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Special Event: Superbowl LVI

It's The Large Game! Come discuss all these great owls, and a probably Socks Dot Com-magnitude overabundance of cryptocurrency-related advertisements.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 9:34 AM on February 13, 2022 (43 comments)

Special Event: Blaseball Season 15

It's been two weeks of downtime, and now Blaseball is back for season 15 and I have no idea what's going on but apparently they did something with snacks and also maybe there are time-fish that can rewind innings? Come on in!
posted to FanFare by cortex at 9:17 AM on April 5, 2021 (11 comments)

Special Event: NCAA basketball tournament 2021

The schedules are a little unusual this year, with all the games in central locations and being played later in the week. Schedule is subject to change if needed. Teams need 5 healthy players to be able to play in the tournament. (They don't even need coaches.) In case you've forgotten, Virginia (men) and Baylor (women) are your defending national champions.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 8:53 AM on March 18, 2021 (25 comments)

Special Event: Blaseball Season 14

Season 14 is now underway! Play ball!
posted to FanFare by cortex at 8:09 AM on March 15, 2021 (15 comments)

Special Event: Blaseball Season 13

Blaseball is quite recently back! As we head into what is obviously an extremely lucky and not incredibly dangerously cursed at all Season 13, the two biggest pieces of news of the Internet Blaseball League are (1) teams will now be getting their own official in-game blallparks with who knows WHAT implications, and (2) there are new expansion teams in the league: the Ohio Worms, the Core Mechanics, and the Atlantis Georgians. Rounding things out, the infamously Ascended and thereafter absent Baltimore Crabs are back in the league, raising the total team count from 20 to 24.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 7:22 AM on March 8, 2021 (6 comments)

Special Event: Blaseball Season 11

Season 11 of Blaseball is kicking off and, geez, where to start! The Crabs won their third championship, and thus (after immmmeadiately losing their fight with The Shelled One's Pods) have ascended out of the ILB, to be replaced by newcomer team Tokyo Lift. Also the squid ate? the Peanut, and then The Boss, who presents as an ancient Roman coin bearing a sigil of justice, ushered in the age of Peace & Prosperity. All the new blessings are Tarot Major Arcana, all the new decrees are about destroying the Forbidden Book, and none of them have any explanatory text. Here comes some Blaseball.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 7:55 AM on October 19, 2020 (38 comments)

Special Event: Blaseball Season 10

Blaseball hits double digits, as season 10 kicks off! Strange weather, five bases for most teams, and a lot of weird Peanut God hijinks coming off last season including a team of undead thralls! Come on in and try to sort it all out.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 9:17 AM on October 12, 2020 (28 comments)

Special Event: Blaseball Season 8

Another week, another year of Blaseball: season 8 opens with the entire Los Angeli Tacos pitching rotation encased in giant peanut shells, Jaylen Hotdogfingers apparently still around and pitching deadly bean balls, and a huge squid rising from the Trench looking for eggs to eat. The Hall of Flame has been revealed, and every incinerated player lurks there (in what state?!), waiting for tribute. We have literally no idea what's going to happen. Play ball!
posted to FanFare by cortex at 8:19 AM on September 21, 2020 (44 comments)

Special Event: Blaseball Season 7

New week, new season: between the resurrection of Jaylen Hotdogfingers, the postponement of the Blood Bath, and the imprisonment of league powerhouses Jessica Telephone and Nagomi Mcdaniel inside giant peanut shells, season 7 of Internet League Blaseball is starting off weird. Which is normal? Anyway, here we go.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 9:17 AM on September 14, 2020 (117 comments)

Special Event: Blaseball Season 6

Another week, another year of Blaseball: season 6 is about to kick off, with a whole new set of leagues and divisions and a lot of Sunday-election changes to players and teams. Have you chosen an idol? Come on in and let's talk blases and balls.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 7:19 AM on September 7, 2020 (67 comments)

Special Event: Blaseball Season 5

Here we are, heading into season 5 of the immaterial plane's favorite and only splort: Blaseball! Get your ablative armor on, put in your anti-Feedback earplugs, careful consume a peanut, and let's talk blases.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 8:49 AM on August 31, 2020 (67 comments)

