But Zynic has your ideal voice! How can that be your ideal when it's not the same as what you prefer? I do not understand. And do your rules also apply to women--that is, you like female singers better when they stick to the bottom of their ranges? Because I don't think I've ever heard a woman fronting a metal band who sang in a low range.

There are SO MANY show tunes that go on for more than 8 minutes. They're mostly not popular, and usually exist for utility purposes buried in the middle of a show, but sometimes a subset of the song gets popular.
That sounds like just Metal. Did you check at the Sabaton concert to see if anyone else there was similarly Rather Metal Myself? They would probably stand out due to looking exactly like you.
Do BM fans also look like trolls? Because that was the implication I got from the forum. Nazi trolls?
Fascists are all into memes these days, though. A certain type of memer might intersect with people who appear to not take themselves too seriously.

Yeah. Crazy. And it doesn't apply to women at all, because I don't really like female vocals. My favorite woman-fronted band is Battle Beast, because they sound like Manowar r/t symphonic metal. Her vocals are much harsher.

Ew.
It was very dark. There was only one light bulb. Most of the people I saw were big dudes and couples. Plenty were metal, and some were not metal, but none stood out as Rather Metal Myself.
They tend to go for the corpse paint more. I don't know if trolls look like that. And the Nazis are a separate phenomenon.
But their memes are not funny or lighthearted. There's a difference. Don't you ever get the feeling that you can tell if someone is a good person by looking at them?

Try another Eisbrecher song: Vergissmeinnicht. It's more typical.

I looked up Battle Beast. Hadn't heard a metal band-fronting-woman who sang that harshly. Kind of cool. I don't think I share quite as much of your general antipathy toward female singers, though.

Why were there Not Metal people there? Are you sure they weren't actually Rather Metal Myself? You don't usually look metal at all.
Trolls=corpse paint? I believe it. I knew Troll Hunter was lying to us.
I do, but that seems like judging people by appearances, which I've been led to believe is Wrong. In practice I often feel like I can tell exactly what kind of person someone is by first impression.

It's still slower and club-ier than my taste. I liked it a little better, though.

I'm doing an outreach event at a museum tonight. All by myself. Am scared. Worried that everyone will hate me and ostracize me forever.

Their songwriting isn't very strong, but I like her enough to look past that. I know there are some women who growl, but I can't tell them apart from the men and I don't like either, anyway.

It was a pretty cheap concert on a weeknight, and some of the +1s looked very out of place. I guess I can't rule out that they were Rather Metal Myself.
Troll Hunter is nothing but lies. There's not way there are that many giant trolls hiding in Norway. They are much smaller.
Of course it's important to reevaluate your first impression, but that usually means someone who made a bad impression isn't actually so bad. I can't think of any cases where someone who seemed nice was actually not.

Nothing wrong with club-y music. It has a good beat and you can dance to it.

Why alone? What are you doing?

What about when you try to growl? What does that sound like?

Will the next Sabaton tour be bigger, because it is with someone else? So fewer awkward +1s? I am glad I didn't go and didn't have to be an awkward +1.
Regarding first impressions, I think that maybe I give off the wrong one? I have had too many people express genuine surprise at learning that I am a big old geek. Do I need to style myself differently?

You have been infected. Club music for any genre is the cheap tuna fish of that genre.

Alone because I am the only one from my lab interested in outreach, and because we have no undergrads I could conscript. I spent the evening talking about mammals and the K-Pg extinction at a local science museum. Everyone was super nice and interested, and I talked a lot. I also got a date?!

It sounds like I'm choking to death on a frog. I'm not someone who knows how to do it right, and anyway I'm inside my own head and can't hear it correctly.

A bit bigger, I guess. The tickets were about the same price, but there were also tickets for a seated section. I don't really recognize their touring partner.
If you want people to think you're a geek, you should try to appear more geeky. You don't. If none of your clothing or jewelry is geeky and you look put together, you are making the wrong impression.

Nope. Don't even try to insult my club music. Fanatica is downright erotic and I was deeply moved. Deeply.

Why only your lab? Was your PI even there? This doesn't seem fair, but at least you can put it on your CV. Were they drunk? Why are you dating drunk people? What is this drunk person like?

