Bitcoin bubble bursts overnight, dragging down stocks The title is a little misleading; while there was an overnight drop, it's really just down quite a bit over the last few weeks. This brings us to one of the main problems of crypto: stability. With massive fluctuations in price like this, you ca...

Is this some kind of CS Lewis reference? I don't get it.

Wow, that's... a lot more bummer than I expected lol

I heard Anna Kendrick is in a good sci-fi movie, maybe I'll look that up instead.

Crypto in a nutshell:
Imagine we go back to the gold standard except there's not any actual gold and, just for kicks, we make it so computationally intensive to send a payment that you have to burn a gallon of oil every time you do.

There was an interview a few months back where the director talked about the story being planned in four parts. They originally wanted to do it all with DLC but, after beginning work on the second part, they realized they just needed to do a full sequel, so that's what they've been working on. I don...

I recently signed up for Paramount+ to watch the NWSL games, and they've got a bunch of Trek on there. Since I haven't watched any Trek regularly since TNG (when it aired), and I've been in a Sci-Fi mood lately, what should I start with? (Oh, I *did* watch Lower Decks or whatever, which started good...

It wasn't terrible.

Your post, Hashi, perfectly sums up why I don't watch Marvel movies anymore (unless there's an outside draw like, say, Taika Waititi directing one).

I care about the things you are complaining about. Marvel fans don't. So, I skip them.

I was thinking about this some more. Without considering specific cards, we have a fairly small number of possibilities, and can actually count them. So there are three other players: A, B, C. Each can have 0, 1, 2, or all 3 of those cards. So the possibilities are: A B C 3 0 0 2 1 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 ...

I can't believe y'all are trash-talking Tucker like this. I'll watch Alan Tudyk in anything

I played one of them, (an early one) and couldn't handle the camera. Never played one since. --A I grew up on Sierra and LucasArts adventure games, so something like that doesn't bother me. But I've never tried the RE games. And yes, I'm the Rimworld player here, though I haven't played for a while...

Huh... "the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien's pen," but wasn't Morgoth chained at the end of the first age?

I started to write out the work and got some errors.

I'll have to dig into my math later.

Of course, graphic novels count

Having been familiar with the story since the late '70s, I'm just now realizing that Harold's the most important character in the story. Well if you define "story" (and many people don't!) as interesting people making interesting choices, most of the characters are straight-forward in the...

peter wrote:Ever read Lev Grossman's The Magicians, Av? Just finished it and can give it the thumbs up. Harry Potter for adults sums it up.

That reminds me, I was enjoying the show for the first two seasons, but haven't seen 3 or beyond. I wonder how many seasons they're up to now.

According to news reports, Stephen King has written an entirely different ending to the final chapter of the series that is also different than the book as well as a coda. Oh boy. Can't wait. Well, I might just finish the series then. I loved the book until the ending, which absolutely ruined it fo...

I always say "For people who don't read, I read a lot. For people who read a lot, I don't read a lot." Last year I topped out at 15 books, I think, which is a touch below my goal of 20. I'm picking up again this year with the goal of 4 books for January, and I've already got the first one ...

Just finished Fareed Zakaria's Ten Lessons for a Post-pandemic World . It should more rightly have been called 15 or 20 Questions for the modern world, with lots of historical context and excerpts from other famous writers, and some very interesting thoughts to ponder over the next few years. But th...

Avatar wrote:it was in the bag that was stolen from my car...

I honestly don't know how I would deal with such a tragedy.