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MonsieurChoc posted:I liked Babylon 5. Hell yeah, Babylon 5 rules.
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The good thing about Star Trek is that it is goofy and would never try to shy away from being goofy. What makes nu trek bad is that they want to be cool and edgy so badly so they add in violence and swearing and drugs and stuff like that but all it does is make them look like they aren’t comfortable with writing goofy Star Trek. Star Trek is loser optimistic poo poo for nerds. You have to accept it or don’t make Star Trek.
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Nov 15, 2020 20:09
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This episode was really boring. The "Will read a book" episodes always are.
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Nov 15, 2020 20:12
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReOw_2f4lpY&t=15s
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Nov 15, 2020 20:51
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babylon 5 owns. its completely bizarre that it even got made. such a loving weird project
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Nov 15, 2020 21:02
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The_Rob posted:The good thing about Star Trek is that it is goofy and would never try to shy away from being goofy. What makes nu trek bad is that they want to be cool and edgy so badly so they add in violence and swearing and drugs and stuff like that but all it does is make them look like they aren’t comfortable with writing goofy Star Trek. Star Trek is loser optimistic poo poo for nerds. You have to accept it or don’t make Star Trek. effort post time... I've had to make a moderate re-evaluation of Star Trek recently. Yes, it was inherently optimistic, and watching it during the formative years of your youth could turn you into an idealist who follows a moral code (much like the Star Wars original trilogy). Adam Curtis in Hypernormalization states that in the late 90's, popular imagination had completely lost hope for an optimistic future, thus all the pre-9/11 disaster movies showing our society crumbling. However, Star Trek is an obvious lone exception to this. It is undeniably optimistic. Here's the bad part though - I grew up watching Star Trek always assuming that obviously, the Federation is the United States. I applied the Prime Directive that the Federation used to obviously also be the moral principle the United States used in our foreign policy. Pretty naive assumption I know but given all the other propaganda efforts about the US being a peaceful nation only interdicting in foreign affairs to protect oppressed peoples and defend democracy I can see how a 10-14 year old watching Star Trek would make the assumption that the US is in fact always the 'good guy'. So, unless you educated yourself with sources other than Star Trek, you might be more susceptible to swallow the idea about US foreign interventions being always benign; or turn a blind eye to them. I've been re-watching Star Trek on netflix, and just recently got to the 'Time's Arrow' episode, which features bizarre time travel stuff as an excuse to get the crew into the 19th century United States, where Data meets Mark Twain and Jack London. Only because of reading I've recently done in my late 30's now do I know that Mark Twain became a very potent anti-imperialist, and Jack London was a socialist. Time's Arrow however focuses more on their Americana appeal - Jack London admires Data as a kind of bootstraps inventor and tries to get in on a rags-to-riches grift, and the Twain discussion revolves around his more silly works than his hard hitting anti-imperalist and socialy critical writings. Both Jack London and Twain could be seen by Federation people as contributors to the moral and philosophical foundation of the utopian Federation society. In the pages of Twain's 'To the Person Sitting in Darkness' is a moral imperative not far off from the Prime Directive. But the writing of the episode dwells more on the kinda homespun Americana nature of the two characters rather than their strong leftist leanings. Twain and London were moral prophets who judged their society and were ahead of their time. Some kind of slight acknowledgment of this would have been nice rather than pastiche. All in all though, TNG is a much better thing for a preteen to watch than say, Rogue One, the new SW trilogy, or New Trek. Which are straight up horrible.
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Nov 15, 2020 21:13
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PostNouveau posted:This episode was really boring. The "Will read a book" episodes always are. It was good, more people need to know that HW killed JFK
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Nov 15, 2020 21:28
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Groovelord Neato posted:Star Dreck. star blecch
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Nov 15, 2020 21:34
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I'm not full blown "all prestige tv is bad" like Matt but Star Trek Disco is grade-a Bad Prestige TV
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Nov 15, 2020 21:52
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Don;'t they name drop Elon Musk as a genius from the past in one episode?
