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Topic | Odd Bit of Wikipedia "Vandalism" |
Yesmar_ 02/16/22 1:19:34 PM #3 | Oh actually, I checked the Talk page and it looks like the number is for Honolulu County, which is what the "mayor" actually governs as there is no mayor of Honolulu proper. Still probably shouldn't be listed that way. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Odd Bit of Wikipedia "Vandalism" |
Yesmar_ 02/16/22 1:15:07 PM #1 | Someone editing the page for the mayors of the 50 largest cities in the U.S. wants people to think that Honolulu has a population of over one million. I looked it up and that's not even the metro population, so it's not like some well meaning person got confused. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_the_50_largest_cities_in_the_United_States I checked the edit history, and it's been up since last summer. Kind of surprised that no one has corrected it since then. I'm a little curious as to how long this can last for. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Which of these COUNTRIES has Never EVER seen SNOW?? Can you figure it out??. |
Yesmar_ 02/06/22 5:36:56 AM #5 | 9 is Singapore I believe, so that has to be the correct answer. 5 is The Bahamas, but I know that it snowed in Miami once in the 70's, so I'm guessing that the Bahamas was hit at the same time. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | I like how covid has been here for 2 years now and SBAllen never thought |
Yesmar_ 02/03/22 8:44:12 PM #31 | Just a reminder that a *majority* of our contests took place during the Bush Administration. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | How satisfied were you with how Deathly Hallows ended the Harry Potter books? |
Yesmar_ 01/31/22 1:21:20 PM #10 | I gave it a 3. It was a good ending, but, and I know this is probably kind of petty, I was just annoyed that Rowling threw out the whole school year structure for the last book. Why invest all that time in the previous six books in setting up patterns and rhythms if none of those patterns, etc. ever led anywhere? --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Top ten highest grossing non-Disney films. |
Yesmar_ 01/31/22 11:19:11 AM #26 | I actually found this very detailed topic on another board about GWTW's release: https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/20886-gone-with-the-wind-1939-box-office20-million-tickets-sold-in-the-first-year/ It looks like tickets in its initial run were only .75 for a matinee and $1.00 for an evening show, which comes out to $15/$20 in today's money, so not as bad as I thought, but still much more expensive than the average movie ticket at the time, and it would have been nothing but these prices for a year. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Top ten highest grossing non-Disney films. |
Yesmar_ 01/31/22 2:37:19 AM #20 | In regards to Gone With the Wind, it should also be mentioned that tickets for its initial run would have have been much more expensive than the typical movie ticket. Big epics like that were released differently than other films back in those days, almost as if they were theatrical events. They would have tickets that cost $25 and up when adjusted for inflation, although I'm not sure what the exact numbers for Gone with the Wind are. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Top ten highest grossing non-Disney films. |
Yesmar_ 01/31/22 2:32:04 AM #19 | Paratroopa1 posted... My mom was 8 or 9 when Star Wars was released in theaters and she still speaks glowingly of going to see it multiple times when it came out - it was a earth-shattering hit, just a huge fucking deal. It was well-received by critics too - I feel like it's easy to forget this but Star Wars was a Best Picture nominee! Star Wars was actually the favorite to win Best Picture that year, if I remember my Oscar history correctly! Annie Hall beating it was actually considered a pretty big upset. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | The Banning of Maus is hitting me pretty hard. |
Yesmar_ 01/28/22 3:48:31 PM #6 | https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1486479833932738565 Edit: I'm also reminded of when Schindler's List aired unedited on ABC, people actually called the FCC to complain about nudity. I can't even comprehend the kind of person that would have such a reaction. I almost find them being a Nazi sympathizer who is using nudity as a pretense to be more comprehensible. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | So what is your thoughts of NFT/Crypto in videogames? |
Yesmar_ 01/14/22 3:25:51 PM #172 | Walter Benjamin must be rolling in his grave. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Does anyone know the exact day this board was created? |
Yesmar_ 01/13/22 2:34:13 AM #5 | It was definitely around before the first match started, but I don't remember for how long. Two or three weeks maybe? I remember when people still questioned whether or not voters would/should interpret the poll as "Who would win in a fight?" instead of "Who is your favorite?" --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | So Ben Affleck says the future of the box office is spectacle |
