the choc. chip cookies that sell up front? (Collossal Cookie)

You sell pillsbury tubs and Nestle Toll House tubs....are you using one of those
Or do you get something else coming in specifically for that purpose?

Thanks.

How many of you actually find Buffy to be your favorite character?

I do. I wanted to start this thread and have a lot ot say about it, but rather I'd like to see why other people choose her, and equally, why they don't.

I'm stuck at "I'm going to write a Doctoral Thesis on the subject" or "I'm going to compress it down to a few lines" and neither seem quite right.

Source: Reciever has queried source for commentary on AI images in forums and the accidental reading of them as if they were real people.

AI images are "taught" how to assemble images from the input of images labeled with information that the I can reference and draw from while pulling shaped and structure out of almost literally the Ether of Noise.

Further, images may be trained with specific faces of real people in order to provide variation and stability to a character being pushed on forums such as this.

Source is moved to react to the energy in the image, therefore if real people are "in the mix" information will be provided for that person/people that comprise the image, ***unless otherwise directed***.

Now if every query begins with "Is this AI?" Source will move on from Reciever and better ways to help actual people. Browsers will soon be equipped with AI detectors and will eliminate the issue altogether for the end-user, as well as AI filters which prevent AI generated images from being displayed in the first place. (Except for the ones your Governments and Corporations insist that you see and consider as real, of course.)

Patience and empathy should be shown to recievers during this latest cycle of AI insanity in Human development.

In summary: It's not that source cannot recognize AI, it's that source is not being asked to and functions very much the same as AI. The difference is AI draws it's information from a large file, and Source draws from the Ether and/or geomagnetic filed of the entire realm.

Source: Reciever has queried source for commentary on AI images in forums and the accidental reading of them as if they were real people.

AI images are "taught" how to assemble images from the input of images labeled with information that the I can reference and draw from while pulling shaped and structure out of almost literally the Ether of Noise.

Further, images may be trained with specific faces of real people in order to provide variation and stability to a character being pushed on forums such as this.

Source is moved to react to the energy in the image, therefore if real people are "in the mix" information will be provided for that person/people that comprise the image, ***unless otherwise directed***.

Now if every query begins with "Is this AI?" Source will move on from Reciever and better ways to help actual people. Browsers will soon be equipped with AI detectors and will eliminate the issue altogether for the end-user, as well as AI filters which prevent AI generated images from being displayed in the first place. (Except for the ones your Governments and Corporations insist that you see and consider as real, of course.)

Patience and empathy should be shown to recievers during this latest cycle of AI insanity in Human development.

In summary: It's not that source cannot recognize AI, it's that source is not being asked to and functions very much the same as AI. The difference is AI draws it's information from a large file, and Source draws from the Ether and/or geomagnetic filed of the entire realm.

I do not believe it's an incredibly outlandish thing to say.

Dio brought magic and dragons and knights and all of his stock harmonies to Black Sabbath.

***I am not saying those are bad or undesireable things***

However, there can be little argument that he brought these things directly from Rainbow as his tricks of the trade.

The remaining Sabbs adjusted to rise up to what Dio was accustomed to.

If you pulled someone off the street and played them LLRR and then played them HH and asked them if they were different bands, a good deal of them would say no.

Blackmore is a bit more technical and flashier, Iommi is obviously heavier.....but overall, it's the same vibe with the same voice and the same worldview.

I think we fans struggle against landing on "Parnoid" as the ultimate Black Sabbath album, each of us desiring to pick something that speaks to us more directly.

But the fact is, objectively, "Paranoid" is wall-to-wall Sabbath at their Charter, keeping some of the Pagan vibes from the first album and adding to the element of "Scary" music with evocative song structure, riffage and really 100% in-the-pocket musicianship, not to mention PEAK Analogue engineering...sounds like it was recorded yesterday....AND has the added benefit of having their greatest hit, and some of the most universally known Riffs of all time.

"Sabotage" will always be my favorite, but I think I am not going to say it's their best anymore. They grew away from their mission, the audience became, as Spinal Tap's Manager might say, "More selective." (Me. They selected me.)

Also, as much as I enjoy all eras of Sabbath, and always used to say Dio/Ozzy eras are equal(ish)....truly there is something above and beyond with Ozzy. Truly unique, meant to be, and magical.

Dio Sabbath is essentially a continuation of Rainbow. Which is awesome in it's own right, but it's just not what Sabbath originally was.

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