• What Did You Watch? 2026-01-12 (Monday)

    From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Tue Jan 13 04:30:41 2026
    After my workout, I watched:

    Corey Feldman Gets Destroyed By Corey Haim's Mother:
    Judy Haim, the mother of Corey Haim, slams Corey Feldman in latest
    statement.
    https://youtu.be/cxa8SXwppXU?si=YHPLAbQczAS_UUCO

    The Dark Secret Behind The REAL Pied Piper:
    A rainbow-clad stranger with a silver pipe saves a town from a rat infestation. But when that town stiffs him, he steals their children
    and vanishes into the hills, never to return. It sounds like a
    campfire story, but according to the people of Hamelin? it happened.
    The questions are: What happened? https://youtu.be/89A0IoCJp6A?si=mjEcPHjvGElPHk0K

    What did you watch?

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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Tue Jan 13 07:18:40 2026
    Verily, in article <UBI20260112@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net
    deliver unto us this message:

    After my workout, I watched:

    Corey Feldman Gets Destroyed By Corey Haim's Mother:
    Judy Haim, the mother of Corey Haim, slams Corey Feldman in latest statement.
    https://youtu.be/cxa8SXwppXU?si=YHPLAbQczAS_UUCO

    I'm playing this now.

    I was surprised by the intra-Corey war. They started as fellow victims.
    Seems like something like this always happens. Very few people are utter villains or utter victims.


    What did you watch?

    I watched naught but some Bob's Burgers reruns. I enjoyed them, but I
    should get back to The Neighborhood and movies. I watch too many reruns.
    I should be encouraging original creators.

    There's a theory that this is another Dark Ages, because once again
    we're exhaustively mining the past instead of creating anything
    ourselves. I don't know if it will last as long. We're mining the
    culture of mere decades ago, and I'm not sure there's enough of it to
    keep us going as a society of sequels and reboots.

    What did everyone else watch?



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  • From shawn@3:633/10 to All on Tue Jan 13 10:02:17 2026
    On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:18:40 -0500, The True Melissa
    <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Verily, in article <UBI20260112@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net >deliver unto us this message:

    After my workout, I watched:

    Corey Feldman Gets Destroyed By Corey Haim's Mother:
    Judy Haim, the mother of Corey Haim, slams Corey Feldman in latest
    statement.
    https://youtu.be/cxa8SXwppXU?si=YHPLAbQczAS_UUCO

    I'm playing this now.

    I was surprised by the intra-Corey war. They started as fellow victims. >Seems like something like this always happens. Very few people are utter >villains or utter victims.


    What did you watch?

    I watched naught but some Bob's Burgers reruns. I enjoyed them, but I
    should get back to The Neighborhood and movies. I watch too many reruns.
    I should be encouraging original creators.

    There's a theory that this is another Dark Ages, because once again
    we're exhaustively mining the past instead of creating anything
    ourselves. I don't know if it will last as long. We're mining the
    culture of mere decades ago, and I'm not sure there's enough of it to
    keep us going as a society of sequels and reboots.

    What did everyone else watch?

    Over the weekend I watched both seasons of the anime SOLO LEVELING.
    This anime is based around a world where portals started appearing
    around the globe a decade ago. These portals lead to dungeons that
    contain dangerous creatures. If they aren't closed by defeating the
    boss within a week then the creatures can enter this world so there
    are people who enter the dungeons to try and defeat the creatures
    inside to close each portal. At the same time the portals opened there
    were people across the globe who were found to have special powers
    much like in DnD with some being tanky, others having command over
    magic or fire and ice.

    The story centers on a guy who is among the lowest ranked as a level
    E. Others may be higher ranked and so much more powerful such as B or
    A or the most powerful, the S ranked. The guy at the center of the
    story is always getting hurt as the lowest ranked/least powerful
    member of the teams working to clear each portal/dungeon. He keeps
    going because he needs the money to help pay for his mother's medical treatments.

    Something happens in one portal where many members die and he is left
    to die only to find himself waking up in the hospital. Strangely
    enough he sees this apparent computer screen opening up that only he
    can see that says he has been chosen as the player. The screens keep
    giving him quests that allow him to grow in power and abilities even
    though he stays as a low level E rank. Something that no other player
    is able to.

    I also got in the first episode of BERLIN STATION, which appears to
    open with the death of the main character but then goes back in time
    to show how we got there. The premise is that someone is leaking CIA
    secrets to a reporter in Berlin. A CIA analyst figures out something
    about the leaker which ends up having him sent to Berlin to track down
    the source of the leak.

    What did you watch?

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  • From Arthur Lipscomb@3:633/10 to All on Tue Jan 13 22:11:14 2026
    On 1/13/2026 7:02 AM, shawn wrote:
    On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:18:40 -0500, The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Verily, in article <UBI20260112@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net
    deliver unto us this message:

    After my workout, I watched:

    Corey Feldman Gets Destroyed By Corey Haim's Mother:
    Judy Haim, the mother of Corey Haim, slams Corey Feldman in latest
    statement.
    https://youtu.be/cxa8SXwppXU?si=YHPLAbQczAS_UUCO

    I'm playing this now.

    I was surprised by the intra-Corey war. They started as fellow victims.
    Seems like something like this always happens. Very few people are utter
    villains or utter victims.


    What did you watch?

    I watched naught but some Bob's Burgers reruns. I enjoyed them, but I
    should get back to The Neighborhood and movies. I watch too many reruns.
    I should be encouraging original creators.

    There's a theory that this is another Dark Ages, because once again
    we're exhaustively mining the past instead of creating anything
    ourselves. I don't know if it will last as long. We're mining the
    culture of mere decades ago, and I'm not sure there's enough of it to
    keep us going as a society of sequels and reboots.

