So far, 89 movies have won an Academy Award for Best Picture, meaning the members of the Academy voted it the best picture of that year. But if you rank them against each other, only one comes in first place and one in last place, and half of them fall below the median. Of course, this is all based on opinion, so your rankings will vary. The rankings are based on a variety of factors, like how well the film had stood the test of time, especially compared to other films nominated in the same year. You'll be reminded of also-rans that are better than most winners, including some classics that weren't even nominated. While you might want to skip through the list to find the movies you're familiar with, that still leaves a lot of reading in this list at Buzzfeed. We find out what movie will be the 90th winner this Sunday night.
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The Waifu phenomenon is hard for many people to understand, but those lonely anime lovers who would rather pretend to have a relationship with the animated apple of their eye than get with a real girl totally get it.
And yet no otaku actually believes their illustrated waifu or husbando will ever come to life and make their nerdy dreams come true, and to be honest most of them wouldn't even want their waifu if they came to laifu.
On the flipside imagine what a kick in the pantsu it would be for a waifu to come to laifu and discover her betrothed is a shut-in who can't get a date with a real girl!
This comedy sketch by Gigguk shows what it would be like for a waifu to suddenly discover she's sentient, and through her transition from virtual to actual reality we learn all about the world of waifus.
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What makes me happy by NemiMakeit
Money isn't the key to happiness, and climbing the social ladder and being a part of the rat race aren't as fun as actually climbing a ladder or making rats race for fun and profit. So instead of pretending like earning lots of money and doing what everybody else tells you to do is making you happy you need to look deeper and find those little things in life from which you derive joy on a daily basis. Because life is too short to take all those simple pleasure moments for granted, so be more like Snoopy and less like those cynical Charlies in the peanut gallery and you'll discover the simpler the joy the better!
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When I was young, there was some question about defining Baby Boomers. For a while, the cutoff was 1960, which would include me, but not my brother. Later on, he was welcomed into the fold when the U.S. Census declared 1964 as the cutoff. My daughters, born in 1997 and 1998, assumed they were Millennials, until someone said the cutoff was 1998, which would put them in two different generations even though they are only a year apart. Now it seems that they are both a part of Generation Z, Post-Millennials, or whatever they eventually decide to call them. The Pew Research center has declared these parameters.
The Silent Generation: Born 1928-1945 (73-90 years old)
Baby Boomers: Born 1946-1964 (54-72 years old)
Generation X: Born 1965-1980 (38-53 years old)
Millennials: Born 1981-1996 (22-37 years old)
Post-Millennials: Born 1997-Present (0-21 years old)
Will that change anything? Who knows! It won't change anything about your life, except possibly your label. Read more about how the change came about at Mental Floss.
Stan Lee has made an appearance in every modern Marvel comics film and television adaptation ever made, and now the Easter egg hunt for Stan the Man has become a fun game for viewers of all ages and levels of geekiness.
If you've seen all the MCU movies so far then you've probably spotted Stan in them all, but if not then this handy chart created by reddit user l_l_l-illiam will help you find him in every Marvel movie made since 1989.
Yes, you can make a polka out of the songs of the Broadway musical Hamilton. All you need is an accordion and Weird Al Yankovic! Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has been a fan of Yankovic since childhood, and they've collaborated before.
2) We truly believed our screams made Yoda happen.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) September 25, 2016
It was, at that point, the best moment of my life.
Today was a VERY close second. pic.twitter.com/aUq9QKDXU2
And now, Yankovic gives us a medley of quite a few of the songs from the show, as part of Miranda's Hamildrops project. There's no video (yet), but you can listen to it.
-via Metafilter
Kids playing with guns was seen as no big deal back in the day, and whether they were playing Cowboys and Indians, War or Astronauts versus Aliens guns factored into playtime in a big way.
But we live in a different world these days, one which is far deadlier and full of gun-related controversy as killing sprees reach an all-time high with seemingly no end in sight.
