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I haven't seen Honey Boy but Shia is great in The Peanut Butter Falcon and so is Zach as the titular character. As someone else said his Hot Ones episode is one of the best. Some of the stories he's told on late night talk shows are good ways to pass the time on YouTube too. The guy is seriously loving funny.
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Shia "the boof" had the worst segment of Nymphomaniac tho
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Feb 9, 2020 06:30
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I feel like it was really cool to hate Shia LaBoeuf not too long ago, maybe the mid-late 2000's? I don't really get why that was though. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was 2006.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I feel like it was really cool to hate Shia LaBoeuf not too long ago, maybe the mid-late 2000's? I don't really get why that was though. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints was 2006. Have you heard of this film franchise called Transformers?
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Feb 9, 2020 07:03
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He was doing a lot of weird poo poo like wearing a paper bag on his head and having an apology written in the sky because he ripped off someone’s work. It seemed like he just really wanted attention for being weird rather than acting.
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I think he’s got a great crisis management person because whoever advised him to do the random “just do it” green screen meme, the Actual Cannibal stage show and Honey Boy was a genius at turning his image around
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Feb 9, 2020 08:47
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I am 100% team Shia now.
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Deadite posted:He was doing a lot of weird poo poo like wearing a paper bag on his head and having an apology written in the sky because he ripped off someone’s work. It seemed like he just really wanted attention for being weird rather than acting. Yeah he had that and a couple of other cringeworthy things online etc that were just really weird and not funny etc.
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Feb 9, 2020 13:41
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JBP posted:I am 100% team Shia now. I even like transformers 1
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Feb 9, 2020 14:56
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There are people who wants Paramount and Hasbro to bring him back for Transformers 6 or whatever. With current Shia that would be very interesting. What I am saying is he should play a Quintesson judge, the guys with 5 faces.
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Feb 9, 2020 15:47
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Season 4 of Better Call Saul is up on Netflix 
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Feb 9, 2020 18:31
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Field Mousepad posted:Season 4 of Better Call Saul is up on Netflix Oh hell yeah
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Field Mousepad posted:Season 4 of Better Call Saul is up on Netflix Ze Germans!
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Feb 9, 2020 18:59
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The new Picard show on CBS All Access doesn't feel very much like star trek, but it is quite good despite that.
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Feb 9, 2020 21:34
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I'd love to ask the writers how a Fox News analogue would arise in a post-scarcity socialist utopia.
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Feb 9, 2020 21:41
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Groovelord Neato posted:I'd love to ask the writers how a Fox News analogue would arise in a post-scarcity socialist utopia. Fox News is basically state run media for the Republican party, so I could see it being a thing.
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There wouldn't be a profit motive (which is why both Fox News and the GOP exist) in a post-scarcity socialist utopia.
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Feb 9, 2020 22:50
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Groovelord Neato posted:There wouldn't be a profit motive (which is why both Fox News and the GOP exist) in a post-scarcity socialist utopia. Profit motive isn't the only reason that someone would want to manipulate the opinions of the masses. Money is just the most tangible and easily measured form of power, but people still have desires for other forms of power.
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Feb 9, 2020 22:56
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Groovelord Neato posted:I'd love to ask the writers how a Fox News analogue would arise in a post-scarcity socialist utopia. Star Trek doesn’t depict a post-scarcity socialist utopia.
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Feb 9, 2020 22:58
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Star Trek doesn’t depict a post-scarcity socialist utopia. Why did I even have to check who posted this. IShallRiseAgain posted:Profit motive isn't the only reason that someone would want to manipulate the opinions of the masses. Money is just the most tangible and easily measured form of power, but people still have desires for other forms of power. Why would there be an internal power imbalance in a post-scarcity society? There are no rich on top that need to get a portion of the population that isn't ultrarich on their side to work against their material interests.
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Feb 9, 2020 22:59
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Groovelord Neato posted:Why did I even have to check who posted this. There is always someone that wants to be in charge, and in control. Human resources will always be a finite resource. Ideological interests are also a thing.
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I’m watching The Report on Prime video and I’m liking it. I wish this movie got more buzz and marketing because it should’ve gotten some more award love. After this I’m watching Honey Boy 
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Feb 10, 2020 00:30
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Tim Whatley posted:McMillions, the docuseries on HBO about the McDonald's Monopoly scam, loving rules. You mean the Doug Matthews Awesome Happy Fun Time Extravaganza?
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Scooter_McCabe posted:You mean the Doug Matthews Awesome Happy Fun Time Extravaganza? The "wanna drink a beer with that guy" reading on Doug is off the charts.
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Scooter_McCabe posted:You mean the Doug Matthews Awesome Happy Fun Time Extravaganza? How the hell is this going to be six parts? I think the subject is super interesting, but there’s no way this story couldn’t be told in 2 hours.
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Feb 10, 2020 04:00
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I am not a fan of this trend of documentaries being turned into a miniseries. There is no reason why it can’t be a 2 to 3 hour movie. I just don’t the time, so good chance I will not watch it.
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Groovelord Neato posted:I'd love to ask the writers how a Fox News analogue would arise in a post-scarcity socialist utopia. The third episode literally features someone complaining that she lives in a self-described "hovel" while Picard lives on his vineyard estate tended by a pair of helpers and a team of robots. There are blatantly resources that people desire that are scarce.
