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Jul. 4th, 2023
Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
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icon_ukIn the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.
That being said, in the space of a single week, the SCOTUS has ruled that colleges and universities "can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis for granting admission" (but that the Armed Forces can, and that the "family legacy" system is okay). Also, they ruled the Biden student loan forgivenessscheme was unlawful, and that it is acceptable for a company to discriminate against same sex-couples based on the company owners own beliefs. What a way to end Pride Month.
A slightly belated "Eid Mubarak" to those who celebrated Eid Al Adha, which ended yesterday.
Twitter is continuing to circle a drain of it's own creation, this week it began requiring users to log in to even view the site, and then restricting unverified accounts to viewing 600 tweets a day, later upped to 1,000.
So I'm sure that we are all cheering on "Threads", the new "text based conversation" app being launched by... ummm.. Meta, via Instagram. Yeah, they seem like a trustworthy lot. Sigh...
Miraculous Ladybug season 5 had it's finale released and GOSH there was a lot going on! Rneyvre erirnyf nobhg gur bevtvaf bs guerr bs gur znva pnfg jrer fbeg bs qjnesrq ol gur erirny bs jung npghnyyl unccraf jura lbh pbzovarq gur Ynqloht naq Png Zvenphybhf, gur GEHR sbezf bs Gvxxv naq Cyntt, gur qrohg bs Tvzzv, gur xjnzv bs Ernyvgl naq jung unccraf jura Tnoevry trgf gb znxr uvf jvfu.
Thanks to tfwiki.net. I now know that the sound that the Gen1 Transformers cartoon used for transformations is: An 8 Hz pulse, repeated five times, with each pulse lasting a roughly equal amount of time, whose pitch can be represented by the absolute value of a declining (for alt mode to robot mode) or increasing (for robot mode to alt-mode) sine wave. So now you know too!
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.
That being said, in the space of a single week, the SCOTUS has ruled that colleges and universities "can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis for granting admission" (but that the Armed Forces can, and that the "family legacy" system is okay). Also, they ruled the Biden student loan forgivenessscheme was unlawful, and that it is acceptable for a company to discriminate against same sex-couples based on the company owners own beliefs. What a way to end Pride Month.
A slightly belated "Eid Mubarak" to those who celebrated Eid Al Adha, which ended yesterday.
Twitter is continuing to circle a drain of it's own creation, this week it began requiring users to log in to even view the site, and then restricting unverified accounts to viewing 600 tweets a day, later upped to 1,000.
So I'm sure that we are all cheering on "Threads", the new "text based conversation" app being launched by... ummm.. Meta, via Instagram. Yeah, they seem like a trustworthy lot. Sigh...
Miraculous Ladybug season 5 had it's finale released and GOSH there was a lot going on! Rneyvre erirnyf nobhg gur bevtvaf bs guerr bs gur znva pnfg jrer fbeg bs qjnesrq ol gur erirny bs jung npghnyyl unccraf jura lbh pbzovarq gur Ynqloht naq Png Zvenphybhf, gur GEHR sbezf bs Gvxxv naq Cyntt, gur qrohg bs Tvzzv, gur xjnzv bs Ernyvgl naq jung unccraf jura Tnoevry trgf gb znxr uvf jvfu.
Thanks to tfwiki.net. I now know that the sound that the Gen1 Transformers cartoon used for transformations is: An 8 Hz pulse, repeated five times, with each pulse lasting a roughly equal amount of time, whose pitch can be represented by the absolute value of a declining (for alt mode to robot mode) or increasing (for robot mode to alt-mode) sine wave. So now you know too!
Action Comics #1056
Jul. 4th, 2023 06:06 pmshakaloolooWe finally find out who's behind the Blue Earth movement and... I'm drawing a blank. Are we meant to recognise who that is on the last page? In my ignorance, I do not.
( Trigger Warning for Self-Harm )
( Trigger Warning for Self-Harm )