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I’m not really into cop shows but man Bosch is so good. all the actors are excellent, the writing is pretty good, the cinematography is outstanding. everything is good and I didn’t realize another season dropped back in April so I’ve been watching that.
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qirex posted:I tried a couple episodes when it first came out but thought "oh look yet another gritty rear end in a top hat alcoholic detective but actually he's brilliant show" and dropped it. if it manages to transcend that maybe I'll give it another shot i admit that one of the things i like about it is that it is technically well-executed. i'm really tired of tv shows where they change camera angles literally every five seconds or less. i have a hard enough time paying attention as it is, i don't need the tv to switch it up for me
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Nov 13, 2020 17:37
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Bosch is honestly one of the most deranged pieces of copaganda and one of the running subplots is dealing with Chinese spies. I’m not really defending the content since acab but I still enjoy the filming and scenery ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ for less coptroversial submissions I think lovecraft country is worth a watch
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Nov 13, 2020 19:34
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Shaggar posted:justified loving rules. this is pretty accurate. i like justified because im from kentucky and tbh it was just nice to see a show that wasn’t (entirely) about “lol those dumb hillbillies”
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Nov 13, 2020 20:34
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Kenny Logins posted:even the lesser half of the series (generally: odd numbered seasons) is so much better than so many other cop type shows it’s baffling tbh i think my favourite character on the show is still mags bennett  I think martindale is a good actor generally though
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Nov 14, 2020 14:13
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that's literally the face i make whenever someone tells me "no you'll like this anime i swear
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Nov 15, 2020 17:09
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Carthag Tuek posted:reading Ash: A Secret History but im getting pretty annoyed with the main character being incredibly horny for one of the bad guys for no apparent reason man for the most part i hate when "romance" gets shoveled into a book. i don't have anything against it as long as it's not the main plot, i guess, but mostly writers are so bad at writing them and it brings the rest of the book down
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Nov 17, 2020 18:49
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haveblue posted:done with raised by wolves it had so much potential and ended up using none of it
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Nov 18, 2020 11:20
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supernatural needed to end like nine years ago. I’m a masochist so I watched this season. the cowards went and literally made the angel gay for dean in the final episodes to force some kind of awkward emotional moment. I found it pretty distasteful to be honest, like how terf Rowling ex post facto’d gay dumbledore I stopped watching twd after it became argument farm
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Nov 20, 2020 18:12
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Chris Knight posted:I hadn't watched new Simpsons for a few years and tuned in to see this year's TOH. man they all just sound tired I always watch toh because I can’t not at this point but it’s true that most modern simpsons eps fail to get a laugh out of me. I watched family guy for the first time in a while the other week and it was just a half hour of jokes about what losing a child does to your relationship and I honestly don’t get finding any of it funny
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Nov 20, 2020 21:47
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indigi posted:American Dad is worse than Friends f🔴r🟡i🔵e🔴n🟡d🔵s has zero redeeming qualities and its ongoing popularity mystifies me american dad is pretty watchable for the most part though it’s hit and miss for me
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Nov 21, 2020 09:23
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Chris Knight posted:fuckin lol more twilight for men while that’s obviously hot garbage i never understood the appeal of so many - or any, for that matter - pop culture references. theyre boring, lazy writing, sure, but i always find that they instantly take me out of the book
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Nov 24, 2020 12:42
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i was thinking about starting Gideon the Ninth next, space necromancer swordfighting sounds fun i just read that, not bad tbh, not like, high lit or whatever, but fun read
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Nov 24, 2020 22:33
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just finished Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri extremely good
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Nov 25, 2020 02:16
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one of the things i really like twitter for is following book people and authors and getting recommendations. i've been really enjoying Rebecca Roanhorses stuff. she has a modern/urbanish fantasy series about a post-apocalyptical world set in the navajo reservation (which escaped in many ways unscathed). she's also got a new one out called black sun, which takes place in a fantasy realm based on pre-columbian mesoamerica. i've not gotten very far into it yet.
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Nov 25, 2020 03:52
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Achmed Jones posted:yo mediaphage id never heard of Rebecca roanhorse but that sounds right up my alley, thanks for the rec! yw! she’s very readable. have you guys read vita nostra? only the first has been translated from the ukrainian. extremely good take on the idea of magic, apprentices, and training (which is not a great description, but it’s the best i got). also enjoyed max barry’s lexicon not too long ago, which might be chrarcterized as a similar genre, if magic were limited to channeling influence.
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Nov 25, 2020 05:44
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Achmed Jones posted:i just bought a wizard of earthsea and futurology earthsea such a classic. one of the first real series i read in elementary school
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Nov 25, 2020 19:00
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I tried to read a piers anthony book and ended up throwing it across the room i read a bunch of them as a kid i picked one up when i was older and found a plot about a 50 year dude wanting to have sex with a 16 year old and stopped and threw them all out Achmed Jones posted:and, like, if you can't not write the sex scene, at least also not allowed: “turgid member”
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Nov 25, 2020 21:31
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alexandriao posted:To the writer: that's because the proper metaphor is obviously roast beef. specifically, curtains thereof.
