Sunday, March 30, 2014

Geeky Weekly Funtimez

Monday
5 AM* - Mark Reads Terrier - Part 12
8 AM - Mark Watches Baccano! -  Episode 6
11 AM - Mark Reads Deep Secret - Chapter 17
 1 PM - Mark Watches Supernatural - 3x10 Dream a Little Dream of Me

Tuesday
5 AM - Mark Reads
The Color of Magic - Part 7
8 AM - Mark Watches Baccano! -  Episode 7
11 AM - Mark Reads Deep Secret - Chapter 18
1 PM - Mark Watches The West Wing - 6x18 La Palabra

Wednesday
5 AM - Mark Reads Terrier - Part 13
8 AM - Mark Watches Baccano! -  Episode 8
11 AM - Mark Reads Deep Secret - Chapter 19
1 PM - Mark Watches Supernatural - 3x11 Mystery Spot

Thursday
5 AM - Mark Reads
The Color of Magic - Part 8
8 AM - Mark Watches Baccano! -  Episode 9
11 AM - Mark Reads Deep Secret - Chapter 20
1 PM - Mark Watches The West Wing - 6x19 Ninety Miles Away

Friday
5 AM - Mark Reads Terrier - Part 14
8 AM - Mark Watches Baccano! -  Episode 10
11 AM - Mark Reads Deep Secret - Chapter 21
1 PM - Mark Watches Supernatural - 3x12 Jus in Bello

Remember, if you missed the sign-up sheet thread to get the time stamp of your "verbs" posts edited, tell us in the opening post of your thread or simply report your comment saying you want to be added to the list! Additionally, please remember that all video exchanges are to be done in the Black Market, which you'll find linked in the sidebar.

* All times listed are in the US Pacific timezone.

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The State of Spoils

After listening to the input of several others and considering things, I have decided to remain here at Spoils and continue modding. I am going to try and find someone to help me out with this, but I haven't been able to really think about who and obviously, of course, it all depends on who's willing. Thank you to everyone who has been supportive to me and Mo during this time.

I also want to reiterate once again that the haste of the actions taken on Friday will not be repeated. However, that does not mean that the kind of behavior that led to the (now temporary) bans will be tolerated. It simply will be handled differently, people will be given warnings and the opportunity to change their behavior and apologize for their actions. Bannings will be a last resort if they choose to ignore and disregard the chances they're given. I don't want anyone to fear being suddenly banned for a single mistake, but nor do I want people to think that acting the way certain people did will be accepted or tolerated here either. It won't be. That much will not change. Only the method of dealing with it will change.

I would like to end by reminding you all of the report button. If someone posts something that makes you uncomfortable (fyi calling you out on things does not count, I will not come down on someone who calls someone out on problematic behavior), please make use of the report button to ensure a mod sees it. Thank you.
17 replies · active 583 weeks ago
Collapse the Threads

Building collapsing outward

I kind of feel a bit like that building, tbh.
6 replies · active 583 weeks ago
Can we do a Good Stuff thread? I feel like we should do a Good Stuff thread.
29 replies · active 583 weeks ago
I post very infrequently (mostly because I only realized Spoils was here a couple of months ago), but I wanted to thank those who have been trying to quickly archive the recaps from TWoP before the site goes down on 4/4/14. I wish I was more technologically adept to assist, but I from trolling your dropbox thread, it appears great progress is being made. So thanks again!
33 replies · active 583 weeks ago
Alerting/Waiting/Flailing Post for Mark Watches Videos (for Apr. 7 - Apr. 11 episodes)


[cap from BACANNO ep. 1 ... qbirf?]

This is where Mark lets us know when the new videos are up (they're usually uploaded all at once). Please do not try to buy a new episode until he posts here to say there's something new ready to download.

Link exchanges and donations take place on the Black Market post. Below are links to the store page for each show (just click on the show title), plus a list of the episodes that will be uploaded for the week.

THE WEST WING
6x20
6x21
6x22

SUPERNATURAL
3x13
3x14

BACCANO!
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
Episode 14
Episode 15
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lotf reads Percy Jackson and the Olympians

This is the home stretch - let's see what will happen in these last ~50 pages.

Progress: ch. 16 (Sea of Monsters)
7 replies · active 582 weeks ago
Aurora_Belle Watches Veronica Mars

Can someone link me to the sloth thing? Because apparently Mark watched it 8 times in a row or something.

