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hollylolly posted:Alternately, give her Season 1 of The Wire and lecture her on her TV tastes. I shouldn't have to, she knows better 
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soapgish posted:Get her REVOLUTION, because her turning her lights out is far superior to her going around being a loud-mouth cocksucker. Buy her Jericho and then tell her that Revolution Season 2 is a spinoff of Jericho and that it's awesome if you watch it that way. Season 1 was so bad though.
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any fans of Teme? The final 5 episodes begin tomorrow.
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I just finished the most recent season of HIMYM on Netflix and what the gently caress. The shows arcs are still good, like the episode where Barney and Robin get engaged was breathtaking but they just keep finding dumb and lovely ways to drag the show on. I've said it before but if this show was half it's total length it might be my favorite sitcom of all time, it's a great example of how fluff can just gently caress with your show.
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Dead Snoopy posted:any fans of Teme? The final 5 episodes begin tomorrow.
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Just stumbled on Charlie Brooker's new show and am about to give it a watch. Anyone else seen it?
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Cactus posted:Just stumbled on Charlie Brooker's new show and am about to give it a watch. Anyone else seen it? Hop on over to the UK thread, there's been some discussion about it going on there. It's good!
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I'll check it out once I've finished it, if I don't die of nostalgia first (just got to the ZX Spectrum bit).
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Austrian mook posted:I just finished the most recent season of HIMYM on Netflix and what the gently caress. The shows arcs are still good, like the episode where Barney and Robin get engaged was breathtaking Really? Because I thought that whole thing was extremely weird and creepy, even if it was totally in character for him. Doubly so that the show treated that as a totally normal and acceptable thing to do.
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raditts posted:Really? Because I thought that whole thing was extremely weird and creepy, even if it was totally in character for him. Doubly so that the show treated that as a totally normal and acceptable thing to do. Well, you know actually you're kind of right. It's just that music man, that show really knows how to make a soundtrack.
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Cactus posted:Just stumbled on Charlie Brooker's new show and am about to give it a watch. Anyone else seen it? It blows my mind that it's almost 20goddamn14 and there are still country-specific restrictions on videos on the internet. I know it's an issue on some sites for people outside the US as well and I have no idea how it makes any sense whatsoever to copyright something to only be viewable from one country. Isn't the point of putting something on the internet to get it out to as many people as possible?
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VDay posted:It blows my mind that it's almost 20goddamn14 and there are still country-specific restrictions on videos on the internet. I know it's an issue on some sites for people outside the US as well and I have no idea how it makes any sense whatsoever to copyright something to only be viewable from one country. Isn't the point of putting something on the internet to get it out to as many people as possible? Feels schadenfreude to be on the other side of this coin for once.
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VDay posted:It blows my mind that it's almost 20goddamn14 and there are still country-specific restrictions on videos on the internet. I know it's an issue on some sites for people outside the US as well and I have no idea how it makes any sense whatsoever to copyright something to only be viewable from one country. Isn't the point of putting something on the internet to get it out to as many people as possible? It's easy to find all over the internet if you search for it. He lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw him. He did a pretty frustrating interview related to the show where he tried to convince some old guy that video games are good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FLVjfFKy58
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Mu Zeta posted:It's easy to find all over the internet if you search for it. He lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw him. I feel like Brooker gets too worked up in this. He starts yelling and repeating himself while Jon Snow disagrees with him, but is quite reasonable. I think Snow is wrong, but Brooker doesn't effectively debate him, he just insists superciliously that he doesn't understand how things are. e: it gets a bit much on both sides with Snow insisting that women don't play games and Brooker insisting that Lego Marvel Superheroes is 'unisex' in terms of its representation. Android Blues fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Dec 1, 2013 |
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Mu Zeta posted:It's easy to find all over the internet if you search for it. He lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw him. Jon Snow knows nothing.
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I like Booker but he's basically a proto-YouTube personality who had the fortune of being born in the age of traditional media where he could grow his writing and practice actual journalism instead of yelling into a webcam and calling it a day. If he had been born 10 or 20 years later he'd probably be on The Escapist right beside the fat angry british videogame guy and the angry australian videogame guy.
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Didn't the whole Roger Ebert debacle teach everyone that pushing video games on older people who have no interest in playing them is a waste of time?
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hcreight posted:Didn't the whole Roger Ebert debacle teach everyone that pushing video games on older people who have no interest in playing them is a waste of time? Yeah, I don't understand the desire some people have to force video games and video game culture on the world. Video games, like any hobby, are ultimately pointless diversions we use to pass the time until our inevitable deaths. It doesn't matter if they're "art" or murder-porn for teenagers, its all ultimately pointless. Nerds need to stop worrying what other people think and just live their loving lives.
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Irish Joe posted:Nerds need to stop worrying what other people think and just live their loving lives. But I just want you to love me, Irish Joe
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Irish Joe posted:Yeah, I don't understand the desire some people have to force video games and video game culture on the world. Video games, like any hobby, are ultimately pointless diversions we use to pass the time until our inevitable deaths. It doesn't matter if they're "art" or murder-porn for teenagers, its all ultimately pointless. This is a really depressing point of view about life.  It does sort of explain why you watch 2 Broke Girls though, if all of life is pointless.
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Nothing is okay, this is all going to end very badly, et cetera ad infinitum
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soapgish posted:Nothing is okay, this is all going to end very badly, et cetera ad infinitum Speaking of which, the final season of Treme starts in ~10 minutes.
