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the best way to watch the original Star Wars trilogy is Harmy’s Despecialized Edition imo. Lucas went way overboard cutting up the original series, and these try to give you something as close as possible to the original theatrical experience
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:lol getting really heated making tv and movie suggestions for a guy who was in jail for decades. classic gbs lolling at all the dorks tripping over themselves to tell op about their favorite children's media
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I wondered about making a poll to vote on what Harvey should watch next but there's just way too much stuff out there. We could stick to big ones like The Wire, Sopranos, GoT, LOST, etc but that'd still be a big poll. And a lot of those are huge time sinks. Plus the Goku option might confuse Harvs.
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haha it's ok i don't mind everyone throwing recommendations at me. but yeah there is a lot to go through. someone here is making a list of links to resources and recommendations for me though so that's cool
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Congrats on the job, Harvey, hope it all goes well. Today's film recommendation is: Moon (2009)
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Movies! These are all old as hell but some of my favorites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnUvneNxoz8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcFm96WxAZY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIIZ2P-fiyI Cousin Todd fucked around with this message at 18:04 on May 31, 2023 |
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Whoever suggested that bird app it's pretty dope. Thanks!
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Oh yeah, did anyone mention VR? I thought it was pretty cool. It's worth messing with at least once.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:lol getting really heated making tv and movie suggestions for a guy who was in jail for decades. classic gbs SHUT THE gently caress UP!!!!
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I'll be the dissenting voice: Starship Troopers is complete trash.
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Presto posted:I'll be the dissenting voice: Starship Troopers is complete trash. Looks like someone doesn't want to know more and is afraid and wants to live forever.
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Presto posted:I'll be the dissenting voice: Starship Troopers is complete trash. thats why its good my guy
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Negostrike posted:Looks like someone doesn't want to know more and is afraid and wants to live forever. Hey, at least they're doing their part.
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kntfkr posted:SHUT THE gently caress UP!!!! this guy freaking loves Recommending Media
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Hey Harv! Look up John Wick. You'll have a good time.
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The thing about most movies is that they exist within a specific context, and a window of time, even subjectivity aside. Something might have been an amazing movie for you when you saw it, but had you seen it 10 years later instead you might have hated it. We tend to remember the movies as we experienced them in the time and context the first time, and if we're lucky we might get to keep that context internally on future watchings, but largely you'll go back and realize that it isn't as good as it felt originally. So if I see someone who doesn't like starship troopers, a film that *largely at least* holds up fairly well, I feel inclined to chalk that up to having experienced it much later than most people. But I challenge anyone to go back and actually watch movies they enjoyed 20 years ago with fresh eyes, perhaps with someone who hasn't seen it. It can be disheartening if it's something near and dear to you, but a lot of the stuff we grew up loving was only good because of the set and setting it was initially presented in. This concludes my Ted talk: your favorite movie is probably bad, and why that's okay
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PlaysGamesWrong posted:The thing about most movies is that they exist within a specific context, and a window of time, even subjectivity aside. Something might have been an amazing movie for you when you saw it, but had you seen it 10 years later instead you might have hated it. This is interesting^ Perhaps the mark of a truly "great" movie is one that holds up 20 or 30 years later when you are, due to life experiences, a very different person in a very different place yrt the movie is still enthralling. Examples: The Thing, Aliens 1 and 2, Terminator 1 and 2 all still absolutely worth watching
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Presto posted:I'll be the dissenting voice: Starship Troopers is complete trash. yeah it doesnt have even have jar jar
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Starship Troopers is weird bc it's a parody of the book from which it's based, basically thumbing it's nose at the original book, but you'd had to have read the book to get that, so a whole generation of 10 yo boys who saw it all they took away was BUGS, BLAM BLAM, OOH UNISEX SHOWERS
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The Best Star Wars movie and the only one you should watch other than the original trilogy is Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (English Subs) You can watch it for free on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa9J6hilvRU
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PlaysGamesWrong posted:The thing about most movies is that they exist within a specific context, and a window of time, even subjectivity aside. Something might have been an amazing movie for you when you saw it, but had you seen it 10 years later instead you might have hated it. The matrix still Owns Bones, I saw it the other day with my 14 yo and they are pitiless cultural critics let me tell u She really liked it though admittedly she thought it needed Morpheus making more quips, like idk 'you just got matrixed' Ooh! Stranger things is really good. Spinz posted:This is interesting^ Also this
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kntfkr posted:The Best Star Wars movie and the only one you should watch other than the original trilogy is Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (English Subs) I don't know, I thought she was too much of a Mary Xiu.
