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Croatoan posted:So I watched episode 4 of The Boys and how in the gently caress does that dude think Stormfront isn't racist? What's his handle anyway? It's because he's a racist and doing a bunch of bad faith arguments.
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Hey I haven't watched or thought about Ancient Aliens in years so can someone explain the drama behind this? https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1305660869574094854?s=20
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 01:20 |
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Hey I haven't watched or thought about Ancient Aliens in years so can someone explain the drama behind this? Ancient Aliens is a racist show because it presupposes that these enormous monumental feats of engineering built by ancient non-western civilizations that have lasted thousands of years were the work of aliens because brown folks aren't smart.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 01:23 |
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Because ancient aliens is garbage that denies the accomplishments of non-white civilizations by claiming aliens did it Efb
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 01:24 |
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Oh look an excuse to post my favourite ever meme image
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 01:30 |
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Rando posted:It's busier than CD and it's got two. Blockbuster Video isn't a subforum of CD, it was explicitly created as a counterpart with a different philosophy on discussing film. The fact that it was dead on arrival is mostly because it turns out that people who don't want to discuss films in a critical or meaningful way don't actually have much to say outside of making fun of the people who do for being cringe, and when they weren't allowed to do that they just scattered to the wind. Theoretically I could see an alternative to TVIV that is focused on people watching old shows for the first time having a purpose: This subforum's spoiler policy being that anything that has aired doesn't need to be tagged works well for discussing contemporary ongoing shows where everyone is presumably caught up and watching as it airs but for older shows it means you basically can't discuss it with anyone until you've seen the entire thing. But in practice this subforum doesn't really have many regular posters anymore and even popular shows will sometimes only get a few posts per episode so anyone who wanted to live post about watching old shows or give their thoughts as they get caught up would probably be better served by Twitter. I guess the compromise is that if you're watching an older show and there isn't already a thread then a new one and explain that you don't want to be spoiled and hope that people respect that.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 01:57 |
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Hey I haven't watched or thought about Ancient Aliens in years so can someone explain the drama behind this? History channel leaned extremely hard into the fringe myths and conspiracy theories to try and keep their ratings up. Giving those people a platform is garbage because it gives them some semblance of legitimacy.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 02:08 |
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Sleeveless posted:I guess the compromise is that if you're watching an older show and there isn't already a thread then a new one and explain that you don't want to be spoiled and hope that people respect that. This. If you make a thread for an older show and do not want spoilers discussed in it, state that rule in the OP and I will gladly enforce it for the thread.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 02:12 |
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Here's a very good movie about the Ancient Aliens theory. It doesn't cover all of their claims, but it goes really in depth on a bunch, and it becomes clear that while the Ancient Aliens proponents are extremely ignorant, they are also just straight up lying a lot of the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9w-i5oZqaQ pentyne posted:History channel leaned extremely hard into the fringe myths and conspiracy theories to try and keep their ratings up. Giving those people a platform is garbage because it gives them some semblance of legitimacy. I wouldn't mind if they went with a better conspiracy. Ancient aliens is racist and stupid. Give me an entire series about the theory that the middle ages are made up, I'd watch that.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 02:12 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc3vt1Gqrn4 Quinton Reviews video about History/Ancient Aliens. He makes the argument that there's not really a point in specifically debunking the claims of Ancient Aliens because most of the time they're such nonsense that they have absolutely no basis in reality. As an example he has clips of a guy who claims that the Moai were alive and that the Rapa Nui eventually "murdered" them.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 03:24 |
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The point of debunking ancient alien stuff is that it educates people. Ancient alien theory is successful because people don't know much about old civilizations. So if you take a handful of their less obviously ridiculous claims and explain what they're misinterpreting or lying about, you're also educating people about these old civilizations. Like the claim that midaeval paintings have UFOs in them. In that video I linked, they go through a quick explanation of what's actually going on there. Depicting the sun and the moon as anthropomorphic figures, with faces, viewing the crucifixion was standard in mideaevel art. In the hundreds of examples of that we have, you can take a couple out of context and the moon had become so stylized that it does look like a UFO. But in context with other mediavail paintings, it becomes clear what they really are. So now the viewer not only knows more about meidaveal art, they also understand how Ancient Alien theorists take things out of their cultural context in order to make them unexplainable.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 03:42 |
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It's not the Ancient Aliens guy's fault he's racist, that's just how Greek people are. muscles like this! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc3vt1Gqrn4 Also pretty much everyone who watches and enjoys that show openly says that they know that the ancient alien myths are total bullshit and they watch it because it's funny, pretty much the entire Giorgio Tsoukalos meme was a lampshading of that with people blaming aliens on inconsequential or stupid things. The problem is that even if you consume something ironically you are still exposed to and eventually internalize the concepts on some level and also create more demand for it, like how an entire generation of terminally online people have huge hangups about things like polyamory or open relationships because they've spent years mainlining the obviously fake stories from r/relationships and those are tropes invoked so often because they play well with Reddit's reactionary core leading to more upvotes.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 03:46 |
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I'm Greek tyvm
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 03:50 |
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esperterra posted:I'm Greek tyvm Explains so much.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 03:54 |
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This looks like it might be fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsxWB4IDTrs
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 05:28 |
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Is Two Weeks to Live any good?
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 05:49 |
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Sleeveless posted:It's not the Ancient Aliens guy's fault he's racist, that's just how Greek people are. Ah yes, the "Jersey Shore" effect...
