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19 votes
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Slow change can be radical change
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Asinhell – Impii Hora (2024)
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The hidden world of electrostatic ecology
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The Royal Office of Magick Affairs | Sweden Game Conference pitch reel
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Diffusion for World Modeling - CS:GO and other games rendered in real time using neural networks
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How a break-up of Google could transform tech
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Scavengers Reign (2023) - Best sci-fi I have seen in years, aside from Dune
"Scavengers Reign" eluded me when it released last year, but I was made aware of it after MAX canceled the show in May (Netflix has since picked it up but may or may not put in for more, is how I...
"Scavengers Reign" eluded me when it released last year, but I was made aware of it after MAX canceled the show in May (Netflix has since picked it up but may or may not put in for more, is how I understand the situation).
The trailer has been posted here but I wanted to check in and see how everyone else felt about it (keep it spoiler free!). Personally I was enthralled all the way through. It has such an interesting blend of Miyazaki-esque "creature-y" world building with more meditative displays of nature and the violence and balance that is integral to it. If that sounds at all interesting I would suggest watching the first of twelve episodes, you will probably know if you are interested or not after it's over.
Here's hoping Netflix green lights more, assuming the creators want to continue. It really could stand as-is with where they left it.
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Change to Win - Just a Game (1988)
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Taylor Lorenz’s plan to dance on legacy media’s grave
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Russia’s illicit Starlink terminals help power its advance in Ukraine
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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films 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.
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How do you listen to your favorite obscure music that never made it onto any streaming platforms?
One of my very favorite musicians of all time has apparently decided to not put any of his music on any streaming service other than one album from one side project that made it onto Apple music....
One of my very favorite musicians of all time has apparently decided to not put any of his music on any streaming service other than one album from one side project that made it onto Apple music. I've even posted on his Facebook (a site I basically never use) and gotten likes from some of his best friends but he never uploaded anything :(
I'm tempted to just put his music on Spotify, possibly with fake names in case he doesn't want the attention lol
I'll be going to my parents' house this weekend and I'm hoping to grab my old CDs so I can at least rip his music...if I can find a CD drive! Hopefully I can grab my Sufjan Stevens Illinois vinyl for a friend who listens to vinyls but has never heard of him. as an aside, I have no idea how it's possible to be such a hipster that you still listen to vinyl but also don't know who Sufjan Stevens is, but I digress
So how do you do it? I just want the music to be on Spotify 😢
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Escape from the City (City Escape) - arranged by Scruffy (2024)
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Tildes Video Thread
Find yourself watching tons of great videos on [insert chosen video sharing platform], but also find yourself reluctant to flood the Tildes front page with them? Then this thread is for you. It...
Find yourself watching tons of great videos on [insert chosen video sharing platform], but also find yourself reluctant to flood the Tildes front page with them? Then this thread is for you.
It could be one quirky video that you feel deserves some eyeballs on it, or perhaps you've got a curated list of videos that you'd love to talk us through...
Share some of the best video content you've watched this past week/fortnight with us!
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Wolfheart – Evenfall (2024)
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Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets. Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them!
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Which game themes inspired M83's DSVII?
I've been listening to M83's Digital Shades Volume II (the album can be heard here on YouTube). I didn't think too much about it until I read that it was partially inspired by 80's video game...
I've been listening to M83's Digital Shades Volume II (the album can be heard here on YouTube). I didn't think too much about it until I read that it was partially inspired by 80's video game sound tracks, according to Anthony Gonzalez.
I started wondering if I could identify the game that inspired the song. For example, the song A Bit of Sweetness seems to me like it borrows from Zelda's Fairy Theme. Particularly, the descending arpeggiation that can be heard in the background of the M83 track bears an uncanny resemblance to the Zelda theme.
Other tracks are harder to place, but if you are "game", take a listen and share the song you think was inspiration for one of the DSVII tracks.
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The phone ban has had a big impact on school work (at a school in Iceland)
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Boeing to lay off 10% of employees as strike stalls airplane production
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X overtakes WeChat in spreading Chinese disinformation about the 2024 US presidential elections
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Dramatic images show the first floods in the Sahara in half a century
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Cuevana announces voluntary shutdown following MPA pressure
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What we don't talk about in "Spec Ops The Line"
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A fivefold increase in remote work since the pandemic could boost economic growth and bring wider benefits
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Is there an independent, cross-device cloud sync platform for ebooks?
I used the Kindle ecosystem for a while before souring on Amazon. Now I’m bought into the Kobo ecosystem, which is great in some ways but frustrating in others. I’m curious if there’s a sort of...
I used the Kindle ecosystem for a while before souring on Amazon. Now I’m bought into the Kobo ecosystem, which is great in some ways but frustrating in others.
I’m curious if there’s a sort of DIY book cloud platform out there. I’ve come across a few, but they all seem to lack what, to me, is the killer feature of the Kobo/Kindle platforms:
Cross-syncing between mobile (iOS), ereader, and web reader
Most of the ones I’ve found can do this with some of those devices, but not all three.
I ask because I regularly hop between reading on different devices to the point that I avoid reading books that I can’t do this with (e.g. all my DRM free books, physical books, etc.). I’ve even re-bought books I already own in other formats just so I can have them inside the “sync loop” because it’s so much easier for me. I’d rather not have to do that though.
Are there any independent options out there that cover this use case? I primarily want to use it for DRM free books I got from bundles, as well as books that I de-DRMed from my Kindle. I would also happily buy a different ereader device that supports this (currently I use a Kobo Forma).
