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The alien bullshit is being floated online by the mentally ill/incompetent/Joe Rogan listeners, and we have elected officials at the national level (in the House of Representatives) publicly claiming they were told it was Iranians (because Iran is in a great spot to be picking a head-on fight with us) while other officials at the local and national levels are being careful with their words because they don’t want to be proven wrong, and we have certain news channels stirring the pot with unhinged or grifting guests looking to stir up the tinfoil crowd, and when you mix that all together with a healthy dose of social media, we end up with half the population panicking.
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I Don't Really Watch or Like TV or Movies Anymore
atomheartbevo replied to TwiceHorn's topic in Movies and TV
I would watch Shameless with a laugh track. -
I Don't Really Watch or Like TV or Movies Anymore
atomheartbevo replied to TwiceHorn's topic in Movies and TV
And the people wishing we were back to 20+ episodes should try watching Star Trek: The Next Generation to find out how much can be padded out. 20 minutes is perfect for a lot of YouTube stuff, and there’s a lot of quality stuff on there, from original creators to people reposting British stuff. -
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atomheartbevo replied to TwiceHorn's topic in Movies and TV
If movie stars did TV work back then, it was usually some prestigious mini-series, like North and the South or Winds of War or Centennial. Now there's plenty of movie stars who will "step down" to TV level because the pay checks and are good and steady and solid TV shows carry a lot of critical weight these days (Billy Bob Thornton, Kevin Kostner, plenty of HBO shows, etc.). -
I Don't Really Watch or Like TV or Movies Anymore
atomheartbevo replied to TwiceHorn's topic in Movies and TV
A lot of the shows I watched as a kid didn’t hold up well at all. But when I look at what the top-rated shows adults were watching in the 70s/80s/early 90s, or earlier, there’s not much there that I would want to rewatch down the road. Mostly some of the prestige mini-series, and I know shows like Murder She Wrote or Magnum, P.I. and others have their fans today (but their production values were high), but a lot of it was just shallow as hell or poorly produced. -
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atomheartbevo replied to TwiceHorn's topic in Movies and TV
I didn't see Palm Springs until recently, and loved it, and for whatever reason, even though it would have been the perfect pandemic movie (which is when it came out) I missed it then. I was just not in the mood then, or it was always there and I had a long list of other stuff I wanted to watch. I'm working through Parks and Rec (I had caught some eps here and there) and I enjoy it, but I have no sense of urgency to binge it (everybody I know that liked it finished it long ago). And I'm actually working through The Walking Dead, but only by a YouTube channel that I mentioned earlier, that presents only the important moments from select episodes, as if they were self-contained battles, or forced migrations, or in general important moments in the "history" of the Walking Dead's world. It's actually a bit entertaining and at times makes me want to watch the entire series, but I don't have that kind of time and it ignores the bad writing. I occasionally come across shows that I have to stay current on, not because I'm going to discuss them with other people, but because I really enjoy them. But for the most part, we got what we were told would happen as kids - that someday we'd be able to easily watch any show that ever existed. Obviously, it didn't pan out as expected (everything is scattered between multiple services) and there are exceptions (can't believe Twister was not streaming ahead of Twisters), but it's pretty much all there, whenever we want it. Because it's at our fingertips, it's easy to ignore it in favor of things we classify as being more important. And I left out one thing - we don't have to choose between shows, like we did as kids (assuming you were an 80s or 90s kid). I hated certain times of the year in the 80s when I had shows I really liked, that were on opposite of each other, on different channels. I would have to wait for stuff to hit syndication before I could watch some of it. -
Warfare. Alex Garland makes a war movie
atomheartbevo replied to Parliament's topic in Movies and TV
It's A24. In. -
I Don't Really Watch or Like TV or Movies Anymore
atomheartbevo replied to TwiceHorn's topic in Movies and TV
This is definitely an AI chatbot, but for a brief moment, before it opened up the woke bag of bullshittery and flew too close to the sun, it was actually on to something. We consumers of TV and movie media, and arguably books, radio, music, and video games, are absolutely inundated and burned out with choices. This isn't the 1980s where I had to fake being sick to stay home a few days to catch a G. I. Joe cartoon series because the dumb motherfuckers at the TV station scheduled it for 2:30pm while I was still in school, and I had no VCR. This isn't the 1990s where, once Disney released a movie in theaters and then put it out on VHS, they advertised that it would forever go into the SEKRUT H!DDEN DISNEY VAULTS! and we would never be able to buy it or watch it again unless a TV network blessed us with its presence. This isn't the 2010s and 2020s where every single fucking TV series made since the 1950s has a DVD release just waiting to be bought through some cheesy little company that probably makes a killing selling DVD sets to boomers. This is 2024. I have well over 250 games on GOG, Steam, Epic, Ubisoft, Humble, Itch.io, and a few other sites and the vast majority I will probably never play more than an hour or two (because they were free or they were insanely cheap and I had heard of them). I'll end up pissing away far more time on some cheap iPhone game anyways, of which there are a million just waiting to be downloaded.. And I don't even have to play the longer games because some game streamer has already put out a complete walk-through of any game I'm interested in, so that I can just watch that instead of spending a lot more time figuring out whatever game it is. I can see all of the high-points