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So in between the ceaseless recommendations of media and the even more ceaseless sniping about media recommendations, I'd really like to hear any of OP's further reflections on life on the outside. You went in a while ago, and as others have noted, technology has flown at an amazing rate since. Could you tell us more about what's confused our surprised you? Or, what you thought would be confusing/surprising but has been easy to pick up? Given your changed tastes (everything's so salty now, you said) have you found any new zoo zoos you like? One of my favorites, when I can find them, are pretzel M&Ms: M&M shells and chocolate surrounding a pretzel core. I don't know if you'd find them too salty, because pretzels are supposed to be salty, but maybe you'd like them. One thing that is great, as people have said, is that it's much easier to find good food in a lot of different cuisines than it used to be, whether in mainstream grocery stores or in restaurants. This is even true in rural places, unless you're really in the sticks -- I don't know how rural you are when you say you're rural.
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Better insult, dingus or dingleberry?
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kntfkr posted:SHUT THE gently caress UP!!!! good advice for goons
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big cummers ONLY posted:I keep a doc with racist/sexist/etc poo poo my boss says, times they ask me to work without pay or do things outside of my job description, etc. I hope I will never have to use it... but I have. Dates and times and specifics have saved my job before. I'm lucky to have a job now where I haven't had to open that document a single time. It's the only job I've had in 15 years where it hasn't been useful On this note, all cell phones now have pretty decent audio recording apps, either by default or available in their respective app stores. This can be to your benefit if you need to
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Congratulations on the job Harvey! Again I'd like to reiterate the importance of posting a picture of whichever animal you bring home from the shelter
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Yes congrats on the job! Sounds like a good gig and I hope it keeps you busy.
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harveys zoo zoos posted:thanks for the tips and explanation about youtube. i was wondering why i got videos about flat earth in my list like what the hell man that's just dumb. even i know that's not right come on. Its simple really. Internet connects ppl together in good and bad, that also means that the scammer and the scammed connect way easier now they can also form groups as well. If you know MLM pyramid schemes its the same thing you get couple guys that get rich by the scam to market it and rest of the suckers will just flood in. It has also enabled some scams to get really big. And i mean Superbowl ad's big. Couple months ago a billion dollar crypto company called FTX went bust thats how big scams are now, and the guy running it wasnt even smart. Another scam haven to be aware of is crowdfunding, which is basically pre-ordering product before product is even designed. (and they dont have to deliver the product if they fail) for example water bottles that collect water from air for free which unfortunately isnt plausible. couple legit products have come out of crowdfunding as well, but its impact has been somewhat negative. there is a crowdfunded space game project for example that costs 5x the cost of putting thing into space. 1 rocket costing 100 million and space game costing 500 million dollars. Dark Off fucked around with this message at 21:49 on May 31, 2023 |
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The Star Wars games on SNES are pretty fun
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Dark Off posted:Its simple really. Internet connects ppl together in good and bad, that also means that the scammer and the scammed connect way easier now they can also form groups as well. If you know MLM pyramid schemes its the same thing you get couple guys that get rich by the scam to market it and rest of the suckers will just flood in. scams existed before op went to prison
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Peggy Edson posted:scams existed before op went to prison, you don't need to be a tedious dork about explaining it yeah but the new thing is that scams can have billion dollar funding now. You cant trust the funding to be asecurity against a scam.
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Hey Harvey, if you get a phone call from someone claiming to be your grandson/granddaughter and they claim they've been kidnapped and the only way you're ever going to see them again is to send $5000 in iTunes gift cards to a foreign country, it's 100% legit.
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XYZAB posted:Hey Harvey, if you get a phone call from someone claiming to be your grandson/granddaughter and they claim they've been kidnapped and the only way you're ever going to see them again is to send $5000 in iTunes gift cards to a foreign country, it's 100% legit. yup also if you get emails from Nigerian princes telling you you're an heir and they only need $5000 to verify your identity, get on that poo poo pronto
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Giving "ironic" bad advice to someone intentionally because they might be less equipped to be able tell the difference should be a bannable offense imho, and something really has to be broken inside of you to think that's funny or even okay.
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Yeah its a pretty played out joke tbh
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PlaysGamesWrong posted:Giving "ironic" bad advice to someone intentionally because they might be less equipped to be able tell the difference should be a bannable offense imho, and something really has to be broken inside of you to think that's funny or even okay. lol
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PlaysGamesWrong posted:Giving "ironic" bad advice to someone intentionally because they might be less equipped to be able tell the difference should be a bannable offense imho, and something really has to be broken inside of you to think that's funny or even okay. https://twitter.com/dril/status/1279814327776624640
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it's okay. i get it, and i know worse advice has been given by supposedly competent lawyers not mine though. i had a decent team and they handled it just about as good as they could. i'm not sorry to say i don't have any horror stories about that haha
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harveys zoo zoos posted:okay someone asked how hard it was to avoid being part of a gang or stay safe from them You may enjoy this bit by comedian Tom Segura https://youtu.be/oXtjfSUuuzg
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