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Aesop Poprock posted:Thin mints fuckin suck!!! I don't remember selling anything when I was a boy scout. I remember widdling things out of bars of soap and struggling to figure out how to tie about a billion different types of knots.
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Candy: When I was a kid I read the Narnia books and I remember a section where one of the characters raves about Turkish Delight. I remember thinking it must be some sort of excellent candy until I got the chance to try some. I mean the stuff must have some popularity but it's not for me. TV: I prefer shorter seasons because I prefer a streamlined story, but I've really enjoyed shows like Star Trek, Stargate, and Law & Order, which all have long seasons. My hot take is that the shows should include something in the description to indicate if it's a story or a filler episode. Like the first time through you can watch the whole show, but if you want to watch it again later you could watch the story version by only watching those episodes. They probably wouldn't want to do this because who wants to make a show and then label an episode with "doesn't matter" but really they do it already anyway by making the filler episodes.
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The best episodes of X-Files are the filler episodes though. The ones that push the story forward are boring.
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BuddyChrist posted:Candy: When I was a kid I read the Narnia books and I remember a section where one of the characters raves about Turkish Delight. I remember thinking it must be some sort of excellent candy until I got the chance to try some. I mean the stuff must have some popularity but it's not for me. Turkish delight isn't meant to be eaten Americanly. Just a piece with coffee is what it's best suited for.
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Mu Zeta posted:The best episodes of X-Files are the filler episodes though. The ones that push the story forward are boring. I agree. I mean, I don't recall hating the story episodes, but they sure as hell aren't the ones I'm excited for upon rewatching. Were any of them even IN the FX viewers' choice Thanksgiving marathons? I really wish that were still a thing. (Yes, I am aware that modern technology allows me to simulate the experience but it isn't the same.) e: There's a PHUO. Sometimes I miss watching regular TV. The commercials, the lack of choice. Having a million options of what to watch at any given moment is great but also occasionally paralyzing and it doesn't have the same vibe as picking the least bad option and vegging out. burial has a new favorite as of 19:16 on Sep 12, 2017 |
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Sep 12, 2017 19:13
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After six years of not having regular TV, I've lost my tolerance for commercials. They piss me off. I actually avoid the break room at work that has a TV in it so that I don't have to hear them.
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BuddyChrist posted:Candy: When I was a kid I read the Narnia books and I remember a section where one of the characters raves about Turkish Delight. I remember thinking it must be some sort of excellent candy until I got the chance to try some. I mean the stuff must have some popularity but it's not for me. Which L&O episodes are story and which are filler?
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fruit on the bottom posted:Which L&O episodes are story and which are filler? The ones where one of the main characters' lives intrude on the plot are story. Everything else is filler. Just guessing, but that makes sense to me.
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BuddyChrist posted:Candy: When I was a kid I read the Narnia books and I remember a section where one of the characters raves about Turkish Delight. I remember thinking it must be some sort of excellent candy until I got the chance to try some. I mean the stuff must have some popularity but it's not for me. Mu Zeta posted:The best episodes of X-Files are the filler episodes though. The ones that push the story forward are boring. lemon-lyme disease posted:Sometimes I miss watching regular TV. The commercials, the lack of choice. Having a million options of what to watch at any given moment is great but also occasionally paralyzing and it doesn't have the same vibe as picking the least bad option and vegging out. When I think back to how TV used to be it seems crazy. If you were busy when the show was on or if something came up that was it. You missed it. I remember waiting what seemed like years to see one episode of the Simpsons because my family was doing something else the day it was on, and even with that show being rerun six days a week it still took ages to cycle back through to that episode - and then I missed it again and had to wait even longer. And it always seemed like you'd see the same few episodes over and over and other episodes would just never be on. And if you didn't hear about a show when it first started or if you didn't get into it until later, mostly you just missed out on the early episodes. Sometimes the whole show.
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I guess I wasn't as clear as I should have been. Possibly because I can't be. Let me try again! Yes, streaming/on demand is awesome when I want to watch a particular show all the way through or review a specific episode. I am very for this and don't want it to go away. However, there's something different that I miss that I will try and fail to describe. Maybe you're bored or overwhelmed or, or, or? and you just want to sit there and have meaningless (but tolerable) input without having to make a choice. Ideally, it's the emotional equivalent of eating unchallenging comfort food and tonguing a nagging gum-wound you just can't leave alone because it feels good AND hurts rolled into one. Sure, you've seen the episode forty times. Yes, maybe you hit the button that makes it go back to that other channel during the commercials or a boring bit. Maybe you miss twenty minutes because you were posting on the forums. It doesn't matter. You've seen it. You know it. Nothing can hurt you there. You can somewhat simulate this by putting a show on netflix you're already intimately acquainted with/your parents watched when you were a kid, but it isn't quite the same. "gently caress, there's nothing good on and I feel like poo poo. Whatever. This show about tiny boats it is!" is a feeling I'm uniquely nostalgic for is all.
