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I'm not sure exactly what would classify as "melancholy whisper music", but Purity Ring comes to mind specifically their album Shrines

Sleep masks can be great too if you can't or don't want to install blackout curtains. Like the weighted blanket, you get used to it after a week or so. I have this one, worth a try at just $10: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L8RYFWF/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_lVUoFbF04M303

I think this will be a good list for you.

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Have you played Banished? It a cool, fairly straightforward game from an indie dev where you build and maintain a civilization. No battle mechanics, just population and resource management. Some people complain that past a certain point the game doesn't really provide any more challenges or rewards, but for $20 I think the challenge of just getting to the point that it becomes boring is well worth it.

Edit: I loved Zoo/Roller Coaster Tycoon, Sim City, Age of Empires when I was younger and I found this game in my early 20s and knew I had to have it immediately.

I've discovered some interesting content through Gnoosic. It's a recommendation engine that filters crowdsourced music preferences via adaptive machine learning algorithms. I also search through the reposts and follows of artists I like on Soundcloud. I don't generally find the related artists on Spotify, Last.fm, and so on, to be that useful.

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A bit different from what you're describing, but very compelling.

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Love that track!!

This song is very similar (i think)

https://youtu.be/sRbKzumSPVw

Sweet Tides - Thievery Corporation

They also made an album called The Richest Man in Babylon which features a female vocalist if thats was what you liked with Empire Ants

Heavy Rain - more cinematic than graphic novel style. More player input, but similar gameplay, particularly during fighting. You play a number of different characters and your decisions affect who lives/dies and the overall story throughout.

Factorio might be something you're interested in! Coop is available.

https://www.factorio.com

> Factorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories. > > You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, apply management skills to keep it working, and protect it from the creatures who don't really like you. > > The game is very stable and optimized for building massive factories. You can create your own maps, write mods in Lua, or play with friends via Multiplayer.

Disabling enemies is an option if you don't want to worry about them.

Can't believe how many people sleep on Mick Jenkins.

> Drink more water, or you might die

A lot of thought went into that line. Definitely an artist to look out for, he's going places.

A few more artists OP might enjoy:

• Gilbere Forte

• Shawn M

• Vince Staples

• PRhyme

• Ghostface Killah

• SPARK MASTER TAPE (2nd verse got me in the feels)

• ¡MAYDAY! & Murs

• XV

• Onyx

Maybe: 2 Chainz, Ace Hood IYL Danny Brown

They really are pretty unique. I actually can't think of any bands that really combine rock and electronic music in the same way they do. The most similar group I can think of that's really good is the prodigy, who clearly influenced pendulum a lot.

However they're not as lyric-centric as pendulum. Obviously radiohead has some music that is a great mix of electronic and rock, and I feel like anyone who listens to them enough eventually likes them.

Maybe try the chemical brothers as well. More hip-hoppy, but kinda similar.

EDIT: Check out the sneaker pimps as well. Although the female singer changes the sound a bit, it's the same type of music.

You are right. Post-rock isn't what you want, post-metal is. I don't have any specific recomendations because I get my post-metal fix completely from my post-metal Pandora station. You could start there if you want.

If you mean political or historical biographies the first things that come to mind are Maus by Art Spiegelman, Pyongyang (or anything else) by Guy Delisle and Palestine (or everything, really) by Joe Sacco and Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa.

The genre is called "cosmic horror". Here's a list of such books.

I think you'll enjoy FMA:Brotherhood, Ao no Exorcist, Kekkaishi, Baccano!, Durarara!!, Mirai Nikki, MajiKoi, Busou Renkin.

I got these titles from http://myanimelist.net/anime/8074/Highschool_of_the_Dead/userrecs and http://myanimelist.net/anime/3588/Soul_Eater/userrecs - only recced what I kinda saw and enjoyed.

What exactly did you like about the two shows :3?

If we're talking about Binding of Isaac and Risk of Rain, you have to mention Spelunky! I often see these 3 games grouped together as the most popular modern "rogue-lites." Spelunky is one of my favorite games of all time, and it is definitely my favorite rogue-lite.

There's so much replayability. I have about 100 hours logged on Steam (this doesn't include the countless hours I played the original before it was out on Steam), and there's still so much I haven't done (Hell runs!).

