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SO, uh, are they just gonna ignore 9 or is the 9 coming after the X? I thought that the X was called the X but they kept saying ten. Also, wireless charging with the charger coming next year? What?
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125883405294859215.html Finally!
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Board Games Thread 1 2
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I know I searched for a few titles on the forum in the past and came up with nothing, so here is (probably?) the first thread on WATMM devoted to board games in general. After all, having all the rules and mechanics in your head and manipulating physical pieces according to the said rules is pretty IDM right? A lot of people think about Monopoly and then maaaybe Settlers Of Catan when board games are mentioned but the truth is the board game community evolved so much in the past 15 years it's ridiculous. It has become a very strong niche with a lot of devotees; single-person developers gaining as much as 3,5 million dollars on Kickstarter campaigns; play-cafes are ope…
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So I've been wearing disposable face masks but I'm thinking it would be cool to wear one more trendy and also reusable.. Anyone rocking a designer face mask?? Or just something different?? I would LOVE an aphex twin mask but I'm sure they are long gone. Quite like the looks of this one: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gq.com/story/where-to-buy-face-masks/amp
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Is it just me or does music on watmm feel like a never ending circlejerk where you have a couple of artists that are a bit past their prime time and visiting their subforums feel like waiting in front of a public restroom for someone to finish (aphex really gives me this feeling a lot) while on the other hand you have artists that have been suggested first on lastfm then Spotify for decades when listening to warp artists that get posted here as well. So as this is interesting it rarely offers something new to the table. The only new bands that got a hype here recently are basically aphex / boc coverbands that fill the void with their interpretation of the well known. …
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Starts in Feb. I am so hype https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/this-time-with-alan-partridge-steve-coogan-new-series-when-bbc/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone)
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which one is better or worse? on one hand eating meat is like cannibalism because we are all brothers and sisters, no matter what species or gender or whatever. on the other hand it doesn't matter because nature doesn't know man made morals that are flawed from the beginning on because man is flawed. so which is better?? today I ate some chicken coated in corn flakes and it was good but I think it's all a dream anyway so it doesn't matter. the world of epiphanies isn't to be confused with the real world, which is pure spirit, pure consciousness, pure oneness, possibly. so nothing we do here is really what it seems to be, including the consumption …
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This new AI platform for generating text, and apparently, code, web sites, and other stuff, has been getting a lot of attention and I have to say, I'm usually underwhelmed by this stuff but the demos and examples I've seen are pretty spooky I have to say. I bet there are people on here who know about this and are using it and I'd like to hear about it. A friend said an RPG he plays was using it and I've messed around with Shortly which is a short story writing app that uses it. I suspect you could use for music and probably that's already being done somewhere.
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Ben Murphy & Carl Loden interview about the book. I have All Crews and State of Bass already, looking forward to reading this. I also found a PDF of Kodwo Eshun's out-of-print More Brilliant Than The Sun - I wish I could get it in print, but second hand copies are so damn expensive and the reprint didn't happen is coming out next year, five years after it was supposed to - on the book's 25th, not 20th anniversary.
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I was in fifth grade, so about 10 years old. it was just after school and we were waiting around to be picked up by our parents or bussed home, depending on whatever arrangement you had with the school. I was a pickup kid, most of my friends were bus kids. I was hanging around with them near the buses' parking area, immediately behind which was like a little wooded space, which I'm sure to an adult would just be a little green corridor to the admin buildings but which to a little-ass kid was a vast, cool, shaded forest from which to escape the punishing sun. so we're goofing around in here and my friend Mustafa finds a busted old tennis ball lying in the tangled gree…
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I'll be in Paris next week for holidays (10-16) so I am gonna follow the forum tradition and ask whether there are any things (at this time around or in general) which a WATMMer shouldn't miss. I guess asking for scheduled shows (or even parties / underground clubs playing lush tunes) during a Pandemic is pretty pointless, since even the few things which would be scheduled in mid-August, are most likely not happening, but if anyone has any suggestions about quirky / original / special in some way things to do and/or places / events / attractions I should probably check, apart from the typical touristy stuff, I'd be glad to know. Thanks!
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Was reading a cracked article and ended up reading this wiki page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners There are scientific experiments for everything I guess. Shit, slime molds are so cool. They've used them to pilot simple robots and map highway systems. Look that shit up.
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It looks like Blomkamp is taking a more independent, autonomous direction with his latest work. Apparently the intent behind Oats Studios is a "creative sandbox", as he describes in this article: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/3/15703414/neill-blomkamp-oats-studios-short-films-sci-fi-district-9-chappie-elysium-rakka I've already posted this vid in another thread, but here is Rakka, the first installment of his new series of experimental short films. Well worth a watch.
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hi! it's been ages since i started my own thread. i've been too quiet lately. well, i've actually been on a psychiatric ward for seven weeks! some major, major heavy shit has been going on in my life - i lost my home, i lost contact with about 90% of all the people in my life (who refuse to speak to me) and if wasn't for my estranged father whom i discovered last year, i would have lost all of my belongings. i've been shell-shocked. i really, really felt like i lost everything. first i was admitted to east wing - in 2013, when i was 21, i spend just about a year here (yes, that means i was institutionalised when TH was released). and a handful of nurses recogniz…
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“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” - some wise fuck Btw, I stepped in pigeon shit again today. Shame on me. edit1: fuck the original your favourite sayings thread. Mashup your favourite sayings edit2: fuck the revised mashup your favourite sayings thread. Post cool sayings and their origins edit3: sayings
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so we narrowly avoided kicking off 2020 with world war 3, but now it looks like we have a rather alarming new virus heading our way from a chinese fish market. death toll rising... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51215348 : (
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The purpose of this thread is to discuss Black Lives Matter and the subsequent protests of the movement. Police brutality should be the focus (since that's what started the most current protests), but I'm sure we'll also discuss a wide swatch of other topics related to this. It's a pretty gigantic subject. https://blacklivesmatter.com/ I'll share this video again since I think it hits on a core issue of racism, economics, and how they're intertwined with white supremacy. Please share links/images/whatever to protests and where we can donate or make a difference. I feel a little silly for saying this, but please be respectful.
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Favorite Val Kilmer movies 1 2 3
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Well this was kind of a let down. I thought I was able to make a poll, but it seems.. I can not. Anyway, here's my shortlist of the best Val Kilmer movies: Blind Horizon (2004) Masked and Anonymous (2003) The Saint (1997) The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) Now vote! (Kilmer approves):
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ive been receiving a lot of burgers recently. it feels bad but im not sure.
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greetings... since my great accident i have been driving around a rental. well needless to say its time to get my own car. im thinking of just getting a beater. maybe a mid to late nineties toyota or honda. i am only going to be here until august then i am moving to the big apple to go to culinary school to become a great chjef. if u have any advice on beater cars.. how to drive.. how to look for a good beater car.. what a good car is .. etc. plz help me. i hate buying cars.
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Hey folks! Looking for a London flat to rent this autumn-winter. First where is better to rent a flat for e-musician? Can u advise some undergoogle websites with a good prices, or forums, or whatever web?? Maybe yr friend going to rent? Entire place any location
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Learned of this recently, a good watch for Kubrick fans
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No Dr Huxtable! You just shit on my 80s childhood. And didn't he have the balls to fire Lisa Bonet after Lenny Kravitz knocked her up without being married?? Big huge ballz. http://www.inquisitr.com/1563176/bill-cosby-remains-silent-as-rape-accusation-resurface/
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