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Nintendo Switch: The Enfriendening

Ah! Here's mine: SW-4103-7970-5038
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 12:33 AM on February 25, 2019

Part of it, in my case, is my completionist impulse working to finish the Spirit List (I have all 1,303!), part of it is me logging into the game a couple times a day to start new expeditions.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 12:26 AM on February 27, 2019

Aaaah good luck with THAT, I still don't have almost half of them.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 4:46 PM on February 28, 2019

MST Club Christmas Video Marathon 2018!

foop, judging by the reactions to the SWHS thread a month or so back, once is enough, twice might kill some poor soul.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 11:58 AM on December 22, 2018

And Santa can be our reg-u-lar Saturday night thing
we'll decorate a barstool, gather around and sing
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 12:10 PM on December 22, 2018

Sure, just go here: https://cytu.be/r/Metafilter_MST3KClub sometime from the 23rd to 25th US Eastern Time. That's five or six hours behind yours I think, so for you the marathon actually starts at a more reasonable hour, around 5 or 6 in the morning. (I'll be up at midnight starting this thing!)

The site that provides for all this is cytu.be, which is reasonably tested and open-source. The player is HTML, so it seems no Flash is necessary, although there might be… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 12:39 PM on December 22, 2018

Absolutely sammyo! In fact, during is fine too. "Christmas" here is not meant to be exclusionary, but just a general term for the season. "Holidays" might be a more appropriate name, but I figured the usual insanity we show should indicate what we're about.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 7:25 PM on December 22, 2018

Hey, it gives me an excuse to avoid family, heh.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 7:48 PM on December 22, 2018

There's a whole day to go, including the traditional showing of the Star Wars Holiday Special on the last evening! Good luck with that, by the way.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 1:51 PM on December 24, 2018

It's 4 AM December 26 and we're still watching some minor stuff. Thanks for making our 5th annual show a success! We had a solid average of 13 people in the room, which at times got up to 17, and one time I think up to 21.

We're thinking about maybe doing two of these a year, but I'm not sure when the other one would be, or even if we should do two. It wouldn't be for some time, definitely, but it would give us a chance to do one that focused on something other than holiday material.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 1:26 AM on December 26, 2018

We had so much fun at the marathon this year that Snake's working on a smaller, unofficial kind of thing (not that the Christmas thing is "official"), in the same room, for New Year's Eve. And since midnight is kind of a rolling thing as the night continues, we can expect to celebrate the new year once an hour for quite a while!
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 11:44 PM on December 29, 2018

MST3K Turkey Day 2018

Is that so, paper_chromatographologist? That would be good because it'd take the edge off of having to watch the whole thing, and we could possibly do our own S12 marathon on actual Thanksgiving, via rabb.it.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 7:49 AM on November 15, 2018

I've got the twitch channel up in the room already! In fact, currently YouTube videos in CyTube seem to be broken, so it's this or nothing.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 6:27 PM on November 17, 2018

I just had a realization. Consider:
Official Turkey Day 2018 this year is, again, a string of classic episodes.
Unofficial Turkey Day 2018 this year, on Thanksgiving, is also a string of classic episodes.
ShoutFactory's official Twitch stream is showing Official Turkey Day, but also is showing classic MST episode all month long.
As verified by me an hour ago, we can host SF's Twitch stream in the MST Club cytube room.… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 8:02 PM on November 17, 2018

Shout Factory is showing MST stuff all month long, but the official marathon, with has Joel and Jonah hosting and Season 12 previews, starts at noon Eastern.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 7:19 AM on November 18, 2018

This is the decision so far, it's provisional at the moment for we have a couple of viability checks to do, but this is our plan:

Netflix premieres Season 12, "The Gauntlet," six episodes, on Thansgiving Day, this coming Thursday. We will use this as the basis of our own Turkey Day in our rabb.it room, at https://www.rabb.it/rodneylives, starting at Noon, Eastern.

