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    Do you care about other people's music?

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    • mietze
      mietze @Thenomain last edited by

      @Thenomain I only use it to create shareable playlists because it is free to all. I don't like that the listening end seems to involve forced shuffle for the free usage.

      I think that is part of why it annoys me and feels like a pain vs the hours I used to spend making mix tapes/burning CDs and mailing them to people. Order is sometimes important to me, so I like having the option to.present an order than people can then shuffle if they want.

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      • Thenomain
        Thenomain last edited by

        n.b., I've never blogged, either. I don't have the mindset to share all this stuff in my head in any coherent manner. My opinion is if you want to get to know me, get to know me. Otherwise it feels like shouting into the void.

        Mushes are a little different than 'the void', since a lot of people like this, but I've never learned the knack.

        “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
        ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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        • Kestrel
          Kestrel Banned @Rinel last edited by Kestrel

          @Rinel said in Do you care about other people's music?:

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          I like this game!

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          Can't fit all of them on here obvs.

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          • Auspice
            Auspice last edited by

            I'll play.

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            Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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            • Ganymede
              Ganymede Admin last edited by

              I don’t care what people listen to or if they do, but I have bonded over a wiki playlist before.

              I’m pretty sure that’s why @Wretched and I got along so well.

              “It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.

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              • Livia
                Livia @Thenomain last edited by

                @Thenomain said in Do you care about other people's music?:

                @Auspice

                Am I the only person left on the planet who doesn't use Spotify?

                No I am also with you on that one, I don't use Spotify.

                I voted no. I don't really 'listen to music'. I rarely have it on. Sometimes I might feel a need to listen to a specific song, but once that's done I'm back to whatever. I find it distracting otherwise. I don't make playlists for my characters and don't listen to other people's playlists, heh!

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                  Dropbear Banned last edited by

                  yes people should share them

                  for me its not because i care what people think their characters soundtrack is but because i have found cool music thats new to me before because of a random playlist

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                  • Arkandel
                    Arkandel Admin @Kestrel last edited by

                    I couldn't care less what other people's tastes in music are, as long as I don't have to listen to said music.

                    • He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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                    • R
                      RightMeow @Thenomain last edited by

                      @Thenomain
                      I don't use Spotify - we are the only two left. Let's be 'those youngsters today' friends.

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                      • R
                        RightMeow last edited by

                        As to playlists, I find it interesting. It's more that I love music and I'm very eclectic in it. So if I don't know a group they are talking about, I want to hear what it sounds like. This is going to sound vain (but I'm not sorry), but I am interested in what songs people pick for my chars. It's like confirmation the rp dynamic is right or not right at all.

                        So really, I like to hear new music (or old) from artists I haven't heard from.

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                        • Auspice
                          Auspice @RightMeow last edited by

                          @RightMeow said in Do you care about other people's music?:

                          but I am interested in what songs people pick for my chars.

                          In the early 2000s, a few games I was on would do games/themes for the @doing messages on WHO.

                          One that a couple games did was 'Song for the person above or below you.' Meaning you'd set your @doing to a song for either the person above you in the list or below.

                          I absolutely loved seeing what people picked. I'm not sure it's vain (though maybe it is!), but I see it more as a way of getting a glimpse into how others see my PC and whether or not I'm portraying them like I want.

                          Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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                          • reversed
                            reversed last edited by

                            If it makes people happy they should go for it. If it makes people happy to check out what made the other people happy they should also go for that.

                            I don't do either, honestly, but it's a free country.

                            now playing

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                            • Pandora
                              Pandora last edited by

                              I could not care less about anyone's playlist, and I'm pretty sure I've never even skimmed the ones I've come across on people's wiki page, and I don't even notice them usually unless it's a site that allows people to auto-play their music, and even then it's just to immediately stop the song.

                              That said, share away, it's literally hurting no one.

                              Please never ask me to listen to anything though, I can't get those 2-5 minutes back so the answer will always be no, and I will resent you for making me crush your fleeting hope.

                              Tinuviel about 9 hours ago
                              I hate you with the power of a thousand Pandoras.

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                                RightMeow @Pandora last edited by

                                @Pandora

                                Your name is literally Pandora.. comeon

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                                • Kestrel
                                  Kestrel Banned @Pandora last edited by

                                  @Pandora said in Do you care about other people's music?:

                                  Please never ask me to listen to anything though, I can't get those 2-5 minutes back so the answer will always be no, and I will resent you for making me crush your fleeting hope.

                                  Hi please listen to this song it reminds me of you

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                                  • Pandora
                                    Pandora @RightMeow last edited by

                                    @RightMeow Ikr? It's almost like the name Pandora existed before the streaming service or something.

                                    Tinuviel about 9 hours ago
                                    I hate you with the power of a thousand Pandoras.

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                                    • Ghost
                                      Ghost last edited by

                                      I think you can learn more about the intended feel and thought behind a character through music than you can with PB pictures and blurbs about their backstory.

                                      In fact, I tend to be more into scenes with characters who have heartfelt songs designed as their theme in a way. Even if the playlist is the kind of stuff the character listens to, it STILL helps flesh out the character far better than the person simply telling me who and what their character is.

                                      Now...if the character does FIRE STUFF and has a song simply about FIRE? That's boring. But if the overall aura of the character is something akin to "surviving depression" and they have a playlist with something like "This Night" by Black Lab in it? They get bonus points and I become instantly more mentally attracted to their writing.

                                      Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
                                      I really don't understand He-Man

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                                      • Wretched
                                        Wretched @Ghost last edited by

                                        @Ghost I saw Black Lab open for the Cure in like 1996!

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                                        • Ghost
                                          Ghost @Wretched last edited by Ghost

                                          @Wretched said in Do you care about other people's music?:

                                          @Ghost I saw Black Lab open for the Cure in like 1996!

                                          This isnt the Hog Pit so...

                                          Truck ewe, icehole. <3. Jealous of that.

                                          Edit: I should also add that I listened to the music on your character profiles and dug the effort put into creating that aura-theme for them through it. It wasn't wasted time.

                                          Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
                                          I really don't understand He-Man

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                                          • Thenomain
                                            Thenomain @Kestrel last edited by

                                            @Kestrel said in Do you care about other people's music?:

                                            @Pandora said in Do you care about other people's music?:

                                            Please never ask me to listen to anything though, I can't get those 2-5 minutes back so the answer will always be no, and I will resent you for making me crush your fleeting hope.

                                            Hi please listen to this song it reminds me of you

                                            I don't need these 2-5 minutes of my life back. That was a blast from the past.

                                            “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
                                            ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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