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"Write for an agenda." No. No. Write what is in front of you. Avoid fads. Engage, do not pander. To hell with what the politics are. Never pander.
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This is not true, the X'er has always been the archvillain of prequel hatred and my cohort who watched them as they released have a plethora of opinions on them, Zoomers have harder pro opinions of them, but they're not untouchable cinematic masterpieces, but neither is the OT.
the reason millenial nerds feel a compulsion to shit on the star wars prequels, despite the obvious cinematic brilliance, is they are played entirely earnest. there is no jim from the office winking at the camera, which makes them excruciating to the irony poisoned millenial mind
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Getting tattooed before a battle
A proto-manga story revolving around two groups of firefighters that got into a fight. Based on a true story of a huge brawl at the 1797 Mountain King festival in Edo.
A Grand Brawl Rivaling the Taiheiki
俠太平記向鉢巻
A proto-manga story revolving around two groups of firefighters that got into a fight. Based on a true story of a huge brawl at the 1797 Mountain King festival in Edo.
A Grand Brawl Rivaling the Taiheiki
俠太平記向鉢巻
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The single best joke in any Carry On film.
“I tried it once and didn’t like it.”
“I tried it once and didn’t like it.”
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The market speaks 🗣🗣🗣
let's check in on the video game industry...
- EA executes BioWare
- Sucker Punch hit with layoffs
- Ninja Theory killed a week after announcing its next game
- Halo Studios gutted, Halo taken away and given to Activision
- Bungie loses half its staff as Destiny dies
- id Software gutted
- Double Fine bombs twice, Xbox throws it overboard
- Compulsion Games dumped by Xbox
- Undead Labs dumped by Xbox
- Arkane Lyon waiting on the executioner
- Xbox torches 3,200 jobs
- Insomniac's Wolverine turned into a meme
- Ubisoft in freefall
- Red Storm reduced to an IT department
- RedLynx on death row
- Ubisoft Halifax unionizes, gets killed weeks later
- Ubisoft Stockholm, Winnipeg, Belgrade wiped out
- Wildlight dead on arrival, game lasted 45 days
- Sony kills Bluepoint
- Dark Outlaw Games killed before making anything
- Netflix kills Night School
- Build a Rocket Boy implodes after MindsEye disaster
- Spiders shut down
- TiMi Montreal burns five years, ships nothing
- Meta wipes out Sanzaru, Twisted Pixel, Armature in one day
- Epic throws out 1,000+
- Eidos Montreal gutted
- The Initiative killed, Perfect Dark dead
- Monolith killed, Wonder Woman dead
- Player First Games killed by MultiVersus flop
- WB Games San Diego killed
- Cliffhanger killed, Black Panther dead
- NetEase pulls the plug on Fantastic Pixel Castle
- Arkane Austin killed after the Redfall disaster
- Tango Gameworks killed
- Concord flops in two weeks, Firewalk dead
- Neon Koi killed before shipping a game
- London Studio killed
- Meta kills Ready at Dawn
- Take-Two kills Roll7
- KSP2 bombs, Intercept Games dead
- EA kills Ridgeline before launch
- Deviation Games dies without a game
- Riot kills Riot Forge
- Netflix kills its AAA studio before it ships anything
- Saints Row reboot kills Volition
- Free Radical dies a second time
- Mimimi Games burns out and quits
- Embracer bloodbath: 8,000 jobs, 44 studios
- Unity layoffs on repeat
- Activision Blizzard loses 1,900 after the Microsoft buyout
- Sony cuts 900
- EA cuts 670
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Evelyn Waugh chatting with Elizabeth Jane Howard about being old [he was 60 at the time].
Evelyn Waugh, born 28th October 1903
Evelyn Waugh, born 28th October 1903
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"I knew a man once with a wooden leg named Smith."
"What was the name of his other leg?"
One of the top jokes in all cinema.
"What was the name of his other leg?"
One of the top jokes in all cinema.
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She never should have read him the Lambton Wyrm before bedtime.
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Aspergillus Niger sounds like a black professor in Hogwarts
The citric acid in your food is grown on a black mold. Pfizer figured out how to mass produce it and it's how Pfizer learned to make penicillin.
Nearly all of it, about 2 million tons a year, comes from a fungus called Aspergillus niger fed sugar in steel tanks. The mold eats the sugar and gives off citric acid. The acid gets filtered off, crystallized and sold as a white powder. A Pfizer chemist named James Currie got it running at scale in 1919, and by 1939 a pound had gone from $1.25 to 20 cents. The deep tanks Pfizer built for citric acid are the ones it used for penicillin in 1941, when it was the only company making it by fermentation.
About 60% of it is made in China, and the US has had tariffs on Chinese citric acid since 2009 at the request of ADM, Cargill and Tate & Lyle.
Sprite, Gatorade, Hunt's tomatoes, Kraft mac and cheese, Pillsbury frosting and the liquid eggs on a hotel line all have it. It's the most used acid in food because it's cheap, it's sour, it keeps cut fruit from browning, and it holds pH where bacteria don't grow.
A 2018 paper described 4 people who reported joint pain and swelling after eating foods with manufactured citric acid, but the authors wrote that nothing had been proven. No large scale controlled study has been run since.
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