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oscarthewilde posted:but honestly. more people in cspam should read Louis and it’s a shame he isn’t particularly well known. i read the end of eddy and i think who killed my father, the 1st of which was amazing that NYT op ed he wrote about his dad voting for le pen was really great too def has potential for something bigger + english language crossover i think
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loquacius posted:Man part of me thinks it's too bad he's not around to be a counterbalance to the whole Rowling thing, but part of me is glad he never had to see a discourse where people call him an MRA and whatnot for being an outspoken anti-TERF There was a twitter row not too long ago where transphobes were trying to claim him, some idiot wrote an op-ed about how we can't know how he would have felt about the trans stuff nowadays, despite all evidence. Just the usual whitewashing/erasing of inconvenient history for bigots, and his daughter and many, many trans/queer fans came out to say otherwise.
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Aug 15, 2022 23:43
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Man, the flashback scene in the first season of Better Call Saul where Jimmy tells Chuck he passed the bar is excruciating
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uber_stoat posted:https://twitter.com/ReelBrew/status/1559204953259999232?s=20&t=xE3yTO_ar-LuZx4IeyDujw The bit where they watch the hosed up video feed and he just deadpans "We're leaving" is one of the most cathartic reactions in horror films abso-loving-lutely you immediately abandon your mission the moment you see that poo poo, gently caress duty, gently caress money
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Aug 16, 2022 02:28
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i got ice cream one night and the stoner-y guy scooping it told me he was re dubbing event horizon to make it all about weed i need that edit bro
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Aug 16, 2022 02:36
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Fuckin cable man half the finale of bcs is commercials, a single 2 min scene then bam back to ads Its an hour and a half block but I bet its 45 min of actual show
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Aug 16, 2022 02:44
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:Man, the flashback scene in the first season of Better Call Saul where Jimmy tells Chuck he passed the bar is excruciating Chuck Was Right
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Aug 16, 2022 03:00
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1stGear posted:Chuck Was Right mods i'm plowing through the back half of the last season right now. everything in black and white rules god the nacho's dad scene was so sad
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Aug 16, 2022 03:08
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Xaris posted:threading the needle between what's bad by todays standards, should have been bad then, and the implications is tricky because cultural empathy does change. but also like yes most people in 1950s were raging racists too so it doesn't mean like Song of the South is fine because everyone was racist then, but also i think you can watch it understanding the background that everyone was a raging racist and it's good that the raging racism is less overt these days without saying no one should ever watch it ever (and again, not that you're saying that, but there are people who do). disney shadowbanning song of the south was what really started all of this nonsense its only a racist movie if youre going out of your way to look for things to be mad about it should occupy a place in the disney animated canon similar to pochahontas where its just something people awkwardly avoid talking about instead everyone treats it like something racists show to their kids at klan rallies
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Aug 16, 2022 03:17
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what really upsets me about song of the south is that african american folk literature is like a very real thing that used to be huge in american culture writ large and people back then were about as familiar with brer rabbit stories as they were with fairy tales like cinderella i mean poo poo bugs bunny is a pretty unsubtle riff on the concept and that whole ideas just dead now no one even knows it ever existed because once song of the south became verboten these folk tales effectively became verboten too
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Aug 16, 2022 03:25
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Some Guy TT posted:disney shadowbanning song of the south was what really started all of this nonsense its only a racist movie if youre going out of your way to look for things to be mad about it should occupy a place in the disney animated canon similar to pochahontas where its just something people awkwardly avoid talking about instead everyone treats it like something racists show to their kids at klan rallies i saw song of the south at a film showing for kids at my local library when i was like 7 and boy howdy, that was sure the moment when i decided: when i grow up i'm gonna be a racist cracker
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song of the south is absolutely extremely loving racist, even in the context of its day, but what makes it evil is that Disney tries to pretend they never hosed up, that it’s not a movie that they made, while simultaneously using the characters for a bunch of poo poo in their parks. splash mountain, one of the more popular regular attractions, is literally SotS themed from top to bottom, but gently caress you if you want to acknowledge the movie as existing
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:song of the south is absolutely extremely loving racist, even in the context of its day, but what makes it evil is that Disney tries to pretend they never hosed up, that it’s not a movie that they made, while simultaneously using the characters for a bunch of poo poo in their parks. splash mountain, one of the more popular regular attractions, is literally SotS themed from top to bottom, but gently caress you if you want to acknowledge the movie as existing sorry but the Disney Vault is even more impregnable than Fort Knox
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Remake SotS but replace Uncle Remus with Uncle Ruckus.
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Mantis42 posted:Remake SotS but replace Uncle Remus with Uncle Ruckus. 
