Pretty sure I’ve commented this on Lemmy before, but I’m gonna drop a link to this Struthless video again because I think it’s pretty good at getting the point and really reflected my experience as someone who was once a “young man on the internet”, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHHqQDKzjTg

TØP is probably the band Twenty One Pilots (stylised as Twenty Øne Pilots), and from Google they have an album called Trench, in the music videos of which people hold flaming torches (haven’t watched the videos, so I don’t know why).

Lots of good calls in this thread, but have y’all considered: Warhammer 40k

I’m not from the US and this thread is the first time I’ve understood why the phrase “the Midwest” never seemed to match up with where I thought “the Midwest” should be.

Sorta fun related fact, in the original text Death is actually the only one who has a name at all, the rest have just been inferred based on historical context.

See section “the Pale Horse”

Ahh balls. I love saying “«thing» 2: Electric Boogaloo” - you mean to tell me that’s become a racist dogwhistle too? :/

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Is that a Robots reference? In the Year of Our Lord 2025? Incredible…

Whisper of the Heart but I couldn’t explain why

https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#ass

(Blasphemy, heracy)
Saaaave me!

Hey can you put a CW on this please? Really didn’t want to read that unprepared :/

Isn’t this just the plot of Dune?

Assigned [gender] at [random person]

“Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane”

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