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zoux
Apr 28, 2006

IRQ posted:

Wait so is Netflix straight up not working tomorrow, or will it be like that day Wikipedia "shut down" and you could just disable flash or whatever to get it to work?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/09/tech/web/internet-slowdown-day/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Probably the latter. Shutting down for a day is a good way to make your user base completely berserk.

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NieR Occomata
Jan 18, 2009

Glory to Mankind.


Almost as cute as this!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wITs43kUds8

Baronash
Feb 29, 2012

So what do you want to be called?

IRQ posted:

Wait so is Netflix straight up not working tomorrow, or will it be like that day Wikipedia "shut down" and you could just disable flash or whatever to get it to work?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/09/tech/web/internet-slowdown-day/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

CNN posted:

Sites including Netflix, Reddit, Vimeo, Etsy, Upworthy and Digg plan to take part in this week's demonstration, which will last from midnight Wednesday to midnight Thursday.

They must be loving thrilled that someone mentioned them.

e: nvm

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


zoux posted:

Probably the latter. Shutting down for a day is a good way to make your user base completely berserk.

Yeah, I'm paying Netflix for a service so they can go gently caress themselves for purposefully shutting down their servers for a day.

IRQ
Sep 9, 2001

SUCK A DICK, DUMBSHITS!

JohnSherman posted:

They must be loving thrilled that someone mentioned them.

e: nvm

Who, CNN or Digg? :v:

hcreight
Mar 19, 2007

My name is Oliver Queen...
I wouldn't be shocked if they just stuck the loading icon in the corner of the screen. Intentionally pissing off your customers isn't going to give them appropriate "awareness."

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Last time they did this to protest net neutrality or whatever, reddit had a "We're shut down*" page but you could still access the site.

I generally don't like to get all male gazey but is it common opinion among straight men and lesbian fans of The Good Wife that Kalinda Sharma is loving smoking hot?

hollylolly
Jun 5, 2009

Do you like superheroes? Check out my CYOA Mutants: Uprising

How about weird historical fiction? Try Vampires of the Caribbean

muscles like this? posted:

Yeah, I'm paying Netflix for a service so they can go gently caress themselves for purposefully shutting down their servers for a day.

They aren't shutting down anything, they're just going to have a spinning loading wheel displayed on everything.

VDay
Jul 2, 2003

I'm Pacman Jones!
If they really wanted to get people's attention then they'd talk to the biggest porn sites and have them slow down as well. Netflix and reddit being slow will be annoying, but there's no darker, grimmer internet future than having to wait for 10 minutes for your porn to load.

Sober
Nov 19, 2011

First touch: Life.
Second touch: Dead again. Forever.

zoux posted:

Last time they did this to protest net neutrality or whatever, reddit had a "We're shut down*" page but you could still access the site.

I generally don't like to get all male gazey but is it common opinion among straight men and lesbian fans of The Good Wife that Kalinda Sharma is loving smoking hot?

I don't want The Good Wife (I probably should) but yes Indian women can be smoking hot as well.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

It's more than just Archie Punjabi is an attractive woman, it's the character.

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

IRQ posted:

Wait so is Netflix straight up not working tomorrow, or will it be like that day Wikipedia "shut down" and you could just disable flash or whatever to get it to work?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/09/tech/web/internet-slowdown-day/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

I never understood this malarky. How does annoying customers change the situation? Why not just have a big pop-up that tells you to write your congressman or whatever?

e: wikipedia begging for money will always be funny though

FilthyImp
Sep 30, 2002

Anime Deviant

raditts posted:

They sure dug deep to find the dullest and most generic idea possible from that concept.

Wait what the gently caress? Wasn't the head precog a loving WOMAN in the movie?

Mu Zeta
Oct 17, 2002

Me crush ass to dust

Kalinda's accent is terrible and she's not fooling anyone. But it fits the character.

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


FilthyImp posted:

Wait what the gently caress? Wasn't the head precog a loving WOMAN in the movie?

