#millenium anthem

[voidlightcomix]

played hypnospace outlaw recently…

you should play it :)

(still image under cut)

sorry i haven’t been posting much! i’ve been busy on vacation with my family. ^^’

i’ve had a lot of great experiences and am posting from someplace that’s not home, but once i’m home and have time i can’t wait to talk about everything that we’ve seen! it’s been awesome. hope you guys are staying hydrated and healthy :)

as i said, i recently played hypnospace outlaw… it’s really one of those indie games that changes your life. if you miss the old internet, just the vibes of it, it’s perfectly captured. wish it lasted longer, it’s such an incredible alternate reality.

10/10 will be playing again when i’m home

[wjbs-aus]

No-one: Hypnospace Outlaw Millenium Anthem YTP: "You leel me doooooood... you let me down down down down down down down down down down down down downwown... YTP..."

[transjerma985]

“I dont like hypnospace outlaw” okay PROVE IT. beat the game and then listen to millennium anthem. If you tell me you didn’t shed a tear you’re a LIAR

[katamarigender]

gaernet :) ametyst :) blood. sappira :) agatay :) emeerald!!! oney ex :) carneleon :) periscope :) beereyel :) tupiz! ruboire :)

[waterloggedsoliloquy]

Your name is-- WOAH WOAH WOAH.

You make sure to NEVER give out your REAL NAME when browsing the CHITTERNET. Or any PERSONAL INFORMATION for that matter. CHITTERNET SAFETY is important in order to have fun SURFING THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY.

Only in the REAL WORLD and only AMONG FRIENDS are you known by the name your lusus gave you: WURLWI WEBBEL. Not that you have many REAL LIFE FRIENDS, on account of your ALIENATING REJECTION OF CHROMATIC DECENCY. You've been told that your committment will only lead to a life MORE PAINFUL THAN NECESSARY, and they're probably right. You spend your alone time BUILDING AND MAINTAINING YOUR HEMOCITIES SITE, reading BLOGS, scouring FORUMS, and drawing in FREEWARE ART PROGRAMS. You try to maintain a ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY for anything that might get you DOOMSCROLLING, but you don't know if you're very successful. You just want your wanton nights of EPIC FLAME WARS to be put behind you.

Your talents are not only within the digital sphere, though. You've gained a reputation of COMMISSERATING ON HARDSHIPS for NEGLIGIBLE COMPENSATION or RECIPROCATION, which you hope your friends appreciate. At the very least, sometimes you can persuade them to join in on a friendly game of FIELD DIAMOND ASSAULT AND BATTERY.

Your trollTag is anonymousGuest and you make sure to always remind your friends that practicing healthy habits on the chitternet is rad and totally cool!

Crayola Color: green.com

Pronouns: they/them Sign: Cancom, Sign of the Connected, Derse Sway, Doombound Lusus: Mouse Ancestor: The USERNAME EXPUNGED Strife: Batkind Theme Song: Millenium Anthem (2000 New Years Eve) by Jay Tholen

[trevlad-sounds]

Invisible Waves 010

10-03-2024

INTRO 00:00

Alexander R. Cargill Esq.-Bromham Carnival Queen, 1967. 00:10 CHAPTER 1 04:12

IDRA-Ritual II 05:47 Site Nonsite-Institute for Nature Study (Fresh Air Mix) 12:56 CHAPTER 2 17:42

Underworld-To Heal 20:22 Dean Honer-De Da Dumplings 22:53 Khotin-Computer Break (Late Mix) 24:19 CHAPTER 3 28:43 Mark Ellery Griffiths-The Faith Healer 31:39 Vic Mars-The Fair Arrives 37:12 CHAPTER 4 41:31 RETEP FOLO & DOROTHY MOSKOWITZ-Moon 43:53 Little Dragon, Damon Albarn-Glow 47:51 Kosmischer Läufer-Im Herzen des Universums 53:34 CHAPTER 5 56:58

