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  1. On 1/14/2022 at 12:08 PM, 52-80 said:

    When Casey arrives in Lincoln Nebraska is he going to have to change his last name to Casey Martinez?

     

    So......Casey Casey Martinez?

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  2. 40 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    it actually mirrors a lot of watergate. 

    the break-in = 1/6

    the months/years of ratfucking = the big lie

    i didn’t live through it, but my favorite part of all the presidents men was when they realize the break-in was just a small piece of the puzzle. 

    “that was a year earlier, before muskie self-destructed.”  “if he self-destructed.”

     

    It was a simpler time during Watergate when the largest media organization in the country wasn't assisting in both the crime and the cover up.  Still not convinced anything will ever come from this.

     

    Fox News is finally fulfilling its mission and doing exactly what it was created to do.

     

    Spoiler

    If Fox News had a DNA test, it would trace its origins to the Nixon administration. In 1970, political consultant Roger Ailes and other Nixon aides came up with a plan to create a new TV network that would circumvent existing media and provide "pro-administration" coverage to millions. "People are lazy," the aides explained in a memo. "With television you just sit — watch — listen. The thinking is done for you." Nixon embraced the idea, saying he and his supporters needed "our own news" from a network that would lead "a brutal, vicious attack on the opposition." Alas, his fantasy network did not come into being at that time, and the 37th president was soon engulfed in the Watergate scandal. At first, Republicans dismissed the scandal as a Washington Post "witch hunt." But then the White House tapes proved beyond doubt that Nixon had used the levers of government to pursue vendettas against his opponents and cover up his extensive skulduggery. Disgusted GOP leaders, including Sen. Howard Baker of the Senate Watergate committee, chose principles over party. Nixon was forced to resign.

     

    We live in a far different country today, thanks to the vision originally outlined in that 1970 memo, which Ailes realized decades later with Rupert Murdoch's money. Fox News provides an alternative reality to the "fake news," providing daily talking points to Republican elected officials and policing them the way a sheepdog does its flock. Those who dare stand up to President Trump know they will be denounced as traitors on Fox, even if they're war veterans with a Purple Heart on their chests. In Foxworld, no evidence can prove that Trump tried to extort Ukraine into interfering in the 2020 U.S. presidential election — and if he did, so what? If the president beats the impeachment rap in the Republican Senate, as he's likely to do, he should send a thank-you card to Roger Ailes and Richard Nixon, wherever they may now be.

     

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  3. SIAP.

     

    'King of the Hill' to Return in Series From Original Creators' New Animation Company

    'King of the Hill' to Return in Series From Original Creators' New Animation Company

    It looks like fans of the long-running animated series King of the Hill have reason to celebrate, as it has just been announced that the series will be revived twelve years after its final episode aired, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Original series creators Greg Daniels and Mike Judge will return to oversee the series through their new animation company, Bandera Entertainment.

    There are more than a dozen projects in the works under the newly formed animation company, but perhaps the most notable is the King of the Hill revival. The series originally aired from 1997 until 2010 and followed the banal yet entertaining exploits of the humble citizens of Arlen, Texas. Upon its premiere in 1997, the show was an almost immediate success, and offered a unique insight into the middle-America mindse, led by the moral compass of propane and propane accessory salesman Hank Hill.

    No details were given about plot or production details for the revival. The news comes along with news of several other projects from the new animation company, including the upcoming Netflix series Bad Crimes. This also follows news of the revival of Judge's series, Beavis and Butt-Head, which was announced before the formation of Bandera. Beavis and Butt-Head was the MTV series which launched Judge into the mainstream, and much of its original content was used for inspiration for King of the Hill.

    After both Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill, Judge went on to create Silicon Valley for HBO, a series which plays with Judge's own experience working in Silicon Valley. Daniels has had extensive experience within animation aside from King of the Hill. Prior to joining the FOX show, Daniels worked on The Simpsons for several years, and currently, he works on the Netflix series Space Force starring Steve Carell.

     

    No details regarding the plot for the King of the Hill revival have been released, but as Daniels said of his work for Bandera Entertainment, “[w]e were very excited to go into different tones and different styles and try to expand the animation art form." Maybe, then, there are some exciting changes in store for our favorite Arlenites. (Or are they Arlenians? The world may never know).

    All seasons of King of the Hill are now available to stream on Hulu.

