Official Discussion Thread: DLC Week of 3/6 - Everclear, Good Charlotte, Mastodon

[Plutarch]

"Sexist"?

For serious?

I didn't think it was sexist, given that the lyrics are condescending towards both guys and girls (perhaps appropriate, given the song's name). Let's go with "terrible" instead.

[meck77]

just started hearing this Mastadon song on the radio about two weeks ago. I instantly thought to myself how sweet it would be on RB. Totally stoked buying all three.

[Lowlander2]

Except if it's Catch-22. Catch-22 always shuts him down really fast o-o

Um, yeah, he sure does...

[peterock2007]

You also wouldn't know much about good writing.

Granted, she's not as terrible as Dan Brown or Christopher Paolini (or Stephenie Meyer, but that's kicking a dead horse), but she's done her fair share of mangling of the English language and her books desperately need a good editor to weed out a lot of the more redundant passages. Not to mention to cut that damn 70 page Galt speech in Atlas down to size. There's just no excuse for that.

Granted the strength in her novels isn't her writing talent, but the ideas more than make up for her weaknesses. It's definately a make you think book, even if you don't lean towards objectivism. Her novel has far more value than alot of the bestselling trash that passes for literature nowadays.

According to a 1991 survey done for the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club, Atlas Shrugged was situated between The Bible and M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled as the book that made the most difference in the lives of 5,000 Book-of-the-Month club members surveyed, with a "large gap existing between the #1 book and the rest of the list".

Modern Library's 1998 nonscientific online poll of the 100 best novels of the 20th century found Atlas rated #1

This is like the third time in a row I got in a debate in the DLC thread, not about the dlc. So to make this on topic yet again, good week. Will actually log in on tuesday to play these.

[HeyRiles]

Yeah I recognize the Good Charlotte song. Good week!

My anime face for the week: http://cs5130.vkontakte.ru/u9834080/-14/x_888ea87d.jpg

[Dadasaurus Rex]

Santa Monica reminds me of a great time in my life when I lived in a beach front apartment in Seattle. Just like the Good Charlotte tune a lot.
To quote Uncle Meat - "So don't be sad, Cause two out of three ain't bad."

[tdc002]

Definitely grabbing Santa Monica. Really glad we're getting more 90s stuff.

Glad to see more ska coming through RBN, but I just can't get into Sunny Side Up at all. They just seem entirely unoriginal. Maybe they just rubbed the the wrong way in "Welcome to the Skalocaust" where they're practically saying "Listen to us! We're the next big ska band! We're gonna bring back ska music!" Plus, that whole song just seems like a big Streetlight Manifesto rip off instrumentally. This new track reminds me of a few different Reel Big Fish songs lyrically and still reminds me of Streetlight, too.

[folkeye]

None for me. Two for my list (Everclear and GC).

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

For people complaining about 3 songs a week :

If getting Rock Band 4 ready for later this year (all speculation on my part) means cutting us down to three songs a week, then that's the price we pay.

And remember before Rock band? When Guitar hero 2 just got like maybe five or six DLC weeks in the course of almost a year.

REMEMBER THAT?!?!?

Sure 3 songs a week isn't an album or 6 or 9 pack, but at least we're still getting DLC for a game that the entire industry has said is done (BOO ON THEM), and is now almost 18 months old.

I'm not even going to say name me one other game that has given us weekly dlc for almost five years in a row. BECAUSE IT DOESN'T EXIST.

Rock Band is the ****.

3 songs a week is more than 2 songs a week is more than 1 song a week is more than NO songs a week. So can we just be thankful for what we've got, and are still getting?

Instead of being greedy whiny little greed beasts all the time?

[Lowlander2]

u mad