Meta note: wasn’t sure if this topic was better in ~books or ~tech — feel free to move it if needed!
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Small businesses continue legal battle over denied pandemic aid
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Remains of Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine believed to have been found on Everest
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Combating web tracking: analyzing web tracking technologies for user privacy
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US Department of Justice indicates it’s considering Google breakup following monopoly ruling
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Why do people treat friendships and relationships as two different things?
Inspired by this post and many thoughts I had about the topic previously. For some reason, a lot of people treat friendships and romantic relationships as two entirely separate things. People say...
Inspired by this post and many thoughts I had about the topic previously.
For some reason, a lot of people treat friendships and romantic relationships as two entirely separate things. People say stuff like "I could never date a friend" or "I want to date them but they just want to be friends". The top comment by @BeanBurrito on the post I linked mentions how men want to become friends with women simply because they have too little confidence to just ask them out.
I've never understood this. To me, being a friend and dating are just two points on the same closeness spectrum. You go from acquaintances to friends, then best friends, then partners. You can obviously skip some of those steps sometimes, but those are still the same thing - being in a romantic relationship is the same as being very close friends, it's just an even closer form of it. Yes, there's usually an extra factor of exclusivity in a relationship - but they can be non exclusive, so it's not a defining trait.
Asking someone out shortly after meeting them is such a wild concept to me. You probably wouldn't meet someone and immediately just go "hey, let's be best friends", so why would you ask them if they would be even more?
I also don't really get why people care about being "friendzoned", for the same reason. Like ok, you won't be the "bestest closest friends" with someone, but you can still be good friends? If they agree, you can still have personal conversations, or cuddle, or do whatever else that you can do in a relationship. I get why people can be upset if a person they like shows absolutely no attention towards them, but why would you be upset at them just wanting to be friends?
It it literally just about sex and physical attraction? But then also, things like "friends with benefits" exist. So clearly, you don't have to be in a relationship in order to do that. And if that's the only thing you actually need, why would you ask someone "let's date" instead of just directly saying what you want?
I don't get it.
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Guest Passes for Nebula now available
44 votes -
The Microphones - Microphones in 2020 (2020)
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Legalizing sports gambling was a huge mistake – The evidence is convincing: The betting industry is ruining lives
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Sunderfolk
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1349 – Shadow Point (2024)
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Moving wikis away from Fandom
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Red Dead Redemption 1 finally gets a PC release date - October 29th, 2024
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Hackers take control of robot vacuums in multiple US cities, yell racial slurs
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Advanced technology discovered under Neolithic dwelling in Denmark – a stone paved root cellar, which could represent a remarkable technological leap in resource preservation
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The unlikelihood of being complimented as a man
I read through hundreds of comments on reddit (I know, Ive digressed) on the question 'What would women dislike most if they became men?' The one that hit me square in the face were the thousands...
I read through hundreds of comments on reddit (I know, Ive digressed) on the question 'What would women dislike most if they became men?' The one that hit me square in the face were the thousands of men who agreed that they hadn't been complimented for anything in years.
One commenter said the last time he was complimented was ten years ago and he can still remember the time and the place because it was so unusual. One gut punch even said, "Many men are laying in their casket before many good things are ever said about them" and at first I thought, well that's gotta be hyperbole. But then I thought more about it and realized that while I have had a couple of compliments from my wife over the last year, I dont recall a single other person saying anything complimentary in probably over a year... And I never really thought about it, but its just not something we expect to hear.
It's not like I was waiting for compliments, but I think the statement true - men just rarely get compliments. And I'm not sure why.
I definitely don't compliment my friends very often. Occasionally do compliment my adult son but I'm sure, like most guys, that's pretty infrequent coming from any other male in his life.
It's just a bit odd when I think about how often my wife gets compliments. Or my daughters. Not sure why we men get so little affirmation that way. It really struck me as odd.
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French artist Guillaume Legros AKA Saype uses a biodegradable paint he invented himself to create gigantic graffiti on grassy fields, snowy mountainsides, and sandy beaches
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The bill finally comes due for Elon Musk
41 votes -
Using Dungeons and Dragons as a group therapy tool
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On Valorant and transition
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OpenAI is a bad business
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Washington state woman calls 911 after being hounded by up to 100 raccoons
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What "misinformation" is actually usually about
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Relative installed shady browser extension
[Possibly solved, please look at comments] Hey, so recently a family member accidentally downloaded a shady browser extension called: "Easy Print" on Firefox. 30k downloads, no ratings, weird...
[Possibly solved, please look at comments]
Hey,
so recently a family member accidentally downloaded a shady browser extension called: "Easy Print" on Firefox. 30k downloads, no ratings, weird "offical" website and installed accidentally trying to buy tickets. I assume it showed something along the lines of: "Buy ticket now" and they just clicked on it (being overall inexperieced with security). Only extension installed was uBlock until then.
I won't post a link just in case, but you can easily find it by googling: "Easy Print Firefox" or "Easy Print App" for their website.
What makes this weirder is that they change the default search engine to Yahoo, which for me was always a red flag for a hijacked browser.
I uninstalled it, but am concerned that they installed something like a keylogger along with it.
Can anyone help me what this is and, especially, how I can properly teach them the basics of internet safety? Not the first time their PC/browser was filled with unwanted stuff...
Thank you and best regards!
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A peek inside doctors’ notes reveals symptoms of burnout
14 votes