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I'm fairly sure this has reprogrammed me, The Parallax View style. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Ok, I know this is a dumb idea but if Bran warged into Dany at the moment she went all dracarys on King's landing it would explain why they didn't show her face during the sack. [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

He has seen his own country men becomes monsters. Maybe it's more clear in the books, but raping and pillaging after the sack of a city definitely seems to be standard operating procedure in this universe, so I don't think Jon would be… [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

I thought this episode was mostly really good and am surprised at its poor reception here. I do agree that the show handled Jaime's arc poorly, partly because it has actually been handled very well in the books up to this point, and that they rushed… [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

Sansa was molded by a naive, lying father, Cersei, Ramsey, and Little Finger. On the iron throne, she would turn into Cersei v2. I totally agree with this. The lessons Sansa has learned from all of her horrifying experiences have been… [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

Dany went through seven seasons of learning how to be a different type of ruler I mean, did she, though? She was different from the existing rulers of Essos in that she freed the slaves, but besides that she didn't actually seem to be… [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

I didn't love a lot of the confusing cinematography during the battle scenes here, there were weird pacing issues, and the battle plan was pretty dumb. Maybe you should put your heavy infantry in front of your siege weapons? And surely there must be… [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

shouldn't the NK have used a siege strategy? It's not like his army needed food. He's waited thousands of years already, what's a few months? I agree, and we've seen him do exactly that in the past, when the Magnificent Seven were trapped… [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

I think Dresden's speech to Holden and Johnson came off as way more convincing in the books than it did on the show, to the point where you could believe he had talked them into seeing it his way, which also made Miller's actions more understandable. [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

I think a lot of you internet old-timers would probably enjoy this article about the languages that almost became CSS. (via) [more]
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MeFi comment - Five years ago

On a trip down to Big Sur from San Francisco one year I stopped at the Tor House, Jeffers's longtime home in Carmel-by-the-Sea. It is a pretty interesting place and I highly recommend a visit to anyone in the area who is interested in Jeffers. They… [more]
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MeFi comment - Five years ago

The Current Affairs podcast did a big two-parter rounding up all of the Democratic 2020 candidates, and you can listen to the Buttigieg section here from 1:14:30 to 1:28:00 or so. They mention another few things in there, such as his position on… [more]
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MeFi comment - Five years ago

Not to get all pedantic about it but Legion isn't part of the MCU (Disney), it's in the Fox-owned X-Men universe. I liked this OK, but I felt like both it and the previous episode lost a lot of the momentum that had going into the start of the… [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

Here's my guess as to what's coming in the finale. Hoyt tells Hays to back off, but Hays doesn't and Hoyt has Amelia killed, which breaks Hays's mind. I'm guessing the pedophile thing is a red herring, or maybe it was the impetus for the documentary… [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

I mean, who are you going are you going to trust, a person who read the book or a wikipedia editor who doesn't know affect from effect? If you dig back through the history there you can see that the paragraph in question was originally titled… [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

A Leng reference ain't enough. I didn't catch the Leng reference, where was it? Overall I really liked this as somebody who loved the first season and finally threw up my hands about the second one. (I recently ran across this… [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

I liked the book, though I thought it was a tad overrated (and I also felt A Quiet Place to be a tad overrated, so maybe I'm just snooty about this subgenre or something). The movie is a very faithful adaptation, but to its detriment since it doesn't… [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

Tana French novels (The Trespasser etc) - any interest?
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FanFare post - Five years ago

When I was a young lad in the boy scouts, a fun activity to engage in on camping trips when adults were not around was known as "wall hits." You'd put your back against a tree and then grab your knees and hyperventilate as hard as you could… [more]
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MeFi comment - Five years ago

Amityville Horror, for example, is a franchise that has never, ever produced a good movie, and I say that having seen nearly all of them and having a lingering fondness for them. I have to agree that they've never produced a good… [more]
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MeFi comment - Five years ago

As far as feather-ruffling sermons based on Amos go, the line about justice flowing down like water is memorably quoted in MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech. [more]
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MeFi comment - Five years ago

Tilda Swinton got a lot of practice doing the whole make-up thing in 'Manifesto' too. Wait, are you saying she was in disguise as Cate Blanchett in disguise? [more]
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MeFi comment - Five years ago

I thought the main point of the glowing backpack was that it was in the shape of a diamond, and it was placed on his back. I agree with the above comments about Diamondback being a much weaker character than Cottonmouth overall… [more]
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FanFare comment - Five years ago

I agree about the need to improve the site's UI around donations, I set up a monthly subscription way back during the financial crisis of 2014, and when I logged in to paypal to cancel it and start a new one just now, I realized it got suspended some… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - Five years ago

