• What Did You Watch? 2024-04-17 (Wednesday)

    From Ubiquitous@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Apr 18 18:30:40 2024
    I watched:

    DISNEY'S *FAILURE* IS COMPLETE! DISNEY *LOST MONEY* ON STAR WARS, ACCORDING TO FORBES IN EXPOSE!:
    Disney claims the purchase of Lucasfilm was a resounding success for the Mouse, but in an extensive article yesterday Forbes debunks a lot of the
    fuzzy math accounting used to project that illusion, drills down into the numbers and concludes: Disney lost money on Star Wars! JUST as we always suspected! Here are the broad details, although this report goes into excruciating and embarrassing detail about the real performance of Star
    Wars under Iger! #disney #starwars #lucasfilm https://youtu.be/7Pc4lUjCJz8?si=3BtCga8dJS3FPkFu

    CAPTAIN AMERICA 4 PRODUCTION IN CHAOS THEY CANNOT GET THEIR @%$# TOGETHER SOURCE SAYS!:
    Captain America Brave New World has been a millstone around Disney and Marvel's collective neck according to sources since last year, when the
    movie was completed and is reportedly being completely reshot due to
    terrible test screenings! I've been documenting the various delays and
    rumors of fits on set since last November...has the situation improved?
    Or has it gotten WORSE? Here's the latest update from my Hollywood spies,
    and believe me, it's BIZARRE if true! #disney #marvel #captainamerica https://youtu.be/XYQS4zaVGQs?si=m1OmgpnrcSPrHXhh

    THE BEST TACO BELL RELEASE IN YEARS!:
    As part of their New Cantina Chicken Menu, Taco Bell has released the Cantina Chicken Crispy Taco! Featuring a Three-cheese Blend, a Crispy Shell, Jalapeno Sauce and Chicken - this Taco was surprisingly good! But what made this Taco Bell item actually edible for once? Find out in today's review! https://youtu.be/cgrcCDSDuSE?si=Te8F1bEUXA_pC_Ga

    THE VIEW *INFATUATED* WITH DONALD TRUMP THE VIEW *LOVED* DON BEFORE HE RAN *REPUBLICAN*:
    "Witness The View's Fascination with Donald Trump: Joy Behar can't keep her hands off of him and Whoopi admits her love. A stark difference in the way they view Donald Trum today. Explore the Panel's Intriguing Obsession with
    the Former President in this Captivating Episode" https://youtu.be/cgrcCDSDuSE?si=-tWgAOVLL5l3B5UG

    FAMILY GUY:
    "Faith No More". In the season finale, Brian becomes romantically interested in someone and it inspires him to use Stewie's time machine. Strange consequences result from their journey.
    I enjoyed this one but it should have been a two-parter because the
    resolution seemed a bit rushed after all the time they spent on the
    setup. That said, I am tired of the trope of the world being a better
    place without religion (Christianity).

    What did you watch?

    --
    Let's go Brandon!


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  • From Ian J. Ball@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Apr 18 23:16:41 2024
    On 4/18/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    My long workday, so just soaps.

    And I don't really feel like recapping much...

    On DOOL (Wed's ep), Constantine discovers that his "Pawn" card is
    missing, and nearly loses it. But dumb Maggie offers to marry the bum,
    to keep him 'in country'. [roll] (Constantine = JACKPOT!!) Meanwhile,
    dumb Paulina busts out of the hospital, to rescue Chanel (which she does
    - disappointingly, no Clyde is involved...), but Paulina irradiates
    everyone in so doing!!

    On GH (Tues' ep), basically nothing important happened at all. Though it
    was revealed that Sonny and Brick did indeed have Agent John/Jagger
    Cates roughed up. Meanwhile, Trina forces Josslyn and Dex to talk - they
    look to be well on their way to getting back together.

    And that was it - I was muoy tired, and went to bed early.

    What did you watch?



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  • From shawn@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Apr 18 23:33:30 2024
    On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:16:41 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 4/18/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    My long workday, so just soaps.

    And I don't really feel like recapping much...

    On DOOL (Wed's ep), Constantine discovers that his "Pawn" card is
    missing, and nearly loses it. But dumb Maggie offers to marry the bum,
    to keep him 'in country'. [roll] (Constantine = JACKPOT!!) Meanwhile,
    dumb Paulina busts out of the hospital, to rescue Chanel (which she does
    - disappointingly, no Clyde is involved...), but Paulina irradiates
    everyone in so doing!!

