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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 large and took ages to load, here's a fresh start.
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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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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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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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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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The US usually thinks of itself as the world, look at our media, it's always about " me me me". Well yes there are other countries on earth, and they don't always see eye to eye with our vision of ourselves. So WATMM, a lot of you are from everywhere else, what say you? How full of ourselves are we? Do we appear to be the gun toting, race war baiting, waterboarding, overweight, loudmouths that out media portrays us to be? I'm really curious about your opinions, so much of the media is US focused, a lot of global news and issues get lost in the noise.
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Sup. I tried searching for a topic about SuperCollider, which we of course all know—didn't find it, so I created this one. Currently learning it a bit more now. I'm hosting an Are.na channel about it with many useful resources, if you wanna explore it and learn together. https://www.are.na/tilde-colon-pipe-degrees-degrees-bullet-period-pipe-colon-tilde/supercollider-sound-music-programming-language I remember fondly in a discussion about this that one fellow WATTMer said something like > ...SuperCollide our balls... Thought it was very funny and since then I sometimes remember fondly these words.
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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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fire away
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About to head off to China for 2 weeks. Taking a flight to Beijing, train to Anshan and then travel to Dandong, Shenyang and Yuncheng before returning to Beijing for 2-3 days. Any tips wrt record shops, electronics, food/drink and general cool places to visit? Also curious about general China travel recommendations/discussion.
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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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I cannot believe this is real more info here - http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-roadster-starman-live-video-feed-from-spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-2018-2 It goes without saying this makes life worth living
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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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if any of you follow space travel, you will know this Thursday marks the first orbital test flight of NASA's new manned deep space rocket, the Orion Space Vehicle. it will be perched atop one of the largest rockets ever assembled, the Delta 4, and by now actually is, it's completely assembled on Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral. this site has a ustream feed and a countdown clock, so check it out. the next era of manned space travel is about to begin, after the retirement of the beloved Space Shuttle. "A United Launch Alliance Delta IV will herald a new era in manned Space Flight with the launch of the Orion capsule for the new Space Launch System (SLS)." "The De…
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post ya favourite birds io cassowary
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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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This is very crazy but it is happening right now! The world is gonna change alot now and this is only the beginning. https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/russia-ukraine-invasion-donbas-troops-today/
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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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I find people with down's syndrome funny your turn
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