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drat ruckus is a good character
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i don't think i've ever seen pocahontas but it seems pretty close to modern disney flicks with some flavor of minority protagonist (e.g. moana); certainly, it seems like a much closer fit to the modern disney formula than song of the south. song of the south's protagonist isn't even black, it's some random white kid pocahontas may have been more subtly memory-holed because its male lead is mel gibson lol
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Aug 16, 2022 05:02
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Mantis42 posted:Remake SotS but replace Uncle Remus with Uncle Ruckus. ok, except for this comedy ages like milk. replacing uncle Remus with uncle Runkus ages like cream, because for a month or so there is literally nothing better
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Aglet56 posted:i don't think i've ever seen pocahontas but it seems pretty close to modern disney flicks with some flavor of minority protagonist (e.g. moana); certainly, it seems like a much closer fit to the modern disney formula than song of the south. song of the south's protagonist isn't even black, it's some random white kid song of the south was the disney formula of the time in that it wasnt really a proper film as it was a very weak framing device designed to hold together a bunch of mostly unrelated cartoons that were too long to work as individual shorts but too short to work as features song of the south was racist because the worldbuilding of that framing device implied idyllic relations between white kids and former slaves in the late ninteenth century south its not great but its not exactly lost cause mythbuilding given that the movie doesnt even mention the civil war or slavery let alone express opinions about them pochahontas is likewise problematic because of the worldbuilding but in a completely different way because its a completely different kind of movie its basically a bothsidesism romance that has to end with a formulaic happy ending in spite of the fact that everyone knows drat well thats not what happened pochahontas also leans really hard into noble savage tropes as was the style at the time and that alone makes a much more definitive statement about racial essentialism than anything in song of the south just because pochahontas has pretensions of an actual plot centered around race relations while song of the south doesnt
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quote:CFO Lee Ann Gliha said the goal is to make the CW profitable by 2025. https://deadline.com/2022/08/the-cw-will-become-profitable-network-2025-broader-cheaper-programming-nexstar-1235092173/ the average CW viewer is 58. the new owners want to shift to reality TV shows to attract more old viewers and finally make a profit.
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Atrocious Joe posted:https://deadline.com/2022/08/the-cw-will-become-profitable-network-2025-broader-cheaper-programming-nexstar-1235092173/ that's honestly kinda sick lmao. well, get ready for a bunch of ford f950 HDR 4k freedom rancher edition trucks and SUV commercials and cop procedurals where they lock up the bad drug dealing brown people
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Aug 16, 2022 06:00
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Imagine being 60 and watching the CW. That's the most powerful voting bloc in America.
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Aug 16, 2022 06:15
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all american and riverdale are both ongoing is that article saying that these shows are outliers in that they have young viewers or that the people who watch those shows are way older than what wed expect
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Aug 16, 2022 06:17
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Mantis42 posted:Imagine being 60 and watching the CW. That's the most powerful voting bloc in America. what's that old CEO of abercrombie up to
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Some Guy TT posted:all american and riverdale are both ongoing is that article saying that these shows are outliers in that they have young viewers or that the people who watch those shows are way older than what wed expect yeah they listed the target demos but the actuals are only a decade younger than fox news
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Aug 16, 2022 06:18
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I'm pretty sure the actual reason is that only old people watch television anymore, the channel doesn't really matter
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yeah CW is broadcast, right?
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i say swears online posted:yeah CW is broadcast, right? Yes. It was fused from the remains of UPN and The WB.
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drat horror queefs posted:I'm pretty sure the actual reason is that only old people watch television anymore, the channel doesn't really matter thats a more succint way of what i was getting at. does neilsen family poo poo even exist and does anyone under 65 even participate?
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Xaris posted:does neilsen family poo poo even exist and does anyone under 65 even participate? I do, actually. Nowadays it's just a little plastic thing that looks like a beeper and you just carry it around in your pocket. Supposedly it has a mic that hears all the media you listen to, and even has an attachment for earbuds that I never use. I get paid 15 dollars a month to carry it in my pocket all day and get entered into a lottery every day I have it on me at least 6 hours.
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Mantis42 posted:I do, actually. Nowadays it's just a little plastic thing that looks like a beeper and you just carry it around in your pocket. Supposedly it has a mic that hears all the media you listen to, and even has an attachment for earbuds that I never use. I get paid 15 dollars a month to carry it in my pocket all day and get entered into a lottery every day I have it on me at least 6 hours. wtf that sounds invasive as hell id figure with smarttvs constantly spying and reporting back on everything to samsung/lg hq that it would have been obsolete since you dont need to rely on sampling population for what they're watching at a given time, when they switch channels, etc given that's now all auto collected. but well, i guess they figured out an even shittier invasive device
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Mantis42 posted:I do, actually. Nowadays it's just a little plastic thing that looks like a beeper and you just carry it around in your pocket. Supposedly it has a mic that hears all the media you listen to, and even has an attachment for earbuds that I never use. I get paid 15 dollars a month to carry it in my pocket all day and get entered into a lottery every day I have it on me at least 6 hours. I thought Nielsen had set top boxes plugged into each tv and paid like $100/mo. What's this about carrying something around?
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Aglet56 posted:i don't think i've ever seen pocahontas but it seems pretty close to modern disney flicks with some flavor of minority protagonist (e.g. moana); certainly, it seems like a much closer fit to the modern disney formula than song of the south. song of the south's protagonist isn't even black, it's some random white kid Wow, murderous settler is like Mel Gibson's one roll.
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They're apparently making a hunger games prequel about the old, murderous president when he was a poor little orphaned rich boy or some poo poo and I haven't seen a piece of media so obviously made to try to undermine the themes of the preceding work in ages wouldn't want teens to not trust the aristocracy, I guess
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https://twitter.com/PresidentToguro/status/1559354656970653701?s=20&t=6WRfGReI0tR3JJLC-R-3PQ
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The only people watching any television period are old.
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loquacius posted:Can't imagine Pratchett on Twitter anyway really Sadly his account was given a perfect if cheesey sendoff at the time of his death: https://twitter.com/terryandrob/status/576036599047258112 https://twitter.com/terryandrob/status/576036726046646272 https://twitter.com/terryandrob/status/576036888190038016 But then his daughter or whoever decided to keep using it and it remains active to this day. No bad or insulting tweets afaict but just create a @discworld account or something if you want to keep tweeting as the estate.
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Big Mad Drongo posted:Sadly his account was given a perfect if cheesey sendoff at the time of his death: yeah I uh would rather that didn't happen
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