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The Road to Civil War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cR6Xa6fEAg

Someone made a kind of prologue/summary montage of the plot events and character progressions that have led the Marvel Cinematic Universe to this point, and I think it pretty nicely illustrates how well Marvel has handled their management of this enterprise.

The MCU is unprecedented. I'm still super-fucking impressed. Yes, I think it goes without saying that not every individual film is outstanding. But happily for us (so far) none of them has been abysmal enough to derail the whole thing, and it's almost unfathomable that they've managed to pull this trick off. I'm not sure if it will usher in some new age of episodic cinematic storytelling (and I'm not sure I need/want it to), but at the very least I think film historians in 50+ years will look back at this and note is as being something pretty special.

It only makes me even more irritated and disappointed at how haphazardly DC is doing their attempt at a similar thing.

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wow this is a very pretty interactive thing!

https://www.clicktorelease.com/code/polygon-shredder/

Holy shit. Do you guys know Gary the Goat?

I'm crying from laughing so hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLq0lRHczW4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUNMBw6p73k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1uDTbb-VfI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixbC6OmHQ9E

Gay Men Touch Vaginas For the First Time

https://youtu.be/KSsu1SFbjO0

oh myyy

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http://imgur.com/04zn19m

Can anyone recommend some long-form interesting / semi-educational podcasts along the lines of This American Life, Radiolab, Snap Judgment, The Moth, Serial, Idle Thumbs? I've listened to Criminal but I don't like that it's only ~15 minutes per episode. I want something I can put on and listen for an hour while gaming, not have to switch out 4 times an hour. And I generally don't care for Ted talks; the nice thing about most of the ones I mentioned is that it's several separate sections within each podcast, so even if one part is a bit boring it'll move on to something else shortly thereafter. I've also listened to Hardcore History but it's just not my jam.

Thanks!

OMG, the guy who did those amazing TNG edits is back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOnPXcjuGaE

Year end Book Recommendations thread

What is the best book you read this year. I'd probably say Oryx and Crake by Margret Atwood. Just because it's different than most post apocalyptic books. Other books I've read this year Blindsight/Echopraxia, American gods, Expanse series, Canticle for Leibowitz. all excellent reads