Activity from Ghidorah

Heading to work this morning, I saw a couple Muslim families at the train station, dressed in what I can only call finery, with one couple's little son doing that "look how dressed up I am and how grown up that makes me" strut that… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Nthing what Defector has been writing, they are definitely focusing on the fan side of things, and relentless about pointing out the bullshit reasons for the move. I moved away from my team(s). I was born in Michigan, and grew up torn between… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

What? Sharing the sacred knowledge? With those who have never had to decide which five cds to bring with you? With those who could pick and choose and preview albums before buying (without having to put on the in store headphones covered in… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Early 2000s death knell of CDs Japan was an interesting place. Most CDs cost, in stores, $30 or more, and more than a couple companies put really, really restrictive DRM on their albums. I remember falling in love a bit with a pop-punk band here… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

It’ll be fourteen years since my dad passed away this July. I went from planning to be home for a fun visit for a couple weeks to suddenly needing to be the person who asked the doctor to stop care, or however it’s supposed to be phrased. I changed… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

You start going through things from your past and you pick up objects and get lost in nostalgia and memory. And it's taking you ages to evaluate every object because of the baggage attached to it. If I were left all on my own, it would be a… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

― Frederic Brown Ignorantsavage, I'd always heard that Asimov wrote that, in a back and forth contest with Clarke to see who could write the shortest SF story. Nuts. Nice to know the actual origin, though. [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Wanting more than "a bit of rainbow window dressing"
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MeFi post - 11 months ago

THINGS I DO NOT UNDERSTAND: Wait, wait, isn’t this where the wise sage figure makes this a lesson, and tells us the only reason we hate something is that we fail to understand it? But also: USA! USA! chants. I hated them as a kid… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 11 months ago

Big “if I could transfer to high school two towns over nobody would know me and I could be really cool” feels. Not so much hate, but deep cringing revulsion for a relative of this: heroes that are so clearly idealized versions of the… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 11 months ago

Well, at least we've finally found something John Brunner wasn't eerily accurate about. See, at the end of The Sheep Look Up (which appears to be the Brunner novel we're living in this week, whereas most other weeks in the US, it seems to be Jagged… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

iPad .cbr reader for comics?
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Ask MeFi post - Last year

As far as any worries about having difficulty finding activities/lodgings as a single traveler, aside from business travel, solo travel for pleasure is not at all uncommon in Japan. For most travel accommodations beyond business hotels (pensions,… [more]
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However, it's incorrect to say the industry requires steroids now. There definitely was a steroid era, where they were widely used, but even WWE tests wrestlers* now, and has for years. You could actually see the effect of the ban on the… [more]
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Rowdy Roddy Piper, Macho Man, Andre the Giant, Dusty Rhodes, Big John Stud, Junkyard Dog, Scott Hall, Brodie Lee/Luke Harper, and now the Iron Sheik (as well as anyone I've left off the list, forgive me, it is so long). But Hogan is still alive… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

It shows what happens not when AI is out of control, but when we give money and authority to people who don't know how AI should be built or used. See, I kind of disagree with the sentiment that it’s not an AI problem. The fact that we… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

It works. It normalises these places as places you might go, moves them out of the mental category with Iran and North Korea. See also WWE's deal with Saudi Arabia, which, if you look at it, even at $50 million a year, WWE got bought… [more]
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I started to read this, then realized just how few of the shows on the list I've managed to see. I did a lot of quick scrolling, but read enough to register at least one hill to die on: the original, sudden ending of Deadwood, being forced to wrap up… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

Baby White knows herself to be named Baby, Baby White, and Babytan. She helped me to learn how to conjugate Japanese verb forms, though she does not and never did respond to any of the following: Babu, Babimasu, Babimashita, Babondeimasu, Babimasen,… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

I'd assumed that Lindelof (Insert Name Here) was better than this, and now see that the trust I had was greatly misplaced. That’s the thing, how many times do we have to have this same thought about yet another person? How many times do… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

The Japanese government/banking/business establishment is all in on cashless payments. Lots of new places popping up, restaurant wise, as “food halls” (glorified food courts) with large real estate firms owning the buildings and renting out… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

how to continue functioning in an economy when the cashless electronic system goes down one way or another One of my fond memories of the early push in Japan (fall 2020) for cashless payments was during an evening news broadcast. Break… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

One of the downsides of paying in cash is that you have to check if the cashier has given you the right change (mentally taxing, especially if you're tired or have a headache) while the cashier and the people behind you get grumpy that you're… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

This is my first Mother’s Day without mine, and I’m struggling with the prompt. I can’t remember a thing she said as I spent most of the last thirty years either doing my best to avoid talking to her, or gritting my teeth and asking my sister to pass… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - Last year

star gentle uterus, the only disconnect with Moses is that Superman isn’t a prophet, and never purports to bring a message from on high, he is, until later interpretations, a doer, one who protects, saves, rights wrongs. He’s the one who acts, whose… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

but the "mutant metaphor" does at least operate as a power fantasy This goes back to at least Superman being essentially a retelling of the Golem story, a supernatural being of unimaginable power that protects the oppressed from… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