For review: the episode are (order provisional but probably right)… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 4:41 AM on November 19, 2018

We're set for Season 12, starting at Noon Eastern time! I've already seen the first two episodes and they're both winners!
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 3:48 AM on November 22, 2018

Turkey Day 2018 Conclusion:

Other than an early (pre-movie) visit by a jerk with a Pepe avatar who was quickly nullified by turning of audio and video chat, it went well. We had to leave the room "Open," since the alternatives required rabb.it membership or invite links to enter. This meant that rabb.it actually put our show on their open rooms page, and we did get a few outside visitors, but other than that HateFrog at the start they were well-behaved, and a… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 4:26 AM on November 23, 2018

Well we go for *48* hours, and we have a huge variety of things, not just MST!
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 9:20 PM on November 23, 2018

MetaFilter revenue update: holy cow, y'all!

I've wanted to contribute both times, but haven't had the money to spare yet. But someday!
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 7:19 PM on July 2, 2018

What's needed in that?
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 9:12 PM on July 2, 2018

Bringing back gopher was just the start.

this.snake.it.vibrates?
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 12:07 PM on April 1, 2018

Fanfare Errors / IMDB API Removed

Since we're talking about Fanfare bugs, could I mention an inconsistency I discovered a few days ago? In brief: the order of the episodes, going by the Previous/Next links, sometimes behaves as if the list is ordered by episode order, and sometimes as if it goes by posting order.

Go to the Fanfare page for the first Steven Universe episode. Notice at the bottom it has a link to the next episode, but not the previous episode.

The problem is,… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 12:23 AM on December 31, 2017

Aaaah that explains things cortex. Because I can personally vouch, the Steven Universe threads are very inconsistently tagged, because me. Steven Universe is a show with lots of spoilers, that are constandly revealing previous episodes in new light, so much so that it's hard to be consistent about them. ("Hey did you know that Garnet is a [notary]?! Or that Amethyst [has a bottle cap collection]?!! Or [Anything about Pearl [SERIOUSLY anything about… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 2:21 PM on January 1, 2018

MST Club Video Marathon 2017: Christmas In SPAAAACE

Heh, it's no big secret! I write sometimes about roguelike games. The object you're trying to obtain to escape with, in Rogue, Hack and Nethack, to win is called the Amulet of Yendor. "Rodney" is "Yendor" spelled backwards, a little joke by the originators of Rogue; Glenn Wichmann thought it was a funny name. Also, Rodney is the default player name in Rogue.

So, I view "Rodney Lives" as kind of a declaration about not… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 1:57 PM on December 23, 2017

We're putting things together in the room right now, but mostly we're just showing some yule logs if people want some background right now. (1:18 AM ET Dec 24)
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 10:18 PM on December 23, 2017

And we're underway! As always, we're here if you want something to watch, or need to unwind wth friends, or anything. Here's hoping for a nice and stress-free holidays for everyone.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 3:44 AM on December 24, 2017

8 hours left, and most of the remainder is riffing of one thing or another. Come by if you can, and want to!
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 12:50 PM on December 25, 2017

Thanks again for making it to the show, everyone! Although we had much less thread commentary this year, it still ended up being about the same in terns of attendance, actually slightly better, with 17 being the high-water mark regarding concurrency, but with 13+ being most common at popular times. As usual, once it started, there tended to be a couple of lurkers in at all times,, who I presume used the marathon as background, which of course is fine by us.

I think the… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 6:24 AM on December 26, 2017

Well just to remind everyone this Thursday MST Club is taking off (and I mean it this time). If foop, valkane and/or Snake want to do something there they're welcome to it, but I won't be showing 908 THE TOUCH OF SATAN until next week.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 4:12 AM on December 27, 2017

Turkey Day 2017 with MST Club

We'll be glad to have you Dysk!
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 5:43 PM on November 22, 2017

It just occurred to me -- this is the fifth annual Neo Turkey Day!
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 7:29 PM on November 22, 2017

Awe. Some!
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 7:39 PM on November 22, 2017

I hope we get news of Season 12 this time out! There was a list of the most critically-acclaimed Netflix original shows a few days ago. The most critically-acclaimed show of them all was the new season of MST3K, with a critical approval rate of 100%.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 7:46 PM on November 22, 2017

Just reminding everyone we, of course, do "no guilt" marathons. No need to excuse yourself for showing up late or dropping out early, 'cause half of us will be doing the same. For example, around 2 I'll probably have to leave for a while for family dinner, which I have to drive down the road for.

