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My main memory of Are You Afraid of the Dark is that I wasn't allowed to watch it 
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I always felt it had strong concepts even when the execution was subpar. The ghost in the swimming pool hosed me up as a kid, it was all matted red hair and looked just awful (in a good way), and there was a cool episode with a girl who sucks at chemistry meeting a ghost who did the same 30 years earlier, who died during a practical test because the teacher failed to notice that the equipment was incredibly faulty. It's got a strong theme of history repeating itself as the "modern" (90s) girl almost dies the same way.
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Oct 9, 2017 22:07
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trickybiscuits posted:It was a really good song In 1976, the R&B family act, The Sylvers, had a big hit with "Hot Line". A song about a guy trying to telephone his girlfriend. Sample lyrics: Stop all the calls in the world Till I catch you, girl Catch you at home I asked the CIA They said it was ok, to use their private phone Oh, baby, baby and: Baby, where are you Here am I Should I get in touch with the FBI I know my call will be accepted There's no chance of bein' disconnected https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErU8Lo2WcO4
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Oct 9, 2017 22:32
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BioEnchanted posted:I always felt it had strong concepts even when the execution was subpar. prob true to an extent, there's an episode that was explicitly cited by Shyamalan as a major source of inspiration for the sixth sense - so it gave us that at least
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Oct 9, 2017 22:38
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Oh please, Shyamalan was totally a Goosebumps kid, I bet his parents never let him watch Are You Afraid of the Dark until he was 35. although if that's true that's a cute story. BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 22:46 on Oct 9, 2017 |
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Oct 9, 2017 22:42
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BioEnchanted posted:Oh please, Shyamalan was totally a Goosebumps kid, I bet his parents never let him watch Are You Afraid of the Dark until he was 35. unfortunately, i just remembered that it's not since Shyamalan recently denied ever having seen that show at all even tho that bit of trivia is all over imdb, m night's fan site, etc that just confirms him for gooflumps then
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Oct 9, 2017 23:50
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Well there is this
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Oct 10, 2017 00:22
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BioEnchanted posted:If I'm allowed to contextualise an episode that I liked from a show that has aged somewhat poorly (in a lot of respects but it still has it's charms) I'd like to say that the Tale of Apartment 214 (from Are You Afraid of the Dark) has actually aged fairly well for a show that is fairly hokey in restrospect, entirely for the way it's plot flows, because while it's a ghost story, it isn't a monster-of-the-week story. But why didn't Stacey rent the cheap apartment next door in the first place? 
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Oct 10, 2017 01:06
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story. No one gets scared off or exorcised, it's just happily ever after and I love that.
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eating only apples posted:But why didn't Stacey rent the cheap apartment next door in the first place? You go look at two flats and can't see a difference, but one's much cheaper than the other and the landlord won't give a straight answer about why. Which do you rent?
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Oct 10, 2017 03:47
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hard counter posted:unfortunately, i just remembered that it's not since Shyamalan recently denied ever having seen that show at all even tho that bit of trivia is all over imdb, m night's fan site, etc drat, what a twist
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Oct 10, 2017 04:00
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Tiggum posted:You go look at two flats and can't see a difference, but one's much cheaper than the other and the landlord won't give a straight answer about why. Which do you rent? If you're the landlord and this is the position you're choosing to take, why even bother attempting to sell the ghost girl apartment at a different price in the first place? Wouldn't that just draw attention to an issue you're obviously trying to avoid?
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Oct 10, 2017 10:02
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New entry for this topic. Star Trek Discovery just name dropped Elon Musk as a scientific legend of the 21st century. You know, Elon Musk the business marketer who knows sweet buggery about actual engineering and science. poo poo show anyway.
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Oct 10, 2017 11:23
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purple death ray posted:They're ripping off biggie anyway but just in case you actually don't know this, the wtc was bombed in 1993  Goddammit. I don't know if says more about me or this horrible excuse for a country that I completely blocked that out in the wake of all the other terrible things that have happened in the 24 years since then.
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Oct 10, 2017 12:43
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Nutsngum posted:New entry for this topic. He plays the orchestra.