    On GH (Tues' ep), basically nothing important happened at all. Though it
    was revealed that Sonny and Brick did indeed have Agent John/Jagger
    Cates roughed up. Meanwhile, Trina forces Josslyn and Dex to talk - they >look to be well on their way to getting back together.

    And that was it - I was muoy tired, and went to bed early.

    What did you watch?


    I watched SURVIVOR where they had one of the wildest Tribal Councils.
    They had a plan going in but Q threw that out by volunteering to be
    voted out because he felt like the likely target shouldn't have been
    targeted. Which ended up with yet another surprising vote that was a
    blind side of the player being voted out.


    In addition I watched an older animated flick JUSTICE LEAGUE VS TEEN
    TITANS. In this film we have Trigon again trying to escape and rejoin
    with Raven. In this film he manages to get influence on Earth and use
    that to take over members of the Justice League. Things go badly until
    they go better.

    What did you watch?

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  • From shawn@3:633/280.2 to All on Fri Apr 19 04:25:56 2024
    On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:41:12 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

    In article <UBI20240418@dont-email.me>, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> >wrote:

    FAMILY GUY:
    "Faith No More". In the season finale, Brian becomes romantically interested
    in someone and it inspires him to use Stewie's time machine. Strange
    consequences result from their journey.
    I enjoyed this one but it should have been a two-parter because the
    resolution seemed a bit rushed after all the time they spent on the
    setup. That said, I am tired of the trope of the world being a better
    place without religion (Christianity).

    Notice how these "brave" Hollywood "iconoclasts" never make a show that >suggests the world would be a better place without Islam.

    That's because they fear they may find what a world without them would
    be like if they did make such a show.

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  • From shawn@3:633/280.2 to All on Fri Apr 19 05:13:18 2024
    On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:39:47 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

    On 4/18/2024 6:33 AM, shawn wrote:
    On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:16:41 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 4/18/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    My long workday, so just soaps.

    And I don't really feel like recapping much...

    On DOOL (Wed's ep), Constantine discovers that his "Pawn" card is
    missing, and nearly loses it. But dumb Maggie offers to marry the bum,
    to keep him 'in country'. [roll] (Constantine = JACKPOT!!) Meanwhile,
    dumb Paulina busts out of the hospital, to rescue Chanel (which she does >>> - disappointingly, no Clyde is involved...), but Paulina irradiates
    everyone in so doing!!

    On GH (Tues' ep), basically nothing important happened at all. Though it >>> was revealed that Sonny and Brick did indeed have Agent John/Jagger
    Cates roughed up. Meanwhile, Trina forces Josslyn and Dex to talk - they >>> look to be well on their way to getting back together.

    And that was it - I was muoy tired, and went to bed early.

    What did you watch?


    I watched SURVIVOR where they had one of the wildest Tribal Councils.
    They had a plan going in but Q threw that out by volunteering to be
    voted out because he felt like the likely target shouldn't have been
    targeted. Which ended up with yet another surprising vote that was a
    blind side of the player being voted out.



    What in the world was up with that council?!? I was half asleep by the
    end, but didn't they vote out the original target?

    LOL. It was a crazy one thanks to Q. They did vote out the original
    target of the one side, not the other. It looked like they had the
    numbers to get Tiff out if she didn't play her idol and I wondered
    when the craziness started if it was all an act to put Tiff at ease.
    Turns out Q wasn't willing to vote out Tiff and was willing to
    sacrifice himself instead for reasons I still don't get.


    I also have to say deciding who to vote out based on how they play "hide
    and seek" is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard.

    That's Q for you. Though if you have no other reason to differentiate
    between the players I've heard of worse ways to decide who goes. Q
    just seems to be one of those players who will leap to a conclusion
    and the stick with it as long as he can.


    In addition I watched an older animated flick JUSTICE LEAGUE VS TEEN
    TITANS. In this film we have Trigon again trying to escape and rejoin
    with Raven. In this film he manages to get influence on Earth and use
    that to take over members of the Justice League. Things go badly until
    they go better.


    I have several animated DC films waiting to be watched. Normally I
    would watch them as soon as I got them, but I've developed a bit of a >backlog.