And as the gun-related violence rises the idea of kids playing with guns becomes more taboo, especially when you consider how many kids have been killed by cops or otherwise for waving around a plastic gun.
This Circa Now collection of toy gun commercials from the 50s and 60s seems odd by today's standards, and yet it's important to remember there was a time when kids playing with toy guns didn't lead to tragedy.
The picture above is an advertisement for the college bookstore at John Tarleton College in Stephenville, Texas. The year was 1967. They had quite a supply of cigars and pipes for Joe College, seen here in his white socks. Local businesses bought ads in the high school's or college's yearbooks and supplied pictures, usually with their employees and everyday customers, but relatives who were students that year were always included. Here's an ad in Biola University's 1973 yearbook.
You can't get much more '70s than that! Well, maybe if it were in color, we could see how the plaids did not actually coordinate with anything. See a gallery of yearbook ads from the 1960s and '70s at Flashbak. -via Everlasting Blort
Mister Rogers was the gentle and caring friend many kids grew up watching on TV, he was the older adult we could trust to teach us good lessons about life and he was a steadfast supporter of PBS and the arts.
So naturally the story of how Fred Rogers saved PBS is best told by drunk comedian Solomon Georgio on the Comedy Central show Drunk History, right? (NSFW language)
All kidding aside, Colin Hanks does a great job of playing Fred Rogers, so if they ever make a biopic about his life I hope they see this clip and cast Colin in the lead role.
EDIT: Apparently I haven't been keeping up on movie news because Tom Hanks is set to play Mr. Rogers in the upcoming movie You Are My Friend. -thanks goblinheath!
-Via The Mary Sue
The rite of cremation is growing among Americans. Now, about half of all deaths involve cremation instead of burial. There are quite a few reasons for this: it's less expensive, it saves land for other uses, and most importantly, it has become more socially acceptable. However, the actual process of cremation remains out of sight to the public, and even to the family members of the deceased. Caren Chesler took a tour of a crematorium and talked with the professionals that carry out the process.
The bodies arrive in caskets, occasionally made of wood but more commonly cardboard. They remain in these containers during the entire stay. There are health reasons for this, such as protecting the technicians from infectious diseases. There are moral reasons—“the family would want them in something,” Koslovski says. There are logistical reasons, too. “It would be extremely difficult to load a set of human remains without a casket. Just think of a body, and trying to put it into a cremation unit.”
The caskets go into the crematorium’s walk-in cooler, which is lined with shelves of them. One casket has a label on it from Delta Airlines that says, “Human Remains," and under it, "Delta Cares." Bodies typically remain a day or two in the cooler, because most states require a 24-hour waiting period between when someone dies and cremation can occur. When something is so final, you want to take a pause.
Read all about cremation, and learn the steps that these professionals go through to carry out their jobs at Popular Mechanics. -via Digg
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Dungeon mastering ain't easy, and anybody who says it is either uses store bought adventures in their campaigns or is playing with a bunch of kids who can't tell a gelatinous cube from a bowl of Jell-O.
But the DMs life is made even harder by players who refuse to get with the program, players who seem to think it's fun to bog down the game with their "creative" moves that are nothing but flashy stunts:
1. CheshiresParadox
I had a player who kept making dumb technical arguments to justify every little weird stunt he wanted to pull. Ran out of arrows and wanted to shoot rocks with his bows, kept arguing that he'd seen someone do it so it totally worked.
Couldn't make camp in the muddy grimey floor of the cave so he wanted to sleep on the ceiling upside down with his boots of spiderclimbing. When we pointed out that the blood'd rush to his head, he argued that there wasn't a sourcebook that stated that elven biology was affected by gravity that way.
Sooooo, a goblin ran around the corner and threw its poop at him, he exploded and we pointed out that there wasn't a sourcebook that stated goblin poop didn't double as volatile explosives when thrown at upside down sleeping elves.