Try out the old free version if you want -- but trust me -- the "HD" version improves on everything!

http://www.spelunkyworld.com/

Are you specifically looking for engineering / physics based puzzle type games?

Spacechem is a pretty technical puzzle game where you need to build circuits to assemble molecules and chemicals. I don't know, it's pretty complex. Watch some videos if it interests you! It was made by the creator of infiniminer (the game Notch later used as the basis for Minecraft).

Define modern!

Muse's sense of drama and bombast is heavily influenced by Queen.

Equally, a lot of Radiohead's work - particularly the earlier albums - owes a debt to The Pixies.

If you're leaving reddit because it no longer has in-depth content, might I suggest MetaFilter. Its comments interface is a little less good, but it more than makes up for it with its content.

I grew up with The Storyteller, calling my little sister the Princess of Sweetness and Cherry Pie when she was being a bitch.

The book adaptation by Anthony Minghella is VERY good as well.

And you might like the The Witcher books. I know that sounds insane on the surface, but read the short story "A Question of Price" in the collection called "The Last Wish".

Each of these I find related in one way or another to Siddhartha, but they are kind of disparate and might not appeal to exactly what you like about the book:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Brothers Karamazov

Life of Pi

Drive is sort of a modern Noir movie. It's slow, moody, and the violence in it is gritty and deadly. Now, I get how that ties to Blade Runner pretty well, but I think this person is looking for the Cyberpunk aspects.

Don't get me wrong, I upvoted you, and I love Drive. It's one of the best movies I have seen in the last year, but I don't think this fits the request.

No doubt though, I'll bet OP will like it. I'll bet anyone would; as long as they aren't expecting an action packed popcorn chase movie.

Edit: I can't talk about drive without wanting to shout DAT SOUNDTRACK

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Check out allmusic.com. Search for a band you like and they give a backstory, discography, moods related to the artist's work, and more importantly, a list of bands that influenced them as well as by them. I've found quite a few bands that way

check this thread for xxyyxx

As for TNGHT, this Mix should do the job, it has a lot of artists and consists heavily of trap music :)

Protest the Hero, Trivium and Underoath, perhaps?

I'm not a huge fan of the genre, but I'm guessing you might enjoy some deathcore given your metal interests.

Do a google search for "metroidvania". That's the name of that style of game.

I'll also throw out a few good ones.

WARNING: Most of these are console games, though most are fairly easily emulated.

>More RPG Elements

Castlevania Series: There several Castlevania games that are as good as or almost as good as Symphony of the Night, if you're willing to work with Emulators. Harmony of Dissonance, Rondo of Blood, Circle of the Moon, Aria of Sorrow, and Portrait of Ruin art particularly good. Gameboy Advance and DS

Wanderers from Ys: Side scrolling RPG. Not as exploration focused as some, but you might like it since you said you're looking for stronger RPG elements. SNES

Actually, here's a list of side scrolling action rpg's made by someone else. Some good stuff on there.

>Fewer RPG Elements.

Shadow Complex: This is seriously just Metroid with a new coat of paint, but damn it's fun. XBOX360

Aquaria: Mermaid Metroid. Pretty fun, though. Actually, just look through that list. It'll probably serve you better than anything I can add.

I would say System Shock. the spiritual predecessor of the Bioshock series. You wake up alone on a space station, not knowing where you are, and the stations A.I. is trying to kill you. Along the way you find out the story via logs, like in the later -Shock games. Even at difficulty 0, where enemies didn't attack you and every hit was an instakill, that game had atmosphere.

Kurt Cobain's Top 50 albums is a list of albums that inspired the Nirvana sound. Included are The Wipers, The Smithereens, Melvins, and Dinosaur Jr among others.

My personal favorite is 5.9.78. Put on some headphones, close your eyes, and listen. You might want to watch the video, though. It's unofficial but fits in perfectly with a deep sense of childhood-like nostalgia.

