George is the latest recruit to The Lazarus Project – a secret organization that has harnessed the ability to turn back time whenever the world is at the threat of extinction. George and his colleagues are the few people on Earth with the ability to remember the events that are undone when time goes back. But when a freak accident harms someone close to George, Lazarus won’t let him turn back time to undo it unless there is the threat of global extinction. Now George must choose to stay loyal or go rogue as he faces the question: if you had the power to re-write your past, what would you sacrifice to do it?
posted to FanFare by Kyol at 5:53 AM on February 22, 2023 (3 comments)

Fury and Gravik have it out as Russia and the United States are on the brink of nuclear war.
posted to FanFare by Brandon Blatcher at 10:09 AM on July 26, 2023 (44 comments)

Barbie suffers a crisis that leads her to question her world and her existence.
posted to FanFare by ThePinkSuperhero at 8:17 AM on July 20, 2023 (159 comments)

Still mourning the death of Flash, and with it an entire era of online gaming? Enter ooooooooo.ooo (9o3o), the new searchable (and playable!) web frontend for the incredible Flashpoint preservation project. Browse over 145,000 preserved Flash games powered by the Ruffle emulator, and share your favorites with a simple link. Highlights: DICEWARS - Fly Guy - Alien Hominid - Samorost - Crimson Room - Nanaca Crash! - Line Rider - Don't Shoot the Puppy - Bloxorz - Gimme Friction Baby - The Impossible Quiz - Portal: The Flash Version - Feed the Head - Sprout - Achievement Unlocked - QWOP - Cursor*10 - Dino Run - Grid16 - Meat Boy - SHIFT - You Have to Burn the Rope - 6 Differences - Canabalt - Don't Shit Your Pants! - Nevermore 3 - Small Worlds - Don't Look Back - Redder - VVVVVV (demo) - Synopsis Quest - The Room Tribute - The Scale of the Universe - Mitoza - Wonderputt - Bullet Bill 3 - Frog Fractions - Dys4ia - Snakes on a Cartesian Plane - Want (gulp) more? Download Flashpoint Infinity to stream over 156,000 games from 70+ platforms (including Shockwave, Java, and Unity) plus over 27,000 animations... or clear some space for the monster 1.76 terabyte Flashpoint Ultimate to store every single file locally. So much more inside!
posted to MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 12:04 PM on July 14, 2023 (71 comments)

An astronaut crash lands on a mysterious planet only to discover he's not alone.
posted to FanFare by TheophileEscargot at 2:04 PM on March 16, 2023 (17 comments)

The vampires help Sean host a Pride parade; Nadja helps her doll achieve a long-held dream.
posted to FanFare by gladly at 8:50 AM on July 23, 2023 (14 comments)

Twitter is being rebranded as X - The Verge
posted to MetaFilter by buffy12 at 2:31 PM on July 23, 2023 (538 comments)

Uhura is receiving strange signals, but she's distracted by a zombie of the stratosphere.
posted to FanFare by Halloween Jack at 9:02 AM on July 20, 2023 (68 comments)

Grace's former boyfriend (?) tells his story in film noir style. He suspected that Edgar was up to no good and was determined to protect his ex.
posted to FanFare by jessamyn at 9:45 AM on July 21, 2023 (6 comments)

A mercenary goes after his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a gang.
posted to FanFare by MoonOrb at 6:30 PM on March 22, 2016 (14 comments)

Streets of Fire (part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) is a 1984 film directed by Walter Hill and co-written by Hill and Larry Gross. It was described in previews, trailers, and posters as "A Rock & Roll Fable." It is an unusual mix of musical, action, drama, and comedy with elements both of retro-1950s and 1980s. ... The film was promoted as a summer blockbuster but failed critically and commercially, grossing only USD $8 million in North America, well below its $14.5 million budget. Its dynamic musical score by the likes of Jim Steinman, Ry Cooder, and others, as well as the hit Dan Hartman song "I Can Dream About You", however, has helped it attain something of a cult following among fans.
posted to MetaFilter by Joe Beese at 9:27 PM on December 18, 2010 (59 comments)

From the Salon review: "There [is] all kinds of pop culture iconography floating around in Walter Hill's "Streets of Fire": rock stars; outlaw biker gangs; neon marquees; Dick Tracy-style police cars; diners that serve up coffee in Syracuse china; silent, tough-guy heroes; bars that are rowdy dives and bars meant for quiet, solitary drinking; leather; a battered wallet photo of someone's sweetheart; lovers' reunions; lovers' breakups; dusters; convertibles; pompadours; guns. "Streets of Fire" is nothing but iconography, an attempt to boil down 30 years of pop to its familiar essence and then contain the whole thing in a comic-strip B movie... If chrome could bleed, it would look like the colors that run together in the streets of this movie."
posted to MetaFilter by I_Love_Bananas at 5:13 PM on September 7, 2011 (62 comments)

