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AFancyQuestionMark posted:Do you not know that CSPAM exists? Not every subforum needs to be the exact same thing. Well yeah but like 3/4 of DnD is the Judean People’s Front joke but with people who think the average human being is a twitter communist
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yeah I eat rear end posted:CSPAM has too much...well, SPAM. I like reading it sometimes but you leave for like an hour and there are like 1000 unread posts. I don't know how the people who post there manage to keep up. Pretty sure every regular there is a daydrinker and/or self-medicating addict of some variety.
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Jan 8, 2019 19:09
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exquisite tea posted:Pretty sure every regular there is a daydrinker and/or self-medicating addict of some variety. How the gently caress aren't you?
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Jan 8, 2019 19:14
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I run for very long distances, which I suppose is another form of addiction.
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Jan 8, 2019 19:16
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Pretty sure it’s impossible to still be posting here in 2019 unless you’re an office worker, an addict, or ideally, both
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Jan 8, 2019 19:39
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Pretty sure it’s impossible to still be posting here in 2019 unless you’re an office worker, an addict, or ideally, both Fred: Hey Donna, do you like cats? Donna: Drippy little things, moving along, about a foot above the ground. Fred: Above? You mean ON the ground? Donna: Just dripping, behind furniture. Little spring flowers with blue in them might come up first. Fred: Yeah... Donna: What if someone stomps on them and they're all gone? Fred: It’s like you know me. You can read me.
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Jan 8, 2019 20:02
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Well yeah but like 3/4 of DnD is the Judean People’s Front joke but with people who think the average human being is a twitter communist Well, half the threads in CSPAM are even worse in that regard and the moderation there is much more lax. That's just the audience for political debate on SA, whether you like it or not. LF is dead and gone.
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Jan 8, 2019 20:23
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AFancyQuestionMark posted:Well, half the threads in CSPAM are even worse in that regard and the moderation there is much more lax. That's just the audience for political debate on SA, whether you like it or not. LF is dead and gone. It lives on in our hearts and minds. A Thousand Points of Purestrain
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Jan 8, 2019 20:29
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Of all the music genre fans, I reckon the metalheads are still the biggest tossers about it.
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Jan 9, 2019 12:02
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Black Mirror sucks total rear end, a couple people tried to push it on me forever and it's convinced me to not trust their judgement again for a long time. Episode 1 and 2 were total dogshit, rated down, done with it after that.
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Jan 9, 2019 14:52
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Black mirror is the most interesting tv show on telly in a decade, its like someone took a tv show and made it bold and philosophical and intelligent and well written but then unlike the makers of Twin Peaks they made it watchable.
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Jan 9, 2019 15:05
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CrRoMa posted:Black mirror is the most interesting tv show on telly in a decade, its like someone took a tv show and made it bold and philosophical and intelligent and well written but then unlike the makers of Twin Peaks they made it watchable. source your quotes
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Jan 9, 2019 15:07
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Gripweed posted:source your quotes It ok you can just Google "why is twin peaks such an awful show and why does anyone care about it?" and you'll get plenty material
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Jan 9, 2019 15:08
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Twin Peaks is only bad if you try to "solve the mysteries" which aren't meant to be solved.
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Jan 9, 2019 15:13
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I could never get in to black mirror because the episodes are all (i think) 100% standalone. I watched a couple episodes and didn't hate it, but I felt no motivation to watch more knowing that hte next plot would be pretty much entirely different. I need a long-term plotline across at least a season to really get me hooked on a show.
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Jan 9, 2019 15:17
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Let me tell you about a show called lost
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CrRoMa posted:Let me tell you about a show called lost i should have specified that the long-term plot also has to be interesting and the show has to be well-made.
