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Arist posted:https://twitter.com/verge/status/1394418070559526912 This sounded so stupid at first, because what even would that be? Turns out it's just another show unrelated to bitcoin bullshit but they plan to sell people jpegs of frames of a show I'm sure will be digitally created anyway as if they were like actually unique hand drawn cells and not 1s and 0s anyone can just make a perfect copy of and also burn down 12 acres of rainforest. IRQ fucked around with this message at 00:23 on May 18, 2021 |
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I had a really dim opinion of that guy after seeing the Rick and Morty unaired pilot but that's somehow worse.
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May 18, 2021 01:45
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Chairman Capone posted:I'm actually surprised he wasn't credited on that since it sounds a bit like a recycled idea from Dollhouse. The two post-apocalyptic future-set season finales. It also felt a bit like Out of Gas. I can't believe the show found a way to be even more Wheadon-y, but it did.
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May 18, 2021 03:10
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Simone Magus posted:It's an easy call to make because Woody Allen movies are all terrible Yes, the better example in that area is maybe Roman Polanski? Anyway, it probably is true that there's some awful people working on everything of any real scale. I don't know what we do about that other then figure out where our personal line is.
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May 18, 2021 16:32
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DrVenkman posted:This is what Simon said in the middle of rioting over Freddie Gray's death Being peaceful and obedient hasn't worked, at least people paid attention when rich people's poo poo got burned. No support from Annapolis? Never has been, why would that change if they didn't riot? The city had been systematically disinvested in for as long as I can remember. Google maryland red line. Our rear end in a top hat gov killed a light rail project that would've been really good for the city so he could shunt the money towards expanding highways in richer, whiter parts of the state. Tip of the iceberg there too.
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May 18, 2021 17:41
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I'm sorry I only accept the OED definition of copaganda.
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May 18, 2021 18:12
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zoux posted:This seems like making up a guy to get mad at, because I've never heard that, but setting that aside, proclaiming any cop show that isn't explicitly about police abolition to be copaganda is, uh, well it's an extremely fringe position. But not necessarily entirely incorrect. What would we call it then, to tacitly support a thing through representation? I'm genuinely asking because I think the term copaganda would be better applied to shows like, SVU. But all the same, portraying a thing as it currently exists as a necessary part of society does on some level support that thing as it currently exists. Copalaboration? Really rolls of the tongue doesn't it?
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May 18, 2021 18:35
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The Wire is a good show, and you should watch it if you haven't.
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May 18, 2021 19:18
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X-O posted:I've heard that excuse more times than I can count and it still remains a lovely excuse. Making the lead of your show completely uncompelling on purpose is even dumber than him being a bad actor. And it's not even true. I've seen him in other stuff, he's just bad. He gets better, but not by that much, and certainly not enough to justify anything near that behavior (nothing would, of course) . That dog was the best part of the show and he made it bite him? Should've fired him and promoted the dog.
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May 19, 2021 03:49
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X-O posted:I get the point about children being fed the wrong messages when they are young but that doesn't just apply to the morality of cop shows or even TV in a broader sense. I don't care who you are, you're indoctrinated as a child with some kind of wrong message. Everyone is. The point is that you grow up learn it's either wrong or a fantasy. I can easily enjoy cop shows because I know they're not real and I don't need them to be real. Sure it's great that some do reflect reality but I'm a grown person that enjoys entertainment as just that sometimes. I can enjoy Brooklyn Nine-Nine just as much as I can enjoy watching something like Friday The 13th. Doesn't mean I'm pro hockey masked killers at summer camps butchering teenagers. Get back to us when hockey masked killers are a real thing that happens every day to real actual people I guess? Watch Brooklyn 99, who cares? It's a funny show, but we can also recognize that it has problems. I know you understand that, of course, so maybe you're not the one that needs to hear that maybe we should think twice about constantly portraying an institution that routinely violates the rights of and murders innocent people, often based on race, as an absolute necessity to prevent total chaos that is not only above reproach, but is actually held back by civil rights and due process. But maybe we should talk about it so the people that do need to hear it think about it? Because indoctrination doesn't stop when people grow up, or we wouldn't have a lot of the problems we do.
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May 20, 2021 20:54
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zoux posted:Here's the crux of my problem, this copaganda thing is just another furtherance of the idea that the most important quality by which a piece of art must be evaluated is its ethical position. I don't think I saw anyone say that? It's a quality though, and one that is often just uncritically accepted, which is what we're taking about.
