EVERYTHING
2023 January
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@prijks I am surprised this format (with the content warning) works with the bot, I hadn't handled it explicitly! Thanks for helping test!
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This was very, very good. I wasn't sure what to expect; I thought it was going to be some stabby serial-killer thing, but the whole black comedy vibe and the rising tension were executed very well. Ralph Fiennes gives an excellent performance as the chef delivering the menu.
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Currently the first and only PH blog listed on ooh.directory. We need more PH bloggers!
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Listen to live radio stations from anywhere on Earth, no login or anything
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🔗 Wonders of Street View via web
Cool stuff found on street view
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Previously This is part 3 in my continuing insane effort to try to read EVERY MARVEL COMIC EVER PUBLISHED. You can see previous posts using the tag "complete-marvel-run". We are tackling the older/longer series first, and going in "MCU Order". The previous entries covered early Iron Man and Hulk series. This one will be focused on Captain America (plus some other random comics I read/finished during this period). This post will have significantly fewer screenshots than the last ones. (Note: All volume nos. are based on the Wikipedia listings) Captain America v2 (1968-1996) Volume length: 355 issues This is v2 -
EEAAO is so different from the usual Oscars fare I can only imagine all the Oscars people sitting at a table and looking at each other in disbelief. "Really? We're really nominating this?!?"
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This is like GeoGuessr, except across time and not space. I am very bad at it.
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🔗 Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow via web
This essay on "how platforms die" has the best description of the network effect: "a kind of mutual hostage-taking"
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Spy X Family: Been watching this for a few weeks now. Slowed down a bit because Netflix lost the English dubs in the second half of the season. The show is surprisingly funny given it's premise. Anya being secretly a telepath but also being an idiot provides for a hilarious POV and is a good contrast to Loid's hypercompetent and always serious superspy persona. Yor is a bit underdeveloped as a character, but I guess it's early still. Even the side characters which I initially thought would be annoying end up having hilarious motivations. I enjoyed the season enough that I started reading the manga on the Shonen Jump app, although that jumps me some 40 issues ahead I think, but I guess that's fine?!?
The wikipedia entry says the "X" in the title is silent, but I'll just keep pronouncing it the way I've been pronouncing "Hunter X Hunter" all these years.
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That 90s Show dropped on Netflix this past week, I already finished the season. I think they did a good job nailing the general mood of the show and the 90s aesthetic, though it feels a bit like it's trying too hard at some points. The compressed season length doesn't give the characters much space to developer, so compared to the original show, everything feels a bit rushed or crammed in.
Let's face it, we're all here for the cameos from the original show anyway. It was weird seeing Wilder Valderama be Fez again when I've been watching him be all serious in NCIS. Out of all the returning cameos, Laura Prepon is the one who looks the most different from when she was on the original show. Topher Grace looks like he never left!
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This past weekend was the Lunar New Year, which is only for people who live in countries that have a moon. Someone told me recently that the term "Chinese New Year" is outdated and kind of racist, so the preferred term nowadays is "Lunar New Year". That's fine I guess? I don't think Filipinos are likely to change their wording regarding this anyway. I'm also easily confused nowadays because when I was young the greeting was always "Kung Hei Fat Choy", but these days there are a lot of variants. As shared by my mom from an unknown source: Just
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Posted on r/fireTV: Why is the Prime Video app on Fire Stick so bad?
I set up a Fire Stick on my Mom's non-smart TV so she can watch Netflix, YouTube and Prime Video, and the PV app is without question the worst of these.
The two main problems:
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it always logs in as the main profile (mine) instead of the subprofile I made for my mom. I would prefer having a profile selection screen whenever you open the app (the app for LG WebOS does this)
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the Options menu (available while playing via the hamburger button the remote) doesn't highlight where you are currently on the menu. Whenever I want to change the audio or subtitle settings, I need to guess where I am on the menu and hope I hit the correct one instead of "Go back to beginning" which happens way too often. My mom and dad don't understand how I'm able to navigate this menu at all and I can't really explain it to them
Any suggestions for working around the above problems? Or is there some setting I've missed that can fix these?
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I walk a lot. A couple of days ago I was thinking about how I'd been a walking a lot even when I was young. Since I now have Google Maps, I can check the distances of the routes I used to walk! High School Google Maps tells me my high school is around 3.7km away from where we lived back then. I am sure I walked that whole distance at least once, but not often. What I did do fairly regularly was walk down Agham Road and BIR road to my favorite spot on East Avenue, which should be
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2023 Arena Open attempt no. 1: Kaldheim Sealed. Finished 2-3 =/
Before I went in, I reviewed my Kaldheim Limited Review, and it looks like I did terribly in that format. So it's not surprising that I didn't too well this time either!
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As Yglesias says, it's the best time there’s ever been to be somebody who can write something coherent quickly. Put things out. Let people yell at you. Write again the next day.
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Not only is this bait-and-switch justification idiotic, but it reinforces my view that Tweetdeck dying is an inevitability.
The only chance Tweetdeck had was that it's left alone because only power users used it, but that's true of third-party clients as well. As soon as EM finds out he actually owns a (better) alternative web client that doesn't serve ads, it's over for Tweetdeck
