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Crusty Nutsack posted:the current ep is ending in 20 minutes, but last week's ep is on their website. maybe it's different for each show With a large lock on it and requests a cable login when clicked. Maybe they do it by time zone, I'm over on the west coast.
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Jingleheimer posted:I've been watching Person of Interest this week and I've been enjoying it. But it's awfully convenient that all the numbers coming out just happen to be people in NYC. Or did I miss some throwaway line at the beginning about them ignoring people outside the city? Anyway, I'm almost done with the first season and that was just a random thought that crossed my mind. One can assume that the algorithm is filtering for numbers people can do something about.
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Jun 26, 2020 02:23
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I liked The Last Leg Lockdown(-Under) because the show's got such a shoestring feel anyway everyone trying to get Zoom working fit right in. Have I Got News for You felt very off in comparison, that one really relies on the audience for pacing. If you didn't catch the credits at the end of this QI Sandi said they have one more without an audience and then it's back to normal.
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Jun 26, 2020 21:58
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Arist posted:By "harm" I'm pretty clearly referring to actual complaints about that content, of which I have heard none. I don't think pre-emptively removing that stuff sans any kind of context is the right approach. Why is removal the first and only option? Are you in a position where you would have heard about it? Surprisingly not every complaint these days is viral on Twitter.
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Jun 27, 2020 05:49
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On top of the people doing it intentionally (and there are plenty who do it intentionally while swearing up and down they didn't mean it) there's also the issue when making punchlines out of terrible things that humor-impaired folks will just reference the horrible thing and think that's the same as telling a joke. South Park's probably the biggest example since Cartman was overtly racist and horrible in every way but that didn't stop people from saying "shut up Jew" in a squeaky voice.
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Jun 27, 2020 21:11
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Slamhound posted:Yeah, especially the Shaun/Gus dynamic. It’s great how they act as each other’s straight man. Speaking of which, if "comedic guy invents bizarre cover story for straightman friend who then has to go along with it" is a shtick you find physically painful, give the show a pass. Every episode, I personally can't stand it and it's a shame because I like everything else.
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Jul 2, 2020 19:24
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STAC Goat posted:I personally prefer the theory that its happening but like no one really wants the job where you travel thousands of light years across galaxies to anally probe noisy alien animals that bite and poop and have a lot of projectile weapons. So we just have a bunch of incompetent ones collecting random science data instead of the best of the best plotting some evil scheme. One guy with experience and a bunch of student volunteers. Half of whom are interested but over-enthusiastic and naive, half are just there for the course credit and completely checked out, and half are there for the alien equivalent of hippy-dippy "getting back to nature and communing with the planet" BS. Yes, that's three halves, deal with it.
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Jul 7, 2020 07:08
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They should've just had him for Dark Helmet in Spaceballs and made that the gag.
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Jul 7, 2020 20:44
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double nine posted:you're likely to get a temperature shock if you go swimming and there's a sharp temperature difference in the water, usually when the water suddenly becomes a lot deeper. That can cause you to drown no matter how good a swimmer you are Yeah, "heart-stoppingly cold" isn't a figure of speech. Well, it is, but it sure as heck feels that way.
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Jul 9, 2020 20:16
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TheAardvark posted:pro tip: you can wear a mask in your tinder pic now to hide your disgusting mug without looking insane I am so self-conscious of my teeth, mask season has been wonderful.
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Jul 9, 2020 23:37
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Rhyno posted:Larry's karaoke scene was amazing. That's the one that sold me on the show.
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Jul 10, 2020 06:25
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When do we get Snakes on a Money Plane?
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Jul 13, 2020 04:34
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2020: Oh God what now?
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Jul 14, 2020 06:41
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uSb8PHjom4 is the scene that stuck with me.
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Jul 15, 2020 00:31
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X-O posted:The award for dumbest first day move by a streaming platform goes to Peacock. Congrats! What does that mean? I have an HDMI cable running from my PC to my monitor, is this some different HDMI or are they saying I'd actually need to scrounge up a DVI to watch?
