I don't think I'll ever be a "K-Pop Stan". My love of Lee Jung-Hyun's music has been making YouTube recommend other K-Pop themed videos, and I've been noticing something... The state of modern K-Pop is... not good. Sex scandals, contract scandals, cyberbullying scandals, relationship scandals, health scandals. Pick a K-Pop act that started in the last 15 or so years, and you'll uncover scandals. H... » Continue Reading
So this pandemic has been ongoing now in the USA for almost 3 years (though granted, nowhere near as bad as it used to be) and this past week, my luck finally ran out. Maybe it was due to the table of coughing Trumpie boomers we were seated near at the 50s Grill last Friday, maybe it was the packed crowd at the Mall of America the day after, but regardless, I'm now among the number of total Co » Continue Reading
The more I think about it, the more I think that we got Splatoon 3 (and another event) a lot later than Nintendo originally envisioned. The image above was released by Nintendo at Midnight (JST) January 1, 2020. I even remember where I was » Continue Reading
The thing is, Twitter is imploding. If not its servers, then its userbase. So far, the platform of choice for many corporate journalists is Mastodon, with the "mastodon.social" server being the one everyone (including myself) is flocking to (same username, btw 😊). Mastodon's admins have seen a threefold increase of traffic in just the last half month, and it's growing. The only drawback is... it's... » Continue Reading
Though to be frank, he seems to be smart about it to not chase away users, according to his recent press release. After all, the platform still needs to be profitable to exist, and that won't happen if 60% of their users go away. So I'll stay on Twitter for now, but for those who are leaving, I'm recommending SpaceHey. If you've come here from the Twitter exodus, welcome to the '00s! 😁 This is ... » Continue Reading
We'll see how long this lasts! In the meantime, this new socialnet definitely brings the nostalgia! I used to have a MySpace back in the day...I even posted my music on it... but I deleted it after I got my Facebook. So for now at least, I'm protecting my branding here :) » Continue Reading