Damn, I keep getting that wrong. Why does my brain refuse to update that information?

Most people will say they're sub-jonin, because they struggled to defeat 2 jonins. IMO, with their power-ups, they have gotta be stronger than a lot of jonin who have no power-ups. Although, they did ultimately lose to genin, but that's tricky since they fought Sasuke and then fought jonin, and then beat a genin, and then finally lost to a second genin. Plus, those genin were main characters, and main characters are the equivalent of gods.

Lots of kids died already at this point. Dosu comes to mind. Haku, although he's 19.

I doubt that would happen, since almost none of those Uchiha had unlocked MS. I imagine Fugaku may have been the only Uchiha killed in the massacre who had MS, and even him having it was debatable. Recall kid Sasuke asking Fugaku about Itachi's MS, and Fugaku gave the impression that it was pretty much just a legend or no one had it. Itachi broke out by accident because he had laid a Kotoamatsukami trap in Naruto. Madara was one of the only Uchiha who I really believe could've freed himself, and I don't think even he would've succeeded at that if Kabuto hadn't left his free will intact.

It's always possible that Kabuto lacked knowledge of what the dead Uchiha were capable of, and thus feared the unknown. But I think it's much more likely it's either because the bodies weren't intact due to salvaging by Danzo / Orochimaru / Obito or because none of the Uchiha who died in the massacre were any good aside from Fugaku.

Not at all. Hate the whale hunting, the power creep, the quantity of releases, the diminishing of competitive play, and the way that standard plays. That is, I liked tense draw-go control match-ups like Tog, Trenches, Nether-Go; instants responding to instants, trying to guess what the opponent has left in hand, close games. Now I feel like Magic is much more tap-out style, more cards where you brainlessly derf value onto the board like Omnath or Questing Beast, and there are so many card advantage engines that run away with the game if the opponent doesn't have an answer to it right here and now. Back in the day, if you resolved a Wild Mongrel, you weren't gonna 10-for-1 the opponent if they didn't have an answer. Now, there are tons and tons of card advantage engines, even 1-drops, like Edgewall Innkeeper. Every tiny little advantage that you eek out through skill can be erased by a single card that just drowns you in card advantage.

It wouldn't be such a popular term if it wasn't so ambiguous. Vibes can mean impression given. Vibe can be resonating with the emotion / energy of another person or music. Vibe can be new age vibrational mumbo jumbo. The multiple meanings is what has helped it catch on as the new slang term that can mean anything. It helps that a lot of other new age stuff is trendy right now (like it always has been), like crystals and astrology.

I'd give 2Pac 7 before giving Kendrick any

Could be 50 Cent vs Tyler, as they are both trolls

It's insane to not be aware of history that happened 9 years ago. So I'm guessing you might not be aware of like Matthew Shephard, Emmett Till, Jim Crow, redlining, employment discrimination, women not being allowed to vote / own property, and women couldn't get a credit card without a man's approval until 1974, Charlottesville.

Itachi: Nuh uh. *hops into forest*

It's interesting that you ask why without having any theories. Four female leads, beating up a male bad guy, feminism.
"Roughly half of white adults (49%) say feminism is polarizing, compared with 34% of Black and 36% of Hispanic adults. Similarly, while about a third (32%) of whites say feminism is outdated, roughly one-in-four Black (24%) and Hispanic (26%) adults say the same." [1]

Shouldn't be hard to think of a reason why some people hate Death Proof and other obviously feminist or female-led movies that are consequently suffering due to the bias (The Marvels, The Female Ghostbuster Reboot, Star Wars 7-9, Jupiter Ascending, Wonder Woman, Madame Web, Ocean's 8, She-Hulk).

Although, tbf, Death Proof had half the runtime of a normal movie. And being based around crashing a car as a murder weapon is kind of strange due to its inefficiency.

For the purposes of this thread, there's no way of knowing whether an album released at age 35 might contain a bar that the rapper wrote when he was 7, so I think the official release date is the best criteria.

Nas was 20 when Illmatic dropped. Born in September 1973, released in April 1994.

2Pacalypse Now, The Infamous, Straight Outta Compton, Southernplayalisticcadillacmuzik

This may not be a good comeback, but for me... Covid still exists, if it mutates it will be better at evading our immunities, it will mutate faster if we spread it more than necessary, masks provide protection 30% in and 70% out, it's kind to protect other people, most people still underestimate the seriousness of long Covid and severe complications of Covid, you don't want to spend the rest of your life disabled in unable to earn a living due to long Covid, it has killed 1.1 million Americans, and it would be nice if we could try to minimize the societal / economic impacts of Covid as much as possible by wearing masks so that we can do more of everything else.

