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  1. 13 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    also the whole tie-dye shirt bit - i mean yeah, it's not normal for roy's consistent wardrobe (or for a football coach) but it was well made and plenty of people like tie-dye shit.  if it was a super fucked up attempt at tie-dye, like something that would actually come from a 3rd grader then it probably would've worked better.  didn't seem like it would get the crazy attention it got, and once you say, "it was a gift from my niece" it gets cute and nobody would care.

    a tuxedo t-shirt on the other hand...

    I've always thought it was weird how scared of him everyone is. He's like 160 pounds, short and waddles. I have to remember it takes active suspension of belief to remember he's supposed to be this extreme Billy bad ass.

  2. 2 hours ago, mdmost said:

    The Indiana Jones movies and Young Indiana Jones TV show will be coming to Disney+ on May 31st. Very interesting since these were on Paramount+ before, I believe. Not sure why the rights fell to Disney. 

    Maybe the same reason there is the Indiana Jones Stunt exhibit thing at Disney World Hollywood Studios?

  3. On 9/2/2021 at 8:52 PM, atomheartbevo said:

    They better get to like him, since he's one of the main baddies in the next phase.

    I think the problem is that he was introduced in the last episode, and a lot of people don't like when you have this big buildup, and  then the main bad guy only shows up in the last episode.

    ehhhhhhhhhhh, maybe not now, eh?

  4. 6 minutes ago, PantsTent said:

    Yes, that's correct. I'm asking why you need YouTubeTV on top of Fubo?

    Good question — I’ll review it tonight. If what you imply is true and I can cancel youtubeTV, you will have unlocked some value in this hidden inefficiency and I’ll venmo you 10% of June-Dec fees I would have paid to Google as a commission ($56). Lol :-9

  5. 34 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    I really don't understand why Arnold continually asks Willis whatchu talkin' about. He knows exactly what Willis is talking about. It does nothing but take me out of the show and make Arnold look stupid.

    I’ve been watching I love Lucy and Sanford and Sons on TVLand. Those shows put Ted Lasso to much, much shame.

  6. 4 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    the rebecca/amsterdam story is so strange given the tone/theme of so many of these recent episodes. in this story arc rebecca:

    •is on her phone and somehow unaware that she's in everyone's way on the bike path 

    •meets a strange man from a foreign country wh she knows nothing about and joins him in his aquatic mobile home for an evening of drinking and...

    •gets so black out drunk that she has no recollection of whether or not she fucked this complete stranger river rat 

    and yet we as viewers are supposed to view this as some sort of happy, beautiful love story for rebecca. the writers can't get their story straight. they had an episode where it was of paramount importance that all men respect women and their privacy by deleting photos of former loved ones off of their phones, only to glorify jack, a woman, ogling a famous man's dick from his own leaked photos. similarly we somehow were supposed to celebrate rebecca being a loose, drunken whore behaving dangerously, which really goes against so much of what this show is trying to promote. if you're going to go so hard on the social commentary you probably shouldn't blatantly contradict yourself like that. 

    I've more or less agree with you entirely up to this point, but what are you talking about here in the bold? She didn't have sex with the guy and even if she did, I don't think that constitutes what you are characterizing her as IMO. I mean, I get not liking her character or character arc and plot.

  7. 36 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

    I have all those except YouTube and fubo. We pay $50. I get fubo (or something) for 3-4 months a year to watch the horns. $70 a month for YouTube plus whatever you’re paying for fubo seems crazy. 

    We only have FuboTV for the Dallas Stars and Texas Rangers. It's the Fubo + YoutubeTV that make the bulk of the costs to your point ($150 or so) but they are also the subs that get the most use by a lionshare.

  8. 9 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    Instead of focusing on programming, the big telecoms should focus on getting tik tok banned and slowly coaching people to expand their attention spans again.  This isn’t even really about how deep your library is or your streaming service’s price point anymore.  It’s that young people are going to fuck around on tik tok / YouTube / instagram /  whatever instead of watching a traditional full length show.  Even YouTube is moving towards “shorts” because that regular 5 minute video is just TOO LONG OMG I CANT EVEN!