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  4. 1 hour ago, bluto said:

    So the tv runs all night or set a sleep timer? You people are savages in general

     

    All night TV before streaming came along.  Streaming services will usually stop at some point on its own to ask if you're still watching.  I'm sure if I ever get married again I'll have to adjust my sleeping habits but for now savage confirmed.

  5. 18 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

    It's wonderful that paternalistic white liberals help the people they think are inferior and incapable of figuring out how to vote.  They'd never manage without you.

     

    It's interesting that you'd frame a measure that way only meant to make voting equally as easy, fair, and accessible for every American, regardless of their class, income, zip code, or capabilities.  I'm not exactly sure why Republicans like you feel the need to inject race into everything.

  6. 4 hours ago, aggie08 said:

    So weird how not one Republican senator supports it. So weird.

     

    Very weird. It's almost as if Republicans know they need to be able to maintain the ability to fuck with the vote in order to hold on to power.  It's almost like in addition to just the normal stuff like trying to slow down and restrict certain populations from voting they now desperately want to be able to just overturn elections when everything else doesn't work.  It's almost as if they know they and their "policies" aren't popular enough to win on their own.

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  7. Usually something light like a sitcom and something I've already seen so I don't care when I end up sleeping through 2 or 3 episodes before Netflix or Hulu asks if I'm still watching and inevitably shuts it down.

    IASIP, Cheers, Taxi, Frasier, Friends, Seinfield, The Simpsons, Happy Endings, KOTH are all shows to fall asleep to.  

    Back in the day in my 20's and before streaming I'd always fall asleep to Adult Swim on Cartoon Network.  TBS used to also be pretty reliable with a steady stream of 90's and 00's sitcom reruns like King of Queens.  Although it would sometimes be jarring when the 4:00 paid programming shows would come on and wake you up because they'd be twice as loud as the normal shows.

  8. 3 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

    I'm also watching Maid even though it just depresses me.

     

    I really had to push through to finish Maid.  It felt like a it could have been a movie rather than a series.  Or they could have at least trimmed a few episodes of fat off.

  9. First day since I started playing I couldn't get to the final answer.  This after yesterday getting it on the second guess and thinking "this game is too easy."

    Wordle 213 X/6

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    Spoiler

    I fucked up on the last guess.  The 5th try told me there wasn't a second "O" but for some reason it didn't register until after I typed in my final guess.  Plus I don't even think that's a real word but an abbreviation.  I gave up.

     

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  10. I haven't read the source material, but doesn't this take place several years later in Florida and Detroit?  Doesn't sound like they'll have to account for Art or anyone from Kentucky not being in this one.  Could just be Olyphant and an entirely new crew, which I'm fine with.  Boyd was amazing as was the entire first series, but his arch was complete.  No need to keep going back to the same well.

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  11. On 1/15/2022 at 5:45 PM, Neonmoon said:

    Netflix is still better than any other platform. It’s not really even close right now imo. They put out tons of original content. From shows, to standup, to movies, to documentaries. They cover all bases. 
     

    Amazon Prime and HBO Max have some really great top tier shows but they don’t churn out the volume. 

    Disney is great for a couple Marvel Shows and Star Wars shows. That’s about it.

    Hulu is decent. 
     

     

    I can't really agree.  I think it was the best streaming service for years but has gotten progressively worse with original content while other platforms have stepped up their game.  At this point I don't really watch one more than the other, but Hulu is at least an equal to Netflix for me.  I like that a ton of stuff on regular TV/cable can be watched on Hulu a day or so after it airs.  Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Max are all top tier and basically equals for me. 

    I like Marvel and Star Wars okay, but not enough to justify owning Disney+ when it seems like that's the biggest selling point for the service for an adult without kids at home.  

  12. 23 hours ago, Helobious said:

    Saw the newest Scream today in theaters. It was alright. Matrix Resurrection levels of self-awareness, kind of annoying.

     

    Yeah, but that's kind of been Scream's thing since the first one.

     

    Spoilers below (including who the bad guy is)

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    The actress who played Ghostface Amber must like getting set on fire in films.  Same actress who played the Manson chick who got torched by Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.  I recognized her the entire time but couldn't put my finger on where.  Literally once she was lit on fire and started shrieking it all came back to me.

     

  13. On 1/14/2022 at 9:56 AM, MaybeACoordinator said:

    Didn't his dog die about three months after his daughter? 

     

    20 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Dude say it ain’t so …

      

     

    If I recall correctly it ran under his wife's car when she was leaving the house one day and she didn't see it.