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That should be a feature. Imagine if Hulu let you just hit a "I'm feeling lucky" button and it played something random.
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Mu Zeta posted:That should be a feature. Imagine if Hulu let you just hit a "I'm feeling lucky" button and it played something random. I would be all for this and it may be as close as we could come to what I'm taking about. Thank-you! e: An element I neglected is the whole "I haven't seen this in forever/keep missing it!" thing where you value watching something more because you're never around at the right moment, or you only caught the last third that one time, but it seemed great. The surprise is fun. The other day Temple of Doom was on Sling. I'd never go "GOTTA WATCH THAT" but it was a delight that it just happened to be there when I had nothing better to do. burial has a new favorite as of 08:02 on Sep 13, 2017 |
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Sep 13, 2017 07:54
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lemon-lyme disease posted:I would be all for this and it may be as close as we could come to what I'm taking about. Thank-you! I think the true feeling is "I gotta watch it now or I probably won't be able to in a long while". Just like concerts for your favorite band it feels a little more urgent and real than if you can watch it when you want to while browsing reddit on the other monitor or phone. I personally watch way less series than I used to despite the fact that I can watch as much of it as I want now and exactly what I want. As for filler episodes in shows like Star Trek, Buffy etc. of course they are bound to be the best since true creativity shines out more when it's based on a series where most of the plot is improvised for the season instead of trying to tell one good tale. No one wrote Star Trek or Stargate with a specific ending and they probably do not fit those series at all. However, shows like Walking Dead that had loads of source material did not have any excuse to add loads of padding, most of it in the second season! Midig has a new favorite as of 20:54 on Sep 13, 2017 |
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And with Star Trek they would sometimes just accept random scripts from some guy and then turn it into an episode. I think that's how Ronald D. Moore got his start. He just wrote an episode and mailed it in and hoped he would get hired. They should do that on The Walking Dead.
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I see absolutely nothing wrong with "trans racialism". Race isnt biologically real and if you can afford the cosmetic surgery to make yourself look black, white, asian, whatever, go ahead and do it.
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Mu Zeta posted:That should be a feature. Imagine if Hulu let you just hit a "I'm feeling lucky" button and it played something random. This could be a fun feature on streaming services if they stopped padding their libraries with unwatchable trash just so they can say "over _____ movies!" etc. You would have to be REALLY lucky to get something good on the first try.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:This could be a fun feature on streaming services if they stopped padding their libraries with unwatchable trash just so they can say "over _____ movies!" etc. You would have to be REALLY lucky to get something good on the first try. Add a veto option and a way to make it choose from things it thinks you might like, things you've already seen, or straight up totally random. You still might not get anything good but it might sort itself out after a bit?
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lemon-lyme disease posted:Add a veto option and a way to make it choose from things it thinks you might like, things you've already seen, or straight up totally random. You still might not get anything good but it might sort itself out after a bit? Honestly the more I think about it the less important that thing becomes as long as it is automatic. Having to choose when I don't know what to watch takes a lot of the enjoyment out for me. A lot of the times I just use it as mostly background noise anyway, but I like it more if I don't have to pick the specific background noise all the time, if that makes any sense.
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When it comes it releasing the newest model of the iPhone, Apple honestly reminds me of textbook companies. "We made the screen a little bigger and made it so that your face can unlock your phone! Buy now! $1000!". You're buying a model that will be "updated" for maybe a year - if that - until they come up with some new small thing to upgrade, which will naturally require you to shell out another cool grand (because God forbid you're left without the latest model). I'm beginning to understand why a lot of the public is souring on Apple (no pun intended).
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I use Universal Media Server to stream stuff to my PS3 and man oh man, I've lost count of the number of times I've wished it just had a "random select" feature. Like, "pick one file at random from these specific folders" and you've got yourself a night of TV with all the choice paralysis stripped out.
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lemon-lyme disease posted:Add a veto option and a way to make it choose from things it thinks you might like, things you've already seen, or straight up totally random. You still might not get anything good but it might sort itself out after a bit? Netflix tested this feature years ago, what happened to that? I remember it recommending that my partner at the time and I watch the old Dinosaurs sitcom and it being terribly unfunny 20+ years later.
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I wish they'd just gimme a random pick from my top recommendations and a countdown time in which I can veto it and have it reroll.
