worst fad of the 21st century so far. it's steampunk, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jYMP1tz02Q

that's one of the best videos

running out of ganja is a serious problem tbf

which is why jill stein adopted that song as her campaign anthem.

bless you, goole

i just want to reassure the bass player in his public image limited t-shirt that life gets better

Shortly after the release of "Cooky Puss", iirc.

Escape rooms can be worthwhile. More so if you, yes, were a fan of Myst

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this local bar is doing something called a "silent disco" where everyone on the dance floor wears headphones that the dj transmits to, no actual sound in the room space. horrifying.

^^They're doing that tonight at ACL Fest.

it would be of great value to me, personally, if someone here could report on whether or not these are as bad as they seem

I went to a spirit halloween with my kid and was shocked at the amount of steampunk stuff they had, I kind of forgot that was a thing.

I have no idea who would be buying it, like the Sexy Covid Nurse constume buyers would hate that stuff and the hardcore steampunk typs would be building their own brass google / top hat contraptions.

A friend and I witnessed a bunch of teenagers and 20-somethings at the water’s edge dancing silently with headphones to a DJ set-up on China Beach when we were out walking a couple of years ago. When we came back later they had all taken their headphones off and were gathered around a guru.

It was probably some cultist Christian ministry thing, but walking among young people dancing silently on the beach was an unexpectedly sweet experience

it makes complete sense if it's outdoors or in a public place. but this is the basement of a bar - the perfect place for a sweet sound system. i think they must be trying to get in on the gimmick? people in my city are so ... ugh

Silent Discos have been about since the 90s, surely?

They've been putting those on for awhile in downtown Houston at fading indoor concert venue.

The fact that the bass is more a physical sensation than an aural one makes me think this could never be great

Yeah, silent discos have been around for a while. I always hated the idea but one year at Supernormal they had to finish the music early so compromised with one of these - it was reasonably fun, and quite amusing when you weren't participating watching people bop around to nothing.
However, if you don't *have* to do a silent disco, I have no idea why you would actively seek to do one.

A friend used to run them - one feature which was interesting was that there were separate channels so people were dancing to 3 different sets of music indicated by colour rings on the headphones. If you wanted to dance with someone you could switch to their stream so you were both hearing the same thing.

that sounds really nice