Louis Cole-Let it Happen (old version) 59:00 Sensorama-Where the Rabbit Sleeps 1:01:52 Bibio-Clay Dots 1:06:25 Time Rival-Colorimitry 1:09:25 CHAPTER 6 1:11:54 Mason Bee-Star Rover 1:15:26 James Bernard-A Feeling (Bluetech Remix) 1:19:03 Oberu-I'm Home 1:23:33 CHAPTER 7 1:26:23 Bravo Tounky-Chemnitz 1:28:16 Slow Haste-Forest Instance 1:32:04 CIALYN-Solar Winds 1:34:31 CHAPTER 8 1:37:10

Hawksmoor-A Neural Interval 1:39:12 Moon Mullins-Starlight 1:40:16 Binaural Space-Revolutions Per Millenium 1:43:25 CHAPTER 9 1:44:21 Yoker Moon-Forever Clanking in the In-Between 1:47:57 Stone Anthem-Lapis Lazuli 1:51:46

Solar Bears-Perpetual Meadow 1:55:45 CHAPTER 10 1:58:57

Kennebec-Without Star or Compass 2:01:21 Green-House-Many Years Later 2:05:10 OUTRO 2:07:17

[puppyparkmoving]

😴📧 Dylan + Margaret 📬😌

Millenium anthem - Jay Tholen // Computer talk - Austenyo // Insomnia - The moss // Computer boy - Poppy // When she's gone - Josh Fudge // Electronic lover - Breathe electric // This time - Sure sure // Automatic - The pointer sisters // Moth meme - Whose rules // I love hating you - FrankJavCee // Lover boy - Tabby // Toothbrush - DNCE // Shadow on the wall - Video age // Online lover - Valiant vermin // Sleeptime computing - Jay Tholen // realife - Nelward

Listen here 💬

[ghostedglitch]

happy one year to my hypnospace comic!

(and one day, just pretend i had this up yesterday shhhhh)

here's a little series of fun facts about making it

- started as a poem. i wanted to make a Millenium Anthem animatic and/or write a fic (i ended up doing the latter) but this came to me in the meantime and, being hyperfixated and eager to make something about it, it developed into a comic.

- that said, i was deep in the throes of an art burnout. i tend to make a lot of art around the new year, usually due to being in multiple gift exchanges, as well as working on my own things during winter break since i don't usually have the time to during school, and that wears me out. both this year and last i struggled with having energy to draw. however, i'd just recently found out a style that was pretty easy to work in even in that state: polygonal! so the comic is pixel polygons.

- the comic actually sort of ties into (and is directly quoted in the summary of) the aforementioned fic i wrote—which is called "do(n't) be afraid"—as evidenced by the focus on the HSPD badge as well as the Enforcer being almost a self-insert

- the typography is done by hand. i looked at the game's font file for the standard font and copied it. to this day i can pretty reliably just. handwrite in hypnospace font with the pixel pen. and i do! it's very space efficient!

- the dithering is also done by hand, because i'm a madlad. well, for each pattern i did like a portion by hand and then copy-pasted it until i covered as much area as i needed to, because i'm a madlad but i'm not a masochist. and then when i needed it again i just copied and pasted the layer and used a clipping mask to change its color. now though i have that big pixel brush pack on clip studio paint. so i won't be needing to do that again anytime soon.

- in panel 3 we see the Enforcer's face as well as glasses on their desk. like i said. pretty much a self insert. we also see their computer and hypnospace headband; i studied that intro video for this but between not seeing it a whole lot and the artstyle i was using being really simplified, i'm probably missing something lol

- in panel 4 we see dylan merchant at his desk. there's a calendar behind him. i actually looked up what day of the week was december 31, 1999 so i could circle it. it was a friday.

- the girl in panel 5 is supposed to be rebekah, the girl who likes squisherz and won the fan art contest but didn't get to find out because her dad took away her hypnospace headband. there's only one small picture of her to go off of, though.

