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Get the machiel mug.A plot device whereby a seemingly inextricable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with the contrived and unexpected intervention of an extraterrestrial being.
Hey look, Superman saved the day by flying around the Earth really fast and turning back time! Thank goodness for Xenos ex Machina!
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The fifth and last commercially-released Smashing Pumpkins album. It is also a concept album. Machina loosely follows the story of Glass, a rockstar, and June, a woman.
In the story, Glass hears God speaking to him through his radio. Glass becomes a rock and roll messiah and starts a revolution of good against evil.
Machina was originally meant to be a double-album, but Virgin refused to release another double album by the Smashing Pumpkins so soon after Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The band was unhappy with Virgin, so they had 25 copies of what was meant to be the second disc of Machina pressed on vinyl and released this as a double LP with three EPs of alternate versions and demos of various songs. The band gave this new release (Machina II/The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music) to radio stations and online friends and told them to put it on the internet for free download.
Machina marked Jimmy Chamberlin's return as the Smashing Pumpkins' drummer and the band's return to hard rock. It also has sold the least copies of any of the band's commercially-available albums.
It is a kickass album.
In the story, Glass hears God speaking to him through his radio. Glass becomes a rock and roll messiah and starts a revolution of good against evil.
Machina was originally meant to be a double-album, but Virgin refused to release another double album by the Smashing Pumpkins so soon after Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The band was unhappy with Virgin, so they had 25 copies of what was meant to be the second disc of Machina pressed on vinyl and released this as a double LP with three EPs of alternate versions and demos of various songs. The band gave this new release (Machina II/The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music) to radio stations and online friends and told them to put it on the internet for free download.
Machina marked Jimmy Chamberlin's return as the Smashing Pumpkins' drummer and the band's return to hard rock. It also has sold the least copies of any of the band's commercially-available albums.
It is a kickass album.
"Hey man the Smashing Pumpkins are really cool!"
"Yeah they are....have you heard Machina?"
"WTF is Machina?"
"Yeah they are....have you heard Machina?"
"WTF is Machina?"
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Get the Machines! mug.A variant of mansplain, where the explainer is not a man, but a computer. The interaction is similar in that the computer attempts to rather explain in simple terms, assuming the human is not bright enough to understand the deep machine-learning and algorithmic complexities involved.
I went over the data dump from the overnight job, but it's all just machinesplaining the obvious stuff, nothing enlightening.
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Get the machinesplain mug.A scene in films, books, or television in which several antagonists square off in an armed shootout, and in the process of killing one another, conveniently eliminate multiple threats to the protagonist.
Will Smith and Gene Hackman get away in Enemy of the State thanks to a classic deus ex machinegun where the mafia, the CIA, and the local police all kill one another, while it's a deus ex machinegun between rival drug factions that begins the narrative in No Country For Old Men.
by Ambivalent1 June 5, 2013
Get the Deus Ex Machinegun mug.-To attribute machine-like qualities to objects, ideas, etc. (similar to "personify", only "machinify" is attributing machine-like attributes rather than human attributes). Often used as an alternative way of thinking, to better understand a subject or idea.
-To view objects or ideas as having properties synonymous to machines.
-To understand the structure and behavior of living organisms as being parallel to that of an intricate, working machine.
-To view objects or ideas as having properties synonymous to machines.
-To understand the structure and behavior of living organisms as being parallel to that of an intricate, working machine.
She would often machinify things she saw in nature, to understand their elaborate natural engineering.
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