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Cardboard Box A posted:What if you have Win 8 Pro? Then it's still $10. The extra $100 is to upgrade from Home to Pro. It's stupid and terrible and I don't get it, but y'know, Microsoft. You can always use other TV software, even use WMP instead, but WMP is a lousy alternative and I haven't liked any of the others (even the goon-vaunted XBMC) since BeyondTV which was last updated like a decade ago. The only thing you really need WMC for is if you have an Xbox 360 and want to stream your TV through the WMC 360 app, which to me is the ideal way to do it currently. raditts fucked around with this message at 13:22 on Aug 22, 2014 |
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If you need an excuse to watch BoJack Horseman on Netflix, there's a scene in Episode 2 where Keith Olbermann spoofs his own blowhard personality, all the way down to "HAVE YOU NO SHAME, SIR?" Show itself is good so far! I don't think every joke lands; there's one scene where a couple of lady dogs are like "I shouldn't eat chocolate because it could LITERALLY kill me, but I love it SOOOOOO much..." That's representative of what passes for comedy here: It's half animal puns, half broad Hollywood satire. But there are some drat good puns here, and the Hollywood stuff is at least somewhat couched in character. Worth watching if you need to kill a little more time before your shows come back.
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This isn't really a fallow time for tv tho, and I'm already far behind on masters of sex and slightly behind on the strain Every review of bojack I've read has boiled down to "mediocre but watchable" and that doesn't cut it this summer
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Aug 22, 2014 15:30
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Toxxupation posted:This isn't really a fallow time for tv tho, and I'm already far behind on masters of sex and slightly behind on the strain Sometime during the 3rd episode, which ends on a dark satirization of how success and the Hollywood lifestyle irrevocably destroys certain people, and how individuals ignore their own part in this destruction by shifting blame to the nebulous "Society" (admittedly, none of this is subtle, but it is a comedy and this cast can sell it), a character tells BoJack that he's supposed to put in an appearance at "The Comedy Central Roast of Gloria Stei--" but is cut off by plot development. The 4th episode opens up at The Comedy Central Roast of Gloria Steinem. The woman at the podium speaks in a glowing, educated voice: "Gloria Steinem, one of the leading lights of modern feminism. You will surely go down in the annals of history just as surely as Lisa Lampenelli will go down in the locker room of the Houston Rockets." The crowd loves it. The dais is dying. Gloria Steinem looks like she wants to cut a bitch. I'll accept "good, as opposed to great," but mediocre? Mediocre my balls.
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DivisionPost posted:Sometime during the 3rd episode, which ends on a dark satirization of how success and the Hollywood lifestyle irrevocably destroys certain people, and how individuals ignore their own part in this destruction by shifting blame to the nebulous "Society" This is about as subversive as Family Guy criticizing religion and praising weed. If anything it would be edgier to do the opposite and criticize the audience for mindlessly bashing celebrities and Just Worlding when bad things happen to them.
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Aug 22, 2014 16:18
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Woaah a Lisa lampenelli joke about how she fucks black people?! Holy poo poo, how loving edgy and fresh is that material? poo poo! poo poo!!!
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Aug 22, 2014 16:24
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Oh are we having a jaded competition again, because I don't care the most probably.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:This is about as subversive as Family Guy criticizing religion and praising weed. If anything it would be edgier to do the opposite and criticize the audience for mindlessly bashing celebrities and Just Worlding when bad things happen to them. Family Guy criticizes religion by building an entire episode around how awesome its strawman atheist character is and praises weed with an overlong musical parody of "Me Old Bamboo." BoJack Horseman might tell you straight up what it's doing, but it does so after building characters that go at least a little beyond their so-called types and telling engaging stories about them. Subversive? Maybe not, but let's not break out the lazy Family Guy comparisons just yet. And if NOTHING else, this show has DivisionPost fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Aug 22, 2014 |
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Toxxupation posted:Woaah a Lisa lampenelli joke about how she fucks black people?! Holy poo poo, how loving edgy and fresh is that material? poo poo! poo poo!!! That's not the joke they're making. It's the joke that supports the joke.
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zoux posted:Oh are we having a jaded competition again, because I don't care the most probably.
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So Avatar ended again. It didn't fall apart anything like the other seasons but, you guys will appreciate this, the big bad for the season? Ron Paul.