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Nov 15, 2020 21:53
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Groovelord Neato posted:Don;'t they name drop Elon Musk as a genius from the past in one episode? Yes, but by all accounts musk actually straight up paid CBS to name drop him, which is extremely lol
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Nov 15, 2020 21:59
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yeah and it's by Lorca who is a huge rear end in a top hat, even by mirror universe standards lol
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Nov 15, 2020 23:21
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I Before E posted:Hell yeah, Babylon 5 rules. I’m gonna be rewatching it for like the 5th time within the next year. Just a brilliant show.
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Nov 15, 2020 23:26
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Yes, but by all accounts musk actually straight up paid CBS to name drop him, which is extremely lol Why are all billionaires so pathetic. Why aren't they building volcano lairs and trying to steal the moon instead of this lame poo poo
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Nov 15, 2020 23:39
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Crane Fist posted:Why are all billionaires so pathetic. Why aren't they building volcano lairs and trying to steal the moon instead of this lame poo poo How many, if any, human interactions does a billionaire have that are not transactional in nature? Even among their own class, it's sharks among sharks. That has to break a person, to exist in a state of such profound alienation.
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Nov 15, 2020 23:57
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Groovelord Neato posted:Don;'t they name drop Elon Musk as a genius from the past in one episode? yeah, and it becomes funny when you later find out that the guy who mentions him is from the mirror universe ruled by sadistic imperialist monsters, of which he is one
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Nov 16, 2020 00:02
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Crane Fist posted:Why are all billionaires so pathetic. Why aren't they building volcano lairs and trying to steal the moon instead of this lame poo poo Elon Musk is more pathetic than most. I got blocked by him pretty quickly and 1. you have like a billion followers how did you notice my tweet calling you out and 2. you have six kids and unlimited money why are you living on twitter.
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Nov 16, 2020 00:10
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Crane Fist posted:Why are all billionaires so pathetic. Why aren't they building volcano lairs and trying to steal the moon instead of this lame poo poo there's this dogshit show Next on Fox that's just some dumbass Black Mirror 'what if Siri was evil' lazy stuff about how what if Steve Jobs was an epic snark master, but the first episode begins with a quote by Musk in text and he's instantly namedropped as an example of another tech genius on the level of Not-Jobs. I'm positive he had to pay for that too because everyone else is fictional, they even have a fake Boston Dynamics and poo poo.
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Nov 16, 2020 00:10
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i say swears online posted:"mister otis never called me kike" -- a ferengi
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Nov 16, 2020 00:43
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idk if that was the joke you were already making tbh
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Nov 16, 2020 00:46
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Groovelord Neato posted:Elon Musk is more pathetic than most. I got blocked by him pretty quickly and 1. you have like a billion followers how did you notice my tweet calling you out and 2. you have six kids and unlimited money why are you living on twitter. he name searches or has someone doing it for him. elon is probably paying someone $50000 a year to sift his mentions and report any negative attention.
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Nov 16, 2020 00:54
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uber_stoat posted:he name searches or has someone doing it for him. elon is probably paying someone $50000 a year to sift his mentions and report any negative attention. Yeah he blocked me for pointing out he'd given equally to Democrats and Republicans despite climate change being his "thing" (it was right after it had been reported) and then someone reported my tweet where I made fun of him and I got a week timeout so him paying someone to do it makes sense. It's funnier thinking I got him that mad though.
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Nov 16, 2020 01:03
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Elon Musk: "I invented this rail system that can transport like 4 people at 100 mph' Japanese bullet train manufacturers: "......"
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Nov 16, 2020 01:23
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In the first episode of Voyager a ferengi tries to scam a young crew member by selling him jewels for inflated prices lol
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Nov 16, 2020 02:12
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in summary all star trek rocks and it is better than pretty much every franchise, despite there being so much of it. adjourned https://twitter.com/virgiltexas/status/1328152864162799616
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Nov 16, 2020 02:59
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:In the first episode of Voyager a ferengi tries to scam a young crew member by selling him jewels for inflated prices lol
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Nov 16, 2020 03:25
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FlamingLiberal posted:Yes that was Quark Quark is known for his unscrupulous business dealings.
