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Tiggum posted:The Witcher TV show is bad. this is basically most tv shows, especially in the netflix era, i agree wholeheartedly about the Witcher but what you say could equally apply to Cowboy Bebop or Westworld or or Wandavision - they are all absolutely fine things to kill an hour if you just want to switch your brain off and have something play out in front of you but yeah, totally unremarkable What I will say is Squid Game managed to be much better than most recent tv shows I've watched, partly due to the foreign mystique, partly due to the premise and also partly because it only had 10 episodes I don't want to just insult or belittle people who enjoy tv shows but really, is sitting watching 160 episodes of it's always sunny or 200 episodes of the godawful american version of the office really the most entertaining thing you'll do that day? reeeeeeeeally
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oh yeah, the Witcher tv show was really especially medicore, just the kind of tv show I watch and within about 20 minutes of the first episode I know I don't need to see anymore because I'm just not that bored I'm sure there are people out there who earnestly sat down and watched every episode and really really enjoyed them so well done, gold star, 10/10, well done you made 20 hours of your life pass watching a bunch of actors, super duper, sounds a great way to kill the time between you being born and dying
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I also was neglected because my parents watched too much television.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:this is basically most tv shows, especially in the netflix era, i agree wholeheartedly about the Witcher but what you say could equally apply to Cowboy Bebop or Westworld or or Wandavision - they are all absolutely fine things to kill an hour if you just want to switch your brain off and have something play out in front of you but yeah, totally unremarkable JollyBoyJohn posted:I don't want to just insult or belittle people who enjoy tv shows but really, is sitting watching 160 episodes of it's always sunny or 200 episodes of the godawful american version of the office really the most entertaining thing you'll do that day? reeeeeeeeally I would not sit down and watch 160 episodes of Always Sunny though. That is too long to spend watching television in a single sitting.
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I stopped watching always sunny when it really started sucking in season ten, now it's on like 15
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hawowanlawow posted:I stopped watching always sunny when it really started sucking in season ten, now it's on like 15 I'm only up to season four.
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Tiggum posted:I'm only up to season four. the cracks don't start showing until season 8, maybe a couple eps in 7
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scrubs was the last 22 minute long sitcom i remember enjoying but also i was spending a lot of my time skiving off uni and getting stoned so thats probably part of it i'm sure i got bored of it way before the 200th episode or whereever they are now though most tv shows are probably fine if you have no money and lots of free time, i guess if i was unemployed and my games pc broke and all my books were burned in a fire and all i had to do all day was watch brooklyn 99 it'd be better than just going to sleep?
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The now-standard streaming TV format of eight to ten hour long movies broken up into eight to ten episode seasons has a remarkable track record for producing absolutely godawful entertainment. The entire point of the binge format is that most of those shows could not hold an audience week to week.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:oh yeah, the Witcher tv show was really especially medicore, just the kind of tv show I watch and within about 20 minutes of the first episode I know I don't need to see anymore because I'm just not that bored Yeah, people ought to spend their precious time between now and their death posting mildly heterodox opinions instead
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thetoughestbean posted:Yeah, people ought to spend their precious time between now and their death posting mildly heterodox opinions instead way more fun than whatevers on hbo at 8pm
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JollyBoyJohn posted:way more fun than whatevers on hbo at 8pm you're so enlightened and interesting
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Captain Monkey posted:you're so enlightened and interesting so is twitch.tv JollyBoyJohn has a new favorite as of 15:42 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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Powered Descent posted:Having 10(10100) of anything, let alone humans, is pretty impressive considering there are only 1080 or so particles in the entire universe... Good catch! He lists the exact figures and calculations but the shorthand is essentially: - Even at exponential growth rates we have basically forever before our solar system can be considered "cramped" - Very big number
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PhantomOfTheCopier posted:These are fun pages. Takes about three seconds to scroll past. There are quite a few very popular opinions being shared that happen to be at odds with other popular opinions focusing on different aspects of the same problem. its a gas leak. we all have gas leaks. https://twitter.com/poisonjr/status/1494800897628590092 PhantomOfTheCopier posted:Do you see the news? Have you heard of sports? Do you know what constant blathering about violent games floods every corner everywhere online? Have you kept track of the shootings, muggings, rapes, and car accidents? Do you know that one year ago a large crowd set up gallows to hang US senators and representatives? lol owned JollyBoyJohn posted:I don't want to just insult or belittle people who enjoy tv shows but really, is sitting watching 160 episodes of Babylon 5 really the most entertaining thing you'll do that day? reeeeeeeeally Yes.