The NY Times profile was facile, sloppy, and vaguely insulting to me as a reader. I agree, it has a very glib tone that I associate more with the NYT Style section, with a lot of winking implications. I personally don't find it necessary… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I'm into a book club, I've been reading a bunch of horror fiction and there's so much dross it's hard to find the good stuff. I'm cool with a tag as a starting place. Suggestions for a good book to start with? I've been reading a lot of Laird… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over five years ago

going to the infected ship to get the transponder codes was the hero's path for Holden at the climax of a book, was that correct? Yes, in the books it's Holden who goes onto the Agatha King. He finds Nguyen but can't get the… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over five years ago

I think one of the things that bothers me most about bicycle evangelism is the assumption that everybody can ride a bike. No. This is not true, and it’s not helpful to pretend as though it is. That's fair, and I should have qualified… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

what is possibly the easiest city in the world to get around I don't entirely disagree, but I think there is a distinction between the ways that you use the system to get around when you're visiting here, or when you're going around the… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Yeah, that was really infuriating. Just apart from the basic "let's think about what might happen if somebody dies overnight in the infirmary" aspect, they have just been attacked the night before. And a zombie falling down a full… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over five years ago

I thought in one of the last shots of the new host that was being constructed in Ford's lair you could start to see the shape of a female breast being 3D printed, which would support the idea that Ford is going to make a host replacement for Theresa… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over five years ago

I don't know if I exactly read Naomi as being the bad guy here, and there is that whole sequence in the books where she and Holden break up for a while - I'm taking this "Holden is pissed about the protomolecule" bit as sort of an extended… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over five years ago

One thing that occurred to me during this episode is that surely somewhere inside the vast apparatus of the KGB (or is it the GRU now?), somebody has the means to find a group of teenage girls on their first trip to Greece and arrange it so they are… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over five years ago

Help me understand the electronics in my doorbell
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Ask MeFi post - Over five years ago

I just finished rereading Crash and watching the Cronenburg adaptation for the first time, and I'd say it's pretty faithful in spirit (much as the Linklater A Scanner Darkly was, though as a semi-obsessive PKD nerd, I have a lot of… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I liked this, though I'd be inclined to call it one of the better short stories of 2017 rather than one of the better novels of 2017. The Audible audiobook is very well-produced and I'd recommend it to those who are inclined towards audiobooks - it's… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over five years ago

I'm really enjoying this; I especially like how one of the two hosts is constantly swearing. I thought they had a really interesting take on Calvaire, although they failed to convince me in the same episode that Martyrs is a good… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I recently started listening to Switchblade Sisters, which is also a podcast a show about horror and genre movies from female perspectives, though from the few episodes I've heard so far it doesn't seem to take a super analytical / critical approach… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I'm currently banking on Mirror-Universe Culber (sans goatee, presumably) becoming the new Culber, because Stamets can change him. With the power of love. [more]
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FanFare comment - Over five years ago

This was a well-constructed video essay. He's got some other good ones on his YouTube page as well; I liked The Stormtrooper Paradox about the use of violence in the latest sequel. Get the feeling, however, that if, say Feminist Frequency, had… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Here's 567 more covers, courtesy of the Internet Archive and the sadly defunct philipkdick.com [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

My experience has been that if you have relevant experience and can do well on an interview, the formal credentials you have or don't have are not super important in getting a job in software engineering. I'm involved in interviewing people at my… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I like how in the interview he says, "it's not just going to show my twitter mentions,right? Cause that would be really annoying," and then the Intel guy says, "no, no, no. Instead, it will show you Yelp reviews whenever you're near a… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I dunno, I agree the fight choreography was really good in this but the whole thing felt very... Star Wars-y, right down to the "get the timing just right to hit the weakness in the space superweapon" and "lets all stand around… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over five years ago

I actually really liked this. I don't know that there was anything to resolve, really; they took her to a planet that was not Earth, ran out of oxygen and perished. I suppose all the "life is a dream" red herrings were a bit unnecessary,… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over five years ago

it pretty singlehandedly deals with the complaints that Discovery and Lorca didn’t fit with the principles of Starfleet - that’s because under his helm *it wasn’t* Starfleet. Interestingly, this also points to a subtle critique the show… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over five years ago

I actually had the opposite impression, I really liked the timeline-jumping stuff and the way it made me need to work a little bit to figure out what was going on. I tend to be kind of a sucker for these formalist exercises, though. Like… [more]
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FanFare comment - Over five years ago

Personally I'm of the opinion that we should let a thousand flowers bloom, I don't see that having a book thread hurts the show-only thread. [more]
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FanFare comment - Over five years ago

Damn it. . [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Apple does allow apps to access part of its facial recognition data. To me the question of whether the user can trust Apple, Google or Amazon is a bit of a red herring - I have a low to medium level of trust that these devices aren't recording and… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

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