    Yeah, I'm the same. Looking at a few Justice League movies I want to
    work through. Thinking of doing the Lego JL movie next since it's chronologically the next (at least in terms of production.)

    What did you watch?


    I watched:


    Sh?gun (FX) - "Chapter Nine: Crimson Sky" - Penultimate episode. This
    was an excellent episode. I especially loved the sequence when Mariko
    tries to leave. "Kill him for me." "It was an honor to die for you."
    Next week better be an hour long all out battle or else! That and >Blackthorne better finally get to sale his ship in battle!


    I haven't watched any of this yet.

    Fallout (Amazon Prime) - "The Radio" and "The Beginning" - Last two
    episodes of the season. As best I can tell, they answered all the
    questions raised during the season. They explained the truth behind the >vaults, what (and who) caused the apocalypse, how some people are
    walking around hundreds of years after the war, and more. It is really >refreshing to have a series wrap up all the mysteries by the end of the >season while leaving plenty of room for more stories next season.

    Another one I haven't watched because I got stuck with the performance
    in the first episode. Which is a bit odd since I am a huge fan of the
    games. I'll get to it eventually, probably this weekend. It's just I
    can see what is going to happen in the first episode so it is a bit of
    a slog when the raiders are so obvious.

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  • From shawn@3:633/280.2 to All on Fri Apr 19 05:17:50 2024
    On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:41:51 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

    In article <dcp22jlutg0q4psq27bpiiaeqq49g685hh@4ax.com>,
    shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

    On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:41:12 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

    In article <UBI20240418@dont-email.me>, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
    wrote:

    FAMILY GUY:
    "Faith No More". In the season finale, Brian becomes romantically
    interested
    in someone and it inspires him to use Stewie's time machine. Strange
    consequences result from their journey.
    I enjoyed this one but it should have been a two-parter because the
    resolution seemed a bit rushed after all the time they spent on the
    setup. That said, I am tired of the trope of the world being a better
    place without religion (Christianity).

    Notice how these "brave" Hollywood "iconoclasts" never make a show that
    suggests the world would be a better place without Islam.

    That's because they fear they may find what a world without them would
    be like if they did make such a show.

    Which only highlights how much of a better place the world would
    actually be without Islam compared to Christianity.

    I don't know that Islam is the problem. It's just that there are too
    many followers that are still trapped in middle age thinking. I don't
    know if that's because too many countries didn't join the modern world
    till lately, but were happy to go to war with each other. Again, like
    Europe in the Middle Ages.

    (So maybe the radical Islam followers will mostly disappear in a few
    hundred years if they follow the Middle Ages example.)

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/280.2 to All on Fri Apr 19 05:42:40 2024
    shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
    Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:41:51 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
    Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:41:12 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote: >>>>Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    FAMILY GUY:
    "Faith No More". In the season finale, Brian becomes romantically >>>>>interested
    in someone and it inspires him to use Stewie's time machine. Strange >>>>>consequences result from their journey.
    I enjoyed this one but it should have been a two-parter because the >>>>>resolution seemed a bit rushed after all the time they spent on the >>>>>setup. That said, I am tired of the trope of the world being a better >>>>>place without religion (Christianity).

    Notice how these "brave" Hollywood "iconoclasts" never make a show that >>>>suggests the world would be a better place without Islam.

    That's because they fear they may find what a world without them would
    be like if they did make such a show.

    Which only highlights how much of a better place the world would
    actually be without Islam compared to Christianity.

    I don't know that Islam is the problem. It's just that there are too
    many followers that are still trapped in middle age thinking. I don't
    know if that's because too many countries didn't join the modern world
    till lately, but were happy to go to war with each other. Again, like
    Europe in the Middle Ages.

    (So maybe the radical Islam followers will mostly disappear in a few
    hundred years if they follow the Middle Ages example.)

    No shawn. While the fight for what flavor of Christianity to impose upon
    an unwilling population lasted for century after century in Europe, conventional weapons and fighting techniques before the Boer Wars and
    WWI weren't capable of mass destruction and devastation, nor were there
    groups like Hamas willing to sacrifice almost their entire civilian
    population in order to advance their religious cause.

    If they continue to have easy access to conventional weapons, human civilization as you personally enjoy it will not survive the next
    hundred years or so.

