Why do people leave ILX for good?

Oh word ? Well thanks

yea man I always dig your posts

i like your style calstars

woop woop!
Thanks bros and right back at yous ✌🏻

ya man

i mainly gave up ilx for twitter. this is a a far better place for talking about music, but in terms of all the content-feed and range-of-opinion stuff i used to get from ilx, twitter lets me curate more of the stuff i want, and get less of the same old boring things i disagree with that are expressed at boring length. ilx refights the same battles over and over, each time more rotely than the last -- with twitter or something there's always a new mix at least.

“less of the same old boring things i disagree with”
God forbid

God forbid

― calstars, Sunday, May 6, 2018 9:22 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks for reminding me of the high quality of discourse i'm missing out on

Can't imagine preferring the cesspool of bots and shitty memes and constant outrage of twitter but ymmv i guess

God forbid

― calstars, Sunday, May 6, 2018 9:22 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks for reminding me of the high quality of discourse i'm missing out on

ilx seriously has not really changed in over a decade (besides lower volume posting and more ennui) so i get what sterling is saying.

ilx refights the same battles over and over, each time more rotely than the last

... how long have you been on twitter

I can’t...quit you...babe

baaeee baeee baeee baeee baeee baee
iwwwu wannna leeeev youuuu

I guess it depends on the guise. Politically speaking, I can see someone evolving. From a music or film perspective, I'm not quite so sure.

I've seen people change regarding all three of those, but music and movies seem way more common in my social circle, almost everyone I know has changed in that regard from their early 20's to their early 30's. I only have one example of a friend who changed politically (from libertarian to socialist).

I think what's more difficult to change than taste or even political allegiance tho is the premises you start from in making your arguments, the roles you attribute to these things in your life.

there are good posts occasionally but the volume and proportion of abysmally dull posts is whelming. every lameass exchange between cranky Dads like the one quoted below brings me one straw closer to throwing my laptop into the ocean

Love the piece but the elephant in the room is that even by his own standards, Kanye is no genius and has never been.

― Van Horn Street, Friday, May 4, 2018 1:56 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He's not even top 5 rap producers material imo

― Οὖτις, Friday, May 4, 2018 1:58 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maybe top 5 jackasses?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, May 4, 2018 1:59 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ok dad

hold up what specs on that laptop ill make u an offer

just pick it up from your side of the ocean dude

maybe a kanye thread is the wrong one to read

btw i am a cranky dad no shame there really

dull too

just checking waterproof specs obv ffs

i'm dull, not cranky... and SINGLE ;-)

i have been a bit disappointed in the tenor of ILM lately

seems like it's less and less acceptable to call a dud a dud or to suggest a destroy ... it's all rabid fandom, seems like

i get how "why you like something" is generally more interesting than "why you dislike something"

but there should still be a place for disliking things

the older I get the less I think anyone really learns anything significant or has their minds changed tbh. Everyone just seems to get stupider and more set in their ways as they get older (not saying I'm exempt from this phenomenon, to be clear)

You should've been clearer by taking the brackets off this as it totally applies to you.

those are parantheses

shots fired!

I think dull singles are the problem

i mean case in point this would have been a really good clusterfuck once upon a time now its just a bit of snark and some rueful admissions

there's a bit of US punctuation chauvinism there, maybe we can leverage something out of that

hold my Br.

hold yr bromine?

I will 100% cop to being a dull, cranky dad. All you youngsters can suck it. Get off my lawn!

bro, mine

Attn, cranky dads: dull singles in your area.

today has been apocalyptically bad & i h8 u all

Send me a photo and I'll see if you deserve a kiss.

landfill

shitting

the smiths thread being active and actually talking about the smiths not just dunking on morrisey

fucks sake

ILX is generally the only saving grace in the midst of my perpetually-apocalyptic bad workdays.

Still: up yours, I'm leaving forever.

all threads eventually devolve into men talking about themselves

or steely dan

not sure which is worse

http://www.wow247.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/fintan-stack.jpg

all threads eventually devolve into men talking about themselves
true

Every thread needs lads x 1000

hey did i ever tell you guys about that time i found morrissey shitting in a landfill

i've been resisting the urge to graphically describe what i do while listening to music for the last 2 hours

imago is part of why i stay

all threads eventually devolve into men talking about themselves

or steely dan

not sure which is worse

― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:29 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actual lol

Seconded.

We heard you’re leaving, that’s ok

it's been a bad day. like many days recently tbh. smiths thread is a thing to behold, but what vexes me more is the ongoin j*rdan p*terson/alt-right/m4sculinity threads constantly being bumped. white men talking about white men indeed. I had hoped ilx would steer clear of at least the fringes of that nonsense. instead it seems ilx is just as mundane, and gives in as easily, trite and predictable as everything else. rip iirc.