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Sex game can't get on Steam, even after $20,000 worth of attempts
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Joe Biden: “Great day for America;” Vaccinated can largely ditch masks
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Why Confederate lies live on
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Tokyo's subway system
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Discord celebrates six years, changes logo and font
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The sixty-year-old scientific screwup that helped Covid kill
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Spirited Away meets Heidegger: We killed the gods with technology
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Tildes Film Festival: Final call for nominations
Please submit candidate films, documentaries or shorts, focusing on things rarely watched, but that might provoke an interesting discussion. Please vote on movies that interest you.
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Using lasers to create the displays of science fiction, inspired by Star Wars and Star Trek
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Battlestar Galactica Lessons from Ransomware to the Pandemic
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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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Largest fuel pipeline in the United States hit by ransomware attack
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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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Motorists line up at stations in DC region; shortage of gas truck drivers compounds situation
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I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress; here’s what happened
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Mastodon - Forged by Neron (2021)
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HTC unveils new Vive Pro 2 with 5K resolution display and 120Hz refresh rate
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Vitalik’s regift of unsolicited DOGE knockoffs sends memecoin prices plunging
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Elon Musk announces that Tesla will no longer accept Bitcoin for vehicle purchases citing the energy demand required to maintain the cryptocurrency
@Elon Musk: Tesla & Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/YSswJmVZhP
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It’s interesting but is it art?
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Nothingness (Why is there something rather than nothing?)
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Holes
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US judge tosses NRA bankruptcy bid, letting New York seek dissolution
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SpaceX accepts Dogecoin as payment to launch ‘DOGE-1 mission to the Moon’ next year
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To be more tech-savvy, borrow these strategies from the Amish
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Matt Tremont // LIFE after DEATH (2021) (Deathmatch Wrestling Documentary)
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Canadian charity recommendations
Hi Everyone! I'm looking to donate some money to a charity that is focused on helping children learn how to code. I've always heard that lots of charities are scams, and I was hoping to get the...
Hi Everyone!
I'm looking to donate some money to a charity that is focused on helping children learn how to code.
I've always heard that lots of charities are scams, and I was hoping to get the opinions of you fine folks about a good charity to donate to!7 votes -
My strange, slow, twenty-year quest for broadband
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It began as an AI-fueled dungeon game, it got much darker
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Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering
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Blind people and advocates criticize AccessiBe, a company claiming to automatically make websites ADA compliant
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New major versions released for the six core Pallets projects - Flask 2.0, Werkzeug 2.0, Jinja 3.0, Click 8.0, ItsDangerous 2.0, and MarkupSafe 2.0
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Level designer breaks down Ori's awesome sand level | On the Level
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MDMA-assisted therapy for severe PTSD: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 study
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Ransomware gang threatens release of DC police records
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Meet America's newest Chess Master, 10-year-old Tanitoluwa Adewumi
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True limits of humanity – The final border we will never cross
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Donovan - I Am The Shaman (directed by David Lynch, 2021)
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Can kids navigate their way across London alone?
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The 1962 flight of Army Rangers that vanished into thin air
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Lisey's Story | Official trailer
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VW will start testing its Argo AI-powered self-driving vans in Germany this summer
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‘Legends of the Hidden Temple’ revived as competition for adults on CW
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So ... The Expanse
Looks like Tildes hasn't discussed this show for a year or two. I just finished binge-watching the first 5 seasons (I'm hoping there is a Season 6 in the offing), and of course, I now feel like...
Looks like Tildes hasn't discussed this show for a year or two. I just finished binge-watching the first 5 seasons (I'm hoping there is a Season 6 in the offing), and of course, I now feel like discussing it. This thread is wide open to whatever anyone wants to bring up about the series. But my first question for people is this--
Did anyone notice any significant change in quality after Amazon took it over? If so, better or worse? How?
For me, somewhere around Season 3 or 4, it felt like the story quality declined. Not that it's "bad" in any way ... just that it got less original, more like traditional series plot devices. And that could just be me, or that--in general--even the best shows tend to lose some of their edge after the first few seasons ... or maybe they're just following the books (never read 'em) and this is how the books went.
But, yeah ... it's turning into a nicer, more nuanced Stargate ... the Good Guys trying to save humanity from The Terrorist Mastermind ... the Evil Post-Soviet Empire conspiring to help said Terrorist, etc. They even had Snidely Whiplash tying the poor girl to the railroad tracks.
I'm obviously over-simplifying here; it is still an excellent show ... just, like I said; it started to feel less original. I'm wondering if that's just my impression, and if not, do we know that it's an "Amazon" thing, or what?
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What's the coronavirus like where you are?
I figured we were overdue for another one of these threads. Here are all the previous ones: February 2020 March 2020 September 2020 What are things like in your corner of the world?
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China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media
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Silent whale watching on Iceland's first electric boat tour – a carbon-neutral tour off Húsavík makes for a greener, more peaceful experience for visitors and sea creatures
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The history of the worst SeaWorld ride, Submarine Quest
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The Green Knight | Official trailer
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