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  1. dferrantino

    Help me flesh out a playlist of popular bangers.

    I see Motorhead's Ace of Spades and raise you Overkill and their cover of Metallica's Whiplash.
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    ♟️ FIFTEENTH Annual AlphaMeridian Memorial GESC Chess Tournament! Round 3!

    Given the volume of unfinished games, I'm going to extend the deadline into next weekend (which should also unscrew the next round from ending on Easter Sunday). Let's get these all wrapped up by this coming Sunday, please.
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    Is there a reason Time is considered a stranger thing than Space?

    Sure could. Reality could also be a hallucination created entirely within our brains. Question is, so what? Given that your reality has always operated in a certain way under a certain set of rules, and there's no indication that you can experience a different one, does it actually change a...
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    Public transit, how many have you ridden?

    It really is just a list of "cities I've lived in or visited", with the exception of London since I'm 90% sure we only walked or took cabs for the couple of nights we were there. Also feels like cheating since living in and around NYC you just kind of accumulate these as you go without even...
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    Hey Soap Boxers, it's cool to just start new threads for things

    I said this in the thread in H&F and I'll say it again here: you can do this yourself. Keep tabs on the threads, find topics that look like they're worth their own thread, quote them and start a new thread with those quotes. It's the exact same amount of effort for us to do that same job. After...
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    Cold pizza? Or hot/warm pizza? The Ars battle begins...

    Reheated, in the oven (air fryer or toaster oven would work but I don't usually have them in the kitchen). Put it in while the oven is preheating, take it out 5 minutes after it's hit temp. Perfection. Domino's/PJ's/Pizza Hut, which are not pizza but are their own different class of food, are...
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    The Planet Crafter - How hard can Terraforming be?

    Side note, my kids have gotten super into watching me play this. I just wrapped up Aqualis and was planning to put the game down for a bit since there's no more prog and I've already done Prime and Humble, but after constant requests to get the other animals I guess I'm going back in.
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    The Planet Crafter - How hard can Terraforming be?

    Previews seem to be very positive. View: https://www.reddit.com/r/theplanetcrafter/comments/1rs9goy/testers_on_dev_branch_tell_us_about_the_new_update/
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    I used to like reading about science but now it kinda depresses me every time

    These are literally all concerns and questions that therapists are specifically equipped to assist with.
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    I used to like reading about science but now it kinda depresses me every time

    Got it, so you went to a therapist to debate solipsism, not to understand why you get so fixated on these things that everybody here has told you are unhealthy to fixate on. So you've never actually tried therapy, in good faith.
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    Gaming Culture. What does it mean? What does it mean to YOU?

    Having started my stint as a mod here right when GamerGate became a thing, the phrase "Gaming Culture" immediately sets off alarm bells. It's basically synonymous with "manosphere" as far as a lot of folks are concerned, which is a damn shame because the absolutely vast majority of folks in my...
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    Hands upon the wheel of emergency Thursday Questions.

    1) How do you feel about Daylight Savings? I'm still hungover, 4 days later. 2) If you had to pick a subatomic particle to cheer for, what would it be? The electron antineutrino. 3) A book sits on the table. Its cover is ornate but bereft of text. What is in it? The remote. 4) What are your...
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    Can we go back to a perpetual miscellaneous SoapBox thread?

    ...wait @Aurich how do you not have the Filter on the right of the Threads view? e: Toggle Sidebar.
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    Can we go back to a perpetual miscellaneous SoapBox thread?

    You can't get all 3 of these things at once (the tickboxes in the bottom half are AND not OR), but I think this is what he's talking about:
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    Ukraine is game to you? Part deux.

    Looks like it might just be a LIDAR scan?
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    Can we go back to a perpetual miscellaneous SoapBox thread?

    Call me old school, but I just have Chrome default to opening up GESC and The Lounge, and the new stuff is just what's bolded. I'm actually blown away by this idea that so many people are only interacting with the "Your Threads" options.
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    Can we go back to a perpetual miscellaneous SoapBox thread?

    In short, this. In order for this to happen, we either need to be constantly monitoring every thread in our boards or you would need to put in the request and tell us exactly which posts need to be split out. In the former case, absolutely fucking not, and in the latter, if you've already done...