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May 20, 2021 21:52
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zoux posted:You know where the "CSI effect" came from? A bunch of prosecutors and cops whining about not being able to win cases. In fact, the overall acquittal rate in America has gone down since the show came out. Ok, so then people obviously believe the poo poo they see on csi then? But here's the thing, almost no cases even go to trial, like a vanishingly small percentage, so any whining you hear basically is catastrophic stupidity or in bad faith. There's also the very prevalent assumption that if you've been charged with a crime you must be guilty, because why else would you have been arrested and charged? This fear is leveraged by prosecutors, of course. So yeah, I really can't see juries expecting science magic as a problem, most people never get one.
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May 20, 2021 23:06
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zoux posted:But the lack of trials is a good point, but individuals are represented by counsel who are advising them to take deals. Counsel that skimmed their file in 2 minutes outside the door. E: but this really has nothing to do with tv and everything to do with everything being utterly broken.
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May 20, 2021 23:13
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bull3964 posted:I mean, she already starred in one of the greatest scifi series of all time, where else is there to go? I can't tell which scifi thing I absolutely loving love that you're throwing shade at here but she's probably the weakest link in all of them so I'm still mad! That being said, she's fine.
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May 21, 2021 04:43
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GreenNight posted:Stargate would be ideal. I just don't know what that would be though. I really don't want a continuation of how the two good series ended because at that point it's just star trek.
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May 24, 2021 21:54
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Azhais posted:All three were good SGU was fine by it wasn't really Stargate.
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May 24, 2021 21:58
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GreenNight posted:What’ll probably happen with SG is that it’s 20 years later and the Stargate program was mothballed after what happened to Destiny. Something happens and Samantha Carter is brought out of retirement to figure out why the Stargate is acting up again. It’s a mix of bringing in new viewers and old. But earth has a bunch of giant capital spaceships, all of the asgard's knowledge, and an alien city full of ludicrously advanced technology just floating in the San Francisco Bay. I just don't see how earth would collectively take a step back like that. Chairman Capone posted:I feel like the best option for a Stargate should would be to make it a period drama in the 30s/40s with them trying to figure out how to make the Stargate work. Draw in bits of dieselpunk, Indiana Jones, early UFO investigations to see how they tie into this ancient alien artifact, etc. This seems more plausible, but it's also what that absolutely loving horrible webseries tried to do. I'm fine with pretending that whole thing never happened though. It was so so bad. IRQ fucked around with this message at 00:18 on May 25, 2021 |
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May 25, 2021 00:16
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feedmyleg posted:Sure does! Each myth is now breezy and fun rather than a repetitive chore filled with constructed tension. Mythbusters wasn't why I got a tivo back in the day, but it sure made that show a thousand times more pleasant to watch. Seconding the recommendation to watch Adam's stuff on YouTube, he talks about the show a lot and drops bombshells like he actually really hates duct tape. (He'd rather have 17,000 different rolls of tape for every little purpose, the anti-Alton Brown of tape) IRQ fucked around with this message at 18:56 on May 25, 2021 |
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May 25, 2021 18:53
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Maybe they'll make a good Bond movie in the 21st century finally.
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May 26, 2021 15:48
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STAC Goat posted:This seems like such a bad idea but it gives me hope that they're self aware. Can they resist the temptation to do excessive retreads of old sketches but the joke is "we're old now lol"? I suspect not, but I hope so. Bill and Ted 3 did it pretty well so there's hope.
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May 26, 2021 20:26
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blunt posted:CBS made the right choice I mean, I'm sure it does hurt to hear that you were a frontrunner until one dude pushed for someone else, but yeah they absolutely made the right choice. And it isn't like he got Leno'ed, he just didn't do well at one aspect of job interviews and lost out to a much more talented and funny person.
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May 28, 2021 22:42
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Mu Zeta posted:The late night format is just too constricting. Pretty much every host, even Leno, has some comedy gold nuggets I disagree with the latter, but very much agree with the former. I miss Stephen Colbert a lot, but his late night show just sucks because of the format sucking.
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May 29, 2021 03:06
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Khanstant posted:How did Discovery come to be the one trying to swaller Warner Bros? Did they just stacked rich from garbage shows when they stopped doing Discovery shows, to the poin they just gotta chomp something else up or is WB just hollowed out by now? It's more that it's money ghouls doing voodoo money poo poo to make more money somehow by doing it this way.
