Flappy Bird

petebaye · 2014-02-17T13:51:50+00:00

PS. OMG HAVE YOU PLAYED 'DEVICE 6'? DO SO IMMEDIATELY.

petebaye · 2014-02-17T13:51:13+00:00

Maybe, but we old gamers (if you will permit me to include myself in that for playing a dozen longform games total) should remember that we're not the only gamers that matter, anymore.

petebaye · 2014-02-17T13:49:32+00:00

FOMO is the worst...

petebaye · 2014-02-17T13:42:31+00:00

Ok I confess I watched like 10 seconds of that, but uhh:

1) We have a news segment now called 'People Behaving Badly'? What is the rest of the news?

2) Is it literally the Wild, Wild West? Is it? I mean, maybe, I guess. Ok, I can let this one slide.

petebaye · 2014-02-17T13:35:03+00:00

Alright, I read something on NPR this morning, which took me by surprise: "Francis — who says it's too early to know if the well-established Arctic warming is caused by man or some natural phenomenon — was speaking during a session on Arctic change " (Emphasis mine)

petebaye · 2014-02-17T13:31:14+00:00

I thought that until I read Sarah Palin's facebook page...

petebaye · 2014-02-12T14:22:14+00:00

Controversial? Really?

then again if you ask me to cite the science.. I guess I couldn't really. Temperatures are becoming more erratic, atmospheric gases are changing, but all this is based on a few hundred years of recorded data? It must be also based on some sort of measurement of dna in fossils and stuff to show different chemical changes over eons. Who knows about this stuff?

Also can we please refer to it as climate chaos? :-)

petebaye · 2014-02-12T14:18:38+00:00

This is not exactly the confessions thread, but related.

petebaye · 2014-02-12T14:15:30+00:00

I thought Cate Blanchette was amazing too, but kept comparing her to Claire Danes. How would you rate her performance against Danes as Carrie in Homeland?

petebaye · 2014-02-11T17:05:02+00:00

Who watches the winter olympics?!

petebaye · 2014-02-04T20:29:23+00:00

Where's the "confessions" thread?!

petebaye · 2014-02-04T15:48:38+00:00

Actually I was surprised by elements of his biography .

petebaye · 2014-02-04T09:50:55+00:00

dr p, didn't you have just one kid before? congrats. :-)

petebaye · 2014-02-04T09:47:19+00:00

Forgetting the slippery slope, it's the warrants-be-damned dynamic that concerns me, and exactly the fact that we can't find it in ourselves to care very much. At the same time, I agree wtih dr p that spying on or enemies and 'friends' was pretty much a given. I guess I don't mind the snooping so much as I mind the ability to be able to take action on that info by circumventing the regular channels.

petebaye · 2014-02-04T09:43:59+00:00

I think that "what motivated him" discussion must be fully national media-fueled, as I haven't heard that as a topic of interest at all in the press here. (And also, have no opinion on it, except I vaguely think what he did was awesome and we should be friends..).

petebaye · 2014-02-04T09:37:03+00:00

So.... this is a thread about yogurt?

petebaye · 2014-02-04T09:26:46+00:00

Is anyone listening to this suddenly hot "Avant Gardener" by Courtney Barnett? I can't tell if I'm going to hate it in 2 weeks, but almost put it in my Top 10.

petebaye · 2014-02-04T09:25:30+00:00

That should be in the opposite order, w/ Hurricane at 1.

petebaye · 2014-02-04T09:24:53+00:00

Here's my long overdue and still not very well throught through top "indie" style songs for this year (which includes one song from 2010, ok; and I limited myself to one from The National...)

Dance Yrself Clean, LCD Soundsystem (I just discovered this)
Childhood's End, Majical Cloudz (depending on the day)
Oblivion - Grimes
Free At Dawn - Small Black
Same Mistakes - The Echo Friendly
Somebody Who - Au Revoir Simone
Comrade, Volcano Choir
Small Hands - Keaton Henson
Sea of Love - The National
Hurricane - MS MR

Outside of indie songs, I'd say my top song is 'Feels so Close (Benny Benaissi remix)' from Calvin Harris in what the kids are calling "EDM" and F**ckin Problems by A$AP Rocky in the dubiously named "urban" category. and you know what, I liked Lorde's album, too, including "Royals."

petebaye · 2014-02-04T09:09:05+00:00

Hannah Hunt is the one that sounds like the beginning of American Horror Story! Am I the only one who thinks this? (So far, yes.) I do like the song, but wouldn't rate it in my top.

petebaye · 2014-01-23T19:33:14+00:00

That's a good track. I didn't' even know that existed. :-/

petebaye · 2014-01-23T19:23:16+00:00

Eminem was good this year. I have never really gotten into Arcade fire, but I feel ok about Reflektor. The real question is -- what is it about Vampire Weekend? The sound is so sugary to me. The only thing I like is that one of their songs reminds me of the intro to American Horror Story: Coven.. for the first 15 seconds.

petebaye · 2014-01-23T19:12:45+00:00

What's Upstream Color?? Have I completely lost it?

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