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I've gotten quite into doing pub karaoke for the past three years. It started as me going to monthly nights at my local, then following that particular KJ after they cancelled future gigs with her, to befriending and following a few other hosts.

There's three particular debates:

• Who produces the best karaoke backing tracks? There are a lot of websites/platforms that produce licensed karaoke tracks, such as Karaoke Version, Sing To The World, Sunfly, Karafun, Mr Entertainer, Zoom Karaoke and a few others. I think some can be more hit-or-miss than others. Karafun are generally good with lyric readability but their app/service is kinda shit if you don't have an internet connection.

• Should the host get on the mic and sing at all? Some i know are the kind who like the sound of their own voice a bit too much and tend to hog the mic, but there's also one I know who rarely if ever sings himself.

• As a host, should you play songs between singers. I can understand spacing out singers when it's quiet, but if it's busy and you have a few dozen singers waiting for their turn, you're just gonna piss people off if you play full songs between each act in my opinion.

Female Space Marines. I'm gonna leave before this thread explodes.

Doctor Who has a bunch of them!

One of the big recent ones was the Timeless Child plotline. For people unfamiliar with the show, the basic premise is that the main character, the Doctor, is an alien who's species can regenerate themselves when they're about to die which saves them but they become a physically different person. This was invented back in the 60s so they could change out the lead actor, William Hartnell, when he got too old to continue in the role and it's become a core part of the show. We're now on about the 15-16th Doctor, although that number is a bit contentious too for reasons I won't go into here because that's a whole other thing.

A few years back there was a plotline where it was revealed that the Doctor isn't just a regular alien, they're something called the Timeless Child that just appeared in our universe from somewhere unknown, and was the one that gave their whole species the ability to regenerate themselves. This was widely hated, as it not only changed the Doctor from a sort of wandering hobo into a Super Special Chosen One, but it also directly showed that William Hartnell wasn't the first Doctor, there had been probably dozens of other ones before him that had just never been mentioned until now.

The internal debates that I've seen usually aren't people debating whether this was a good idea or not, they're mostly about the best way to retcon it away and never speak of it again lol.

systemd is fine for some

"Should lizard people women have breasts?"

The Grateful Dead were not a jam band , jam bands wanted to be the Grateful Dead.

And also, the mk4 platform we're the last real VW's ever made and anybody that thinks differently is a civilian that needs to shut the fuck up

In Blade Runner, whether or not Deckard is a Replicant.

In the Deltarune fandom, there's a fairly heated debate on whether the character Ralsei (depicted as a feminine male in game) will end up coming out as transgender or not

Both sides feel it's the most natural route for the story, both sides have evidence in their favour and both sides feel the other would ruin the story

A recent merch ad depicted a female Ralsei and it caused a bit of revival in the discussion (despite ads not being canon)

Supernatural. Whether or not Destiel was canon.

It's been 15 years I don't really wanna talk about it anymore lol

BMX: free coaster vs cassette.