Yesmar_ 01/13/22 12:57:56 AM #43 | Paratroopa1 posted... There's nothing more childish than thinking that liking dour dramas is what makes you a proper adult Adult =/= dour. That association is exactly what I am opposed to. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | So Ben Affleck says the future of the box office is spectacle |
Yesmar_ 01/12/22 1:27:30 PM #23 | Kenri posted... Lmao, please tell me this is a joke like I assumed originally The truth hurts. It's not just people that grew up on this though. Everyone has started to develop babytastes for culture, since with so much access to media, people would prefer to settle for something familiar than to take a chance on something that might be great, because something that might be great also has a risk of being bad. And with so much to read/watch/play/listen to, nobody wants to waste time on something they might not like, or which, (and this is an absolute cardinal sin these days) might be boring. There used to be a time when people would go see a movie like Rain Man "just to see what everyone is talking about," but people these days seem to resent that idea and treat the presence of critics/awards/etc. as a personal attack. Are great home theaters still increasing though? I thought the trend over the past several years, among young people at least, has been to ditch the TV and watch everything on your phone/laptop. Edit: Another reason adult dramas have collapsed is because word of mouth has collapsed. Conversation is so fractured and angry these days that no one trusts anyone else. Everyone is assumed to have an agenda (not just political), so why bother paying attention to such things for something like seeing a movie which requires effort to go out and do? --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Google "askew" |
Yesmar_ 01/11/22 11:48:31 PM #11 | I laughed. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Merge Mansion has lost their damn minds... |
Yesmar_ 01/10/22 6:00:01 PM #10 | DeepsPraw posted... I prefer the ads where the woman masturbates with a washing machine That's Lilly's Garden. Those were the percusor to these, and honestly both of the women look pretty similar. There's also a more...erm...mature ad that I've come across that has a similar looking woman. Clearly there's an appeal here! --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | okay who the hells kate moss |
Yesmar_ 01/10/22 2:53:14 PM #4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orN0a6wQk5I --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | okay who the hell hates dogs |
Yesmar_ 01/10/22 2:51:52 PM #47 | For a while I thought that I was not an animal person, and then a couple years ago I realized that wasn't it. I'm just not an "animal person" person. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Merge Mansion has lost their damn minds... |
Yesmar_ 01/08/22 2:31:40 PM #1 | Is anyone familiar with Merge Mansion, a simple mobile matching game, which went viral for having a bizarre ad last year? The original ad is below, and you can get a feel of what the gameplay is like, and how inappropriate the ad is for the type of game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymibnr_Ra2M Well, apparently since last month they have been coming out with live action ads starring *Academy Award Winner Kathy Bates*, and they are even more insane. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9EU4ZG8Q4Y --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | John Madden dead at 85 |
Yesmar_ 12/28/21 9:24:23 PM #15 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6G7qD0qQIs --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | What is your favorite Superhero movie of all time? |
Yesmar_ 12/27/21 3:11:39 PM #28 | Batman/Batman Returns --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Which of these is the most famous fictional character? |
Yesmar_ 12/22/21 6:37:37 PM #72 | I went with Mickey Mouse, since he's been consistently famous/iconic for the longest, aside from Santa, but I am unsure how well known Santa is to people that don't celebrate Christmas or live in a country that do. I doubt it's Mario, unless we're restricting this by age. There's large swathes of the elderly that won't know who he is. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Why do the most popular baby names sound like they are from The Regency? |
Yesmar_ 12/13/21 12:13:54 AM #1 | https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names/most-popular/top-baby-names Girls: 1. Olivia 2. Emma 3. Amelia 4. Ava 5. Sophia 6. Charlotte 7. Isabella 8. Mia 9. Luna 10. Harper Boys: 1 Liam 2 Noah 3 Oliver 4 Elijah 5 Lucas 6 Levi 7 Mason 8 Asher 9 James 10 Ethan The female names sound like the main characters in a comedy of manners, and the male names sound like a sexy, conflicted priest from a Romantic novel. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Do you like N Sync more or Backstreet Boys? |
