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# ¿ Jan 2, 2017 05:54 |
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Ended 2016 with The War Room... well, watched that the night before the election and then didn't watch anything else. UNTIL TONIGHT, starting off 2017 with The Monkees in Head (1968). It's somethin'. Discount Viscount fucked around with this message at 09:50 on Jan 2, 2017 |
# ¿ Jan 2, 2017 09:36 |
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Anonymous Robot posted:Is Tampopo worth a trip in town to see? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhKdtX8MFmc
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# ¿ Jan 2, 2017 21:41 |
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Season 4 of the Wire is real good, but I think I like season 2's laser focus on narrowing down both sides of a single crime thing, and how the criminal and legal elements build towards each other. I just finished episode 2 of season 5 and WHAT THE gently caress IS GOING ON WITH JIMMY, IS HE REALLY STAGING A HOMICIDE SCENE HOLY poo poo. I'm kinda disappointed there are only 8 episodes left, I'm really loving it. People kinda poo poo on – well, okay, that's a bit strong, maybe roll their eyes and make the jerkoff motion at – season 5 for reasons, but I found it as entertaining and a fitting end.
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# ¿ Jan 5, 2017 06:32 |
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I've just kinda been here. The only contribution of mine (and it wasn't lasting) that comes to mind/I'm proud of is when I edited an image of the readout in 2010: The Year We Make Contact to say ALL OF THESE THREADS ARE YOURS EXCEPT FOR BATMAN ATTEMPT NO POSTING THERE USE THEM TOGETHER USE THEM IN PEACE
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# ¿ Jan 5, 2017 19:36 |
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I want to remake Stunt Rock with some other gimmicky-but-pretty-good band and, I dunno, Zoë Bell.
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# ¿ Jan 9, 2017 04:42 |
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One of my first epiphanies about being a white dude came when about three or four chapters into reading To Kill a Mockingbird in high school I realized Scout was a girl. If I recall correctly that's the first point at which any language specifically indicates this, and up til that point I'd just assumed otherwise. First time I really stopped to consider what it meant to assume white/male as the default, and whether people who weren't might hold the same assumptions or not. Also IIRC Coffee is Bi or pan.
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 08:51 |
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I hope the pictures are three-dimensional, so blind people will be able to share in this information. That way, we won't need eyes to see! I forgot about this and it's only vaguely coming back.
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 22:46 |
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Magic Hate Ball posted:They Shoot Horses Don't They is incredible. It's soooooooo bitter and just a bit surreal near the end. Plus, Grandpa Munster!
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# ¿ Jan 14, 2017 07:19 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The villains are the best part of every Mad Max movie. My favorite part of any Mad Max is the little moment where Lord Humungus looks at an old photo.
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 06:13 |
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I really do love a lot of the episode titles, even ones from the seasons I haven't watched. Bart Gets an F followed in the same season by Bart's Dog Gets an F makes me laugh on its own.
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 21:37 |
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Kids in movies: Margaret O'Brien is fantastic in Meet Me in St. Louis, also it was her birthday the other day.Egbert Souse posted:What if you're one of the Van Dykes on a motorcycle? I can't imagine Jesus being angry at Dick or Jerry. One time I saw Jerry Van Dyke's dick.
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# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 08:09 |
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I thought season 2 was often considered as the best/second best season. People hate that season? I loved it because it was the most focused, it just tackled two sides of one crime, and the efforts to get one over on the other guys. He had a hand in it and it's what got him into television but his biggest contribution was writing the book it was based off of. A lot of little bits in The Wire also came from Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. I read it shortly after finishing The Wire a couple years ago, which was fun.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 20:54 |
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Hello I've been un-Internet for a time duration:Skwirl posted:loving christ, I was gonna watch it tonight with a glass of whiskey but have drank too much already for to have a coherent opinion on it. I'll watch it tomorrow afternoon with said glass of whiskey and report back my opinions. Through a Glass Dark Archiely Magic Hate Ball posted:Stop Having Sex This Must Be the Place (Nivea Melody) Hey guys was there ever a time I didn't shitpost Magic Hate Ball posted:sipping a daiquiri through a five-foot silly straw that spells out "ARBEIT MACHT FUN" Magic Hate Ball posted:My father-in-law likes to start spouting Breitbart-esque word clumps about black crime and Indian chiefs "hoarding money", at which point I gently excuse myself to go sit on the toilet and play electronic Yahtzee. hateball man you're on loving fire. Budgie Jumping posted:The Fault in Our Mars. Everybody on loving fire! SuperMechagodzilla posted:A point of contention with H.Bomberguy: the new Mario game isn't contrasting Mario with 'reality'. It's drawing some trickier associations between Mario and Grand Theft Auto. The point seems to be that Mario is the Tommy Vercetti of his particular universe - so, when you trade their places, it's both a radical alien intrusion and ultimately a joke that not much has changed. Item blocks are now (revealed to be?) street signs, turtles are taxi-cabs, etc. At a certain level, it's just a palette swap. SuperMechaGodzilla have you ever played or seen Whoa Dave!? Uncle Boogeyman posted:having to flip an album halfway through automatically makes it better. LPs and tapes are king. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf5XgkG0JfI Discount Viscount fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Jan 31, 2017 |
# ¿ Jan 31, 2017 08:32 |
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Mecha Gojira posted:Rest in peace, my old 55" TV. Been through a lot together over the last few years; even moved up to Washington with me. We spent a lot of time with some really great movies. You will be deeply missed. I had an old 14" CRT since childhood in decent working shape aside from a few minor points that finally died last year when it took a tumble off of a moving TV cart. It maybe could have been fixed but that wouldn't have been worth it, and I don't even know a place that would repair tube TVs anymore. Probably have to find some guy.
