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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Jeopardy should be hosted by the greatest player of all time: IBM's Watson. It shoulda been Geoff Peterson
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Chairman Capone posted:First teaser for the new season of American Crime Story, on the Clinton impeachment:
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Aug 5, 2021 07:16
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Azhais posted:It shoulda been Geoff Peterson Real option: Craig Ferguson would annihilate that job.
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Aug 5, 2021 07:25
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muscles like this! posted:Hey, the (Three Busy) Debras were on this week's Miracle Workers. I knew I recognised those
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Aug 5, 2021 07:44
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Azhais posted:It shoulda been Geoff Peterson 
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Aug 5, 2021 08:35
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This comes out in a couple of weeks. https://youtu.be/g-Af8zjRUqM There is a full non teaser trailer out too if you want more. Pretty stacked cast! Tons of Aussies too. Seeing Asher Keddie in an American production is wild. Wouldn't surprise me if it was filmed in Australia as it's an Aussie author that wrote the book. Edit: yep, it was filmed in Byron Bay
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Aug 5, 2021 10:28
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Looten Plunder posted:This comes out in a couple of weeks. I kinda love that they're downplaying Keddie's involvement, even though she looks pretty central in a lot of the framing. For those who don't know her, she's excellent. If you wanna see her, Ben Mendelssohn and a murderers row of other Aussie actors (Claudia Karvan, Daniel Wylie, Brendan Cowell) it's worth checking out Love My Way. Excellent show. Oh and a pre fame Sam Worthington turns up too, back when he wasn't trying to an American accent so hard he stopped being able to act.
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Aug 5, 2021 11:16
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I’ve had Nine Perfect Strangers on my list for a while. It’s David E. Kelley adapting another Liane Moriarty book, so another attempt to capture the Big Little Lies magic. But hopefully it’s better than the last couple times Kelley tried that - BLL s2 and The Undoing were both awful.
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Aug 5, 2021 12:40
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Rageaholic posted:I enjoyed both the previous seasons of American Crime Story and I'm curious to see how this will be handled. Clinton was an rear end in a top hat who threw Lewinsky under the bus, so I hope it doesn't portray him in a sympathetic light at all. How does the book handle it? I haven't read the book, but reviews I've read seem to say that it takes a middle road for thinking that Clinton was an rear end in a top hat, but also the impeachment was a dumb partisan farce. I wasn't really hooked into season 2 of ACS but I thought the first season was really great. There's a great cast on this one also, though I don't know if I can picture Clive Owen as Clinton. Billy Eichner as Matt Drudge is pretty good.
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Aug 5, 2021 13:37
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quote:“South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have reportedly closed an expansive new deal with ViacomCBS’ MTV Entertainment Studios.
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Aug 5, 2021 14:00
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South Park is now just in a race to the finish line with Simpsons of "who has overstayed their welcome the longest?" And I say that as someone who still likes and watches South Park
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Aug 5, 2021 14:12
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I tapped out after PC Principal became a thing.
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Aug 5, 2021 14:23
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Last few seasons have been pretty good.
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Aug 5, 2021 14:36
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Rhyno posted:I tapped out after PC Principal became a thing. My biggest problem with it was when they tried to do season long arcs. South Park is a "what's in the news, let's make fun of it this week" show, ongoing storylines don't really work too well. Except Professor Chaos, of course.
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Aug 5, 2021 14:36
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Olympics ratings are down half over 2016 so lemme ask y'all: why aren't YOU watching the olympics
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Aug 5, 2021 14:44
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zoux posted:Olympics ratings are down half over 2016 so lemme ask y'all: why aren't YOU watching the olympics Coverage sucks poo poo.
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Aug 5, 2021 14:45
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swickles posted:Coverage sucks poo poo. Yeah, NBC really doubled down on being even more awful than usual this year Personally I haven't watched any Olympic coverage since the first time Bob Costas showed up on my screen to spend 20 minutes giving me the backstory on some swimmer
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Aug 5, 2021 14:49
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Yeah I haven't watched the olympics in years, so what are the issues with the coverage?
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Aug 5, 2021 14:50
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zoux posted:Yeah I haven't watched the olympics in years, so what are the issues with the coverage? It's still shot, edited and presented like you have three channels to choose from and cannot instantly lookup real time results.
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Aug 5, 2021 14:53
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The 12 hours behind thing is really dragging it down too. My Olympic watching has been like this: I wake up and read the news and see who won everything. I watch the clips of people winning online. I then wait 10-12 hours to watch NBC show that coverage in primetime with a bunch of video packages interrupting coverage. It's very anti-climatic.
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Aug 5, 2021 14:59
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The combination of the prime time/TV coverage and using the NBC Sports app for all the OBS feeds has generally been fine, except for a few fuckups at the beginning and the slew of ads that get ungracefully plonked in whenever there’s a breather.
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Aug 5, 2021 14:59
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zoux posted:Yeah I haven't watched the olympics in years, so what are the issues with the coverage? Based on other comments: 1) It's extremely US centric to the point you don't even see the competing attempts sometimes 2) It's all time delayed 3) Despite the above they will still show 10 minutes of people milling about before an event, cut to commercial, and come back to see the aftermath of the event 4) Lots and lots of commercials in general, and on Peacock you need to sit through like 2.5 minutes of commercials just to see what event is on, so it's a huge pain to even find the right stuff 5) Their scheduling page to look up when you can watch an event shows the results right there so people that don't want the results spoiled can go gently caress themselves 6) wall to wall human interest stories instead of showing the sports
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Aug 5, 2021 15:01
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Azhais posted:6) wall to wall human interest stories instead of showing the sports My understanding is that many of these athletes experienced hardships and obstacles to overcome in order to reach for their dream of Olympic gold.
