Thank you, I had the same notion as OP. I heard that “something” was up, but could not put my finger on it. Your summary nailed it.

I tried that for quite a while but ultimately gave up. For many (technical or non-English) topics, I found no fitting result of my search on the first page.

Never heard about this, will check it out! Thank you for the recommendation.

I like both. But if I had to pick, it’d be cats.

The reason is that many people around here don’t handle their dogs well. That results in noise (hysterical barks in some cases) and poo landmines you have to watch out for.

Well-trained dogs? Appreciate them. Dogs I personally know? Good boys! Random dogs from the neighborhood? No thanks.

Having owned both, cats and dogs are quite different, and great in their own right. Dogs as a trusty companion, cats as a peculiar room mate.

The first album that I ever bought back in the day from my pocket money was Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park.

Only later I found out that this feeling of listening to every song of an album multiple times without getting bored or just not liking some or most of them is not the norm.

I enjoyed the album right away. But only after being disappointed in all other albums that I bought over the next months I started to realize what an incredible gem Hybrid Theory is.

I had the same magical feeling with Meteora. Sadly, the following albums could not keep it up for me.

I still love HT and M to this day and listen to it monthly. Amazing albums by an amazing band.