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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 open up your own or fill up the OT … Continue reading The Pits: Best in Miscellaneous 2018
A discussion of all things podcast related from throughout the week. Featured Podcast: We Hate Movies – Terminator 2: Judgement Day We Hate Movies becomes We LOVE Movies this month as they watch some of their favorite film of all … Continue reading Pod People 12.10.18
Today is the final day of Hanukkah, which ends at sundown tonight. I’m not Jewish, but I did celebrate by eating a lot of food deep-fried in oil. What else did you do this weekend? Continue reading What Did You Do This Weekend?
Inspired by Moon!’s Thursday music thread prompt for cover versions I wanted to ask if any of you have tried to replicate a favorite restaurant dish at home and what kind of success you had. Replicating a restaurant dish without … Continue reading Cover Versions Sunday Food Thread, 12/9
Insert pet pics here. Continue reading The Pet Thread Abides
This is a season when a lot of us have to go around gathering gifts for various relatives. Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes you have absolutely no idea what to get. This thread aims to be a space where we can … Continue reading Gifting Thread
“Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door – that way Lumbergh can’t see me, hehe – and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour.” -Peter … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 12/7/2018 -Tardy Edition
Have you ever seen those posts about machine learning generated movie scripts or D&D monster names or pies? I have and I got curious about it. I’ve been toying with neural networks for a bit and in particular with text … Continue reading A Neural Network Creates Some Anime
Instructions! Ask questions about anything that might require a bit of thought or research. The OTs and PTs fly by so quick not many eyeballs might catch your query. Put them here and they last all week. Check back to … Continue reading Avocado Pop Culture and More Reference Desk – 3
Some guidelines to help this space be a positive experience for everyone: ☮ As always with the Avocado, don’t feel compelled to share beyond your comfort level. ☮ Anyone who identifies as female, or who was socialized female/AFAB/otherwise has firsthand experience with … Continue reading The Women+ Thread Is Teary
Happy Thursday, Craftocados! First and foremost: Whatcha makin’ this week? Our discussion this week is about crafting and gifting. Many of you made things for Giftmas, or are up to your eyeballs in trying to have things done for the … Continue reading The Craftocado – Gifting
Hey true crime fans, want to talk with your fellow Avocados about a favorite case, a recent piece of news, a podcast you’re catching up on, a documentary, on anything else true crime? Welcome to the weekly true crime open … Continue reading True Crime-ocado: A Weekly Discussion For All Things True Crime
I’m going to put this column on hiatus for now. As a belabored pun to tie together this column about endings and “To Boldly Sew,” here’s my question for this week: What dangling plot thread (get it, thread?) do you wish Star Trek had followed up on? Continue reading This Week in Trek: Loose Threads
Thriftstorm is Captain Video’s secondhand anthropology project. Follow @Thriftstorm on Twitter for the latest news on things people were just going to throw away. Artifact: Mulligan Stew comic book, no issue number. Description: Color, printed on impressively cheap paper. Water damaged. … Continue reading Thriftstorm #15 – You Will Have Good Nutrition if It Kills You
Sorry for the hasty thread. I was busy at work and forgot to put one up. You know the drill. Talk about what you’ve been watching/playing/eating/reading/listening to lately! Or not lately. I’m not your boss. (Header image from Noragami, just … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (December 5th, 2018)
Have at it, folks! Continue reading Tolerable Discussions 12.5.2018
A place for “serous” discussions. Continue reading “In All Seriousness” Thread — 12/04/2018
This thread comes to you courtesy of Viceroy Fizzlebottom- I promised to make it upon his suggestion but then had to finish school. In his words: “Too obscure quotes/references. You don’t often quote them because you suspect they don’t have … Continue reading Too Obscure Quotes/References
This is the space for our members to discuss and share their creative projects, ranging from written works to drawings, photography, and even craft projects such as knitting and woodworking. Self promotion is welcome (websites where we can view and/or … Continue reading The Creative Endeavors Thread Gets Ready To Rumble
Welcome to this week’s History Thread! The broader theme of this discussion is self-conscious archaism, the act of deliberately looking back to the past as a source of inspiration and emulating it in some way. This umbrella term also covers … Continue reading The Weekly History Thread Appropriates the Past for Its Own Ends
A discussion of all things podcast related from throughout the week. Featured Podcast: Doughboys – Dairy Queen 2 with Don’t Stop or We’ll Die Paul Rust and Michael Cassady, the duo that makes up Don’t Stop or We’ll Die, can … Continue reading Pod People 12.3.18
