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Bryter posted:They should bring back the Newsroom now that the news is so dumb. Would be a much better show if it was about them deciding whether a story about Trump calling Ratko Mladic a great guy is real or whatever it'd be impossible because Sorkin would blow his was with the first episode being his heroic square jawed news man shaming Trump into resigning and making Hillary president by angrily repeating "HAVE YOU NO SHAME, SIR?!" into the camera for 20 uninterrupted minutes
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Darkman Fanpage posted:A union dumber than the police union. Esports players have ridiculously long days and almost never have opportunities to be at home due to travel. Plus, big money (Mark Cuban among them) has started to notice the scene, and It's only a matter of time before it turns entirely towards the owners favor.
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Grondoth posted:Wow.
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Grondoth posted:Wow. https://twitter.com/youngpope69/status/867184051031080960 https://twitter.com/youngpope69/status/867184371819851776
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MikeCrotch posted:Did *anyone* think Newsroom was good? Like I know libs fawn over the West Wing but does anyone even give a poo poo about the Newsroom anymore except to poo poo on it? All I know about the newsroom is that loving clip of the guy from dumb and dumber talking about how bad the USA is in some college talk or some poo poo. The most annoying video of all time, constantly shared for years between my facebook friends (especially between my mexican friends in the states) What episode do they even talk about the newsroom? The REAL Goobusters fucked around with this message at 20:55 on May 24, 2017 |
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Gorn Myson posted:Most people didn't. I'm not going to look up the old threads, but I remember the first season had a lot of people dumping all over it. And I'm not entirely certain, but I'm pretty sure my dumbfuck self was was praising it. So to answer your question; the people that did were dumbfucks. Yeah all the big TV websites ran middling at best reviews from the start. They had to deal with Sorkin's love of coming in to their comment sections and forums in person and posting about how dumb they all are, so they were not so forgiving.
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The REAL Goobusters posted:All I know about the newsroom is that loving clip of the guy from dumb and dumber talking about how bad the USA is in some college talk or some poo poo. The most annoying video of all time, constantly shared for years between my facebook friends (especially between my mexican friends in the states) Several first season episodes and a couple from the last one.
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if esports players start unionizing i will start drinking again
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Serf posted:if esports players start unionizing i will start drinking again
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I'm still hoping someone can summarize some of the most egregious things of the show, like that last episode that was particularly bad?
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the only thing i know about the newsroom was this video someone posted in this thread a while ago and boy is it a doozy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m95qHOmoUXs
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Grondoth posted:Wow. I liked it only because I was furiously masturbating to Emily Mortimer the whole time. The helpless exasperation really does it for me. 
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The only good thing about the show is when they played "That's how I got to Memphis", I like Daniels' voice (he's A NEWSSSSSSMANNNNN, after all). And when the blonde pixie girl's roommate takes a giant dump on her.
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What's really impressive about the Newsroom is that it somehow managed to get worse over time, right up to the awful ending.
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Ron Jeremy posted:I liked it only because I was furiously masturbating to Emily Mortimer the whole time. The helpless exasperation really does it for me. good evening mr president, how's rome
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https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/862157908607369216 Also re:Giordano https://twitter.com/ellen_progress/status/867444907790782464 Sushi in Yiddish fucked around with this message at 23:58 on May 24, 2017 |
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Quick question: The guys have referenced articles from Current Affairs magazine a few times. Looked at a bunch of the articles on their site and I quite liked most of them, but subscriptions are loving $60 for 4 issues, compared to half that for stuff like jacobin or baffler. Is Current Affairs worth it?Ron Jeremy posted:I liked it only because I was furiously masturbating to Emily Mortimer the whole time. The helpless exasperation really does it for me. Sushi in Yiddish posted:https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/862157908607369216 Pretty sure that's like the 4th time that MGS podcast has been posted ITT. Still a good listen though.
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I like Current Affairs a lot and look forward to it more than most of the dumb politics bullshit that I pay to have sent to my home (and a sub is $60/6, not 4) but a lot of the best stuff ends up online before too long with no pay wall. So you kinda just have to look at the front page of the site and go "would I pay $10 for a really stylish physical magazine that included all of this stuff a month ago?" and follow your heart from there.
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Apoplexy posted:I'm still hoping someone can summarize some of the most egregious things of the show, like that last episode that was particularly bad? I mean the Chapo crew basically summed it up. It's an entire show about how the news should've been reported, as written by a hack who can only write one very specific type of character--the smug middle-aged liberal male who memorizes facts and constantly uses them to own people with impenetrable logic. Also every female character is a complete ditz. And it had a ghost dad in the last season, which sadly I never made it to because I was so done by the end of season 2.
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Does most of it really end up online? I remember that almost every article I read on there seemed to have been written by their editor in chief. I'd been figuring that he posted most of his own stuff online and then just threw up articles from other writers on occasion. I dunno, I'll have to look on there again. But your way of putting it, $10 for a pretty solid magazine, does kind of make it sound more appealing.