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Nov 16, 2020 05:06
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Crane Fist posted:Why are all billionaires so pathetic. Why aren't they building volcano lairs and trying to steal the moon instead of this lame poo poo Musk's entire value depends on his reputation. People aren't buying teslas because 80k for a car that bursts into flames is a good deal, they're buying teslas because epic science man makes them. You trick people into thinking you're epic science man the same way you trick people into eating mcdonalds. Get on tv and trick people into thinking they're not watching a commercial. He was on an episode of big bang theory as well. His scene consisted of the other characters talking about how cool and smart he was, same energy as those Ben Garrison cartoons where's it's blatantly obvious the subject had them commissioned.
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Nov 16, 2020 05:41
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I eat at McDonald's because of wafting french fry aromas
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Nov 16, 2020 05:45
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NienNunb posted:I'm not full blown "all prestige tv is bad" like Matt but Star Trek Disco is grade-a Bad Prestige TV isn't it on cbs? it's not really prestige tv
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Nov 16, 2020 06:22
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The Muppets On PCP posted:isn't it on cbs? it's not really prestige tv It acts like a prestige TV version of Trek and it's miserable as a result. Picard was arguably even worse, what a disappointment
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Nov 16, 2020 06:47
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picard was some of the most laughably bad television I have ever seen, and I watch anime
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Nov 16, 2020 06:56
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https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1328200072987893762?s=21 The president is trying his damnedest to invalidate the election he lost. CTH has royally hosed up by minimalizing Trump’s in-progress coup attempt by arguing how he’s not ~really~ a fascist because he hasn’t pulled it off yet, ergo their Twitter opinions are totally correct. The Brand is being contrarian, I get it, but there’s a modicum of responsibility towards acknowledging this is a well and truly hosed up political event and they aren’t meeting it.
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Nov 16, 2020 10:54
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MadJackal posted:Lol, it's been a while since I've heard a political prediction whiff so hard so quickly than today's "None of this Ukraine stuff matters, it'll be forgotten in a week."
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Nov 16, 2020 11:01
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And that was the basis of an impeachment, thank you for doing a deep dive on my comments to indirectly defend your fave podcast.
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Nov 16, 2020 11:04
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like I know he partially tweeted his way to the presidency but he still needed the structural power of the Republican machine. i don't think enough of them are behind him to make his tweets a reality this time. crepeface fucked around with this message at 11:11 on Nov 16, 2020 |
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Nov 16, 2020 11:05
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An impeachment that deliberately did nothing.
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Nov 16, 2020 11:06
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MadJackal posted:https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1328200072987893762?s=21 lol
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Nov 16, 2020 11:30
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MadJackal posted:https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1328200072987893762?s=21 buddy it's been well and truly hosed up political events for going on 4 years now, if we're talking about "norms" and "decorum". what the gently caress do you think getting all riled up about this bullshit is going to do? pass some kind of magic threshold of neurosis where things start getting better? besides, fascist or not, it's pretty obvious that his whining about foul play has, at best, lukewarm support from the republican party, and virtually no support from the institutions of power, i.e. the deep state. they've gotten what they want from him, gratifying his ego further is not really in their interest, and they know it.
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gfarrell80 posted:This is also why I hated Rogue One. They took a trilogy about maintaining your humanity and moral purity to defeat evil, and in Rogue One turned the rebels into standard Neoconservatives doing field assassinations, allying with extremists, torture is no big thing, suicide missions, shoot the bad guy in the back, use killer robots on your own team... egh. Rogue One is the only good Disney Star Wars film. Love me some revolutionary martyrdom. Plus it was even more explicit about the Rebel Alliance= Vietcong= good guys motif Lucas was trying to fit into A New Hope.
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