Vincent Woo snuck and stuck video camera onto the front of a BART train, and filmed the trip. The result (YT) is an hour and a half long video, set to some low-key music interspersed with narration, interviews, and history.
posted to MetaFilter by aubilenon at 2:58 PM on July 21, 2023 (24 comments)

Bring Me To Life but it's Otamatones
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 9:40 AM on July 19, 2023 (35 comments)

The experiences of a computer engineering team racing to design a next-generation computer at a blistering pace under tremendous pressure.
posted to FanFare by General Malaise at 4:31 PM on December 8, 2022 (13 comments)

Greek and Roman epitaphs can be touching. They can also, in the case of Allia Potestas, even be risqué. But they can also be horribly, incredibly embarrassing-- as in the case of Aphrodisios of Alexandria Troas, as seen in this short by the great Stefan Milo. This tombstone at the Louvre, recently translated into English by Chaniotis and posted on Twitter by Roko Rumora, has to be seen to be believed.
posted to MetaFilter by suburbanbeatnik at 11:46 AM on July 14, 2023 (59 comments)

The birth of id Software by John Romero [The Verge] In 1990, John Romero, John Carmack, and Tom Hall were working at Louisiana software maker Softdisk. There, they had an idea that would change PC games forever.
posted to MetaFilter by Fizz at 10:31 AM on July 17, 2023 (45 comments)

Episode 1: The vampires discover the mall. Episode 2: Nandor and Laszlo have a night out with Sean and his friends; Nadja discovers the source of her bad luck.
posted to FanFare by gladly at 10:11 AM on July 15, 2023 (12 comments)

When Zoë's sister's wedding weekend is destroyed by a murder, Aniq calls his old friend Danner to investigate the crime.
posted to FanFare by Etrigan at 8:36 AM on July 12, 2023 (13 comments)

Spock has a very crucial meeting with the future in-laws to attend, but he may be missing a couple of important points.
posted to FanFare by Halloween Jack at 9:53 AM on July 13, 2023 (70 comments)

Today is MetaFilter’s 24th anniversary. To put things in perspective, this invaluable source of knowledge, conversations and learning was founded the same year the Euro launched, boy bands were on the rise, the first Matrix movie was released, and "Believe" by Cher was hitting the top of the Billboard Year-End chart. We'd like to celebrate this milestone by raising a virtual toast to the countless discussions, friendships, and shared knowledge that have blossomed here.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 9:03 AM on July 14, 2023 (108 comments)

Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.
posted to MetaFilter by Melismata at 6:44 AM on July 14, 2023 (76 comments)

“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” - California is notoriously expensive to live in and rife with homlessness, writers are notoriously poorly paid and living precariously (and likely to become more soif the WGA's concerns are not addressed), and thus the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) has decided its tactic to settle the current writers strike and finally break the WGA: Wait for the writers to be broke and homeless.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:58 AM on July 12, 2023 (92 comments)

Fury must make some hard sacrifices.
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 1:36 PM on July 12, 2023 (34 comments)

Summary: "When the devastation of her sister Holly’s death trickles into her workplace, Sam finds an unexpected connection with her coworker Joel."
posted to FanFare by dobbs at 7:05 AM on January 20, 2022 (16 comments)

As the UK's counter terrorism unit learns of flight KA29, Sam gets involved in a risky plan to take on the hijackers.
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 10:55 AM on July 4, 2023 (10 comments)

Seth Meyers and Bill Hader sit down in front of cameras to talk about their careers [30m], and each other's careers, and to reminisce about working together at SNL. It's a charming conversation between friends, and I thought I might share it here.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 10:28 AM on July 10, 2023 (12 comments)

The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
posted to FanFare by thecaddy at 6:00 AM on June 18, 2023 (37 comments)

Spotting an opportunity, Sam executes a plan to get a covert message to authorities on the ground.
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 3:25 PM on June 28, 2023 (11 comments)

Pike and the away team explore the Rigelian sunshine of the spotless mind.
posted to FanFare by CheesesOfBrazil at 5:52 AM on July 6, 2023 (53 comments)

An anime-inflected take on "Clark Kent's first day as an intern at the Daily Planet". At the time of posting, sitting at 100% positive on Rotten Tomatoes! It's just a delight.
posted to FanFare by Ipsifendus at 7:37 AM on July 8, 2023 (4 comments)

Threads is live. The Meta/Instagram "Twitter killer" supposedly had 30 million installs in 24 hours (Mastodon may have less than 2M active users), likely thanks to the ability to access your entire Instagram social graph automatically. Gruber likes it, but not as much as BlueSky (which is still in closed beta) The Threads website doesn't show content by default, but you can access individual users and tweets toots skeets threads. On the other hand, maybe the age of social media is ending.
posted to MetaFilter by gwint at 10:58 AM on July 6, 2023 (244 comments)

