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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Damnit. I got adopted by a stray cat. OH MY GOD you got my TacoCat! He was the best floof that ever lived and I miss him every day. You be nice to that catte, eh? Cats will hiss and spit and be generally lovely for a couple of weeks then gradually move on. Rogue One was a great flick and whomever said it's the first Star Wars movie that felt like a war movie had it right. K2-S0 kicks rear end. I felt like Disney did a nod to HK-47 from KOTOR. I was hoping he'd start calling people meatbag. E: 
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Damnit. I got adopted by a stray cat. Congratulations, you now have two cats. E: Remember that rant I posted a couple nights ago? I heard back from the movie theatre, they totally weren't supposed to be closed and offered me a free ticket along with an appology. Turned down the ticket, I'm sure the doors will never be locked early again and that is good enough for me. Fermented Tinal fucked around with this message at 14:08 on Dec 19, 2016 |
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spog posted:Okay, I watched Sons of Anarchy to the end of season two and I am officially done. This is how I felt about Breaking Bad. Its so bad for how many people rant and rave about how amazing it is.
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Dec 19, 2016 14:37
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Breaking bad is really good. Not liking it doesn't make you edgy or cool
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fridge corn posted:Breaking bad is really good. Not liking it doesn't make you edgy or cool Incorrect and irrelevant - not trying to be edgy/cool, just calling a poo poo show a poo poo show. I'm honestly at a loss as to how it became so popular. I forced myself to watch the first two seasons and I just couldn't keep going - it never got good. But please keep being edgy/cool
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Siochain posted:Incorrect and irrelevant - not trying to be edgy/cool, just calling a poo poo show a poo poo show. I'm honestly at a loss as to how it became so popular. I forced myself to watch the first two seasons and I just couldn't keep going - it never got good. What was bad about it? Honest question
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fridge corn posted:What was bad about it? Honest question The entire plot line seemed contrived. The acting was excellent, but it was just a serious of people making incredibly stupid decisions/borderline "zany" antics occurring. Its basically "overly proud genius makes horrible decisions and fucks everything up". I really tried to like it, and its a genre/type of show I normally would like, but the whole thing was just so forced. It may also be a kneejerk reaction to how many people sing its praises when its honestly (and obviously in my opinion but I'm the center of my own personal subjective universe so my opinion is king) not a very good show. I feel the same way about TWD as well, albeit not quite as strongly - its cool, but not amazing.
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West SAAB Story posted:Goodbye, Grandma. QuarkMartial posted:Wife's grandmother died this morning around 2:30 am. sorry guysSiochain posted:Incorrect and irrelevant - not trying to be edgy/cool, just calling a poo poo show a poo poo show. I'm honestly at a loss as to how it became so popular. I forced myself to watch the first two seasons and I just couldn't keep going - it never got good. We finished Westworld Saturday morning  Couple plot holes and things that didn't seem right but what a show. I'll probably go back and rewatch to see what I missed.
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Siochain posted:The entire plot line seemed contrived. The acting was excellent, but it was just a serious of people making incredibly stupid decisions/borderline "zany" antics occurring. Its basically "overly proud genius makes horrible decisions and fucks everything up". I really tried to like it, and its a genre/type of show I normally would like, but the whole thing was just so forced. I watched it live from mid-season one and feel the same way. It seemed like a show where the writers had a solid idea... For a couple seasons. Then they needed to add season after season, but had no over-arching plan. That made the ultimate result seem disjointed and forced. That's a shame, because I thought the first couple seasons were excellent.
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Siochain posted:This is how I felt about Breaking Bad. Its so bad for how many people rant and rave about how amazing it is. My wife also hated BB, for most of the same reasons. Also TWD is loving horrible. Sons of Anarchy was sort of entertaining, but I stopped watching it after they killed off the only remaining character that I liked.
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Siochain posted:The entire plot line seemed contrived. The acting was excellent, but it was just a serious of people making incredibly stupid decisions/borderline "zany" antics occurring. Its basically "overly proud genius makes horrible decisions and fucks everything up". I really tried to like it, and its a genre/type of show I normally would like, but the whole thing was just so forced. In addition to this, I had no empathy for the main character at all. Or his wife. Or his kid. He could have died painfully of cancer and left her penniless and destitute and all I wouldn't have shed a tear for any of them. Compare that to Tony Soprano who was an even worse person - and you felt that way - and yet there many moments of empathy with him where you were rooting for him to succeed.
