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The True Reason for the Decline of Western Civilization

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Years pass , and YouTube continues to serve me Metalhead Dating advertisements when I stream music freely through the site. It does this even though I have been (un)comfortably celibate for longer than I care to admit. In fact, I will never get laid again if I’m supposed to navigate the harrowing path of a dating site icon-external-link-12x12 that was designed for loose women covered in bad tattoos and men who enjoy wearing makeup.

I was actually fortunate enough this morning to stumble upon a chat room transcript from two of Metalhead Dating’s users while I was drinking my ginger root tea and reading the latest issue of The New Yorker. Here is an excerpt:

VikingMetalGuy3746: Hi SheVixen666! :)
SheVixen666: Hi! :)
VikingMetalGuy3746: So you said in ur email that you like viking metal. VM is my favorite!!
SheVixen666: Yeah!! well… I like all metal, but VM is pretty awesome to
VikingMetalGuy3746: whenever I play my guitar its usually viking metal
SheVixen666: Oh wow, you play guitar? Thats so cool!!!
VikingMetalGuy3746: yeah, Ive been playing for 10 years now and Im getting really good
SheVixen666: can you play God Hates Us by Avenged Sevenfold? thats probably my favorite song right now
VikingMetalGuy3746: oh yeah, I can totally play that one
SheVixen666: really? maybe you could upload a video to youtube of you playing it :)
VikingMetalGuy3746: i could do that, yah, but I need to practice it a lil bit… its been a while since I played any A7X songs and there guitar players are really good
SheVixen666: oh okay… A7X is so amazing!
VikingMetalGuy3746: oh yeah, I luv A7X… they’re like the best heavy metal band out there these days. there so good that even Slayer is ripping them off
SheVixen666: yeah, I know.. slayer totaly stole that name from them
VikingMetalGuy3746: yeah.. there all old guys in slayer and cant think of any orignial stuff no more
SheVixen666: yeah
VikingMetalGuy3746: so what are you wearing right now?
SheVixen666: black shirt, black pants and chains
VikingMetalGuy3746: OMG! ME TO!
SheVixen666: Realy? lol
VikingMetalGuy3746: yeah! lol
SheVixen666: wow we have a lot in common
SheVixen666: how many tats you got?
VikingMetalGuy3746: 12… and Im gonna get another one next tuseday
SheVixen666: oh realy? I only have 4
VikingMetalGuy3746: thats otkay… we should meet up and get tatoos next week!
SheVixen666: hmmm… ok that sounds like fun :)
VikingMetalGuy3746: yeah :)
SheVixen666: so where are your tatoos?

Unfortunately, I couldn’t post anymore of what was said. ChadSpace strives to be a family-oriented website, after all, and there is already more than enough smut on the Internet to last until our children’s children’s children inherit the Earth.

Data Harvesting, Lesson 1

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If you’re ever curious what goes into computer security, take a glimpse at Facebook’s privacy messages in the off-chance that they happen to appear. Make sense? Kudos to you for at least making the attempt. If they don’t—which is usually the case for the small number of people who actually try—consider talking to your local trustworthy IT person. What’s that? You don’t have a local IT person whom you can trust? Okay… now you are starting to understand the current state things.

.music gTLD Free-For-All

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There are eight companies currently vying for control over the new gTLD (generic top-level domain) .music. Here they are sorted in alphabetical order by parent company—not by the subsidiary that submitted the application:

  • Amazon
  • Donuts via subsidiary Victor Cross
  • Famous Four Media via subsidiary dot Music Limited
  • Far Further via subsidiary .music LLC
  • Google via subsidiary Charleston Road Registry Inc.
  • .MUSIC via subsidiary DotMusic Limited
  • Radix via subsidiary DotMusic Inc.
  • Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. via subsidiary Entertainment Names Inc.

Interestingly, Donuts, Inc. icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 also owns the .band gTLD through its Auburn Hollow, LLC and the .rocks gTLD through its Ruby Moon, LLC.

On a somewhat related note, the .game gTLD is owned by Uniregistry, Corp icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 while the .games gTLD (note the addition of an ‘s’) is owned by Donuts through its Foggy Beach, LLC. The costs for a domain from these companies are about $500 and $15 per name per year, respectively, so I guess Uniregistry gets to mark up its names by 3333% for having a gTLD that is only one letter shorter.

Amazon and Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google) also applied for the .game gTLD and were denied, while Foggy Beach, LLC (Donuts) was the sole applicant for the .games gTLD. Google did file an objection to the .games name, claiming that it was too similar to the .game gTLD and would confuse Internet users. This is funny.

Blurring the Boundaries of Entertainment (and Good Taste)

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Kraid’s Theme icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track from Metroid Metal by Stemage icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

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Norfair icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track from Metroid Metal)
Brinstar icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track from Metroid Metal)

Metroid Metal icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 is one of the very few cases where two totally unrelated cool things were successfully combined together to produce something even cooler. That said, a person performing heavy metal renditions of video game songs almost always turns out poorly, and that’s how it should be.

It’s like putting scoops of chocolate ice cream on a pepperoni pizza—maybe it sounds like a good idea at first, but reality will quickly set in after scarfing a bite or two. Some things are just better kept separate from one another, and putting too much good stuff in one place can taint a person’s previous experiences and render future experiences as unpalatable, or even disagreeable.

For example, watching people icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 record themselves playing distortion-laden versions of video game songs and then uploading them to YouTube makes me hate heavy metal, video games, and the Internet all at the same time!