Yesmar_ 12/03/21 2:38:24 PM #5 | As a kid, I always resented N*Sync's success, since they seemed like such a blatant knock off to me. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Whose fault is it? |
Yesmar_ 12/01/21 11:53:27 PM #11 | Other: Gavrilo Princip --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 381: Attack On Rittenhouse |
Yesmar_ 11/19/21 1:53:29 PM #462 | That is the objectively correct result based upon the system and laws as they currently exist. Well, unfortunately, this isn't something that can be changed by laws necessarily. It is currently illegal, as far as I know, to cause a death through acting recklessly. The problem is that the definition of "reckless" in a jury trial can only be defined by what society considers reckless. As sad as it is, we as a country, have determined that the actions taken by Rittenhouse and Zimmerman (on which I agree with others, that it is more egregious) are reasonable responses and not at all reckless. It is the symptom of a sick, violent, angry, fearful society. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 380: Manchin Ease Theater |
Yesmar_ 11/10/21 2:08:20 PM #489 | Suprak the Stud posted... Huh. That seems like something it would be reasonable for the jury to know about. I don't know if this is why, but hearsay rules are surprisingly strict. I was on a jury and the main witness was not allowed to repeat things that the accused had allegedly said directly to them. I guess that might be obvious to some, but I was surprised that that was considered hearsay. For example, you can say that someone threatened you, but to say "He said 'I'm going to kill you.'" would be considered hearsay. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 380: Manchin Ease Theater |
Yesmar_ 11/03/21 1:48:47 PM #144 | A batch of Vote By Mail ballots just came in for Mercer County in NJ, and brought up Murphy's numbers in the county to only 4% less than 2017. If that holds for the rest of the state, he could end up winning by 8-9% in the end, lol. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 380: Manchin Ease Theater |
Yesmar_ 11/03/21 1:06:18 PM #140 | I did see an interesting post on another message board about how people are missing the point somewhat in regards to the criticisms of CRT in schools. When people complain about CRT, they're not being literal; they're using CRT as a catch-all for all kinds of social/cultural movements that they're opposed to that come out of certain sectors of the contemporary intelligentsia. Cancel culture, wokism, anti-racism, etc... Whether or not their criticisms are valid is certainly something that can be disputed, but to focus on the logistics of whether or not CRT is being taught in public schools is missing the forest for the trees. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Just saw "Last Night in Soho" *All the Spoilers* |
Yesmar_ 11/02/21 1:35:18 AM #3 | CasanovaZelos posted... I mean, she died, so... I know, I just meant in case there was something unreleased still coming out. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Just saw "Last Night in Soho" *All the Spoilers* |
Yesmar_ 11/02/21 12:00:58 AM #1 | Great movie, but I do want to see it again just to see if the initial vision of the murder was a lie or if they used tricky editing to make it seem like Sandy was the one being murdered. I will have to dock points if it's the former. Yes I know the visions aren't supposed to be 100% accurate, but it seems like a bridge too far to just straight up show something that didn't happen.* If it was all trick editing, then give it tons of extra points instead, because I'm pretty sure I remember her being stabbed. I also really want this to be Diana Rigg's last role cause what a great one to go out on. Also saw it on 35mm, which very much fit the style of the film. *If you were to blame the mixup on the main character being drugged, I would grudgingly accept. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Is Smash Bros a fighting game franchise? |
Yesmar_ 11/01/21 3:53:27 PM #87 | Lopen posted... That's pretty much what genres are, semantics. ? Every genre for every subject you can think of has particular items that you wouldn't recommend to fans, and that you would recommend to non-fans. There's plenty of unquestionable horror movies that you wouldn't recommend to horror fans, and that you would recommend to non-fans. That's the case with literally everything. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Movies you have watched more than 20 times? |
Yesmar_ 10/28/21 12:46:59 PM #38 | It's a Wonderful Life I think I started watching it every Christmas twenty years ago. Maybe The Wizard of Oz as well. My parents have said that when I was little I would watch it, rewind the tape, then watch it over again, so who knows how many times I've seen it. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Super Warner Brothers game apparently real (character screen) |
Yesmar_ 10/27/21 3:49:51 PM #18 | Where's the Rick's Cafe stage? --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Reminder: Dune is out today |
