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Ugly In The Morning posted:I can’t tell if you’re agreeing with me or not. My whole point is that things can improve and just saying “we’re all hosed, this virus is the worst thing that has ever happened” is weird, dumb, and not really borne out by all the other pandemics that have happened. No, I can't say I agree with diminishing people's suffering (then calling it weird and dumb) because it could be worse. I don't think you mean it to sound that way, or at least I hope not.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Suffering is suffering. I just hate that whole “we’re hosed, utterly hosed and there is no point in having any hope” attitude. I probably shouldn’t have called it weird and dumb but seeing the constant after effects of doomscrolling making this virus into some kind of supervillain that’s always one step ahead tiresome. The virus itself isn't the whole problem. But yes, in a vacuum, disregarding literally every other aspect of how we've handled the virus and all the knockon effects and collateral damage, as a matter of only medical science, sure ok, it isn't that bad, relatively speaking.
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Feb 20, 2021 21:39
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Mu Zeta posted:All live-action dubs suck I didn't know about that, how bizarre. I don't remember the accents being heavy, and that decade gave us Crocodile Dundee and Outback Steakhouse, the US had kind of a thing for Australia at the time.
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Feb 23, 2021 18:35
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bull3964 posted:For me: That's generally where I land too. My brain doesn't like it when voices don't match the person. With an actual human performing, the voice and the actions are a lot more inextricably linked than with animation. Audio being massively out of sync bugs me for the same reason. So subs for live action, dubs, if they aren't total garbage, for animation.
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Feb 24, 2021 00:40
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It's not about basketball? Huh. Kind of a bad name then honestly.
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Feb 24, 2021 17:08
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feedmyleg posted:Not as bad as The Alienist. I had always assumed that show was yet another procedural where a not-cop helps the cops (ala Sherlock holmes anything, castle, psych, the blacklist, and 8 billion others), but this time with aliens for some reason. After googling it, it seems I was basically right, but without the aliens. Which is moderately disappointing.
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Feb 24, 2021 20:38
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Hughmoris posted:I didn't realize they were still trying to make a HALO tv show. Feels like they announced that back in 2012. They did, and it came out, i saw it on Netflix or something years later. Forward Unto Dawn. I remember it being surprisingly ok.
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Feb 24, 2021 23:53
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FlamingLiberal posted:I mean the animation kind of fit the show back then? I'm just personally not a huge fan of the 'putting 2D characters into a 3D space' thing generally. Even if someone hated the art style, at least it was an art style. That was some really bland design and cheap cgi animation, and that's a crappy thing to do to any show.
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Feb 25, 2021 04:04
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GreenNight posted:Probably a free trip to Pedo Island. Please do not besmirch the good name of press junkets aboard the Lolita Express. It was clearly named out of a deep love and respect for Kubrick's film.
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Mar 1, 2021 21:41
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Iron Crowned posted:I don't remember Threshold, I kept trying to think of it, but my brain kept reminding me of Surface. Three shows with almost the exact same premise came out that year, Threshold was the good one.
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Mar 2, 2021 15:06
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Simone Magus posted:I want to say The Event started interesting, and then was lame for a while, but then got really interesting again just before it was canceled. I'm relatively certain I remember Ricky Jay and Charlie from Lost being, uh, secret agent physics professors...? Or something like that Flashforward had some really cool ideas and then did absolutely nothing with them. Wasn't there a dude that knew he was going to die imminently because he didn't flash forwards or something? What a shame. All I remember about The Event is that it had Dr Weaver from ER and an airliner (and also it was bad).
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Mar 3, 2021 18:57
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Iron Crowned posted:Jericho was good. Jericho was great for a network show, Lennie James needs to be in more stuff. Revolution I didn't remember until this post, but yeah, it had potential, then every time it tried to do something cool it derailed it to do family drama. That show was basically Fallout but they somehow hosed it up. At leasg it got bad really quickly and didn't waste your time.
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Mar 3, 2021 20:28
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bou posted:Do i remember right that Revolution was the one in which the Power went out and then some Google-Nerd became the unwilling Prophet of an all-powerful nanomachine-cloud thingy? Yeah that's the one. The main character girl, or her brother maybe, could turn the power back on or something as well, which was why Giancarlo Esposito wanted to kidnap him. It was so stupid, and it's a shame it didn't go longer.
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Mar 4, 2021 19:45
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Rhyno posted:They announced a new show with them as 40 year old dads and I think a movie was also announced. He should get someone else if it screws up his throat or whatever. Not sure how I feel about the whole idea, but the last revival was great.
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Mar 5, 2021 17:32
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MarsPearl posted:Watched The Watch the other night and it brings up a question that a few adaptations have brought up, which is why you would bother to pay money for the rights to a fairly obscure property if you're going to change 95% of it. Because the number of people you think will pay attention to the show solely because it's Discworld (and thus money you will make) is greater than the licensing fee costs. How accurate the assumption and whatever voodoo math they use to quantify it is, your guess is as good as mine.
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Mar 5, 2021 20:27
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mistermojo posted:the thing I don't understand about The Shield is why Vic needs money for his kids so badly. Wasnt he involved with the gangs and getting his cut? what happened to that? it doesnt really show him wasting money on anything What do cops like other than money?