There were three precogs, the main one, another girl and a boy.

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

muscles like this? posted:

There were three precogs, the main one, another girl and a boy.

Yeah, but the main woman one was the only one that could do pre-cog stuff all on her own...the other two, even together, couldn't do pre-crime without her.

NieR Occomata
Jan 18, 2009

Glory to Mankind.

precision posted:

I never understood this malarky. How does annoying customers change the situation? Why not just have a big pop-up that tells you to write your congressman or whatever?

e: wikipedia begging for money will always be funny though

Theyre doing both, once again illustrating your tenuous and unreliable grasp of reading comprehension

IRQ
Sep 9, 2001

SUCK A DICK, DUMBSHITS!

Settle down, Beavis.

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

Toxxupation posted:

Theyre doing both, once again illustrating your tenuous and unreliable grasp of reading comprehension

Sorry, I missed one sentence out of an article I skimmed.

Irish Joe
Jul 23, 2007

by Lowtax
Not the least bit surprised Google isn't taking part in this given that they'll be the ones shaking down websites for money in a few years.

zoux posted:

I generally don't like to get all male gazey but is it common opinion among straight men and lesbian fans of The Good Wife that Kalinda Sharma is loving smoking hot?

She's kinda crossed that age threshold where Indian women stop being hot. I will admit that there are few amazingly photoshopped pictures of her out there, and can definitely see the appeal of those.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Here are the TCA picks for "Most Promising Series of the 2014 Fall Season".
Most Promising New Show of the Fall:
1. Gotham (FOX)
2. Jane the Virgin (The CW)
3. The Affair (Showtime)

Most Promising New Comedy on TV this Fall:
1. Black-ish (ABC)
2. Jane the Virgin (The CW)
3. A to Z (NBC)

Most Promising New Drama on TV this Fall:
1. Gotham (FOX)
2. The Affair (Showtime)
3. How to Get Away with Murder (ABC)

Whom do you see as a Potential new Breakout Star?
1. Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin, The CW)
2. Grant Gustin (The Flash, The CW)
3. Robin Lord Taylor (Gotham, FOX)

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

Burn down all nominations, all awards.

EDIT: VVVV I forgot to mention, extra points on the racism Irish Joe. You're a regular piece of poo poo.

Shageletic fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Sep 10, 2014

Irish Joe
Jul 23, 2007

by Lowtax
Its kinda sad that the Teen Choice Awards are handing out trophies for shows that haven't aired yet, based on nothing but trailers and advertising jargon.

Ravane
Oct 23, 2010

by LadyAmbien

zoux posted:

Here are the TCA picks for "Most Promising Series of the 2014 Fall Season".
Most Promising New Show of the Fall:
1. Gotham (FOX)
2. Jane the Virgin (The CW)
3. The Affair (Showtime)

Most Promising New Comedy on TV this Fall:
1. Black-ish (ABC)
2. Jane the Virgin (The CW)
3. A to Z (NBC)

Most Promising New Drama on TV this Fall:
1. Gotham (FOX)
2. The Affair (Showtime)
3. How to Get Away with Murder (ABC)

Whom do you see as a Potential new Breakout Star?
1. Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin, The CW)
2. Grant Gustin (The Flash, The CW)
3. Robin Lord Taylor (Gotham, FOX)

3 nominations for Jane the Virgin. Man, people really like Spanish Soap Operas.

Irish Joe
Jul 23, 2007

by Lowtax

Shageletic posted:

EDIT: VVVV I forgot to mention, extra points on the racism Irish Joe. You're a regular piece of poo poo.

And you're an extraordinary one.

Ravane
Oct 23, 2010

by LadyAmbien

Shageletic posted:

Burn down all nominations, all awards.

EDIT: VVVV I forgot to mention, extra points on the racism Irish Joe. You're a regular piece of poo poo.

