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Krispy Wafer posted:The Atlantic had a good article about all those loving open floorplans. quote:In this respect, the open plan might represent the most distinctly American home design possible: to labor in vain against ever-rising demands, imposed mostly by our own choices, all the while insisting that, actually, we love it. It’s a prison, but at least it’s one without walls. Nice
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I used to love A&E. OG Law and Order, American Justice, The Equalizer, Hercule Poirot and motherfuckin Columbo. Showcase was my jam. Lots of great stuff on that channel back in the day. Especially, Fridays Without Borders. Tom Green Show and Red Shoe Diaries after 11pm! 
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Iron Crowned posted:Ugh, I never liked Spongebob, and it would always weird me out when I was 19 or so and people my age were very much into Spongebob. It especially pisses me off, because Nickelodeon would claim that they capped their series at 3 seasons when they cancelled Pete and Pete. I started watching Spongebob on September 11, 2001, because when I came home from school (I was 14), literally every channel except Nickelodeon was showing non-stop 9/11 coverage and I wanted a break. I was hooked from there. Its appeal is clearly NOT universal though, so I never judged anyone for not liking it because that would be weird.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I used to love A&E. OG Law and Order, American Justice, The Equalizer, Hercule Poirot and motherfuckin Columbo. There's that Maury Chaykin quote from about a decade ago: quote:Maury Chaykin reflected on the cancellation of Nero Wolfe in a 2008 interview. "I'm a bit jaded and cynical about which shows succeed on television. I worked on a fantastic show once called Nero Wolfe, but at the time A&E was transforming from the premier intellectual cable network in America to one that airs Dog the Bounty Hunter on repeat, so it was never promoted and eventually went off the air."
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Wheat Loaf posted:There's that Maury Chaykin quote from about a decade ago: Well said, even though it's sorta based in ego stroking. Although to be fair, Nero Wolfe was a much better show, he's not wrong. Also better than Dog the Bounty Hunter: - Forgetting to put your name on your SAT, denying yourself 400 points - A clip of Lowtax saying "Probably misses his glasses". - Michael Bolton just going to town on some crab cakes - Stubbing your toe, then doing it again a few minutes later (different table this time)
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BiggerBoat posted:Since we were discussing King, Salem's Lot aired in like 77 or so and holds up really damned well, especially for a made for TV movie. The book holds up exceptionally well too. I really appreciate how the first 2/3rds of the book has this slow creeping dread while we get to know the town in bucolic intimate detail, learning names, faces, and personalities left and right. The suddenly stuff goes to poo poo, and fast, screwing with your head. The Stand feels like the first third or so is King cheaply trying to replicate that feeling and doing poorly.
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Don Gato posted:Forged in Fire is one of my guilty pleasures because I like looking at pretty blades Forged In Fire is great. The spinoff was bad outside of goobers being told their lovely knives they bought on the internet were, in fact, garbage.
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Ornamented Death posted:Forged In Fire is great. Forged in Fire is amazing simply on the basis that everyone, from the contestants to the judges, are all so polite. But with Knife or Death, the single greatest moment was the white guy dressed as a samurai, coming in and boasting that his sword was forged by an authentic Japanese sword smith, and made to his exact specifications, only for the tester to say "The handle's loose."
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Choco1980 posted:The book holds up exceptionally well too. I really appreciate how the first 2/3rds of the book has this slow creeping dread while we get to know the town in bucolic intimate detail, learning names, faces, and personalities left and right. The suddenly stuff goes to poo poo, and fast, screwing with your head. The Stand feels like the first third or so is King cheaply trying to replicate that feeling and doing poorly. I need to read that again. That last 3rd where there's no more town authority or law and people are literally hiding in their homes while vampires try to trick them into letting them inside was terrifying to read as a kid.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I'm a bit surprised none of King's more prominent stuff has never been turned into a video game, you could probably make an RPG out of The Stand, at least. The Mist is pretty much a roguelike.
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King is notorious for writing himself into corners because, by his own admission, he doesn't use outlines or plot notes. He just starts with an idea and GOES, wherever the story takes him until he gets tired of it and then brings in a monster from another dimension or some poo poo. I mostly enjoy his work and think he's a fine writer. His rythm, prose, pacing and dialect are usually very good and I think he loses points as a "serious writer" simply because he's very popular but the motherfucker can bang out very entertaining, highly readable stuff and works tirelessly. It's hard to hate on him. Stephen King thread in TBB btw: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3130206
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Iron Crowned posted:The Mist is pretty much a roguelike.
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BiggerBoat posted:King is notorious for writing himself into corners because, by his own admission, he doesn't use outlines or plot notes. He just starts with an idea and GOES, wherever the story takes him until he gets tired of it and then brings in a monster from another dimension or some poo poo. I mostly enjoy his work and think he's a fine writer. His rythm, prose, pacing and dialect are usually very good and I think he loses points as a "serious writer" simply because he's very popular but the motherfucker can bang out very entertaining, highly readable stuff and works tirelessly. I don't remember which thread I posted this but yea "How the gently caress do you write so many books so fast?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_PBqSPNTfg&t=3008s
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I'm a bit surprised none of King's more prominent stuff has never been turned into a video game, you could probably make an RPG out of The Stand, at least. Only one as far as I know: 
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Ambitious Spider posted:Only one as far as I know: There was another one called F13, but it was more of a multimedia thing that included some small games, rather than a full game itself. Yeah, Alan Wake is the best Stephen King video game out there, but it's weird that there's not more competition.