    To your point about not being about price anymore, I have FuboTV, YouTubeTV, Disney+, Hulu, Prime Video, HBOmax, Netflix & AppleTV which, in sum, costs me more than I ever paid when it was just a DirecTV + premium channels bill ($100-200/month).

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  9. Read some numbers today that don't bode well for our writer friends and the writer side of the strike:

    • Disney's earnings were a big miss and bad, going to cause more belt-tightening on shows and movies as they are still on a path to profitability. ESPN and ABC are bleeding Disney dry.
    • Hulu was flat (no growth), which has been their story for years (and Disney on tap to finish acquiring them)
    • Cord Cutting is killing TV's/Shows. Comcast led the way with the loss of customers.
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    With the Q1 decline, total pay-TV penetration of occupied U.S. households (including for internet services like YouTube TV and Hulu) dropped to 58.5% — its lowest point since 1992, two years before DirecTV launched as a new rival to cable TV, according to Moffett’s calculations. As of the end of Q1, U.S. pay-TV services had 75.5 million customers, down nearly 7% on an annual basis. Cable TV operators’ rate of decline in Q1 reached -9.9% year over year, while satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network fell -13.4%. In addition, so-called “virtual MVPDs” (multichannel video programming distributors) lost 264,000 customers in Q1, among the worst quarters to date for the segment…

    Comcast, the largest pay-TV provider in the country, dropped 614,000 video customers in Q1 — the most of any single company — to stand at 15.53 million at the end of the period…Google’s YouTube TV was the only provider tracked by MoffettNathanson that picked up subs in Q1, adding an estimated 300,000 subscribers in the period (to reach about 6.3 million) and netting 1.4 million subscribers over the past year. Hulu, meanwhile, has barely grown over the past three years (and lost about 100,000 live TV subs in Q1), Moffett noted, while FuboTV lost 160,000 subscribers in North America in the first quarter to mark its worst quarterly loss on record.

     

     

  10. 43 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

    Green match book has shown up several times, including either the last episode or the one before 

    I definitely didn't notice it last episode and that would mean if it was in the last episode it wasn't ham-fisted in our faces, which these writers can't refrain from, so I think it must have been 2 or 3 episode back which prompted my commented of hoping they abandoned it mostly.

  11. 14 minutes ago, Pokoloco said:

    So, Rebecca will be pregnant with the Amsterdam guy's kid right?  

    I, like the show it mercifully seems, had forgotten and abandoned the psychic/Rebecca side plot.

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  12. 4 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Last week I watched Rogue One, A New Hope, and the Empire Strikes Back, because I realized that there were tons of references in the new show that I just don't remember from the originals (and Rogue One which I found to be extremely helpful in understanding the set up for A New Hope). The special effects and choreography are of course not very sophisticated in the originals, but I imagine were spectacular for its time. The thing that sticks out most to me from A New Hope is how bad some of the dialogue is, especially from Han Solo. The plot also is difficult to keep track of, it reads like a super complex sci-fi novel for nerds, but I do appreciate now the subtleties that made their way into the prequels, sequels, and Disney + series. It also establishes my belief that people who complain about cheesiness form time to time in the Mandalorian some of the other parts of the saga must have truly forgotten the originals. Yoda is literally a Sesame Street muppet for much of the movie, super cheesy dialogue. Same with the droids. I had completely forgotten about Porkins too, a fat joke during a major space battle, made me chuckle.

    As someone who just watched a New Hope, 100% all of this. I'm sure in 1977 it was bleeding edge stuff and just mind blowing, etc. But revisiting it is 25% cheese, 25% cringe and 50% cool. 

    Also, about the horrible lightsaber duel, I read this online, not sure of it's veracity:

    The REAL WORLD answer is that the guy in the Vader suit was a big, lumbering guy who didn’t move real fast. On top of that, he lied about having a background with sword fighting to get the part, so they expected a better duel before they realized David Prowse was completely unskilled, and the fight we saw got put together on the fly.