The ending of the Shield is perfect, and the linked article in the list is pretty spot on. It’s kind of in opposition to the ending of Deadwood, in a way. In the end, all the terrible people in the Shield get, essentially, what’s coming to them, if… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

At first glance, I was puzzled by the opening of the post. Orcs have attacked and sunk... wait, Iberia? Europe?! Orcs?! Oh. Ohh. Ooooooh! [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

I heard about this article, and even the discussion of it got to me on a deep, fundamental level. It's such a perfect example of how important representation is, and the effect it can have on the world. As amazing as Connie Chung is and was, it's… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

In the article kliuless posted, the writer makes some solid points, but really buries the lede: his kid managed to snag a ball at a game on a school night. That’s the kind of thing that can, potentially, spark a lifelong interest in the game. That’s… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

I’ll have you all know that the beloved and brave Chiba Lotte Marines beat the Orix Buffaloes (which are the rare non-Marines team I feel indifference towards) 5-1. Beers were had, and I may have decided what character various players would be in an… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

The threeness of its structure—three outs, three bases, 32 innings and the same number of players on the field—as well as the way baseball dramatizes and celebrates the human impulse to depart from home and to return or at least to help others to… [more]
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In the barn, after a shared moment of thankful bliss, the two quietly busy themselves rearranging their clothes, wiping bits of straw off of each other. Running her hands through his hair, she breaks the silence and whispers, “whatever shall we call… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

There's a better, pithier tweet that I've seen a couple times in the last several months that sums it up much better, but goddamn, those dystopian science fiction novels these techbros are harvesting their ideas from were supposed to be read as a… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

I wonder how much of an impact this will actually have? I'm going to go on the old bias that older people are slower to adopt new technology (I still listen to music I own, rather than stream, for example), but that all the various satellite radio… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

Yes, Carillon. The Torment Nexus, best purchase ever forced onto me in the Terms of Service I skipped over, and am now damned to suffer from for all eternity. Void offer in Utah? No, Void OFFERING in Utah. Damn fine print. [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

I had kind of always prided myself on my memory, and my ability to remember things. I could recount things that had happened decades ago in vivid detail. Dates, events, I thought they were all right there, including things that thivaia would’ve had… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

When I heard World War Z was getting made into a movie, I had visions of a Burns-style faux documentary, with interviews of survivors dissolving into scenes of the war, but not always. Some stories would just be the actor telling their story to the… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

I just recently remembered that I hadn't checked Oglaf in a couple months, which resulted in an immediate loss of an hour as I went through everything I'd missed. Sadly, I'm at work now. Must wait til later to find out what links ye be posting. [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

Nightswimming, by REM, has an almost anchoring pull back to an exact moment for me, something I thought would end up having more meaning than it did, and in the end, meant nothing, but I hold that moment of possibility inside, and the who the what,… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - Last year

I have no useful data to answer your question, but I know I've been profoundly changed, in a largely negative way, by the pandemic. It was an incredible shock to me to see just how many people were either ignorant or just didn't care about basic… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

About Defector, I signed up day one ( I missed deadspin dearly) and I haven’t regretted it for a second. I signed up for the lowest tier because I do my commenting here, and while I do follow sports, it’s not my main or only reason for reading them,… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

I want to love this as deeply as I wanted to love the first film, but the trailer seems to say “tone down that omnipresent, dialogue drowning out, wannabe Passion soundtrack to Last Temptation, but, you know, with guitars, and bad soundtrack? Nah,… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

I’d just like consequences matter again. There’s been entirely too much fucking around the last five or six years, not nearly enough finding out. [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

This may come as a shock, but I was a weird kid, with assorted random kid hangups. As a child coming of age in the 80s, man, I was a complete prude (I imagine the 80s fucked up a lot of kids like that), to the point that hearing swearing in music was… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

It says a lot about the pinkertons that most people don’t seem to know they’re real, or still around. There were a few comments here, but elsewhere, half the comments seem to be people shocked they still exist, or shocked they weren’t just fictional… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

Others have beaten me to posting the the Earth Song from the Muppet Show (and good on them), but damn, there's something about it, that song might well be one of my earliest, most persistent memories. For years after all childhood memories of seeing… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

It’s something I might use with some of my younger students as were moving into using current events and the students needing to find information and news online. And I liked it, it was simplistic in parts, but did a good job of pointing out that… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

A little bonus that I saw being floated: to advertise on Twitter, you need to subscribe to Twitter blue. Therefore, any checkmarks blocking app also functions as an ad-blocker, which means advertising on Twitter is even more useless than before, and… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

Can I ask how your Japanese is? If it’s not up to the task, do you have someone who can help? That’s kind of big step number one. Did the emergency room give you information on a renal specialist to follow up with? In my experience, emergency… [more]
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