ShadySands Posted June 28, 2019 Posted June 28, 2019 It doesn't get any smarter and is super frustrating. The RLM review is pretty spot on. 1 1 Free games updated 3/4/21
Raithe Posted June 28, 2019 Posted June 28, 2019 2 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
majestic Posted July 1, 2019 Posted July 1, 2019 On 6/28/2019 at 9:14 PM, ShadySands said: It doesn't get any smarter and is super frustrating. The RLM review is pretty spot on. It's hilarious how much more the two noticed than I did. I wonder if they binged the episodes, because between the weekly release and not paying attention while watching I missed a lot of the dumb. I also had completely forgotten about lines like "That's the power of math people!" and "I like science". 1 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
ShadySands Posted July 1, 2019 Posted July 1, 2019 We binged about half the first season and did mostly weekly viewings for the remainder and the show definitely benefits with time between the episodes. Free games updated 3/4/21
Gromnir Posted July 2, 2019 Posted July 2, 2019 Neil Gaiman's Sandman Is Becoming an Expensive Netflix Series netflix? am paying little enough attention to tv most o' the time, so we were unaware dc's streaming service were experiencing difficulties. does make us wonder what the next gaiman work to be made into tv will be. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Krookie Posted July 2, 2019 Posted July 2, 2019 I finished Chernobyl last night. Probably my favorite miniseries since Band of Brothers or The Pacific. I legitimately felt like I was getting radiation poisoning just by watching it. Woke up after watching the first 3 episodes with a weird sense of dread and realized I was just still reeling from watching it the night before. 2
BruceVC Posted July 2, 2019 Posted July 2, 2019 57 minutes ago, Krookie said: I finished Chernobyl last night. Probably my favorite miniseries since Band of Brothers or The Pacific. I legitimately felt like I was getting radiation poisoning just by watching it. Woke up after watching the first 3 episodes with a weird sense of dread and realized I was just still reeling from watching it the night before. It is brilliant, haunting and moving. Great series I am watching Tell Me a Story, very entertaining psychological series about the stories of different people and how certain events have parallels to fairy tales but its set in modern day New York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Me_a_Story_(TV_series) "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
InsaneCommander Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 On 7/1/2019 at 7:58 PM, majestic said: It's hilarious how much more the two noticed than I did. I wonder if they binged the episodes, because between the weekly release and not paying attention while watching I missed a lot of the dumb. I also had completely forgotten about lines like "That's the power of math people!" and "I like science". I missed a lot too. Quite embarrassing.
Guard Dog Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 Oh my God! MST3K is on NetFlix???? Why the heck didn't you all tell me this??? What good are you people? It's not all of it... but they are making new ones! Suddenly life has meaning again! 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
BruceVC Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 2 hours ago, Guard Dog said: Oh my God! MST3K is on NetFlix???? Why the heck didn't you all tell me this??? What good are you people? It's not all of it... but they are making new ones! Suddenly life has meaning again! Yeah, I also noticed this today..Im very excited "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
majestic Posted July 4, 2019 Posted July 4, 2019 The MST3K revival happened as a Kickstarter project that I backed for almost 300$, and now I'm legally not allowed to watch the new episodes, and I most likely never will. No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
Amentep Posted July 5, 2019 Author Posted July 5, 2019 22 hours ago, Guard Dog said: Oh my God! MST3K is on NetFlix???? Why the heck didn't you all tell me this??? What good are you people? It's not all of it... but they are making new ones! Suddenly life has meaning again! Friends don't let friends watch MST3K. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Guard Dog Posted July 5, 2019 Posted July 5, 2019 13 minutes ago, Amentep said: Friends don't let friends watch MST3K. Then you, sir, are not my friend! 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
majestic Posted July 6, 2019 Posted July 6, 2019 Amentep is just a cranky old man who is annoyed that MST3K episodes are sometimes the only way to view old B-movies he used to love as a kid. On a less humorous note we really need a better global licensing model that reflects the reality of modern distribution. 1 1 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
Agiel Posted July 6, 2019 Posted July 6, 2019 I have a feeling that Funko Pops of Alexei, complete with tiny cherry-flavoured slushie, aren't long in coming. Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
