Palau is an island nation in the western Pacific Ocean, consisting of an archipelago composed of 340 islands. With a land area of 460 km2 (about the same as the borough of Queens, New York) and a population of just … Continue reading The Day Thread visits the capital of Palau
These days, cyberpunk seems to be everywhere. There’s the game that everyone’s talking about, of course, but the subgenre that’s defined by gritty neon-lit cityscapes and corporate dystopia seems to be everywhere these days. But if you’d like some hopeful … Continue reading The Day Thread is Solarpunk
Greetings Avocados, It’s my pleasure to introduce you to a great Christmas tradition that I’ve shamelessly stolen from Rock, Paper, Shotgun: playing Skeal. Skeal is a very short game and it’s freely available to download from itch.io, but I do … Continue reading The Day Thread Plays Skeal
Editor’s Note: Feel free to post as big or as small of a list as you would like below but please keep your lists contained to these posts and do not make your own post or fill up the OT … Continue reading The Pits: Best in Podcasting and Videos 2020
Kitty Horrorshow is an indie video game creator, known for her (surprise, surprise) horror games. Her games have a very retro, low-fi aesthetic, reminiscent of the early days of 3D in video games, and unlike a lot of stuff in … Continue reading The Kitty Horrorshow Day Thread
For a long time now, I’ve considered David Lynch to be one of my favourite directors. It started with Twin Peaks getting its hooks into me, as I’d long heard of how influential it was on genre television of the … Continue reading Late to the Party: Eraserhead
The southwestern coast of Africa is home to Namibia, one of Africa’s largest and least-densely populated countries, home to just 2.5 million people spread over more than 800,000 square kilometres. Namibia is also home to the desert from which it … Continue reading The Day Thread Visits Where the Desert Meets the Sea
The Big Snit is a short animated film, directed by Richard Condie and released by the National Film Board of Canada in 1985. The ten-minute short is is about a married couple, who begin fighting over a game of Scrabble … Continue reading The Big Snit Night Thread
The North American House Hippo is a small, mostly nocturnal creature found throughout Canada and the Eastern United States. House hippos have adapted very well to urban landscapes, and are frequently found inhabiting people’s homes, surviving on foraged food and … Continue reading The North American House Hippo Day Thread
The southeastern part of Hudson Bay is an incredibly remote place that also happens to be filled with some fascinating little geographic oddities. First is the featured image, the Nastapoka Arc, a nearly perfect circular arc, covering a little over … Continue reading The Day Thread visits northern Quebec
May 25th is Towel Day, the annual tribute to Douglas Adams and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Celebrating is simple, just be sure you know where your towel is as you go about your day. To quote the first … Continue reading The Towel Day Thread
It’s winner-take-all time. What’s it going to be, nachos or buffalo wings? Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Appetizer – Finals
Apologies for the slight delay in getting this up, I had a few things going on yesterday that kept me from getting this up. Regardless, we’re now on to the semi-finals! Who will get to go for the gold next … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Appetizer – Semifinals
After a long break for Easter, the tournament resumes at a critical phase. We’re down to the heavyweights now. Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Appetizer – Quarterfinals
Things are tightening up in the battle for the best appetizer, and some strong contenders are starting to get sent home. Which entrants will make it on to the quarterfinals? Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Appetizer – Savoury 16
Half the field is gone, and we’re on to the round of 32. Time to vote! Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Appetizer – Round of 32
Hello everyone, and welcome to the first round of the Avocado’s favourite appetizer tournament. Just a couple of quick programming notes: first of all, I’ve tried to seed things as fairly as I can, to keep the most popular nominees … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Appetizer – Round of 64
We’ve had some dessert-themed food tournaments, but following a recent (ish) discussion in the OT, it seemed like a tournament for anti-dessert (known to some as appetizers or starters) would also be fun. I’ll run the nominations themselves this week, … Continue reading The Avocado’s Favourite Appetizer: Nominations
The finals are here, and it’s time for… Marge vs. the Volcano! Continue reading The XKCD Versus Tournament, Finals
It’s getting down to the wire now. Only four heavy hitters remain, who will end up taking it? Continue reading The XKCD Versus Tournament, Semifinals
It’s on to the quarterfinals, now, and this tournament is teaching me many things about this site. For one thing, turns out we don’t like comic books all that much, unless they’re French. And we’re also big fans of geology … Continue reading The XKCD Versus Tournament, Quarterfinals
