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Hey thumbs, if you're planning to go to PAX East this year, we're planning a meetup in the Idle Thumbs Slack channel #paxemeetsmeetsmeets Join us! We're tentatively looking at a dinner and/or drinks thing in the Seaport area on Saturday at 7pm. https://idlethumbsreaders.slack.com/messages/C9L7R0AQ2 Click here if you still need a Slack invite: https://idlethumbsreaders.slack.com/join/shared_invite/enQtMzIyMzUzMjM3Mzk5LTJkYzExZDAxOTMwODdjZWJkNTQxYzY1NzlkYjM1NGU0MmE5YjY1ZGMzNDNlYTkwYTJiZjUwN2VlNWIyYTNmZTc

While Independence Day 2 may have been tame Goldblum (Tameblum if you will), you guys need to see this ad for the film in which Jeff Goldblum playing David Levinson meets "Jeff Goldblum the actor".

Oops, didn't check the forums for a few days. I'll try and drop in slack tomorrow night to get the details!

Any Thumbs coming to PAX Prime East this year? (or want to?)

Bring back Sean for Idle Thumbs 300(0).

Bring back Sean for Idle Thumbs 300(0).

As a reader, I'm excited to see what happens next with the podcast. Are there any plans to get Sean back on the cast in any capacity (formal or occasional)? I know running a company is hard work but I miss his perspective.

I totally thought he was going to at the end of the video.

I got a super weird call-out from Chris in this episode around the 1:16:30 mark. Presumably, he was trying to find the name of the guy who sent in the Steam refund email but he accidentally read mine because it was next to it in the podcast inbox? At any rate, the refund whale stuff was way more entertaining. XD

Anyone coming to Boston for this? I'd love to organize a meetup. With a bunch of Thumbs back on the East Coast (Rob and Danielle, perhaps), I hope we can get a good showing. I'll update the thread when the schedule comes out.

Reminder: 6pm at booth #9177 (look for the guy demo'ing Gravity Wolf!) on Saturday! See you there!

I didn't do this at my first PAX a few years ago (not sure if they had it back then), but this looks promising: http://east.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/pax-orientation RE: Tamo Sounds good! Here's the map link; it's right across from the convention center: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tamo+Bar/@42.3462363,-71.0495148,15z/ The general sentiment seems to be Saturday for dinner and/or drinks (sorry kickinthehead, but concerts don't start until 7:30 and hopefully we'll be done by then)? Does Booth #9177 at around 6pm still work? I've made a GroupMe chat for anyone interested and/or a way to find people if they're running late: https://groupme.com/join_group/21429363/SW9TE7

Grats on the booth! Maybe we should meet up there on Friday afternoon just before show floor close and see where our plans are at?

Any interest in drinks on Friday or Saturday, right around when the expo hall closes (6pm)?

Awesome! I'll definitely be around the indie area and we should do a Thumbs dinner of some sort. The show schedule just got posted on the website and on Guidebook! http://east.paxsite.com/schedule

And here's the YouTube video with the Super Mario World TASbot segment that Nick was talking about.

Whoa, Danielle snuck the mention in really off-handedly but she's no longer working at Polygon? Anyone follow what she's up to these days?

Thanks to ThumbsDB, I've been able to scrape all the Audible audio book recommendations by the thumbs, with links to the actual discussions: : "You can get Inherent Vice on it" 81s : "Get a book; they’re good" 99s : "Featuring the works of Anthony Bourdain" 70s : "Don't get run over while listening to a book" 120s : "Why not try The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet?" 286s : "Harry Potter implicitly had boning and murder" 125s : "Let me tell you about Ursula K. Le Guin" 167s : "Used by the internet's Olly Moss" 244s : "This week's pick is The Sun Also Rises" 188s : "Six degrees of Gatsby/Zodiac/Kevin Bacon" 421s : "Listen to Charlton Heston read Immanuel Kant" 179s : "Whispersync is cool" 219s : "Listen to James Earl Jones read the Bible" 225s : "Relive the historical beef" 202s : "Why not listen to some Anthony Bourdain books?" 82s : "Perfect for, say, the Idle Book Club" 284s

In trying to find the source of this gif (full disclosure, found from here): I discovered this video, which basically describes a method for genetic algorithms which "discover" the correct natural and stable gait for different body and muscle structures: Dear God, I hope the Boston Dynamics guys never see this video and input Petman's skeletal and muscle data. Anyway, just for fun and to distract you from your impending doom, have this (from the same video):

Four out of five current Thumbadeers agree with the message of this video! Wait... #TeamBeard #justsayin

I was gonna say CS:GOta Today (or CS:GOtato Day), but I was beaten to it. I can't wait for a Sherlock Holmes reprint to come out; Sean sold me on it fully, truly.

Is there a video version of the panel to look forward to or will I have to listen to it like a plebian? I don't mind being a plebian, just wondering.

Anyone going out to barcraft/pubstomp events for The International? I'll be going to The Greatest Bar's event in Boston on Monday, perhaps there are New England Thumbs who might want to hang out? Feel free to use this thread to organize other local events.

I love Nick's contribution to this video.

Was just about to post that but it seems I've been put in my place. By robots.