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Jan 9, 2019 15:20
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"IT WAS DARK MAGIC!" is the answer, but if you can't just enjoy listening to David Lynch talk in all caps all the time, well that's deeply unfortunate. Also the dialogue for the mob guys in the last season is written like a Cohen film, which I also enjoy. Also, I understand not liking the first two episodes of Black Mirror, the first one didn't even exacerbate my ongoing existential crisis. The rest of the series though. Hoo boy. Black Mirror's longterm plot is that we live in it and it's coming true rapidly, technological advances' promises of a more comfortable and brighter future turned out to be like the promises of steady, well-paid and safe working conditions overseas for young women born into poverty in the official third-world. Also this, yes. v v v Tubgoat has a new favorite as of 15:26 on Jan 9, 2019 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:Twin Peaks is only bad if you try to "solve the mysteries" which aren't meant to be solved. always funny when ultra nerds don't get Lynch and get mad about it
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Jan 9, 2019 15:24
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The UK office is miles better than the American one. Actually that's not a fair comparison. The UK one might be the best show ever and the US one is stupid slapstick blown over 200 loving episodes because America is incapable of adapting anything.
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Jan 9, 2019 15:25
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Tubgoat posted:Black Mirror's longterm plot is that we live in it and it's coming true rapidly, technological advances' promises of a more comfortable and brighter future turned out to be like the promises of steady, well-paid and safe working conditions overseas for young women born into poverty in the official third-world. The problem with Black Mirror is that you can't just keep saying "thing bad" over and over again. It's like that The John Oliver Show. Every episode he goes in depth about some thing that's bad in the world. And the next week it's a different bad thing. and a different thing the next week and so on. Eventually you need to synthesize all those separate criticisms into a holistic critique of society, and present a positive alternative. If you don't, if you just keep saying "thing bad" every week, all you're doing is misery porn. It's just a way for people to go yeah the world sucks and then get on with existing in the suck world without thinking about why the world sucks or what better worlds are possible.
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Jan 9, 2019 15:30
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CrRoMa posted:The UK office is miles better than the American one. Actually that's not a fair comparison. The UK one might be the best show ever and the US one is stupid slapstick blown over 200 loving episodes because America is incapable of adapting anything. It's impossible to overstate how much better Sanford and Son is than Steptoe and Son
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Jan 9, 2019 15:32
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Yeah basically every last week tonight episode is John Oliver showing a clip, then saying "that is horrifying". Well, yeah, but would it kill you to at least make a joke about it? The long segments he does are marginally educational, but they could be much more if he stopped insisting on reminding everyone how outraged he is and how much we should be. It always feels like I'm being lectured for not inciting a revolution or whatever every time certain things we aren't allowed to talk about ITT happen.
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Jan 9, 2019 15:35
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I have no idea who John Oliver's audience is supposed to be. If you're already familiar with the topic, it feels like you're being talked down to. If you're not familiar with the topic, it's interesting and vaguely entertaining... but if you're watching John Oliver you're probably already tuned in to a lot of the things discussed on the show.
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Straight White Shark posted:I have no idea who John Oliver's audience is supposed to be. If you're already familiar with the topic, it feels like you're being talked down to. If you're not familiar with the topic, it's interesting and vaguely entertaining... but if you're watching John Oliver you're probably already tuned in to a lot of the things discussed on the show. Like most political comedy the audience is people who already agree and like having their opinions supported while also learning a little bit. Anyway, https://twitter.com/danozzi/status/989705240235692034?s=21
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Jan 9, 2019 16:34
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Gripweed posted:The problem with Black Mirror is that you can't just keep saying "thing bad" over and over again. Eventually you need to synthesize all those separate criticisms into a holistic critique of society, and present a positive alternative. I like John Oliver but that is incredibly accurate.
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Jan 9, 2019 16:53
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I've not seen any of Black mirror because I'm behind in all media ever made, but I've heard it described as the Twilight Zone but for luddites.
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Jan 9, 2019 16:58
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Aramek posted:I've not seen any of Black mirror because I'm behind in all media ever made, but I've heard it described as the Twilight Zone but for luddites. It's very hit and miss, much like the original Twilight Zone.
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Jan 9, 2019 17:09
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The Twilight Zone has the benefit of being very old and classic TV so everybody only ever remembers the good episodes.
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One of the very best Black Mirror stories (San Junipero) is also one of the few optimistic episodes so that would be good to start with, alongside the decidedly less-happy offerings like White Bear and Fifteen Million Merits.