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DivisionPost posted:If you need an excuse to watch BoJack Horseman on Netflix, there's a scene in Episode 2 where Keith Olbermann spoofs his own blowhard personality, all the way down to "HAVE YOU NO SHAME, SIR?" I've just watched the first few but I really like it, I didn't know how far they were going to go with the premise but it's drat good. e: Aaron Paul is a surprisingly versatile voice actor precision fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Aug 22, 2014 |
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Aug 22, 2014 17:34
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IRQ posted:So Avatar ended again. It didn't fall apart anything like the other seasons but, you guys will appreciate this, the big bad for the season? Korra's MO is fighting libertarians and anarchists. She's like a supernatural Mussolini.
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Aug 22, 2014 17:36
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raditts posted:You don't even have to build one specifically with HTPCs in mind anymore. Just buy one of these and plug it into your network, and presto, any PC or laptop on the same network is a TV. Since it's got three tuners, get one cablecard from your cable company and it's just as good as three cable boxes. That'd be cool to have, but I'm pretty sure I can't use that with my provider. It's a local fiber optic company. The fiber comes into the house and immediately goes to a box in the basement, and out of that box is a Cat5 cord that connects into their modem. Out of the out jacks on the modem is for their cable box/DVR, and the other goes to my router. They don't technically charge for a cable box...unless you want HD channels and/or a DVR, then it's a monthly charge (I think $17 total for an HD DVR.) At least there's no modem rental fee?
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That's about what I pay too with Dish. At least with them, they have Sling built into their DVR so I can watch TV on my tablet across the country.
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Aug 22, 2014 17:58
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I don't know how I feel about Bojack Horseman so far but it has an absolutely incredible theme and opening.
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FYI for any Charter customers FXX appears to now be available even without owning the Sports Tier package. I'm not sure if they did this a while ago or if they did it in time for The Simpsons marathon but nonetheless you have the chance to watch the good seasons of the show while they're airing. No idea if this is just a Charter thing or if FX has been making deals with all the cable companies to give the channel easier access. Sadly they haven't moved it down with the basic channels (yet?) so you still need the digital cable box to watch it.
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Bown posted:I don't know how I feel about Bojack Horseman so far but it has an absolutely incredible theme and opening. The OP is probably my favorite part of the show, which you can take however you'd like. Also, give it until around episode 3 or 4. Not because I didn't enjoy 1 & 2 (I did), but because that's when it starts to get hosed up. (Maybe not to the depths of a Moral Orel or Rick and Morty, but still pretty hosed up.)
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Aug 22, 2014 18:15
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This was the best episode of Married by far mostly because Paul Reiser and that's not something I ever thought I would say. He just seems to add a gel to the cast that it was lacking before. Your the Worst is still the better show, plus the best depiction of one night stands on tv and the self-loathing that generally comes with it. Plus a better depiction of a marriage that's failing then even Married. My only problem is I've never meet a woman that's that ok with fetishes that quickly.
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I know not everyone can tolerate the slow pace of Rectify, but you owe it to yourself to give it a try. In a year with a ton of great television, last night's finale was one of best individual episodes I've seen.
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Here's 10 minutes of Double Dare prizes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npkFq8YQAt4 I guess it never occurred to me as a lad but these are terrible prizes!!!
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As a kid, I remember thinking the prizes seems awful and thought that I would only understand why they were good prizes when I was much older (i.e. 12 instead of 5).
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Aug 22, 2014 21:27
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Even the cars are awful awful cars.
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Bown posted:I don't know how I feel about Bojack Horseman so far but it has an absolutely incredible theme and opening. The theme is awful and way too long. The show, I can't tell yet, the pilot dragged.
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Aug 22, 2014 21:31
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If I recall correctly, Nick Arcade once gave away a record player as a prize. A loving record player. In the year 1992.
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lelandjs posted:Ah, but you're forgetting the wife factor. She can barely stand my gaming PC sitting in the living room, let alone the noise it makes when it's on. Deadpool posted:I don't know what you're putting in a gaming PC that makes so much noise (my guess is a bunch of fans) but my HTPCs make pretty much no noise at all unless you're sitting literally right next to them and even then barely so. But even then the rooms they're in are pretty large so you'd never know they're there at all except for the power light on the front which is tiny. If only there was a Roku Windows Media Center extender, then you wouldn't have to interact with the box at all. It would just be sitting somewhere, recording shows. raditts posted:Then it's still $10. The extra $100 is to upgrade from Home to Pro. It's stupid and terrible and I don't get it, but y'know, Microsoft. What other TV software is there though? GB-PVR disappeared and Google bought SageTV and made it their own proprietary thing rather than something you can buy for your computer. I guess there's still MythTV if you want to mess around with Linux... and deal with the pain of getting TV listings. It's probably still easiest to just use MCE since MS bought a TV listings company and will probably provide them basically forever. Oh and thanks for letting me know about the WMC 360 app. If you have a 360 then it sounds like a good deal to just have the MCE box sitting headless somewhere and just use the 360 front end to do everything.