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 12:56 |
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Looten Plunder posted:This looks like it might be fun Why isn’t anyone singing
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 13:34 |
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It took a couple months longer than I suspected, but last night I noticed that TV finally ran out of new programming. Fox is the most egregious because it's literally movie on Monday, Chef Ramsay Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with brand new Wrasslin' on Friday. The other channels still have some game shows, and reality TV, but they're also mostly reruns. The CW seems to be the only one putting out "new" scripted shows, by importing British TV.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 15:18 |
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I don’t know if there are any sites showing more, but pogdesign.co.uk/cat is unsurprisingly showing an almost empty calendar for new shows and returns next month. The animated shows that are produced way way in advance are back but that’s about it. Not listed is the NBC covid sitcom done over zoom, which critics have described as ‘absolutely the one thing I screamed into the sky months ago pleading not to happen’, altho by that I mean me.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 15:30 |
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Looks like NBC shows are starting back up https://twitter.com/FINALLEVEL/status/1305838059607523329 https://twitter.com/FINALLEVEL/status/1305839862373900289 e: aayyyyy https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1305869108978708480 zoux fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Sep 15, 2020 |
# ? Sep 15, 2020 15:32 |
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CW has started filming some stuff again, Supernatural finished their last episodes and Batwoman has begun working on s2. Not sure about everything else but a couple of weeks ago Grant Gustin was saying that he was getting ready to get back.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 15:46 |
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Did they ever say if the new Batwoman was a re-cast or a new character
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 15:48 |
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muscles like this! posted:CW has started filming some stuff again, Supernatural finished their last episodes and Batwoman has begun working on s2. Not sure about everything else but a couple of weeks ago Grant Gustin was saying that he was getting ready to get back. I guess we'll see how long this lasts considering we have Halloween, Thanksgiving/Black Friday, and Christmas all 4 weeks apart this year, which is just going to be perfect for giving everyone the 'rona
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 15:49 |
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zoux posted:Did they ever say if the new Batwoman was a re-cast or a new character New character, with the overarching story of the season being the mystery of what happened to Kate/original Batwoman.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 15:52 |
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CBS All-Access is dead. Just kidding, it's being rebranded into Paramount Plus. https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/15/21437729/cbs-all-access-paramount-plus-new-name-rebrand-2021-international-disney-hbo
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 15:55 |
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muscles like this! posted:New character, with the overarching story of the season being the mystery of what happened to Kate/original Batwoman. To go along with the mystery of what happened to Ruby Rose Mu Zeta posted:CBS All-Access is dead. Just kidding, it's being rebranded into Paramount Plus. lmao the Boys had a Vought Plus joke this week
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 15:57 |
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I really enjoy the Boys but last week I could tell the thread was heading in a clusterfuck direction and now I see hundreds of posts.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 16:00 |
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You can probably bet that a CBS All Access rebrand is going to come with new carriage agreements and likely the loss of Roku and Fire TV support.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 16:05 |
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EL BROMANCE posted:I don’t know if there are any sites showing more, but pogdesign.co.uk/cat is unsurprisingly showing an almost empty calendar for new shows and returns next month. I don't use the overall release page much, but pogdesign tends to add new shows quite late I've found. Looking at my own page for October the only things I have are: Warrior S2 Fear the Walking Dead S6 The Amazing Race S36 Eric Andre Show S5
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 16:38 |
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Shows with seasons that start in the next couple months according to my TV tracker thing: PEN15 Ratched Bob’s Burgers Fargo Warrior The Good Lord Bird The Conners Superstore The Undoing The Eric Andre Show The Mandalorian His Dark Materials The Crown There’s at least a couple there that have to have started shooting recently, right? Plus we know Fargo only just managed to shoot its last two episodes.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 16:43 |
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I'm excited to see the baby
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 17:03 |
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T-Mobile Tuesday has a 6 month free QuiBi subscription today. This is still not enough to get me to try QuiBi.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 17:52 |
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Sumo posted:I'm excited to see the baby I wanted Teen Yoda. He smokes now, and is rude to his dad. Looten Plunder posted:Eric Andre Show S5 Singlehandedly saving 2020.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 18:08 |
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oh jay posted:T-Mobile Tuesday has a 6 month free QuiBi subscription today. This is still not enough to get me to try QuiBi. It's funny because I just came here to post this. I wonder if this is QuiBi's way to try to hit lagging ad impressions before the end of the year.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 18:08 |
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Everyone I know who has used Quibi did so to get the new Reno 911 content and immediately bailed.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 18:21 |
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bull3964 posted:It's funny because I just came here to post this. I wonder if this is QuiBi's way to try to hit lagging ad impressions before the end of the year. They launched with a free six months on T Mobile
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 18:24 |
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zoux posted:They launched with a free six months on T Mobile That wasn't available to everyone. You had to have at least two lines. The T-Mobile Tuesday deals are available to a wider audience.
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 18:46 |
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swickles posted:Everyone I know who has used Quibi did so to get the new Reno 911 content and immediately bailed. Is it that bad? Also looking for an episode of Bob's burgers where bob is trying to console somebody and talking about his botd and how he says the names are terrible but he enjoys making them it's in the first 5.5 seasons
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# ? Sep 15, 2020 18:52 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 17:10 |
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I didn't realize Peacock was free* (ads right?). Is it limited in some way or another? I want to watch the new season of AP Bio.
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