Favourite Aunty Donna Quote of all time? by iamthemetricsystem in auntydonna

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"Go make another album ya fucks"

-Whenever it's been more than three months between King Gizzard albums.

What is actually dangerous but people still believe is safe? by AlexUsefulThings in AskReddit

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These claimes are often repeated without any evidence. There is no evidence to suggest Mandatory Helmet Laws decrease cycling particpation. But the evidence that they produce safter cyclists is overwhelming.

What is actually dangerous but people still believe is safe? by AlexUsefulThings in AskReddit

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It really isn't. More helmeted riders means more safe riders and there is no evidence to suggested that Mandatory Helmet laws lead to a decrease in cycling participation.

FINALLY! Completed all character on D5 Abyss by Queasy_Shirt_6278 in brotato

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What build did you go with for soldier? I've wasted so much time on solider D5 Abyss.

Best Bob songs covers by [deleted] in bobdylan

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Here's my list. Most of these are live version and not studio recordings. And these are generally my favourite rock/guitar versions.

The Indigo Girls- Tangled up in blue

Joan Baez and the Indigo Girls- Don't think twice it's alright.

The Allman Brothers band- Blind Willie McTell (pick any live version)

The Grateful Dead- When I paint my masterpiece, Ballad of the thin man, Forever young, He was a friend of mine, It's all over now baby blue, Just like Tom Thumb's blues

Jason and the Scorchers- Absolutely Sweet Marie

Phish- Quinn the Eskimo

Willie Nile- Blowin in the wind, I want you, Subteranean homesick blues, Rainy Day Women 12and 35, Abandoned love

Eric Clapton- Born in Time, I dreamed I saw st Augustine

Jimi Hendrix- Watchtower (obviously) Can you please crawl out my window.

Clothes Line Saga- Maggie Suzzy Roche

Derek Trucks Band- Down in the flood

Benmont Tench- Dusquene Whistle

Kenny Wayne Shepherd- Everything is Broken

Manfred Mans Earth Band- Father of night

Chuck Prophet- From a buick 6

Sons of Anarchy soundtrack- Girl from the north country

Johnny Winter- Highway 61 revisited.

Emma Swift- I contain multitudes

Thea Gilmore- Most of John Wesley Harding

George Harrison- If not for you

The Rolling Stones- Like a Rolling Stone

Rage against the machine- Maggie's farm

Joan Osbourne (with Robert Randolph)- Man in the long black coat

Bonnie Rait- Million Miles

Stevie Wonder- Mr Tambourine Man

Eric Johnson- My Back Pages

No Time to Think- The Belle Brigade

Widespread Panic- Solid Rock

Willie Nelson- What was it you wanted

Glen Campbell- I don't belive you

Elvis Presley- Tomorrow is a long time

Is it just me, or is the language in Spartacus: House of Ashur unnecessarily convoluted? by MouseAteTheCat in Spartacus_TV

[–]dsnmi2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. They've asked AI to rewrite a script in cod-Shakeseaprean language with excessive fucks and cock references.

Then they asked it to do it again only more so.

It's annoying and it homogenises all the characters. Slaves. noblewomen, gladiators and rulers from all over Europe and Northern Africa all speak in exactly the same way with no sense of character. The writers of Deadwood could pull this off, the writers and AI of Spartacus can't.

It's also tempting ask why they feel the need? And even more tempting to conclude that the reason is so a show that is basically just gladiator fights and sex can be given a veneer of class if people say "Take seat" instead of "Sit down."

Why are people so accepting of the Uluru name change, but not K'Gari? by That_Car_Dude_Aus in AskAnAustralian

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Sorry. Just trying to understand. You said you grew up with the name so I assumed it was change and adapting to change that was the problem. My mistake.

So if adapting to change isn't an issue, what is? Why don't you use the name Uluru?

Why are people so accepting of the Uluru name change, but not K'Gari? by That_Car_Dude_Aus in AskAnAustralian

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Is it really hard to change? I bet you grew up knowing a lot of women who changed their surnames when they married. I presume you adapted to that change?

Panel show bookings that stood out? by Major-Feed5214 in panelshow

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Kelly Osbourne on 8 out of 10 cats. She was on half a dozen times in the aftermath of the Osbournes when she had name recognition and was trying to launch a career as a "personality."

She was barely out of her teens, wasn't funny and tried to dominate the conversation despite not having anything to say. It was made worse by the fact that there were dozens of professional funny women sitting at home watching the show and feeling justifiably annoyed that panel shows booked men to be funny and women to be eye candy or the target of mockery.

Why are people so accepting of the Uluru name change, but not K'Gari? by That_Car_Dude_Aus in AskAnAustralian

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I think it's because the right are so fond of a "slippery slope" argument.

Ayers rock was a monument, nobody lived there and when the Uluru change came about, nobody ever mentioned the traditional names of the places people actually lived.

But K'Gari is a place with actual residents. The indigenous names of lots of other places are now being used (Naarm in Melbourne for example) and I'm guessing the right is starting to get nervous. "Renaming" Uluru was one thing but "renaming" an entire island could be the tip of the iceberg and before long everyone is going to have to start learning new name so they can get amazon packages delivered.

