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[m8son666]

So chemistry is easier than psychology?

don't be silly lol

what riddles said

[Pedro Sánchez]

saw someone that runs a prominent blog out at a night not long ago, and they were stood to the side/ on the stage all night, stoney-faced, not a single movement, looked like they were at a funeral.
Yet you see all this hype from them on social media, all capitals and shit, going i-nuts about tunes, putting effort into promoting stuff. It doesnt make sense, why bother?

tru hed.

[ehbes]

Was it Gareth?

[hubb]

most other chicks were on a psychology hype or whatever else was posh at that time imo

It's a field of mostly wayward analytical pseudo science.
'It is amazing what is going on in peoples heads but the way we percieve what behaviour is, which is most psychology, hasn't changed since Pavlov in my experience. So measure the drool on a dog if you want, but don't expect anything lofty. If you want crazy chicks it's a good shout.

[Laszlo]

most other chicks were on a psychology hype or whatever else was posh at that time imo

[Harkat]

saw someone that runs a prominent blog out at a night not long ago, and they were stood to the side/ on the stage all night, stoney-faced, not a single movement, looked like they were at a funeral.
Yet you see all this hype from them on social media, all capitals and shit, going i-nuts about tunes, putting effort into promoting stuff. It doesnt make sense, why bother?

namedrop please

sam hedmuk or gareth?

[TheIntrospectionist]

I'm considering studying psychology even though I haven't taken any courses in it before. Should I? Any ninjas have any experience? Cheers.

Go back a couple of pages for my experience so far
Biology interests me a lot more than psychology at the moment to be honest but my biggest issue is with the way university education is compared to the engaging experience I get from just reading books in the field (see my earlier post).

[titchbit]

chemistry is harder than psych, period.

if the use of stat in psych is gonna turn you off from it, then you might as well abandon every other social science while your at it. psych, sociology, econ, criminal justice, anthro, poli sci all use more or less the same amount of stat.

crim might use less than econ for example, but you'll still have to learn the same amount of stat, ie take the same "stat course for social science ppl", at least in most american universities. not sure if its the same in eu

[garethom]

namedrop please

sam hedmuk or gareth?

saw someone that runs a prominent blog

[Reese_Liar]

saw someone that runs a prominent blog out at a night not long ago, and they were stood to the side/ on the stage all night, stoney-faced, not a single movement, looked like they were at a funeral.
Yet you see all this hype from them on social media, all capitals and shit, going i-nuts about tunes, putting effort into promoting stuff. It doesnt make sense, why bother?

My theory is that some of those blogs have just become an excercise in verbal masturbation - it seems to like some of the "reviews" are just a bunch of really pretty words strung together that make absolutely no sense - or a best could describe literally 90% of the tunes they try to push.

Example (just picked a random paragraph from one blog):


The title track ‘[Track name]’ from [Producer] launches from the edge with warm, permeating synth work. A natural mysticism comes into play from the soft chords and birdcalls worked into the atmosphere. Crisp percussion and deep bass kicks mould into the rhythm of the track. All of the elements build fluently with progression before a deep, jazzy vocal signifying the title of the track. All in all ‘[Track name]’ works in many situations.

I challenge anyone to tell me the name of that tune without resorting to google.

[Johnlenham]

I dont know why but Im not a fan of that style of writing atall, comes across as very fake but then im not very descriptive so its probably just me.

[Harkat]

saw someone that runs a prominent blog out at a night not long ago, and they were stood to the side/ on the stage all night, stoney-faced, not a single movement, looked like they were at a funeral.
Yet you see all this hype from them on social media, all capitals and shit, going i-nuts about tunes, putting effort into promoting stuff. It doesnt make sense, why bother?

My theory is that some of those blogs have just become an excercise in verbal masturbation - it seems to like some of the "reviews" are just a bunch of really pretty words strung together that make absolutely no sense - or a best could describe literally 90% of the tunes they try to push.

Example (just picked a random paragraph from one blog):


The title track ‘[Track name]’ from [Producer] launches from the edge with warm, permeating synth work. A natural mysticism comes into play from the soft chords and birdcalls worked into the atmosphere. Crisp percussion and deep bass kicks mould into the rhythm of the track. All of the elements build fluently with progression before a deep, jazzy vocal signifying the title of the track. All in all ‘[Track name]’ works in many situations.

I challenge anyone to tell me the name of that tune without resorting to google.

Harlem Shake

[m8son666]

describing music with words is pretty counter productive imo

[Reese_Liar]

It doesn't have to be though, if I was to explain dubstep (or anything else) to someone who'd never heard it before, it would be useful to describe the elements of the music.

But having a blog that only deals with one very specific type of sound and literally just describing the tracks in the broadest possible terms, it just seems.. lazy - or pointless, really - to me.

[ehbes]

namedrop please

sam hedmuk or gareth?

saw someone that runs a prominent blog

So eton messy?

[murky21]

nah none of them. not gonna say, its not about specifics + i like music blogs personally, just its pretty weak talking the talk and not walking the walk. forget it im just limping through a painful day in the office

[titchbit]

saw someone that runs a prominent blog out at a night not long ago, and they were stood to the side/ on the stage all night, stoney-faced, not a single movement, looked like they were at a funeral.
Yet you see all this hype from them on social media, all capitals and shit, going i-nuts about tunes, putting effort into promoting stuff. It doesnt make sense, why bother?

My theory is that some of those blogs have just become an excercise in verbal masturbation - it seems to like some of the "reviews" are just a bunch of really pretty words strung together that make absolutely no sense - or a best could describe literally 90% of the tunes they try to push.

Example (just picked a random paragraph from one blog):


The title track ‘[Track name]’ from [Producer] launches from the edge with warm, permeating synth work. A natural mysticism comes into play from the soft chords and birdcalls worked into the atmosphere. Crisp percussion and deep bass kicks mould into the rhythm of the track. All of the elements build fluently with progression before a deep, jazzy vocal signifying the title of the track. All in all ‘[Track name]’ works in many situations.

I challenge anyone to tell me the name of that tune without resorting to google.

I can't be sure but if I had to guess I would probably say Biodigital Jazz by Prism & Valor.

[Harkat]

This fuckin huge essay has a minimum word count so I'm using as fedora language as I can to stretch it out

[m8son666]

how many words?

[Harkat]

3.5K

it's not strictly a minimum but it's some kind of bullshit "recommended minimum length"