Irish Joe posted:

She's kinda crossed that age threshold where Indian women stop being hot. I will admit that there are few amazingly photoshopped pictures of her out there, and can definitely see the appeal of those.

This is not racist. It's just true.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Irish Joe posted:

Its kinda sad that the Teen Choice Awards are handing out trophies for shows that haven't aired yet, based on nothing but trailers and advertising jargon.

Television Critics Association.

Celery Jello
Mar 21, 2005
Slippery Tilde
Joltin' Joe throws a blinding fast shot at home...

HOW IN THE HELL DID HE NOT CATCH THAT?

ShakeZula
Jun 17, 2003

Nobody move and nobody gets hurt.

How is Jane the Virgin the #2 Promising New Show (and only comedy in that top three) but not the #1 Promising New Comedy?

Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

I just watched The West Wing episode "17 People" and it is one of the best episodes of television I have ever seen. Just felt like I had to come in here and say that, well bye.

Baronash
Feb 29, 2012

So what do you want to be called?

Regy Rusty posted:

I just watched The West Wing episode "17 People" and it is one of the best episodes of television I have ever seen. Just felt like I had to come in here and say that, well bye.

Do I have the website for you!
http://seventeenpeople.com

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

Long Live The King!

ShakeZula posted:

How is Jane the Virgin the #2 Promising New Show (and only comedy in that top three) but not the #1 Promising New Comedy?

Because that list is dumb and nobody should take it seriously.

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


Up until now I didn't know anyone gave this much of a poo poo about the Teen Choice Awards.

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

JohnSherman posted:

Do I have the website for you!
http://seventeenpeople.com

Uh... what the gently caress?

I hope that was at least done for college credit or something. :psyduck:

Chamberk
Jan 11, 2004

when there is nothing left to burn you have to set yourself on fire

Regy Rusty posted:

I just watched The West Wing episode "17 People" and it is one of the best episodes of television I have ever seen. Just felt like I had to come in here and say that, well bye.

Yeah that's a really good episode and everything from that to the end of the season is stellar. West Wing was a hell of a show when Sorkin was on his game.

So where could a law-abiding gentleman watch The Good Wife? From the beginning that is...

Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

JohnSherman posted:

Do I have the website for you!
http://seventeenpeople.com

I'm not sure how to react to this but part of me wants to go back in time 5 minutes to when I didn't know it existed.

Chamberk posted:

Yeah that's a really good episode and everything from that to the end of the season is stellar. West Wing was a hell of a show when Sorkin was on his game.

I'd been meaning to check it out for ages but I'd been kinda dragging my heels because until now my only exposure to Sorkin had been the Newsroom and uh...

Anyway WW is real good so far and I am barreling through it at an absurd pace because I just can't stop myself. I understand it supposedly takes a nosedive at some point though.

Regy Rusty fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Sep 10, 2014

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames
So I finally watched the pilot for The After and holy poo poo, I'm really excited about it. Did not expect it to be anywhere near that good. Got kind of a vibe of "Walking Dead vs. Millennium". Could be great poo poo, at least good poo poo.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

Long Live The King!

precision posted:

So I finally watched the pilot for The After and holy poo poo, I'm really excited about it. Did not expect it to be anywhere near that good. Got kind of a vibe of "Walking Dead vs. Millennium". Could be great poo poo, at least good poo poo.

I was really digging the first half of it but it got real dumb as it went on and completely lost me in the last few minutes. Plus one of the actresses (not the lead) was so bad it made me want turn it off every time she said a line.

I doubt I'll watch another episode. Especially after hearing that Carter is planning for 100 episodes already which will never happen on Amazon.

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


I just finished the pilot of Utopia. The British drama, not the American reality show. It was crazy, intense, and I don't know what's going on.

And I love it. :allears:

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Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe

muscles like this? posted:

There were three precogs, the main one, another girl and a boy.

It's actually 2 boys (twins if I remember right) and Agatha as the main precog in the movie.

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