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Amazing how Lefties have developed such a taste for war. I'm the fourth fifth person chiming in on this clueless statement now. But wow. You don't even have your political axis right. Left/right is not inherently pro/anti war… [more]
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Well queensissy you're in for a treat, because tomosteen has a whole Youtube channel of wonderful videos like that one. I found out about them through clavdivs's recent FPP! [more]
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I think a lot of the disdain BASIC has gotten over time is undeserved, the result of a cadre of Respected Developers trying to maintain their profession as a kind of mysterious priesthood. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with BASIC. Sure,… [more]
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When people talk about BASIC lacking power, that's more the implementation than anything else. BASIC can be a compiled language just like anything else is. Its time may be past, but Python has picked up its torch admirably. Microsoft's first… [more]
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What did the Muppets ever do to justify their sainted name being used to describe right-wing shills and trolls? [more]
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There are many guffaws spurred by the effects in this, but the one that got me the most, over and over again, was how lousy and half-assed the lighting of the miniatures is. We've seen this movie at MST Club, and the part I found funniest… [more]
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Yeah, subscriptions is a better word. My using "donations" was largely misspeaking (mistyping). An error. [more]
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Looking forward to future posts wherein MeFites will post workaround links to his Patreon videos and avoid paying him! That's how it works around here, isn't it? I don't think so, no. I'm not one to speak for everyone, but I think you've… [more]
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If this guy had spent half the effort he put into robberies and living in secret rooms into working a job and renting an apartment, he could have had the regular life he seemed to crave. Maybe? I myself have never had what I'd call a real… [more]
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Is today Kermit day? I'm fine with it being Kermit day! [more]
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MST Club is out weekly thing we do where we watch riffing, related movies and other things. I happens every Thursday at 7 PM US Eastern time, with the main event happening at 9 PM, at https://cytu.be/r/metafilter_mst3kclub. [more]
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Special Event: The Mads: She Shoulda Said 'No'!
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I feel like we should make a list of all of these indie media projects that are funded through donations. I can name off the top of my head this one, of course, and: 404 Media, Defector, Aftermath and Second Wind. [more]
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Interest or not, you can still do it! Sometimes posting to Fanfare helps create the interest. Even if it doesn't, Fanfare posts don't close, so people might post their comments years later. [more]
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The vacuum it leaves is going to be hard to fill. Time until someone mentions Kagi: three... two... one... wait, damn, I was the one who mentioned it! I think what might possibly help is self-hosted search? People have been doing… [more]
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emptythought, the one bright point about all of this is that, for a long while, Google's benevolent stewardship made it seem like it might be possible to have a corporation that did mostly good things. Google made a strong case that techno-utopianism… [more]
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I am going to take this opportunity to express a minor pet peeve of mine, the thoughtless hyperbole that is saying "no one" does, or is, something, when the fact is that relatively few people do/are it. In this case "no… [more]
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It's surprising to me to hear that it was Steven Spielberg who pushed to make Freakazoid more zany. That was the time of the ascendance of Batman: The Animated Series, where grim serious superheroes were the rage. A more realistic take on Freakazoid… [more]
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May I present the horror of Make Chocolate From Marbles. [more]
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That's okay miss-lapin, the movie is a real challenge to get through. It's exactly like they heard it was possible now to film in front of green screens and use digital sets, so they did that, but they only had the least skilled people… [more]
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I discovered that creator tomosteen has many more stop-motion videos on his Youtube channel that don't involve Mr Bone, but that do have cooking with Lego, and dice. They're all pretty great! [more]
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More D&D Info Cartoons
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The six directions: North, South, East, West, Anth and Kenth
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It kind of does. SEO sites are intentionally as difficult as possible for computers to distinguish from real sites. This is a response to my comment above about self-hosted search, so I'll reply to it. At the relatively small scale of… [more]
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I think I just discovered the plot of Hypnospace Outlaw 2! [more]
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST
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It is not possible for Ukraine to beat Russia in an industrial war of attrition. Who knows? Russia only has a limited number of fighting men, and if Ukrainians outkill Russians by the factors we've seen for most of the war, it could well… [more]
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10 Years of Jeremy Parish's Works Projects
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"so many tech demos end up hiding an ugly truth deep down"
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If we're bringing up other series, of course there's Chrontendo and its related side projects, which has been going for a good while now, and continues its quest to cover every NES and Famicom release. [more]
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Ah, thanks for posting this! I was going to myself, but decided to wait until I had watched the whole thing, and I still have a third of it to go. It is long, so here's the basics: What are often called "invisible walls" by players of… [more]
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Disclaimer: I'm finishing up a book that the company he works for, Limited Run Games, hopes to put out before long, and have communicated with him from time to time. I'm not an employee of Limited Run though, and he doesn't know I'm doing this. I… [more]
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It does, although the delivery costs for such a tiny pizza morsel seem like they must be a problem. Are those coins a suitable tip for a cat figurine? Is its small size indicative that its cost of living is also smaller? If I tipped paper money would… [more]
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The way Mr Bone walks, moving his arms back and forth with a stepping noise, reminds me of how Horse walks in the A Town Called Panic animations. And the whole aesthetic reminds me of the clever animations made by PES. [more]
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This isn't Mr Bone's only food-production venture. He's in hamburgers and popcorn, too! [more]
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As time approaches infinity grodiness is maximized. [more]
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It's infuriating how these business-serving rumors get started. Even before COVID, Wal-Mart switched away from being 24-hours, which is their right (even if it's hugely inconvenient for us nocturnal people), but a friend told me he heard it was… [more]
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The DM is just using the deluxe random treasure table. [more]
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Student Loan Debt
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COOOOKIIIEEEES! (a-rum-rum! a-rum-rum-rum-rum!)
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So long as you tip well. I do late night Doordash sometimes, and you wouldn't believe the distances I've been asked to drive for like three dollars, and we still must buy our own fast. To make a go of this... well, it's not easy in any case,… [more]
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"Is Cookie Monster still on Sesame Street? Me have rent controlled apartment, me not going anywhere!" [more]
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It has been brought to my attention that the Waiter Grover video goes to a timestamp a way in. I didn't mean to do that in this case. Mods, is it possible to remove the ampersand and the text after it in that link URL? [more]
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which left mostly X and its smaller rival Bluesky. Funny, I first heard about it on Mastodon. [more]
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You could ask for it to be fixed, but there's a certain delight to spelling it "grilled cheeze," like it was meant to be. [more]
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I so miss the old Scientific American, especially the Mathematical/Computer Recreations columns. Those opened my eyes. [more]
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Horrifoeing [more]
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To cardcaptor, I am not aware of online collections, but I own the print compilation they put out of Gardner's work called The Colossal Book of Mathematics, which is pretty darn awesome. We really need more writing like that, in this era. [more]
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Oh, have some more! Unlimited Spell Slots (hombrew) - Irresistable Dance - Fabricate - Frightened Condition - Lies About Starting A Group - Proficiency Dice - Telegraphed Legendary Attacks (homebrew) - Grease - Jump - Critical Fails - Holding Stuff -… [more]
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The Manwich Horror has already alluded to Japanese gaming giant Konami's focus on pachinko. There are Gradius, Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid and Castlevania games that only exist in pachinko form. To go a little off topic though, it turns out that… [more]
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