Yesmar_ 10/22/21 4:58:43 PM #10 | NFUN posted... Duncan Idaho? Yes, that's what I meant. The main character's last name is still something fancy though. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Reminder: Dune is out today |
Yesmar_ 10/22/21 2:33:31 PM #8 | As someone who has no familiarity with the series, is there a reason why all the characters have flowery, lyrical names, and then Jason Momoa is Steve Montana or something like that, lol? --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Alec Baldwin accidentally kills crewmember on set of movie with prop gun |
Yesmar_ 10/22/21 12:06:42 PM #26 | It was a period picture, so maybe they were using an antique gun, and whoever scouted the gun missed something. Maybe there was a bullet lodged in the barrel, ala Brandon Lee? --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Alec Baldwin accidentally kills crewmember on set of movie with prop gun |
Yesmar_ 10/22/21 11:55:07 AM #24 | Variety now reporting that is was a live round: https://variety.com/2021/film/news/alec-baldwin-halyna-hutchins-shooting-film-rust-live-round-1235095349/ --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Sounds like No Time To Die is legit |
Yesmar_ 10/20/21 12:49:36 PM #69 | Ana de Armas is on my short list for Best Sub-Five Minute Performance in a film this year.* *I know that she probably have more than five minutes of screen time, but you know what I mean. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Outrage after 2 GIRLS win HOMECOMING but School Adds 2 BOYS to be INCLUSIVE!!!! |
Yesmar_ 10/20/21 10:46:34 AM #6 | Yeah, when I first heard this story, I assumed they handed out the award to a couple and a lesbian couple won, but, I don't understand the point here. There is no structural difference between King and Queen at Homecoming. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1367 |
Yesmar_ 10/19/21 7:17:14 PM #318 | MM probably overperformed a bit against LttP too due to spillover from the Undertale rally the day before. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | alternative sexual archetypes in the marketplace ("fastest Mario") |
Yesmar_ 10/18/21 3:54:15 PM #13 | I can not stop repeating "Shadow, what the **** are you talking about?" in my head. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 379: Kabulshit |
Yesmar_ 10/18/21 3:32:39 AM #358 | Now that Jon Stewart is back maybe he can once again use his influence to have a big rally about how it's stupid to care about issues! What a great use of influence! --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Best 1994 #1 Song Day 2 |
Yesmar_ 10/17/21 6:44:16 PM #6 | Phew, I thought the stuffer would try to prove how "edgy" they were by stuffing for R. Kelly. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Best Harry Potter book? |
Yesmar_ 10/17/21 3:06:39 PM #33 | OOTP was my favorite. I wouldn't rank 7 low, but I was always bothered by the way everything related to Hogwarts just gets discarded. Like there are so many patterns and rhythms that the first six books set up, and then when you get to the last one to see how any of that will pay off, it's just "lol nope." I know that none of what I'm talking about was really "important," but seeing how all of the yearly Hogwarts stuff changed year to year gave the books a great flavor. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Adele is back bitches!! |
Yesmar_ 10/14/21 8:15:00 PM #1 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ASj1L6_sY --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Commercials/Ads you hate |
Yesmar_ 10/14/21 8:10:59 PM #38 | Kenri posted... All of them, but with a special shout-out to Charmin Yes, the Charmin one that focuses on that Baby Bear's ass is so disturbing! --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | So at what point did you realize that PS2/GC-era games are retro now? |
Yesmar_ 10/13/21 3:22:16 PM #58 | I agree with the sentiment that "retro" and similar terms can oftentimes refer to a particular style or group of titles rather than simply "____ years ago." For example,Turner Classic Movies has been on the air for almost 30 years, and in all that time I can bet you the median age of the movies shown has barely shifted forward at all, and certainly not by 30 years. There is a certain corpus of titles that are considered "classic film" or "classic Hollywood," (Everything pre-1967, and selected titles from 1967-1980) and that hasn't really changed much. Film does have a particularly locked in canon though, to be fair. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Wendy's Manager pours HOT OIL from a DEEP FRYER on a CUSTOMER for COMPLAINING!!. |
Yesmar_ 10/13/21 12:19:26 AM #6 | https://giphy.com/gifs/ZU9DYXF8elqoQsevzc --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | Do you like this character? Day 1343: Misty (Pokemon) |
Yesmar_ 10/12/21 7:18:15 PM #37 | She is a trophy. --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
Topic | I think we have a new "Cats" |
Yesmar_ 10/11/21 10:51:06 AM #8 | Final bump in case anyone else has seen this "masterpiece." --- Congrats on Advokaiser for winning the 2018 Guru Contest! Yesmar |
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