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Oct 10, 2017 15:11
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Wheat Loaf posted:In the long run it worked against the Germans because I'm pretty sure the Battle of France convinced Hitler he was a military genius and he took to overruling officers who knew better but couldn't do anything about it. Nah, the German military were all-in on Hitler after the defeat of Poland and France in less than a year and were fully on board with invading the USSR. It was only after stuff started going bad and after the war that surviving German generals started scapegoating Hitler as being the cause of all the problems. Nutsngum posted:New entry for this topic. maybe its some other Elon Musk MikeCrotch has a new favorite as of 15:25 on Oct 10, 2017 |
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Oct 10, 2017 15:17
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MikeCrotch posted:maybe its some other Elon Musk He was a great scientist like Albert Einstein, Albert Einstein (no relation) and Vulcan Albert Einstein.
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Oct 10, 2017 15:24
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Nutsngum posted:New entry for this topic. The internet has been obsessed over this guy lately and I just don't get it. Where did it come from? People are treating him like he's some sort of techno jesus who will personally deliver mankind unto a scifi utopia. He's the one with the dumb AI conspiracy theories too isn't he? Help, computers are gonna take over the world and only mister moneybags can save us 
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Oct 10, 2017 15:45
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Your Computer posted:The internet has been obsessed over this guy lately and I just don't get it. Where did it come from? People are treating him like he's some sort of techno jesus who will personally deliver mankind unto a scifi utopia. Probably a Steve Jobs thing. He's marketing and vision and can raise money to get stuff done. He may have had poo poo all to do with the technical side of launching a rocket and then landing that rocket on a drone barge in the middle of the ocean, but he got the people together to make it happen.
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Oct 10, 2017 16:06
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Hey, look at Edison's reputation, the popular view of the future ain't necessarily the truth.
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Oct 10, 2017 16:22
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Nerds worship consumer technology, literally - some silicon valley guy just launched an actual religion based on it - while willfully ignoring the effects of that technology on society and the impact of the consumerism on the lives of the less fortunate, while simultaneously looking down their noses at ordinary religious beliefs and still claiming all of their decisions are based in cold logic and reason. Also his company is named after Nikola Tesla and you better believe nerds love that guy.
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Oct 10, 2017 16:24
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Teslas are cool, SpaceX is exciting, hyperloop etc all look great - but Elon Musk strikes me as a sleaze. The guy's got a messiah complex and and ego the size of his bank balance. The stuff about his plastic surgery and ex-wife seems like hitpieces, but that anti-union stance is pretty disgusting. No one should trust, let alone worship the rich. Would Elon Musk do any of this stuff if it didn't make him money, or grant him power?
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Oct 10, 2017 16:30
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Californication has an episode from 2007 about the word LOL. The main character hates his girlfriend saying it out loud, and thinks it's contributing to people becoming dumber. It's weird seeing David Duchovny use the words human being and nig-nog, even in a jokey context.
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Oct 10, 2017 16:57
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As doofy as Musk can be, I think he does a great job of taking lofty goals which would otherwise seem ridiculous and actually communicating that no, we can do this, right now. Who Killed The Electric Car came out eleven years ago and was effectively an elegy for the entire concept then Musk comes along and (surely not by his lonesome) ushers in the age of Tesla, etc.
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Oct 10, 2017 17:02
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Your Computer posted:
That's Elizier Yudkowski, who thinks you should give him money so his Harry Potter fan fiction can save the world.
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Oct 10, 2017 17:58
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Brofessor Slayton posted:He was a great scientist like Albert Einstein, Albert Einstein (no relation) and Vulcan Albert Einstein. I remember being kinda blown away learning that one of Germany's leading music critics in the 1920-30s was Alfred Einstein.
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Oct 10, 2017 18:02
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Ugly In The Morning posted:That's Elizier Yudkowski, who thinks you should give him money so his Harry Potter fan fiction can save the world. No, Musk is one of those people too
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Oct 10, 2017 18:10
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Roko's Basilisk is literally just nerds re-inventing religion.
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Oct 10, 2017 18:22
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SEX BURRITO posted:Californication has an episode from 2007 about the word LOL. The main character hates his girlfriend saying it out loud, and thinks it's contributing to people becoming dumber. To be fair, that's not a wrong opinion... 