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Jan 9, 2019 18:02
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15 Million Merits is what we're living in realtime, just with daylight and homeless people. Black Mirror doesn't NEED to spoonfeed its audience the conclusions that this poo poo is horrific, the target audience can figure it out and draw their own parallels and conclusions. John Oliver is bad because he specifically doesn't want to draw parallels or conclusions because it would offend his paymasters and therefore disrupt his revenue streams. I like his segments as a sort of book report on X topic, and I did learn something new about the topic in question back when I would watch them. Frankly, any factual reporting on ongoing societal problems is gonna feel like an admonishment for not firing the first bullet in the revolution, because this poo poo is so completely hosed and anyone with any power to actually change it even a little benefits from it entirely too much to ever consider rocking the boat, even as it guarantees their own grandchildren will eventually suffer.
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Gripweed posted:If you don't, if you just keep saying "thing bad" every week, all you're doing is misery porn. That's pretty much it, like I said I watched two episodes, then googled a little bit and went "Yeah this blows, no thanks" because I could already tell that's all it was gonna keep on as for the most part.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I could never get in to black mirror because the episodes are all (i think) 100% standalone. I watched a couple episodes and didn't hate it, but I felt no motivation to watch more knowing that hte next plot would be pretty much entirely different. I need a long-term plotline across at least a season to really get me hooked on a show. my problem with black mirror is that every episode is the same "we live in a society" bullshit but the only thing different is what concept of the internet they choose for the topic of the episode. it's like if you found some lunatic on the streets of britain whining about the internet and decided to make a show out of his ravings unpopular opinion: we don't live in a society, we all live in bubbles. literal bubbles made out of soap. oh god oh gently caress they're coming to burst my bubble, curse you sharon
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spit on my clit posted:my problem with black mirror is that every episode is the same "we live in a society" bullshit but the only thing different is what concept of the internet they choose for the topic of the episode. it's like if you found some lunatic on the streets of britain whining about the internet and decided to make a show out of his ravings what if you had to ride a stationary bike forever because of medical science you'd literally be going nowhere eternally just to keep the screen on--to watch black mirror oh god!
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Imo Oliver is better when he’s covering non-current-eventy topics that you might not know much about- like his segments on the 911 emergency system being broken, or exploitation of college athletes. When he’s just the fifteenth liberal man in a suit on TV going TRUMP BAD GAYS GOOD COPS PROBLEMATIC then he’s forgettable. Also he has the same problem that the most of the whole Daily Show cohort (Stuart, Colbert, Hodgman, Bee, etc) where even though I agree with them most of the time they come off as kind of unrelateable and privileged. Also, I got like an hour into the new Black Mirror movie before realizing it was a CYOA. But that concept is really fun and I hope netflix runs with it.
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It should be more acceptable/encouraged to completely disconnect from the internet once in a while. In reality, if you tell someone you are taking an internet break for a couple weeks or so, people freak out and assume you are going to off yourself or are somehow in danger or something and threaten to call the cops if you don't check in, or at least take it super personally. It's hard to deal with stressful things if you have no escape to go relax and think things through. Just let people have their space sometimes. They will be fine if you don't check in with them every 24 hours, honestly.
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Really? Because when I have that conversation with people they just nod in understanding and tel me about the one they took/how they’re thinking about taking one
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christmas boots posted:Really? Because when I have that conversation with people they just nod in understanding and tel me about the one they took/how they’re thinking about taking one I guess I just have a lot more codependent people in my life than normal.
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Here's a real doozy. I believe that advanced statistics are one of the worst things to ever happen to baseball, and it's been worse for the game's popularity than the 1994 players' strike. Specifically, I think the unintended consequences of analytics are what's bad- the worthy goal of understanding players better has led to longer games, screwing free agents out of money due to the prime years of a baseball player skewing younger (and young players are stuck to the team that drafted and developed them until they're past their early prime years), and making discussion of baseball feel like you've wandered into a college statistics course. gently caress Billy Beane and gently caress Moneyball for opening Pandora's Box. get that OUT of my face has a new favorite as of 00:37 on Jan 10, 2019 |
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