This is the round of 16 for the 3D years of video games, covering games roughly between 1995-99 including the Playstation and N64. Please vote for one game in each pairing. The top voted game in each pair will advance to the … Continue reading Best Video Game Tournament – 3D Years – Round of 16
What a week! Here’s a rundown of some of the stories we talked about lately. In the nation soon to be formerly known as the UK, all is not well. Theresa May spent all that time negotiating a deal with … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Tries To Sort This All Out
A happy, felicitous, propitious, auspicious birthday to Peter Roget, born on this day in 1779! He was the author of Roget’s Thesaurus! So, next time you visit thesaurus.com because you repeated the same word too many times in your paper … Continue reading Roget’s Night Thread
Sometimes moving forward means looking backward, understanding how to progress by figuring out how the present came to be. Chapter 2 is spent largely in the past, but make no mistake, this is progress. If Chapter 1 was dumping all … Continue reading Legion, Chapter 2
Hello friends, sepia-toned childhood memories home movie! I’m fascinated by childhood memories. I’m fascinated mostly by other people’s, because I have so few of my own. For whatever reason, my life before 18 is almost entirely obscured thick fog, save … Continue reading Childhood Memories Thread
Tonight on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend… Rebecca agrees to help Darryl by offering to baby-sit; an unexpected guest crashes the evening; Paula throws a game night. Oh boy, babies! Talk about it here. Continue reading Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season 4 Episode 10
Chapter 1 We are in the Sixties…maybe. The Who rail against us as we speed through David’s youth, glimpses of carefree happiness sprinkled in a path of growing trouble. The pace here is harried, and the cheery music placed against … Continue reading Legion, Chapter 1
After each Great House buried their respective dead, they retired for the night, some of them not expecting to wake up to see another sunrise. Morning came, and they all slowly entered the dining hall to break their fast, half-dreading … Continue reading Werewolf 82: You Win or You Die (Day III)
Hey, kitty girls! Welcome to another episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 4! Last week ended with the gag of the season: all four previously-eliminated queens returned to the competition! This week, All-Stars rules have been suspended — the remaining queens … Continue reading RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 4: Episode 6 Discussion Thread
Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Jan. 18 – Today’s contestants are: – David, a cocktail bartender from New York, proposed during a pub quiz; – Megan, a wildlife technician from California, is an amateur belly dancer; and – John, a microbiologist … Continue reading Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Jan. 18
What is the point of militias? Intellectually I understand them, they are outlets for paranoia, outrage, reactionary politics, and blunt power fantasies. But what goals do they actually hope to achieve. Would they actually want an apocalypse or military coup … Continue reading Movie Review: The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
Children, before the invention of the Internet there was a problem that we didn’t know was a problem: being able to learn who That Guy In That Movie was instantly, and trying to figure out The Lady From The Show … Continue reading Let’s Read Teen World, October 1972!
Brighten up the bleak midwinter with GIFs 🙂 1- Post a SFW or spoilered Gif 2- Identify the source 3 – ??? 4 – profit Continue reading Identify This Gif
WARNING: This is a Not Safe For Work (NSFW) discussion! If you are afraid of others seeing what’s on your screen, leave now and come back later! Greetings, Avocadoans! Welcome to the second LGBTQQIA+ discussion of the week, this one … Continue reading The LGBT+ Sex & Relationships Discussion
Hey, so this discussion won the Pits Award for “Favorite Thread That Doesn’t Reoccur Enough“! So, thanks! … and here, have another! Tell us about a fact that you discovered embarrassingly late in life! Or something obscure that you just … Continue reading Things You Didn’t Know
Thanks to Captain Video’s Day Thread – I was going to make this a subthread but I wanted to make a separate thread altogether. What is your favorite episode of the Twilight Zone? I have included a list of all episodes … Continue reading Favorite Episode of the Twilight Zone
Hey, all; Happy Friday- So, for all of you keeping score at home, we are now in day 27 of the longest shutdown in our nation’s history, with depressingly no end in-sight. While I gave them a shout-out … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 1/18/2019 – Still Shutdown
Hello, and welcome to a far out edition of the Weekly Shuffle Thread! The Shuffle Thread is your favorite place to show off your shuffle, whether you’re on the Earth or up in SPACE! Today our theme is songs with … Continue reading The Weekly Shuffle Thread… In SPACE!
I’m rewatching The Twilight Zone on Netflix, and it’s fascinating to see the episodes in chronological order. Something I picked up on was the recurring presence of a newspaper called The Daily Chronicle, which I think first appears in episode 8, “Time … Continue reading The Daily Chronicle Day Thread (Published Daily)
Well here we are. The eve of the eve of the eve of the eve of the 91st Oscar nominations. I have to admit something, Awardocados: this year’s Oscar nominations are going to be a mess. I’m a broken record … Continue reading The Road to the 91st Oscars, Part III: Nominations Eve Eve Eve Eve
Welcome back to Franchise Festival, where we explore and discuss the history of noteworthy video game series from the last four decades. Older entries can be found here. This week we will be darkly stalking the facts about Darkstalkers, a … Continue reading Franchise Festival #46: Darkstalkers
