I've been to gay orgies with White Lines, and I've been to gay orgies without White Lines. After an hour or two you don't really notice the difference.

It's a term meaning 'journalist couldn't be fucked to write much of their own content or come up with any kind of original thought or angle on anything, so figured they'd interview a bunch of people involved in something vaguely well-known and stick the results together, then hope to get paid by the word'.

Great Job, Internet: Here's an oral history of how this mash-up of two of the best supercuts of the best mash-ups was made!

So I'm thinking we need to start running a sweepstakes on when the AV Club will realize that 'someone did this one thing, only like this other thing!' is getting kinda dull. I'll take 2019, right after 'This Guy Remade Peer Gynt In The Style Of A Motivational Cat Poster'.

Taking a crapper? He was stealing a toilet?

I always thought there must have been people doing it before Doom, but COMPET-N was the first big online speedrunning community and is more or less a direct predecessor of the current SDA (there may have been a precursor or two that I've forgotten, but as I recall it SDA was founded basically as the COMPET-N for…

Ah, yeah, makes sense. Pretty hard to ensure equal conditions for a PC game.

Do they play computer games any more? The "Done Quick" name originated (I think) with Doom Done Quick (edit: oh no, the interwebs remind me, QDQ actually came first), but whenever I see a story on speedruns these days it seems to be console games, and mainly platformers and such, not much FPS any more. Was there any…

It looked to me like they simplified the part a bit and used the same fills every time in the same places, so the drummers basically only had to remember and stick with a handful of simple beats and two or three fills. Which is a smart way to do it, and turned out pretty well! And it's still a fun song to play.

Also relevant: all the songs Yorke sang on the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack, in his best cheesy lounge croon. I've never understood why people don't think he has a sense of humor (or the ability to sing in many styles).

Any woman with the necessary cash could try filing such a lawsuit, but it's pretty hard to win libel/slander suits under US law. This one's not likely to get far. You don't need anyone's permission to file a lawsuit, so it's not as if this is being judged 'worthy of attention' by any agency besides James Woods,…

"Hammond, May, and Wilman all voluntarily left the BBC show earlier this
year, in a show of solidarity for Clarkson’s right to say and do pretty
much whatever he wants"

many points for both including the BFG-9000 and proper understanding of how it works…

They don't usually break out the hard choreo until a few weeks in. It seems like a sensible choice. A lot of the dancers are still getting used to picking up choreo (either doing it *at all*, or doing it on the show's time frames). They don't *need* hard choreo to separate the field, because the weaker dancers will…

It's doubly annoying because they're basically giving him credit for being an idiot at first: he's getting extra credit for trying hard because before he *wasn't* trying hard. Which, OK, it's great to see someone improve their attitude, but it sucks for all the people who showed up and worked their asses off from the…

From the 'art imitating life' department, that one:

Hah, that was actually my first version. :) Shall we say a gamergate supporter posting on reddit? probably about 'sjws'?

"a malcontented outsider status that isn’t so far removed from nerdiness,
though that status often metastasizes into bullying aggression instead"

So you're gonna claim Kubrick because, well, it's silly to quibble about him spending most of his career working in England when he was BORN IN THE USA, DAMNIT…and Nolan and Chaplin because, well, it's silly to quibble about where they were born when they WORK(ED) IN THE USA, DAMNIT? That's some good…

Seems to be kind of a Brad Bird thing; there were some fairly similar points made about Tomorrowland…