Put me down for appreciating posts that can be used as opportunities for celebrating folk
before they kick the bucket. [
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favorited 21 times, recently by figment of my conation, lisa g, deborah, rewil, oneswellfoop, treepour, burnmp3s, Michael Roberts, retronic, polly_dactyl, MissySedai, darkstar, bakerina, Space Kitty, h00py, flyingsquirrel, litleozy, angrycat, RussHy, pxe2000, Transl3y
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44 minutes ago
Yeah, it's because when you fight health care and gun control people ultimately
die. [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spinifex23
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2 ¾ hours ago
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2. It's not that majorities are intrinsically more moral than minorities. It's that, if people have at least some say in their governance, then at least when they're ruled incorrectly it's their fault, and not that of some disinterested party.... [
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5 ¾ hours ago
Where will things like this lead? On the one hand I am sympathetic with these communities who would like some say over what their land gets used for, and who have trouble defeating well-funded corporate interests. On the other, yeah, at some point... [
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favorited 6 times, recently by klangklangston, Librarygeek, tommyD, Blasdelb, Bwithh, gjc
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5 ¾ hours ago
There's an episode of Dexter's Labratory in which Randy Savage is a guest star on the "Dial 'M' for Monkey" b-cartoon. It's terrific.
There's an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic with a character, Iron Will, who is not... [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Amanojaku, ob1quixote, zarq, jonp72, Drinky Die
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14 hours ago
There is some hope in the fact that this is an issue that many liberals and conservatives can agree on, as the article says, in that it's simultaneously fighting big business and government. Maybe this kind of thing can provide a route through the... [
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favorited 6 times, recently by sneebler, askmehow, jpe, MrBobaFett, tommyD, MoTLD
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14 hours ago
I wish more movies were made like Wrath of Khan. What's now called a
slow boil used to be
effective storytelling, and I hate "modern" movies that are constantly LOOK AT ME LOOK AT THIS THING LOOK AT HIM WHAT IS HE DOING OMG... [
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favorited 5 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, juiceCake, COBRA!, vibrotronica, Artw
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16 hours ago
Coming from the universe of non-drinkers, I remember the first time I heard the Thunderbird jingle ("What's the word? Thunderbird!") was in a MST3K episode, revealed through Google to be The Unearthly. It has a way of sticking out in the... [
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More than 18 hours ago
I haven't seen anyone yet provide information into how this works?
I can think off the top of my head of who possible mechanisms:
1 - Maybe what is effectively a small burnable track on the CDs that can be written to by the console. I presume... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rosswald
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Yesterday
Microsoft/Amazon/etc going into Thunderdome with Verizon, AT&T and Comcast, and slaughtering each other.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm... no, not today.
Jet Set Radio, Shenmue, Chu Chu Rocket, Soul Calibur, Skies of Arcadia, Space Channel 5, Ecco... [
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3 days ago
I usually point to Bronyville episode 82 to refute PONY haters, but this doesn't require downloading a many-megabyte, hour-long podcast episode: The Brony Infographic.... [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ego
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4 days ago
Again, Drinky Die says it better than I could.
And honestly? When you've gone so far beyond the pale, like the person in the OP has, a bit of mockery might help.
Have you read through the thread? That guy is almost certainly speaking... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ego
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4 days ago
(gets up on Twilight's soapbox)
Some time back there was this site called Mystery Usenet Theater 3000, a site that hosted "MSTings" of fanfiction found on the internet. They took fanfiction and interspersed it with comments from MST3K... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ego
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4 days ago
I'm trying very hard to avoid that thought, since I don't want to think of the guy who knows everything about Roguelikes and the resident Alien expert that way.
You don't understand my meaning. I asked you if you
know you have... [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ego
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4 days ago
And yet I somehow manage to express my sincerity without telling John Darnielle I'm secretly married to him or drawing Jake the Dog using his stretching powers to molest Max Weinberg!
THIS is why I say you're arguing in bad faith. I'm not... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ego
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4 days ago
geek anachronism, I am done arguing regardless, but I can accept now that you're at least trying to argue from a good place, and that's good enough for me. Remember though: it is a mistake to generalize from particulars.
As for the Mr. Rogers... [
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favorited 4 times, recently by ego
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4 days ago
CiS, What you say isn't what I'm seeing. What I'm seeing is people trying to brush the
whole fandom with the Creepy Paint. Look at Slap*Happy's comments above:
It's not a fandom, it's a gangbang. That set a certain tone for the... [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ego
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4 days ago
And once a fandom is dominated (be it by middle aged women or bronies) it responds to that subsection. So you get Twilight vibrators, and MLP shirts for adults, as opposed marketing for the initial group.
