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troberts

@troberts@theblower.au

#Canberra resident
Heavy #Metal fan
Parent
In Owner/Ownee relationship with cat (exact role in dispute)

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troberts, to Parenting
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Trolling my child who is dying black streaks into their hair.

troberts, to random
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My dad will send me these pictures of some artwork he's doing.

He'll be like "I am using all these reference photos from when I travelled to the relevant country, and I've done all this research, and I've been working on the picture for 2 months, and I hope to be finished next month."

So I'm sending back my drawings like "This is a bat who I imagine could be my personal assistant and I drew it in 20 minutes."

troberts, to random
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It's been a day at work. A real day.

People will look back and say, "Wow that was certainly a day."

Others will then nod their heads, knowing full well what a day it was.

troberts, to random
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Now that I have two Mastodon accounts, I can mute myself from one of them.

Because screw that guy.

troberts, to Metal
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Listening to...

'PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation' by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard.

I'm never going to not put that full album title.

#KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard #Metal

troberts, to Metal
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As much as I like Heavy Metal, I would never want to be a Heavy Metal musician.

It seems, especially for the more extreme genres, to be a life sentence of performing superhuman feats night after night.

#Metal

troberts, to Marvel
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So yeah, in summary, I think the early MCU films are great cause they are full of character.

That they would go on to choke the life out of all mainstream cinema is unfortunate.

I had a moment of "Hey Tom, are you being unfair?" and no I don't think so. If a studio comes to dominate the cultural output of a medium, then they are open to all the criticism that comes with that.

troberts, to DoctorWho
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The Guardian had a crack at a Doctor Who ranking and … well I don’t like it.

I’d have Pertwee and Capaldi much higher.

#DoctorWho

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/03/the-greatest-doctor-who-ranked

troberts, to random
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Fediverse tip.

If you want to search for posts you’ve made previously, the criteria “from:me” can be used.

E.g. If you wanted to search for all your posts related to the influential Belgian musical artist Technotronic, you would search “from:me technotronic”.

https://youtu.be/9EcjWd-O4jI?si=zpsGCuWI-n0q_1Bn

troberts, to random
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Iggy Pop really does have the best Jennifer Aniston haircut after Jennifer Aniston.

troberts, to random
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BRIAN BLESSED!!!

#Hamlet #KennethBranagh

troberts, to random
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If you have a beard, and you don't know what 'beard oil' is, I suggest you look into it just in case it's for you.

Random beard tip.

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My understanding of Hamlet so far..

Hamlet’s friends- “We saw your dead Dad as a ghost.”

Hamlet - “No way.”

Hamlet’s friends - “Way.”

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Finished Fallout TV series this evening. Really fantastic series I thought, especially having played the 3rd and 4th games a fair bit.

Got super gory and disturbing at times tho.

troberts, to random
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We’ve named this little guy ‘Spippin’ aka ‘Spider Pippin’.

Pippin (the cat) hates Spippin.

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Coffee talk…

This week I ordered a Long Black instead of a (soy) Flat White from a cafe.

I assume this is the first step towards getting caffeine injected into my veins intravenously.

troberts, to Metal
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It smells suspiciously like weed at this Orange Goblin gig.

troberts, to dreamtheater
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I'm listening to Dream Theater and their album 'Black Clouds and Silver Linings'.

I've always thought of this band as the "least cool, but most well respected" band.

I bought this as my second album from them, following 'Scenes From A Memory'.

I think it's still pretty good, cause for all the dramatic flourishes, it still goes hard when it needs to, and is technically pretty amazing.

#DreamTheater #ProgressiveMetal #Metal

troberts, to Metal
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"To Tame A Land" [by Iron Maiden] is based on the science fiction novel Dune, which was later made into a movie.

Author Frank Herbert refused to allow the band to call this song "Dune." The band originally sent a letter to Herbert's agent for permission.

The response read as follows: "No. Because Frank Herbert doesn't like rock bands, particularly heavy rock bands, and especially rock bands like Iron Maiden."

troberts, to random
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I often wonder about how much better things would be, if world leaders devoted more time to discussing Heavy Metal albums and animated TV series.

I'm trying to lead by example.

troberts, to Metal
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Aw yeah! New Acid Mammoth album!

It's called 'Supersonic Megafauna Collision'.

I'm huge fan of previous albums 'Caravan' and 'Under Acid Hoof'.

troberts, to random
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In the hour where Daylight Savings ends, anything you do during that period doesn't affect the timeline.

There's a whole extra hour there and the Time Police can't pin you for it.

troberts, to random
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Is it 5:00pm yet?

(AEDT)

troberts, to random
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I know this take is soooo 2023... but why in friggidy are people still posting on Twitter?

troberts, to Metal
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For #TuneTuesday it's #SongBaton where one song hands off to another.

If I thought about it more, I could probably find two songs from different artists, possibly from a classic soundtrack album.

But instead I'm going with a pair of memorable songs from High On Fire's "This Is The Communion.

Rumours Of War is the high energy rocker.
https://youtu.be/89h-X-tZa_w?si=7rKb9r2jjWI_a8sH

Dii is the slower, epic comedown following straight afterwards.
https://youtu.be/8l7w-cemH1A?si=efb5lhvIZEMAr-1s

#HighOnFire #Metal

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