The Olivia Tremor Control - Music From the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle

J.K. & Co. - Suddenly One Summer

XTC - Skylarking

Black Dice - Beaches and Canyons

Billy Nicholls - Would You Believe

Also I'm not sure if you're aware but Panda Bear put a list of artists inside Person Pitch of influences (similar to what Nurse With Wound did in 1979 with Chance Meeting)

It's been said but The Hotelier and Foxing should be right up your alley. I love the new wave of emo stuff :) Citizen is pretty good, but pretty much a Brand New rip-off IMO.

There's a redditor/4chan user that always links his emo revival list which is alright:

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/YHofSuburbia/emo_revival__a_primer/

Off the top of my head, I can think of Code Geass and Monster, both of which may be right up your alley. You also may want to take a look around at /r/animesuggest, which is a subreddit like this one, but specific for anime. There's also Anime Planet, which is a website dedicated to fan recommendations of anime series.

Many of the themes you've mentioned are also common in the cyberpunk genre (which is what Ghost in the Shell technically is). You could probably take a look around at some cyberpunk classics, like the book Neuromancer by William Gibson or the Deux Ex video game series.

Check out <em>The Leftovers</em>. It uses the evangelical Christian notion of "The Rapture" as a starting point. I've only completed the first season, but it was excellent.

Edit: linkification

I'm a big fan of Slacker Radio. Same general idea as Pandora but with real people programming genre playlists and I think even some of the similar-artist playlists, so there are fewer band/album repeats.

http://www.gnoosic.com/

i'd recommend madlib and freddie gibbs' album 'pinata'if you like the production on that then i would also listen to madvillainy if you havent already.

if you dont mind beat tapes, then j dilla - donuts, of course.might edit this later to add more cos im in class rn

gnoosic.com suggests:

Metric, Ratatat, Broken Bells, Yelle, Copy, Make The Girl Dance, Teddybears Sthlm, DJ Bahler, Brazilian Girls, Taken By Trees, The Bird And The Bee

That seems a bit random to me. I suggest:

Death In Vegas, PJ Harvey, SONOIO, UNKLE, Grizzly Bear, Pumarosa, Gary Numan, La Femme, The xx, The Horrors

Drowning in Footwear/ Drowning in Horseshoes/ Endless Jess: Covers video games, wrestling, ponies and society. Is the raving mad counterpoint to Mr Plinkett, in my opinion his cinematography and humor are better.

Brows Held High: Analyzes experimental and art films on a level anyone can understand, the films he covers are often bonkers.

Christian Weston Chandler: The real life Harry S Plinkett. Creator of the famously bad webcomic Sonichu, Chandler or Chris-Chan for a short is one of the strangest and most offputting people on the internet. For a while he documented every aspect of his dysfunctional life, and people ate it up.

Everything is Terrible: Oddities from the VHS era of the 80s and 90s, chopped and screwed into a completely different piece of art.

For more info, check my own list on the subject of web video.

I would listen to what a lot of people call 'post-black metal' or another similar subgenre, blackgaze. My favorite recent discovery was An Autumn for Crippled Children, check out their last two full-length albums for sure!

What a helpful reply! Thanks for commenting, MB05032! Your distaste for this song is a really positive contribution to this subreddit! If only we had more like you.

Anyway, here's Greymatter's &quot;Pick &amp; Roll&quot;, also featured in Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs's Essential Mix. Mixes are one of the best places to find new electronic artists, and TEED's is one of the better house/deep house mixes I've heard this year.

Live wallpapers. For example AMOLED is pretty cool. There are tons of others, just read some reviews first, some have annoying ads.

This might not quite fit, but you should check out the Rusty Lake series of games (Android link to one of the best, not sure if available on iOS, but probably)

They're escape the room games, with a very weird sense of logic and a kind of horror/comedy element

Give the Bobiverse series a try.

The premise: An engineer signs up for cryogenically freezing his brain when he dies on a whim. A bus runs him over. He wakes up hundreds of years in the future except it has been determined that these frozen brains are now the property of the state. They couldn't unfreeze him and bring him back to life, but they COULD use his brain as a template to be mapped into a computer system. He is now effectively an AI, given control over a Von Neuman probe that is to be sent out to colonize space.