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Siochain posted:The entire plot line seemed contrived. The acting was excellent, but it was just a serious of people making incredibly stupid decisions/borderline "zany" antics occurring. Its basically "overly proud genius makes horrible decisions and fucks everything up". I really tried to like it, and its a genre/type of show I normally would like, but the whole thing was just so forced. I think this is the most common complaint about the show. I can see where youre coming from but personally I don't think it's meant to be taken that seriously. Theres this lovely undercurrent of absurdism and magical realism that permeates the entire show which I felt was a really refreshing turn from the usual hyper realism you see other shows attempting. None of the characters are likeable because they are all completely absurd and frankly the show is hilarious so you should give it another go and not concentrate so much on the plot and enjoy the superb performances of the cast and the clever cinematography
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Siochain posted:The entire plot line seemed contrived. The acting was excellent, but it was just a serious of people making incredibly stupid decisions/borderline "zany" antics occurring. Its basically "overly proud genius makes horrible decisions and fucks everything up". I really tried to like it, and its a genre/type of show I normally would like, but the whole thing was just so forced. I have similar feelings about Deadwood. I just couldn't get into that show. I borrowed the complete show from my mentor who spoke so highly of it. I already don't like Westerns, then nobody seemed likable at all and I just couldn't care about any of the characters. In the end I finished the first episode and could not force myself to continue. I think I ended up doing vacuuming or something productive with my time. I wasn't being edgy or whatever, it just didn't click with me, and I wanted to watch a show that took such licence with all the swearing.
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iwentdoodie posted:Also TWD is loving horrible. It really is. I watched it for a while, but it just got too overly dark, like they are in some competition to out-gore and out-despot every other show.
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fridge corn posted:I think this is the most common complaint about the show. I can see where youre coming from but personally I don't think it's meant to be taken that seriously. Theres this lovely undercurrent of absurdism and magical realism that permeates the entire show which I felt was a really refreshing turn from the usual hyper realism you see other shows attempting. And I don't see the absurdism as an undercurrent - its like a slap in the face. Its almost like I'm watching a really lovely SNL skit, but somehow it got several seasons and awards on its own. I also didn't find the cinematography particularly clever - it was well done, but nothing amazing. I mean, I love trashy TV, some serious TV, some clever TV, etc. I like most genres and most shows. BB is in a category that I ~should~ like, but it falls incredibly flat for me. TWD is in the same boat, but I at least understand why it became popular. The seasons and plots are just so rote now, though...I watched 3 seasons of it, I enjoyed it, but it was far from a "must-watch" for me. Currently, Westworld has my interest. I've also enjoyed the Netflix Marvel shows - they're not perfect, but I've enjoyed them thoroughly. I also watch random lovely shows to (NCIS, Criminal Minds, etc.) because they scratch an itch for mindless entertainment with a loosely-threaded sense of continuity. And I enjoy cartoons :P I mean, watch what you want to watch, its all subjective, but I have had so many people insist I "missed" something about BB and TWD that I'm vehement about my opinion on them.
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spog posted:Okay, I watched Sons of Anarchy to the end of season two and I am officially done. just imagine this: it only gets worse.
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Three-Phase posted:Well it's too cloudy and early in the day to use an astrolabe... I know this is pretty far back, but I'm just catching up on this thread. A CNC lathe/mill like that is basically the closest we've gotten to a Star Trek replicator. They are incredible.
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Siochain posted:The entire plot line seemed contrived. The acting was excellent, but it was just a serious of people making incredibly stupid decisions/borderline "zany" antics occurring. Its basically "overly proud genius makes horrible decisions and fucks everything up". I really tried to like it, and its a genre/type of show I normally would like, but the whole thing was just so forced. I mean, how do you think things would actually go if a previously straitlaced high school chemistry teacher without any prior criminal experience decided to start cooking meth using his background as a chemist?
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fridge corn posted:Can you name any shows that have better cinematograohy than breaking bad? You say it was good but nothing special, so what shows are special in that aspect? This.I can understand why someone might not enjoy it from a writing/plot standpoint. However, Breaking Bad is just shot so well. I've discovered I'm a cinematography whore over the last few years.
