u/that1flame

Whenever the topic of music taste/preference pops up (or just posts about music taste in general), one common point I see is that you have to like rap music, and if you don't, you're a bad person to some degree.

My question is why is this the case only for rap?

As far as I am aware, there's no other cases where a majority of fans of a genre say you "have to like it". Music taste is subjective, and for the most part people have an understanding of why others might not like what they listen to. For example, I am an EDM-head and I know people would prefer the sounds of real vocalists or real instruments (not to say that DAWs aren't real instruments), among other things.

When it comes to rap, there's always some excuse as to why you can't dislike it, mostly that it's so diverse and that you're bound to like at least one subgenre. I get how this can be the case, since there's often debate around rap being a genre or singing technique. The problem with this argument is that it can apply to other genres as well, but is only used in this one.

I'm not one of those people to go around saying "rap isn't music", I don't really have any strong opinions on it. I'm just wondering why the fans of it have a mentality like this?

One more thing I'd like to ask is why is it okay for rap fans to call various genres "not music" (primarily country), but not vise versa?

(I will admit i use the term "rap fans" loosely as I know it's not every fan of the genre and mainly applies to interactions I've had with others.)

Long songs are great, especially in this genre, but most songs tend to be from the 2-4 minute range, and I have trouble finding songs 6 minutes or longer.

The longest songs I've found so far (on Spotify) are:

1. Kill The Noise - Kill The Noise (Part I) | 7:50
2. Evilwave - It's Wonderful Life | 6:48
3. Phantom Sage - Holystone | 6:46
4. ELEPS - Believe | 6:35
5. Zomboy - Nuclear (Album Version) | 6:19

Overall, I can name ~11 songs over 6 minutes. Anyone know any others?

I'm trying to write a bit of code that requires a few if statements, and they currently look like this (placeholder vars used):

if (condition)
{
  Text.text = "I am a string.";
  Text.color = Color.red;
}

I recently learned that if statements, if only having one line, can be formatted to look like:

if (condition) Text.text = "I am a string.";

Is there any way to do this with the first code snippet, or does it have to be fully formatted across 4-5 lines?

I have a generic buyable where the cost scales exponentially.

Originally: the function was 10 * 1.1^AMT, and the function ran like this:

C# Snippet

Recently, I decided to try to buff the cost to become

10 * 1.1^AMT * (AMT + 1)^(1.004^AMT)

Obviously, this function no longer worked, but I tried adjusting it to work with the new formula and I can't get it to work.

(I tried using a "while" loop to repeat the normal purchase function while the supply was higher than the cost, but Unity crashed every time...)

Is there an equation that would work with this new formula, or should I change how the function works entirely?

Thanks in advance.