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Jun 1, 2021 20:53
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Josh Lyman posted:The new company is going to have $52b of debt?? Sure why not? If it doesn't work out you just do it again! Sustainable economic system we have isn't it?
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Jun 1, 2021 21:40
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mcbexx posted:Catching up on Mythic Quest and lol at Ubisoft being involved, leading to gems like the opener in S02E03... Hyperscape sounds like a made up video game for CSI or something, and upon googling it, it looks like one too.
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Jun 3, 2021 18:53
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if it's a pathetic, very, very wishful marketing ploy or a self-deprecating jab at their own failed attempt to support a game long term and establish a loyal playerbase.
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Hakkesshu posted:Anyone here read these? Are they good? They're very good, yes.
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Jun 5, 2021 17:29
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isaboo posted:Hell yea. MiTM and NewsRadio are two shows I never get tired of watching and are my go-tos if I'm not in the mood for anything else but need something on MitM was a real gem of relatablity as sitcoms went. A lot like early Roseanne was, before that show got really dumb, and before they rebooted it for more money and she went full Trumper dipshit. E: my god that reboot is still going isn't it? Tv has fallen so far.
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Jun 6, 2021 04:58
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Who cares, i want to see the dog. They better cast a very good dog.
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Jun 8, 2021 20:57
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Arist posted:They actually already showed the dog when production "started" (quotes here because it got shut down for several months due to John Cho's freak knee injury soon afterwards): Yeah i just found a tweet with that video, seems like a good dog (all dogs are good dogs).
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Jun 8, 2021 21:07
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Iron Crowned posted:There are no good dogs On a scale of 1 to 10, how accurate is this to your childhood? https://youtu.be/sz6MvVotEMU
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Jun 8, 2021 21:15
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The World Inferno posted:That said, still funny how Game of Thrones faceplanted so hard that it retroactively made it hard to even revisit the good ol' days. 
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Jun 16, 2021 03:04
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Zero One posted:In the cartoon the Beast had to find love before he turned 18. It has also been years since the curse happened. An actual underage boy trapped in an old demon's body? The reverse anime.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:11
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I finally finished Invincible, you guys were right, it was good.
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Jun 17, 2021 19:45
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Rhyno posted:Lower Decks is amazing. I definitely see why people would assume it's poo poo, but Lower Decks is legit good and the best newish Trek that isn't The Orville. I'm really glad I gave it a chance.
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Jun 19, 2021 21:28
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Rick and Morty is a fine show as long as you don't take it too seriously and think Rick is some kind of role model. Basically it's the same kind of people that thought Walter White was a good guy.
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Jun 22, 2021 04:58
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The United States posted:The Blacklist is one of those shows that I am always surprised is still going. I watched a bunch of seasons of it on Netflix like 2 years ago and thought it was already done. How are they still dragging out that he's her dad or whatever. It's either that or a Final Space Avocado situation. Speaking of, man did Final Space get loving bleak this season.
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Jun 24, 2021 18:31
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Fenris13 posted:They made it pretty clear Spader was not her father a few seasons ago, the last 4 seasons have been heavy handed about the secret being Spader was actually her Mother, these last two episodes were way over the top insinuating this. Ok now I have to know how on earth that's meant to make any sense whatsoever. Even in that show's context - it always reminded me a bit of Alias, but even Alias didn't do that.
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Jun 25, 2021 00:29
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Fenris13 posted:I feel so dirty for writing all of that about a silly TV show, but Spader really does some amazing work. I though he hit his peak sitting on a high-rise balcony unwinding with Shattner, but his connection with several of the characters on this show at least rival that. Can't say I regret falling off that show. That's quite the bizarre twist if true.
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Jun 25, 2021 18:06
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zoux posted:Why is every tagline so loving stupid these days. Even legends can have a beginning? Also given like, the wheel aspect of time in the Wheel of Time series, it's not even accurate. Grahhh! There's like a built in tagline for those books, what on earth made them go with one so generic, and literally completely incorrect? It's not even subtext or a spoiler, it's in the drat name of the series. Please don't suck.
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cant cook creole bream posted:Finished the show. That was quite a great ride! I was on the fence about that too until about 3 minutes into the first episode.
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