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Siochain how do you manage to enjoy anything TV/movie related if your beef with Breaking Bad is people making incredibly stupid decisions? All TV and movies contain a certain level of absurdity in order to create situations...
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I can understand where they are coming from. Being scientifically literate has made me dread going to the movies.
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I liked BB a lot, but grew to loath TWD. They don't deserve to be mentioned together. TWD after season one has almost zero plot, it's just a question of what main character will die in a gruesome manner. No redeeming factors at all to make it interesting.
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CommieGIR posted:I can understand where they are coming from. Being scientifically literate has made me dread going to the movies. If he ever comes through your town, I highly recommend going to one of Neil deGrasse Tyson's lectures. When he came through Phoenix it was "An Astrophysicist At The Movies". Surprisingly hilarious. Somewhat Heroic posted:As someone with small kids that won't be able to see rogue one right away I appreciate the copious amounts of spoiler tags  Though my four year old really wants to see it in the theater so we might have to make that happen.Goober Peas posted:I dunno, my Kenmore appliances are holding up well - granted they're 15 years old. The microwave is probably going to be the first to die. My 14 year old Amana microwave just bit the loving dust, and it's one of the over-the-range built-in ones. It looks like the job isn't too bad in the grand scheme of things. Still, that's the last thing I needed right now. I'm leaning towards going LG on the microwave. I'd do a Panasonic inverter microwave but as far as I can tell, they don't sell over-the-range versions of them in the US.
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IOwnCalculus posted:My 14 year old Amana microwave just bit the loving dust, and it's one of the over-the-range built-in ones. It looks like the job isn't too bad in the grand scheme of things. Still, that's the last thing I needed right now. I'd consider getting a nice hood and a regular microwave if you can stick it somewhere else. I stuck ours on a small table in our never-used dining room, right off the kitchen. Best thing ever, I don't have to look at another ugly appliance, and my 8 yo can reach it.
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CommieGIR posted:I can understand where they are coming from. Being scientifically literate has made me dread going to the movies. I used to be very much a stickler for "accuracy" in movies, before I became more familiar with film reading and criticism. Its really freeing to be able to be able to watch TV and movies on their own terms. Everything falls apart under too much technical scrutiny. For example, Fury Road presents an utterly absurd world by any realistic standards. Can you imagine an apocalyptic scenario manifesting itself in that way? I can't. But that's not the point. The world is that way and by viewing it you are agreeing to accept that. The art-viewer relationship is firmly established. If you're willing to accept technical "inaccuracies" in a movie like that but not in something else, you'd better have a very good reason for doing so.
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IOwnCalculus posted:I'm leaning towards going LG on the microwave. I'd do a Panasonic inverter microwave but as far as I can tell, they don't sell over-the-range versions of them in the US. Rip out the transformer and send it to me 
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Wrar posted:I've discovered I'm a cinematography whore over the last few years. For me Breaking Bad was probably a top three best TV show of all time. Note that I did not say "favorite" show of all time. What BB was able to accomplish was that it challenged you to really examine your moral compass on how messed up the decisions people can make when compounded one on top of each other. The wacky things that happen along the way were good comedic shock factor just enough to detach you from reality. The first season sucked IMO. Another show shot beautifully and for whatever reason I couldn't stop watching was Mad Men. Don Draper is a cool rear end character but also the sleaziest dude of all time and I have no doubt it burned when he pees. If you are looking of a show that makes you want to exclaim  and then everyone should watch Justified which has the entire series (6 seasons) on Amazon. Very well executed story lines arcs ranging from episode/season long/series long that all have a very satisfying end. Plenty of snark and humor that makes each character really endearing. Plus Natalie Zea might be one of the easiest people to look at on the entire planet.
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Although I enjoyed Breaking Bad a lot, I was much more excited when they announced Better Call Saul and I'd contend that it's a better show--at least, I like it more. They've been shooting BCS season 3 around town lately; if you guys see a scene in the next season involving him at a satellite dish array, or at a flooring store, those locations are 2 blocks from my house. I also sent in some info about the Midget to a company that does automobile 'extras' for BCS on the off chance they want a bright yellow convertible for something.
