Activity from Ghidorah

Man, it’d be nice if a studio came along, focused their attention on something notable and great, and thought something other than “I bet we can make a good shooter out of that!” I’d be stunned if someone, somewhere, after a microdosed trip… [more]
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It's entirely possible that something that's true for one of you in one place is different for the other person in the other place. Some places have thriving music scenes, and others don't. Absent a thriving music scene, you're not likely to get lots… [more]
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tavegyl, thank you for that. I’m planning to make a donation, but the yen is collecting historical lows against the dollar like something that might someday have value (unlike the yen…) so I hesitate to set up a recurring payment in dollars that… [more]
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The thing about Namor, at least the standard path that Marvel movies have been following, is that if he’s going to stay an actual bad guy, they’re going to kill him (which has been the standard from Obadiah Stane all the way to Killmonger, Thanos,… [more]
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I Wish We Didn’t Know About The Heaviest Bony Fish Ever Found (slDefector) [more]
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For those of you thinking, How much driving can there be?... The only part of Michigan I know even half as well as the town I spent 17 years growing up is is I-94, which I could drive (like so many drivers seem to) with my eyes closed… [more]
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Congregation of Moses in Kalamazoo had about 400 members in Kalamazoo, a city of roughly 90,000 people. I can assure you, growing up Jewish there meant a lot of questions that were meant as polite conversation, but were all basically “what do Jews do… [more]
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I've recently visited the island of Niijima, which is considered a part of Tokyo, even though it is an overnight trip by ferry from the city. It's a nice enough island, though there is very little there (no convenience stores, only a couple… [more]
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Secondary merch request: ringer t-shirts (with the neck band and ends of the sleeves a different color: MeFi blue collar and sleeve ends, white t shirt, metafilter logo, with a very small “professional background, classic” underneath the logo, for… [more]
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I can’t be the only who sees Josh Duhamel as a discount store version of Timothy Olyphant, can I? Just imagine what this film could have been, is all I’m saying. [more]
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Josh Duhamel was delightful in Santa Clarita Diet! I’d honestly thought Timothy Olyphant was in that. [more]
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One of them is handsome, subtly hilarious, magnetic, capable of elevating dreck to watchable, good to great, and great to sublime. , and would be worth watching even if only while he was picking spinach from his perfect teeth. The other is Duhamel… [more]
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I'd always read that Ali suffered pretty bad leg injuries due to the "fight" with Inoki. Still, I'll miss him showing up to Gakitsuka every New Year's and absolutely smacking the shit out of some of the comedians. [more]
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Funny; I hear it in Hans Gruber's voice. /removing silencer from pistol "I am going to tell two interesting anecdotes, there will not be a third." (Karl and Theo each pull out a $20 bill) [more]
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6 is camp. Everyone is over-acting, but that's because they all Understand the Assignment - it's what they (and the audience) are here for. Woah, let’s not forget, 6 is fan-servicey camp. The Klingons laying claim to… [more]
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My sister was exactly this, not just in our three person single mother household, but across all three families of my father’s brothers. She was the oldest of our generation, and just automatically expected to care for us at any family gathering, at… [more]
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Of course, aramaic, the idea of a block of lucite to capture it in is fantastic, as we all know that the lucite would chip, crack, and warp over time. It could even be its own vignette, all the things the (temporary) owner of the box would do to try… [more]
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The speed/reflex test, where contestants must exercise total restrain while letting the judge finish the following question before buzzing in to be first: There’s this story that I read, or maybe it was a movie that our teacher showed us in… [more]
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I am not really in favor of any artificial or imposed limits on Metatalk threads. In the past, mods have closed them when they have devolved, and I think they have a good handle on that, and when it’s time to close the (for the most part). An… [more]
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Help us donate our mother's things, Chicago area
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I miss Get Your War On. I think it’s indicative of something pretty awful about where things ended up that the unending performative nevar forget of all of it managed to outlast the biting sarcasm as a response to all the jingoistic flag waving panic… [more]
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The decablog Or, you could Jeopardy the whole thing, and give contestants "Metafilter: snarky comment repurposed as site mission statement" comments from random threads. Then, they have to compete to be the first person to… [more]
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Simmering octagon, that was in my mind as I wrote my post, and I can definitely how AI tools like these can certainly be used by people with disabilities in positive and important ways. And I also understand the idea that, as this artist said, that… [more]
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I’m going through some things, and the story gave me some wracking sobs at the frogs. The story is beautiful, but somehow I’d glossed over the part about using the AI, and damn if I don’t feel a little hoodwinked, like my feelings were bought cheaply… [more]
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hearthpig, to me, if they could pull of what Looper did, that’s pretty much my image of the books. Set a couple decades from now, but mostly looking like what we’ve got. Adapters to keep things running for most people, barely working fancy stuff for… [more]