Special Event: Blaseball Season 4

Well, here we are, most of the way through season 4 of Blaseball's regular season but with a lot of games left to go and pretty much everybody still having at least a slim shot at a playoff slot. Eat some peanuts—carefully—and let's talk blases and balls.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 7:29 AM on August 27, 2020 (39 comments)

Special Event: Iditarod 2020

The last great race on earth starts on March 7th. You can see the list of mushers here or follow along by listening to Alaska Public Media's iditapod.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 12:10 PM on March 6, 2020 (94 comments)

Special Event: 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup: Match Day 3

It's you, it's me, it's Match Day 3.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 8:32 AM on June 17, 2019 (57 comments)

Special Event: The 2019 Tony Awards

It's the 73rd Annual Tony Awards, is what!
posted to FanFare by cortex at 4:17 PM on June 9, 2019 (13 comments)

Special Event: Rio 2016 Paralympics -- catchall thread

Want to chatter about the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio? Here's your spot on FanFare for it.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 11:44 AM on September 7, 2016 (95 comments)

Special Event: Rio Olympics 2016 - closing ceremony

That's a wrap!
posted to FanFare by cortex at 4:13 PM on August 21, 2016 (65 comments)

Special Event: Rio 2016 Olympics - Track and Field

Give me your tracks, your fields, your hurdled masses yearning to etc. If it's Track-and-Fieldy, this is the place to be.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 7:57 AM on August 12, 2016 (197 comments)

Special Event: Rio 2016 Olympics - Equestrian

Hay is for "HEY HERE'S THE HORSE STUFF"!
posted to FanFare by cortex at 1:23 PM on August 7, 2016 (207 comments)

Special Event: Rio 2016 Olympics - catchall thread

There's a lot of sports events happening at the 2016 Rio Olympics. This is a thread for talking about any and all of 'em, but particularly those that don't have their own dedicated thread.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 11:23 AM on August 5, 2016 (638 comments)

Special Event: Rio 2016 Olympics - Opening Ceremony

It's the opening ceremony for the Rio 2016 Olympics!
posted to FanFare by cortex at 11:15 AM on August 5, 2016 (492 comments)

Dune Elsewhere On MeFi

Here's an experiment: Dune comes up on not-FanFare now and then for one reason or another, so why not have a thread up here in our suspensor-levitated clubhouse for collating and kibitzing about that stuff when it comes along?
posted to FanFare by cortex at 9:57 AM on March 13, 2016 (5 comments)

Book: God Emperor of Dune

Set several millennia after the events of the previous three books, God Emperor follows the latter days of the galactic reign of a transformed Leto II Atreides, son of Paul Muad'dib, and the society, and dissidence, that long rule has brought about.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 7:30 PM on March 2, 2016 (17 comments)

Book: Children of Dune

Book three of Frank Herbert's Dune series follows the young twin children of Paul Muad'dib as the navigate a changing Arrakis and a dangerous web of galactic political conspiracies.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 9:14 AM on January 26, 2016 (11 comments)

Book: Dune Messiah

The second book in Frank Herbert's Dune series, detailing the events surrounding Emperor Paul Muad'dib, his confederates, and his enemies, in the years following a galaxy-spanning Fremen jihad.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 1:18 PM on November 23, 2015 (25 comments)

Let's talk Dune reading schedule!

There's six Frank Herbert novels. I'm thinking monthly, but I'm up for tweaking that.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 2:23 PM on October 21, 2015 (22 comments)

Book: Dune

The landmark first novel in Frank Herbert's Dune canon, which introduces a far-future universe in which the fate of a pan-galactic human empire hangs on the machinations of powerful families, political machinations, and the life and leadership of a young Paul Atreides.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 2:07 PM on October 21, 2015 (150 comments)

Things To Do In First Club When You're Testing

Hey, making a Club Talk post! That's totally a thing. It's a thing that I'm doing right now.
posted to FanFare by cortex at 11:53 AM on May 22, 2015 (5 comments)

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