I don't actually think Hasbro would... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ego
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4 days ago
God this thread exploded. Here's some scattershot responses to some of the above:
Unfortunately, the show got rid of her and since about mid-way through the second season has been declining in quality. For example, I see the end of the second... [
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favorited 7 times, recently by ego
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4 days ago
Bronies are rape by proxy. Girls are not allowed a safe place in pop culture. They are not alowed to have role-models that are not hypersexualized by a "fandom."
Are teenage males not allowed to enjoy Star Trek without having... [
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4 days ago
Some lottery advocates . . . have tried to defend lottery-ticket buying as a rational purchase of fantasy—paying a dollar for a day's worth of pleasant anticipation, imagining yourself as a millionaire.
Here it is, not even 6 AM my time... [
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5 days ago
Lottery tickets are not an experience. NBA tickets are an experience.
This is entirely subjective.
Technically it is subjective, yes, but practically, not really. Technically I can argue with a brick wall; it's really easy to win because... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by RolandOfEld, kengraham
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5 days ago
The best Star Trek novel ever - How Much for Just the Planet? - and by far the best science-fiction/Gilbert & Sullivan mash-up ever - is a TOS novel, and would never have worked with any other generation.
I second this. At the end the... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ZeusHumms
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6 days ago
*Something else I realized is that, while Jamie is popular and terrific, he's not the most prominent Scott in Doctor Who history. That would be the Brigadier himself, who is prominently identified as Scottish, in what would be his last appearance... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by running order squabble fest, koeselitz
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6 days ago
Well, to begin --
I've long thought the same thing about the use of magic, not just in games, but also in the popular culture. Harry Potter, while a contributor, is far from the worst offender in these cases, since it still represents magic as... [
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favorited 5 times, recently by mindless progress
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7 days ago
Finished two levels, over 1K points, before quitting because, although it's cool, it's still Breakout.
The original arcade Breakout, legend has it, was written by Steve Wozinak himself. Atari had contracted with his friend Jobs to make it (not... [
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favorited 10 times, recently by Sutekh, radwolf76, mrzer0, superna, Kafkaesque, Joey Michaels, painquale, MCMikeNamara, vibrotronica, shakespeherian
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7 days ago
You can think of a game's display, when using a cathode-ray-tube monitor, as being a one-dimensional signal. The display hardware, like with a TV, traces the electron beam left to right over and over, dropping down a line each time, and when the... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Sutekh, Joey Michaels
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7 days ago
While I don't plan on seeing STID (partly because the name is terribly stupid, I'll admit) I have to take this issue with the review:
And it falls short of being a good action movie, because it actively lowers the stakes over and over, instead... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by homunculus
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7 days ago
From some ways above:
This will be a really good test for Maddow and Stewart to see if they condemn this.
I already commented that Maddow, being a show on a channel that posits itself as like a mirror-universe Fox News, need not do this... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tonycpsu, Drinky Die
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7 days ago
Interesting, but for all that work and noise I was almost hoping the result would be something like:
1. He touches his foot to the gas pedal.
2. His remains are found somewhere in Denmark.... [
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7 days ago
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2. His remains are found somewhere in Denmark.
Should be in Northern France, actually.
The way I imagined it, he got some degree of lift from the engine.... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by LucretiusJones, Slap*Happy
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8 days ago
I've seen lots of classic but very little of modern Who. zarq's link doesn't exactly make me want to remedy that situation. [
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favorited 2 times, recently by koeselitz, juiceCake
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8 days ago
It's no big secret anymore why Pac-Man messes up after 255 screens. But much less well-known is another quirk of many classic arcade games, that has to do with score-based extra life awards at extremely high scores. This happens with many arcade... [
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favorited 17 times, recently by pmcp
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8 days ago
I can't let this post pass without mentioning Metafilter's own jscott's project to port MESS to Javascript. [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Reverend John
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8 days ago
That's pretty awesome obiwanwasabi. People have also discovered that the entirety of F-Zero AX, the arcade-only version of the Gamecube game F-Zero GX, is on the GX disk and can be enabled with Action Replay codes.
I love that hackers are working... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Uther Bentrazor
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9 days ago
I nominate LarryC's comment as thread winner.
You might want to show him some Doctor Who along with the others, it's a very
very different approach.... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by beandip, Sara C.
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9 days ago
I love the ending Chocolate Pickle, the way the series winds down in the final episodes is great. Ed and Ein leaving the crew is like the show sobering up and getting ready to settle accounts.
The title of the last episodes,
The Real Folk... [
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favorited 4 times, recently by honest knave
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9 days ago
She never said what's in this post is the entirety of her experience for 18 months. It might have even happened before she got the book deal. We should be careful not to read things into this that aren't actually there.... [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tel3path, MissySedai
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9 days ago
I mean, obviously, depression is pretty sophisticated in its ability to deconstruct and critique a YAY until all yays are refuted.
I love that sentence right there, very apt.... [
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10 days ago
