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I want to go ahead and wish everyone a Happy New Year! The first new moon since the equinox falls on the 7th of April this year, and that means the new year celebration on the Babylonian and, from the scant records we have dating back to the reign of Shulgi, ancient Sumerian calendars!
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Chaos Hippy posted:WHO ARE YOU Just an average some thing is awful dot com goon, who appreciates the end of the rainy season and the public performance/recitation of the world's best parenting text, the Enuma elish.
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Apr 1, 2016 15:08
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zoux posted:I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't remember who squizzle is, yall change avatars and I forget who's who. My rich and varied history of avatars.
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Apr 1, 2016 15:17
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NorgLyle posted:This is a spin-off from the costume thread but... seriously what's the deal with Deathstroke? He's a pedophile who murders people for money, OP. Some people like him a lot.
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Apr 2, 2016 02:13
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I want PBS to release Peg + Cat comics with ukelele tabs as backmatter.
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Apr 3, 2016 15:33
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Teenage Fansub posted:You're not allowed to name your kid anything too dumb here http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11388092 Chilling.  I'm glad that I live in a free and civilized nation where no one could stop me from bestowing on my firstborn the given name Evil-Chaser First Class Mandora From ThunderCats.
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Apr 5, 2016 05:22
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Muhammad is the most common male name in the world, I'm p. sure.
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Apr 5, 2016 13:22
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I've been reading BSS archives, and gosh golly did early BSS have some issues about Jade.
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Apr 6, 2016 00:43
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Dang, I didn't realize Alan Scott had such an accomplished brother-in-law.
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Apr 6, 2016 00:48
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DrProsek posted:I know nothing about Jade other than that I said she was the best Green Lantern at some point and then learned I was technically wrong that she wasn't a Lantern. Is there something weird or bad about Jade or was past-BSS just being weird? I'm p. sure she actually was a Green Lantern during the Winnick run. She lost her powers, I think? Then Kyle got her a power ring somehow? Idk. I also believe there was some never-followed-up hints that her plant powers were increasing somehow. Anyway, BSS apparently found her promiscuous, such that they disapproved, and expressed such sentiment often.
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Apr 6, 2016 01:20
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Endless Mike I hope your cat is doing well, and is comfy, and enjoys being a snuggly lap cat right now. Also best wishes for uncommon kitty vigor, that your feline friend may surprise you with a long, healthy future.   
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Apr 6, 2016 18:36
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A lot of British writers seem to adore Superman.
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Apr 8, 2016 16:57
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NorgLyle posted:I also hate people who read his comics so... Rude. <  >
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Apr 9, 2016 02:13
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Shiiiiiiit I missed the tipping argument. I feel strongly about tipping, friends. I try to tip as well as I can without it becoming ostentatious, even if service is mediocre. Servers aren't paid a living wage, and I can't get past the feeling that I'm denying someone the basic means to support themselves if I don't tip as generously as I can afford. No service is so bad as to be worth refusing someone basic financial subsistence. When I travel abroad, I keep tipping American-style, because I figure that it's only fair to offer the servers in whatever country the best experience of American culture possible. OK, that's out of my system. Speaking of Hulk, are there any interesting Hulk/Spider-Man stories? Team-ups, kerfuffles, anything.
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Apr 11, 2016 09:26
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Next on the docket: If red kryptonite made Superman incapable of eating sandwiches, could he still eat hotdogs?
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Apr 11, 2016 13:31
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One day Travis343 will be BSS mod and on that day it will  like never before.
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Apr 11, 2016 17:33
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I hold Toto responsible for a D&D poster claiming I have a thin penis.
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Apr 12, 2016 18:07
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The Dire Straits album Brothers in Arms is extremely good, and the best/only way to listen to the title track is to play the entire album all the way through. This has been my dadrock opinion.
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Apr 12, 2016 23:06
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Rush is actually a crap band that made bad music.
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Apr 13, 2016 18:26
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My favorite Rush work is when I finally got through Gemini Man's stage. 
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Apr 13, 2016 18:41
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What do they got? Lots of tarsand And a bunch of way mediocre bands Up in...the C?
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Apr 13, 2016 19:06
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Actually realtalk, Neil Young owns and that k. d. lang can belt out a tune like nobody's business, I tell you what.
