MeFi comment:
"When that video first started, I thought I'd only make it through thirty seconds, and then I ended up watching the whole thing. It's really well edited. Various ways of telling people that you're not here to make friends are carefully grouped into..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by regicide is good for you
6 days ago
MeFi post:
Lasagna Cat
favorited 92 times, recently by kdar, jcruelty, tickingclock, kittyb, abkadefgee, keds, grandsham, bugbread, The Shiny Thing, Spire, cytherea, benimoto, sugarfish, The Loch Ness Monster, nzero, one_bean, mathowie, evadery, Clyde Mnestra, aldurtregi, Nathaniel W, p3on, aftermarketradio, miss lynnster, roboppy, clockworkjoe, TheWhiteSkull, merlinmann, mikepop, 912 Greens, abbyyy, SentientAI, Mocata, eddydamascene, Laugh_track, davemee, purplemonkie, Citizen Premier, painquale, punishinglemur, eyeballkid, Rumple, zabuni, zengargoyle, loquacious, divabat, alidarbac, themadjuggler, stavrogin, graventy, meech, fishmasta, sewshi, Sailormom, team lowkey, JT, tellurian, Falling_Saint, Galvatron, whir, mkultra, empath, tehloki, shanevsevil, m0nm0n, ColdChef, grouse, prambutan, champthom, uni verse, azlondon, lord_wolf, PostIronyIsNotaMyth, zsazsa, Foci for Analysis, soundofsuburbia, Gary, Blazecock Pileon, ManInSuit, MaryDellamorte, flatluigi, roll truck roll, tippiedog, Uther Bentrazor, hopeless romantique, the sobsister, brownpau, Greg Nog, chrismear, TryTheTilapia, Admiral Haddock, phrontist
2 weeks ago
MeFi post:
Star Wars Crawl
favorited 11 times, recently by Baud, pushing paper and bottoming chairs, booth, bach, mikespez, Strange Interlude, aaronetc, Falling_Saint, Rarebit Fiend, JMOZ, hecho de la basura
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Caduceus: ...because certainly anything with Patrick Stewart is real.
Oh...I don't know. Anything? Anything? (see around 1:13)
(full disclosure--I love this movie to pieces)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sangermaine
Last month
MeTa comment:
"A prediction--this MeTa thread will continue the bothersome trend of softposting politics topics in the gray that don't cut it on the blue." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Dave Faris, toomuchpete
Last month
MeFi comment:
"After playing with the balance board a bit more today--this is an amazing piece of tech.
After playing Wii Fit for long enough you'll be invited to take the Ultimate Balance Test. Basically, you have to distribute your weight on the board evenly..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Is this the thread that gives me an excuse to talk about Wii Fit, which showed up on my front porch last night? Reactions--
--Yeah, it doesn't pull punches during the initial diagnosis. It told me that I was overweight (174 lb., 5' 9"),..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Pope Guilty, JHarris
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm coming to the conclusion that almost any nonfiction book whose title has a colon halfway through, with the word "how" or "why" immediately following it, only seeks to confirm what its intended audience already believes to be..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Goofyy, RogerB, TheophileEscargot, drezdn, mrgrimm
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"I had a little of this myself a few years back, but in general now I'm sharper than I was in graduate school, depending on the time of day. (I can actually feel myself getting "foggy" in the late afternoon, near the end of my workday.)
1...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by elisynn, LobsterMitten
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If loving DiGiorno's Stuffed Crust Pizza is wrong, I don't want to be right." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"As a Clinton/Obama agnostic, all I know is that I'm watching a debate right now that's a travesty. God forbid we should have any discussion of policy when there are flag pins and sniper fire to worry about.
It's like the moderators are mocking not..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by JeremyT, shiu mai baby, Malor, Locative, Jpfed, psmealey
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"jam_pony: It's often possible to spot these shills, often by subtle clues, despite their skills.
For instance, nearly every one of cleverusername's FPPs contains, somewhere in it, a link to The Escapist...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by wendell
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Also, what was so scary about the purple Smurfs? I watched the video in this thread, and it seems like a pretty standard Smurfs episode.
As implied in one of the links in my other comment, it's got a minor but crucial difference in plotting from..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Afroblanco, These Premises Are Alarmed, salvia
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I haven't read any Clarke in a long time--3001 was the last novel of his I read. But for some reason I read 2010 over and over and over again as a child--I think I liked it even more than 2001, and though the film version of it certainly doesn't..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by hal9k, skepticbill
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I went to grad school with Adam (though he was a few years ahead of me in the program). He was a great guy--strong academic command of the material (his dissertation, as I remember, was on blues lyrics), plus he could actually play the stuff. If I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by madamjujujive
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"My only rule is: always keep anything published by Atlus unless you're sure you'll never, ever want to play it again and you're desperate for money. Atlus's games are the only ones I know of that appreciate in value on the secondary market.
