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    6. What did you do this week?

      ~talk Ask (survey)
      As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...

      As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!

      8 votes

    12. If I wanted to make a game like Wordle, where would I start?

      ~comp Ask (recommendations)
      A lot of game engines are geared towards making full-fat games with 3D graphics and animations and sound effects and all that jazz. What if, instead, I want to make something dead simple,...

      A lot of game engines are geared towards making full-fat games with 3D graphics and animations and sound effects and all that jazz. What if, instead, I want to make something dead simple, graphics-less, and minimalistic -- like Wordle? What's the best way to get to something like that (almost more of a digital toy than a full-fledged game)?

      It doesn't have to be web-based at all (though it can be if that's easier? I'm genuinely not sure). My preference would be for open-source engines/tools, but that's not a necessity.

      12 votes

    15. Tildes' 2022 Backlog Burner: Week 3 Discussion Thread

      ~games Text 389 words
      Use this thread to post about the games that you play! Also, a quick note about thread etiquette: It is fine to make multiple top-level posts throughout the week if you play multiple games. It is...

      Use this thread to post about the games that you play!

      Also, a quick note about thread etiquette: It is fine to make multiple top-level posts throughout the week if you play multiple games. It is also fine to respond to yourself with updates if you're continuing a single game and want to talk more about it as you go!

      Previous threads:

      Announcement
      Beginning
      Week 1
      Week 2

      What is this?

      Your "backlog" is all those games you've been meaning to play or get around to, but never have yet! This event is an attempt to get us to collectively dig into that treasure trove of experiences!

      How do I participate?

      Choose a game (or several) from your backlog and play it/them. Then tell us about your experiences in the discussion thread for the week! If you're not sure what you might write, take a look at a previous backlog post or our previous Backlog Burner event in 2020 to get an idea. Also if you want to keep track of statistics across the whole event or anything else like that, go for it!

      Do I need to finish the games I play?

      Nope! Not at all. There aren't really any requirements for the event so much as this is an incentive to get us to play games we've been avoiding starting up, for whatever reason. Play as much or as little as you like of a given game. Try out dozens for ten minutes each or dive into one for 40 hours. There's no wrong way to participate!

      What's the timeline?

      I will post an update thread weekly, each Tuesday, for the four weeks of February. At the end of the month, I think it would be neat to tally how many collective games we all removed from our backlogs, as well as what the best finds were from our collective digging into our libraries. I expect we'll turn up some good hidden gems, as well as interesting insights.

      Do I need to sign up?

      You don't have to do anything to officially join or participate in the event other than post in these threads! Participate in whatever way works for you. Also, because this is ongoing, it is okay to make more than one top-level post if you're updating the thread with new information.

      8 votes

    22. Fitness Weekly Discussion

      ~health Ask (survey)
      What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...

      What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?

      8 votes

    26. My final Oscar predictions for the 94th Academy Awards

      ~movies Text 645 words
      Okay, I’ve been bombarding all of you with article after article of what other award shows have been nominating and awarding. Here are the nominations for what I had in November. It’s interesting...

      Okay, I’ve been bombarding all of you with article after article of what other award shows have been nominating and awarding.

      Here are the nominations for what I had in November. It’s interesting to see how much has changed, sadly it seems like The Last Duel is going to end up with zero awards.

      Anyways, if you have an Oscar pool going what I’m about to give you would probably put you at the top if your friends don’t follow awards. I did place 30 out of 2200 on Goldderby for my BAFTA nomination predictions so there’s that.

      Here’s what I have, in order of what is most likely to win as of right now:

      Best Picture

      1. The Power of the Dog
      2. Belfast
      3. Licorice Pizza
      4. Dune
      5. Don’t Look Up
      6. West Side Story
      7. King Richard
      8. CODA
      9. tick, tick... BOOM!
      10. Being the Ricardos

      Alternative choice: House of Gucci

      Best Director

      1. Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog
      2. Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza
      3. Denis Villeneuve - Dune
      4. Kenneth Branagh - Belfast
      5. Steven Spielberg - West Side Story

      Alternative choice: Adam McKay - Don’t Look Up

      Best Lead Actor

      1. Will Smith - King Richard
      2. Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog
      3. Andrew Garfield - tick, tick... BOOM!
      4. Denzel Washington - The Tragedy of Macbeth
      5. Leonardo DiCaprio - Don’t Look Up

      Alternative choice: Javier Bardem - Being the Ricardos

      Best Lead Actress

      1. Lady Gaga - House of Gucci
      2. Alana Haim - Licorice Pizza
      3. Nicole Kidman - Being the Ricardos
      4. Jessica Chastain - The Eyes of Tammy Faye
      5. Olivia Colman - The Lost Daughter

      Alternative choice: Rachel Zegler - West Side Story

      Best Supporting Actor

      1. Kodi Smit-Mcphee - The Power of the Dog
      2. Ciaran Hinds - Belfast
      3. Troy Kotsure - CODA
      4. Bradley Cooper - Licorice Pizza
      5. Jared Leto - House of Gucci

      Alternative choice: Jamie Dornan - Belfast

      Best Supporting Actress

      1. Ariana DeBose - West Side Story
      2. Aunjuane Ellis - King Richard
      3. Caitriona Balfe - Belfast
      4. Kirsten Dunst - The Power of the Dog
      5. Cate Blanchett - Don’t Look Up

      Note: I’m actually taking a big risk in predicting Blanchett, Ruth Negga - Passing seems to be the most obvious fifth choice.

