Dude is so strange. I mean seriously, who knows that much about that many kinds of esoteric music? It's like he wants to be contrary to the rest of the population on purpose.
Also, he is 60 years old, so developing such a broad taste of music is not even a huge effort!
Thats not _that_ unusual.
Also, folk music is not esoteric.
Or a hipster, if you prefer.
"Dude, check out this awesome new Death Metal band I found!"
"Dude, that's not Death, that's lame melo-death."
"Nah dude, this is ambient drone death!"
"There's no such thing as ambient drone death."
"There totally is, haven't you heard of $FOO?" (where $FOO is some random Finnish band that recorded one EP in a shack in some guy's backyard, using gear that nobody has ever heard of, musicians that nobody has ever heard of, a producer nobody has ever heard of, and only release the album as ogg vorbis files transferred onto 8-track tapes)
(Some other guy comes along) "Oh, that band... no, they're not ambient drone death, they're avant garde post-moral melo-death-core"
(Yet another guy comes along) "That's not avant garde post-moral melo-death-core, it's avant garde drone viking noise metal."
(everybody sane) "Aaargggghhhhh"
("that guy") "Yeah, they're totally tr00 kvlt, dudes. Let's go sacrifice a goat."
I'm sure devout fans of Trance, Country, Jazz, Classical and all sorts of other kinds of music likewise get into some pretty esoteric knowledge, when viewed from outside their sphere.
Edit 2: Honest question, how can I delete my account on HN? I've come to realize (sadly) how many hours I've wasted on this bullshit. PG, please ban this account.
Now, pipe down and let the adults speak.
You can't. You'll probably get hellbanned though. Personally, I don't think two wrongs make a right, and you should be able to delete your account if you want. Maybe just close the tab and never come back. That always works.
In your profile settings, you will find two boxes marked "maxvisit" and "minaway". If you set those to a small value (like 1) and a large value (like say 602430), and then ALSO set "noprocrast" to "yes", you'll basically be unable to use your account.
Seeing you dying to leave HN proves to me in a very pleasing way that HN often just plain works.