There's lots of fun world building and an interesting look at the human condition. They're pretty clever with Bob too. For example, there's no such thing as Faster Than Light travel, so Bob just turns his clock speed down. In this way he experiences time slower than is actually happening and doesn't go insane on the long journey between planets. The books really start to pick up as he constructs other Bobs, each with their own slightly different personalities.

I'd recommend The Mozi (you can read a translation here, not sure how good it is). It's an extremely early work of Chinese philosophy, and the first known example of utilitarianism.

Basically the Mohists were a philosophical movement that opposed the Confucians and their insistence on tradition and caring more for those close to you. Mohists believed in universal love and took a much more practical view of ethical obligations. At that time China was in a period of feudal war, so the Mohists came to the conclusion that the best way to help alleviate suffering was to become experts in defensive siege warfare and then go to any city that was being attacked and offer their services for free. This means that some sections of The Mozi are very similar to The Art of War.

Try listening to "Escape!". It was a radio drama that was broadcast by CBS from 1947 to 1954 and often featured supernatural or science fiction stories of people in harrowing situations. You can download all of the episodes they aired here.

This is one of my favorite episodes and a great example of the production quality of this series. Listen to it and see what you think.

I only just got out of bed fifteen minutes ago, so I'll leave the summary of the first novel up to Good Reads. It's a dark, well crafted series with a great deal of humor and some very intense drama at times. The world building aspect of the books isn't quite as intricately detailed as those written by Martin or Sanderson, but it's up there and there are at least five more books in the pipeline including a prequel which should flesh things out very nicely. Now would actually be a good time to start reading them since the first major story arc has been completed with the release of the third novel last year.

King City is super sick. Also check out Kinoko's Epic of Gilgamesh comics and Taiyo Matsumoto's Tekkon Kinkreet

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Superbad is an "epic" quest movie, a theme common to stoner movies. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is a prime example.

Stoner movies don't have the coming of age/making sense of growing up angle though. The Inbetweeners is British but so good at this.

Dancehall reggae artists like Popcaan, Aidonia, Alkaline and of course Vybz Kartel

Although a few years old now this is one of my fav dancehall mixtapes https://www.mixcloud.com/timeoutlondon/the-heatwaves-notting-hill-carnival-mixtape/

Similar to

> Deniz Kurtel John Roberts Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts The Acid Art Department Wolf + Lamb Steffi John Talabot Seth Troxler

Influenced by

> Luomo Ricardo Villalobos Robag Wruhme Isolée DJ Koze

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/nicolas-jaar-mn0002355957/related

Carrie is Sufjan's mother and Lowell is his stepfather. The whole album is about the struggles the family went through trying to deal with the mom's mental illness, drug abuse, etc.

Here's an explanation of the title track http://genius.com/Sufjan-stevens-carrie-and-lowell-lyrics

The original series Star Trek you have to watch like an anthropologist - you have to pretend to be living in the mid-late 1960s to appreciate it fully. Many of the episodes deal with then-current issues like race and the Cold War and so on. Production values were... modest. It's not for everyone, but I like it a lot. The rapport between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy is worth it.

The Next Generation is great. Things don't really get into gear until the 3rd season and the 7th season has a few episodes that were not so great. There was this article I saw the other day that's sort of a roadmap of the best episodes that omit the ones you can sort of skip.

Deep Space 9 is great, once it gets into gear in about the 4th season or so. Epic space battles and long story arcs.

Voyager is OK. There were problems with the writing throughout the series - there were two camps of writers and they had different ideas about how characters should behave, and this gave rise to some character continuity issues. If you like Trek and your time is not super-valuable, it's worth watching.

I liked Enterprise. Not great but OK.

Yeah, watching them in order is not a bad idea. The Original Series is not required to enjoy The Next Generation but if you like one, you'll probably like the other.

I would have recommended Becky Cloonan's pirate punk saga <em>East Coast Rising</em>, except it was scrapped after one volume due to issues with the publisher.

If you don't mind the incomplete story, it might have just the kind of vibe you're after.

Your Name (2016). Not for free on any of the streaming services, but available for rent/purchase on several: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/your-name

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You should check the genre of Reggae/Ragga Jungle and Breakbeat Hardcore. Maybe some Raggacore, too, if you like harder music?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODgvj6GFBl8

https://www.mixcloud.com/.../yardcore-mix-2005/

By the way, just remembered something else you might like... I'm biased because this guy's a friend but his DJ sets are top notch and might scratch that funk-hop itch (especially this one) :) https://www.mixcloud.com/jimmy-green/

Feel free to shout me up any time you're in need of something new to listen to!