      Best Original Screenplay

      1. Licorice Pizza
      2. Belfast
      3. Don’t Look Up
      4. King Richard
      5. Being the Ricardos

      Best Adapted Screenplay

      1. The Power of the Dog
      2. CODA
      3. Dune
      4. The Lost Daughter
      5. West Side Story

      Alternative choice: tick, tick... BOOM!

      Best Cinematography

      1. Dune
      2. The Tragedy of Macbeth
      3. The Power of the Dog
      4. West Side Story
      5. Belfast

      Alternative choice: Nightmare Alley

      Best Film Editing

      1. Dune
      2. Belfast
      3. Licorice Pizza
      4. The Power of the Dog
      5. West Side Story

      Alternative choice: Don’t Look Up

      Best Costume Design

      1. Cruella
      2. Dune
      3. West Side Story
      4. House of Gucci
      5. Nightmare Alley

      Alt: Cyrano

      Best Hair and Makeup

      1. House of Gucci
      2. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
      3. Dune
      4. Cruella
      5. Coming 2 America

      Alt: Cyrano

      Best Production Design

      1. Dune
      2. West Side Story
      3. The Tragedy of Macbeth
      4. Nightmare Alley
      5. The French Dispatch

      Alt: Licorice Pizza

      Best Original Score

      1. Dune
      2. The Power of the Dog
      3. Don’t Look Up
      4. The French Dispatch
      5. Encanto

      Alt: Being the Ricardos

      Best Original Song

      1. No Time To Die from No Time To Die
      2. Dos Oruguitas from Encanto
      3. Just Look Up from Don’t Look Up
      4. Be Alive from King Richard
      5. Down to Joy from Belfast

      Alt: Guns Go Bang from The Harder They Fall

      Best Sound

      1. Dune
      2. West Side Story
      3. No Time To Die
      4. The Power of the Dog
      5. Spider-Man: No Way Home

      Alt: A Quiet Place Part II

      Best Visual Effects

      1. Dune
      2. Spider-Man: No Way Home
      3. No Time To Die
      4. Godzilla vs Kong
      5. The Matrix: Resurrections

      Alt: Shang-Chi and the legend of the Ten Rings.

      Best Animated Feature

      1. Encanto
      2. Flee
      3. Luca
      4. The Mitchell’s vs the Machines
      5. Raya and the Last Dragon

      Alt: Belle

      Best Documentary Feature

      1. Summer of Soul
      2. Flee
      3. The Rescue
      4. Procession
      5. Ascension

      Best International Feature

      1. Drive My Car
      2. The Hand of God
      3. Flee
      4. A Hero
      5. The Worst Person in the World

      And those are all the categories. Oscar nominations will be announced on the 8th and of course I will be posting them.

      9 votes

    31. What did you do this weekend?

      ~talk Ask (survey)
      As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...

      As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!

      6 votes

    32. Star Wars: Project 4K80 (Empire) Beta is out!

      ~movies Text 157 words
      The last part of the original trilogy has been completed! For those unaware, the 4K## project from Team Negative 1 is a full remastering of the original trilogy from 35mm negatives. Around...

      The last part of the original trilogy has been completed! For those unaware, the 4K## project from Team Negative 1 is a full remastering of the original trilogy from 35mm negatives. Around September of 2018 4K77 (A New Hope) was released. Under a year later, 4K83 (Return of the Jedi) was released.

      A few years later and the first release of 4K80 (The Empire Strikes Back) is out! Its pretty grainy and does need some work, but this is definitely a project worth keeping an eye on if you're into the OT.

      If you want a copy, you can join the forum and use Resilio Sync to get them. 77 and 83 are available on most file sharing platforms, too.

      Once 4K80 is a few versions deep, it'll completely unseat the Despecialized version as the purest OT experience, at least in my opinion :)

      18 votes

    39. Where can I buy a kit internal combustion engine?

      ~hobbies Ask (advice)
      Title. I am interested in buying a kit model engine to assemble and run. I am fine with anything from a single cylinder to a V8. It has to be a kit. It needs to run on a fuel (I want an actual,...

      Title. I am interested in buying a kit model engine to assemble and run.

      • I am fine with anything from a single cylinder to a V8.
      • It has to be a kit.
      • It needs to run on a fuel (I want an actual, running engine)
      • It should not be made in China (would strongly prefer US/Europe/Japan).

      Are there any particular companies or stores I should look at?

      7 votes

    40. What creative projects have you been working on?

      ~creative Ask (survey)
      This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on. Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just...

      This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.

      Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.

      If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.

      6 votes

    44. TV Tuesdays Free Talk

      ~tv Ask (survey)
      Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...

      Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.

      Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.

      7 votes

    48. Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of February 14

      ~health Ask (survey)
      This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...

      This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!

      10 votes

    50. What have you been listening to this week?

      ~music Ask (survey)
      What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...

      What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)

      Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.

      You can make a chart if you use last.fm:

      http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/

      Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.

      6 votes