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Dross posted:Netflix tested this feature years ago, what happened to that? I remember it recommending that my partner at the time and I watch the old Dinosaurs sitcom and it being terribly unfunny 20+ years later. You take that back dinosaurs owns. I like the part with the baby.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Having to choose when I don't know what to watch takes a lot of the enjoyment out for me. A lot of the times I just use it as mostly background noise anyway, but I like it more if I don't have to pick the specific background noise all the time, if that makes any sense. It makes perfect sense. I'm glad somebody was able to put this in a way that doesn't sound insane, because based on my posts last night, that was never going to be me. Dross posted:Netflix tested this feature years ago, what happened to that? I remember it recommending that my partner at the time and I watch the old Dinosaurs sitcom and it being terribly unfunny 20+ years later. I must have missed that phase. I'm guessing nobody used it, which would be sad. Also, I don't know if Dinosaurs was ever funny. Especially the baby. (Sorry, y.i.e.a.) Loved watching it as a kid though - at least partially because we didn't get that channel so it was a special "at grandma's house" thing.
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lemon-lyme disease posted:It makes perfect sense. I'm glad somebody was able to put this in a way that doesn't sound insane, because based on my posts last night, that was never going to be me. What? No you're mistaken you love the baby. You gotta.
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lemon-lyme disease posted:It makes perfect sense. I'm glad somebody was able to put this in a way that doesn't sound insane, because based on my posts last night, that was never going to be me. Where did you live that you didn't have a local affiliate broadcasting ABC over the air?
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Dross posted:Where did you live that you didn't have a local affiliate broadcasting ABC over the air? Really close to the border of Canada in hyper-rural northern NY. Our antenna only picked a few stations and most of them were local/Canadian. CJOH (or something) was one of them but I was too young to have a good sense of what was on what channel. Grandparents had a dish. It seemed so cool. fruit on the bottom posted:What? No you're mistaken you love the baby. You gotta. NO I DON'T AND IT WILL BE A SPECIAL TUNNEL AND IT WILL GO TO THE CENTRE OF THE MOON.
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Irony posting is overrated, played out, and dull.
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Spinster posted:Irony posting is overrated, played out, and dull. To be fair, you can say this about like 99% of posts on this entire forum.
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Metaposting is extremely dated, but pataposting is the new poo poo. Until now. Now it's loving lame.
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Solice Kirsk posted:To be fair, you can say this about like 99% of posts on this entire forum. I think 20% are either funny or interesting, and in some threads it's 50% for a while. However, I'm new and starved for human contact. I just hate not having a CLUE who anyone really is
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Spinster posted:I think 20% are either funny or interesting, and in some threads it's 50% for a while. However, I'm new and starved for human contact. I just hate not having a CLUE who anyone really is I'm Pastry of the Year
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And I'm the illustrious Solice Kirsk. Known for my terrible opinions, terrible puns, and terrible early 2000's internet humor.
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Spinster posted:I think 20% are either funny or interesting, and in some threads it's 50% for a while. However, I'm new and starved for human contact. I just hate not having a CLUE who anyone really is I've had an account for a very long time, but only recently took it into my head to actually post. Nobody knows me. My strategy is as follows: Just don't be some of those other people where everybody's all "Oh god, shut up [insert poster name here]." It was working great until just now.
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Spinster posted:I just hate not having a CLUE who anyone really is Aren't we all many things at all times? A kernel of truth only glimpsed by observing the lies surrounding it? Here's a thought though: what if there is no center; what if the lies are all there is.
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Spinster posted:I think 20% are either funny or interesting, and in some threads it's 50% for a while. However, I'm new and starved for human contact. I just hate not having a CLUE who anyone really is Howdy. Here and elsewhere, a person is as a person does. Knowing what they've done is not as important as seeing what they're doing.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Turkish delight isn't meant to be eaten Americanly. Just a piece with coffee is what it's best suited for. When I was a kid reading those books they made it sound totally delicious but somehow my brain took Turkish to mean like turkey meat like it was some sort of rolled up lunch meat or something. I'm not sure how I decided that and still though it sounded good cause I'm pretty sure I knew it was related to candy
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The mall's mongolian place sucks rear end and has little to no sauces compared to a grillhouse across the street from my local library. Their food is also dry and cheap as poo poo.
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Aesop Poprock posted:When I was a kid reading those books they made it sound totally delicious but somehow my brain took Turkish to mean like turkey meat like it was some sort of rolled up lunch meat or something. I'm not sure how I decided that and still though it sounded good cause I'm pretty sure I knew it was related to candy Same here - I thought it was a cube of roast turkey coated in white chocolate (and I have no idea why I thought this, except maybe as a carry-over from all the snow imagery?), and I thought it sounded fantastic. Then again this was around the same time I ate an entire box of dog treats as an experiment so who knows
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