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SCA Enthusiast posted:For example, Fury Road presents an utterly absurd world by any realistic standards. Can you imagine an apocalyptic scenario manifesting itself in that way? I can't. But that's not the point. The world is that way and by viewing it you are agreeing to accept that. The art-viewer relationship is firmly established. If you're willing to accept technical "inaccuracies" in a movie like that but not in something else, you'd better have a very good reason for doing so. ...and the above is very good reason why Quentin Dupieaux's 'Rubber' is above such criticism as within the opening scene there's a ridiculous setpiece and one of the film's characters climbs out of the trunk of a car and addresses the viewer directly telling them the deal and that examining anything too closely is pointless and that sometimes things don't have to make sense. He then gets back in the trunk and gets driven off again.
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angryrobots posted:This is just my worthless opinion, but I think over the range microwaves are awful. Too high up for kids to use when they get old enough without having to grab a stool, and as a hood they don't ventilate all that well. If I had any loving countertop space to stick a microwave, I'd consider it. I'm not even certain that this thing is actually properly vented to the outside, I guess I'll find out when I rip it down  CommieGIR posted:Rip out the transformer and send it to me I'll gut the motherfucker one way or the other so this can probably happen 
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Olympic Mathlete posted:...and the above is very good reason why Quentin Dupieaux's 'Rubber' is above such criticism as within the opening scene there's a ridiculous setpiece and one of the film's characters climbs out of the trunk of a car and addresses the viewer directly telling them the deal and that examining anything too closely is pointless and that sometimes things don't have to make sense. He then gets back in the trunk and gets driven off again. Rubber owns.
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Motronic posted:I know this is pretty far back, but I'm just catching up on this thread. I missed that post, so thanks for linking that. I find poo poo like that fascinating. It makes my brain hurt figuring out how to do that. Question for someone that's programmed CnCs, do you just tell it the finished product and it makes the best way to get to it or do you have to tell it exactly which step and when to do it? Goober Peas posted:I dunno, my Kenmore appliances are holding up well - granted they're 15 years old. The microwave is probably going to be the first to die. That's a great example for why Consumer Reports is such a lovely magazine to base your purchasing decision on (my father-in-law does this all the time). They would have a Kenmore unit rated as #1 for ~whatever~ and the literal exact same unit but under a different brand name is 20 places further down the list from it, or vice versa. I bought a washing machine once that was sold under 3 different brands, GE, Kenmore and Frigidaire. They were literally identical between all of them other than a label or maybe 1 had an option of a slightly higher spin speed. The Kenmore was highly rated, the Frigidaire middle of the pack, the GE was one to avoid. Even though they all came from the very same Electrolux (Frigidaire) factory and had the exact same parts on them.
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SCA Enthusiast posted:Rubber owns.  my dude
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IOwnCalculus posted:If I had any loving countertop space to stick a microwave, I'd consider it. If it's anything like mine, it just sucks air up from over the range, passes it through a filter or two (dear god those are loving nasty if you forget to clean them for a while), and then vents it back into the room. Sucks rear end when something gets a bit extra crispy and all the vent does is blow the smoke around the room, but I guess that's what the window over the sink is for.
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The end of the first season of TWD pissed me off so much I couldn't watch anymore. Everything that I have heard/couple episodes I have seen support that choice. Breaking Bad's first season was loving amazing, but went down hill from there. I think I made it to the end of season 3 or 4 and completely lost interest in it. Its kind of dumb, but I love The Blacklist. It is totally insane and unrealistic, but entertaining. Same with Burn Notice, I have watched the entire series multiple times, but I still put it on for mindless entertainment. Previa_fun posted:I've never actually seen a house in person with the kitchen vent fan properly vented to the outside. One of my old rental houses had a microwave above the stove that had a "vent" built into it. I say "vent" cause it just blew the air back out on top of the microwave, which was perfect face level for me. One of the things I am most looking forward to when we remodel our kitchen is having a proper ventilation system. slurry_curry fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Dec 19, 2016 |
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slurry_curry posted:The end of the first season of TWD pissed me off so much I couldn't watch anymore. Everything that I have heard/couple episodes I have seen support that choice. Breaking Bad's first season was loving amazing, but went down hill from there. I think I made it to the end of season 3 or 4 and completely lost interest in it. TWD is one of the worst shows on tv. The only reason I watch it anymore is to answer specific questions when customers ask how different it is from the also terrible comics.
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