>>721370
the what?

>>721371
I'm part of the whole Yale thing

I posted a pic of myself with the katana

>>721365
[YouTube]

>>721380
I don't really have the uh gay lisp tbh, but I wish it did, it can be kinda cute when a guy gets sassy with it lol

>>721386
neither do I

>>721389
Same.

.play I am NOT gay, I just have sex with men and relationships with women law and order svu

tbh I saw a video of a twink getting (redacted) earlier and the top said he "doesn't think he can go back to pussy after this" and that was hot as fuck to be quite honest

>>721399
lmfao

>>721402
Hold on I REDACTED IT

And my NAME IS NOT CARL

>>721408
that's not... too horny

>>721413
I mean that makes sense though, terminal is superior in every single way, GUI was a mistake

>>721407
ayo carl

In a perfect world, libpol would work in lynx

I use terminal for most stuff to be honest

Alright, putting my chicken in the oven

>>721434
Goodnight cutie

>>721438
Oh really? Should I put it less directly?

Okay, how about this
>Goodnight StrawGirl, I wish I could (redacted) you until you are completely wiped out then tuck you in for a good sleep

.play maxine donald fagen

.play snowbound donald fagen

>>721449
it's a name, as far as I'm concerned.

>>721466
The thing about Fagen is that a lot of his shit is pretty sardonic, especially if you've ever listened to the Dan. The album itself has a sci-fi theme, he's a pretty big fan of the sci-fi literature from the period he grew up, among other authors like William Burroughs and Nabokov. But the titular vehicle "Kamakiri" of the Kamakiriad is a like weird car that's all futuristic and comes with all sorts of features.

mmm

>>721469
I assume so. I can play the song with the car, if you want.

.play Trans-island skyway

>>721474
"disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking"

Hmm, iirc the Kamakiriad album is from sometime in the 80s

Oh goodness gracious

Wrong, '93

>>721477
Depends on the song. In his Steely Dan albums and his own solo albums, it's not always explicitly ironic, but an exploration of an unsavory character. Think of it like a short story from an author.

>>721486
Steely Dan was less of a band, more the core two members, Fagen and Becker, who collected session musicians to do their bidding in the studio. They were notoriously perfectionist.

We talking about Steely Dan?

>>721491
Yes, and by extension Fagen.

.play deacon blues steely dan

>>721496
oh my god, you're playing their magnum opus

Yes

>>721495
Steely Dan is interesting because they had an evolving style, but Fagen and Becker have always incorporated a little bit of Jazz flair, it just became more apparent as the years went on.

>>721498
No, this is just the song about the futuristic car.

twinkanon could be a character in a steely dan song :^)

>>721505
What was that!

The lyrics are pretty fun, I believe it was last verse he picked up some random girl from the wreck of a fiery crash lol

.play haitian divorce steely dan

>>721513
the royal scam?

what's your favorite dan song, twinkanon?

>>721515
Specifically? The Royal Scam, from The Royal Scam. My favorite album because my dad had it on vinyl and I always loved the cover tbh

>>721517
The cover's great. I have that shit on my shelf. Also have a vinyl copy of Gaucho and Aja

.play everything must go Steely Dan

>>721521
It was two dudes and they had session musicians. So basically, people they hired. Whoever could play their perfectionist vision would make it onto the record.

>>721525
Yes, they were notorious for it. Especially since a lot of the equipment they were using was analog (time period), it was a bit more difficult to satisfy their tastes. I think during Gaucho Fagen joked with the engineer Roger Nichols or somebody, "can't you just get a fucking machine to play it" in reference to a drum sequence. So the dude spent a year learning 6502 assembly and programmed a drum machine called Wendl that attempted to make a less crappy sounding digital sample into something for their tracks.

>>721521
If you are asking something along the lines of "are they as full of heavy hitters as Led Zeppelin", not quite

>>721527
god what useless knowledge I have

>>721536
I think some of it comes from curiosity about the drum machine, it was probably some rabbit hole I went down. I think technically it was very interesting to me, especially the era transitioning between digital and analog equipment. I've done some signal processing and audio stuff for my own interest and some school projects, so the subject is a bit fascinating to me. Also just obsessively buy books on electronics and whatever else captures my interest. I think I first started learning about synths and stuff from some fucking stupid book, "Computer Music Tutorial" by Curtis Roads. Dude was a pretty famous composer, I believe. But he's great, he keeps it relatively simple, but also includes all the technical details needed for a musician.

>>721540
I played piano as a kid. Didn't really understand much until now though lol. I also really love electronics, so naturally, I wanted to understand how analog synthesizers and some of the signal processing works. It's been a year or two long project thus far, going from knowing literally nothing to being at least somewhat informed.

I was a bad piano student.

>>721544
I'd rather not lol

I just basically do it out of technical curiosity. That's how it is in my life. I pick up something because I find it fascinating and then try to understand it well enough. Usually there are fleeting and shifting moments of interest. But it's generally a couple of things that capture my attention at once.

YES YES YES IT'S TIME TO ARGUE WITH LITERAL WHOS ON TWITTER ABOUT THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE

They are making a really dumb argument essentially

The Rwandan Genocide was like uniquely evil, legitimately. They are like "oh the Rwandan Genocide Commission found that starvation is a paradigmatic element of genocide" and I am like... that's a very narrow look. Because yes, forced starvation was part of it, but you are also kinda leaving out the part where the Hutus literally clogged a river with dead bodies because they were "sending the Tutsis back to where they belong" and this literally collapsed the fishing industry in Uganda because you couldn't cast a net without pulling up a dead body

And then they are like trying to be like "and the Interahamwe got their weapons from the EUROPEANS" and I am like... yes, because the Interahamwe was at war with the RPF for years

The United States

Kony 2025

Alright, opinions on General Butt Naked?