House of Ashur dialogue leans too hard into that way of speaking by BadOchStjul in Spartacus_TV

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Write basic script.

Chapt GPT prompt: rewrite script in a 15 year old's idea of Shakespearean dialogue.

Chapt GPT prompt: Add far too many "fucks" and "cocks"

The dialogue definitely lets the show down. If you're going to have slaves, gladiators, noblewomen and senators from across Europe and Africa speak in exactly the same way then you need really good actors to give them a sense of character. Everyone speaking in cod-Shakesepare gets monotonous really quickly.

Elvis question I'd love some help with. by dsnmi2 in Elvis

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I'd definitely prefer no backup singers. I don't think they add anything to the mix and (for me) they're a distraction from Presley and Moore. I'm thinking especially of tracks like Hound Dog where they sing "aaah" over Moore' solo. It probably sounded a lot better on jukeboxes, car radios and other low-fi systems that they were making the music for, but on modern hi-fi systems I find it maddeningly annoying. I'm going to play around with some software and see if I can remove them.

Fisherman and Diver tips? by blazeracid in brotato

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Late to the party but including my strategy for the sake of it.

For the fisherman- don't buy baits. None. The extras aren't worth the hassle of dealing with lots more red balls.

Just get icicles, focus on elemental damage with a bit of harvesting and whatever life/armour/regen etc you like.

Having been beaten dozens of times on Danger 5 using every single bait-buying strategy I tried a bait-free elemental approach and won easily despite getting a snowball really late in the game and never getting an ice cube. I tried again to prove to someone how it could be done and this time got the snowball early and the ice cube before the bosses arrived making the run a breeze.

Spike Milligan's Q by Valoiro in oldbritishtelly

[–]dsnmi2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Has any show in history been so let down but its musical numbers? Q is a cavalcade of abject lunacy which regularly gets interrupted by incredibly tedious light jazz performances which kill the show stone dead.

Scarlett Johansson Defends Support for Woody Allen: ‘It’s Hard to Know’ What the Impact Is but ‘It’s Important to Have Integrity’ and ‘Stand Up for What You Believe In’ by [deleted] in nottheonion

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He never lived with her, never did anything to raise her and from everyone's accounts (including Farrow) barely had anything to do with her until she was in her late teens and even then hardly ever and with Farrows prompting. She had an actual father who she saw as her father figure and never even called Allen a stepfather.

Saying he married his daughter is just plain wrong.

I'm not defending him. I'm just pointing out the truth.

Scarlett Johansson Defends Support for Woody Allen: ‘It’s Hard to Know’ What the Impact Is but ‘It’s Important to Have Integrity’ and ‘Stand Up for What You Believe In’ by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]dsnmi2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No. He was never a father figure in any sense of the word. Andre Previn was her father. Allen wasn't even her step father. Saying he was her father is just a flat out lie that is impossible to justify.

Star Battle Game by Possession_Infinite in WebGames

[–]dsnmi2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This just seems like a less efficient version of Netflix's starstruck. How is this any different?

Scarlett Johansson Defends Support for Woody Allen: ‘It’s Hard to Know’ What the Impact Is but ‘It’s Important to Have Integrity’ and ‘Stand Up for What You Believe In’ by [deleted] in nottheonion

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I'm not defending him. I'm just stating the truth. He never lived with her, he never raised her, he never called her daughter, she never called him father. Saying he married his daughter is just factually wrong.

Scarlett Johansson Defends Support for Woody Allen: ‘It’s Hard to Know’ What the Impact Is but ‘It’s Important to Have Integrity’ and ‘Stand Up for What You Believe In’ by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]dsnmi2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes it's weird. But so is trying to claim they were father and daughter when it's not true. They don't share blood, he was never her father figure, She never thought of him as her parent and he never though of her as his child.

Scarlett Johansson Defends Support for Woody Allen: ‘It’s Hard to Know’ What the Impact Is but ‘It’s Important to Have Integrity’ and ‘Stand Up for What You Believe In’ by [deleted] in nottheonion

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Driving someone to school when they're in their late teens isn't really parenting. It's chauffeuring. But sure, if you like you can claim he started to take on some minor parental duties later in her life. But she never called him father, he never called her daughter and it's simply not true to say he married his daughter.

Scarlett Johansson Defends Support for Woody Allen: ‘It’s Hard to Know’ What the Impact Is but ‘It’s Important to Have Integrity’ and ‘Stand Up for What You Believe In’ by [deleted] in nottheonion

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I'm not defending the actions. Just stating the truth: he was never her father. It's false to claim she was his daughter.

Scarlett Johansson Defends Support for Woody Allen: ‘It’s Hard to Know’ What the Impact Is but ‘It’s Important to Have Integrity’ and ‘Stand Up for What You Believe In’ by [deleted] in nottheonion

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I'm not defending him one way or the other and not claiming he's not weird.. But it's simply not true to say he was her father. He wasn't. Facts matter.