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    the AVClub has eliminated its comments section. I'm...I'm...FREE

    the AVClub has eliminated its comments section. I'm...I'm...FREE
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    Movies

    It's giving:
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    The Reader’s Nook - The N&G Book Thread

    We'll be in the area so a visit may be in order! It's a family trip, so that could mean a stuffed itinerary or the need to add some side journeys such as this.
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    The Reader’s Nook - The N&G Book Thread

    Heading to the Indiana area in a couple weeks for the eclipse and thought some Vonnegut would be fun and fine. Might reread Cat's Cradle or Slaughterhouse, but of those I haven't read Mother Night, Galapagos, and Slapstick pique my interest; does anyone who's read those have thoughts?
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    Political Discussion

    It worries me a little, more in the sense that we're increasingly locking down our children and making it such that a person is either unable to or has little reason to be out in the world without supervision until they're eighteen; I'm not saying this bill is an especially destructive aspect of...
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    STAR WARS! STAR WARS! STAR WARS

    I woulda used plot as a point of comparison if the other prequels were different in that regard.
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    STAR WARS! STAR WARS! STAR WARS

    I've been meaning to do a full series rewatch and am actually kinda looking forward to the Phantom Menace; compared to the two movies following it, there's something to be said for the sheer amount of physical sets, props, and characters.
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    ELO tickets 🥰

    ELO tickets 🥰
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    Political Discussion

    The post throws "woke" around to describe the law (keep it classy, NYP!), but the police department continuing to share those booking shots with toy/cartoon faces strikes me as deliberately antagonistic and dehumanizing. Like...I think the PD would use the same word to describe the law.
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    Political Discussion

    It was the same in my household; growing up the concept of my college fund was bandied about, and the cost of my education was always leveraged against me as what I was living up to: I was to behave and excel in school because they were footing the bill. During my sophomore year I was very much...
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    Political Discussion

    Most of us were 16/17 when we picked a college and signed up for financial assistance; it should be considered a parental failure.
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    Fitness!

    tbh my overall approach to mileage is similarly mood-and-circumstance based more than it follows any method or plan. i also escalate mileage across a week, though i tend to have a number in mind as i embark. i’m very there-and-back (which kinda necessitates a plan), and very bad at tacking a...
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    Fitness!

    When it comes to distance running, the common knowledge I see thrown around is to try to increase by no more than 10% a week. But how does that work once you’ve hit a peak distance and then reduce? In my case, I hit about eight miles back in December, then got a bad cold one week, the sidewalks...
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    Television

    This is me as well; I read the books ~8 years ago, just reread the first one in anticipation of this show. I think they’re trying to expand the cast (while they say they’re globalizing the cast, I feel more like they’re anglicizing them) and amp up the drama, and that seems like eliding what...
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    Television

    I know the story's from the perspective of someone who doesn't relate to others' reactions to the apocalypse, but everyone but Carol seems annoying or disingenuous in their actions. The detached, alienated energy takes a lot of the air out of things for me.
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