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What books would you describe as nothing burger?

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  • Your former-therapist needs a therapist.

    • What books would you describe as nothing burger?

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  • Atlas Shrugged or Dianetics.

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    Bun

    Air

    Bun

    • someone teach them LaTeX

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  • That's no multiplication,

    they just dereferenced the entire US economy.

    • Whats your favourite sound?

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  • The wind through a casurina tree.

    (Especially whilst sitting in their shade on a 40C degree day)

    • Which are some good documentary films? Any that moved you?

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  • I watched Lemmy(2010) yesterday.

    Key points.

    Lemmy Kilmister was a gamer.

    Lemmy(social network) is named after Lemmy Kilmister.

    A well produced documentary about a hugely influential man.

    • Does anyone have ideas for cable management here?

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  • Also good. Ramen.

    • Does anyone have ideas for cable management here?

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  • Embrace it.

    Add a happy cutout of a rat, to that rat's nest.

    • Which actor did not have a single bad film?

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  • Miami Blues was such a treat.

    • Rockbox 4.0 released!

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    • Rockbox 4.0 released!

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  • Excellent morning news.

    ROMs to turn portable-mp3-players libre.

    Great project, congrats to devs on the 4.0 milestone!

    [Currently listening with Rockbox on 512GB iPod]

    • What unethical experiment do you think would be interesting to conduct?

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    • Which brands do actually care about a healthy customer relationship more than profit?

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  • Dischord Records.

    dischord.com

    Fugazi record label.

    Record/CD prices are capped low to cover production and distribution costs.

    Personal contact and service, with real people, when ordering.

    Live show prices were capped at $5.

    A focus on real connection between artists and fans, rather than extracting maximum profit using music as a vehicle.

    Live shows were excellent.

    • Whats the most quotable movie?

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    • Clearly high as a kite

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  • Ubuntu minus the binary-blobs and corpo-junk = the good distro of Trisquel

    • What metrics did people evaluate arcade games by when they were popular?

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  • Gameplay is top, is it challenging, varied and beatable?

    Can you 1CC it, and get 40-50 minutes from that 1 credit?

    Did it seem like the designers and programmers were interested and invested in producing a decent game?

    Were their any hitbox fails or physics errors that cause massive annoyance? Skip.

    Then graphics and sound quality can influence the choice.

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    1CC games========

    Slap Fight

    Willow

    Wardner

    Heavy Barrel

    RoboCop

    Wonder Boy in Monster Land

    Black Tiger

    Calibre .50

    Gun Force

    These all took about 30-50 minutes to complete on 1 credit.

    • Blobfish

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  • Moisturised, Flourishing.

    • What unethical experiment do you think would be interesting to conduct?

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  • Glad to hear it.

    Proceeding with Phase 1.

    • What unethical experiment do you think would be interesting to conduct?

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  • Just wipe out ALL mosquitoes, and then measure what the actual influence is on the food-web for other animals and plants.

    • Does the beginning of "Money for Nothing" remind you of "Shine on you crazy diamond?"

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  • Listening in the 80s, no, they are two completely distinct songs.

    Listening today, sure, both have an ethereal intro.

    • What's a weird saying?

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  • As happy as Larry.

    Now... who is Larry, why is he happy, how happy, like a little bit or ecstatic?

    Be like Larry.