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I live for 90s TV sitcoms
- Comment on If a TV series you loved from the 90s, 00s or even early 10s instead came out today - how different do you imagine it would be? How would the writing be different? Who would be casted instead? 1 hour ago:
It’s been heavily theorized that arrested development what have been a wild success now vs when it came out. When it was released it was the early 00s and most average TV watchers were into the casual sitcom. They did not have interest in watching each episode in order with a long running narrative and jokes that called back several episodes to get.
However that’s where TV went. Now most of our shows follow that format, we enjoy it more. I think now they could have been successful
- Comment on [Marvel] There Is No Getting Back On This Ride 2 hours ago:
Exactly that. It’s not that we didn’t want more, but it just all happened so suddenly that we didn’t really get a chance to just absorb the end of infinity war either. It was just immediately into the next thing
- Comment on [Marvel] There Is No Getting Back On This Ride 3 hours ago:
A very good rundown. I feel the same way. The infinity saga was ana amazing triumph, where ever movie made you want to know the next step, hoping for a cameo, following details. And then it ended triumphantly.
And it should have stayed ended. It was over. We had closure. But money says why would they pause? Why would they even take just a few years break to let people enjoy it for a second? Hell no, 2 months later the next continuation starts. And the next, and now we have to watch the TV shows, and we have to watch the next one.
Author was spot on. The excitement was over, so it’s now a chore to follow along.
- Comment on Why You Can't Stream Coppola's Megalopolis Anywhere 3 hours ago:
Wasn’t it “supposed” to be an in theater experience? I remember he was so far up there he was saying no one should watch it at home or something stupid like that
- Comment on 100,000 People Are Using a Telegram Bot That Makes AI Cumshot Videos of Anyone 2 days ago:
Note I didn’t defend anything. Simply asking where the line was. If the line is consent then, does that mean the AI should be banned? What about Photoshop? What about stick figures of people with boobs? How far should we go to make sure it never happens? Should doors be burst down and office drawers be searched? Will you decide?
- Comment on 100,000 People Are Using a Telegram Bot That Makes AI Cumshot Videos of Anyone 2 days ago:
Is drawing someone on paper nude okay? What if it’s hyper realistic? What if it’s just a stick figure with giant breasts added? Is using Photoshop to enhance it okay? All of these things are things we do.
It’s much more nuanced than it seems. Where is the societal line of what’s okay and what isn’t?
- Comment on A24’s $3.5B Valuation Pushes the Indie Studio Toward Blockbusters 2 days ago:
I am conflicted.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Same here. I do okay. I voted against my interests to tax myself more to improve our societal systems and help others. I was overruled by people in need voting to get rid of the systems they depend on. So, idk how to feel anymore
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 4 days ago:
It kills me the the Jedi games, TLoU2, GoW games, they’re fun but they’re what, max 30 hours to beat? And they’re trying to up the price to 80?
Red dead 2 deserves 80. Cyberpunk in its current state could deserve 80. Both are around 100-120 hour games and I’ve replayed them multiple times. 30 hour games by proportion deserve a quarter of the price.
- Comment on What TV show always shows up on ‘best ever’ lists but just doesn’t belong? 6 days ago:
Someone says Star Wars. Laugh track for 10 seconds.
Haha nerd funny. Because he likes star wars. You know, like the biggest franchise of all history
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 6 days ago:
But but why are the studios who are focusing on making quality games doing okay?! - asks the profit focused studios
- Comment on Jeremy Renner Turned Down ‘Hawkeye’ Season 2 Because He Was Offered ‘Half’ His Season 1 Salary: ‘Did You Think I’m Only Half the Jeremy Because I Got Ran Over?’ 6 days ago:
Trust Disney to kick him while he’s down
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 1 week ago:
Yeah I go from an OS that I know how to use up and down to an ad riddled bloated piece of garbage. Thanks!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Welcome to the super fun club, I feel ya
- Comment on Delta Force devs say Desktop Linux support is 'not part of our agenda in the future' 1 week ago:
There are several games working on proton with anti cheat. Saying no to Linux means saying no to me, so guess I won’t play that one!
