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Discuss anything and everything here, but please keep discussions about any of the featured WATMM artists to their appropriate subforums, or new music releases or live shows and dates to theirs.
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Since the old thread got too large and took ages to load, here's a fresh start.
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I'm (still!) currently reading Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day but took a break in between to read Don DeLillo's Great Jones Street and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, the first gothic horror novel. Anyone reading anything cool at the moment? Don't even say it's the fuckin' Kite Runner
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Since the old thread got too long and took ages to load, we continue forth (think of it as a sequel, to use a movie metaphor).
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Continuing on from here, let's keep talking about games!
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Let's keep topics about the new forum limited to this thread - if it becomes a big thing, we could consider a subforum, or start up a bug tracking database (although there really shouldn't be any bugs per se)...
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I just finished watching all the seasons of Tim & Eric: Awesome Show, Great Job. Goddamn hilarious. And I've started watching Sons Of Anarchy. Reminds me alot of The Sopranos, just with bikers of course. it's quite entertaining.
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Since the old thread was said to load slowly, here we go again...
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So I am considering (and have been for some time) of making the site subscription-only where unless you pay for a subscription, you will only see a limited amount of content (aka a paywall). I wish it could be free for everyone, but costs have (and continue) to go up over the years, now costing 100 USD per month to run this forum (thankfully the costs of the forum software is part of that). For a long time now (since 2013) all new members have been required to have a subscription, but an old loophole in the forum software allowed paying members whose subscriptions lapsed to continue to access the site. I am considering turning this off so if you are not a p…
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RIP Salvatorin 1 2 3 4 9
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Salvatorin died in his sleep this morning. Chatmm and beak are both reeling. He was posting in chatmm this morning when I got out of work. Unreal, so upsetting. Such a good dude. No idea what else to say.
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Hello, WATMM forum. We don’t really know each other very well, but we have a common friend, known online as MIXL2 (although he changed his username here at some point to @YangYing). I’m here to let you know that MIXL2, or Miguel as I knew him, passed away on the 24th of April, and his funeral was held about a week ago. I figured you all should know, since Miguel was a long-time member and frequent poster on this forum - having joined a few years after I first got to know him in middle school. He always used to tell me about the shenanigans people on here were up to, shared many threads he found interesting, and even made me sign up (even though I'm not much for forum…
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https://flipboard.com/@flipboard/-putin-leader-in-artificial-intelligence/f-afd8014cbe%2Fapnewsarchive.com The thought of a AI arms race is terrifying, and if people like putin think controlling AI will make you ruler of the world there is no way we survive the century UN needs to get involve in this, make AI research neutral, force all the nations to work together.
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Some ppl hate these things. Sometimes they make me laugh. post some. thanks to fiz for the pic
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Summer is (almost) here, and I need a t-shirt restock. The cool ones over at Bleep are either sold out or the wrong size. Where do you folks buy your t-shirts?
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Is music over? Or just beginning? I can't tell anymore. This thing creates basically flawless music in every (popular?) genre... It's pretty unbelievable. country: https://www.udio.com/songs/jGjYfsRosZjYTkSBdFgEyF gospel: https://www.udio.com/songs/uUjAaApMbjmMqBoj6Z6dsd classical: https://www.udio.com/songs/xtju1X31YfVbKWTCGd4yw7 post rock: https://www.udio.com/songs/e6JkyRWci1W7ukMaWStm5A
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So this is going into production, despite relatively poor results of Blade Runner 2049 at the Box Office, which was critical for Villeneuve's version of Dune to happen. The casting so far is insane: Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista, Javier Bardem, Thimothée Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa... Unfortunately, Roger Deakins is not part of the projet this time, but the cinematography will be handled by Greg Fraser (Rogue One). Not sure Jodorowsky will have anything to do for the movie, but news are falling nearly every day since a few weeks. Scheduled for november 20th, 2020
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hey guys, just curious what kinds of first world problems you're all dealing with at the moment. for me, fucking indietorrents isn't working so i have to use other methods of freely acquiring music on my nice imac. FUCK. and i got a fucking hoagie/sub/sandwich from the local bodega/convenience store, and they put too much mayo on it. GODDAMMIT. GRRR MY CUMBER BUN KEEPS FUCKING ROLLING UP ON ME
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Yesterday I accidentally watched Columbo and it got me thinking... Mark Ruffalo would make a great Columbo if they were to make a reboot. You know it’s true.
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I've been watcing this show for the second time and have been catching so many more winks and incredible lines, bits of foreshadowing. This show is freakin' stupendous! Favorite characters and storylines?
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Animals, apart from humans, are pretty cool... Post some! 🐵🐒🦍🦧🐶🐕🦮🐕🦺🐩🐺🦊🦝🐱🐈🐈⬛🦁🐯🐅🐆🐴🫎🫏🐎🦄🦓🦌🦬🐮🐂🐃🐄🐷🐖🐗🐽🐏🐑🐐🐪🐫🦙🦒🐘🦣🦏🦛🐭🐁🐀🐹🐰🐇🐿️🦫🦔🦇🐻🐻❄️🐨🐼🦥🦦🦨🦘🦡🐾🦃🐔🐓🐣🐤🐥🐦🐧🕊️🦅🦆🦢🦉🦤🪶🦩🦚🦜🪽🐦⬛🪿🐸🐊🐢🦎🐍🐲🐉🦕🦖🐳🐋🐬🦭🐟🐠🐡🦈🐙🐚🪸🪼🐌🦋🐛🐜🐝🪲🐞🦗🪳🕷️🕸️🦂🦟🪰🪱
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I'm bored, so let's do a Lego thread. I'm sure most of us had at least one set as a kid, some have grown to love them as adults, as the licensing has become more inclusive. We now have Lego Friends aka Legos for girls, there's DUPLO - for very young children, Technic for teens / college age kids, Mindstorms - the robotic builders line, even an architectural line I've bought as gifts for people, that also include NASA Space Vehicles. Who is a fan, what are your favorites, do you remember building them as a kid, and how limited our block selection was? lol. My friend Nick (RIP) had so many moon base floor tiles, he could cover his entire bedroom floor for sleepovers…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drC2fA86Nc4 http://youtu.be/JXwTglgVwd0 http://youtu.be/9vLSY6v1yqg i vomited in my mouth a little this has apparently been around for months
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I've seen the 70s movie many times and am a huge Crichton fan. Anybody else watched the first episode? I thought it was awesome. Actually watched it twice - made more sense and had some nice moments I didn't appreciate on first viewing.
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I'm off these sites now. Haven't had a Facebook account for about 5 years, and haven't had a Twitter account for about 6 months. Never joined Instagram in the first place. It feels like I was standing in a room full of televisions that were turned up very loud and tuned to static, and I suddenly turned them all off. I find my attention span has increased greatly, as has my ability to focus. When I see something cool like a beautiful sunset, I can just enjoy it in the moment and not have to whip out my phone and document it so I can get blue thumbs & gold stars later. My friends think I'm crazy. I think they're losing part of their humanity (and very ob…
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Link to Part Three Squee's contribution last part was an epic and fitting way to end the old beast. Begin anew! Some general tips/recommendations: Make sure it's actually funny Post 1-2 pictures at most per post - don't gordo up the page with a long-ass post of garbage Make sure it's actually funny
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