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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2850 on: Wed, 05 February 2025, 09:53:35 »
Today is Wednesday so that means a new Mythic Quest episode. A neat show about a video game design studio with tons of giggles throughout.

Tp4 is torn, on the one hand, there is an infinitely deep chasm of digital distractions to numb our senses. On the other, every fraction of seconds not spent on working the problem brings mankind precipitously closer to the end.

One side, ACCEPT DESTINY, watch TV till the day you die.

Other side,  YELL at the Internet, maybe someone will do things differently..

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2851 on: Wed, 05 February 2025, 10:05:36 »


"The 50's" never existed, it was not some golden age where everything was great.


It was a golden age for a fortunate white boy growing up in a secure nuclear family in a mid-sized American city with very good schools and very little crime, who was able to go to a very good college and manage to avoid going to 'Nam.

When I saw Neil Armstrong step onto the moon (on a black and white television) I did not realize that this may well have been the single moment when the entirety of the human race was in its most unified state - perhaps ever.

Not until I awakened to adulthood a couple of years later did I realize that the overwhelming majority of people in the world were living lives that were almost beyond my comprehension.
 
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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2852 on: Wed, 05 February 2025, 11:40:36 »
Today is Wednesday so that means a new Mythic Quest episode. A neat show about a video game design studio with tons of giggles throughout.

Tp4 is torn, on the one hand, there is an infinitely deep chasm of digital distractions to numb our senses. On the other, every fraction of seconds not spent on working the problem brings mankind precipitously closer to the end.

One side, ACCEPT DESTINY, watch TV till the day you die.

Other side,  YELL at the Internet, maybe someone will do things differently..


I mean, it's a genuine concern that we are entertaining ourselves to death. If we can fill all of our waking free time with being entertained with our phones, etc, then what are we working towards?
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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2853 on: Wed, 05 February 2025, 17:18:49 »
No, ScarJo is too old for this, and getting too chubby, look at her arms, she can not hold this type of role anymore, male gaze/honey trap characters. If she managed to adhere to an eating disorder like Anne Hathaway, MAYYYBE. Of course Tp4 is not encouraging eating disorders. Merely an accurate critique of the shallow movie industry and its audience.

Miscast..

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2854 on: Wed, 05 February 2025, 21:59:02 »
4th rewatch, Foundation, such a good show. Its allegories more History than Prophecy. Virtually completely accurate.

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2856 on: Fri, 07 February 2025, 20:37:31 »
I don't think Sonic 3 should get away with the excuse 'it's just a kids movie,' because there have been too many well-written, perfectly paced, and fun children's movies to name. 3 is noticeably worse than 2, even including that totally unnecessary wedding scene from 2. The pacing in 3 just feels way off, and characters are borderline manic with the way they change and react from moment to moment like the person writing the dialogue got up in the middle of Shadow's sentence to make a cup of tea and play with the dog. Maybe there was some AI involved?
Also IDK how else to describe it, but Shadow has an old mans mouth

Anyway, they are gonna **** out a new Sonic movie every year now. Maybe there will be one really great one where they go crazy in like 3-4 films from now. Maybe I'm expecting too much and shouldn't be watching Sonic movies with a critical eye at 40.

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2857 on: Fri, 07 February 2025, 22:00:41 »
Have you guys noticed, in almost all Corean movies, they go out of their way to max out the vividness coloration.

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2858 on: Sat, 08 February 2025, 07:42:24 »
I like color. I'd rather watch an overly colored show than the pitch black "night" scenes of most shows, specifically calling out Game of Thrones. I want to see what is happening, pixels can exist in shades other than black and slightly darker black.
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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2859 on: Sat, 08 February 2025, 07:45:51 »

pixels can exist in shades other than black and slightly darker black.


I totally agree with that!

Also, I believe that background music should stay in the background.
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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2860 on: Sat, 08 February 2025, 09:57:39 »
If you guys are talking about the "Colors" of black. OLED is the only current technology which delivers this accurately.

Tp4 recommends Samsung S90F or S95F

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2861 on: Sat, 08 February 2025, 10:00:16 »
I don't think Sonic 3 should get away with the excuse 'it's just a kids movie,'

's weird cuz real sonic games are unplayable on anything outside of CRT, so who's really that invested in Sonic at this point?

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2862 on: Sat, 08 February 2025, 15:41:03 »
If you guys are talking about the "Colors" of black. OLED is the only current technology which delivers this accurately.

Tp4 recommends Samsung S90F or S95F


No this is a critique of TV shows and movies that don’t adjust light balance during dark scenes to indicate to the viewer night/dark but in doing so, the viewer cannot see any details because of how dark the entire scene is.
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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2863 on: Sat, 08 February 2025, 18:47:15 »
A friend got me on the Severance hype train, and I'm glad that I gave it a chance! It typically would not be my type of show, but I'm hooked for sure

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2864 on: Sat, 08 February 2025, 19:35:00 »
I don't think Sonic 3 should get away with the excuse 'it's just a kids movie,'

's weird cuz real sonic games are unplayable on anything outside of CRT, so who's really that invested in Sonic at this point?


Apparently their audience is little children and autistic 40 year olds. Same as it always was.

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2865 on: Sat, 08 February 2025, 21:35:08 »
Everytime Tp4 watches a TV show, he be like, something's wrong, must double check the TV settings. Takes out color probe just to make sure.

