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I've never seen it, but I hear Johnny Test is extremely popular with kids unlike, say, Adventure Time whose audience consists solely of aging hipsters.
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Someone's gonna have to explain these new fangled recent cartoons for me and tell me if they're actually for adults, just have stuff for adults in them occasionally, or these terrible adults just can't get over watching cartoons and they were never the intended audience but think they are.
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Dec 25, 2014 21:28
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AT is occasionally too adult for their own good these days but largely they're just becoming more all-ages humour rather than childish humour. But mainly it's just really intelligent subtext and stuff. People will tell you that's untrue but it's okay they'll never know joy
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Dec 25, 2014 21:41
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If my eight year old self was watching Cartoon Network and there was a tv show about a dog's tail helping a flea circus prevent foreclosure, I would have plugged in my NES and played Castlevania until something good came on. At this point AT feels more like a competition between art students to create the most avant guarde drek imaginable than a sincere attempt to create children's entertainment.
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Dec 25, 2014 21:52
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My nephew likes it, that's all I know.
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Dec 25, 2014 21:54
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GI_Clutch posted:
Yeah that poo poo is great, I love when they freak out.
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Dec 25, 2014 22:06
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raditts posted:Looney Tunes marathon today on Boomerang. Pretty much the only thing worth watching on TV today, especially next to the war crime that is the Johnny Test marathon on Cartoon Network. Dr Who all day too, although whether that's worth watching is debatable. It's sure as hell better than Johnny Test. *whipcrack* *guitar screech*
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Dec 25, 2014 23:17
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I'm putting on Flashpoint for my dad, or doctor who if he doesn't like it.
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Dec 25, 2014 23:31
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Flashpoint is good though
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Dec 25, 2014 23:32
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That was my point. You're all suckers for watching bad TV
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MrAristocrates posted:I just watched the first episode the other day, and yeah, loving wow. I'm not sure it's a show I'll be able to marathon but I need to keep watching.
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Shageletic posted:Where could I find it? Wasn't there a movie version or something? Yeah, there was a movie a few years back inspired by the same-named book, and both it and Gamorra: The Series have the author of that book involved in the writing/creative process. It's on Sky in Britain, in the US it's gotta be gotten on DVD or files, but is more than well worth whatever trouble you have to go through to see it
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Dec 26, 2014 02:45
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My house is having a Tomb Raider marathon because my gf never played it and I can't get online to play Destiny. Time to open a bottle of wine I guess. I hate how everything is closed today, I'm quite sure my favorite bar has employees who give no fucks about Christmas so I'm not even sure why they bothered closing.
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Dec 26, 2014 03:19
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Selena Gomez has lupus. And here we thought it's never lupus.
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precision posted:My house is having a Tomb Raider marathon because my gf never played it and I can't get online to play Destiny. The only good Tomb Raider is the new one.
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Dec 26, 2014 03:50
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IRQ posted:The only good Tomb Raider is the new one. Ayup.
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Irish Joe posted:I've never seen it, but I hear Johnny Test is extremely popular with kids unlike, say, Adventure Time whose audience consists solely of aging hipsters. MY WIFE works at a daycare and I just asked her about this to see if there was a speck of reality in this statement. She confirmed that there is not. Sober posted:Someone's gonna have to explain these new fangled recent cartoons for me and tell me if they're actually for adults, just have stuff for adults in them occasionally, or these terrible adults just can't get over watching cartoons and they were never the intended audience but think they are. Mostly it's "just have stuff for adults in them occasionally", although Adventure Time does have a habit of getting stuck up its own rear end lately. Regular Show is pretty much an adult cartoon bowdlerized just enough to also qualify as a kids' cartoon, though. raditts fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Dec 26, 2014 |
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precision posted:I hate how everything is closed today, I'm quite sure my favorite bar has employees who give no fucks about Christmas so I'm not even sure why they bothered closing. In Britain, we would riot if they closed the pubs completely.
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Dec 26, 2014 13:17
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precision posted:Time to open a bottle of wine I guess. I hate how everything is closed today, I'm quite sure my favorite bar has employees who give no fucks about Christmas so I'm not even sure why they bothered closing. A day off's a day off.
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Dec 26, 2014 13:34
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Oh those halcyon days, when there was real cartoons on TV, like Captain Planet
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What was that cartoon where you could shoot a gun-shaped laser at the badguys onscreen like it was an on-rails shooter? That was rad as gently caress to my 7 year old self.
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precision posted:What was that cartoon where you could shoot a gun-shaped laser at the badguys onscreen like it was an on-rails shooter? That was rad as gently caress to my 7 year old self. Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. It was kind of infamous because one of the main good guys died.
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EL BROMANCE posted:In Britain, we would riot if they closed the pubs completely. I'm from the internet. I only riot if they close down my steam account.
