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5 votes
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Iguanas reproducing on Galapagos island century after disappearing
7 votes -
US SEC charges eleven people in alleged $300 million crypto Ponzi scheme
10 votes -
Polio found in New York wastewater as state urges vaccinations
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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - July 28
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
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Gadget graveyard: We found the hidden death dates on popular devices
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
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Should eighteen-year-olds be able to buy semiautomatic rifles? In Georgia, two young men who want to be the ‘good guys with guns’ try to decide.
9 votes -
The Clear-Site-Data HTTP header
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Please bring back voice actors, stop celebrity voices
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What’s something that deserves more appreciation?
Something = literally anything. No restrictions; people/groups included. If you feel it deserves more appreciation, whatever it is, then it counts. Also, be sure to tell us why you think that.
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The free market responds to America’s school shootings
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The trans swimmer who won too much
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Till | Official trailer
6 votes -
Andor | Official trailer
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Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (August 2022)
This is a monthly thread for those who need it. Vent, share your experiences, ask for advice, talk about how you are doing. Let's make this a compassionate space for all who may need one.
11 votes -
A geyser that shoots sparkling mineral water
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We can’t save the planet and make ExxonMobil happy
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The mental health treatment obstacle course
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On being an asshole, on being a woman: In praise of female pedants
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What did you do this week (and weekend)?
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!
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Devotion | Official trailer
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Python data visualisation
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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
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Nichelle Nichols, dies aged 89
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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of August 1
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!
6 votes -
This grandma’s dying wish was a giant dick on her grave
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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Are great games being ignored? An investigation
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A Texas blueprint for converting the ‘abortion-minded’: Lattes and a view
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
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Google’s new Play Store rules target annoying ads and copycat crypto apps
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The surprising reason that there are so many Thai restaurants in America (2018)
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Руся - Заручена (1989)
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What's a game that you wish you could play again for the first time? Why?
Going off of my recent Outer Wilds thread (spoiler warning on that topic), what are some games that you wish you could play again for the first time? What about the game makes you feel that way?...
Going off of my recent Outer Wilds thread (spoiler warning on that topic), what are some games that you wish you could play again for the first time? What about the game makes you feel that way?
Feel free to talk about spoilers, but please flag them! The easiest way is to drop them in a details block. Markup below in case anyone needs to copy/paste:
<details> <summary>Spoilers</summary> Spoilers go here! </details>
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Statues of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman unveiled in Albuquerque
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Leopoldo López on activism under autocratic regimes
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Kayaking the sickest urban river in Australia
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Two chefs try to make a meal out of hot dogs | Mystery Menu
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Google introduces Carbon, an experimental replacement for C++
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Can you beat Sonic 2 & Knuckles without pressing right or left? | VG Myths
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 25
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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What are your NEW recommendations?
Every time someone brings up a topic about recommendations to get normies into anime, they tend to bring up the same old familiar ones like Cowboy Bebop or FLCL or maybe even a Gundam or two....
Every time someone brings up a topic about recommendations to get normies into anime, they tend to bring up the same old familiar ones like Cowboy Bebop or FLCL or maybe even a Gundam or two. There's always a recommendation of one of the current anime du jour, and the only thing that comes close to being a 'modern classic' recommendation is FMA: Brotherhood.
While I don't have a problem with recommending old anime categorically (Cowboy Bebop won't stop being Cowboy Bebop even if we keep trying to reinvent that wheel), a lot of it is not super accessible, much of it looks very different from modern anime, and the last few years have seen some really amazing productions in both film and TV anime, to the point where a lot of the older stuff just feels really outdated and simple.
With that being said, what are your new recommendations for people who want an introduction to anime?
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Steam, Epic, PayPal and Battlenet have been banned in Indonesia
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Orbital lifetime of satellites in low Earth orbit
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What are some of your favorite melodramas?
From Wikipedia A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Melodramas...
From Wikipedia
A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Melodramas typically concentrate on dialogue that is often bombastic or excessively sentimental, rather than action. Characters are often flat, and written to fulfill stereotypes.
Contemporarily, we use the word melodrama for narrative works that go to great lengths to induce certain kinds of emotion at all costs, to detriment of the internal cohesion of both plot and characterization, often in a manner that some consider cheesy, corny, or excessive. All soap operas are melodramas, as are many movies and TV shows. Some melodramas are cheap and fail to achieve their effects, while others can be more rich and even sophisticated. In a way, many mainstream stories are, to some extent, melodramas, even when there are other, more salient genres. There's melodrama in action, crime, and science fiction.
Here are some examples of what I consider more or less contemporary melodramas:
- The Young and the Restless
- Grey's Anatomy
- The Color Purple
- Downton Abbey
- Dawson's Creek
- Avatar
- Gone with the Wind
And here are some stories that are not melodrama, but contain a whole lot of it:
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Please spoil Outer Wilds for me
Note: Outer Wilds, not The Outer Worlds. If you do not want the game spoiled for you, please do not read any further into this topic. I have given the game two honest tries, and I've stopped each...
Note: Outer Wilds, not The Outer Worlds.
If you do not want the game spoiled for you, please do not read any further into this topic.
I have given the game two honest tries, and I've stopped each time. I like what the game is offering, but I don't like playing it.
What I'm wanting isn't just a traditional "spoiler" -- I can look up the plot and lore and details and such -- I'm more wanting to know about the full experience of playing the game. People talk about this game with the same awe and cultishness with which people talk about The Witness (which I loved). I saw a few glimpses of something that in my time in the game (e.g. the Quantum Tower puzzle). I've read so many comments warning me to not learn about the game and people wishing that they could play it again for the first time, that I know there's definitely something more here.
Unfortunately, I'm not the player to discover that more.
Thus, I'm hoping someone here can take me on their journey through the Outer Wilds instead. Tell me about what the game was like for you, how it unfolds, and, most importantly, what is it that makes people talk about the game the way that they do.
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Will Smith: It’s been a minute…
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Limit Theory (a cancelled space sim with procedural generation) releases its source code under a open source license
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Can you distinguish Daniel Dennett from a computer?
9 votes