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Linux logo - 'Tux'

Software > Scripting Languages (sh) >

(on Wikipedia)
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git
http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/

A POSIX-compliant, and small, shell. See also sh.

Since it’s creation for Debian, this has become the standard “vanilla shell”.



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The-Red-Pill-2016-movie poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia – warning: ideological bias)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3686998/
was theredpillmovie.com

A feminist’s documentary about men’s (human) rights.

A refreshing piece of work, with the intellectual morals to actually talk to the men’s rights advocates being talked about. The contrast between “the sides” is truly astonishing.



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Payback - (1999 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120784/
paybackmovie.com

Betrayed by his partner-in-crime over syndicate buy-in money, and by his wife over his affair, a man returns from his assumed-murder to collect his cut from their last job.

An amazing movie that has a great tone throughout. It’s straightforward and blunt. Although Mel Gibson is flat, it works for both the character and the movie.



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Snipes screenshot

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Davidebyzero/Snipes

A multiplayer, text, third-person shooter originally made for DOS, but I know it from Novell Netware.

I had a hell of a lot of fun with it. Perhaps it’s nostalgia which makes me stay so fond of it, but I think the fundamental gameplay still holds up today. I could easily imagine a great updated version of this but I have and still do see this same gameplay in all sorts of other top-down games.

Spirited Away - (2001 movie) image

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/

On the way to moving to a new town, a girl stumbles upon and is trapped in a pocket dimension with an old Japanese bath house run by spirits and non-humans.

SHE SHOUTS A LOT

A spectacular movie. Youthful but with a balance of fantasy spectacle and horror.



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The Last Samurai - (2003 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325710/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/last-samurai

An American captain, suffering from PTSD-induced nightmares so bad he became alcoholic, is brought back into the trade as a consultant and trainer to suppress the civil war in Japan and fight against its old warrior class, the samurai.

Dare I say this is one of the greats. It has various classic elements without being tiring and obvious, and maintains a great pace and tone.



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