  13. On 5/14/2023 at 10:53 AM, Celery Man said:

    Also this, I was on a big Lebowski kick while season 1 of True Detective came out and it is what got me started on Townes

     

    Amazing! Love that TVZ song.

  14. 20 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

    My second order of business is requesting bids from landscaping companies, because we pay over $2K a month to mow about two acres and "maintain" two retention ponds.  It's a racket.

    HOA also pays for irrigation and electric bills, which aren't huge costs, but total about $3600 a year.  Our second largest expense is liability insurance in case anyone gets hurt in common areas or God forbid drowns in a retention pond.  It's about 10% of our operating budget.

    Just maintaining the common areas and carrying sufficient insurance has us at around $33K/yr.

    Yep the insurance is a huge cost people don't realize goes into HOA.

    Also, I thought the same thing as everyone else ("what are we paying these yahoos for, they just mow and blow and once or twice a year trim some trees and maintain common areas") and so my first order of business was to shop around and get quotes.

    I was quickly humbled-- if you haven't shopped for landscaping lately, like everything else these days, it ain't cheap. And this was like 5 years ago pre-covid pricing. We ended up keeping the same company we'd been using for a decade and later found out that even the high price everyone complained about was below the market of what they usually charge as we were grandfathered in.

  15. 21 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

    We are in a new development and the developers just handed control to the HOA over on the 1st of March.  My wife encouraged me to volunteer for the board because (in her words) I am calm and not an idiot.  Yada, yada... I end up president of the HOA.  My first action as HOA president to was to research and collect bids from HOA mgmt companies.  My main reasoning for doing this was to have a neutral 3rd party do the covenant inspections and send out notices for violations.  They only come out once every two weeks and won't focus on trashcan bullshit like some petty Karen.  They manage several neighborhoods, so they don't have time for stupid minutiae.  If a major issue does arise, then they can be our bulldog and we as board members don't have to go toe to toe with our neighbors.   

    This was me at my first house, but VP. I tried to explain to everyone the benefits of outsourcing it and because the dues went up like $30, it was defeated in a landslide.

    The HOA I am in now is very chill and as long as I have my trashcans in/hidden and guests don't park facing the wrong side of the street, I've never had any issues and I was concerned because my kid wanted a basketball goal and wasn't sure how that would play out but it's been fine.

  16. 2 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

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    Man, this. The only time I've gone to a Walmart the past 15 years was between the hours of midnight and 5am and COVID-19 killed that perk.

    3 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

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    He lost his hearing well into being a famous, accomplished musician, right?

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  17. 7 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

    Market wasn't crazy about the OKE/Magellan tie-up.  OKE down 9% today. Not clear about why the reaction.  Maybe it just makes OKE more complicated.  OKE has been a dividend machine for decades. 

    OKE was down, but Magellan was up like 13% from what I saw. Not sure what that means either.

    A friend used to audit (PwC) OKE and he always talked how brutally cheap and smart OKE always seemed to be, so I tend to trust their judgment.

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  18. I'm really late to the party but I've never been a SW nerd but my kid has liked it for a while and I started watching them together, we've seen from Ep1 -3, Obi Wan series, and Ep4.

    I thought the light saber and fight scenes in the prequels were awesome. Darth Maul vs Qui Gon and Yoda vs Dooku and Obi Wan vs Darth Vader were all awesome. The Obi Wan vs Darth Vader fight scene was comically bad. Two stiff 60 year olds standing 4 feet from each other, stationary, and barely moving their swords.

    Also, I'm struck with how ANH/Ep4 feels very rushed and thin on world-building and character development. Maybe it wasn't that way in the late 70's cinema world and maybe it's because the following movies fleshed it out more.

    Oh, and Reva was the absolute worst. Followed by little girl Leia. Obi Wan was cool and awesome though

  19. Trust the process. This season is fantastic still.

    My theory is that Moss' dad has some technique or psychological torture skill to hypnotize people (e.g. journalist speaking German) and the last two episodes was him screwing with Barry's mind, and projecting what a sordid, sucky future would look like, so to play ball and confess and cooperate.

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