This is sometimes referred to as the "Truck Driver's Gear Change" because it feels like a semi truck shifting into a higher gear.

This thread has some good examples: https://rateyourmusic.com/board_message?message_id=5683029

And a good overview: http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/10-spectacular-key-changes-that-arent-totally-cheesy-760211

Shigeo Sekito Special Sound Series Vol. 2

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, so I'll put a rym link for you to check the description out because I'm not very good at describing it.

These tbh. Besides that, just working your way from the essentials is your best bet.

The top albums lists by rateyourmusic and Rolling Stone will probably appeal to you while also helping you expand your horizons.

Futurama, obviously! :-)

Spaced. A British sitcom from the team of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright.

Community. Sure, it's not a sci-fi show, but to some degree, it comes surprisingly close. It even has an episode about parallel universes. And several eps pay loving homage to sci-fi and fantasy. Might be worth a look.

Archer is worth a look as well, though it's closer to the spy genre, but it does have episodes in space, in Sealab, etc. There are cyborgs and clones. Frisky Dingo, from the same creator, fits your request even better!

I also have to add FLCL, a short sci-fi anime series. It's hilarious and completely insane. A must-see. For a more low-key anime sci-fi comedy (and slice-of-life show), try NieA Under 7.

Books: Try Nexus or Light. Part of the story line in Light is in space, but it concerns a woman who has augmented her body by wedding it with her ship and it's really well done.

Hm, an anime IIL with Death Note that doesn't have someone recommending Code Geass? That's peculiar. (Code Geass is some what like if Death Note was mashed up with Gundam/big robot anime.) You may also want to take a look at D. Gray Man.

I also second /r/animesuggest and recommend checking out the website Anime Planet, which offers recommendations as well.

Now this may be a stretch, but as a musical theatre person, you could always check out the world of opera. There's plenty of notes of Greek mythology and tragedy involved over there. Off the top of my head there's Orfeo ed Euridice, and just about anything that has to do with the odyssey. I know it may not be your cup of tea, it's certainly not mine, but it's got the stuff you're looking for. There's also a song by Iron Maiden called Alexander the Great off of somewhere in time I believe as well as the previously mentioned Flight of Icarus by them as well. If you can deal with screams there's the band Alesana. I can't remember any specific songs right now, but they have an album called On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax that is a reference to Icarus and they write songs about mythology and fairytale things in general. There's also a metal band called Amon Amarth that deals with Norse mythology. I did a quick google search and here's a link to a website with other songs that reference mythology in general

http://www.songfacts.com/category-songs_that_refer_to_mythology.php

Happy hunting!

True, true. You do take the most out of it, which I hella respect. In that case, you might like Every Noise At Once as an incredible tool to find related genres, artists and songs. They also have a spotify account, The Sounds of Spotify, if you might be interested.

Wow, that is quite broad.

It seems like you're looking mostly for traditional ranchero, such as that by famous mariachi singers like Vicente Fernandez and Jorge Negrete. Often in recordings you will find a large orchestra-type ensemble providing the music, which is cool - but seek out some of the more primitive-sounding recordings, such as thise with just a mariachi band or guitar trio backing them; those are gems.

Going beyond simply ranchero, I know it's cliché but a solid compilation like Putamaya Presents: Mexico offers a wide variety in an assortment of genres. Collections like the Smithsonian Folkways series also offer a diverse and regionally-collected glimpse into many different styles.

Outside of simply Mexican music is a wide swath of different genres in South America. In Brazil for instance there are a multitude of regional subgenres of folk, each spotlighting different instruments and various band arrangements. Again, I would point to the Folkways series, as well as the Nonesuch Explorer label, to delve into the different subgenres, and then of course there are the odd nuggets like Roots of Chica: Psychedlic Cumbias from Peru.

Truly, Central and South American musical traditions are some of the richest and most diverse in the world. Have fun in your journey - it goes wayy beyond Tres Caballeros!