- Comment on 'About Us' page locked behind a paywall 1 week ago:
I’m 99% sure it’s something they just apply to all pages, not something done on purpose
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
My father went down that path, and has lost everyone that was ever close to him. His own children and mother don’t speak to him. The rest of his family avoids him. He hasn’t been to a family holiday in about 7 years now. I’m sure his hate keeps him company though
- Comment on Please Let the Simpsons Die: An Open Letter to Matt Groening 1 week ago:
He created it, but I would be shocked if he had actual say in the show any more. He’s moved into other projects. It’s like when you were working something you cared about a job and then left. Sure you might grab beer with someone you used to work with and they may take your advice, but it’s not really yours anymore. There’s probably a scrap of paper somewhere that proves it, but you’re off doing your new thing, and they have it running themselves.
In fact, I doubt Groening would care to intervene, it’s just not his baby anymore. I don’t think it has been for almost 2 decades.
- Comment on A "making hip-hop" community? 1 week ago:
Agree with the other commenter. Niche communities are fun, but take a lot of effort. I’d start posting to the general community and spin it off when it is big enough to warrant it
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 week ago:
Oh that’s AMAZING! I’m going to try it out tonight!
- Comment on Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games 1 week ago:
They literally had a hour long stream explaining what they did, and then you could have watched any of the thousands of twitch streams showing it. There was zero reason that you should have bought this if you thought this. I knew exactly what I was buying, seems like pretty much everyone did.
You are describing a remake. A remaster is a fresh coat of paint. Todd Howard said verbatim “This is not a remake” and then talked about his reasons why. You’re going on like they lied to you when they literally said everything you just complained about, and then you still bought it.
- Comment on Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games 1 week ago:
Man the negativity. I’m so sick of gamers negativity. It’s not even a new game, it’s a remaster. you knew what the product was going to be. It’s oblivion. We all knew it was oblivion. If you don’t like oblivion, why did you buy it?!
I swear to God if they changed it too much I’d be commenting here on a post about how they had no respect for the original. Then we wonder why “they never listen to gamers”. Because we bitch and moan about everything.
- Comment on Ubisoft Accused of 'Secret Data Collection' in Single-Player Games 1 week ago:
One step forward getting an offline version of the Crew, and another step back losing privacy
- Comment on What are some of the most cringeworthy scenes or moments in TV that you've seen? 1 week ago:
I was actually mentioning the one where they first meet up with the Ponderosa’s in a Subway
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 week ago:
It would have been a massive win win
- Comment on What are some of the most cringeworthy scenes or moments in TV that you've seen? 1 week ago:
Another Obligatory - Scott’s Tots. Unwatchable, I skip the entire episode.
Less obvious - HIMYM’s Slap Bet, in the later seasons. In fact most of the running gags were just… hollow, by the end. To the point they were cringey . Marshall’s big “last slap” in Season 9 was cringe for the whole episode, him “retelling” the story of him talking to the “three masters”, each just being Ted, Lily, and Robin. The entirety of Season 9 was cringey, that episode is hard to watch. It took such a fun running gag… and instead it ran itself into the ground.
- Comment on What are some of the most cringeworthy scenes or moments in TV that you've seen? 1 week ago:
Subway was the worst! I completely forgot about Chuck doing it, but they’ve done it in so many others. It’s Always Sunny has some bad ones…
- Comment on What are some of the most cringeworthy scenes or moments in TV that you've seen? 1 week ago:
That was literally the episode I stopped watching, I just couldn’t do it anymore
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 week ago:
Just switched my friend group over to Matrix. Honestly looked at Revolt, but no federation was a non-starter. Convincing friends to leave is hard enough, unfortunately being locked into a single server was a non-starter. It’s too bad, they have a great UI, but I think they should have left the backend to trusted protocols.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 week ago:
Exactly. I wish they would have just built a great UI on top of Matrix or even XMPP, but they insisted on doing it this way. None of my friends want to switch to something that they’re boxed-in with, they don’t want an app just for one server. Matrix is the only option we have, but all of the UIs are… meh.