- panels 7 and 8, which can also go together as one tall panel, were fucking FUN. what i did for the glitchy static bits was i made various clusters of black rectangles, each cluster on a different layer so i could copy and rotate them to fill more space. then on a clipping mask i used airbrush without antialiasing in white, RGB, and CMY. boom, static pattern. the elements from the game (the error message window, the cursors, the car) i had to copy by hand. see, the wiki doesn't have many screenshots, and if you try to screenshot the game or a video of it then it scrungles your image clarity. so i had to take those screenshots, eyedrop the colors from there, and then do such riveting and time efficient (that's a joke, it took forever) tasks as Count Pixels So Everything Is The Right Size. which for the shiny new HypnOS 2000 look was painstaking. look at those gradients. gradients everywhere. it was worth the work because it looks fantastic but man. and then to scrungle those elements i just used the rectangular selection tool, grabbed arbitrary bits and pieces of the things and Moved Them Elsewhere.

oh yeah babey

[maguro13-2]

The Original Ichigo

Ichigo Kurosaki : Hey, you must be Zoey Hanson.

Zoey Hanson : That's me alright. I'm Zoey Hanson.

Ichigo Kurosaki: I heard that you must be the superhero that is star of the show, Mew Mew Power, is that the name of your show.

Zoey Hanson : I think so, and by the way, it's Tokyo Mew Mew, not Mew Mew Power!

Ichigo Kurosaki : Ah-ha! I know who you are! You're from Studio Pierrot that made your show right about two years before me, the current Ichigo!

Zoey Hanson/Ichigo : Okay, fine! You got me! I'm not Zoey Hanson or the other Zoe Hange. I'm the character that you were namesaken by me, Ichigo Momomiya!

[DUN! DUN! DUUUUUUUUN!]

Ichigo Kurosaki : Hold the phone! You're Ichigo, the original Ichigo!?

Ichigo Momomiya : That's right. I was the original Ichigo that studio pierrot hired for my show before you came! I was the coolest Ichigo at the new millenium, everyone liked, everyone loved me, It is I that Ichigo's name was shedded by 4kids for Zoey Hanson. Everything was great in 2002, but then you came, the new and current Ichigo! The only Ichigo that is you and I was still Zoey Hanson, but my real name is Ichigo, so you were namesaken to me the whole time before I left Studio Pierrot for no reasons. And now 10 years later, here I am seeing you, still looking alot better in manga than in the show. I've been looking for the man that Ichigo is really both a boys name and a girl's name, why would the name Ichigo be a name for a boy!? WHY JAPAN! WHY WOULD YOU GIVE THE NAME ICHIGO FOR A BOY AND A GIRL!? WHYYYYYYYYYY!?! *breathes heavily*

Ichigo Kurosaki : Okay, so my first name was namesaken to you, the original Ichigo. Your show debuted two years before me, the current Ichigo. We are different Ichigos from our own seperate worlds and universes. So why did 4kids changed your name to Zoey Hanson?

Ichigo Momomiya : Well, I'll tell ya what happened to me, the "original" Ichigo!

Rukia : Guys! Guys! How many times do we have tell you. Every character in Japan shares the name Ichigo, because the name is a word for Strawberry!

Kurosaki & Momomiya : Oh, that's right. Everybody shares the same name as "Ichigo" which is the japanese word for strawberry. Wow, why didn't we think of that Ichigo is the word for Strawberry, we weren't named after or namesaken to people, we were named after and namesaken to a fruit!

Momomiya : Why didn't you tell me our names is actually food!?

Kurosaki : I know, man! I mean Chad's name comes from a country call Chad, Anybody knows that every citizen is Chad, who else but Chad!?

Momomiya : And 4Kids had no rights to change my name to Zoey Hanson, to keep everything secret! And I'm tired of singing the National Anthem, so that is why we are giving up 4KIDS, death to english dub posers!

*Tire Screeching*

Kurosaki : Uhh, 4Kids is already dead after the home network of our shows, lawsuited them for editing out Japanese animation if it hadn't been for Naruto on Cartoon Network and Disney XD, America couldn't do anything right for the country, but hey, he has his show on Toonami...on Adult Swim at least.

Momomiya : Yeah, you're right. Ichigo is just a reference to food, not human.

Kurosaki : You got that right.

Ichigo from DITFXX : Hey, what about me! I'm the only person from a mecha show that has a name for Ichi-

Momomiya : No!

Ichigo from DITFXX : W-Why?

Momomiya : You know why? Because you don't even exist here in life. The name Ichigo doesn't count for giant machines like you!

Ichigo from DITFXX : Oh, crud! *POOF!*

Momomiya : Glad we never see that one again.