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Nov 27, 2020 16:19
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i like comic books like any middle-aged manchild but tbqh i'm pretty sick of superhero movies (yes i know there are non-superhero comics and poo poo save your bits)
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Nov 28, 2020 04:33
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Kenny Logins posted:it was a good show every ep of better off ted is great. they did an outtakes clip of the time where the memo is accidentally written that employees must now insult each other with some truly filthy quips. i dunno how well it’s aged tho since i haven’t watched it forever but that ones on youtube. also i always liked the veridian dynamics commercials.
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Nov 28, 2020 21:41
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Kenny Logins posted:iirc they had an ep where the building’s smart sensors couldn’t see the black lab tech. it probably holds up well yeah i was thinking of that as i wrote the post. trying to remember if it was before or after hp shipped webcams that couldn’t see black people because they didn’t have any black engineers
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Nov 28, 2020 22:02
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i liked it but it wasn't surprising in any way? which is fine, entertainment doesn't need to be full of twists, but it felt very of a type and not anything new. with that said i bet writing it was kind of a bitch in terms of planning all the car poo poo and stuff
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Nov 29, 2020 03:31
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NoneMoreNegative posted:oh nice, B5 is getting a remaster rerelease i don't think itunes would sell an AI upscale, though i could be wrong. this was originally shot on widescreen 35mm, the issue as you note is the CG which was rendered at 720x480. some of those shots, especially anything showing an instrument panel is like night and goddamned day, it's nuts. no way that's an AI upscale at this point in time imo. some of them go from unrecognizable blurs to clear, sharp lines. what would be neat is if they machine upscaled the CGI, maybe (vs a proper rerender and/or edit); surely some combination would be cheaper than the TNG effort? i wonder whether they rescanned film or used one of the film transfer produced for 4:3. either way i might finally watch more than a few episodes. in re anime chat, i pretty much can't stand the majority of series i've seen but some of the movies have been watchable. i liked some of the ghibli stuff. spirited away was nice, princess mononoke was ok, had an interesting conversation with neil gaiman about how the studio hosed all over the translated screenplay he came up with apparently.
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Dec 2, 2020 04:06
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lol i mean the rules thread bans all general video game discussion even so i think prior posting is not indicative of future performance here
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Dec 2, 2020 16:53
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lmao there’s a matrix four?? what??
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Dec 3, 2020 19:53
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:kind of looking forward to it, the trilogy gets too much poo poo by far, and while they only have one wachowski sister that is enough to make me cautiously optimistic. 2 and 3 were kind of eh ok for me, i think they get poo poo on because 1 was so great. and if it's cool to hate on that, idc i watched it so many times in college that i can probably still recite it
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Dec 3, 2020 20:06
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haveblue posted:really curious what keanu reeves and carrie anne moss will be doing in that movie since both of their characters died in part 3 (spoiler alert) 3 options imo: flashbacks (possible) agents pretending (less likely) existant as raw energy and programming within the matrix (this seems like it might be right up their alley but who knows) theoretically i guess the robots could just reboot them but eh that seems lazy
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Dec 3, 2020 20:13
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Kenny Logins posted:option 4: clones (backups) i thought about clones but it didn't seem matrixy enough tbh i kind of hope its not clones i kind of like the arnie clone movie
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Dec 3, 2020 20:22
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:i saw fight club with my dad and bro and well let's just say my dad has a good credit score and was not pleased good inspiration to start making my own soaps tho
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:please just don't use an EMP device to erase VHS tapes i got u fam
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Dec 4, 2020 04:12
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Schadenboner posted:Jupiter Ascending deserved a sequel more than Matrix deserves a 4th. i actually quite liked jupiter ascending ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Dec 4, 2020 17:49
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rotor posted:then I'll usually start thinking about how Twin Peaks was a good show and how maybe I'd like a slice of pie or maybe just a sandwich maybe just a drat fine cup of coffee
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Dec 7, 2020 01:18
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rotor posted:FACT: rotor irl is like the Dave Foley character in Kids in the Hall in that i have a cup of coffee in my hands at all times, day or night. i literally just finished a big mug as i sit here with a bird waiting for bird bedtime
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Dec 7, 2020 01:22
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Truman Peyote posted:I really enjoyed russian doll and taika waititi's work, shame they've been devoured by the mouse russian doll was outstanding
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Dec 11, 2020 08:59
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i like the idea of a new indy, whether still set back then or in modern day. you could make it with modern sensibilities by having the character defend people/place/thing from theft / encroachment / whatever. but at that point you could probably just start a whole franchise with a cool character that doesn't have any of that baggage. also maybe not with a white saviour again.
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Dec 11, 2020 22:15
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also didn’t know about the foot thing but i am becoming increasingly less of a fan of any of his stuff so i don’t expect this to bother me too much
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Dec 11, 2020 22:42
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Schadenboner posted:I’d suspect that almost everyone in Django had feet, otherwise they would find the American South/West a very difficult environment to navigate (disability access being, on the whole, a fairly low design priority during the time period portrayed)? you could just get a trained baboon to help out 
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echinopsis posted:remember when that dude is angry at zuckerberg in “the social network” and he slams his computer down i accidentally shut my dell jet plane laptop too hard back in the day and it killed the spinning hard drive (100gb, so big!) fortunately dell was lenient enough to just overnight me a new hard drive at the time gratis
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