Rick Ward
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using GenAI == skill issue, get better or get friends who can help
I saw Ghostbusters at age 6 and never laughed at the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man until recently. I just always saw him as a Cyclopean monster thanks to that initial, uh, childhood trauma?
I may have been a stupid kid
I may have been a stupid kid
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I saw Ghostbusters at age 6 and never laughed at the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man until recently. I just always saw him as a Cyclopean monster thanks to that initial, uh, childhood trauma?
I may have been a stupid kid
I may have been a stupid kid
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- Where is Dog Island? (2012)
- Where is Dog Island 2: Give a Dog a Bone (2014)
- Where is Dog Island 3: Found It (2015)
- Where is Dog Island: Puppy Farm (2019)
- Dog Island: Origins (forthcoming)
- Where is Dog Island 2: Give a Dog a Bone (2014)
- Where is Dog Island 3: Found It (2015)
- Where is Dog Island: Puppy Farm (2019)
- Dog Island: Origins (forthcoming)
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
- Where is Dog Island? (2012)
- Where is Dog Island 2: Give a Dog a Bone (2014)
- Where is Dog Island 3: Found It (2015)
- Where is Dog Island: Puppy Farm (2019)
- Dog Island: Origins (forthcoming)
- Where is Dog Island 2: Give a Dog a Bone (2014)
- Where is Dog Island 3: Found It (2015)
- Where is Dog Island: Puppy Farm (2019)
- Dog Island: Origins (forthcoming)
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Bunch of sad men built the world's most expensive and racist Magic Eight Ball and then tried to convince everyone else that it was absolutely essential that they treat it like their teacher and their lover.
November 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Bunch of sad men built the world's most expensive and racist Magic Eight Ball and then tried to convince everyone else that it was absolutely essential that they treat it like their teacher and their lover.
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Acceptable answer
No. The Thing is a movie about a bunch of people who all distrust and hate each other trapped in one building as the tension between them slowly builds until it reaches a breaking point. It's a Thanksgiving movie.
Should John Carpenter's THE THING be officially classified as a Christmas movie? Let your voice be heard!
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Acceptable answer
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Interesting that the two Ray- names are so close together, and that they're aligned with Republicans. I'd have expected them to be further apart, and thus blue. You know, because of the Rayleigh scattering
To zoom in on the partisan names, here, we're looking only at names used >100 times (in 2023) and only 50 names on the outskirts of the partisan divide, labelling the 5 outliers on each side and the 5 most commonly used on each side. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/p...
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Interesting that the two Ray- names are so close together, and that they're aligned with Republicans. I'd have expected them to be further apart, and thus blue. You know, because of the Rayleigh scattering
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Increasingly hard to deny we’ve been Lathe of Heavened into our present reality
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Increasingly hard to deny we’ve been Lathe of Heavened into our present reality
I have two. Toy Story 2’s “When She Loved Me” flashback and the final scene of Heavenly Creatures.
What movie scene will make you cry everytime you see it?
I'll go first.
Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium.
When Mr. Magorium (Dustin Hoffman) explains to Mahoney that he going to die.
I'll go first.
Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium.
When Mr. Magorium (Dustin Hoffman) explains to Mahoney that he going to die.
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I have two. Toy Story 2’s “When She Loved Me” flashback and the final scene of Heavenly Creatures.
“Either you are guided by something inside you, or you are lost.” gardenscenery.net/p/on-being-i...
On Being Interested in Stuff Almost No One is Interested in
I bought a CD the other day.
gardenscenery.net
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
“Either you are guided by something inside you, or you are lost.” gardenscenery.net/p/on-being-i...
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Verdict on buying the groceries for Thanksgiving against the current backdrop of needlessly accelerated inflation:
Not a fan
Not a fan
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Verdict on buying the groceries for Thanksgiving against the current backdrop of needlessly accelerated inflation:
Not a fan
Not a fan
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
It’s been like ten years and I still get Disco Elysium confused with Dream Daddy
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
It’s been like ten years and I still get Disco Elysium confused with Dream Daddy
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So rather than use your enormous leverage to pressure the politicians you have in your pocket to restore these benefits you decide to drop people from coverage …
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
So rather than use your enormous leverage to pressure the politicians you have in your pocket to restore these benefits you decide to drop people from coverage …
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Duffer Brothers Used Cutting-Edge CGI to Make Actors Appear Happy to Still Be Making Stranger Things
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Duffer Brothers Used Cutting-Edge CGI to Make Actors Appear Happy to Still Be Making Stranger Things - Hard Drive
LOS ANGELES — Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer have revealed that they used CGI in the upcoming season to make... Continue this tale
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November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Duffer Brothers Used Cutting-Edge CGI to Make Actors Appear Happy to Still Be Making Stranger Things
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hard-drive.net/duffer-bros-...
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You Are Witnessing A Great Becoming, Charlie Brown
October 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
You Are Witnessing A Great Becoming, Charlie Brown
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Would a repost fucking kill you, Charlie Brown?
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Would a repost fucking kill you, Charlie Brown?
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I hope he’s talking about SPIN and not “Divided by Infinity”
November 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I hope he’s talking about SPIN and not “Divided by Infinity”
You are only a vessel from our God, Charlie Brown
It’s called ass-to-ass, Charlie Brown
That’s not it, Charlie Brown
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
You are only a vessel from our God, Charlie Brown
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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TEEN: you’re the only one who understands me danny. my stupid dad won’t let me go see billie eilish with gretchen
AI CHATBOT DANIEL PLAINVIEW FROM THERE WILL BE BLOOD: Your father is a bastard. Fit for a hole in the ground. You will go with Gretchen. Even if your father must die, as a bastard dies
AI CHATBOT DANIEL PLAINVIEW FROM THERE WILL BE BLOOD: Your father is a bastard. Fit for a hole in the ground. You will go with Gretchen. Even if your father must die, as a bastard dies
December 30, 2024 at 10:46 PM
TEEN: you’re the only one who understands me danny. my stupid dad won’t let me go see billie eilish with gretchen
AI CHATBOT DANIEL PLAINVIEW FROM THERE WILL BE BLOOD: Your father is a bastard. Fit for a hole in the ground. You will go with Gretchen. Even if your father must die, as a bastard dies
AI CHATBOT DANIEL PLAINVIEW FROM THERE WILL BE BLOOD: Your father is a bastard. Fit for a hole in the ground. You will go with Gretchen. Even if your father must die, as a bastard dies
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I have 99 problems right now and money would solve 98 of them.
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I have 99 problems right now and money would solve 98 of them.
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A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
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That name you trust in consumer goods: Gbnryg. What’s that name again? Gbnryg.
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 AM
That name you trust in consumer goods: Gbnryg. What’s that name again? Gbnryg.
trust the process but maybe don’t post every step
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
trust the process but maybe don’t post every step