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2866 on: Sun, 09 February 2025, 15:30:52 »
Below
Pretty good thriller/horror. I'm sure I've seen it years ago, but forgot about all story, so was a good watch.

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Somehow this movie slipped my attention back in the days. Popular story, well executed. Old school thriller movie  :thumb:

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Interesting story, obviously I've seen this movie in the past few times, but could not remember what it was about, none of the scenes brought a single memory, so was worth to watch it again.
Sandra bullock good as always, if you are a fan, this is a mandatory position :)

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2867 on: Sun, 09 February 2025, 19:08:10 »
Reminds Tp4 of that movie, where they're stuck underwater and there was this giant crab monster.

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2868 on: Sun, 09 February 2025, 23:55:03 »
Sooo... dat hand-egg.

NEthing Tp4 should know so he can fake the conversation @ the watercooler?

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2869 on: Mon, 10 February 2025, 00:54:21 »
Helene (2020)..

Slice of life, a cut of Finnish-modernist Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck.

Stars Laura Birn (Foundation, Dermerzel)


Well made, falls under movies without an agenda. It's not trying to get anything out of the audience, just floating some intellectual shadows biographically accurate to the artist. The demeanor is calm and bland but Not-Vapid, this is difficult to achieve, for that one must applaud the successful entangling of the subject's profound etherealness.

As for Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck, her person, heck, sometimes genius is just self-evident/ obvious, no debate necessary.


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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2870 on: Mon, 10 February 2025, 03:08:16 »
Sooo... dat hand-egg.

NEthing Tp4 should know so he can fake the conversation @ the watercooler?


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« Reply #2871 on: Mon, 10 February 2025, 05:26:16 »
(...)Whereas back then I wrote about the tyranny of the majority, today I'd combine that with the tyranny of the minorities. These days, you have to be careful of both. They both want to control you. The first group, by making you do the same thing over and over again. The second group is indicated by the letters I get from the Vassar girls who want me to put more women's lib in The Martian Chronicles, or from blacks who want more black people in Dandelion Wine.
I say to both bunches, Whether you're a majority or minority, bug off! To hell with anybody who wants to tell me what to write. Their society breaks down into subsections of minorities who then, in effect, burn books by banning them. All this political correctness that's rampant on campuses is b.s.

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2872 on: Mon, 10 February 2025, 08:25:18 »
"The word originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot. These sports were usually played by peasants, as opposed to the horse-riding sports more often enjoyed by aristocrats. In some cases, the word has been applied to games which involved carrying a ball and specifically banned kicking."

"The word "soccer" originated as an Oxford "-er" slang abbreviation of "association", and is credited to late nineteenth century English footballer, Charles Wreford-Brown. It has been speculated that both this story and the William Webb Ellis rugby story are apocryphal, however this appears to be a revision of history as the English term "soccer" fell out of favour while England differentiated their language from America's (where the term soccer had become widely used) English in the 20th century due to growing American popularity. "Socker" with a k appeared in print at least as early as 1889. The New York Times, published in 1905: "It was a fad at Oxford and Cambridge to use 'er' at the end of many words, such as foot-er, sport-er, and as Association did not take an 'er' easily, it was, and is, sometimes spoken of as Soccer." There is also the sometimes-heard variation, "soccer football"." - from Wikipedia

Also, American football was originally known as "gridiron football" because the playing field was known as the "gridiron" but the descriptor fell out of favor because it was cumbersome.

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2873 on: Mon, 10 February 2025, 08:30:29 »
ok.. "hand-egg" *sigh*
So what about it? Are we talking about some movie about handing eggs?
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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2874 on: Mon, 10 February 2025, 09:23:09 »
So what would the name change be for Gaelic Football?

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2875 on: Wed, 12 February 2025, 10:15:03 »
I watched "The Apprentice" last night. It was pretty good, and "felt" like it was fairly accurate.

It seems to me that it might be valuable and informative in helping people understand the colossal influence that Roy Cohn had in shaping Drumpf Monster as we know it today. For people who are well informed about Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, with Cohn as his right-hand man, the amoral "steam-roller" attitude of the narcissistic autocrat is all-too recognizable, but for others it might seem to have come out of nowhere.

Although Stan does not really look or sound like his character, he does a good job with the rhythm and inflection of his speech, and some of the close-ups on his mouth are surprisingly accurate portrayals.

And Strong's Cohn is both hilarious and chilling.

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Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Reply #2876 on: Wed, 12 February 2025, 12:12:40 »
Rewatched Spirited Away last night.  As a kid you don't really understand the movie, then as an Adult, you realize, OH, they're talking about capitalism.

Capitalism, fattens you up, makes you bloated/sick, to be served up as meat to the Hungry Ghost Oligarchic Cast. The Furnace slave, other resort workers, the middle class (wage slaves), support the infrastructure of exploitation.

Ruling atop it all is the Demoness Matriarch (Technocrat) in possession of the highest magic (technology of enslavement, which is our economy).

Chihiro didn't eat the bait food, that's why she survives the system seeing it for what it is, subsisting. But the system is good for NO ONE, the Matriarch is mother to a whiny gluttonous inconsolable Baby portraying the descendants of the typical wealthy class.


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