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2017 08:02 |
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glam rock hamhock posted:Short of the Day Bumping this. It is indeed funky, awesome, and horrific. Not as gross as you might fear, unless you really, really hate puke noises.
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2017 20:36 |
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Lurdiak posted:What's a good movie to watch to deal with something you waited for for 28 years kinda sucking? And no, I don't mean losing my virginity, you low-hanging fruit grabbers. Congrats on not losing your virginity.
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2017 09:40 |
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"low-hanging fruit grabbers" are what I call my underpants
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2017 09:41 |
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Anonymous Robot posted:So there's apparently a giant arcade stocked with tons of imported cabinets in the middle of nowhere, attached to a dead mall in Taunton, MA. I went there expecting a Dave and Buster's kind of deal and was pleasantly surprised to find tons of classic fighting game cabs, as well as fun gimmicky stuff like Taito Drummer and that dumb table flipping game. A huge section of UFO cranes, too. Probably the coolest thing I saw was this game Gunslinger Stratos, though, which is an extremely anime game that's in the 3rd person team-vs action genre that's gotten big over there, like Gundam VS etc. What's especially interesting, though, is that it uses a lightgun mechanic- the guns have joysticks on them for moving your character, but the aiming is done with the pair of akimbo pistols, which have magnets embedded in them so that when you link them together in different configurations, your character will equip a different weapon. It's super cool and actually a good game, to boot. That's rad. Reminds me of the time I went to the mall once for the first time in quite a while and there was an arcade that had a Samba de Amigo 2000 cabinet, the Episode I Racer Sega game, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, and a Cue Ball Wizard pinball machine.
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# ¿ Feb 19, 2017 18:13 |
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I'm so sorry. It's one of the better Gottlieb tables, too! I have a certain fondness for it because I played the hell out of it in the old Microsoft Pinball Arcade game. Finally seeing it in the wild during a time when you couldn't find a loving pinball machine anywhere was a trip. I still question how much I actually need that ramp shot, though, despite exhortations to the contrary.
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# ¿ Feb 20, 2017 03:59 |
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If you want to know a little more about pinball then I highly recommend the documentary TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball. The movie itself is on iTunes and is pretty good for what's basically a 60 minute, one man rookie production focusing on the story of how the team at Williams pushed a last-ditch technological gimmick that was pretty cool in order to keep pinball alive, and then Williams immediately pulled the original Konami on 'em. However, I STRONGLY suggest getting the DVD if you're very curious, because it is absolutely loaded with extras, including extended interview footage, footage of rare tables and prototypes, the pinball factory itself... it's nuts. The current little resurgence was still a ways off when this first came out, so it's also a little bit of a time capsule of the decade or so where pinball barely existed.
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# ¿ Feb 20, 2017 07:30 |
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Yeah that stretch from like, 2000 to 2010 was really dire. You would see a Shrek, a Family Guy, or one random old table in disrepair. Maybe Sopranos and South Park or one of the other Sterns. Now at there are a few more Sterns and people getting machines in working shape and putting them out there.
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# ¿ Feb 20, 2017 08:55 |
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bows1 posted:Tim McGraw was quite good in Friday Night Lights (the movie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49tTzEifY6M
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2017 20:58 |
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Magic Hate Ball posted:If I ever become a musician I'm gonna make an album that has jump scares in it. On Some Faraway Beach → Blank Frank also the playout groove on Sgt. Pepper. Magic Hate Ball posted:The National Film Board of Canada has an amazing online archive of really nicely transferred films going all the way back to 1917, it's pretty excellent. Sweet. Here's a classic: The Cat Came Back Discount Viscount fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Feb 22, 2017 |
# ¿ Feb 22, 2017 08:09 |
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wyoming posted:I just finished up my first year in Stardew Valley, I'm dating the the weird girl with purple hair, have a cow and a goat, and two chickens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Bbd8UQL_k&t=1253s wyoming posted:The first game showed secrets you could never get, so gently caress it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pqvcJaZ0l0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNQn7X6E1LI
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2017 08:45 |
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Skwirl posted:Hey everyone, this right here is the best thread on the entire forum.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 08:37 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Repo Man's okay. I saw it without knowing anything about it and it hit me like a tornado. Subsequent viewings are not quite the same. Still good though. I've still gotta see the TV edit.