Soulja Boy is an example of someone who is tremendously influential, and that influence is much more a bad thing than a good thing. But is he a good rapper? He's probably in the bottom 20% in terms of real talent, but on the high end in terms of popularity.

Up your butt and around the corner

I haven't really been playing Magic much lately, but I'm just gonna freestyle a Commander deck real quick. I tried to find a lot of interchangeable infinite combos to put in it.

Kiki-Jiki, Felidar Guardian, Restoration Angel, Splinter Twin, Saheeli Rai, Pestermite, Zealous Conscripts, Deceiver Exarch, Sky Hussar, Village Bell-Ringer, Intruder Alarm, Suture Priest, Impact Tremors, Abdel Adrian, Altar of the Brood, Lumbering Embattlement, Combat Celebrant, Coercive Recruiter, Port Razer, Fable of the Mirror-Breaker, Goblin Sharpshooter, Dockside Extortionist, Umbral Mantle, Feldon of the Third Path, Palinchron, Deadeye Navigator, Eldrazi Displacer, Peregrine Drake, Great Whale, Gilded Lotus, Thran Dynamo, Chromatic Orrery, Ashnod's Altar, Genesis Chamber, Urza Lord High Artificer, Nykthos, Minamo, karoos, mana rocks, Godo, Helm of the Host, Thornbite Staff, Altar of Dementia, Atsushi the Blazing Sky, Goblin Bombardment, Panharmonicon, Worldgorger Dragon, Priest of Urabrask, Brago King Eternal, Phyrexian Altar, Krenko Mob Boss, Staff of Domination, Emrakul's Hatcher, Nim Deathmantle, Hallowed Spiritkeeper, Cloud of Faeries, Karmic Guide, Jaxis the Troublemaker, Skirk Prospector, Cloudstone Curio, Elesh Norm Mother Of Machines, Fblthp the Lost, Workhorse, Adarkar Valkyrie, Orthion Hero of Lavabrink?, Krark-Clan Ironworks?

Yashamaru was a 27-year-old Anbu agent who earned a promotion to chunin 11 years prior (i.e. would probably be jonin by now if his rank wasn't Anbu). 5-year-old Gaara killed him. Once you no-diff Anbu, it should be a settled matter as to whether you're chunin-level.

Benzino was never even remotely respected as a rapper, but The Source used to be pretty respected as a magazine.

The Source's Twitter account is crazy dead. I'll see a tweet by them and it has 0 comments, 0 likes, 7 views.

Well, Diddy isn't exactly getting good publicity at this moment.

That's pretty true. You can go to r/rap and post the names of professional artists and they'll allow it, but post yourself and it's not allowed. Basically if the artist is big enough that it doesn't look like self-promotion, then it's allowed.

Hmm. I find that a lot of subreddits ban advertising your own music.

I ran a youtube campaign and got about 1.5-2 cents CPV and a view rate of around 80% (I had another ad that got a view rate of 40%, so that song was apparently a little less good). I was spending something like $210/month for 5 months and got around 50,000 views. However, in that period of time, I only gained 3 subscribers, very few likes, and there's no guarantee that all 3 of them were driven by the campaign. So these kind of campaigns are definitely good for getting views up, but they suspiciously don't seem to do a great job at converting to subscribers in my experience -- e.g. hundreds of dollars per subscriber. And your campaign doesn't seem to be doing nearly as good of results, so... I'm guessing you're not going to be getting a lot of subscribers. These type of campaigns are probably a wiser choice than buying fake streams if your interest is getting your view count up and building apparent clout, since you're at least getting real exposure and improving your algorithm rather than killing it.

Right this second, I'm of the view that the best thing to do might be to create numerous songs including at least a handful of pretty good ones, create a lot of IG content including at least a dozen pieces of very good reel content, and then running an IG campaign that has a lot of different ad creatives, like 10-20, and letting the ad manager optimize for the best creative. Before you do the IG ad campaign, you could always run a similar concept on youtube where you run an ad campaign on like 20 different songs to let the optimizer figure out what is your best or your 3 best songs so that you know which songs to focus on converting into IG reels. Then make multiple reels out of each song. Because ultimately, these ad campaigns perform a lot better when your ad creative and song are very good, and the ad optimizers can do a lot to help you figure out what your best content is. But first, you should work on creating a lot of pieces of quality content to work with.

(Btw, my best success with youtube ad campaigns came when I targeted like hundreds of specific channels, rather than an audience in my genre. Channels that were artists in the same genre, podcasts in the same genre, non-artist channels that upload music like Uproxx, etc.)