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korean ramen is for real pretty badass and in many cases surprisingly distinct from japanese ramen so its definitely something worth looting the grocery store for on your way out of the country i always try to remind people briefly in korea that the free maglev train at incheon airport will take you straight to an emart thats right next to the casino in maybe five minutes its an extremely convenient final pit stop provided youre leaving from terminal one anyway
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Big Mad Drongo posted:Babish, a YouTuber who makes food from TV and movies, made Ram-Don from Parasite (or at least a close approximation): I’m gonna make this regularly from now on lmao
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tbf driving around in cars with assholes you don't even want to know is a universal experience in our geohell
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apparently altered carbon season 2 is out, someone please jump in the water to confirm there's a seal in it
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the most obnoxiously derivative aspect of the sonic the hedgehog movie is that his powers work exactly like the flash from justice league which is an extremely specific thing to rip off given that the complex motions during frozen time and the electric shockwaves dont really factor into depictions of other pop culture speedsters especially not sonic himself and theres a lot of reference material to work from in that regard what makes this really annoying is that by defining sonics powers in such a way in a setting thats otherwise just the real world the movie effectively makes it impossible for robotnik or anyone else to pose a credible threat to him so robotniks master plan is to just steal sonics powers which was incredibly dumb and lazy even by the screenplays already low standards
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in a related digression i saw the trailer for the latest scooby doo reboot and gritted my teeth a little through the beginning of it when they parody a style of movie trailers that i dont think anyone has done sincerely for maybe a decade or two although the real insult was seeing the call of the wild trailer later on and how the hell does scooby doo look better than something that is ostensibly a real dog that harrison ford is supposed to be talking to
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Some Guy TT posted:in a related digression i saw the trailer for the latest scooby doo reboot and gritted my teeth a little through the beginning of it when they parody a style of movie trailers that i dont think anyone has done sincerely for maybe a decade or two welcome to the uncanny valley, will you be staying long?
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Some Guy TT posted:the most obnoxiously derivative aspect of the sonic the hedgehog movie is that his powers work exactly like the flash from justice league which is an extremely specific thing to rip off given that the complex motions during frozen time and the electric shockwaves dont really factor into depictions of other pop culture speedsters especially not sonic himself and theres a lot of reference material to work from in that regard It's good that they threw out everything from the games except for what they liked because the games are incoherent and dumb And I say this as a recovering fan No one cares
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The only question the Sonic movie needs to answer is if Jim Carrey is actually entertaining in it
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hes legitimately the best part of the movie because hes the only actor who sells his punchlines with actual proper comic delivery instead of expecting us to laugh because he referenced some dumb thing from another movie its actually kind of weird come to think of it because all the non jim carrey bits are so loaded up with random gratuitous pop culture references im wondering if he just adlibbed actual jokes instead of reading the script
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Some Guy TT posted:in a related digression i saw the trailer for the latest scooby doo reboot and gritted my teeth a little through the beginning of it when they parody a style of movie trailers that i dont think anyone has done sincerely for maybe a decade or two https://twitter.com/broderick/status/1230893144436281344
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looks like that simpsons joke where the homeless turn into mailboxes, the worker falls to the level of a heckin' pupper
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:i want 2 die Atrocious Joe posted:Franchises are a farcical mirror of religion in many ways, which is why I advocate de-Disneyfication after the revolution
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https://twitter.com/k_trendacosta/status/1230956030361628672?p=v it occurred to me reading this piece that theres a bit of a pop culture disconnect at this point because we all dont have access to the same shows like im just taking everybodys impressions of shows like the mandalorian and the new star treks at face value because i have zero interest in the services that offer them nor do they sound like the kind of thing id bother trying to pirate my own family on my latest trip back to the united states has been emblematic of this i was shocked to learn that everyone has amazon prime right now because i figured netflix was good enough but i hadnt even considered how weird it is that my dad doesnt care about new star trek and my sister in law doesnt care about disney plus mainly because they cant be arsed to get new services when they already have plenty
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Some Guy TT posted:https://twitter.com/k_trendacosta/status/1230956030361628672?p=v Everyone wants to launch their own platform right now, in a sort of vain hope of being one of the 1-3 that inevitably dominate the market.
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Why pay for 6 services that I'll use maybe twice each when I can just pirate shows that interest me?