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Jul 15, 2020 22:32
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Josh Lyman posted:One thing I think that’s unique to Jeopardy is that there’s a sense the host is smart and knows many of the questions. Ken Jennings has that cured and LeVar does not. The guy did a show about reading and learning for what, 20 years? What are your criteria here?
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Jul 21, 2020 02:17
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feedmyleg posted:I have determined that Batman 66 is the best television show of all time. It's not even a close contest. When I'd only seen short clips and stills I thought it was a serious show done badly. Makes a lot more sense after I realized it was in on the joke.
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Jul 28, 2020 21:56
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As long as there's a Naval officer within half a mile of the incident NCIS gets jurisdiction.
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Aug 4, 2020 00:16
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zoux posted:They're doing this by states and really you're going to have 3-5 types of song and none of the bonkers poo poo Let's see... --Generic pop song --Uber-nationalist Country ballad --Local flavor of an ethnic group we've been oppressing for centuries gets to take the stage as we pretend we've always valued them. --White blond lady sings tribute to local ethnic group we've been oppressing for centuries.
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Aug 7, 2020 08:04
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:I always wondered what states like wyoming did in place of texas history as a kid In New Mexico we talked a bit about the Conquistadors and tribal history (nothing detailed, just enough to not pretend bad poo poo didn't happen which is a fair bit more than most folks seem to get), and also made fun of Texas history. Thanks to the textbook consortium being steered by Texas, even Wyoming learns Texas history.
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Aug 8, 2020 05:08
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muscles like this! posted:I was talking to a coworker today about my lasagne recipe and she told me about something her neighbor does that we both thought was completely bizarre. Her neighbor puts a layer of noodle on top, nothing on it and then when it is done cooking they remove the noodle and throw it away. I guess it can keep the layer underneath moist if you have a strong aversion to crispy bits, but I quite like the top layer noodles because they're so crispy.
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Aug 11, 2020 07:35
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TheAardvark posted:By Will Smith and the same person who made this fan film: I was all set to roll my eyes when I clicked on that but I'm impressed, it actually works.
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Aug 12, 2020 20:48
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muscles like this! posted:This sounds like a goddamn parody but Greg Berlanti is producing a gritty live action Powerpuff Girls series for the CW. If they play it as a comedy that could be hilarious.
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Aug 25, 2020 05:37
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/NXOnNetflix/status/1298949632379121665 I really hope "Wesker kids" means someone's rebooted Spencer's eugenics program rather than Albert just being a dad and they go full Resident Evil. If by the end of the first season we don't have T-virus giant wasps carrying people off as one of the siblings cackles madly, I'm not interested.
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Aug 27, 2020 22:23
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Lurdiak posted:I kind of hate "street magic" as a subgenre because it's like a pointless extra layer of lies on top of the basic lie that all magic tricks are. They just plant dudes and then have them act all amazed at things that are happening just out of frame or that they obviously participated in, and sell that as "more real" because they did it on a sidewalk with a crappy handheld instead of a stage. It lacks the charm of a straightforward magic show, to me. Actual street magic is great because you need to be really dang good to fool someone standing right in front of you instead of on the other side of a TV screen or halfway across the theater. I agree about the other kind though. Blane's "magic" is more circus sideshow geek stuff. Edit: actually I'm a bit torn on geek-type "magic" because there are some folks who mix it into actual magic (by which I mean slight of hand trickery) to blur the line in a stylish manner. You think you're watching basic freak stuff and then something goes beyond the possible-but-gross. I believe the Scam Nation guy does that for example. Bruceski fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Sep 1, 2020 |
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Can't slow zombies be about the inevitability of death while fast zombies are about the horrors of capitalism? Agreed. Use the zombies that fit your metaphor for society.
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Sep 10, 2020 05:23
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drat, dropping pickup lines like that at 80.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/AlanYuhas/status/1305490608593809409 Now George, we've been over this. You can play with your castle after you finish your books.