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Oct 10, 2017 20:18
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All the episodes of TV shows with people using Windows phones and saying "I'll Bing it!" when they need to look something up.
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Oct 11, 2017 09:37
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evobatman posted:All the episodes of TV shows with people using Windows phones and saying "I'll Bing it!" when they need to look something up. They didn't age poorly, that has and will always sound dumb.
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Oct 11, 2017 10:27
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evobatman posted:All the episodes of TV shows with people using Windows phones and saying "I'll Bing it!" when they need to look something up. Gossip Girl was probably the most product placement-y show ever, with so many awful examples. But the most embarrassing one is that everyone has windows phones and tablets, and are always looking things up on Bing. This was in the era where no teenager would be seen dead with anything but an iPhone. The constant Vitamin Water placements really date the show too. I haven't seen anyone drink that crap in years.
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Oct 11, 2017 11:32
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Krispy Wafer posted:King's 11-22-63 audiobook had an alright reader, until he had to do the lady voices and then it sounded worse than a guy in a dress pretending to be a woman. And then the sex scenes started and I had to just skip ahead 2 or 3 minutes. I probably missed something important about Kennedy. the lady and I listened to the entirety of it on a long road trip. holy poo poo the sex scenes were awkward
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Oct 11, 2017 11:52
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Tiggum posted:They didn't age poorly, that has and will always sound dumb. Jay Leno's short-lived and critically-roasted The Jay Leno Show was, among many, many, other things, mocked hard for so transparently taking Microsoft placement money and trying to make "binging it" into an actual Thing People Said in one of his fun little segments:  ha ha  hee hee
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Oct 11, 2017 12:20
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Elon Musk wants to solve the world's problems, but only in such a way that he gets to be in charge at the end. Same deal as Zuckerberg simultaneously talking about Universal Basic Income while saying the world needs to get ready for trillionaires.
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Oct 11, 2017 12:35
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MikeCrotch posted:Elon Musk wants to solve the world's problems, but only in such a way that he gets to be in charge at the end. Same deal as Zuckerberg simultaneously talking about Universal Basic Income while saying the world needs to get ready for trillionaires. I might be ready for trillionaires, how do they taste?
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Oct 11, 2017 14:10
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MikeCrotch posted:Elon Musk wants to solve the world's problems, but only in such a way that he gets to be in charge at the end. I believe the word you're looking for is "visionary" 
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Oct 11, 2017 15:10
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Visionaries was a cool cartoon. I had the bear guy and the wolf guy.
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Oct 11, 2017 15:15
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My problem with Musk is that he thinks things like space travel and electric cars are essentially solved problems that just need the right free-market libertard like him to throw enough money at them and then he can bask in glory forever. He's trying to buy his way to greatness. And idiot nerds buy into it 100% because they worship shitheads like Steve Jobs.
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Oct 11, 2017 15:40
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well why not posted:Teslas are cool, SpaceX is exciting, hyperloop etc all look great - but Elon Musk strikes me as a sleaze. The guy's got a messiah complex and and ego the size of his bank balance. The stuff about his plastic surgery and ex-wife seems like hitpieces, but that anti-union stance is pretty disgusting. Considering the Hyperloop looks more like a con job for grant money and getting intellectual property off university teams I would say he is a shifty as gently caress sleazebag. Seriously any critical analysis of the project brings up rather big engineering issues that has had zero actual research into fixing. Getting undergraduates to build miniature electric cars under the proviso that anything they test is owned by Musk is not solving that.
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Sweevo posted:My problem with Musk is that he thinks things like space travel and electric cars are essentially solved problems that just need the right free-market libertard like him to throw enough money at them and then he can bask in glory forever. He's trying to buy his way to greatness. And idiot nerds buy into it 100% because they worship shitheads like Steve Jobs. What he's done best with so far are solved problems that were missing some crazy money, though. It's not like he invented putting people/things into orbit from scratch, NASA, ESA, the Soviet/Russian space organizations, etc, have shown profusely that this could be done. Electric cars came and went in prototype form for decades before Tesla came on the scene. Digging tunnels is not a completely novel enterprise. The bigger deal would be if SpaceX manages to solve any of the problems involved in sending people into months-long trips outside the loving embrace of the Van Allen belt, which is way more questionable.
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