Why do people leave ILX for good?

I'm fine with the slow entropic heat death of ilx. I just put on a sweater.

Cheers to sic still goin strong in the decomposition dept

Sometimes feels like a weird family of autodidacts.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, May 4, 2018 6:46 AM

my sense too

Why it took her almost 20 years to recognize I was posting here so much

sign of a healthy marriage, mayne

weird autodidacts may not make the best doctors or lawyers, but they do make for interesting conversation on a wide range of topics

Word

the older I get the less I think anyone really learns anything significant or has their minds changed tbh.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, May 3, 2018 7:22 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.

That post saying I could never be respected as a tori fan tho

Ha, tbf, your own post was expressing shame and a fear of taint from still having CDs like hers and most of the responses were defending your own collection to you!

Srsly, I admire you for even having the balls to link to one of your posts from that long ago. Mine make me cringe more than your Feist CDs probably did for you.

I definitely cringe at that thread

I always learn something new from you assholes.
I’ve changed a lot since I started posting here.

is it maybe that a lot of the ppl you used to react to in a certain way have left, tho

:o

not meant in a bad way!

Even if I stopped posting, which I get the feeling would make a lot of people happy,
I’d still lurk on ilm. So many discoveries and favorites discovered in the past 15 years or so

why cant i quit u ilx

I can’t...quit you...babe

Xxp

You’re one of my favourite posters

Never stop posting calchiefo

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?