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NotJustANumber99 posted:Thread nothing if not consistent, topic under discussion doesn't matter, views will be uninformed, wrongheaded and utterly miserable. You do realise you are part of the problem, right? e: 
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Jan 3, 2024 13:07
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Watching teevee is so passé, I much prefer watching people watch TV. A hyper emotional pair that have been watching red dwarf have now started with BSG, good viewing. Sometimes I even try and watch the shows myself Edit this is not Gogglebox, this is a much classier youtube
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Jan 3, 2024 13:07
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Mega Comrade posted:Season 1 of TNG is notoriously poor. There are like 2 episodes worth your time. When I watched through it with my sister I picked out about 16 of them, and most of that was because they introduced things that would come up later. Like, I feel like you need to have a decent idea who Tasha Yar is for Yesterday's Enterprise to make emotional sense. Funny thing about TNG and SG1. The worst episode by a long way in TNG's first season is Code of Honor, which is basically just 45 minutes of stereotyped tribal Africans treating women as property. The worst episode of SG1's first season is also that episode. As in, same writer, same story, just as racist, a decade later. And it's the first story of SG1 after the opening two parter.
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Jan 3, 2024 13:19
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Marmaduke! posted:Watching teevee is so passé, I much prefer watching people watch TV. A hyper emotional pair that have been watching red dwarf have now started with BSG, good viewing. Sometimes I even try and watch the shows myself Sorta the same, I watch the RLM guys talk about movies and shows I will never watch.
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Jan 3, 2024 13:19
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Marmaduke! posted:Watching teevee is so passé, I much prefer watching people watch TV. A hyper emotional pair that have been watching red dwarf have now started with BSG, good viewing. Sometimes I even try and watch the shows myself This is my favourite way to consume media. I usually watch a sheltered pretty Mormon lady watch the Alien trilogy or some rural Indian guys getting really into Lord of the rings.
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Jan 3, 2024 13:20
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Imagine if stargate had followed the TNG second episode formula, we could have seen mcguyver gently caress a space worm.
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Jan 3, 2024 13:21
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forkboy84 posted:I don't think it's bad, I just think it's wild. Cultural osmosis is kind of hard to avoid I had a mate at university. Super smart bloke but had grown up with hippy academic parents and without a TV. It was fascinating. Vast knowledge from books and of music, but the entirety of tv pop culture, apart from the odd snippet, was lost on him.
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Jan 3, 2024 13:24
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Also Zack Snyder just sucks as a film maker. Overwrought overlong garbage films that keep accidentally sucking off fascists. He's like if Chris Nolan had even less talent, subtlety and taste OF surely you've heard of 300? The THIS IS SPARTA meme at least? You've been on the internet long enough you can't have dodged that
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Jan 3, 2024 13:24
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Dabir posted:OF surely you've heard of 300? The THIS IS SPARTA meme at least? You've been on the internet long enough you can't have dodged that I am aware of the memes but I haven't seen the film. Basically everything produced in the last 15-20 years I only know through memes. I think also they were called image macros at the time. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 13:29 on Jan 3, 2024 |
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Jan 3, 2024 13:26
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Dabir posted:Also Zack Snyder just sucks as a film maker. Overwrought overlong garbage films that keep accidentally sucking off fascists. He's like if Chris Nolan had even less talent, subtlety and taste The last one of his I saw was the “Oceans 11 in Las Vegas but it’s full of zombies” which, on the face of it, is absolutely my poo poo, but which he managed to turn into a dull, tedious, flatulent slog
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Jan 3, 2024 13:29
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I haven't seen 300 but I did write a very good essay once on the Peloponnesian wars.
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Jan 3, 2024 13:29
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If you have a time machine you should send the corinth canal back in time and see if that changes anything.
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Jan 3, 2024 13:35
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Runcible Cat posted:I thought 300 was hilarious when I first saw it. 300 is absolutely meant to be funny, this is the impact of po-faced internet commenters with youtube brain who've convinced themselves that satire is dangerously close to fascism.