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Mar 6, 2021 18:21
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Rhyno posted:For real. Locally we have a cop who strangled his wife, plead guilty and struck a plea that if he completes his community service and passes an interview he gets reinstated. Simone Magus posted:To crush their enemies, to see them driven before them, and to hear the lamentations of their women. Right: power. The money, sure, but I always saw Vic as more interested in power. IRQ fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Mar 7, 2021 |
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Mar 7, 2021 00:34
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socialsecurity posted:I've been watching a bunch of standup on Netflix, a mistake really. 95% of it these days are comics complaining about "cancel culture" and "bloggers" nonstop it's petty and pointless. I think I hate "cancel culture" more than "pc run amok." It's the same old entitled "but i want to be an rear end in a top hat" argument but with the added fun of usually being said by people who have literally got the largest platforms imaginable to whine.
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Mar 8, 2021 17:57
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EL BROMANCE posted:Days Like These was a remake of That 70s Show that was so bad, they never tried anything like it again. Every time anyone tries to recapture that magic they fail to see what made the show good had nothing to do with the 70s and just vomit references. That 80s Show was such garbage.
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Mar 9, 2021 04:25
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X-O posted:It's a crime procedural on CBS. I'm not sure why it wouldn't. Actor dies. I'm just proving the point really.
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Mar 11, 2021 01:02
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Iron Crowned posted:Like that would stop CBS I had to go look, and yeah sure enough that law and order was on NBC
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Mar 11, 2021 02:30
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I think bleachjng hair was way more common at the time. But I don't think that show was especially accurate to anything except Claire Danes being a good actress.
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Mar 11, 2021 22:04
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zoux posted:No one cares if you dye your hair these days, in the 90s it could get you suspended from school Wearing a trenchcoat could get you suspended in the 90s, I wonder what stupid stuff like that was going on in schools before the apocalypse.
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Mar 12, 2021 01:31
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Mu Zeta posted:Is his name still Spike Spiegel and if so will they explain why an Asian guy's name is Spiegel His mother was an artificial gravity machine aboard a spaceship with a hyperdrive, and his dad was a guy named Spiegel.
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Mar 15, 2021 19:54
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feedmyleg posted:Amazon has both a Lord of the Rings and a Wheel of Time series coming out this year. Seems a bit odd that they haven't released anything on either of them, seeing how it's already spring. You'd think that they would put as much space as possible between them to not cannibalize each others hype, in which case they should probably get on it. This all makes total sense because you can basically just shoot the first WoT book immediately after the sets and costumes are done with filming LotR. I joke, but I do hope it's decent. WoT that is, I don't really think LotR needs to be remade.
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Mar 15, 2021 22:00
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Well if they're doing The Silmarillion they really should call it that, but I know they won't.
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Mar 16, 2021 00:14
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EricBauman posted:I hate that some people I know still like them because it's only a matter of time before I can't contain myself and break their heart by telling them that the Foo Fighters regularly performed at 'HIV and AIDS have nothing to do with each other' benefit events Wait, what?
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Mar 16, 2021 18:47
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Rhyno posted:Okay, it was literally 20 years ago and Dave has worked his rear end off to walk it back and do good things since then. I see, the way that poster put it made it sound a lot more recent.
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Mar 16, 2021 19:19
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In 2021 finding out someone famous is just a scientologist is like oh, well at least they aren't an antivaxer, sex monster, avowed fascist, etc.
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Mar 16, 2021 20:12
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abelwingnut posted:what in the unholy gently caress is that? Do they get CBS in Afghanistan? If not, i can think of about 3500 Americans who will not be watching it. Maybe their dads that fought in that same war can record it for them and all the interpreters the US left for dead rather than letting them immigrate as promised. So many lols, can't wait.
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Mar 21, 2021 16:39
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Simone Magus posted:Do you have so little faith in humanity, that you think more than a small percentage of them have extremely dark desires that they're willing to act on? That's kinda messed up. Can we get some clarification on what counts as a small percentage for this?
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Mar 22, 2021 16:50
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The vaccine isn't a panacea, but America will sure act like it is.
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Mar 23, 2021 20:28
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GreenNight posted:I don't understand how people in the military can opt out. It's the loving military. Perhaps they're worried about what would happen if they tried to force it. I'm pretty sure they can. Also, good? More for the rest of us stuck dealing with the vaccine thunderdome.
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Mar 24, 2021 17:09
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bull3964 posted:The Strain was not good TV, but it was fun bonkers TV. The Strain would've been so much worse if it had been good.
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Mar 24, 2021 20:00
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el oso posted:The Strain is pretty important because it has the absolute, ABSOLUTE worst child character in the history of TV shows that you want to die The male lead and his kid were just the worst, the real stars of that show were Vasiliy and the old vampire hunter guy 100%.
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Mar 25, 2021 15:36
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Rush Limbaugh got literally everything he wanted.
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Mar 25, 2021 21:48
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Simone Magus posted:What even is happening on Walking Dead now TWD talk just makes me remember how much better Z Nation was than that show in almost every way.
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Mar 29, 2021 18:19
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Rhyno posted:It's Q! I don't care how badly they cock things up, I just want to see Stewart and de Lancie play off each other one last time. After season 1 of that show I'd expect them to do something like only actually have John de Lancie on set for an afternoon, and for the rest of the season it's like Picard and Crusher's clone child and they're also Q jesus and really good at punching and kicking dudes with guns.
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Apr 6, 2021 17:20
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Doom2020! posted:edit: In the same way that the mythical 1950s were the idyllic good old days for chuds, sure.
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Shageletic posted:Someone tabulated Bartlett's accomplishments and it was mostly cutting Social Security and not going to War. Life imitates art I guess, at least with the catastrophically low standards audiences have set for liberal politicians.
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