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Babylon 5 is an anime, because they ran out of mkney and did a bunch of really boring no-action no-budget episodes. Battlesbridge Galactica is an anime too.
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bablyon 5 and firefly and stargate fans are all very enthusiastic about their tv series that stretch into 300 hour territory, idgi
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JollyBoyJohn posted:bablyon 5 and firefly and stargate fans are all very enthusiastic about their tv series that stretch into 300 hour territory, idgi Fanatics are enthusiastic?!?!!?!?!? I'd probably watch Stargåte if it was on TV, but it isn't.
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I like Firefly because it’s only one season long and it’s fairly entertaining through that season. If it had kept going I bet it would have been terrible. Like the movie was.
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I like Your Highness, it's funny and a good parody
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Don't get me wrong, I'll do more interesting things like lockpicking, programming, music making, etc. My life is rich in diversity of activities But literally nothing helps me actually relax better than watching well written science fiction and not have to deal with like, actual problems, because my job is dealing with actual problems
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I like shows that have actually good main characters doing things earnestly Pretty hard to find now in the age of post-whatever and deconstructed everything
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I probably would do a lot of exercise, and I used to, but my body 99% of the time feels like my bones are exhausted so going into the real world and experiencing it, isn't too much of an option for me until that is fixed.
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alexandriao posted:But literally nothing helps me actually relax better than watching well written science fiction and not have to deal with like, actual problems, because my job is dealing with actual problems I hadn't really thought of these things in those terms before - I guess I've just never saw watching a tv show as being relaxing
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alexandriao posted:Don't get me wrong, I'll do more interesting things like lockpicking, programming, music making, etc. basically this Or since going back to grad school, I'll put tv on in the background while I write and use it to zone out for a moment here and there with vaguely entertaining white noise.
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Yeah the relaxing bit is being able to rest your body in a comfortable place, and being able to rest your mind and not think directly about things for a little while -- like I can just follow the events that are happening and emotionally engage with something without having to think about approaches to solving things. Even if I do start using my brain and thinking about the story, it's still thinking about something and thinking in a way, that isn't related to how I think for work, or for any of the skills I am cultivating, that take actual energy. Because being able to relax and rest is about recovering your energy levels
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Gaius Marius posted:People die because they lose an hour of sleep is the dumbest poo poo I've seen today. If you are swerving into traffic from lack of sleep an hour don't gonna help you yeah if someone gets dramatic about daylight savings time i just tune them out. have these people never had an 8 hour jetlag or something?
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I think we should end springing forward but keep falling back Every Halloween we gain an hour of precious sleep We'll have awesome generational divides where parents remember going to school at night and complain that this generation is coddled going to school in the day, then vice versa
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Southland Tales is the greatest movie ever made
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All my free time is pretty much spent staring at the tv rewatching the same 4 series and 20 movies repeatedly because I don’t like “to adult”
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oldpainless posted:All my free time is pretty much spent staring at the tv rewatching the same 4 series and 20 movies repeatedly because I don’t like “to adult” What are the movies?
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Gripweed posted:What are the movies? 2009 Sherlock Holmes Avengers Infinity War The Shawshank Redemption Predator Hot fuzz Terminator 2 Gravity Blade Runner 2049 Evil Dead 2 Army of Darkness 1995 Judge Dredd 2011 Judge Dredd Clue Ong Bak 2 Mad Max Fury Road Jurassic Park Desperado For a Few Dollars More The Cable Guy Event Horizon
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There's a truly shameful lack of Wrath of Khan on that list.
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That's not a bad list, but you should add Southland Tales
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oldpainless posted:2009 Sherlock Holmes I can't help but feel this is some weird and subtle trolling, but hosed if I can see the angle.
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The insistence that genetic modification of plants and animals is the same as selective breeding does more harm than good. It sounds like pedantic excuses. We should lean into our shepherding and dominance over the natural order.
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People who complain about "doom[whatever]" and "doomers" are going to get us all killed in the near future.
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Manager Hoyden posted:Shut up doomer When does having a realistic assessment of things become doom.
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