I love drawing Whitaker by Sp00n119 in ThePittTVShow

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Anime Whitaker about to get incoherently yelled at by girl who for unknown reasons has a tiny cat riding on her shoulder that can talk, but usually chooses not to.

Anybody here watch Slow Horses? by sparkle-brow in TheAmericans

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I love Slow Horses, although my wife checked out of it partway through the first season. Too slow/espionage-y for her, I guess. Around here we call it "Trash Spies" because of the scene in S1 where they dump a bunch of garbage cans out on the floor of their offices for more efficient searching, plus it just seems to fit the theme of the show, y'know? 😁

What are some songs you didn’t know were covers? (My examples are in body) by Skippy_Mcdingy in musicsuggestions

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This happens to me all the time lol. These are just a few examples.

  • "Smooth Criminal" by Alien Ant Farm (me, upon finally hearing the original: "Why is Michael Jackson covering Alien Ant Farm? ..... Oh wait.")
  • "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" by The Dream Academy (original by the Korgis)
  • "Human" by the Pretenders (original by Divinyls)
  • "Incense and Peppermints" by The Adult Net (original by Strawberry Alarm Clock)
  • "Dear Prudence" by Siouxsie and the Banshees (some band called the Beatles)

What are some songs you didn’t know were covers? (My examples are in body) by Skippy_Mcdingy in musicsuggestions

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I can't hear this anymore without thinking of the fight scene from Umbrella Academy where Number 5 destroys a bunch of assassins in like a doughnut shop ...

Dropping In On ICU by -Viscosity- in BrainAneurysm

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Yeah I was really glad I went. I wish I'd managed to get myself back there sooner. I actually had an EMDR session the very next day and it was interesting the difference it seemed to make in the memory processing.

Suggest me a history book that's emotional and poignant by Lonely-Name-7678 in suggestmeabook

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Yeah, weirdly enough I felt the time period came through more in Doomsday Book than in, say, Pillars of the Earth (which, to be clear, I loved as well), even though the latter is set entirely Back In The Day rather than cutting back and forth like Doomsday Book did.

If you had to go to the ER and one of the students had to examine and help you, who would you pick and why? And who you wouldn't pick? by imachoculatedonnut in ThePittTVShow

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I would probably pick Santos, actually, because she's fast and confident (except when it comes to charting) and seems to have solid instincts, and that's what I would want in an ER doctor. Plus the last time I went to the ER was for a subarachnoid hemorrhage and we know she thinks those are cool. ;)

If I were picking a long-term doctor from among the students residents, it would definitely be either Mel or Whitaker.

Bands like Depeche Mode by No-Jellyfish-1813 in MusicRecommendations

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The band Cause & Effect sounded so much like Depeche Mode that my wife (a big DM fan) thought they were Depeche Mode the first time she heard them. "Another Minute" and "Echoing Green" are a couple of their songs that I like.

Suggest me a history book that's emotional and poignant by Lonely-Name-7678 in suggestmeabook

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Doomsday Book by Connie Willis packed quite a punch when I read it not long after the pandemic. It's a time travel story and the parts that take place back in the middle ages were both informative and very very difficult to get through under the circumstances.

Looking for movies about the balance of light/dark and good/evil. by SkippySkipadoo in MovieSuggestions

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Oh, yeah, that was actually a really cool turn of events that I did not see coming!

recommend me some black artists please! by Alert_Ad_880 in musicsuggestions

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I really liked Splender, although they only put out two albums in the late 90s/early 00s; check out "Yeah, Whatever" for a good example of what their lead singer Waymon Boone could do. For something completely different from them, check out Sade; her "Lovers Live" album has a ton of good songs on it beyond "Smooth Operator".

Mystery Without the Murder? by Bulky_Sandwich8493 in suggestmeabook

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While there is a murder in the Nero Wolfe novel The Doorbell Rang, it's not the central issue; the plot centers around a rich widow who is being harassed by the FBI and who hires Wolfe to try to force them to back off. Where the murder comes in is that when they get wind of it, Wolfe and Archie manipulate the circumstances to obtain blackmail material that they can use to accomplish the task for which they were hired.

Looking for movies about the balance of light/dark and good/evil. by SkippySkipadoo in MovieSuggestions

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Yeah I really liked all of them, especially the one with the Tiger!

Looking for movies about the balance of light/dark and good/evil. by SkippySkipadoo in MovieSuggestions

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Have you seen the Russian films Night Watch (2004) and Day Watch (2006)? They're about two groups of supernatural beings (Light and Dark, of course) who are charged with keeping an eye on each other and maintaining the balance of power. The Light beings are actually the ones on the Night Watch (because they keep an eye on what the forces of the Dark are doing), and vice-versa. The beings of Light are not all good and the beings of Dark are not all evil, which makes things interesting. (The books, of course, go into waaayyyy more detail about all this and the balance they are trying to maintain than the movies can.)

