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‘Disturbing’: Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws
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Why is America obsessed with racial trauma?
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Lake Street Dive - Automatic (2022)
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UK greenlights updated Moderna vaccine, Belgium approval due end of August
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Scotland to become first country in world to provide free period products
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Today, Brussels breaks up with the car
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Interview with John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, programming, video games, and rockets
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Inside the massive effort to change the way kids are taught to read in the US
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What are your favorite any% speedrun videos?
I like watching speedrunning videos, especially ones where they break the game in really interesting and novel ways. Every now and then when I'm bored I search "any% speedrun" on YouTube, but......
I like watching speedrunning videos, especially ones where they break the game in really interesting and novel ways. Every now and then when I'm bored I search "any% speedrun" on YouTube, but... the search results feel gamed by clickbaity Top 10 videos, Soulslike games, and the latest hyped up title of the month.
So I thought I'd ask if you guys have any videos to share. Maybe even like, favorite GDQ videos or favorite niche games you like. Stuff like that?
Here's what I've got:
- Sethbling's "4 Different Mario Credits Warps in Under 15 Minutes" -- Specifically for the Super Mario Land 2 speedrun. I really love how the game's code and RAM gets interpreted as level data, and he has to navigate the garbage sprites to get to a point where it will trigger a debug flag to load the credits.
- Luigi's Mansion any%: Something about the OOB route here is so spooky and interesting to me. It's a 3D game, but fixed perspective, so you don't get the freedom of movement you would in a game like Super Mario 64. That makes any OOB tricks really funky, with Luigi skewing oddly and going off camera in a way that forces the runner to intuit and feel out where to go. It's neat!
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Norway's exports reached a record in July, driven mainly by natural gas prices that have soared – higher fish and metals exports also contributed
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The Matrix Summer Special 2022
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‘The Flash’ star Ezra Miller seeking treatment for ‘complex mental health issues’
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What's your unpopular food opinion or idiosyncrasy?
Not much to add. Anything goes, but let's keep this light-hearted!
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Is it possible to learn multiple languages at once?
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Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime (1970)
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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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Logistics: How did they do it? Part III, on the move
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Hundred Waters - Mushroom Cloud (2017)
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Jaguar cacao - Chocolate's little known cousin (Theobroma bicolor) | Weird Fruit Explorer
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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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Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde said she won't return a historical document to Poland, as it was a “legitimate” spoil of war
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What are some good mobile games which doesn't require dragging?
This may seem like an odd request and I'm not sure if I can properly explain this, but for some reason I dislike games that require me to drag things with my fingers. I prefer games that allow me...
This may seem like an odd request and I'm not sure if I can properly explain this, but for some reason I dislike games that require me to drag things with my fingers. I prefer games that allow me to "click" stuff using my finger as a mouse, like Go (baduk), checkers, and other board games. Any genre. Any suggestions on Android? Thanks!
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How the French Foreign Legion learns languages fast
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What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
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What Twitter’s move to shutter offices signals for Big Tech
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The etymologies of military ranks
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Did Sweden's controversial COVID strategy pay off? In many ways it did – but it let the elderly down
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2023 Golden Globes predictions
Drama: The Fabelmans Empire of Light Avatar: The Way of Water The Whale Women Talking Musical/Comedy: Babylon Bardo Everything Everywhere All At Once Elvis Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery...
Drama:
- The Fabelmans
- Empire of Light
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- The Whale
- Women Talking
Musical/Comedy:
- Babylon
- Bardo
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Elvis
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Director:
- Steven Spielberg - The Fabelmans
- Damien Chazelle - Babylon
- Sam Mendes - Empire of Light
- James Cameron - Avatar: The Way of Water
- Baz Luhrmann - Elvis
Actor - Drama:
- Brendan Fraser - The Whale
- Hugh Jackman - The Son
- Adam Driver - White Noise
- Bill Nighy - Living
- Tom Cruise - Top Gun: Maverick
Actress - Drama:
- Naomie Ackie - I Wanna Dance With Somebody
- Olivia Colman - Empire of Light
- Cate Blanchett - TAR
- Frances McDormand - Women Talking
- Danielle Deadwyle - Till
Actor - Musical/Comedy:
- Austin Butler - Elvis
- Daniel Cacho - Bardo
- Christian Bale - Amsterdam
- Daniel Craig - Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- Billy Eichner - Bros
Actress - Musical/Comedy:
- Margot Robbie - Babylon
- Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Margot Robbie - Amsterdam
- Janelle Monae - Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- Sandra Bullock - The Lost City
Supporting Actor:
- Paul Dano - The Fabelmans
- Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Tom Hanks - Elvis
- Colin Firth - Empire of Light
- Brad Pitt - Babylon
Supporting Actress:
- Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans
- Jessie Buckley - Women Talking
- Sadie Sink - The Whale
- Greta Gerwig - White Noise
- Laura Dern - The Son
Screenplay:
- Babylon
- The Fabelmans
- Bardo
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Women Talking
Original Score:
- The Fabelmans
- Empire of Light
- Babylon
- Women Talking
- Avatar: The Way of Water
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A day in the life of India’s e-waste workers
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Short story review: A Logic Named Joe by Murray Leinster
A Logic Named Joe is a 1946 Sci Fi short story that introduces concepts such as the internet, streaming music and streaming video, search engines with family friendly filters and artificial...
A Logic Named Joe is a 1946 Sci Fi short story that introduces concepts such as the internet, streaming music and streaming video, search engines with family friendly filters and artificial intelligence.
Link to story: http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200506/0743499107___2.htm
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Armed man tried to breach FBI building in Cincinnati, authorities say
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Inflation reduction act explained by Hank Green
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M*A*S*H’s revolutionary gay episode
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MØ – Spaceman (2022)
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New political party in Denmark, whose policies are derived entirely from artificial intelligence, hopes to stand in the country's next general election in June 2023
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California first US state to offer free meals to all public school students
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House of Hammer | Official trailer
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Poland: ‘Huge’ amounts of chemical waste dumped into river
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Former US President Donald Trump says FBI conducting search of Mar-a-Lago estate
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Carole King - Beautiful (1971)
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 8
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.
12 votes -
First Aid Kit – Out Of My Head (2022)
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Testing end-to-end encrypted backups and more on Messenger
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Regarding the future: An open letter to the people I care about
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Is it time for a baseline reset of environmental science?
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Alabama Shakes - Hold On (2012)
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Finland is building the world's first permanent disposal site for nuclear waste, with no shortage of people wanting to be its neighbours
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How life has changed for Afghans since the Taliban takeover
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How Townscaper works: A story, four games in the making
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