Fury uncovers a rebel Skull plot.
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 8:19 AM on July 5, 2023 (22 comments)

"Please be informed, the notification read, that your business, the Sunlight Cafe, has been designated a Moderately Impactful Business. This replaces your current designation as a Negligibly Impactful Business. The Moderately Impactful Business designation comes with increased governance requirements which are listed below. Note that our decision may be appealed and is considered probationary until the appeals process is complete." In the short scifi story "Sunlight" by Shauna Gordon-McKeon, one woman loves that the little café she runs with her wife has become a community space. But her wife doesn't. [Disclaimer: Shauna is a friend.]
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 6:10 AM on July 5, 2023 (15 comments)

What eight decades of Goofus and Gallant illustrate about society’s changing expectations of children (SLAtlantic, archive)
posted to MetaFilter by ShooBoo at 8:18 AM on July 3, 2023 (105 comments)

A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence. But what if she's the monster he's sworn to destroy?
posted to FanFare by 1970s Antihero at 7:20 AM on June 30, 2023 (34 comments)

It's all Fury's fault. Reviews of the episode here and here.
posted to FanFare by jenfullmoon at 12:37 PM on June 28, 2023 (20 comments)

…by modeling a film camera in Blender to capture images in Blender. In excruciating detail. (SLYT)
posted to MetaFilter by adamrice at 3:23 PM on July 1, 2023 (12 comments)

Sam Nelson gets on a flight to London hoping to win back his ex-wife, but something on board feels wrong--and his suspicions are confirmed.
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 3:24 PM on June 28, 2023 (8 comments)

@eerrriiicaa: "Please tell me your embarrassing sex stories so i feel better. I just thought about the time a few years ago when a guy went down on me and we made eye contact and I waved for some reason" and @RealFionaO replied "A fella I was riding said ‘Who is your daddy?’ And I said my Dad’s name ‘Eamonn’" and there were more...
posted to MetaFilter by Wordshore at 3:29 PM on March 11, 2020 (94 comments)

The Second City alum won an Oscar late in the game for “Little Miss Sunshine” and was memorable in “The Russians Are Coming,” “The In-Laws” and “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.”
posted to MetaFilter by kitten kaboodle at 10:07 PM on June 30, 2023 (79 comments)

The first price is the cost of acquisition and then "in order to make use of the thing, you must also pay a second price. This is the effort and initiative required to gain its benefits."
posted to MetaFilter by blue shadows at 9:20 PM on June 28, 2023 (41 comments)

For more than two decades, the biggest retro computing story in recent memory sat like a sleeper cell in a Massachusetts barn. The barn was in danger of collapse. It could no longer protect the fleet of identical devices hiding inside. A story like this doesn’t need the flash of a keynote or a high-profile marketing campaign. It really just needs someone to notice. And the reason anyone did notice was because this barn could no longer support the roughly 2,200 machines that hid on its second floor.
posted to MetaFilter by Etrigan at 6:24 AM on June 29, 2023 (24 comments)

Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been.
posted to MetaFilter by 1970s Antihero at 5:43 AM on June 30, 2023 (51 comments)

BREAKING: Twitter now BLOCKS ALL ACCESS FROM SIGNED OUT USERS (Nitter.net link)
posted to MetaFilter by buffy12 at 11:28 AM on June 30, 2023 (444 comments)

Succession Finale Ends With a Roy Family Bloodbath, and a New CEO [Vanity Fair] [Series/Finale Spoilers] As the smoke clears from Succession’s fourth and final season, here’s who wound up on top.
posted to MetaFilter by Fizz at 5:00 AM on May 29, 2023 (41 comments)

Series Finale
posted to FanFare by chill at 2:20 AM on May 29, 2023 (106 comments)

"Egregore," by merritt k, is a short story about what happens when you make up a guy to get mad at and the guy gets mad at you back.
posted to MetaFilter by babelfish at 7:51 AM on June 26, 2023 (52 comments)

The feature film debut from writer-director Nida Manzoor (We Are Lady Parts) is a merry mash-up of sisterly affection, parental disappointment, and bold action. Ria Khan (Priya Kansara, Bridgerton) practices martial arts in order to become a stuntwoman. But when her sister Lena (Ritu Arya, The Umbrella Academy) drops out of art school and suddenly gets engaged, Ria decides she and her friends must pull off a wedding-heist.
posted to FanFare by DirtyOldTown at 1:44 PM on April 23, 2023 (22 comments)

It has begun! PWC WAGNER'S owner Prigozhin has called Russians to unite behind him and bring justice and fairness to Russia! (SLYT to Inside Russia live stream) The situation is developing rapidly.
posted to MetaFilter by Meatbomb at 4:04 PM on June 23, 2023 (1173 comments)