New Music
Hello Heathens,
Lots of new music on the show this week. In fact, ONLY new music on the show this week. I’m really pleased with this playlist even though it’s a lot of tracks from a few bands. I think that recently people have been focusing too much on the news and the general doom and gloom of the world and forgetting that the music world chugs on. 2022 has been a great year for new releases, and I’m glad that the back 1/3 of the year has a strong closing.
I’ve been trying to wrap up the extra bosses in Octopath Traveler, and I have a new setup so I can screenshot stuff easier for posting Switch game content. While I have a good idea of what direction the show is going to go, I am not really sure what direction the blog is going to go. I think that I am going to use this as a place where I can just dump out stuff I’ve been thinking about. Something I’ve been thinking about recently is the Andrew Tate content and subsequent ban we’ve seen recently. Andrew Tate I don’t like Tate. I think that he is a blight on masculinity, but the response videos seemed replies from people who had never watched his content. I think that his main points are weak (he doesn’t believe in romantic love being key for long term relationships for example), and when you are replying to “political” figures you need to be familiar with their content to effectively address them. “They don’t even get what I’m saying,” was a common theme in his last few days of being on mainstream platforms. The other part of this that keeps the feedback loop of Tate’s content is his actual ban. He has had a lot of, “My message is too close to the truth and I will be banned for being this honest.” Now that Tate is banned off the mainstream platforms we are going to see less pushback on him. He is now streaming and uploading content on an YouTube alternative called Rumble. He had almost 200k viewers. This is bigger than his average youtube video viewership, and most of his Tik Tok viewership. By having him off bigger more mainstream sites and on these alternative sites he is better able to preach his message to the most faithful.
I am not a free speech absolutist, but I do think that banning people like Tate who are embarrassing but not outright dangerous is a bad move. He is out of sight and out of mind for most people now and will be able to silently rebuild his brand like Milo and many other political grifters. He can preach to his most faithful, and send them out to recruit. By having annoying losers kicked off mainstream platforms it also makes people on those mainstream platforms worse at pushing back against “dangerous” messaging. It’s why we had dorks like the Paul brothers saying that, “Andrew deserves the ban,” when he is doing nothing worse than what they were doing a few years ago.
Hopefully this is the last time I cover any sort of “politics” drama on this blog.
Keep Heavy the Sabbath Day