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Like how the heck did we get through the 80's without a Stephen King written Infocom text adventure? We got two Douglas Adams' games.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Well said, even though it's sorta based in ego stroking. Although to be fair, Nero Wolfe was a much better show, he's not wrong. Also better than Dog the Bounty Hunter: I dunno why but the visual of this has me laughing like an idiot. I could probably be entertained by that for a good hour.
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catlord posted:There was another one called F13, but it was more of a multimedia thing that included some small games, rather than a full game itself. Yeah, Alan Wake is the best Stephen King video game out there, but it's weird that there's not more competition. I was gonna say Alan Wake too and, yeah, Silent Hill had a lot of Mist elements. That's actually a neat idea for a game. Something like a 10 chapter game where each one is pulled from a King book. Cujo and Salem's Lot would make really cool survival horror single level one offs. You could probably make a whole game from The Shining . You could probably do something with Pet Semetary, Christine, The Running Man, Firestarter, and maybe even dumb poo poo like Dreamcatcher, The Talisman or Graveyard Shift... gently caress... a Dark Tower open world sandbox game would loving crush. I could see a way to do an IT game. Or do The Long Walk where you just pressing the square button as your stamina meter decreased. Sorry...way off topic. Is there a "here's a cool idea for a game" thread?
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I don't know why this thread has given me the urge to watch as many King movies/miniseries as possible, even though they're mostly mediocre and I've only read 10 of his books plus some short stories.
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Maybe King's kids will have their dad's raging coke addictions and will sell rights to everything. A TellTale games version of some of those books might be interesting, especially if you could meaningfully change the outcomes.
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I always thought IT would've made a decent tv show. You've got the story lines with the kids, with the kids as adults. You've got the other story threads, the flashbacks, the history of Derry. You could certainly expand on it even more than the book did. Did any of The Losers Club parents ever seen Pennywise? Did Bill and Georgie's parents ever encounter the clown? Is that why they're even more hosed up after Georgie's death, because they knew Pennywise existed, having seen It as kids?
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Two words: gunslinger FPSRPG
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Davros1 posted:I always thought IT would've made a decent tv show. The first one was a TV miniseries. Is it that old that people dont remember it already? 
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Krispy Wafer posted:Like how the heck did we get through the 80's without a Stephen King written Infocom text adventure? The Lurking Horror comes very close.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Two words: gunslinger FPSRPG Set it during the civil war that was going on during the Wizard and Glass flashback plot and I am so in. BiggerBoat posted:King is notorious for writing himself into corners because, by his own admission, he doesn't use outlines or plot notes. He just starts with an idea and GOES, wherever the story takes him until he gets tired of it and then brings in a monster from another dimension or some poo poo. I mostly enjoy his work and think he's a fine writer. His rythm, prose, pacing and dialect are usually very good and I think he loses points as a "serious writer" simply because he's very popular but the motherfucker can bang out very entertaining, highly readable stuff and works tirelessly. He also wrote The Long Walk, which is a fantastic book by pretty much any metric, when he was a freshman in college. Dude has talent.
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Davros1 posted:Forged in Fire is amazing simply on the basis that everyone, from the contestants to the judges, are all so polite. As I recall that nerd's Hanzo steel them proceeded to get all kinds of bent up against the ice.
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purple death ray posted:The first one was a TV miniseries. Is it that old that people dont remember it already? I watched it when it aired, but I'm talking about a proper TV series. One hour eps, several seasons. The book's dense enough, and even then, there's opportunities to expand.
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purple death ray posted:The first one was a TV miniseries. Is it that old that people dont remember it already? I think he was suggesting ways you could branch out from it
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Rirse posted:Meanwhile TBS these days seems to air nothing but Big Bang Theory. How in the world that show gets four hours a day of airing on that channel. To be fair to Big Bang Theory, that's the reason it survived. Also, Law and Order has some amazing episodes but any episode having to do with technology or either classic or SVU early teen years don't stand up very well.
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Davros1 posted:I watched it when it aired, but I'm talking about a proper TV series. One hour eps, several seasons. The book's dense enough, and even then, there's opportunities to expand. Seriously. Have it bounce around back and forth in time throughout Derry's many years being stalked by the giant psychic space cicada. Maybe The Losers aren't the only group to have fought It?
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And following doomed characters is a very King way to do things. I'd love to see other groups trying their own thing.
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Something like American Gods R.I.P. or Westworld where every couple of episodes there was an exploratory hour on one of the characters that helps flesh out the story arch. Walking Dead and Game of Thrones would do those occasionally, but then they got too tied up in the main characters and whether relatives would bone. I was looking so forward to something similar from the Gunslinger universe, but then they took a big steamy dump on that.
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Don Gato posted:Forged in Fire is one of my guilty pleasures because I like looking at pretty blades Congrats you reinvented Dark Conspiracy
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American Gods was like my go to show to introduce to friends for a while and I’m gonna be really pissed if they don’t fix the dumb situation and we never get a second season
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Aesop Poprock posted:American Gods was like my go to show to introduce to friends for a while and I’m gonna be really pissed if they don’t fix the dumb situation and we never get a second season Yup, same.
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Iron Crowned posted:Ugh, I never liked Spongebob, and it would always weird me out when I was 19 or so and people my age were very much into Spongebob. It especially pisses me off, because Nickelodeon would claim that they capped their series at 3 seasons when they cancelled Pete and Pete. Pete and Pete season 3 was bad because it focused too much on Little Pete instead of Big Pete
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Aesop Poprock posted:American Gods was like my go to show to introduce to friends for a while and I’m gonna be really pissed if they don’t fix the dumb situation and we never get a second season What’s going on with it?
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