Hiro : Hey, other Ichigos. Where did our Ichigo run off at? Where's the other Ichigo at? Where is our Ichigo?

Kurosaki : Oh, your ichigo? We didn't know that was your Ichigo.

Momomiya : We might've sent her away from a place where she meets her ultimate demise!

Kurosaki : Why did you even say that.

(cuts to Ichigo who is now a strawberry)

Ichigo from DITFXX : (as a Strawberry) Oh! Where am I? I don't remember ending up being a fruit am I? At least I had some diginity as a fruit and a fantastic-- (a worm comes crawling down) Oh, hey a strawberry worm. How are you doing there? Hey, what's going on? What do you think you're doing? H-Hey, no! Get out of there! No stop! (the worm starts enter inside by eating her) OH GOD! IT'S INSIDE ME! SOMEONE HELP! I'VE BEEN EATEN BY FRUIT-EATING TW*T! SOMEBODY HELP ME! OH GO-O-O-O-OD!!! SOMEONE HELP ME-E-E-E-EEEE!!!

(Scene cuts back to the gang)

Hiro : You really did "what" to her?

Momomiya : We thought it was a good suggestion.

Kurosaki : It's really a hard pass that the word Strawberry sounds fruitier than Ichigo.

Momomiya : Yep. Sounds fruitier than Ichigo.

Hiro : Well, yeah! I guess Ichigo sounds frutier than the name itself.

[kcyars19992]

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10 CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE SONGS

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July 11, 2022 

Rage Against the Machine don't have a bad song to speak of. Throughout their four-album catalog — including 2000 covers record, Renegades — the band's winning formula of righteous, riff-slingin' rap-metal and bird-flippin' attitude aimed toward the powers that be hasn't yielded a single cut that truly feels underwhelming. Still, there're definitely several that don't get their deserved amount of time in the spotlight.

Beyond "Bulls on Parade" and "Killing in the Name," these are 10 incredible, catchy, hard-hitting, lyrically nourishing Rage anthemsthat feel criminally underrated within the general discourse about this iconic band.

"Fistful of Steel"

Rage Against the Machine's 1992 debut is their most universally beloved release, so there aren't too many songs on this front-to-back masterpiece that truly don't get their shine. "Fistful of Steel," however, is one that gets sometimes lost in the outstanding shuffle. It doesn't have a signature one-liner or an animalistic breakdown — just a great riff with plenty of meat on its bones and a groove that swings like a pickaxe hitting cold, hard dirt. 

"Township Rebellilon"

"Township Rebellion" is another overlooked deep cut from their self-titled album that's every bit as heavy and incisive as the celebrated bangers that precede it. Its instructive refrain — "Why stand on a silent platform?/Fight the war, fuck the norm" — is a salient retort to anyone who questions the band's productive feistiness. And that screamed climax is chilling. 

"Down Rodeo"

Rage's second album, 1996's Evil Empire, boasts one of their most iconic anthems, "Bulls on Parade," but overall, the record is less immediate and more cerebral than their debut, with instrumentation that's built to serve de la Rocha's increasingly dense rapping, and therefore features less of Morello's hard-rock riffing. It can get glossed over for that reason, which is unfair to a funky all-timer like "Down Rodeo," featuring what's perhaps de la Rocha's deepest-cutting lyric — "These people ain't seen a brown-skin man since their grandparents bought one." 

"Wind Below"

"Wind Below" is an even more criminally overlooked piece of gold from Evil Empire. Morello's ringing lick sounds like John Carpenter murder scene music, while Tim Commerford's bassline sounds aqueous, bubbly and melt-in-your-speakers sexy. Of course, de la Rocha is up there rapping presciently about trade deals that fucked over workers and calling out corporations like "ABC's new thrill rides of trials and lies." 

"No Shelter"

Beyond being a kickass song that sits nicely between the elastic funk of Evil Empire and the hair-whipping rock of the Ballad of Los Angeles, "No Shelter" might be the greatest protest maneuver the band have ever pulled off. It was written for the soundtrack of the 1998 Godzilla film, but rather than submitting a vapid banger to soundtrack reptilian carnage, the track is a vicious takedown of corporate cinema, decrying "the thin line between entertainment and war" and even going so far as to call out the film cutting the check — "Godzilla, pure mothafuckin' filler/To keep ya eyes off the real killer." Righteous.

