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From a recent Power Rangers comic:
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I mean, persistence of vision is a scientifically verified phenomenon. It really could be one person moving very fast back and forth. A real-life, continuous Picard maneuver.
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Jan 23, 2018 23:37
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what on earth
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Jan 24, 2018 00:00
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muscles like this! posted:From a recent Power Rangers comic: You are beautiful
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Jan 24, 2018 02:59
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Does this come back today?
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Feb 19, 2018 00:19
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No, it comes back tonight.
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Feb 19, 2018 00:23
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swickles posted:No, it comes back tonight.
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Feb 19, 2018 00:29
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"And for a quick recap of what happened while we were away... HOLY poo poo!"
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Feb 19, 2018 00:52
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Is it on right now? The HBOgo app isn't showing it but everything I read tells me it should be on.
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Feb 19, 2018 05:16
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John Oliver recognizing Trump lols. e: yeah it's on, i'm watching it through my Amazon channels subscription.
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Feb 19, 2018 05:18
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He kinda overemphasized ambassadors, when the true damage being done at State is the loss of career diplomats and foreign service personnel. I understand *why*, because I'd imagine more people inherently understand what an ambassador is...but kind of a weak episode for a return from hiatus.
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Feb 19, 2018 05:40
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I kind of feel like lack of closet space is the one complaint the Franks never had.
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Feb 19, 2018 09:15
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BIG HEADLINE posted:He kinda overemphasized ambassadors, when the true damage being done at State is the loss of career diplomats and foreign service personnel. I understand *why*, because I'd imagine more people inherently understand what an ambassador is...but kind of a weak episode for a return from hiatus. Then there is the Russian clip with Putin
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BIG HEADLINE posted:He kinda overemphasized ambassadors, when the true damage being done at State is the loss of career diplomats and foreign service personnel. I understand *why*, because I'd imagine more people inherently understand what an ambassador is...but kind of a weak episode for a return from hiatus. Zedd fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Feb 19, 2018 |
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Feb 19, 2018 13:30
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Zedd posted:I'm surprised he didn't go more into the whole Dutch ambassador thing, unless that has been mined for comedy by other US shows already. The dutch press really outmanoeuvred him. And it was glorious.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thIRJLsnIxY
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Feb 19, 2018 17:46
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Caught my first episode of this yesterday. It's pretty great, think I'll start watching it from now on.
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Feb 20, 2018 17:39
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McDragon posted:Caught my first episode of this yesterday. It's pretty great, think I'll start watching it from now on. Their YouTube channel has like 12 hours of really good content if you want to catch up, educate yourself, and get some yuks in.
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Feb 20, 2018 18:02
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Azhais posted:But his book was good Hearing Trevor narrate his own life was pretty great. His story of his mother is pretty much the only lucky miracle i've ever believed the story of even if its embellished (and I assume its barely embellished at all, due to medical records and police reports and the like) As for JO, good start to the season but I really wish HBO would give him 45 min a week so he can do the regular important segments while still always dedicating the necessary 10 minutes to the stupidity of us politics every week.
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Feb 20, 2018 20:15
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I wonder who decides how long the episodes are and what goes into the consideration for the final decision. It's not like HBO's shows are competing with each other for time slots, they could just make them longer with seemingly no cost, not even necessarily in production costs since they're saving the effort of having to compress the clips into a tighter length
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Feb 20, 2018 20:45
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I have no idea but I imagine there's a difference between saying "hey, in 2 weeks we need 10 extra minutes" and letting HBO work that into its schedule and saying "Uh, we went 10 minutes over" after the schedule is set.
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Feb 20, 2018 21:56
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Oh, "schedule". I forgot that HBO is still an actual channel and not just a streaming service 
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Feb 20, 2018 22:25
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For LWT it probably doesn't matter much since it airs later at night, and I don't think anything "new" airs after 11:30. But shows that run back to back it probably does matter because you don't want an audience tuning in a 9 and waiting 15 minutes for Game of Thrones to start while Ballers wraps up.
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Feb 20, 2018 23:24
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Dumb Lowtax posted:Oh, "schedule". I forgot that HBO is still an actual channel and not just a streaming service This transition is being held up by old people and that's about it.