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Jan 3, 2024 13:35
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The best Star Trek is Return of the Jedi
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Jan 3, 2024 13:35
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sebzilla posted:The best Star Trek is Return of the Jedi Is that the one where The Doctor teams up with the Cylons?
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Jan 3, 2024 13:42
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TACD posted:DS9 was the best classic Trek because it was a bit darker than the rest and blended episodic content into a compelling multi-season arc. Paradoxically, all the new Trek blows because it’s OTT dark or “quirky” and focuses exclusively on seasonal arcs at the expense of individual episodes or character building. The future portrayed in Discovery and especially Picard has this kind of spiteful disbelief that human nature can or really should ever improve, along with the grimdark 'everything is horrible and the only way to win is to be equally horrible, and everything is just going to get worse so we are too.' Runcible Cat posted:I thought 300 was hilarious when I first saw it. I do have a soft spot for the JL:SC just because my sister in law was very very briefly in the restored footage, after the rear end in a top hat cut removed almost the entire history lesson segment. I know how many months she and a ton of other people worked for it, and she said she had a lovely conversation with Francis Magee who sadly seemed to think it was going to be a much bigger part. Sucker Punch however is raw, unfiltered misogynistic dogshit dressed up as feminist fantasy, and the denouement only works if you fundamentally misunderstand what a lobotomy is. His Divine Shadow posted:Sorta the same, I watch the RLM guys talk about movies and shows I will never watch.
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Jan 3, 2024 13:58
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His Divine Shadow posted:Sorta the same, I watch the RLM guys talk about movies and shows I will never watch. My 12yr old stepson watches Youtube videos of people watching compilations of viral videos. Endless hours of annoying guys going: "What the.... Oh. My. Goodness. I can't believe he just ate that!!!"
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Jan 3, 2024 14:07
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The future portrayed in Discovery and especially Picard has this kind of spiteful disbelief that human nature can or really should ever improve, along with the grimdark 'everything is horrible and the only way to win is to be equally horrible, and everything is just going to get worse so we are too.' I can see why its so popular.
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Jan 3, 2024 14:12
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The best thing about the future portrayed in Discovery is that phasers have been replaced with big goofy arm mounted Metroid canons that do the same thing (but with more collateral damage) while rendering your hands useless.
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Jan 3, 2024 14:17
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stev posted:The best thing about the future portrayed in Discovery is that phasers have been replaced with big goofy arm mounted Metroid canons that do the same thing (but with more collateral damage) while rendering your hands useless. Dustbuster supremacy 
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Jan 3, 2024 14:18
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KJB are very funny but they're not exactly film scholars with it. Probably safe to assume every other James Bond podcast is run by blackshirts though.
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Jan 3, 2024 14:22
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Gorn Myson posted:I've seen far too many people claim that he drove his daughter to suicide. Not through any evidence, but because they dislike him because of his superhero movies. Snyder haters are far loving weirder than the people that like him. absolutely no one mentioned Snyder until a bunch of goons frothed themselves up into a gammon rage about it it loving sucks
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Jan 3, 2024 14:31
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Ms Adequate posted:Best recent scifi is definitely Gundam The Witch From Mercury though  It’s also available for free both subbed and dubbed on YouTube and Crunchyroll, if anyone is curious.
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Jan 3, 2024 14:35
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Lt. Danger posted:absolutely no one mentioned Snyder until a bunch of goons frothed themselves up into a gammon rage about it why is it a gammon rage?
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Jan 3, 2024 14:43
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They seem to assume that anyone expressing mild dislke is in fact seething and scromiting themselves into insanity over the existence of a director who is at best passable and at worst overuses slowmo. Snyder is neither a wünderkind nor an antichrist. He's just a weird little man who makes action movies. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Jan 3, 2024 |
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Jan 3, 2024 14:46
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posting politics in the sci-fi thread: https://twitter.com/BenQuinn75/status/1742503251285622862 'richard you can't just call everything you don't like "socialism"' *points at passing suella braverman*: SOCIALISM
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Jan 3, 2024 15:02
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I have to kick someone out of my gang tomorrow. He's annoying has refused to work and rubs everyone up the wrong way especially if he doesn't get his own way. The other gangers have asked why I haven't gotten rid of him already. But I hate just cutting people off like that, if we don't work we don't get paid so even thought my life will be easier still feels poo poo getting rid of someone. Just having a bit of a vent.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:09
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Are you pickpockets or something?