Take that line on face value: "Drink more water, or you might die". Some will interpret it as the obvious; death associated with dehydration. But as that RG annotation pointed out, it's more than that:

> Water is synonymous with the truth; You need it to wake up, progress and get the most out of life and find the true quality of happiness. Me [and] people in general have false ideas of what makes you happy and what it means to be successful. To say water is synonymous with the truth is really broad and I take advantage of that. I talk about a lot of different things, but I try to stay centered with coined phrases [of] water. I use all the double meanings of water and expand on them.

This whole tape is somewhat a concept album; the 'truth'. It took K.dot a couple mixtapes before he gave us the classic GKMC.

I've been drinking all this water / Piss ain't never been so clear (Dehydration)

You should check out Bryan Lee O'Malley's latest graphic novel Seconds. It's really good.

Also Rocket Raccoon has his own ongoing comic now, too.

It's a webcomic but I think Nimona by Noelle Stevenson feels really similar to Scott Pilgrim.

Can I also reccomend Saga by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples? It's not at all similar but it's amazing.

Definitely give Get Backers a shot then. Saiyuki might be up your alley too.

Check out Nitronic Rush, a free racing game that is a ton of fun. The 'hardcore' tracks in the game require flipping, riding walls, and other tricks to get to the end, and when you're nailing every maneuver it feels great. They are also making a spiritual sequel 'Distance' that I hope will live up to the original when it comes out.

YML Cave Story which has a similar play style and it's free. http://www.cavestory.org/downloads_game.php

And Shadow Complex if you have an Xbox360. It's just like Super Metroid in both exploration and game play.

If you liked Super Metroid you should definitely play Cave Story. Get it here: http://www.cavestory.org/index.php

There's a 3D version coming out soon I think, but I played the 2D, retro-looking version a little while after they came out with the English translation. It's a great, great game.

You might be interested in FEZ or Monument Valley. Both games involve the use of 3D mechanics to manipulate 2D environments to create (or simply navigate in some cases) geometric impossibilities. Be warned, though, that talking about FEZ can start arguments about game politics, so it might be something you want to keep to yourself.

Also, Monument Valley is only for mobile.

as far as flash tower defense, Gemcraft is one of the best. Give that and Crystal Defenders a try. Crystal defenders has a free trial on XBLA and android/ ios.

Desktop Defense I think this was one of the first best flash defense games I can remember (before that was Warcraft 3 mods)

Robo Defense So far, this is really the only game in town for Android AFAIK, it's still amazing and seemingly infinite levels

Short version: Daggerfall, Morrowind, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Divinity: Original Sin II.

As you might already know, Daggerfall and Morrowind are both earlier TES games. Morrowind's dated, but if you can tolerate the jankiness associated with PC games from that era, it's a fun experience (and a couple mods can smooth it out a bit; look up Morrowind Graphics Extender and Morrowind Code Patch if you're interested). Daggerfall's even more dated and janky, but if you like DOS games, it's an interesting and somewhat different TES game, plus Bethesda has officially released it for free.

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is a real time RPG with a unique "pawn" system. You get a main character that you directly control, and main "pawn" that runs on AI, both visually customized to your liking. The other two members of your party are downloaded from other players (their main pawns), which you'll have to cycle out as they don't level up with you. Your main pawn's AI is influenced over time by how you play the game. Be warned that the game is designed for a gamepad, no idea how it controls with mouse & keyboard.

Finally - and this is a bit more of a stretch, since it's really only comparable to Dragon Age - if you enjoyed the tactical side of Dragon Age Origins, you might like Divinity: Original Sin II. It's a turn-based strategy RPG where you control a party of up to 4. Gameplay makes heavy use of combining effects; soak the floor with water, then electrify it with lightning magic, for example. The story's the other big highlight here: conversations are heavily influenced by your character's background, and similar to Dragon Age, your party members aren't just background characters. They will like or dislike the things you do and have stories of their own.

Sounds like you're trying to find some newish movies, as I'm sure they're well aware of the classics like Singing in the Rain, Casablanca, Breakfast at Tiffany's etc. Man, that's a tough task! I can see avoiding 2 of the 3 in most movies (violence, obscenities, and nudity), but avoiding all three is hard.