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given very little to actually do. Their role is to watch as things happen around them I've really gotten this feeling from the newer books (Periphery and Agency) but also the Blue Ant books that I re-read recently. I love the world… [more]
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I think, more than anything, the books have been buoyed by the concept of the Jackpot. He’s built a great and powerful concept/touchstone, and the books and their constant referencing, but never explaining just what it was that actually happened,… [more]
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I agree with way too many people to list at this point, but I think there are some main themes worth expanding on, but a lot of it has to do with what sour cream and gnatcho mention. Gore was the nerd in high school that mocked the dumb kids who,… [more]
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Time plays tricks, I had assumed I’d read Nickled and Dimed in college, but it came out after I’d graduated, but it clearly played an important part in how I’ve come to see the world. I wish I still was that guy, fresh out of college, still… [more]
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Yeah, Everything Everywhere was one of the movies I honestly felt excitement for when I saw the trailer, like, holy shit, it’s all the things I never knew I wanted, while Green Knight was everything that I had known I wanted and waited for since I… [more]
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acb, Kagurazaka is more in central Tokyo, it’s the street going up the hill from JR Iidabashi station. As for ShimoKita… I have some bad news about the organic counterculture, the whole place is gentrification central. I have a friend whose brewery… [more]
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The White House Twitter responses are a balm to my soul. Of course, seek by how much money members of Congress got away with from PPP is utterly infuriating. Their income was under no threat, and had the program been anything other than the naked… [more]
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Nthing Kagurazaka for a surprisingly reasonable pick for Tokyo. I was scrolling down to cringe at the selection for Tokyo, expecting the hallowed out husk of Takeshita Dori or (sorry, Umami Dearest) the bright shiny manufactured cool of Cat Street… [more]
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I know it’s not really a big data point, but almost no A24 films have been released in Japan. I’ve done my best, I want to give them my money, but Green Knight?* Nope. EEAAO? Nah. Bodiesx3? Nope. None of it. And honestly, all I want is a… [more]
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Bugbread, the weird thing about most of the movies on Prime or Netflix is that, until reading this list, I hadn’t realized just how many movies A24 has made, or that many of those movies were A24. I guess the issue for me is that two movies I’ve… [more]
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The best lost iOS app was clearly NekoSushi. One of the many apps that didn’t make the jump when they went from 32 to 64 bit. More than just that entrancing and lovely song, the app was filled with little bits to explore, little spots filled with all… [more]
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The reddit screenshots made me tear up a little. Seeing that level of unmitigated joy at having that kind of weight lifted was such a strong jolt of positive... goodness? that, after so long without things like that, I had difficulty processing. I am… [more]
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Fear of debt and being unable to repay it, and graduating in 1998 with nearly $19k in loans, I had absolutely no idea what to do or how to begin repaying. Somewhere along the lines in my education, I missed out on learning how to find a job after… [more]
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I have always arrived late to everything I love.
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I've had back issues since a fall down some stairs in my first year of college. Two micro-discectomies (car accident in my senior year ripped apart the scar tissue and the same disc popped). Twenty some years later, I'm dealing with the slow… [more]
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Every year I do a writing/presentation project with my students about one-hit-wonders and flash in the pan type things. I have a sample essay about Cabbage Patch Kids to introduce the topic (after we read about Jeremy Lin and Linsanity in our… [more]
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Book - Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, maybe? That, or Schismatrix Plus Book Series - Dune? At least the first four books. I have read the last two, and, well, I'm good. TV series - Simpsons. I haven't really seen new episodes… [more]
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The Money is in All the Wrong Places
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The essay is filled, from top to bottom, with lines I wish I could have written. I know, at the very least, that it made me get my giant, untouched except to move it out of the way in the closet CD binder and flip through it until I found the disc I… [more]
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* He opened up Japan to immigration, to the point that 1/8 twenty-year-olds in Tokyo were born outside Japan And nearly all of those twenty-year-olds were working in service industry jobs for crap pay. Immigration was only loosened… [more]
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In college, due to the excitement of a herniated disc and the way I hobbled around, my best friend took to calling me Torgo. In Japan, silly love nicknames aren’t really a big thing, but I’ve got a long list of names I call Mrs. Ghidorah, and… [more]
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He responded, “Your cost of compliance is not my problem.”
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I’ve been saying this for at least fifteen years now, but when I grow up, I want to be a walrus. They are essentially living sofas. The world is their comfy spot to lie down. They swim, they eat, they sleep. What more is best in life, Walrus Conan?… [more]
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Open? The first time they turned it on, the Cubs won the World Series, Brexit happened, and Trump was elected President. Unless someone out there just got back from a time travel vacation with butterfly goo on their boot, I’m still… [more]
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Oh my god, are they seriously still pushing for this? I felt a little crazy seeing all of this popping up again. I got so tired of the garbage the first time around that whatistheline, NEOM and a bunch of other connected phrases were one… [more]
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