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    So I happened to be on the Wikipedia page for pimento cheese, and I read this: "Pimento cheese sandwiches are a popular item at the Masters Tournament. Minor controversy ensued in 2013 when the Augusta National Golf Club switched food suppliers for the Masters and the new supplier was unable to duplicate the recipe used by the previous supplier, resulting in a sandwich with a markedly different taste." Amused by sandwiches tasting differently being called a controversy, I went to the Augusta National Golf Club Wikipedia page to learn more. I didn't see anything related, but I did come across this: "The club long held racist and sexist policies: Augusta National admitted no African Americans as members until 1990 and no women as members until 2012. The club long required all caddies to be black and barred black golfers from the Masters Tournament until Lee Elder participated in 1975." But those sandwiches in 2013, am I right?
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    perboma
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    Awesome, awesome, good to be back. I'll try not to wreck the place.
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  • Fincher rated The Gang Gets Gone and 1 more Page // score is (9.5).
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    I knew you really loved it, Husky.
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      Editing … What are those Smallville characters doing there, though?
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      Editing … idk i just looked up "Arrowverse Characters" and didn't look at the image cuz I didn't want major character appearances spoiled
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      Editing … also i havent seen smallville is it good
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      Editing … Couldn't tell you.
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      Editing … Smallville is really good! It teaches you to type with proper capitalization. I've truly become a better person since watching Smallville.
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    So I was thinking about this, and it seems to me that the Favorite Settings list shouldn't rank Fictional Location pages, but rather rank pages for the movies/books/games (and possibly franchises) themselves. So if you think Blade Runner has the best setting, then you rank Blade Runner. That should sidestep the question of what a setting is and make it easier to make sub-lists like favorite book settings or whatever, and then you can separately have lists for particular fictional locations. Granted, it would make pages like "World of Game X" obsolete.
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      Editing … At least, I'm still not entirely sure what to do with Favorite Settings. For example, Dark City generally takes place in the city, but not 100%, and it acknowledges somewhere else. So maybe the setting should be The City/Dark City, or maybe it should be "World of Dark City", but that just seems weird since it's not something like Final Fantasy where a variety of places are visited. And if you follow through on that, there'd be a ton of "World of X" pages instead of just ranking the stories those worlds come from.
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      Editing … What about settings with multiverses like comics? Or what about, as you said, individual locations? I tend to just put large overall settings in my list "the DCU", "world of Dune" (actually more than a world, but whatever), but I could make an argument that I like Hogwarts more than the HP world at large which is actually a bit awful in many ways, etc. I think it's alright the way it is now, basically.
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      Editing … I think that's a good idea. It can be hard to determine what the setting is, and which pages you should or shouldn't rank.
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      Editing … Pages like "World of Game X" would probably be good for a general 'fictional locations' list though if you love the entire game world as a whole and don't want to mess about with specific locations in it
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      Editing … "What about settings with multiverses like comics? Or what about, as you said, individual locations? I tend to just put large overall settings in my list "the DCU", "world of Dune" (actually more than a world, but whatever), but I could make an argument that I like Hogwarts more than the HP world at large which is actually a bit awful in many ways, etc. I think it's alright the way it is now, basically." I guess the way I see it is that setting is like plot or theme, a characteristic of a particular work, and so when you're ranking settings you're saying that one work does setting better than another work. That's different from ranking specific locations you like, even prominent ones, and combining the two in one list can get confusing. Right now as the one list for ranking locations it's working for some people, maybe not so much for others, but as the number of lists expand and there are other places to rank Hogwarts or Halloween Town, this one might start to look arbitrary.
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      Editing … So are you just saying to make two lists, or are you saying to eliminate things that are just locations or just overall settings? I would be okay with two lists, but I don't like having choices taken away.
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      Editing … Yeah, I'm saying two lists, or more specifically that a Fictional Locations list would cover Halloween Town and Hogwarts (and yeah, overall worlds if you want to do that, too) along with any other locations, and then after that there wouldn't be much point in a Settings list that isn't purely about settings.
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      Editing … Well I mean I would prefer to rank Arda/Middle-earth over any location in LotR. I wouldn't mind putting in Hobbiton, Minas Tirith, Rivendell, etc. in a separate list so it can be more specific- I would do both lists- but I wouldn't want to not be able to rank Arda because that's what I care about more. And I could live without ranking those locations if it was only one list or the other.
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      Editing … I mean, it doesn't really concern me if the overall worlds can be ranked in the Fictional Locations list, and Middle-Earth isn't the whole world, anyway.
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      Editing … Another thing to consider is that Favorite Fictional Story Settings as it stands seems to be limited to places that don't actually exist, so either fantasy/science fiction/speculative fiction or made up towns/whatever in realistic fiction. But even though, for example, Mulholland Drive didn't make up Los Angeles, someone could appreciate how it presents the world and want to rank it among their favorite settings. If the Settings list just had you rank works/franchises, that would follow naturally because you're just crediting the stories that did setting best, but the way it is...do you make a page like "World of Schindler's List", "New York City (Spider-Man films)", etc.?
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