My suggestion would be to use http://www.kids-in-mind.com/, which rates movies based on these exact 3 categories. You can search for movies with low ratings in each, and they give detailed descriptions of the movie so you can see if it fits your needs. As the URL suggests it's intended to find kid-safe movies, but should help you in your quest too.

I would categorize those as 3 different genres of anime and suggestions would be too many to put in comments...I don't find Netflix suggestions very helpful (for the most part) when it comes to anime recommendations...

check out anime-planet for recommendations based on the ones you like...

Ah, sorry about that. I, uh, sail the high seas, if you know what I mean. It looks like there is currently no streaming option. All the digital services that have it only have it for sale for a couple bucks per episode.

I suspect this may have something to do with &quot;FX+&quot;, Fox's new FX-specific streaming service.

It's frustrating to me that companies are all attempting to "me too!" Netflix. FX and the CW are the silliest ones, to me, because running a streaming platform is insanely expensive. You need to be able to convince a lot of people to all sign up and actually pay for the service to keep it running. Fucking nobody is thinking "I can't wait to spend $6 a month just to watch FX".

Legion used to be on Hulu, so hopefully it will make a return to that or other streaming platforms at some point in the future.

More major lazer and diplo stuff. Original Don, Jah no Partial, Amplifire, Smack my Bitch Up remix etc, Snoop Dogg collaborations. You could also look at some reggae style tracks, Beatport has a good list of currently popular ones here, http://www.beatport.com/genre/reggae-dub/41/top-100. I'm not sure if you like it for the production or the vocals, if it's for the production these are all pretty okay suggestions.

Two of the songs are metal. Marylin Manson features in one, so you might also like Rob Zombie and other Grunge Metal (at least that's what my little cousin calls it :) artists with a similar sound. That slow bluesy metal is found alonside other faster songs on albums usually. Google says "Blues, Alternative Rock". Ciscandra-Nostalghia is the name of the other Metal artist.

The two songs in the club are frome a genre that I usually hear called "Downtempo". It's a form of electronica. Google says "Electropop" but that's not very specific. You might also like Lounge or Deep House if you like those.

The rest of the songs are either blues or just movie songs.

Glad someone beat me to the Black Sabbath train (all aboard, hahaha).

Intronaut turned me off by some of their vocals, but the newest record has some really fantastic music that strays away from what I bet scared you off at first.

For music:

• gnoosic, start by entering some bands you like (which serves as data to feed the database)
• music-map, start by searching for a band you like

I believe it's actually the same darabase.

I'm not too familiar with her music/music of that style but there's a website called gnod (global network of discovery) where you type in artists/authors/movies you like and it gives you suggestions on what else you might like by similar artists/authors etc.

Oh look, 76:14

One of my top 5 too

Techno ambient artists and bands you should check are: Pete Namlook, Tetsu Inoue, Gas, The Orb, Future Sound of London, Reload (iirc Reload is one of the guys in Global Communication), Casino Versus Japan (sounds like Boards of Canada), Solar Fields, Carbon Based Lifeforms (these last two are more psybient tbh).

Progressive electronics like Vangelis and Tangerine Dream are Klaus Schulze, Ashra, Manuel Gottsching, Edgar Froese, actually look for Berlin School style. Also Tangerine Dream has amazing bootlegs, you should check out this list for them: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Tropylium/tangerine_tree/

Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Tempel, Amon Duul, Amon Duul II are krautrock bands that sorta sound like Can.

This list is quite good:

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Carbon_Fields/atmospheres_and_landscapes__600_greatest_ambient_releases/

Lots of different types of ambient there. But if you're looking for more droney stuff I recommend some Eluvium or Klaus Schulze, maybe some early Tangerine Dream as well. Or if you're looking for some "pure" drone I recommend Eliane Radigue or Terry Riley.

Be sure to check Caretaker's work under his real name, Leyland Kirby. And Biosphere as well, he has a field recording album from Tibet under the name Geir Jenssen that is really nice to listen.

Modest Mouse is so multifaceted; what about them do you like? Which albums/songs in particular?

I like to browse allmusic to find similar artists to those I'm interested in.