majestic Posted July 6, 2019 Posted July 6, 2019 9 minutes ago, Agiel said: I have a feeling that Funko Pops of Alexei, complete with tiny cherry-flavoured slushie, aren't long in coming. Just finished watching as well. Well that was a gut punch of an ending, at least until the post credits scene ruined it. The premise is a tad... unrealistic. I mean, not that realism per se is necessary, we're talking about a setting with an interdimensional gate, monsters and girls with telekinetic and mind-bending powers after all, but the idea of a top secret Russian installation hundreds of meteres beneath Hawkins created with the help of a corrupt mayor that a bunch of kids, a washed up cop and a weirdo mom successfully infiltrate and take out... eh... well... Still enjoyed it very much. 1 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
Agiel Posted July 6, 2019 Posted July 6, 2019 (edited) @majestic Quote a top secret Russian installation hundreds of meteres beneath Hawkins created with the help of a corrupt mayor While a secret facility built hundreds of meters under Hawkins is rather improbable, the idea that it was built with the aide of laundered funds and property rights finagling has some weird echoes in reality. Craig Unger had written on capital flight from the former Soviet Union being laundered into the US by buying real estate (by the admission of Oleg Kalugin, a former KGB general, when called for the Russian Mafia effectively operates as a branch of the intelligence services). at least until the post credits scene ruined it. Next season El goes to the Soviet Union to rescue Hopper, and they escape back to the US piloting a MiG-31 Foxhound that El controls telepathically. Edited July 6, 2019 by Agiel Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
BruceVC Posted July 6, 2019 Posted July 6, 2019 (edited) 12 hours ago, majestic said: Amentep is just a cranky old man who is annoyed that MST3K episodes are sometimes the only way to view old B-movies he used to love as a kid. On a less humorous note we really need a better global licensing model that reflects the reality of modern distribution. Its on Netflix, why cant you watch it there? Edited July 6, 2019 by BruceVC "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
ShadySands Posted July 6, 2019 Posted July 6, 2019 13 hours ago, majestic said: Amentep is just a cranky old man who is annoyed that MST3K episodes are sometimes the only way to view old B-movies he used to love as a kid. On a less humorous note we really need a better global licensing model that reflects the reality of modern distribution. 1 1 Free games updated 3/4/21
majestic Posted July 7, 2019 Posted July 7, 2019 15 hours ago, BruceVC said: Its on Netflix, why cant you watch it there? For the same reason I can watch Discovery on Netflix and our posters from the US can't. Distribution rights - doubly bad in case of shows that come with a necessary secondary license like MST3K, i.e. you need to have the licenses in order for the episodes and the films used. Depending on the episodes that could mean negotiating with dozens of companies. No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
BruceVC Posted July 7, 2019 Posted July 7, 2019 33 minutes ago, majestic said: For the same reason I can watch Discovery on Netflix and our posters from the US can't. Distribution rights - doubly bad in case of shows that come with a necessary secondary license like MST3K, i.e. you need to have the licenses in order for the episodes and the films used. Depending on the episodes that could mean negotiating with dozens of companies. How frustrating, sorry to hear Where do you live again? "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
Lexx Posted July 7, 2019 Posted July 7, 2019 IMO Stranger Things season 3 was a lot better than season 2. "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die."
injurai Posted July 7, 2019 Posted July 7, 2019 I'm without broadband for a few weeks, Stranger Things is the first thing I do when I get it. That only makes the anticipation worse.
Bartimaeus Posted July 8, 2019 Posted July 8, 2019 Chernobyl was absolutely fantastic, definitely my favorite miniseries of all time (my personal love for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and all things Chernobyl-related surely didn't hurt, either). Stranger Things 3 was pretty good, but season 1 is still so far above both seasons 2 and 3 that I just can't appreciate it the same way as I did. Still has really good character writing for the most part, but my brain is starting to turn off (or...maybe on is more accurate, since it starts to wander) during a lot of parts, especially the big action and CGI scenes, and at some point, I think I just stopped believing in Eleven as a character and more as a set-piece, which doesn't help when the show is nominally centered around her. Eh, whatever, still pretty good, I guess, but seriously, go watch Chernobyl. 1 Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
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