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Some Guy TT posted:https://twitter.com/k_trendacosta/status/1230956030361628672?p=v Yeah this is very true, the pop culture landscape is fragmenting even more these days as we all end up with different streaming services as well, like i don't have disney+ or the dumb cbs one so like you I'm just absorbing stuff about the mandalorian and the new star treks (except discovery which I watched on Netflix while abroad) through osmosis from the like 10% of pop culture consumers who have access to those things its also funny though because there's just. so. much. content. from all these sources that there isn't actually a need to get every single one of them unless you're obsessed with having access to every single thing like my household has access to netflix, prime, and hbo, and that's it and honestly we could probably drop hbo and barely notice--and yet i dont feel the need to get anything else because there's always something to watch on one of those three services imo this is why new companies are working particularly hard to try and turn their exclusives into must-see tv that dominates pop culture discussion, like having mandalorian memes everywhere and trying to get everyone talking about new star trek, because they know that otherwise those things will just come and go and people will forget about them as they keep watching stuff on the services they already rent access to. they're trying to make it so if you dont see the mandalorian you're somehow behind in the pop culture race so you have to get disney+ to not miss out, because otherwise people will just happily keep watching whatever is on the services they already own instead of signing up to new stuff and making new accounts and passwords and having new things to have to remember to change when you get a new credit card and then facing even more decision fatigue when you sit down to watch something and before you even get into an app you have to decide which of six apps you want to open before endlessly scrolling through a list of things to watch and then closing the app because you couldn't decide on anything
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Well I finished Hunters for some reason and I’m 50-50 on it either being just a really bad show or it being an anti-Semitic plot
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Some Guy TT posted:https://twitter.com/k_trendacosta/status/1230956030361628672?p=v well amazon prime does get you free shipping, its good for talking yourself into paying for a second streaming service
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i have access to netflix, hulu, amazon, and disney+ and something ive noticed is nearly every tv show sucks. like all of them. what’s with that
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duz posted:well amazon prime does get you free shipping, its good for talking yourself into paying for a second streaming service yeah i think thats why my family jumped on that train which of course horrified me because i hate amazon but im also a crazy hobo who doesnt use credit cards so its not like theyd listen to me on that topic i watched a doctor who episode on the plane recently which literally had the take of amazon is cool and good actually robots are our friends and the managers are very responsive to labor complaints and the only thing we have to worry about is left wing political radicals subverting the infrastructure to deliver bombs and i was just wondering was doctor who always this outrageously reactionary or is this a recent thing
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Some Guy TT posted:yeah i think thats why my family jumped on that train which of course horrified me because i hate amazon but im also a crazy hobo who doesnt use credit cards so its not like theyd listen to me i watched all the david tennant doctor who years ago and then stopped partway through the matt smith years because the guy who took over just sucked and is a terrible writer (hbomberguy did a whole like 90-minute video on his other hit garbage show, sherlock, that explores just how bad that guy is) and i think i remember multiple episodes about like class conflict and freeing the enslaved, but always wrapped up in a deeply camp exterior where it's one group of aliens oppressing another group of aliens so you can see the parallels if you want to but if you want to ignore them the way tons of people ignored the ham-handed civil rights metaphors in original star trek, you totally can
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A $2/mo VPN and basic internet skills and you can watch basically any digital media ever made, if you're worried about "cultural fragmentation" or whatever become the cool friend and start giving your friends handmade DVDs or USB sticks with  on it.
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THS posted:i have access to netflix, hulu, amazon, and disney+ and something ive noticed is nearly every tv show sucks. like all of them. what’s with that No, that’s innovation. You’re experiencing innovation. Shovelful after shovelful of grey, puddinglike innovation.
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T-man posted:A $2/mo VPN and basic internet skills and you can watch basically any digital media ever made, if you're worried about "cultural fragmentation" or whatever become the cool friend and start giving your friends handmade DVDs or USB sticks with most of my friends have smart tvs and if i gave them a usb stick they would be confused about watching movies on a laptop (if they even have one). also dvds??? pain in the rear end everyone be netflixing
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I was the 90s kid that didn't get cable until the new millennium, and I remember being quite annoyed when the center of gravity of weekday kids programming shifted from Fox/WB/DisneyAfternoon to cable. Talk of a fragmented television medium brought back memories of that.
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"worse than the cable wars" ? It costs like $20/month to access more shows than you can ever watch. This is way better than cable.
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THS posted:most of my friends have smart tvs and if i gave them a usb stick they would be confused about watching movies on a laptop (if they even have one). also dvds??? pain in the rear end merely being able to operate a thumb drive on a tv makes you an elite console cowboy these days
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THS posted:most of my friends have smart tvs and if i gave them a usb stick they would be confused about watching movies on a laptop (if they even have one). also dvds??? pain in the rear end  get better friends
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my last girlfriend wanted to watch movies on an ipad which i thought was just grotesque why would we watch anything on that tiny little thing when theres a tv right there that i can connect to my laptop in retrospect her unwillingness to log her itunes password onto my laptop should have clued me in that the relationship was doomed
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listen to the auteur folks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0
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so im watching the deep space nine marathon on bbc america and has anyone ever observed that jake sisko is the same basic character as wesley crusher but actually done well because hes growing up into a specific skill set instead of just doing self insert bullshit very injust imo that everybody remembers wil wheaton but cirroc lofton is just a name i had to look up
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Some Guy TT posted:so im watching the deep space nine marathon on bbc america and has anyone ever observed that jake sisko is the same basic character as wesley crusher but actually done well because hes growing up into a specific skill set instead of just doing self insert bullshit Probably just as well really And then Nog is even more the anti-Wesley since he actually has to work and become responsible
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Probably just as well really
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T-man posted:A $2/mo VPN and basic internet skills and you can watch basically any digital media ever made, if you're worried about "cultural fragmentation" or whatever become the cool friend and start giving your friends handmade DVDs or USB sticks with torrenting is a lost art among the newer generations
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