This Week: Episodes 6-10
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sorry, seems i messed that up. try this. http://youtu.be/t5jw3T3Jy70
Even in our Darkest Moments, we can always just watch Cartoons

Last few winter anime are finishing up this week, and then the Spring season starts and I drive myself to the brink of exhaustion for the sake of completionism. Let's get this show on the road.

29 replies · active 582 weeks ago
Eurovision Song Contest talk

Any Europeans out there who are excited for eurovision in May? I confess that I'm extremely into it now after years of avoiding it (and cringing at the campness and mediocrity).
All entries can be found at the official account on youtube if you haven't checked them out yet (you should!).
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KickbackYak Watches Princess Tutu

Up next: 1.04 - "Tvfryyr"
19 replies · active 583 weeks ago
I need to talk about the thing briefly, then something a little better
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KickbackYak Reads 13: The Readening

Current progress: 27/30

Currently reading:

- Affinity (198 pages out of 352)
- Animorphs (at Spoils Reads pace)
- ASoIaF (ACoK, Bran II is next)
- The Magician's Nephew (six chapters done)
- Worm (11.5 is next! *)
- More?
41 replies · active 582 weeks ago
Kind of related to The Thing, but more of an explanation about why representation matters
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rot13 for Tortall vids:

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I bought a whole bunch of books the other day and I wonder what you make of them.

- Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks. (I loved the first two Culture books and I hear this is one of the best.)

- The Terror by Dan Simmons. (I want to read more Simmons and I decided on this one for its historical setting and for being one of his "shorter" works.)

- Kraken by China Mieville. (I felt very ambivalent about Perdido Street Station, but I want to give this guy another go. I had a choice between this book and The City and the City and this one had a way more attention-grabbing blurb. "Giant kraken disappears from museum" is almost high concept.)

- Spice and Wolf volume 8 by Isuna Hasekura. (This puts me almost half-way through the series! I need to know how it ends, but I skipped volume 7, a collection of short stories, because I'm not made of money.)

- The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. (This purchase is long overdue. The book's been in my sphere of interest for ages, maybe seven or eight years.)

- Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. (Came highly recommended by a friend.)

Came pretty close to buying Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum too, but the cover annoyed me for some reason and I'm still not sure why. I'll get it eventually, in a different edition.
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A message to MemoBookworm, Tallake, Laura Tora, and GamgeeFest from Mo:
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It is snowing right now in Virginia. On March 30. This really isn't funny any more.
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I started watching Ouran High School Host Club last night and I love it but I have a question about something that's been bothering me a little.

Unciphered spoilers for the first five episodes below. (TW: cissexism)
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It’s so awkward to read smutty fanfic and the authors, bless their hearts, have clearly only ever learned dirty talk from porn and/or other fanfic.

Especially when one or more character involved in the scene is a period character with a specific and somewhat formal speech pattern, and in the fic he’s just like “oh baby, you feel so good” and I’m just like

2 replies · active 583 weeks ago
Wordy feels a need to talk about non-binary genders (including their own) and their startling lack of representation in the media

All spoilers will be ciphered of course, but plaintext discussions of cissexism (and possibly racism due to the historical roots of the western gender binary) will be there so TW: cissexism and possibly racism.
29 replies · active 582 weeks ago
Mark is going to read Utena in May!! -dances around- I'm so excited. I immediately commissioned three of the videos I need to see reactions of: Ananzv naq gur pbjoryy, boivbhfyl, gur pheel obql-fjvgpu rcvfbqr, naq gur frpbaq Whev rcvfbqr (orpnhfr gur svefg jnf nyernql pbzzvffvbarq)
16 replies · active 583 weeks ago
My computer's getting wonky. Constantly goes into "Power Save" mode whenever I do anything graphically intensive for longer than 15 minutes, and it's getting more frequent, so I'm worried it'll just crash one day and not wake up.

So! The one thing I really care about losing is my collection of MW videos - buffy, Angel, SPN, TWW. It's a lot of videos, and I like going back to them every once in a while. What's the cheapest way to back them up?
4 replies · active 583 weeks ago
notemily watches Catching Fire
48 replies · active 583 weeks ago
THE ITTY BITTY KITTY COMMITTEE HAS NEW KITTENS DEBUTING TOMORROW!

I mean, I love the continuing misadventures of Wylla Stout and Charlene Butterbean, but KITTENS!

Legit the main reason to look forward to tomorrow now.
3 replies · active 583 weeks ago

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