Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕I seem to have given Spotify a very specific kind of impression. Guess I can partially blame Neil Newbon's Astarion playlist for this.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5M8V2xx6uPA5dMUhLU6Ij5
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Jerome (He/Him)@fringemagnet It's hilarious to me that Neil embraces the fact that he is Astarion IRL now.
@jeromechoo For real, I reckon he's put a lot of himself into his performance, it was especially clear how easily it comes to him during the High Rollers D&D game. Plus he's mentioned that he's personally experienced bullying and trauma IRL too, so it probably even goes deeper than that, and it kinda makes sense that he grew attached to the character so much.
@fringemagnet oh wow I didn’t know about his background but that lines up with how much he’s embraced Astarion. I’ve gotta check out the high rollers game some time.
@jeromechoo I had no clue either, he mentioned his experience with bullying on a stream and about his experience as a survivor and on trauma in general on his acceptance speech on The Golden Joysticks, it was actually pretty touching: https://youtu.be/V1bj72lkCkk?si=1pNjip3y0lTCpTA-&t=369.
The High Rollers D&D is several hours long divided into 2 videos, but is so darn hilarious. Watching other people playing TTRPGs isn't usually my thing, but I loved the entire thing. It's where all the Bing Bong memes came from.
Neil Newbon - Best Supporting Performer Golden Joysticks 2023
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@fringemagnet Now I wonder what they put in your Wrapped playlist.
@reinesis It's mostly old school rock and grunge, my usual stuff, bit of gothic metal, bit of pop, quite a few indie and alternative stuff that I discovered and had on loop, the Brandi Carlile cover of “Closer to Fine" from the Barbie OST, "Strangers Like Me" from Disney's Tarzan and "I'll Make a Man Out of You" from Mulan because both are part of my main cardio playlist, and a couple of classical tracks from the "Relaxing Music for Cats Scared of Fireworks" playlist that I've apparently utilized several times this year, because people be loudly celebrating random shit. You know, variety. 😂
@fringemagnet It's a very much wonderful collection I should say.
Carighan Maconar@fringemagnet Hrm, I did not get something like that. For me it just lists top artists and stuff.
And like every year, Spotify **absolutely** cannot get to grips with me listening to wildly differeny things in equal amounts because they don't try to differnetiate work-time listening from spare-time listening.
Whenever someone says "but ze algorithms", I can point to any large site and how utterly their algos fail to show how simplistic these supposed filter bubbles are. Or how inexistent. 😂