https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf
This is the closest I can think of to what you're talking about.
Story is linked in its entirety.
Re-reading Anathem right now. So fucking good.
Seveneves I eventually came around on the last part. By the end, I liked it. The climax itself is still real stupid though.
While I did listen to my fair share of Melissa Etheridge, Alanis Morisette and the Cranberries, all my D&D friends were in bands. Including a particularly popular Sublime cover band, and then some other friends of mine had bands that got big in the early east coast emo/hardcore scene.
I was...
One Headlight - The original is okay but this happened:
Which was an absolutely incredible performance and all that exists now are a few shitty copies.
I was at a dentist appointment the other day. My dentist is probably 4-6 years younger than me, and my hygienist looks like she's right out of college. A bunch of shitty songs had just played on the radio. Then Island in the Sun came on and we all just stopped what we were doing and hummed a...
When I think overplayed songs the ones that immediately come to mind, aside from the previously mentioned The Sign:
All Star
Closing Time
Time of Your Life
Kryptonite
Higher
That one Nickelback song
I do not know why people like lightweight mice. Maybe I'm just too jittery but they do not work for me at all.
Heavy mice are bad too. Just normal weight mice, please.
Haha, yes. I think Linkin Park kinda sucks, but the guy that made our DAoC PvP videos used a bunch of Linkin Park and other similar shit from that era like Drowning Pool and so those are classic PvP songs.