Then there are those players who try to get super tricky with every move they make, thinking they can outwit the DM by coming up with some super clever plan:
2. nagol93
I once had a guy that tried to cheese the big boss fights, saying stuff like "there is nothing in the rule book that says dragons can dig, so im going to make a bunker and blast it with firebolt for 3 (indame) weeks". (for the record he was a lvl 1 character wanting to do this solo. The dragon was meant to be fought by 3-4 lvl 4 players)
True, the rules dont say dragons can dig. But Im the DM and I say the dragon can and will rip through your mud shack and violently disassemble your rib-cage.
But to me the worst RPG players are those who use their character as a way to reveal their inner demons and live out their own dark fantasies, because their in-game actions reveal they may be a real life threat but you can't really do anything about it. What are you gonna do- call the cops and tell them a player character has been raping NPCs?:
5. ya_boy_ducky
He kept trying to rape female NPCs and female player characters in game. Saying that it was "in character" for him. He found a Scarab of Death later that session and after it burrowed into his heart I politely asked him to leave.
Read 13 Dungeon Masters Tell The Tale Of Their Worst D&D Players here
Look at this beautiful planet! This video was compiled from data relayed by the Himawari satellite during October of 2017. The satellite is in a geostationary orbit, meaning it stays above the western Pacific all the time as it orbits at the same rate that the earth rotates. Meanwhile, day turns to night and again to day, and weather systems move along the earth's surface.
The original resolution of the video was 5500 x 5500, but at YouTube, it's 8K, which is still pretty good. Because of the cloud cover, it's hard to see any land masses besides Australia. However, you can distinguish Japan by the way it lights up at night. Scott Manley posted this as a sample, a part of a longer explanation of how the images were captured.
The Advanced Baseline Imager is the state of the art in meteorological imaging and it's been flying for a couple of years on the Himawari 8 and more recently on GOES-16. Today GOES-S is scheduled to launch to ultimately replace GOES-West so I thought it would be interesting to explain how the specialized camera works and to show off some pretty pictures it's taken.
-via Metafilter
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In the past, making the bed was sort of a nightmare.
I'd like to dedicate this column to the washer-dryer in my building’s basement. You are a magnificent machine, and I’m sorry for taking you for granted. I bow before the genius of your elegant spin-rinse-drain cycle. You earn those quarters, my friend. I’d also like to give a big shout-out to your pals, the vacuum cleaner and the dishwasher.
No doubt, modern housework is as pleasant as sitting through your niece’s recorder recital. But compared to housework of the past, we are living the domestic dream. For centuries, chores were unimaginably sweaty, painful, smelly, time-consuming affairs.
Let’s start with laundry. Washing a shirt in Victorian England involved at least eight painstaking steps. In his book At Home, Bill Bryson explains that you had to soak the laundry in smelly lye for several hours, pound it, scrub it, boil it, rinse it, wring it out, haul it outside, and bleach it.
There are all kinds of wanna-be heroes out there with big guns and even bigger egos, acting like they're the mightiest men and women on the planet because they have assault rifles and special training. But when it comes to killing Deadites no amount of training or firepower can help you in the war against the army of darkness, just ask Ash- he's been fighting the evil dead with no formal training, no real skills and nothing but a chainsaw and his old boomstick for decades!
Bring the boom to your groovy wardrobe with this El Jefe t-shirt by Gigan91, it's the wicked way to show love for your favorite horror hero.
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When the snow conditions are just right, the classic way to build a snowman is to roll up a ball of snow, and then another, like the video game Katamari Damacy. YouTuber ImDranzR caught his border collie doing just that a couple of weeks ago.
Don't even know how he got it started, nobody but him and my other dog been in the back garden
Border collies are smart. I bet he saw someone do this on TV. But he's not really thinking of a snowman; he's just excited to have a big ball to play with! I sure wish we'd caught the beginning of this adventure. -via Tastefully Offensive
