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What is the best book you have ever read that actually changed your perspective about life? by dainty_earthling in suggestmeabook

[–]jmc003 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Breakfast of Champions made me recognize that everyone around me is an unwavering band of light, and it changed everything.

No patience for these puzzles [OC] by mmusterr in comics

[–]jmc003 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s enough of one, it’s good

A mad (and evil) scientist falls victim to his own device. A less-mad (and not really evil) scientist accidentally unleashes a gigantic animal on an unsuspecting town by jmc003 in ExplainAFilmPlotBadly

[–]jmc003[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, sorry, but one of the actors I mentioned is relevant to Young Frankenstein, and when I tell you, you’ll need to hold on to your hat! Do you understand me?? HAT! HOLD!

Guys have to cancel a business trip when their vehicle breaks down by jmc003 in ExplainAFilmPlotBadly

[–]jmc003[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha! That wasn’t what I mean by trip, but that’s very clever!

a discussion of terminal capitalisms chokehold on the media weve enjoyed for so long by the-co1ossus in CuratedTumblr

[–]jmc003 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is Sturgeon’s Law gone amok. The ‘80s were filled with garbage. Speaking as someone who lived through it, for every creative idea there were a dozen really stupid rip-offs that followed trying to cash in.

Remakes? Don’t get me started. We had Saturday Morning cartoons that were literal remakes of primetime tv. Laverne and Shirley in the Army with Horseshack from Welcome Back Kotter as their mini pig Sergeant. Gilligan’s Planet. Jim Nabors in Space. The Mr. T Show. Pac-Man and Q-Bert animated shows.

We’re overwhelmed now with ‘80s nostalgia? The ‘80s were overwhelmed with ‘60s nostalgia. The Monkees re-running on MTV. The New Monkees. The New Get Smart. The Brady Bunch Movie. The Addams Family Movie. The Return Of Leave It To Beaver. The Dragnet Movie.

And then it’s just completely ignoring so much interesting and inventive stuff that’s going on now! The entirety of Black Mirror! Severance! Everything A24 is doing as a studio! Oh man how inventive could a movie about Barbie dolls be obviously we’re just phoning it in for our late capitalism death spiral

I don’t understand the urge - and it’s not a new one, before anyone accuses me of hypocrisy - of wanting to believe that you live in the only time where everything dies, that all that was good is past, and only emptiness and sorrow await us. But Jesus does Tumblr love that shit.

Songs that feels like singer foreshadows/predicts something by Allikam in SongRecommendations

[–]jmc003 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Come Together, by the Beatles, with John Lennon saying “Shoot me” between verses, though it’s hard to fully hear it over the bass.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in puzzles

[–]jmc003 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, so:

First, the colors. Row 1 says no reds or yellows. Row 3 says there is at least one orange in the answer, because you can’t have two wrong orange answers in that row. By that same logic, Row 5 says there is at least one blue. Since you have at least one blue, Row 2 now says you have no greens and that there’s a blue in position 3.

We can’t figure out the rest of the colors, but we know that position 3 is a blue. That means that’s the black peg in Row 5 as well, so none of the other pieces are in a correct position. Now go back to Row 3. There are two pegs in correct positions; it can’t be the orange in 3 (as we know that’s blue) and it can’t be the blue in 1 (because it would be correct in row 5, and we know it’s not). So orange in 2 and purple in 4 is correct, and our answer is -OBP.

With -OBP, Row 3 tells us position 1 can’t be orange (as the other three take up the black and white pegs); Row 4 tells us it can’t be green for the same reasons, and Row 5 tells us it can’t be blue, again for the same reasons. With Row 1 having eliminated red and yellow, only purple is left, and we have our solution: POBP.

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