BTW, I'll put some things in before the time for the official Turkey Day thing if you want to show up between now and the main event.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 4:53 AM on November 23, 2017

Thanks for making it out everyone! We topped out at 23 simultaneous viewers I think. But even towards the end we were at a consistent 14 minimum.

Next up on MST Club's itenerary is 904 WEREWOLF, with the classic episode 308 TIME OF THE APES, coming this Thursday starting at 7 PM Eastern/4 PM Pacific.

We also, of course, have our upcoming fourth-annual Christmas marathon, which has MST and Christmas specials mixed in.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 5:38 PM on November 24, 2017

Metatalktail Hour: TOTAL ECLIPSE

Word in from Brunswick, GA: overcast skies. 𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐇
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 10:39 AM on August 21, 2017

MeFites on Mastodon?

Sure, I'll jump in. I'm rodneylives at mastodon.cloud.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 6:21 PM on April 26, 2017

The Shadow of Blueberg: A Faves & Flags adventure

I know Tempest of Dog!

I go to Ye Olde General Shoppe and purchase yon can of Alpo.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 5:07 PM on April 1, 2017

(And props on the stat names. I want to use those in an actual game!)
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 5:08 PM on April 1, 2017

I'm sorry I didn't play (other than one comment earlier), rest assured that the thing I was working on instead will be something all of you should really like when it's done in a few months.

This also made me nostalgic for the MeFi Call of Cthulhu adventure we had a few years ago. Sigh.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 10:03 PM on April 1, 2017

Visualizing the impact of US politics megaposts on the blue

I want to make more posts, but I've been feeling a lot of posting inertia lately. There's several good topics I could do, including one I'm really trying to make an effort at, but... I dunno. Just kind of hard to work up the energy?
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 8:26 PM on March 29, 2017

State of MetaFilter, 2017

I did not know about humans.txt files! Thanks for that info Lanark.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 9:02 AM on March 23, 2017

Google has a humans.txt too, I just discovered, but it's short and uselessly non-specific and says they hire lots of folks.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 9:12 AM on March 23, 2017

2016 MST3K Club No-Stress Christmas Video Marathon

Ah, we showed that one last year! I think it's online, will look for it.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 1:37 PM on December 21, 2016

We're not having our usual MST3K showing tonight because of the impending marathon, but we'll offer a random sample of the things we've got saved up for anyone who shows up anyway.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 4:36 PM on December 22, 2016

Here is our provisional schedule!
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 11:34 PM on December 22, 2016

And the playlists are all ready! 8 playlists, one for about every six hours of show. I kept to the schedule pretty well, but if you want to be absolutely sure you catch the beginning of something you're really looking forward to, you might want to drop in a few minutes early.

There are a few surprises scattered throughout as well, including a couple of things long-time MeFites will certainly remember....
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 6:01 PM on December 23, 2016

cytube tries to use an HTML5 player for as much media as possible these days. I'm at a loss for how to solve that issue. valkane also reported that some videos played with weird audio (those that, before I encoded them into mp4s, were once flvs), but that doesn't seem to be consistent between people.

I'm not sure what I can offer regarding these problems. cytu.be isn't perfect, but it is better than our old solution, at least, in terms of reliability.
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 7:20 AM on December 26, 2016

I couldn't say, but it's not hugely bad. It's mostly just another weird 80s action-fantasy, but it also has little to do with the games other than some namechecks.

Notes from the whole affair:


Highest concurrent population was 15 viewers. Highs tended to happen around 6-10 PM, lows seemed to be in the early mornings.
The Christmas specials seemed to be slightly less popular than the riffing this year.… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 11:53 AM on December 26, 2016