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Aug 5, 2021 15:02
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The olympics are bullshit op
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Aug 5, 2021 15:04
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The strategy of "Let Simone Biles do everything" did not work for USA gymnastics, nor NBC. The Naomi Osaka upset may have cost tennis a few eyeballs as well.
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Aug 5, 2021 15:17
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If it ain't a couple of hairy naked people covered in oil scrambling around in the dirt, it ain't actually the olympics 
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Aug 5, 2021 15:21
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They should've cancelled the 2020 olympics due to covid and then they should cancel the rest of them for sucking. I guess I had this mistaken idea that Japan was a smarter country who would recognize the obvious problems of trying to host a multinational sports extravaganza in the middle of a global pandemic but I guess they're just as dumb as the rest of us.
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Aug 5, 2021 15:24
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A lot of Japanese people wanted to cancel the games, but I believe there was a massive economy-wrecking fine that was gonna be imposed in addition to all the other costs they'd already incurred.
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Aug 5, 2021 15:26
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The economy wrecking fine was "hosting the olympics with no tourists"
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Aug 5, 2021 15:28
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zoux posted:The economy wrecking fine was "hosting the olympics with no tourists" Hey man, they'd already built the loving stadiums, sunk cost fallacy is a hell of a thing
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Aug 5, 2021 15:32
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Arist posted:A lot of Japanese people wanted to cancel the games, but I believe there was a massive economy-wrecking fine that was gonna be imposed in addition to all the other costs they'd already incurred. Yeah, there were major contractual obligations that would have ruined many Japanese businesses.
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Aug 5, 2021 15:36
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None of these contracts had force majeure clauses? Seems like an oversight in the land of nuclear meltdown tsunamis.
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Aug 5, 2021 15:40
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The best summary of how and why NBC's Olympics coverage sucks rear end is the way they covered the opening ceremonies. Despite crowing about how they were going to be showing it live as it happened on national TV at the crack of dawn, the broadcast was identical to how they've shown every single other tape-delayed ceremony- cut to ribbons by commercials, and layered over by insipid commentary from idiots who feel that running their mouths is more important than shutting the gently caress up when they have nothing important to say. Always great to have constant ad breaks during the Parade of Nations, bracketed by looking at the US athletes milling around at the olympic village or sitting on a loving bus on their way to the stadium, instead of actually seeing the goddamned ceremony. It's 10 billion percent better/easier to just watch event replays off of NBC's site instead of on TV, primarily because those are just the raw OBS feeds without NBC's dumbass commentary, and an adblocker kills the endless loving commercials. Plus you can pick and choose what to watch, whereas anything that isn't swimming, running, or gymnastics isn't deemed prestigious enough for airing on TV primetime, and the coverage on USA/NBCSN is seemingly picked & assigned at random. Unfortunately, the bigger issue is that these Olympics have honestly been kinda depressing. Every stadium and arena being completely barren and empty has been a real bummer, doubly so when watching rugby- you can hear the pre-recorded announcer trying to amp up a crowd that doesn't exist, and it just reminds you that this whole endeavor is going to be such a financial black hole for Japan, above and beyond how even a normal Olympics is a money pit. Argus Zant fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Aug 5, 2021 |
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Aug 5, 2021 15:42
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It's possible that once COVID was a known quantity and it seemed to be on the downslope, force majeure stopped applying. They already pushed the games back a year after all. Of course I'm talking directly out of my rear end based on stuff I've overheard.
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Aug 5, 2021 15:42
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The Olympics have sucked for my entire lifetime.
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Argus Zant posted:The best summary of how and why NBC's Olympics coverage sucks rear end is the way they covered the opening ceremonies. Despite crowing about how they were going to be showing it live as it happened on national TV at the crack of dawn, the broadcast was identical to how they've shown every single other tape-delayed ceremony- cut to ribbons by commercials, and layered over by insipid commentary from idiots who feel that running their mouths is more important than shutting the gently caress up when they have nothing important to say. Always great to have constant ad breaks during the Parade of Nations, bracketed by looking at the US athletes milling around at the olympic village or sitting on a loving bus on their way to the stadium, instead of actually seeing the goddamned ceremony. I mean at least NBC didn't throw up a picture of Dracula on screen when talking about Romania during the opening ceremony. Which is a thing that another network did in fact do. So I guess it could have been worse.
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Argus Zant posted:The best summary of how and why NBC's Olympics coverage sucks rear end is the way they covered the opening ceremonies. Despite crowing about how they were going to be showing it live as it happened on national TV at the crack of dawn, the broadcast was identical to how they've shown every single other tape-delayed ceremony- cut to ribbons by commercials, and layered over by insipid commentary from idiots who feel that running their mouths is more important than shutting the gently caress up when they have nothing important to say. Always great to have constant ad breaks during the Parade of Nations, bracketed by looking at the US athletes milling around at the olympic village or sitting on a loving bus on their way to the stadium, instead of actually seeing the goddamned ceremony. what ad blocker are you using that kills the commercials, i need a new one i think (it wouldnt let me watch the website with it enabled)
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X-O posted:I mean at least NBC didn't throw up a picture of Dracula on screen when talking about Romania during the opening ceremony. Which is a thing that another network did in fact do. So I guess it could have been worse. Lmao, what???
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Aug 5, 2021 15:55
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Dracula is too scary for the children. They should have gone with Chocula.
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Arist posted:Lmao, what??? I know there was a South Korean broadcast that used pictures of Chernobyl for Ukraine. I didn't hear about the dracula though, lmao
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