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Feb 21, 2018 07:14
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dont even fink about it posted:This transition is being held up by old people and that's about it. "My VCR tape ran out when the show went on for an ten minutes! You should at least tell me so I could have set it to SLP mode."
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Feb 21, 2018 21:25
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Well my thinking was that its actually an issue of DVRs because like my DVR can't on its own account for when a game goes long and the show after it starts late. So it wouldn't be able to account for Last Week Tonight running long and the movie after starting late (and a bunch of subsequent shows starting late). So LWT would have to give SOME head's up so the scheduling can update. Plus I assume there's some person or some program that has to decide how many ads goes between programs and movies and adjust that, but I have no idea how that works. I guess to some people DVRs and cable are also "old people" but I also kind of thinks its "sports fans" which is why that scenario seemed so obvious to me.
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Feb 21, 2018 21:31
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The show doesn't need any extra time anyway.
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Feb 21, 2018 22:25
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The production company for LWT is under contract with HBO to deliver a specific number of episodes per year, each with a specific duration window (this window is actually pretty short, like 30 seconds or less). I'd imagine there's a bunch of stuff every week that gets cut for time reasons which we never end up seeing. Something like Game of Thrones clearly has a different contractual agreement that allows them to vary the episode length each week (though over a season, the average-minutes-per-episode doesn't really change). Given that it's been five years and they've never changed their episode length, I doubt there's any inclination from anyone involved to make it longer. "Just another 10 minutes" is increasing workloads by 30%, and that's for everyone - researchers, writers, floor staff, post-production staff, legal etc. Would it make the show 30% better? Probably not.
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Feb 21, 2018 22:57
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There have been a number of episodes which briskly passed the 30-minute mark. But I imagine those are specially-arranged, or there’s an, “optional up to X amount of extended episodes” part of the contract.
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Feb 22, 2018 02:25
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Just in time for this week's episode the lawsuit against John and LWT by rear end in a top hat coal mining CEO Bob Murray has been dismissed by the presiding judge. The judge agreed that everything said on the show was either based on factual evidence or was obviously satirical and so Murray had no case to sue.
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Feb 24, 2018 20:08
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God drat I woke up at the crack of noon today, looked at my phone, and rushed to post this in the JO thread. Well we all knew it was gonna happen anyway...
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Feb 24, 2018 22:08
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Eat poo poo, Bob.
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Feb 24, 2018 23:43
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Solvent posted:God drat I woke up at the crack of noon today, looked at my phone, and rushed to post this in the JO thread. But are you committed to doing deep knee rock squats?
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Feb 25, 2018 02:54
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Hopefully this inspires more people who get sued by him to stick it out instead of settle (although I know a lot of his targets don't have HBO's resources to back them up - it seems like they'd have pretty good grounds to countersue for legal fees though). Because eat poo poo, Bob.
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Feb 25, 2018 04:14
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Most people who get sued can easily be scared into submission by the sheer cost of missing work and getting a lawyer to understand what's going on in the courtroom. That's why people who have lawyers on a payroll are so threatening; a lawsuit is basically free for them. I hope he talks about it on the show, just to rub in the fact that he won and there's no gag order.
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Feb 25, 2018 05:47
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Good episode tonight, but the whole thing was a bit overshadowed by the opening saying they plan to do a full segment on the lawsuit. Can't wait for that.
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Feb 26, 2018 14:07
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https://twitter.com/LastWeekTonight/status/968170641605218305 the quality of the fake game show footage is just, mwah 
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Feb 26, 2018 18:22
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The president of the United States is the “Forest Gump of human misery” “Angela Merkel is an unfuckable lard-rear end” Just a couple quotes I took away from this last episode. 
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Feb 26, 2018 19:42
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Considering how many times The Bugle piled on Berlusconi, that main segment must've felt like going home.
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Feb 26, 2018 20:13
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I know its been said many many times including by Oliver himself... but God drat does he waste a ton of HBO's money. They must really like the guy.
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Feb 26, 2018 22:48
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STAC Goat posted:I know its been said many many times including by Oliver himself... but God drat does he waste a ton of HBO's money. They must really like the guy. I think HBO just throws money at all their shows, but LWT really isn't that expensive to make compared to say, Game of Thrones, so all they CAN do is waste it.
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