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Jan 3, 2024 15:12
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Apraxin posted:posting politics in the sci-fi thread:
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Jan 3, 2024 15:13
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He's just not pulling his weight stepping slowly toward their enemies while clicking their fingers. Totally out of sync.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:15
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Big trouble at the jets hideout brewing
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Jan 3, 2024 15:15
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The Sex Arse newspaper is after some of Baroness Mone’s knickers. 
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Jan 3, 2024 15:17
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bessantj posted:I have to kick someone out of my gang tomorrow. He's annoying has refused to work and rubs everyone up the wrong way especially if he doesn't get his own way. The other gangers have asked why I haven't gotten rid of him already. But I hate just cutting people off like that, if we don't work we don't get paid so even thought my life will be easier still feels poo poo getting rid of someone. Could you maybe have another one of your gang garrote him from behind in the car while you're driving over a bridge and then dump him out so he can sleep with the fishes? It'd be the kinder thing to do, I think.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:18
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Mega Comrade posted:Are you pickpockets or something? No, we do rail maintenance. Bobby Deluxe posted:He's just not pulling his weight stepping slowly toward their enemies while clicking their fingers. Totally out of sync. Reveilled posted:Could you maybe have another one of your gang garrote him from behind in the car while you're driving over a bridge and then dump him out so he can sleep with the fishes? It'd be the kinder thing to do, I think. Lmao.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:24
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If I register with the electoral commission, make a nutty powerpoint and put out on background that Nigel Farage will be there, will 50 journalists come to watch?
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Jan 3, 2024 15:25
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bessantj posted:I have to kick someone out of my gang tomorrow. He's annoying has refused to work and rubs everyone up the wrong way especially if he doesn't get his own way. The other gangers have asked why I haven't gotten rid of him already. But I hate just cutting people off like that, if we don't work we don't get paid so even thought my life will be easier still feels poo poo getting rid of someone. Do you want to piss him off or the rest of the gang? They are an adult who is supposed to do a job and should know better, time to remove them from the equation before everyone gets brought down.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:28
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bessantj posted:No, we do rail maintenance. Michael Gove and Boris have probably done a lot of rails in the Strangers Bar, let them know you're hiring.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:31
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bessantj posted:No, we do rail maintenance.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:33
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sneering bourgeois, all of you 'gang' and 'gangers' are perfectly legitimate terms used by those of us who actually work for a living, fighting for archeotech in the Underhive of Necromunda in sincerity, quote:I have to kick someone out of my gang tomorrow. He's annoying has refused to work and rubs everyone up the wrong way especially if he doesn't get his own way. The other gangers have asked why I haven't gotten rid of him already. But I hate just cutting people off like that, if we don't work we don't get paid so even thought my life will be easier still feels poo poo getting rid of someone. This sucks and I'm sorry. Try and remember that this is on him and not on you; ultimately your responsibility is to the entire team, not to him, and it sounds like you've tried to make it work and everyone's at their limit. Feeling the weight of it is a reminder that you're conscientious, not a sign that you're doing anything wrong.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:36
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Just Another Lurker posted:Do you want to piss him off or the rest of the gang? Yeah you're right he is a shockingly childish man on times. He once punched the side of the van because someone sat in the seat he wanted to sit in. Failed Imagineer posted:Michael Gove and Boris have probably done a lot of rails in the Strangers Bar, let them know you're hiring. Our main driver once turned to me and said "you know, I'd love to kill Boris Johnson" in the most matter of fact way. TACD posted:A rail maintenance gang? It does feel that way sometimes. grobbo posted:in sincerity, Thanks. I think we'll be the third of fourth gang he'll have been kicked out of.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:39
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