Hello and welcome back to the long-gestating Mid-Aughts Meltdown. This week we’re exploring the life and ultimate self-destruction of Acclaim Entertainment, through the prism of a return to my roots in bad 3D platforming in the 2003 game Vexx. Information … Continue reading Mid-Aughts Meltdown #3: The End of Acclaim Entertainment
pull, pull the legs, the teeth, the eyes and flesh, make them see through agony they look at you, you see puppets, the strings that compel, the cut, the ataxy they wail and cry, you deafen, they lash, you bind, … Continue reading The 9/17/19 Night Thread Wakes Up
You know the drill by now. If there are any non-player characters around, you should probably gather them up before Disqus crashes. Otherwise they’ll be stuck here forever. “VIOLATION!!!” “NO-NO LETTERS!!!” “VOTE THREAD!!!” You decide that the people here aren’t … Continue reading Werewolf 100: The One Hundreding – Day 7
With your thirst quenched and your petite sated, you head to The Big Pep Rally! St. Scholastica’s has a very intimidating football team and it’s time to cheer them on. You sit down on the bleachers and watch the football … Continue reading Werewolf 101 – Homecoming (Day 3)
When the townsfolk awoke on the third day, something was different. Something about the world seemed… wider? It was hard for them to put their finger on it, but they felt like they could see a lot more than before, … Continue reading Werewolf 102 – Day 3
I’ve created a thread to chat about the 2019 WNBA playoffs The Single Elimination Games are done and now we get to the multi-game Semifinals. The Semifinals are a Best-of-Five series between the winners of the second round elimination games … Continue reading WNBA Playoffs Semifinals Thread!
Shipping or Relastionshipping is the fandom act of wishing two (or more!) Characters are in a (usually) romantic relationship with each other. The practice was invented depending on the source either by Sherlock Holmes fans wishing to see Watson just … Continue reading Weekly Who #9 Ships Anywhere and Anywhen
A place for “serious” discussions. Continue reading “In All Seriousness” Thread — 09/17/2019
Hello and welcome to the weekly fitness thread. This week’s topic is: apparel! What clothes to you wear to feel comfortable and confident? Do you wear any fitness gear in your day to day life? As well as the weekly … Continue reading Weekly Fitness Thread is Stylin’
Greetings, Avocadoans! It’s time once again for The Avocado’s weekly discussion of LGBTQQIA+ issues! Rules for this discussion: All are welcome! However, please be respectful that this discussion is specifically about issues and topics related to lesbian, gay, bi- or … Continue reading Weekly LGBT+ Discussion
Welcome! The purpose of this thread is to talk about all things related to the wonderful world of musical theatre. Each week (or so) I will post a thread with a topic/question for everyone to respond to. This is also … Continue reading Musicals Thread (Television)
Summary: As you can see below, the results mostly seem to say “don’t fix what isn’t broken.” However, there were some common complaints/concerns. Those were: The in-jokes and fast moving nature of the OT can make it feel exclusionary or … Continue reading Open Thread Self-Evaluation Results
Please welcome today’s contestants: – Colin, a museum educator from Washington D.C., got an important call from Culver City while in the Republic of Georgia; – Helen, an opera singer from Vermont, has not one but two sleepy retired greyhounds; … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Tue., Sept. 17
Hey, all. Some people in the PT suggested I make this a separate thread. As you probably know, tonight is election night in Israel. However, unlike the previous election in April, I will not be doing a liveblog or live … Continue reading Israel Votes 2019 (Again): The Lack of Liveblog
The pilot episode of Community premiered on NBC the night of September 17, 2009. Ten years later we examine its meaning, impact, and legacy. PLARN: Can human beings exist with each other? Dan Harmon’s Community was, at its core, a … Continue reading A Community Notification For This: S1E01 – “Pilot”
Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread! Come here to talk about movies! Today’s bonus prompt (care of PSF): what is your favorite movie to put on to fall asleep to? My wife’s answer would easily have been the original King … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (9/17)
Ten years ago today, seven students in a Spanish 101 at Greendale Community College formed a study group. They were Jeff Winger, a disgraced lawyer, who formed the study group to try to trick a political activist into sex; Pierce … Continue reading The Day Thread Is Streets Ahead (9/17)
Marmaduke gets some shuteye Continue reading The Comic Strip Club (Tue 9/17/2019)
This is a stacked week, my friends. We’ve got a major new release from Nintendo, some big ports/remasters, 13 new games coming to PC with roughly 80% of them being exclusively on PC and not any consoles, three brand new(ish) … Continue reading New Game Releases 09/17/19 – 09/23/19
Welcome to my weekly discussion of the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio. I’m proceeding mostly chronologically. We’re all done with the animated films and are now dealing with the partially animated and live-action films. The title comes from … Continue reading Building Entertainment: The Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studio. Partially animated Edition. Tron
This week’s History Thread falls on two seminal days in American history: the signing of the Constitution in 1787, and the Battle of Antietam seventy-five years later. The former created the document which remains, with a number of amendments, the … Continue reading A History Thread, if You Can Keep It
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