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32 votes
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Who else is as excited as I am for the Backrooms movie tomorrow?
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
I'm aware that it'll be really hard to thread this needle and make this movie work, but I'm excited to see the attempt. The reviews I've read have only made me more interested.
Amy Nicholson for Los Angeles Times described the film as a feature expansion of Kane Parsons' viral internet project, praising its unsettling visual concept but thought it less a conventional horror film and more a surreal, dreamlike experience of a moving Salvador Dalí painting.
Another mentions sparse dialogue, which I'm happy to hear.
I've wanted this movie since long before it was announced. I have a few hopes, no expectations, but I've deeply enjoyed Parsons' other work.
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Claude Lemieux, 60, dies by suicide
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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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Jank now has its own custom intermediate representation
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Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like ecology, writing and moderation. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was out of...
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The Coffee Ride shop visit: do good (with coffee)
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World number-one Magnus Carlsen beat World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in the only classical win of round four of Norway Chess 2026
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Nhato - Magic (2014)
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Invite for friends
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After my dad died, we found the love letters
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
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?
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Norway defeated Latvia to advance to the semi-finals of the 2026 IIHF World Championship – will be their first ever semis appearance
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If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you
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Can’t generate invite codes
Dear Tildes team, I’ve been on here for a year now, I think, and after praising Tildes to a friend for a long time, he recently asked me for an invite code. I had never invited anyone before, but...
Dear Tildes team,
I’ve been on here for a year now, I think, and after praising Tildes to a friend for a long time, he recently asked me for an invite code.
I had never invited anyone before, but when I went to the invite page, it read: “You aren't able to generate more invite links right now.”
Any idea what the issue might be?
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How the datacenter boom is exacerbating Chile’s mega-drought
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Babylon 5 S01E13: "Signs and Portents" - Episode Discussion
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Motorola's Smart Feed injected affiliate links into their device's Amazon app, Motorola corrects "unintended" behavior
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Slate Auto to offer modular electric vehicle pickup for $20k with EV Tax Credit
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007 First Light reviews – Top Critic Average: 88
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India battles power cuts as heatwave boosts electricity demand to record
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Language models are weird for the same reason human cultures are weird
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Trelldom – By The Word (2026)
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The silent critic
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Presenting a new (old) way to solve the "album problem" when streaming music
The "album problem" is, of course, the fact that our music listening habits have changed over the past decade and the value of a well-thought-out album is not nearly what it once was. This is in...
The "album problem" is, of course, the fact that our music listening habits have changed over the past decade and the value of a well-thought-out album is not nearly what it once was. This is in large part due to the fact that it's easy for people to create playlists with a billion different songs to choose from, recommendation algorithms, "Discovery Weekly" playlists, and whatever else the streaming services can throw at us.
I may not speak for all of us, but I've personally not been able to fully consume a new album for quite a while now, finding that I gravitate toward a few songs/singles that get dumped into a separate playlist. I don't like this and I miss the days that I would discover deep cuts in the back of an album that I listened to ad nauseum.
I present to you the "Six Disc Changer" playlist. The rules are simple:
- Create a new playlist in Spotify, Tidal, or your chosen platform. Call it "Six Disc Changer"
- Add six FULL albums to the playlist
- Force yourself to listen to the playlist -- maybe not exclusively -- but a fair amount. Imagine you're driving around in your 2002 Honda Civic and the only music available to you is what you've got in your CD changer.
- Any time you want to add a new album, you must remove an old album. You should only have six CDs loaded up at any time.
If you want to take the concept a few steps further...
- Any time you remove a CD, add it to a separate playlist called "CD Catalogue".
- Any time you want to add a new CD to the catalogue, you must "purchase" it with an "allowance" of your choosing. I'm going with 1 new album per week. You can swap out albums from your Catalogue playlist freely, but new albums must be "purchased." This will simulate scarcity, which was a large part of what drove us to listen to albums over and over again.
But... why?
My goal is to get back to listening to full albums and truly taking them in. The best way I can think of to do that is to simulate the way things used to be. By using a streaming service instead of, say, just going back to CDs or records, you get the benefits of convenience, Last.fm, easy Bluetooth, etc.
As for what's in my CD changer right now, I've got:
- Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
- The Antlers - Need Nothing
- Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
- Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
- George Harrison - Living in the Material World
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Is it dumb? Probably. It's been fun so far and my music listening experience has been much more focused.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 | Reveal trailer
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One year of Roto, the compiled scripting language for Rust
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Why Gentoo?
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Lionsgate joins Movies Anywhere
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Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices by up to $300
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Does anyone use self-hosted recipe server/software like Mealie?
Hello, I'm into self-hosting and when my daughter (elementary school) started writing her own recipe book, I kinda went "She is young, she shouldn't be doing this in paper form" and I started...
Hello,
I'm into self-hosting and when my daughter (elementary school) started writing her own recipe book, I kinda went "She is young, she shouldn't be doing this in paper form" and I started looking around for a solution for kinda non-existing problem.
I stumbled upon Mealie, which is server that can be used in docker and is self-hosted recipe book/website. It seems like you can come in and say like "I have these ingrediants, what can I do?", it also seems to be able to generate shopping lists based on your selected recipe, you can use checkboxes when bringing all the ingredients on the kitchen board/table/top (non-English native speaker here) and so on.
It seems like the right software for me, but before I delve into it, I wanted to ask if someone else possibly runs such service for themselves at their home. Is there somebody who is using something like this? It doesn't have to be Mealie, specifically. But it should be server-side service, not some smartphone app. I know there are other such services, which are also open-source, but I forgot the names, sorry.
Thanks for any relevant answers!
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past announced
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Fifty great classic novels under 200 pages
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Fatherland | Official trailer
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The untold story about W Social: unconventional beginnings, strategic pitches and conflicting signals
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Sonny Rollins, giant of the jazz saxophone, is dead at 95 (gifted link)
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The Enhanced Games are Sunday. Here's what to know about the controversial event.
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The Elephant (Full special and behind the scenes)
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Se, Josta Ei Puhuta – Kuolemaa Ei Ole (2026)
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Indycar Indianapolis 500-mile Race (Indy 500) 2026 - Post-Race Discussion
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
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Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story
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What are you reading these days?
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Ferrari unveils its first all-electric car, the four-door Luce
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Maybe just eat the bean goo
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An open letter to the University of California Regents requesting that standardized testing be re-introduced into admissions, >200 UC Professors signatures
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