SoaD is a nu-metal band as far as I know, so mayyybe you'll like Korn. Also after seein the Stage, for no reason I thought you may want to check out some Avantasia. It's actually power metal, unlike a7x but yeah... Ok I admit it, just wanted to recommend because I love Avantasia.

you should probably check out r/metal to discover new things. And try sites like https://tastedive.com/ . Just create an account. Enter things that you like and find out other things that you may like.

Check out Tor vs. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoize: http://www.tormusic.net/downloads/illinoize/ and Wait What - The Notorious XX https://soundcloud.com/wait-what/sets/the-notorious-xx. Both are of mashup origin but have far more chill focus on their beats than a lot of what I listen to most of the time.

I'd also recommend Blu & Exile and The Roots.

I'll try to fire more suggestions your way but please check out /r/hiphopheads if you don't know it. You should.

I maybe have a fan-crush on Yoni Wolf of Why, but must say their most recent album is not their best. Your choice is a good one, also recommend "A Sky For Shoeing Horses Under" and "The Hollows."

Fuck yeah Childish Gambino! Fuck yeah Blue Scholars too!

OK, getting ahold of myself.

<em>The Heist</em> by Macklemore is the one of the best albums of the year, hip-hop or otherwise.

Also check out: Angel Haze, Styles of Beyond, Mr. Lif, Hyper Crush (they're more electro, but check out their song "The Arcade"), Just Jack, De La Soul, Nikkiya, Azealia Banks.

But definitely Macklemore. And I strongly suspect IYL electro hip-hop you will like Left Boy.

Do yourself a favor and listen to oldschool analog/modular stuff. Start with the youtube channel 2trancentral he has uploaded some really unique techno trance gems that you won't see anywhere else on internet. I also recommend André minée (aka catchgroove) you can listen to his sets on "hearthis.at"

Edit : some of the sexiest dnb tracks i know of :

##Fozbee & Cooz - The Matchstick Man

##[1994] intense - the genesis project (this one)

##Eternal Basement - Parkhouse

##Tommy The Cat - Street Flavaz

##Dexxtrous - Aquarius (this one)

I'm going to answer the spirit of your question by suggesting NON sitcom-style TV shows without a laugh tracks, but are liked by those that like those shows:

Portalandia (IFC, on Netflix) and Nathan for You (Comedy Central) are more sketch comedy, but are the most realistic comedy shows. You have to be really smart to get some of the jokes as they use very subtle irony, but if you get it you will laugh out loud.

The IT Crowd (BBC, on Netflix) is the funniest sitcom with a laugh track for those that usually prefer ones without.

For an old-school answer, "The Bill Cosby Show" (not to be confused with "The Cosby Show") was released in 1969 and was the first US sitcom without a laugh track and still holds up (if you can ignore it was made by someone who later became a sex offender). https://www.amazon.com/The-Fatal-Phone-Call/dp/B073CK8D3F/

The guy who created Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes, has a new show called Doctor Thorne that is now available on Amazon Prime. It's getting rave reviews.

I second Call the Midwife. It's a great show. Also, check out the BBC's Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch.

Not series but movie wise if you appreciated the poker/con elements of the show you should look into watching Rounders(Matt Damon, Edward Norton) and Mississippi Grind(Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn). Mississippi Grind is on amazon prime. Rounders is on neither prime or netflix.

He is my ALL-TIME favorite guitarist. THE album to listen to if nothing else is the one with the pink cover called "Live...In the Beginning". It is the most amazing performance when he wasn't a major label dude then. I'd have given everything I own to be in that crowd when he played Tin Pan Alley or Slide Thing or Tell Me or ANYTHING. Amazing. 1980 bar show and folks just paid a few bucks for a cover, I'm guessing.

Amazon

I am half-asleep, but managed to throw a quick Spotify playlist as a good intro, if you wanna PM me for the link.

There are comic book adaptations of ~~IIRC~~ the first two books. I strongly recommend these over the originals; they're faster to get through and convey all the important parts. They definitely never got further than book 3, though.

EDIT: Mostly correct; they kept publishing comics after Fool Moon, but went off into new stories after that. Books 1 and 2 are contained in "Omnibus Vol. 1".