and low-points without doing anything more than bringing up YouTube, and without having to even buy the game. I have hundreds of free books on my Kindle, plus Kindle Unlimited which means tens or hundreds of thousands more books are at my fingertips (plus I can buy another million or two ebooks as well) not to mention my local library has a fuckton of ebooks I can check out. And I don't even have to read the books because some booktuber has already put out a 5 minute summary YouTube video on any book I'm interested in. I have Netflix, Disney/Hulu, HBOMaxChipJoannaGainesDiscovery, Peacock, Paramount+, Amazon Prime, AppleTV+, plus a few free services (Tubi, etc., something like 20-30 free Google TV channels through my Android TV that all have singular topics) and a million other videos on YouTube, quite a few of which are decent if one looks around. Over-the-air broadcast, I have something like 40-50 TV channels, and dozens of them are channels that are focused on one thing - the Western channel, the Game Show channel, the Hollywood Squares channel, the Murder She Wrote channel, the Little House on the Prairie Channel, and they are running this content non-stop. I don't even have cable TV and haven't had it for 20 or so years, but everything I want to watch, I can stream the next day. If I wanted to get a radio service like Sirius, I could have access to hundreds or thousands of singularly-focused channels, like a Beatles channel, a "songs from the 1970s that were in the top 20, but not in the top 10" channel", a Joe Rogan channel, a surf music channel, a surf music channel that is nothing but European bands imagining what it's like to surf and write surf music channel, and thousands of fucking podcasts through Apple, YouTube, etc., if not tens of thousands. I have access to pretty much the entirety of the 20th and 21st century music outputs, through the aforementioned Sirius, etc. services, plus YouTube, YouTube music, Spotify, Amazon Prime music, Apple iTunes/Music/whatever. Pretty much every movie in a theater these days will be streaming within 6 months, and while I don't have a massive TV, it's bigger than what I had 10 years ago and is just fine. There's only about 1-2 movies a year where I feel like I have to see them in the movie theater. In short, I have at my fingertips, whether it be my phone, iPad, or TV remote, access to more content than I could ever consume in 20 lifetimes. My streaming service and gaming queues are fucking legendary, and someday there will be some emo-hipster-balladeers who write epic ballads about the length of my queues. And if I miss a show, such as The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones or whatever, I know I can easily stream it that night or the next day, or even better in some cases, watch some solid recaps on YouTube with all of the Easter eggs I would have missed. I missed entire seasons of the Walking Dead, but there are some people who put together some awesome YouTube videos covering the most important events in the Walking Dead as if they were historical events, and in some cases, those videos are far more entertaining than the actual shows/seasons themselves were because they can skip right over shitty writing. In short there is no sense of urgency whatsoever about watching anything on TV or in the theaters. NONE. This is not 10 or 20 years ago where some event TV stuff like Lost or the Sopranos had to be consumed the moment it aired because everybody would be talking about it the next day - if I get behind, I don't have to worry about missing out overall because I can stream it over lunch or on the weekend, or better yet, I can binge it down the road, and in the meantime, I can spend a few minutes online or on YouTube and get a recap and pretend like I watched it when talking to my friends or co-workers. In short, it has nothing to do with woke and everything to do with too much content from the last 100 years. Sorry @TwiceHorn for the manifesto. -
I Don't Really Watch or Like TV or Movies Anymore
atomheartbevo replied to TwiceHorn's topic in Movies and TV
That is the dumbest fucking thing that's been said in this sub in a long time. Is this you?- 87 replies
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atomheartbevo replied to TwiceHorn's topic in Movies and TV
Sometimes, but I can always find something interesting on Youtube. There’s a lot of good documentaries and history vloggers on there. Lot of BBC documentaries. -
He’s 34 and his wife is 57, so I imagine he works out to keep up with her.
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Even though it’s ostensibly an American song, it seems like when any Irishman gets drunk, they automatically know how to belt out the entirety of “Mr. Brightside”.
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So two fuel tankers that supply Russian forces in the Crimea area sank. I guess it could be drunk/incompetent Russian crews in bad weather.
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Anno 117: Pax Romana (Anno 1800 winding down development)
atomheartbevo replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Video Games
And I was okay with that, although I did cheap out and buy them on sale, but most of the DLCs....well hell, when you add them all together, it's basically the equivalent of a few new games (in terms of artwork/resources that went into them). -
It’s why even though he could take Belarus at any time, he doesn’t need to thanks to Lukashenko. If he had a Lukashenko in Ukraine in 2021, none of this happens.
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it’s not going to be a foreign adversary planning a 9/11-style attack, because doing this kind of stuff now kind of puts a spotlight on the activity, which is not what they’d want, and they sure as fuck wouldn’t be running drones with lights. The feds can play dumb, but you know somebody is looking at it. Any adversaries would be practicing this stuff in Bumfuckery, Pakistan or MiddleofNowhere, Afghanistan. And it’s not a nation-state planning to attack us. And if the UFO crowd wants to believe this is UFOs, then they are 100% responsible for proving it. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. They don’t get to throw a shitty video out there and tell everybody else “prove this isn’t a UFO”, because it’s on them to prove it is a UFO,
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