>>721566
He was that crazy dude who went around naked, no? I know literally nothing about African history.

>>721567
No, General Butt Naked was a Liberian warlord, but then like after the war, he became a born again Christian, started a bunch of charities to take care of former child soldiers, and pushed for the creation of a court for war crimes in Liberia. The flip side is that General Butt Naked was legitimately one of the most evil and horrific warlords in Liberia at the time, like truly deranged and horrible shit

>>721569
That's... quite the legacy. I had definitely heard his story at some point. Actually wait, I do I know a *little* about African history, Gao, Songhai empire, etc. some of the medieval nations in western Africa. But pretty surface level stuff.

>>721574
Most of my knowledge is from contemporary times

Like start of decolonization to today

Do you know anything about Equatorial Guinea, the only spanish speaking nation in Africa?

I only really know the medieval stuff as vague context

>>721580
Quintessential African Oil State

>>721584
They had some horrible dictator who was mentally ill, no? What was his name?

>>721585
I didn't

doesn't really interest me

>>721587
Nguema

.play those were the days my friend

Basically he erased any hope at their being an educated middle class in the country, so it's basically:
>impoverished
>foreign expert
>friends of the government
And that's what the class system is there

No, I am a capitalist

This is what Nguema listened to on the Christmas Day Massacre

>>721606
Yes

>>721607
how did you find this board

Nguema was like Pol Pot tier and it's a shame that nobody cares about African history lol

Because the guy was legit like fuckin insane

>>721611
that doesn't answer my question

>>721615
Sure, but the LRA is basically done for

Less than that at this point

Everyone is more interested in carving up the Congo for yet another massive showdown

That's a relative term

I know much more than the average person, because the average person knows literally nothing

>>721617
what board

good for you

Kony is down to like 50 or so fighters that all just want to go home instead of starving in Sudan

The Ugandans don't really care about him anymore

And in all likelihood you would be better off finding a way to avert the massive continent spanning war that will kick off as a result of the M23

>>721643
Tutsi militia run by the Rwandans to destabilize and more or less pillage the DRC

>>721644
The unfortunate reality of this world is that often the evil will go unpunished because there are too many fires to put out

Pretty sure he's in Sudan, but either way, I don't wanna get caught up in what's going to happen down there

Like I am serious, it's gonna end up burning real quick

As I said, if I am going to be forming a paramilitary group and moving into Africa, it's going to be deal with the M23 movement

>>721671
Depends on the region

uh which part are you interested in

>>721674
Basically Uganda has been under Museveni for decades, who has a hot and cold relationship with the Tutsi government in Rwanda. He likes the situation as it is right now, with a weak DRC, but he doesn't really like that the Rwandans fuck around as hard as they do. He's also been having trouble dealing with the pro-Democracy forces in his country, but for an African autocrat, he's done a decent job of maintaining power

>>721684
The de facto dictator of Uganda, he's been in charge more or less since Idi Amin, there was a period of civil war after his overthrow, but like we are talking the interim in charge were there for a few months at most. Museveni has been around for 40 years at this point.

But the Ugandans like to have their fingers in every single thing, they fuck around in the current Tigray war, in the DRC, in Sudan

>>721688
No

English

>>721675
There are some parts of Africa that are quite nice, and some parts that are not so nice. I'd say I wouldn't want to be anywhere near central Africa right now

>>721692
No, only English

>>721694
I am not making fun of anything, everything I've said has been accurate

>>721697
twink

Nah, if I was fucking with you, I'd make up more interesting lies

If I was fucking with you I WOULD BE SPREADING my anti-Kagame propaganda

>>721704
No, I am white

>>721705
At first, I learned about the First Congo Conflict and thought "Damn that shit was insane" then I started reading up more and more, eventually going through the original UN documents on the Rwandan genocide, the original text of the Arusha accords, things like that, had to start learning about the countries neighboring the DRC, then I had to learn about Uganda and how they fuck with everybody, Zimbabwe, the South Africans, and then eventually I just started learning about the whole continent because I thought it was interesting. There's like an insane amount of interconnectedness and realpolitik that makes it interesting.

Like it sounds like I am fucking with you, but it is seriously like a Hideo Kojima game

The way that everything is just like you'll be reading something, then be like "... hold on... that name... wait wasn't this guy also doing this at the time?"

>>721710
mid-20's

Kony has been stopped

Now he is going to die an inglorious death hiding in Sudan

Yeah, and he will die in shame.

Maybe

IDK I have like... stuff

I would say that it is a relative term, the average person knows nothing about it, and like to be quite honest alot of people that handle foreign policy in that region are unironically also very clueless, I think that there is alot of things I do not know about the region, but the fact that I know *anything* puts me well beyond average

You occasionally run into the language barrier, but I just translate it with google lol. I do know how to shoot and drive manual, which would be important in Africa

We are talking about Africa, but I am prob gonna sleep soon

I like that like Africa fought a WW1 sized conflict, then paused to autoscramble the teams because Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Angola all on one team wasn't fair, then immediately went back to fighting another WW1 sized conflict. And then like nobody cared

>>721759
icles