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last time i re-read the dune books i actually found i liked god-emperor more than children of dune.
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Kenny Logins posted:tina fey fuckin' sucks big time. if you have any issues with current snl politics, which you should, she's behind it. if you have any issues with the comedy of snl, she's behind it. if you like comedy generally and wonder why it isn't better... she's also behind it. she sucks. maybe at one point she didn't but now she does so we should all move on how did tina fey get to be in control of comedy
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i got sucked into another b5 rewatch after i found out they actually re-released it in high-def. it's not awesome but it still looks a hell of a lot better than the old DVD release.
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chuck lorre should be put in prison
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Mar 21, 2021 01:08
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i used to have a big box fan running on low every night. 'low' was a pretty soft hum which was nice. it died a few years ago. i've tried getting a couple of fans since but neither of them worked out - one of them starts okay but gradually gets faster and faster, and the other is just BRRRRRRR at any speed. i figure it works out anyway, this way if i have to sleep away from home i won't be missing the breeze and background noise.
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Mar 22, 2021 05:36
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Chris Knight posted:many posts in yospos oh? ....yes?
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Mar 23, 2021 23:19
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Sagebrush posted:I assume he writes all his own one-liners like Arnold. But nobody can topple the king. you just gave me a chuckle as i remembered that youtube video of the excerpts of the arnold schwarzenegger commentary of Total Recall where he just describes what is happening on the screen
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Mar 24, 2021 23:55
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SmokaDustbowl posted:it's american literature, so that poo poo is mostly about racism and eating cowboy beans in the desert or whatever i'm enjoying the thought of "cowboy beans" or the eating thereof being a euphemism for some filthy poo poo
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Mar 28, 2021 21:44
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haveblue posted:music licensing is a byzantine hell maze so they probably looked into what it would take to get the rights to all ~20 different covers and decided it wasn't worth it it might have just been straight-up cost. the original DVD release of Married... With Children! dumped Love And Marriage for the intro/outro because whoever owns the song wanted too much money.
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Mar 29, 2021 22:14
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Chris Knight posted:no one cares about your piracy adventures i do. curious to see how difficult it is to break into ~the scene~ as a youth these days
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Apr 6, 2021 06:39
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ultravoices posted:watching the remastered b5. honestly as i've gotten older i've only grown to appreciate the first season more and more, and the fourth season just doesn't interest me nearly as much that said i recently got sucked into and finished a "rewatch", though as usual i didn't bother w/ season five either
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Apr 8, 2021 05:21
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bump_fn posted:alotta fagina made me laugh i won’t lie she also made me big horny too
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Apr 12, 2021 01:45
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lmao i think they would have to roll up a dumptruck of cash to get her on another star wars movie
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Apr 12, 2021 01:50
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FMguru posted:they got harrison ford to do it (twice!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd9DvIs97G0
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Apr 12, 2021 05:14
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also i just finished the second season of Infinity Train and, i know it's a kids cartoon, but god drat it's so good. i loving love the synth music and the art design.
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Apr 12, 2021 05:16
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qirex posted:I'm gonna go deep on some nerd poo poo here but I feel like the people who work on the franchise have been trying to get rid of the jedi for over a decade and they just can't get across the line what's gonna be hilarious is when disney does lean into a post-jedi "anyone can be a force user without the cultural/philosophical baggage of the past" setting and use it to just make more marvel-style superhero cape movies
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Apr 25, 2021 21:41
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:I think someone said this already but in rewatching 90s star trek it becomes clear we really don't need 26 episodes a season thanks. oh yeah short seasons definitely made picard and discovery much better shows cut away all the unnecessary fluff, who needs fun character moments when we can really focus in on those brilliant season arcs
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May 7, 2021 07:07
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also just lol at the entire notion of "ugh, there's too many episodes in this show which i ostensibly enjoy watching" you don't have to binge the whole thing in one shot
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May 7, 2021 07:09
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infernal machines posted:this is the thing, you've got a bunch of middling to mediocre writers and you just roll the dice 26 times a year and here and there you get some gold. lol but they don't!! like the dipshits writing Westworld were frequently running late on scripts and half-assing it all over the place just giant lols at all the jerking off last decade about how streaming would lead to the most artisanally handcrafted serial arcs, just beautiful season/series-long stories that could be told no other way, and whoops turns out the writers still can't loving produce on time infernal machines posted:like the old TOS days where they had a bunch of sets/costumes from another show and decided to write an episode around them, but with a better framing device than "this is the gangster planet, it's full of 1920s gangsters" hey, A Piece of the Action is great infernal machines posted:yes, the starfleet admiral who thought "you know, i bet fascism could work, that hitler guy was just doing it wrong" uhhhhhhhhhh excuse me, it wasn't a "starfleet admiral", it was some rando historian. god!
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May 8, 2021 20:55
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indigi posted:I honestly don’t think this is true, I think they just suck poo poo and none of them have read any PKD or Butler or Stross or Lem or even Vonnegut beyond maybe Slaughterhouse V. like their familiarity with the type of sci fi they’re attempting to make is nonexistent nah the whole "security chief's a secret cylon!" reveal at the end of second season came in as a script revision the very morning they were shooting that scene someone in one of the old Westworld threads claimed to have worked on multiple ~*prestige shows*~ where it was not uncommon to be getting script pages mid-production Farmer Crack-Ass fucked around with this message at 04:11 on May 9, 2021 |
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May 9, 2021 04:08
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TOOT BOOT posted:Unfortunately it looks like the Game of Thrones showrunners saw that talk the GOT boys were so bad at their jobs that they had to go back and write additional scenes because they came in under the contractual minimum
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May 9, 2021 04:09
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AnimeIsTrash posted:This makes a lot of sense considering they're failkids of studio execs. one of them has a rich daddy at goldman sachs
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May 9, 2021 04:47
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oh are you watching the MST3K twitch stream too? Achmed Jones posted:i thought the first season of westworld was pretty good. each season got dumber and dumber, though, and that kind of tainted the first season because they leaned so hard into the worst parts about it yeah i liked first season westworld. i'm not saying it's the best television ever but i thought it worked well enough. but agreed that the following seaons got dumber and dumber. was it westworld or a different show where the writers got pissy that people on the internet were figuring out the plot twists in advance, so they decided to get extra-stupid on the writing to make the plot twists unguessable?