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Enos Cabell posted:The "wanna drink a beer with that guy" reading on Doug is off the charts. Yeah, he's so great. I legit think he should become an actor
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Feb 10, 2020 06:43
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Howard and Kim are low key one of the best things about Better Call Saul.
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Feb 10, 2020 09:39
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veni veni veni posted:Howard and Kim are low key one of the best things about Better Call Saul. Absolutely. I love Howard lol.
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Sir Kodiak posted:The third episode literally features someone complaining that she lives in a self-described "hovel" while Picard lives on his vineyard estate tended by a pair of helpers and a team of robots. There are blatantly resources that people desire that are scarce. Isn't the point of the replicator technology that you can turn literal poo poo into whatever is needed? I know very little about Star Trek in general outside of watching some of the movies and reruns of TNG and Voyager, so forgive me if I'm incorrect.
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For Sama is on Prime and it is absolutely gut-wrenching in its portrayal of conflict in the Middle East. If you can stomach the unfiltered violence, it is definitely worth a watch.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Isn't the point of the replicator technology that you can turn literal poo poo into whatever is needed? I know very little about Star Trek in general outside of watching some of the movies and reruns of TNG and Voyager, so forgive me if I'm incorrect. Nah, they talk about how it needs to be stocked with particular precursor compounds that it uses to build stuff, and there's limits on what it can make. There's plotlines about people flying around interstellar freighters, running out of spare parts, etc., which wouldn't make sense if replicators could do it all.
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Sir Kodiak posted:The third episode literally features someone complaining that she lives in a self-described "hovel" while Picard lives on his vineyard estate tended by a pair of helpers and a team of robots. There are blatantly resources that people desire that are scarce. Right: the popular misconception that Star Trek depicts a socialist or even communist society is working backwards from the conclusion that it is a utopia. Like, nobody’s starving (onscreen) because they have access to a ‘replicator’. That’s good, and communism’s good, therefore it must be communism. But Star Trek is actually super-cagey about how its ‘New World Economy’ actually works. It’s something I’ve been meaning to go into in detail.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Nah, they talk about how it needs to be stocked with particular precursor compounds that it uses to build stuff, and there's limits on what it can make. There's plotlines about people flying around interstellar freighters, running out of spare parts, etc., which wouldn't make sense if replicators could do it all. K that makes sense, thanks for the info.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Right: the popular misconception that Star Trek depicts a socialist or even communist society is working backwards from the conclusion that it is a utopia. I, despite not being a big Star Trek guy, watch a decent number of lore videos on YouTube for some reason. This one popped up the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnfzPn7drHs e: Do not get turned off by the poorly-lit dweeb, it's actually pretty solid. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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Watch The Body Rememberers When the World Broke Open on Netflix.
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veni veni veni posted:Howard and Kim are low key one of the best things about Better Call Saul. Kim should be the blueprint of how to write an awesome female lead character.
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feedmyleg posted:I, despite not being a big Star Trek guy, watch a decent number of lore videos on YouTube for some reason. This one popped up the other day: That's the popular view I was talking about as, while he gets a lot right, the dude makes the same basic mistake: “The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of our lives.” Characters in "next generation" Star Trek continually refer to overcoming the personal need to accumulate wealth in the form of objects, being instead motivated by a "philosophy of self-enhancement". While it's true we don't see too much along the lines of conspicuous consumption, that is absolutely not the same thing as the abolition of private property. Likewise, the continual reference to there being no money in the future is not the same thing as anticapitalism. (Additionally, his wikipedia sources say that governments in the Federation share resources between eachother. There is next to nothing about the people.) What the shows actually depict is a sort of moneyless/cashless capitalism transformed by the invention of the "replicator" technology that allows any matter to be transformed into energy and vice-versa (a process that must be immensely wasteful, as it happens). And again, the series is extremely cagey about where all the power is actually coming from. There are oblique references to mining companies, whose operations - especially concerning the potent fuel source 'dilithium' - are constantly going on in the background. It appears that workers in the Federation are paid in credits that can be exchanged for just raw power and 'recipes' for replicatable goods. Here we should note that the Federation evidently has extremely strict intellectual property laws. While recipes for some generic things (like Hot Earl Grey Tea) may be open-source, others may be prohibitively expensive. The same is true of holodeck programs. (And that's all leaving aside the fact that there is still trade in non-replicated goods.) We can get most concrete in how the series deals with the topic of equality, as it comes up constantly with each new alien and/or robot - and it is basically never addressed in economic terms. Only in terms of, like, multicultural tolerance. SuperMechagodzilla fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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The series is a gigantic clusterfuck of ideas at this point, so there really is no unified vision of how the economy works. Some of the earlier Trek is a little more explicit in stating that modern economic theories of capitalism or socialism are outright irrelevant in the Star Trek future. To use your energy example, energy is so free and prevalent that it is functionally post- scarcity at the consumer level. There is far more clean energy available than any single user is capable of consuming. The federation credits are used to trade with entities outside the federation, and most often are depicted as betting kind of worthless. Probably because they have no value within the Fed.
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