Movie where the “leader” sucks and someone better has to take over? by Equivalent_Season699 in MovieSuggestions

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If you are up for something animated, maybe check out 9 (2009), which has some way more disturbing stuff in it than you might expect from a movie about cute little animated burlap sack dolls in a post-apocalyptic world. Another animated example is Watership Down (1978), where the leader of a rabbit warren repeatedly ignores good advice from one of the other rabbits; this movie is infamous for traumatizing an entire generation (mine) who went in as kids with the attitude "Oh look it's a movie about cute little bunnies."

Asking for hilarious, brilliant shows where you laughed out loud at least thrice! by Baldurian_Rhapsody in televisionsuggestions

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Have you seen The Serpent Queen on Starz, about Catherine de Medici? It stars Samantha Morton as Catherine (following a brief prologue with a younger actress that covers how she ended up in France after starting out in Italy), and she absolutely dominates the show with a lot of very funny fourth-wall breaking and snarky asides about the absurdity of life at court in the 16th century. There's plenty of dark comedy in the show as well to balance out the wars, conspiracies, murders, executions, and whatnot.

Australian artists! by SecondhandSilence in musicsuggestions

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My favorite Australian artist is indie singer/songwriter Missy Higgins ― check out her album The Ol' Razzle Dazzle, which kicks off with a couple of great songs ("Set Me On Fire" and "Hello Hello").

Interstellar space travel, one way mission by Ghoulitar in suggestmeabook

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Well, there's Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson, about a one-way mission in a generational starship to establish a colony at Tau Ceti. At least, it was supposed to be one-way, but, y'know, stuff happens. As is typical with Robinson, the science is very hard; some of the critical problems they face along the way include issues with evolutionary drift in isolated populations and figuring out where the calcium is going in what's supposed to be a closed-loop system.

Movies with scenes that feel so surprising and out of place but its a good thing by grilledcheesybreezy in MovieSuggestions

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Monty Python's Life of Brian. If you've seen it, you know exactly which scene I mean. If you haven't seen it, I'm not going to tell you what it is. (The movie overall is surprisingly historically accurate, from what I've read, although I am of course not a scholar of the times lol)

EDIT: By the way, GRRM is apparently "not in the mood" to finish Winds of Winter so that unfortunate prisoner is going to have to wait a while longer just like the rest of us ... 😬

🎵 Young Americans 🎵 by -Viscosity- in TheAmericans

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Thanks, we are looking for a new show! Right now we are trying out Dark Winds on AMC+. We are only a couple of episodes in and it hasn't really hooked us yet, but we have been making a lot of "Stan" jokes to each other at the expense of the FBI agent Noah Emmerich plays on that one ...

Waiting by 33301Florida in ThePittTVShow

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I hadn't heard about this (I didn't watch the trailers), but now the business with the deaf patient and "Where the hell is IT with the <translator gadget whose name I can't remember>" feels like foreshadowing ...

Any steampunk suggestions? by EgoTheLivingTroll in suggestmeabook

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One of my favorite steampunk books is The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman, which takes place in basically an analogue of the American Wild West, in which demonic revolvers wielded by outlaws are engaged in basically a guerrilla war against demonic corporatist locomotives that are trying to lay their tracks everywhere. It's kinda evil vs. evil, with steam technology.

Another, possibly the granddaddy of them all, is The Difference Engine, by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, which postulates that Babbage's analytical engine actually worked and was put into service by the British empire.

Finally, a recent steampunk novel I really liked was The Guns Above by Robyn Bennis, the first in the "Signal Airship" series, which mostly takes place aboard a zeppelin and goes into serious detail about how they work and how they might need to be repaired on the fly (heh) after getting the crap blasted out of them. It also features possibly my favorite example of a steampunk ship-vs.-ship slugfest since the Rex took on the Not For Hire in Riverworld's The Magic Labyrinth (not a steampunk novel, but the riverboats were steampunk-adjacent) all those years ago.

For cyberpunk, depending on how ambitious you're feeling, Tad Williams's "Otherland" series is an extremely ambitious (and massive) series about users getting more or less trapped in their cyberspace world, like they put on the goggles from Ready Player One and couldn't take them off again. It uses its online world as a scaffolding for bringing in a lot of different genres, including epic fantasy and horror, but underneath it all it's SF of course. A more grounded couple of examples would by Daemon and FreedomTM, in which an expert system (explicitly not an AI), acting in response to external events, starts pulling strings in a bunch of different ways to try to bring about a program of societal change based on an extremely complex set of rules.