    Truly fucking tragic and I can't imagine having two things like that happening back-to-back and keeping it all together.

     

    I can't remember him ever being anything other than an angry, toxic shitposter, but I tried to give him more leeway and avoided butting heads with him as much as usual this past year.  He made it difficult though.

     

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  14. On 1/3/2022 at 12:28 PM, wild_turkey said:

    Watched it last night. Thought it was okay. I'm surprised at the majority of people seeming to like it so much on here.

    I found the story itself rather interesting, especially after reading more about it on Wikipedia afterwards. I didn't like the way they told the story with multiple versions in succession. Not that I mind that version of storytelling, but I didn't think there was enough variety in the 3 different versions of the story to make the viewer watch it 3 times. The second version from the Jacques le Gris POV still made him look pretty rapey so there really wasn't any ambiguity in the eyes of a 21st century viewer. By the time we got to the 3rd version from Marguerite's POV, it just felt like a repeat of the previous 2 versions and didn't add anything except to make the runtime longer.

    The duel at the end was the best part of the movie and very well done IMO.

     

    Agree that the rape wasn't ambiguous from his perspective either for today's standards, but for the time period and the way he interacted with all women you could see how it would not seem like rape to him.

    It's been a hot minute since I've seen it now, but I feel like her perspective really drove home what a hotheaded loser Damon's character actually was and how he was only ever mistreated or acting honorable in his own eyes.  His misfortunes were mostly self-inflicted and his wife saw that.

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  15. 6 hours ago, Bravo said:

    LOL, I used to be a freight broker once upon a time. you're an insect.

     

    Yeah, I don't believe you.  The only reason I singled out your supply chain comment and none of the others is that I actually do work in the industry and have for the better part of the last decade.  So I asked you for specific details on what this administration's done that you think has led to a supply chain crisis, because I actually do deal with this firsthand every day, and you came back with "hE's PaYiNg PeOpLe NoT tO wOrK" which is pretty much exactly the type of moronic mush brained Fox News talking point non-answer I expected you to come back with.  

    So again, you're talking out of your ass and know nothing.

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  16. 14 minutes ago, Bravo said:

    uh, paying workers to stay home? that was kinda a big deal which we are still feeling the ripple effects from.  finding workers is a big cause of the supply chain issue. the policy to pay for people to stay home has caused a lot of the supply chain issue.

     

    So you don't know anything about the shipping and transportation industry and you're just talking out of your ass?  Got it.

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  17. Am I the only one who doesn't give a shit about who wins the Heisman anymore? It's a hype award reserved for QBs and RBs on playoff teams.  Occasionally someone outside of that box will get it, but it's not common.  It hasn't been a "best overall player" award in God knows how long.

    Bryce was as deserving as anyone based on those metrics alone.  Plus he actually is really good.  Best player in the nation?  Not likely.  But good enough. 

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    10 minutes ago, Lobo said:

     

    That's a good point, Tom.  I know many on CR don't want to acknowledge that, but it's true.  Millions of us turned out with the express purpose of voting against Donald Trump.  Millions.  Not sure how it breaks down in critical battleground states, but it was in the millions nationwide, possibly ten million+.  As a 20+ year member of the Libertarian Party, I never even bothered finding out who was running on that ticket.  It was "Get Trump out of office by any means necessary."  That was my entire political ideology last year.  That and hoping he died in office.  I voted for several Republicans and Libertarians down ballot, and a few Democrats as well. 

    I even managed to bundle ~$175k for Biden/Harris in Texas during the cycle.  People would ask some version of, 
    "You're a political guy, why exactly should I donate to Biden/Harris?"

    My only response was, "Policywise?  I dunno, I just know they're not Trump."  I think my honesty convinced a lot of friends to write a check.  Certainly wasn't my winning personality.  

     

    Exactly.  It easily explains away some of the stolen election conspiracy theorists' arguments as well.

    "Well why did Biden win in states where Republicans won down ballot?"  Because tons of those people weren't voting for Democrats, but they were voting against Trump.

    "Do you really believe someone like Joe Biden could have got more votes than Obama?"   Yes.  Nevermind that the voting population is always growing, but because millions of Romney and Bush voters also voted against Trump and for Biden.  Probably a bunch of people who don't regularly vote went out and voted against Trump and for Biden.

     

    8 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    And this is why we are in big fucking trouble.

     

    Yes, we likely are.

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