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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Japanese Movies to recommend... |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2024, 1:32 pm
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I keep meaning to watch Dreams by Akira Kurosawa. Tokyo Story (1953) by Yasujirō Ozu is also supposed to be a classic, although it just looks to be a rather slow-moving family drama.
Ghost In The Shell from 1995 is a great piece of Anime. It inspired the Hollywood film of the same name from 2017. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Vaccine scare |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2024, 1:25 pm
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Replies: 71
Views: 6,411
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| There is absolutely no foundation for the fear of vaccines. Including the idea that it's not the vaccine itself but other ingredients that could cause harm. All of it is entirely untrue. Vaccines are perfectly safe. ^I am. I am saying they are perfectly safe. To say anything else is vaccine scare m... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: Favorite Video Game? |
| quizzymodo |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2024, 1:21 pm
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Replies: 71
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| I've hardly played video games since I packed away my old Commodore Amiga, so my favourite games of all time are mostly on that platform. I'd say the ones I liked best were Sensible Soccer and Pang. I also used to like Earthworm Jim on the Nintendo, and Super Mario when I played it at the local arca... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Disadvantages of physical media |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2024, 1:12 pm
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Replies: 24
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| The other thing is that physical media players, like all electronics, require electricity, which also costs money (i.e., electric bills). And if the power goes out (as in a blackout), you can't watch physical media either. If the power goes out, then you won't be able to watch DVDs or stream movies... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Trump team fully embraces RFK Jr.'s vaccine skepticism |
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Posted: 01 Dec 2024, 1:58 pm
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Replies: 70
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| I'm not anti vaccine, nor am I pro vaccine. I have done more than enough of my own research to be very skeptical of the vaccine industry though; it is obvious to me that there has and is corruption, greed, and selfish egos driving the whole industry. I have worked in academic research and have seen... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: How many songs use this riff? (Sabbath, Blondie, Maiden etc) |
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Posted: 30 May 2023, 12:20 pm
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Replies: 3
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| Led Zep did something similar in "the Immigrant Song". Thanks, but I can only see vague similarities with the Immigrant Song. I am particularly thinking about the following phrase taken from 'Children of the Grave'. Particularly the rhythm of the phrase as opposed to the particular chords... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Thoughts on clubbing? |
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Posted: 30 May 2023, 12:03 pm
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| Hey so last night I went clubbing and HATED it :skull: The music was awful and super loud. I really tried to have fun and dance but couldn’t handle the sensory aspect or the social pressure. I find dancing in front of people SO uncomfortable. I love music and I dance around like an idiot when I’m a... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: How many songs use this riff? (Sabbath, Blondie, Maiden etc) |
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Posted: 29 May 2023, 11:58 am
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| A while back I came across a list of songs that had a similar riff or beat to The Kingsmen's Louie Louie, such as Wild Thing (The Troggs), All Day And All Of The Night (The Kinks), More Than A Feeling (Boston), Dressed For Success (Roxette), Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana), and so on. But on this ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Resources For Describing Physical Things |
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Posted: 29 May 2023, 11:33 am
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Replies: 6
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| It is a basic 6th-grade vocabulary. As far as I can see, the primary purpose of the website is not to expand a person's vocabulary, nor to act as a thesaurus, but to act as an aid to fiction writers when they are writing scenes. For example, if the average person were asked to write a scene on an a... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: The Journey Technique for Memorization: how does it work? |
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Posted: 08 May 2023, 5:37 pm
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| Fenn & ToughDiamond, thanks those detailed responses. @Fenn, thanks for the explanation. I can appreciate why the journey itself and the locations in it are relatively easy to remember, but I still don't understand how the journey in my example helps with remembering the digits of pi. Say I reme... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: The Journey Technique for Memorization: how does it work? |
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Posted: 06 May 2023, 1:58 pm
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Replies: 9
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| I'm not sure where to post this question. It could go in the school & college section, or in the games section, but I'm putting it in the science section because it relates to the science of memory, psychology and neuroscience. My question is about how the Journey Technique for Memorization work... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: What happened to my smartphone's touchscreen here? |
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Posted: 04 May 2023, 1:53 pm
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Replies: 2
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| In UK railway stations we have ticket gates where you can either (1) place a barcode ticket (e.g., on your phone or on paper) over a pane of glass that reads it, (2) place your credit card over a separate credit card reader, or (3) insert a physical rail ticket into a slot where it is read. An examp... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Anyone recognize this tune/sample? Funkadelic? |
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Posted: 04 May 2023, 1:43 pm
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| I'm probably going to be no help whatsoever but hopefully may jog your memory, when listening to this ^ I heard Ice Cube - Bop Gun ... which samples Funkadelic's - One Nation Under A Groove Thanks. One Nation Under A Groove is probably Funkadelic's best-known song, but it's a long time since I've h... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Early 80's hidden gems? |
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Posted: 04 May 2023, 1:38 pm
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Replies: 57
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| This is a question for people who were 18 to 20 at the right time and dug really deep into tail end 1970's and early 1980's music, particularly underground stuff like Suburban Lawns, early industrial, some of the 'post-punk' and psychedelic stuff that would have inspired bands like Perry Farrell's ... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Anyone recognize this tune/sample? Funkadelic? |
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Posted: 03 May 2023, 9:08 am
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Replies: 6
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| Not sure, but it definitely sounds like Parliament or Funkadelic, or any related spin-off. I think the Brides of Funkenstein were the backing singers, and that sounds like them. Thanks. To me, it sounds closest to the Funkadelic song "Not Just Knee Deep" (especially the bassline), but I f... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Q. about evolution and ancestors of modern humans |
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Posted: 03 May 2023, 8:47 am
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Replies: 7
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| First off, let me just say that I accept the theory of evolution, and I am not a Creationist. But I have questions, including the following.. Now, you'll sometimes hear a Creationist asking a biologist, "if humans came from chimpanzees, why are there still chimpanzees?" And the biologist w... |
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