Emperor Joshua Norton II

Lukasz Kowalczuk @elkowalczuk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 12:47 UTC

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 23:59 UTC

AND UNDISPUTED NUMBER ONE: Beethoven's Fifth, by Ludwig van Beethoven.

This opening riff has lasted for -centuries- now due to its sheer staying power.

And on a side note, the four opening notes (. . . -) is also morse code for V, which is roman numeral for five.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOk8...

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 23:55 UTC

NUMBER TWO: Live-version of The Look, by Roxette.

This whole live-version rocks so hard, and the wao-wao-waaaao they do to build up tension before starting the actual song, at which point the crowd goes fucking wild.... This is what concerts are meant to be.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G4e...

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 23:51 UTC

NUMBER THREE: Enter Sandman by Metallica

I mean, what else is there to say, except there is a reason this riff opened up The Black Album.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E...

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 23:49 UTC

NUMBER FOUR: Sweet Child of Mine, by Guns'N Roses

For over three decades after its release, guitar shop owners all over has had to stop their customers from playing a bad version of this riff, which cements why Slash was the main reason for the success of GnR.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w7O...

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 23:47 UTC

NUMBER FIVE: Iron Man by Black Sabbath

The reason this isn't higher is because while the opening riff is in itself perfection, it does not deliver us the song that was really promised. It's a riff that does not lend itself to being sung, yet that's what they do.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F01U...

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 23:44 UTC

It's time for a Very Serious And Objective Ranking List By An Expert* And this time, we will rank the following: TOP FIVE OPENING RIFFS IN WESTERN MUSIC HISTORY! *AKA a very subjective opinion, and a reminder that absolutely anyone can make ranking lists and put it online.

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:10 UTC

The thing is, "vegetable" is really a food term, not a biology term. In other words, if you use "technical" to mean "biology terms", there is no such thing as a vegetable.

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 21:33 UTC

You can't fool us, we know you've been waiting for the day you can sit in a rocking chair and yell at the kids to get off your lawn.

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 20:22 UTC

@jamesdator.bsky.social probably feels like nothing he writes in the future will ever top "on this day, the bat boy became a bat man."

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 18:07 UTC

All three brain cells are firing up at once and he doesn't know how to deal with that.

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 03:08 UTC

I am on a discord server about a game and I constantly tell people to do the worst possible thing so they yell at me and I think this is how @gailsimone.bsky.social feels like all day.

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 22:49 UTC

A day without seeing Gail starting or maintaining a blood feud is a sad day indeed.

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 21:59 UTC

The fact that it absolutely can be a complete vagueskeet is what makes it so depressing.

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 17:47 UTC

This reminds me of a Dorktowm comic book celebrating one of the happiest* day in the Orioles' history.

*May or may not actually be the happiest day in Orioles history.

www.sbnation.com/2019/7/31/20...

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 12:24 UTC

Someone's motto is clearly "an unsuck dick is a terrible waste".

As for me, Iade this shitty thing:

bsky.app/profile/josh...

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 01:14 UTC

Daniel might benefit from getting some "information discovery" about who exactly it is he's arguing with, and if any of them has any experience with, say, extensively testing actual algorithm generation products being marketed as being capable of doing real litigation work...

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 00:40 UTC

I did read it, and I can absolutely confirm that this hypothetical thing you wrote was absolutely not using AI to litigate; or indeed in any way, shape, or form perform something even remotely related and/or useful to actual law work of any kind.

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 00:11 UTC

Also, whatever disagreement one might have about what you had to say about either*, it's really hard to claim you were doing "tone policing" in any meaningful sense of the term. *I personally don't, and in particular find it ironic that "leftists" are attacking a non-capitalist public space.

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 23:44 UTC

Today, on #makeaterriblecomicday2024 , we come in with the hottest of hot takes!

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 21:28 UTC

September, I believe it was

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 04:47 UTC

Speaking of bad people, here's one that got utterly creamed in a defamation lawsuit*:

*Link contains at least 600% of the recommended Daily Value for Vitamin Schadenfreude

www.techdirt.com/2024/06/21/b...

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 04:36 UTC

Back in the old days with the old frying oil, this would have been a reeeeeeeeally tempting offer.

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 12:57 UTC

And Michel Schumacher used to play on a soccer team that was in the second highest league in Austria. Being in a team that high in even a smaller European country is a really difficult feat, considering how just about everyone plays it.

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 12:46 UTC

Yeah, people really don't understand that true high performance competition cars are difficult as fuck to drive. And also that the higher classes you go, it's going to be a real physical test as well. The stamina of an F1 driver is absolutely top notch. They will run circles around us.

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 03:53 UTC

He's the only innocent cinnamon bun left in the cast. (You know, compared to everyone else.) Of course he's going to be tortured.

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 23:27 UTC

Remember Wonko the Sane who lived "outside the Asylum" inside which he'd placed all of humanity because our society (at least the modern Western-style society) had gone completely and incurable insane? Just thought of him for no specific reason right now.

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 18:47 UTC

As everyone knows, spying must be done while naked. Yes, this is happening in the game.

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 17:43 UTC

Wait a second... Another curse! What an intensely unforeseen twist of events!

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 17:41 UTC

Well, there is another black chest. I think that after all these curses, I'm bound for a blessing instead. Let's open it and find out!

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 20:15 UTC

Nobody could give you such a "I am certifiably insane"* look as Mr. Sutherland could. His eyes were practically made to do movies with. *With the optional side of "and I love it" when needed.

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Emperor Joshua Norton II @joshuanortonii.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 18:15 UTC

It's the latest Robin's way to distinguish themself from all the other Robins.

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