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Dec 26, 2014 19:58
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Regarde Aduck posted:I'm from the internet. I only riot if they close down my steam account. Or if women try to play videogames.
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Dec 27, 2014 03:40
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Vincent posted:Or if women try to play videogames.
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GI_Clutch posted:One of my brother's friends was on an episode of House Hunters. I had already known that the show is mostly bogus in the fact that the hunters have already purchased one of the places before filming starts. Not surprisingly, most people don't want to have flaws in their homes pointed out on television, so many of the homes you see aren't actually for sale, but are friends of the hunters' homes which have been emptied of furniture for filming. The whole thing is basically just for getting on TV, as no one really gets compensated for anything. I'm pretty sure a couple of goons have been on it. The best one is House Hunters International when the stupid housewife from the Midwest can't figure out why they can't buy a mcmasion in the middle of Paris or London.
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Dec 27, 2014 04:12
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Is the a The Knick thread? (This show  )
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zoux posted:Is the a The Knick thread? (This show Yep! One of the best shows of 2014, IMO.
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Cheers. Yeah it is suberb, with amazing direction.
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Vincent posted:Or if women try to play videogames. I play computer games, and I believe that women should be treated as if they were equal to men.
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Dec 27, 2014 09:18
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thats a back handed sense of equality
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Well we are talking about pasty and greasy internet virgins trying to talk about gender politics over people who have experienced actual discrimination so yeah. It's like if someone complained about the really poorly written women in True Detective and then these same nerds got all defensive and wondered if you meant that MM and WH's characters should be murdered in the next 5 minutes and replaced with women because you complained about it and if it meant that stupid bro shows like Strike Back or Arrow or Breaking Bad should be stricken from historical record for being too masculine.
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Dec 27, 2014 09:38
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It's actually nothing like that, but i admire your imagination. Nerds are often some of the most racist, sexist, ageist.... basically if it has an ist or an ism, nerds fit right in there. People are cunts world wide and if you give them a keyboard, they make their position known.
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Well I have been on and off keeping up with the vile poo poo of gamergate recently, but anyway, it isn't TV chat. Besides, even Games and GBS don't want to touch #GG so gently caress that poo poo.
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I have no idea what gamer gate is, i love games but i hate gamers. So i just ignore anything they have to say, usually.
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Rocksicles posted:thats a back handed sense of equality It's not actually equality at all. That was sort of fundamental to the joke. As for gamer gate, it's the idiotic name for a veneer of stupid poo poo covering a deep abyss of psychopathic thought and behaviour.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:As for gamer gate, it's the idiotic name for a veneer of stupid poo poo covering a deep abyss of psychopathic thought and behaviour. Really, there isn't a single person involved in gamer gate, pro or con, that isn't a huge dweeb. Its like screaming about misogyny in model trains because there are no 1/32 scale female conductors in the 0-27 series. Congratulations for making the world microscopically safer for women to play make-believe in their basements, but you're still a huge dweeb.
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I'm trying out Amazon Prime instant video due to getting the trial version when ordering christmas presents and like 80% of movies and shows I search for to watch aren't on it. Is this the normal experience or is the trial version super-limited? Also my deliveries didn't arrive until after loving christmas. If this is what it's like it's absolutely not worth it IMO. Edit: Transparent's really good though.
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Cactus posted:I'm trying out Amazon Prime instant video due to getting the trial version when ordering christmas presents and like 80% of movies and shows I search for to watch aren't on it. Is this the normal experience or is the trial version super-limited? I don't think Amazon Prime has quite the selection of Netflix. We loved it for a long time, but I feel like we're running out of things to watch. Transparent is indeed awesome, and also try Hannibal, The Wire, Deadwood, Justified, The Americans, Veronica Mars, Louie, Arrested Development, Parks & Recreation, all the Joss Whedon stuff (Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, Much Ado About Nothing), Fringe, and Orphan Black. There are many seasons of Comedy Central stand-up specials, too.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I don't think Amazon Prime has quite the selection of Netflix. We loved it for a long time, but I feel like we're running out of things to watch. Hahaha yeah I've actually seen most of those so I don't think I'll be continuing after the trial. I never finished Angel, Hannibal or Deadwood though so I'll see if I can get through those before my month ends. Transparent, like Girls, contains characters that fit the most stereotypical gratingly annoying "American Liberal" types. I agree with the worldview entirely but oh my word their mannerisms and the way they phrase stuff sometimes is just aaargh-cringe! Show's really loving good through and I can't wait to see how it colours my watching of Arrested Development when I finally get round to finishing that as well. Ooh ooh oooh gonna do a search for Review because I've seen everything on youtube from that show! ...it's not on there i rest my case. Cactus fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Dec 27, 2014 |
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