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Jack Mathews
@jack_mathews
I make video games, photograph food, make cookbooks with my wife , and try to say funny things.
Chicago, ILJoined December 2009

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Well , my Bank of America accounts are still broken and we're almost at the 90-day window where I start losing data. Your support refuses to give me an ETA on a fix or contact with someone that can give me meaningful information on my "escalated" case.
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TV SHOWRUNNER: Let’s pay off something from a prior episode the viewer won’t expect. It’ll catch them off guard and reward them for paying attention. “PREVIOUSLY ON” : Not so fast, smarty pants.
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“We are super excited to be talking to you to head up visual effects for Wonder Woman 1984. We just have one final question - you know how physics and gravity work, right?” “What’s gravity?” “Haha you’re hilarious! Welcome aboard!”
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Jan 1, 2021: “There’s no WAY this year could be worse than last year! Also look how pretty the moon is tonight!” Jan 2, 2021: Moon collides with Earth.
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Just thought of a great mechanic for challenging gameplay that might finally overtake the dark souls formula. If you are killed, you must work at a GameStop and sell a physical copy of the game before you can continue playing your version.
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Just thought of a great mechanic for challenging gameplay that might finally overtake the dark souls formula. If you are killed by an enemy, you’re forced to live as that enemy in other players games until you kill a player. Then you can live as that player and proceed again. twitter.com/dbokser/status…
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"Thanks for coming in, Mr. Favreau, but I'm confused - The "Man-Delorean"? Really? A show about a man slowly transforming into a stainless steel car?" "No, no, it's THE #Mandalorian, a Star Wars story of... of... you know what? Fuck it, your idea's better. Let's go with that."
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“Hey, so did you notice how the + in Disney+ is curved a little?” “No. Why?” “Never mind” - every conversation the Disney+ graphic designer will have for a month.
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It’s in a universe where the movie is about a journey, and that’s a compass.
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Dear @Disney, You got it right the first time. Water crystals have hexagonal “six-fold” symmetry. You still have a few months to fix your #Frozen2 Movie Poster, unless the sequel takes place in another universe, where water crystalizes to different laws of physics.
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It bears remembering with all of the Little Mermaid casting outrage that the original story, by Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, had depicted Ariel, in his (translated) words, as “top half fish and bottom half woman, because otherwise how would they they... you know?”
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Recipe blogs: Growing up under the hot Arizona sun, it seemed like my brothers and I were ALWAYS thirsty. [7 paragraphs later] Suffice it to say, water was important in my family. My Grandfather's Ice Water Recipe- 3 Cubes Ice 1 Glass Water
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Scientists: We used telescopes all around the globe to photograph the black hole Flat Earthers: Wait, but wouldn't only half of your so-called "globe" have line-of-sight at any given time? Scientists: Shit. They got us.
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Hi , question about recipe snippets. Been seeing a lot of no-ingredient "recipe snippets" used for recipe roundup posts to show up as recipe cards on mobile - searching for "spring recipes" shows "best x spring recipes" roundups as recipe cards. Is this "spammy" or ok?
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List of winter activities in Chicago: 1. Get sick 2. Avoid partner, who is sick. 3. Try to spend time with nephew during the 5% of time he is not sick 4. Immediately regret handshakes.
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