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Irish Joe posted:Yeah, I don't understand the desire some people have to force video games and video game culture on the world. Video games, like any hobby, are ultimately pointless diversions we use to pass the time until our inevitable deaths. It doesn't matter if they're "art" or murder-porn for teenagers, its all ultimately pointless. I know I'm taking the bait, but the reason why nerds and other people try to force video games on people is because when you have 'scholars' saying that video games are pointless drivel*, or blood and gore covered cotton candy, you're obviously going to receive push back. The most common attack is going to be that paintings and movies were also put through this level of hate, which is rebutted with the whole "but vidya games are interactive and that ruins the art and yadda yadda". This just starts a whole spiral into lovely oblivion of everyone yelling at each other because even though art is subjective, if you don't like what I like and vice-versa, you can go gently caress yourself.
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Irish Joe posted:Yeah, I don't understand the desire some people have to force video games and video game culture on the world. Video games, like any hobby, are ultimately pointless diversions we use to pass the time until our inevitable deaths. It doesn't matter if they're "art" or murder-porn for teenagers, its all ultimately pointless. This is a Good Post by Irish Joe. Agreed 100%.
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hcreight posted:Didn't the whole Roger Ebert debacle teach everyone that pushing video games on older people who have no interest in playing them is a waste of time? It seems to work ok with Conan OBrien.
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VDay posted:It blows my mind that it's almost 20goddamn14 and there are still country-specific restrictions on videos on the internet. I know it's an issue on some sites for people outside the US as well and I have no idea how it makes any sense whatsoever to copyright something to only be viewable from one country. Isn't the point of putting something on the internet to get it out to as many people as possible? British television (at least some of it) is supported by tax money (and commercial free), so if you're not paying British taxes you really don't deserve free access to their TV programming. That said, it always ends up on YouTube so just watch it there.
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Postal Parcel posted:I know I'm taking the bait, but the reason why nerds and other people try to force video games on people is because when you have 'scholars' saying that video games are pointless drivel*, or blood and gore covered cotton candy, you're obviously going to receive push back. The most common attack is going to be that paintings and movies were also put through this level of hate, which is rebutted with the whole "but vidya games are interactive and that ruins the art and yadda yadda". This just starts a whole spiral into lovely oblivion of everyone yelling at each other because even though art is subjective, if you don't like what I like and vice-versa, you can go gently caress yourself. There are still scholars who say television isn't art, pop-art isn't art, cartoons aren't art, there will always be people saying x or y isn't art, and they are always the ones who are wrong. Not every member of a category is good art, mind you, but just about everything is art, and if you can't see that, you're a blowhard, and your opinion is invalid. Edit: That is the figurative "you," not a personal attack.
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Mo0 posted:From watching over my roommates shoulder, a lot of it boils down to giving up on some of the more high-falutin' aspects like "I wonder how the world would cope with having no power....." and being a Lost style BIG MYSTERY show and just making a solid post-apocalypse action thriller with a dose of sci-fi magic.
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VDay posted:It blows my mind that it's almost 20goddamn14 and there are still country-specific restrictions on videos on the internet. I know it's an issue on some sites for people outside the US as well and I have no idea how it makes any sense whatsoever to copyright something to only be viewable from one country. Isn't the point of putting something on the internet to get it out to as many people as possible?
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ChickenMedium posted:British television (at least some of it) is supported by tax money (and commercial free), so if you're not paying British taxes you really don't deserve free access to their TV programming. That said, it always ends up on YouTube so just watch it there. This is Channel 4 though and unless something's changed, AFAIK the license fee only covers the BBC, C4 gets its revenue through advert breaks. ^^ didn't read the post above, sorry!
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Cactus posted:Jon Snow knows nothing. You beat me! Kudos.
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Charlie Brooker has a really hot wife. That's about all I know about him.
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Josh Lyman posted:Charlie Brooker has a really hot wife. That's about all I know about him. Do you know anything about anything that isn't how hot some girls are?
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Great TV night. The Good Wife keeps hitting it out of the park. Walking Dead was silly fun with lots of guns. Homeland is awesome again and brutal. And Boardwalk Empire was also great last week. TV is pretty good right now.
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Rarity posted:Do you know anything about anything that isn't how hot some girls are?  Actually, I've seen some videos of him on Youtube in the past and he seemed alright, although he kinda looks like someone I know IRL and that really disturbs me. I've only seen his wife on some Doctor Who 50th Anniversary retrospective.
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Through my epic and may I add, heroic, effort to watch all of Cheers, I've noticed that Fraser has said his father was both a scientist and dead. Did they retcon that for the spinoff or were they just like, eh it's a sitcom what kind of worthless nerd would remember a couple of throwaway lines in a couple of episodes?
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zoux posted:Through my epic and may I add, heroic, effort to watch all of Cheers, I've noticed that Fraser has said his father was both a scientist and dead. Did they retcon that for the spinoff or were they just like, eh it's a sitcom what kind of worthless nerd would remember a couple of throwaway lines in a couple of episodes? Sam visited Frasier in season 2 and he brings that up. Fransier says he just got off the phone with his dad and they had a huge fight.
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zoux posted:Through my epic and may I add, heroic, effort to watch all of Cheers, I've noticed that Fraser has said his father was both a scientist and dead. Did they retcon that for the spinoff or were they just like, eh it's a sitcom what kind of worthless nerd would remember a couple of throwaway lines in a couple of episodes? It's revealed that Frasier was full of poo poo. It's quite clever actually.
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