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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/280.2 to All on Fri Apr 19 11:48:08 2024
    Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
    On 4/18/24 12:13 PM, shawn wrote:

    On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:39:47 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb
    <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
    On 4/18/2024 6:33 AM, shawn wrote:
    On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:16:41 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid> >>>> wrote:

    What did you watch?


    I watched:


    Sh?gun (FX) - "Chapter Nine: Crimson Sky" - Penultimate episode. This
    was an excellent episode. I especially loved the sequence when Mariko
    tries to leave. "Kill him for me." "It was an honor to die for you."
    Next week better be an hour long all out battle or else! That and
    Blackthorne better finally get to sale his ship in battle!

    I haven't watched any of this yet.

    I am starting to have a significant backlog of scripted(/cable) TV shows
    to get to - Fallout, this, Murder at the End of the World, Monarch,
    Masters of the Air, and probably a few others. But with my one job
    really busy right now, I'm thinking I won't get to anything before May.

    The good news is I should have more time to binge this backlog in late May/early June.

    The one thing my TV nerds say is that if you are going to stream
    "Shogun", better to do it from Disney+ over Hulu (app) itself, due to
    better image/streaming quality from the former. [shrug]

    It’s worse than that. Some of the feeds have almost no English dubbing at all. Disney you have to dig down into the extras. Section to find actually viewable versions.

    I would watch monarch monster mysteries first

    And then masters of the air

    Then maybe shogun, although I gave up because I hadn’t found the English versions.

    I quit murder at the end of the world when they started spewing global
    warming garbage. Which was in the first episode.

    Fallout, just sort of bored me.

    I never sampled this.

    --
    The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/280.2 to All on Fri Apr 19 18:30:41 2024
    atropos@mac.com wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    FAMILY GUY:
    "Faith No More". In the season finale, Brian becomes romantically
    interested in someone and it inspires him to use Stewie's time machine.
    Strange consequences result from their journey.
    I enjoyed this one but it should have been a two-parter because the
    resolution seemed a bit rushed after all the time they spent on the
    setup. That said, I am tired of the trope of the world being a better
    place without religion (Christianity).

    Notice how these "brave" Hollywood "iconoclasts" never make a show that >suggests the world would be a better place without Islam.

    Oh yes, I've noticed this with all so-called aetheists. I was pleasantly surprised to hear Robin Hitchenson, I think, begrudeningly admit that Christianity is one of the best religions (certainly better than Islam).

    --
    Let's go Brandon!


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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/280.2 to All on Fri Apr 19 18:30:42 2024
    nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com wrote:
    On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:41:12 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    FAMILY GUY:
    "Faith No More". In the season finale, Brian becomes romantically
    interested in someone and it inspires him to use Stewie's time machine. >>> Strange consequences result from their journey.
    I enjoyed this one but it should have been a two-parter because the
    resolution seemed a bit rushed after all the time they spent on the
    setup. That said, I am tired of the trope of the world being a better
    place without religion (Christianity).

    Notice how these "brave" Hollywood "iconoclasts" never make a show that >>suggests the world would be a better place without Islam.

    That's because they fear they may find what a world without them would
    be like if they did make such a show.

    cf Charlie Hebo.

    --
    Islam is a peaceful religion, just as long as the women are beaten, the boys buggered and the infidels are killed.



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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/280.2 to All on Fri Apr 19 18:30:43 2024
    In article <LUpUN.1507$9pR2.955@fx13.iad>, gmsingh@email.com wrote:
    On 4/18/24 11:41 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    FAMILY GUY:
    "Faith No More". In the season finale, Brian becomes romantically
    interested in someone and it inspires him to use Stewie's time machine. >>> Strange consequences result from their journey.
    I enjoyed this one but it should have been a two-parter because the
    resolution seemed a bit rushed after all the time they spent on the
    setup. That said, I am tired of the trope of the world being a better
    place without religion (Christianity).

    Notice how these "brave" Hollywood "iconoclasts" never make a show that
    suggests the world would be a better place without Islam.

    What about the Christian hypocrites that are taught to accept strangers
    and call them "illegals" and "vermin" instead? What should we do about >those fucking assholes that you've aligned yourself with?

    Well, leave it to "trotsky" to try and fail to politicize religion again!

    --
    Let's go Brandon!


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