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 06:55 |
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Alhazred posted:I remember that in GTA IV you could drive like a maniac and no one would care but if you forgot to pay the toll on the bridge the cops would instantly be on your rear end. I'm led to believe this is authentic to the actual New York City.
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 18:45 |
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Lurdiak posted:I dreamt that there was a real huge fat cat Garfield was based on and that I was petting it. I blame Lasagna cat and my medication.
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 00:45 |
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Resident Evil 4 has one of my favorite credits sequences. After a whole cheesy action game of just blasting the poo poo out of mind-control-plagued Spaniards you get this elegiac series of still sketches and music depicting how these poor villagers were taken in and taken over by the main villains. It's arguably ludicrous and unearned given the game's overall tone, but I think it still works as kind of a standalone bit even then. As for movies, I sit through them to the end almost every time. The music is typically god come-down. I get irrationally annoyed when watching something with someone and they suddenly blast through the credits as it ends.
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# ¿ Mar 7, 2017 08:55 |
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Repo Man owns so does Walker. Walker is fantastic. It's hilarious and angry and educational and fabricated in all the best ways.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 07:28 |
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Josh Lyman posted:It's nearly 3 am and my sleep schedule is hosed. Do I go to the grocery store and get peanuts, pistachios, or something else? chocolate pudding.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2017 08:29 |
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Franchescanado posted:Is Street Fighter V still garbage? I'm looking for a fighter for PS4. King of Fighters XIV is another option. The cast is huge right out of the gate. therattle posted:I should take up an interesting hobby, like collecting vintage kettles. http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/kettle.asp
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2017 19:54 |
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Timby posted:Yeah, I mean, I loving love the 1994 Street Fighter movie (everyone praises Julia in it, and he's magical considering his health at the time, but I also just adore how it goes whole hog with the absurdity, and Revell's score is excellent), but I'd never confuse it with being "good." Spatulater bro! posted:Exactly. If Timby loves Street Fighter, he should confidently argue its greatness on the basis that "it goes whole hog with the absurdity, and Revell's score is excellent". I'll go to bat for Street Fighter. It's funny on purpose. The guy from the UN is the best character after Bison. When the final showdown kicks off it's practically nonstop action until the end. Everyone ends up in their game costumes somehow after most of them spending a good portion of the runtime not in them. I want Zangief to be my friend.
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2017 06:37 |
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:Guys, Persona... was really loving awesome It is. Now skip 2 and go right to 3. Magic Hate Ball posted:I tried an oculus once and now i can only have sex in the matrix
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2017 06:57 |
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weekly font posted:So I was a neglected orphan Sega Genesis kid and I'm gonna emulate up an SNES and play Link to the Past, Castlevania and Metroid. Any other classics I'm missing? No real interest in Mario world. Echoing everything already mentioned, with an emphatic nod towards Mega Man X. Also if you like shooters/shmups/STGs check out Space Megaforce and the Parodius series. Also Demon's Crest. Also Magical Adventure starring Mickey Mouse.
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2017 18:42 |
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DeimosRising posted:Yes please These movies all rule. If Born to Kill and The Narrow Margin show up, give them a look.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 01:38 |
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Subway is white noise for your mouth. [ASMR] Funky Kong feeds you a Subway Meatball Marinara
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 09:36 |
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Detective No. 27 posted:I watched Multiple Maniacs today. That was a hell of an escalation at the end there. Nice continuation of "I love you more than I love my own poo poo" from Pink Flamingos. Detective No. 27 posted:I have an even more embarrassing food commercial story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovcEogqIcEA I Before E posted:I wish people would stop watching movies so we could talk about burgers and comic books in peace morestuff posted:What kind of dummy eats a cucumber salad when cruellers exist https://twitter.com/chiIIjake/status/844382189961797632 therattle posted:Makes sense. I just read the story: he loved the band so he wrote the song for them after they turned down Suffragette City. Here's another great Bowie being a friend/fan moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv9fGh38X_s
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 18:48 |
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# ¿ May 3, 2024 02:26 |
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CPL593H posted:I'm a huge David Bowie fan and I was really into Mott The Hoople for a while. A thing people always overlook about Bowie is that he had a great eye for talent and picked a lot of great people to collaborate with either in a big way like Iggy Pop or Lou Reed or in terms of finding musicians to work with in the studio and on stage. But anyway I agree with you about All The Young Dudes. The Bowie studio version just isn't as good at Mott's version or his own live version. I also really like the Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture version so much because it's part of a really good medley. I spend a lot of time listening to and/or reading about this kind of stuff. I also like to read album credits to see what musicians were involved. Bowie worked with an amazing list of people in the 70s. Drummer Dennis Davis worked with Bowie a lot in the 70s and also died last year. His son's interviewing his dad's friends about him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY0JBiRBLH4
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