"Born of a Broken Man" 

On 1999's the Battle of Los Angeles, Rage's third and final album of original material, they leaned into many of the more accessible hard-rock elements of their debut, penning stadium-ready rippers like "Guerilla Radio" and "Sleep Now in the Fire" that understandably became fan favorites. "Born of a Broken Man" should be, too. The way de la Rocha's whispery verses explode into full-throated yells when the main riff detonates is utterly thrilling, and the dynamics of this song overall are some of their most subtle and musically rewarding. 

"New Millenium Homes" 

With a front half as energetic and anthemic as the Battle of Los Angeles', it's no wonder that the album's more subdued side B gets overlooked in the grand scheme of their catalog. That's too bad, because a track like "New Millennium Homes" has the funky-ass riff, catchy-ass delivery, and incendiary lyrics — "Violence in all hands/Embrace it if need be" — to compete with the likes of "Testify" and "Know Your Enemy." 

"Ashes in the Fall"

The next song on Battle might be even better. The freaky delay on Morello's squeaky lick gives it a psychedelic, alien-like effect, and the drumming has a jazzy freeness to it that isn't common in Rage songs of this era. Morello goes full Hendrix as the song builds with a jittery unpredictability, and de la Rocha offers up hip-hop meta-ness with his repetition of, "This is the new sound/Just like the old sound." It's a bit experimental, and it pays off. 

"Street Fighting Man"

While Rage Against the Machine and the Rolling Stones certainly emanate similar levels of swagger and have a shared love of the blues, the former were always more interested in providing a soundtrack for property destruction than the sex-and-drug-filled parties of the latter. Therefore, it was the Stones' protest jam, "Street Fighting Man," that Rage gravitated to for Renegades. Of all the heavy transformations on the covers LP, the band are content to just boogie here, resulting in one of their most purely fun rippers.

"Darkness"

Before Rage Against the Machine reworked and re-recorded it for the soundtrack to Nineties goth touchstone The Crow, "Darkness" was known as "Darkness of Greed" and appeared on the L.A. political firebrands' 1991 demo tape. But even before that, it was played live in a rawer, more uptempo form by de la Rocha's O.C. hardcore-punk band Inside Out. While still characteristically scathing and seething, Rage's version features a uniquely mellow and jazzy verse instrumentation, making for a true standout.

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[rubyss]

AUGGGHHHH FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKK MILLENIUM ANTHEM. FUCK. AUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[hypnspce]

hey, i'm deeply sorry about the kpop joke i made a few years back. i was an idiot stuck in my own head. if it drove you away from the fandom i completely understand. - @millenium-anthem

many years later i stumbled across my inbox and seen this

i dont recall anything like this happening (i may not have even seen it??) but i fell off the fandom simply because my hyperfixation switched, so if you're still around with another @ now and see this, don't worry it didn't affect me or my interest in the fandom! i hope you're doing well and regardless of my bad memory thank you for the apology <3

[mysticargus]

URL Songs

Pick a song for each letter of your URL, then tag as many people as there are letters in your URL (Lol, I only have a couple of mutuals and one tagged me so I think I'll be a satisfied leaf node on this one) Thank you @hashtag-anthems for the tag!

m - Miracle - Caravan Palace y - Yuureizumi - Reol s - Shatter Me - Lindsay Sterling t - The Whims of Fate - Lyn i - I~ya I~ya I~ya - Neru c - Common World Domination - PinocchioP a - Again - Crusher-P r - Re:Re: - Asian Kung-fu Generation g - Goodbye to a World - Porter Robinson u - U - millenium parade, Belle s - Snake Eater - Cynthia Harrell

I'll go ahead and tag @puppy-boyfren in case you'd like to give this a go, but please feel free to participate if you see this.

[lichen-punk]

futile devices literally gay aro anthem of the millenium

[psalmsofpsychosis]

I left the suburbs, I left my mother

Into neon light

I'm not alone though

My alter ego keeps me warm at night

I have a thirst

And I've got the nerve

There's no way I can turn back

So give me your hand

And warm up the band

Spotlight, love me forever