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DrBouvenstein posted:That'd be cool to have, but I'm pretty sure I can't use that with my provider. That's odd, I thought all providers in the US at least were required to offer cablecards if you ask for them. Does it not transition into regular coax cables once it gets to the box in your basement? Even FiOS had cablecards back when I had them years and years ago. Cardboard Box A posted:I guess there's still MythTV if you want to mess around with Linux... and deal with the pain of getting TV listings. It's probably still easiest to just use MCE since MS bought a TV listings company and will probably provide them basically forever. Where do you go to get access to raw TV listing data anyway? Do the guys who make mobile apps like SeriesGuide or whatever pay a fee to someone? raditts fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Aug 22, 2014 |
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Watching the promos for BoJack I can't help but feel it would be better if it was live action. A pompous washed up celebrity seems like perfect casting. The fact that it's animated makes me feel like it's a wasted opportunity.
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A lady that was on an episode of Dating Naked is suing VH1 for missing a shot they should have blurred. I don't know if she's been on the internet much, but I have a nagging suspicion that this isn't going to turn out the way she's hoping for.
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^^^ I don't know, depends how cynical you are about her motives. It may well have exactly the effect she wants, given that you're talking about her.DivisionPost posted:The OP is probably my favorite part of the show, which you can take however you'd like. Passed that part an hour ago. That was so predictable it's hard to say it's hosed up. It's not even new ground. Show's just ok. Aaron Paul and Amy Sedaris are pretty good though. IRQ fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Aug 22, 2014 |
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raditts posted:A lady that was on an episode of Dating Naked is suing VH1 for missing a shot they should have blurred. I'm not sure how they missed blurring it, it's not like it was some off center thing, it was right there clear as day.
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IRQ posted:^^^ I don't know, depends how cynical you are about her motives. It may well have exactly the effect she wants, given that you're talking about her. Okay, well under the assumption that she doesn't want as many people as possible to see her rear end and vagina. No doubt VH1 will get a boost in viewership.
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muscles like this? posted:I'm not sure how they missed blurring it, it's not like it was some off center thing, it was right there clear as day. But in all seriousness, this story is hilarious because she just displays no self-awareness whatsoever. Just hire more lawyers! And have her friends never watched porn or anything to call what was described a "money shot"? Kids these days.
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raditts posted:Okay, well under the assumption that she doesn't want as many people as possible to see her rear end and vagina. No doubt VH1 will get a boost in viewership. If this isn't the fifth-string LA mactor jackpot I don't know what is. It's gently caress a Survivor casting director or hope some lovely cable show gives you a reason to get people talking about you. Or she could be a total idiot. But it sounds way more like a publicity stunt.
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Sober posted:Hahah what the gently caress, seriously? I would've assumed the producers and everyone would've gone over the drat thing with a fine-tooth comb about a dozen times. You'd think it wouldn't be that hard to go through something to blur out any nudity but I remember years and years ago a commercial for Girls Gone Wild screwed up and missed censoring a boob shot.
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muscles like this? posted:You'd think it wouldn't be that hard to go through something to blur out any nudity but I remember years and years ago a commercial for Girls Gone Wild screwed up and missed censoring a boob shot. And it looks like you've kept that image with you ever since.
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muscles like this? posted:You'd think it wouldn't be that hard to go through something to blur out any nudity but I remember years and years ago a commercial for Girls Gone Wild screwed up and missed censoring a boob shot. To be fair the VH1 video editors probably haven't been convicted of bribery, tax evasion, false imprisonment, witness intimidation, making porn of minors, and beating the poo poo out of women, to say nothing of the poo poo he wasn't ever actually convicted of. Girls Gone Wild is not really who I'd expect an abundance of scruples from.
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timp posted:And it looks like you've kept that image with you ever since. Nudity was a desperately sought commodity by young men in the pre internet era. I had a Club magazine that I kept hidden rolled up in a telescope.
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I don't get mothers' crusade against their sons' porn. You know when you have a boy that he's going to spend a solid six years under your roofing jacking off constantly. Better that he do it to actual women in respectable porn magazines than with anime dating simulators, pony fanfic or whatever the kids like to jack off to nowadays.
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Irish Joe posted:I don't get mothers' crusade against their sons' porn. You know when you have a boy that he's going to spend a solid six years under your roofing jacking off constantly. Better that he do it to actual women in respectable porn magazines than with anime dating simulators, pony fanfic or whatever the kids like to jack off to nowadays.
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