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May 10, 2021 03:29
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NoneMoreNegative posted:mfw I watch this later "we have Men In Black at home" lmao i love the fuckin' big dogs goldmine ...gently caress, i went to look for my favorite, "no YOU shut the gently caress up dad, you don't know a god drat thing about anime!!" but i think over the years my failing memory mashed a few of them together;
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May 20, 2021 21:47
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May 31, 2021 05:35
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i almost feel like Imperial Earth was the result of someone betting arthur c clarke that he couldn't write a character piece, and him proceeding to lose that bet haveblue posted:someone: maybe you could bring in a co-author to do the character stuff while you do the science stuff why in christ did he go with gentry lee anyhow
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Jun 1, 2021 04:37
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rotor posted:sources say that apparently he was pretty happy to have ... heh .... to have LANDED GENTRY lmao. 
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Jun 1, 2021 05:08
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Casual Encountess posted:i think my partner is possessed. i mean, jerry's somehow familiar with MADtv, which is not a show i would have expected to get exported
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Jun 14, 2021 05:33
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
hell yeah i love VINCENT
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Jun 23, 2021 03:01
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Agile Vector posted:ah garek, but if the actor didn't ignore the writers getting cold feet this was less the writers and more the studio (i.e. Rick Berman)
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Jonny 290 posted:the rebuild ramiel is terrifying and awesome. favorite angel of all time on the other hand 
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Jul 2, 2021 07:08
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Jonny 290 posted:the story is over. the movie poster has "Goodbye to All Evangelions" right on it. hideki anno will never create any more content for it, he's stated he's set out what he accomplished to do. lol yeah the only way the movie could have been more explicit about it is if they put a title card at the end saying "THIS IS THE END OF THE STORY, WE'RE NOT MAKING ANY MORE." the ending is literally the world being remade into one in which there are no more evas.
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Aug 18, 2021 01:43
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lament.cfg posted:I made it like 7 episodes into Neon Genesis Evangelion. yeah evangelion is very 90s anime lol
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Aug 19, 2021 17:05
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infernal machines posted:it was the 80s and asimov needed money i bounced hard off of foundation and earth (that was the first of the post-trilogy sequels, right?). i don't think i even finished that book
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Aug 20, 2021 05:03
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infernal machines posted:foundation's edge was the fourth book, published 29 years after second foundation, foundation and earth was after that. must have been foundation's edge, then. i distinctly remember thinking the dropoff after the original trilogy was just too severe.
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Aug 20, 2021 05:59
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infernal machines posted:there was a 13gb 2160p rip out about an hour after it hit amazon. the quality is pretty solid but you still get some blocking in smoke and really low light stuff. you'll besically never get away from that until someone posts a 50gb uhd bluray rip 13GB honestly seems a bit low for 2:10 of 2160p, did they recompress or do you think the same compression artifacts are in the actual amazon stream?
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Aug 21, 2021 22:22
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Sagebrush posted:the weird sex thing that always gets me about dune is that paul and chani are 17 and 15, respectively, when they have their first baby, leto II the elder who is killed in the sietch raid. he got her knocked up when she was 14. huh, i hadn't thought about their ages before. i guess because my mental image is always of the movie actors, who are definitely not that young lol pointsofdata posted:in the film they barely talk (in fact I don't think they exchange one line of dialogue before hooking up, Chani says some quote from the book and then Paul thinks "I love her") yeah, teenagers do dumb things, lol
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Aug 23, 2021 07:19
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Sagebrush posted:what movie is this? oh, is it macbeth? do you mean macbeth? i think the play you're talking about is macbeth. i mean that's certainly the most famous play about scottish characters but it's a little unclear, so you can just use its real name, which is macbeth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h--HR7PWfp0&t=72s
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Sagebrush posted:i think at least part of that is that worf is basically a klingaboo i know i'm a broken record on this, but it seems incredibly unfair to poo poo on worf about this. like, he's not some dipshit human nerd who grew up consuming a subset of exported cultural works solely based on their exoticism and difference to domestic fare, he's literally a refugee who survived a brutal massacre in which his parents died (and he thought his entire family was killed too) and is desperate to connect to his heritage. i mean, where are worf's adoptive parents gonna go for cultural materials on the klingon empire? the feds canonically don't know jack poo poo about klingon culture as of early TNG. maybe they could go to a klingon consulate or embassy, and of course they're gonna be providing carefully-selected materials full of the most self-serving "well actually klingons are in fact the most honorable space empire" propaganda. maybe ol' sergei tries calling some of his old starfleet buddies too, just "hey what do you know about klingon culture, do you know anybody" and gets some second-hand stuff that way too. "oh yeah i heard when one of 'em dies they do this weird thing where they howl at their gods". either way they're obviously not getting the complete picture. i dunno. the "worf's a klingaboo lol" thing bugs me because it's at the intersect of not giving a poo poo about words having meanings ('weeaboo' is absolutely a pejorative) and/or lazily misreading the material to try and dig for a hot take. like, yeah, obviously worf's got a distorted view of klingon culture, but it's not coming from the same place as some dumbass white teenager in ohio jerking off about japan.
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