Also,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't get the new Hillary ad--it wants to be a scare ad, but it doesn't really have the courage of its convictions. The music, for instance, is at odds with the tone of the narrator--my ears were primed for ominous minor chords that never arrived...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by delmoi
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"Oddly enough, last week I just finished watching The Complete Goofy two-disc set (in the Disney Treasures line).
Goofy is most certainly a dog--if I recall correctly, his original name was "Dippy Dawg." However, over the course of his..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by prophetsearcher, misha
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne for the PS2, if you can find it. It doesn't have explicit cutscenes that hand you dollops of plot, but nonetheless there's a strong story that's implied by what you see as you travel through a changing world. It's also..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by josher71
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"An interesting read, but that link will only be good for the next day. This one should be permanent." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rarebit Fiend
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"Martin Amis wrote a book on strategies for beating video games, called Invasion of the Space Invaders.
Here's an article at the Village Voice that coves this subject...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by papafrita
7 months ago
MeFi post:
Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0.
favorited 16 times, recently by ZenMasterThis, hell toupee, andywolf, quintessencesluglord, christopherious, escher, ltracey, El Brendano, lodurr, babybuns, McLir, dlanznar, McSly, fleetmouse, scblackman, jeffburdges
7 months ago
Ask comment:
"I own seven mixes of DDR, going all the way back to DDR Max on PS2. When I'm at the top of my game I can clear 7- or 8-footers by sight reading, and 9-footers with considerable practice. A few notes:
1. DDR Hottest Party is the hardest version of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by davar
7 months ago
MeFi post:
Richard Beymer's Twin Peaks photos
favorited 43 times, recently by Benjamin Nushmutt, of strange foe, Tonya J, Drop Daedalus, doogyrev, dhammond, waxpancake, humuhumu, robtf3, Dean King, war wrath of wraith, cadge, Secretariat, hilatron, graventy, uaudio, p3t3, amberglow
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I vaguely remember seeing this.
The fact that I only have vague memories of it, despite its mindblowing crossovers, indicates that it wasn't nearly as traumatic as that episode of Bravestarr called "The Price," though--if you saw it, you..." [
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favorited 2 times
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"[...]I'm sooooo fucking tired of shooters and real-time strategy. Please, for the love of all that is good in the world, release some decent traditional RPGs or turn-based strategy. Please.
I was just in Best Buy on my lunch break, thinking I'd..." [
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favorited 2 times
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The video review that was supposedly instrumental in losing Gerstmann his job--it was pulled from Gamespot soon after this story started to blow up online...." [
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favorited 2 times
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The treasurer of the British Shakespeare Association, Stuart Hampton-Reeves, said it was important that modern audiences weren't bombarded with too much text. He said: "Modern audiences are used to immediate language, plot delivery and fast..." [
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favorited 3 times
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The trick is to plan ahead for the endgame. Each move earns you points equivalent to the (mathematical) square of the number of (colored) squares that disappear with that move. So it's best to sacrifice small groups at the beginning if it means..." [
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favorited 1 time
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I just finished reading his most recent and final book, On God, three days ago. It's most useful as insight into what he was thinking about when writing his last novel, The Castle in the Forest, but it's also interesting in its own right. He's..." [
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favorited 1 time
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If the intent of the blog is to debunk Christianity, the its owners ought to take down the link to the debate between Dinesh D'Souza and Christopher Hitchens--I watched a little over half of it, and I am now newly convinced of the existence of hell...." [
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favorited 3 times
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Three interpretations of the same bit of news.
Oink founder: "We're just like Google"
Oink Ringleader: I Object to Your Characterization of Me As the Creator and Facilitator of a Large Piracy Operation
Oink Founder: "I haven't..." [
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favorited 1 time
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What's with the ??
It makes the equation look awesome." [
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favorited 2 times
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Coming back to this thread, it surprises me how SF-centric Metafilter can sometimes be. Canopus in Argos seems to be the Lessing work that's most read by MeFites (and I've read it, too--some parts I found to be better than others). Yet focusing on..." [
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9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Far as I can tell, all the quotings from her are taken immediately after she were told she had won, by the journalists at her house. I would give her some slack for whatever she has said, at a moment which probably was a bit confusing for her.
See,..." [
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favorited 1 time
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"LONDON - Doris Lessing pulled up in a black cab where a media horde was waiting Thursday in front of her leafy north London home. Reporters opened the door and told her she had won the Nobel Prize for literature, to which she responded: "Oh..." [
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favorited 1 time
9 months ago
Ask comment:
"NYT: If there's a high-definition TV in your future, wait until after the holidays." [
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9 months ago