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See if your closest public library stocks it and go check out an issue as a test drive. I used to spend hours in the periodicals section of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
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MikeCrotch posted:Did *anyone* think Newsroom was good? Like I know libs fawn over the West Wing but does anyone even give a poo poo about the Newsroom anymore except to poo poo on it? Quentin Tarantino said quote:Now, the HBO show I loved was Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom. That was the only show that I literally watched three times. I would watch it at seven o’clock on Sunday, when the new one would come on. Then after it was over, I’d watch it all over again. Then I would usually end up watching it once during the week, just so I could listen to the dialogue one more time.
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Lol that close race in Montana is about to widen a bit. The Republican, Gianforte, was confronted by a Guardian reporter on the fact that he has 250k in SANCTIONED RUSSIAN STOCK, AN ILLEGAL THING, and so he bodyslammed the reporter. Audio, video, witnesses, all of it. edit: Only audio so far, I guess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhoH4v8xYlU Apoplexy fucked around with this message at 01:18 on May 25, 2017 |
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May 25, 2017 01:15
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I like that the Montana Republicans somehow nominated @NYCGuidoVoice for Congress
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GalacticAcid posted:See if your closest public library stocks it and go check out an issue as a test drive. That was my first thought and I tried it all over. Public library didn't, university library didn't either. Thankfully I'm heading to D.C. for a few days. Given that it's literally based in that city I'm almost certain to find a copy of the latest issue if I look a bit.
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Apoplexy posted:Lol that close race in Montana is about to widen a bit. The Republican, Gianforte, was confronted by a Guardian reporter on the fact that he has 250k in SANCTIONED RUSSIAN STOCK, AN ILLEGAL THING, and so he bodyslammed the reporter. Audio, video, witnesses, all of it. and here's Gianforte's campaign statement lol 
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the existence of a pro gamer unions rules and shouldnt be pooh-poohed
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Phobophilia posted:the existence of a pro gamer unions rules and shouldnt be pooh-poohed don't get me wrong, i'm all for it. doesn't stop it from being funny
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Everyone should be unionised except for cops.
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InequalityGodzilla posted:Does most of it really end up online? I remember that almost every article I read on there seemed to have been written by their editor in chief. I'd been figuring that he posted most of his own stuff online and then just threw up articles from other writers on occasion. I dunno, I'll have to look on there again. Yeah after flipping through the latest issue I'm exaggerating a bit, there was more good print-exclusive stuff than I remembered off the top of my head. I think seeing if you can find a copy out in the wild at a library or a bookstore or something is good advice. It's a good magazine but whether the price is right is gonna vary person to person I think.
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Speaking of which, I did a long OP on periodicals in D&D a long time ago. Thread is still open but idle. The New Goon: On Periodicals
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Famethrowa posted:Esports players have ridiculously long days and almost never have opportunities to be at home due to travel. its already happening. a major chinese dota team (they won the dota equivalent of the super bowl a few years ago) disbanded recently and it came out that they did it because their managers werent paying them now they cant play any esport ever again because the chinese governing body for that sort of thing suspended them for violating their contract little munchkin fucked around with this message at 02:25 on May 25, 2017 |
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Much like the Youtube and initial Twitch wave, professional esports is a losing proposition as a career. Bunch of people destroying their hands 80+ hours a week to make maybe 15 or 20k a year?
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I'm glad that my nerd pursuits are posting and theater and not gaming
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Apoplexy posted:Someone please do a quick write-up of what is being talked about for those of us who haven't watched The Newsroom. little late to respond here, but from memory the last ep is the infamous sorority rape episode, where a dude lectures a girl about how we have a responsibility to believe that accused rapist is innocent because burden of proof, innocent until proven guilty or something (entirely misinterpreted ofc) it was loving disgusting
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Henchman of Santa posted:I mean the Chapo crew basically summed it up. It's an entire show about how the news should've been reported, as written by a hack who can only write one very specific type of character--the smug middle-aged liberal male who memorizes facts and constantly uses them to own people with impenetrable logic. Also every female character is a complete ditz. And it had a ghost dad in the last season, which sadly I never made it to because I was so done by the end of season 2. the whole plot concession where it ran a year or two behind so that aaron sorkin could always have the correct take was perfect. I think I checked out from boredom like half a season in. a friend of mine who loved both convinced me to try the west wing after that, and yeah, it was positively good compared to the newsroom so I watched like 6 seasons
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like if you approach west wing as a political fantasy show of sorts it's not like TERRIBLE, though I checked out pretty early on because it's just kind of the same thing over and over those lanyards that form their entire identity around it though, geez, you know that poo poo ain't real right
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cat doter posted:like if you approach west wing as a political fantasy show of sorts it's not like TERRIBLE, though I checked out pretty early on because it's just kind of the same thing over and over If you want political fantasy just watch Parks & Rec.
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Phone posted:Much like the Youtube and initial Twitch wave, professional esports is a losing proposition as a career. Bunch of people destroying their hands 80+ hours a week to make maybe 15 or 20k a year? Yeah it's not worth doing unless you can get signed by a decent team. I think the going rate is about 5k a month salary. Edit: problem is, dumb tweens see guys around their age winning hundreds of thousands of dollars and want to drop out of high-school Famethrowa fucked around with this message at 02:57 on May 25, 2017 |
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Famethrowa posted:Yeah it's not worth doing unless you can get signed by a decent team. I think the going rate is about 5k a month salary. And as contractors, too, right?
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