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Apr 13, 2016 19:16
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Madkal posted:Pulp vs Oasis was the Batman v Superman battle of the 90s.
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Apr 13, 2016 23:51
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Aphrodite posted:Man you guys are old. This is Aphrodite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYM6qv-za8w
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Apr 14, 2016 00:21
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Speaking of people being Marvel characters—Squizzle posted:Let me go right ahead and tell everyone not to engage this point, nor continue this line of discussion, nor even allude to having read that post. It turns out that I can't draw or skillfully edit drawings in a robust image editor, so things have been slow going, but I have been pounding at this every day. Also there will be a visual component.
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Apr 14, 2016 00:29
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Rhyno posted:I'd like a whole lot more modern hip hop if the artists didn't have such stupid names. Almost all bands have dumb names, but we've gotten used to them over the years. It's right and good that the young folks subvert expectations by doing that for individual instead of babd identities, and in styles that sound strange to us. Young people carving out cultural identity niches is a  thing.
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Apr 14, 2016 01:57
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I read something yeeeeeeaaaaaars ago that credited Grandmaster Flash with making hip hop (or at least MCing) as a national thing as opposed to a transient youth culture phenomenon in some cities. It also said that he built his turntables from salvaged components of broken, discarded turntables. Since reading that, I've had this vision of the guy summoning a whole expressive style, that has endured and matured for decades since, with nothing but his own creative force and a tohu va bohu junk heap. It's way more great man theory of history than I go in for intellectually, but it's such a rad myth that I can't help but love it, and have myth as an unshakable foundation for my old man appreciation of hip hop.
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Apr 14, 2016 02:06
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Endless Mike posted:In reading Hip Hop Family Tree, the most striking thing is how little Grandmaster Flash is actually involved in the music published bearing his name. I really want to read that.
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Apr 14, 2016 02:30
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Jewel Repetition posted:I just accidentally found some Superman/Batman yaoi that is literally drawn as well as if not better than the real comics. How do you accidentally find that? Also was it just one image, or like a whole little story? Because if the artist didn't have to worry about layout and narrative flow, you can't compare it fairly. 
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Apr 14, 2016 10:17
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Rhyno in March posted:There is a line of Marvel themed dildos and I am quite happy to report that we've been asked to order them by more than 20 different people.
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Apr 18, 2016 17:40
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Either way, the dildo for Tony Stark, the Invincible Iron Man, should be a sybian with a (no pun intended) slick UI.
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Apr 18, 2016 17:49
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If you wouldn't annihilate a timeline or two, even very good timelines, for your actual child that you love, then you're a bad parent.
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Apr 19, 2016 23:16
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Archyduke posted:It feels mega disingenuous to broadly designate Eisner a white dude when Judaism and the living of ethnic difference was at the heart of so much of his stuff, and considering that he came up at a period in American history when being Jewish and poor wasn't exactly a free ticket to the White Dude Experience. I'd say Jewishness more than Judaism, but that's getting dreadfully close to a semantic argument.
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Apr 20, 2016 22:41
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Steve Wacker's office usually had a good eye for interesting non-house-style artists, a skill for bringing good work consistently out of talented writers, and a possibly supernatural ability to herd cats in orders to keep better-than-monthly schedules working medium-term. He masterminded 52 and Brand New Day.
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Apr 25, 2016 16:30
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CharlestheHammer posted:BND is not exactly an example of good editing, regardless of how you feel about the stories themselves. The creative logistics of it, I mean, which are very much an editorial responsibility. Wacker's office had to make sure they had enough moving through the pipeline from multiple creative teams working at different paces, to fulfill a pretty punishing release schedule. And they had some subplots and story arcs that unfolded through multiple creative teams, or which tied into spin-offs (American Son, I think, came during this). They had limited ability to push issues/arcs around the schedule to accommodate a slow team, so editorial needed a good sense of how quickly different creators worked, and how much advance time to build in to allow for someone breaking their drawing arm halfway through an issue, or something needed to get sent back for extensive rewriting, or whatever might happen. All that stuff is absolutely amazing editing work, even if, as you say, other aspects of the editorial work were less impressive.
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I'm sorry, Lurdiak, and want to echo what Endless Mike said. I hope your family can find some happy moments—sharing good stories and each other's company—in the wake of this.
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Apr 30, 2016 17:29
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