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Sep 14, 2020 17:05
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Mu Zeta posted:She-Hulk sounds like a super lame character but hey I used to think the entire Avengers team was D-list in the 90s so who knows what they can do. From what I remember (disclaimer: I am not a comics expert) she's kinda what they made Banner in Endgame: someone at peace with her transformation and just goes on with her life. Maybe I missed some era where she was getting slammed with "character building" bummer arcs or X-treem badass 90s-style beatdowns across three two-page spreads, but mostly I remember a confident lawyer who superheroed on the side and snarked about meta-humor to a much (much) lighter degree than folks such as Deadpool.
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Sep 18, 2020 06:29
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It’s not really that surprising, just sad. Grade school history basically ends at Reconstruction and the bulk of what you’re taught about civil rights and the Jim Crow era south focuses on the 60s. I wasn’t even aware of the Tulsa poo poo until I saw the show, and I’ve probably read more US history than the average viewer. It’s just something that’s been largely ignored by pop history until the last decade or so. Every moment of racism and oppression in school history books is presented as "X happened in this single place, and it was very sad, and then the subject was done and everything was fine. On to the next chapter."
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Sep 26, 2020 01:33
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Did the original show do a riff on that scene as well? I tried to look it up but "jurassic park Animaniacs" is flooded with the new one.
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Oct 11, 2020 22:23
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:Huh, I've never looked this up before, lemme see- holy loving poo poo he was 12!? Add him to the list of child actors who turned out okay
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Oct 20, 2020 20:56
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Zutaten posted:Other than this the only other important thing is: If the show's delivery of that plot is as good as yours was, I need to be watching it.
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Oct 23, 2020 10:26
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Sub Rosa posted:She had been playing at "high level" competitions for years in the show when that is mentioned. You wouldn't see people tipping their king or saying check at the US championship, or plenty of levels of chess lower than that in domestic competition. It's something you would really only see in club chess, not rated tournaments, and plenty of club level players would still roll their eyes at it. Maybe it has changed somewhat since the sixties, but I mainly think it's just ingrained in the visual storytelling of chess. I haven't played in a tournament in 20 years, but we said check and tipped kings.
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Oct 28, 2020 04:54
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muscles like this! posted:Looks like CW is trying to do a Nancy Drewniverse by doing a backdoor pilot for an updated Tom Swift series in s2. Expect a Hardy Boys and Bobbsey Twins update in a couple of years. Is Tom Swift the same as Tom Swifties? "Honey inspires me" Tom said bemused.
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Oct 29, 2020 06:43
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Boba Pearl posted:Is there a "Recommend me some poo poo to watch" thread? I'm down in the dumps, and want to watch something funny, and I guess I grew up because DBZ Abridged ain't doing poo poo for me. I just want something like that I guess, funny with action scenes, anime is ok. If you have Netflix I like James Acaster's stand-up show. Funny, high energy, and wholesome.
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Oct 29, 2020 23:26
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pentyne posted:Remember how I said Grimm was a casual binge watch. A decent number of whom are just monsters because the Good Guys declare them monsters, and are just trying to get by in life without drawing attention.
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Chairman Capone posted:On a related note, it's really funny to watch Portlandia these days and see it depicted as a twee paradise rather than an epicenter of the neo-Nazi movement. Speaking of which, apparently some news channel has decided we're burning rubble again. Had two old friends contact me yesterday asking if I was all right, had any "message I wanted to send to the people watching". Still haven't been able to figure out what the Hell's supposed to have just happened.
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Nov 6, 2020 14:57
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:It's probably going to be like how they are doing other panel shows; Mock the Week in particular has a smaller, separated audience and plexiglass between comedians. I also assume they are doing the testing thing, though who knows how things will go if the UK gets worse like the US is. OFC if Jimmy gets covid right before taping... I liked one observation Adam Hills made on The Last Leg, "with an audience and Alex here it's a comedic monologue but with just the two of us I'm the guy you regret sitting next to on the bus."
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Free trial time!
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