BTW, my zodiac signs are Arrius and Piza, depending on where I'm falling astrologically. Or you could swap the endings, I suppose. Take the quiz and tell me yours!

That description makes it sound like you don't think all others growlers are choking to death on frogs. Which I'm not convinced of.

Would anyone actually be seated, though? That sounds Not Metal.
Looking put-together is inherently non-geek? That's rather unfair. And most geeky clothes and accessories look kind of tacky, which I realize is a snobbish way to describe anything.

Do you think that the club versions of all genres you listen to are good? Or just some of them?

I specifically asked to have an outreach opportunity, so it was kind of my show. John wasn't there, nope. Just me and a table and some specimens and five hours. I had a really good time, except for the fact that I forgot to eat for a while and thought I might faint.
The person had a beer but did not seem drunk. He was very interested in hearing about my research, and I am a sucker for talking about myself. Now I'm panicking because I don't know what to do if he actually texts me. My gut response is ABORT ABORT ABORT I DON'T DO THIS SORT OF THING.

Oh dear. We continue to be too much the same person. My signs are Capririus and True Aquarius. What does "Za" mean?

It sounds more like they are killing frogs in their throats, much like human rock polishers. But with frogs.

Older people who have money like to have seats. It helps avoid being killed in the mosh pit. Older people with money don't have time to be killed in mosh pits.
Yeah, that's snobbish. Perhaps you only think they look tacky because you've been indoctrinated to think they are? Showing off your geekery is so terribly tacky, you know.

I don't actually know what you're going on about with "club versions." All of the electronic music I listen to is meant to be played in a club. Industrial is club music. Synthpop is club music. That's what it's for. Industrial metal sounds like club music to you because it is partly industrial music.

I'm glad you enjoyed it, since that's your future as a paleontologist.
Most humans choose not to drink to excess while touring science museums, in my experience. Don't bother panicking until he texts you. It's a waste of good panicking. And you have done this sort of thing something like three times now, so tell your gut to shut up. Give it a cookie.

What else is new? "rius" means Derse and Hope, right? Are you a borderline sign as well, or did you take it twice for other reasons? "za" means Derse and Mind. I think I actually prefer to swap my two results, so I would be an Arza? The descriptions resonate with me more. "Pi" is too flighty.

What does Old Metal look like? Can you style yourself after them, similar to the way you style yourself after a 60-year-old Minicon attendee?
But geeky clothing is usually something like "T-shirt with anime characters printed on it". I would want my geeky clothing to be more subtle, something that a fellow geek would recognize but that a non-geek wouldn't even peg as unusual. And I would definitely want my geeky jewelry to be single-color metallic, not a colorful plastic thing. Why are my needs not being catered to?

Hmm. I instinctively categorize all the music you listen to as "club" or "not club", but that may be because I don't recognize gradations between genres. Maybe there are entire genres I don't like very much?

I wish I could allot my panicking sensibly. My panic has a life of its own. I don't think of myself as having done this before, because every new experience is its own unique parade of anxiety.

Yeah, "rius" is Derse and Hope. Wouldn't have pegged you as a Hope aspect, myself, but I can dig it. I'm Aquarius under traditional dates and Capricorn under the astronomically-accurate-to-modern-positions dates. Neither description feels particularly "me", but I like the True Aquarius a bit better. I like Arza for you.

They mostly just wear black concert shirts and are a little scruffy. It me?
That sort of stuff is available already. It's just more expensive. Don't complain if you haven't really looked.

I don't like harsh electro and electronic noise much, and they're also club music. I usually like EBM and almost always like synthpop, but I usually can't tell the difference. And Eisbrecher is Neue Deutsche Ha:rte, which is like industrial metal but with more growling Germans in. Not metal growls. What sort of "club" music do you not like? What do you classify as club?

I understand the panic isn't at your beck and call, but you can probably figure out a way to make it chill sometimes. Some sort of mental trick. Or so many cookies you faint.

Why are you Hope but I'm not? Or are you not Hope either? What about your signs don't feel like you? Aspect, moon or sign category?
Are you saying I'm impulsive but also mindful? I do also like Hope, but Mind just feels a little more right.