    What did everyone else watch?

    Over the weekend I watched both seasons of the anime SOLO LEVELING.

    Where is it airing?

    For fans of Anime, "All You Need is Kill" is getting a theatrical
    release this week. I've never seen the movie before, but I plan to see
    it this weekend. It's from the same source material as the 2014 Tom
    Cruise movie, "Edge of Tomorrow."



    I also got in the first episode of BERLIN STATION,

    I think this might have been on might watch list at some point, then I probably forgot it existed.

    which appears to
    open with the death of the main character but then goes back in time
    to show how we got there. The premise is that someone is leaking CIA
    secrets to a reporter in Berlin. A CIA analyst figures out something
    about the leaker which ends up having him sent to Berlin to track down
    the source of the leak.

    What did you watch?


    I watched:


    Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (blu-ray) 2016 movie set in the
    "Harry Potter" universe and a prequel to those films. First up, Eddie Redmayne stars as "Newt Scamander" a wizard and author of one of the
    text books the kids will rely on later in the series. He travels to
    America in 1926 and gets caught up plot that's too complicated to try
    and summarize. But I like the movie. Technically, I like all the
    movies in the franchise, but this is one of the better ones.


    The Copenhagen Test (Peacock) - "Copenhagen" - New spy series starring
    Simu Liu as a spy who has his head hacked allowing for an unknown enemy
    to see and hear everything he does. It took me a while to work my way
    through the first episode, but now that I'm done with episode one, I
    might make my way through the rest a bit faster.

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  • From shawn@3:633/10 to All on Wed Jan 14 02:15:55 2026
    On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:11:14 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

    On 1/13/2026 7:02 AM, shawn wrote:
    On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:18:40 -0500, The True Melissa
    <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Verily, in article <UBI20260112@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net
    deliver unto us this message:

    After my workout, I watched:

    Corey Feldman Gets Destroyed By Corey Haim's Mother:
    Judy Haim, the mother of Corey Haim, slams Corey Feldman in latest
    statement.
    https://youtu.be/cxa8SXwppXU?si=YHPLAbQczAS_UUCO

    I'm playing this now.

    I was surprised by the intra-Corey war. They started as fellow victims.
    Seems like something like this always happens. Very few people are utter >>> villains or utter victims.


    What did you watch?

    I watched naught but some Bob's Burgers reruns. I enjoyed them, but I
    should get back to The Neighborhood and movies. I watch too many reruns. >>> I should be encouraging original creators.

    There's a theory that this is another Dark Ages, because once again
    we're exhaustively mining the past instead of creating anything
    ourselves. I don't know if it will last as long. We're mining the
    culture of mere decades ago, and I'm not sure there's enough of it to
    keep us going as a society of sequels and reboots.

    What did everyone else watch?

    Over the weekend I watched both seasons of the anime SOLO LEVELING.

    Where is it airing?

    I downloaded it in search of another anime that had a similar concept,
    but you can watch it here on Crunchyroll. https://www.youtube.com/show/SCHSJcfyXqldHaJWgcrMUY5w?season=1&sbp=CgEx

    The anime I was looking but didn't find had a similar concept of a guy
    who was very low level. He worked as a porter for a high level team
    and somehow got stuck in the dungeon and somehow managed to survive
    constantly leveling up until he finally met back up with his team, but pretended to still be the same low level porter. Never did find it in
    either anime or manga/manwha form.


    For fans of Anime, "All You Need is Kill" is getting a theatrical
    release this week. I've never seen the movie before, but I plan to see
    it this weekend. It's from the same source material as the 2014 Tom
    Cruise movie, "Edge of Tomorrow."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MzSWdkqqCc

    So this movie appears to be based on the light novel, while EDGE OF
    TOMORROW more closely held to the manga. So there will be differences
    which is pretty clear if you watch the trailer.

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2NtcD7V-vgY
    This short covers the basics of the manga and you can clearly see how
    it relate to the Cruise/Blunt movie.



    I also got in the first episode of BERLIN STATION,

    I think this might have been on might watch list at some point, then I >probably forgot it existed.

    Yeah, that happens. I had this recorded but never got around to
    watching it. Just happened to decide to watch it this weekend when
    looking for something new to watch.

    which appears to
    open with the death of the main character but then goes back in time
    to show how we got there. The premise is that someone is leaking CIA
    secrets to a reporter in Berlin. A CIA analyst figures out something
    about the leaker which ends up having him sent to Berlin to track down
    the source of the leak.

    What did you watch?


    I watched:


    Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (blu-ray) 2016 movie set in the >"Harry Potter" universe and a prequel to those films. First up, Eddie >Redmayne stars as "Newt Scamander" a wizard and author of one of the
    text books the kids will rely on later in the series. He travels to
    America in 1926 and gets caught up plot that's too complicated to try
    and summarize. But I like the movie. Technically, I like all the
    movies in the franchise, but this is one of the better ones.

    I watched the first movie but I'm not sure I ever got around to
    watching the second one. Still on my list.



    The Copenhagen Test (Peacock) - "Copenhagen" - New spy series starring
    Simu Liu as a spy who has his head hacked allowing for an unknown enemy
    to see and hear everything he does. It took me a while to work my way >through the first episode, but now that I'm done with episode one, I
    might make my way through the rest a bit faster.

    Yeah, I watched the first few episodes and enjoyed it.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Tue Jan 13 16:30:42 2026
    thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:
    Verily, in article <UBI20260112@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net >deliver unto us this message:

    After my workout, I watched:

    Corey Feldman Gets Destroyed By Corey Haim's Mother:
    Judy Haim, the mother of Corey Haim, slams Corey Feldman in latest
    statement.
    https://youtu.be/cxa8SXwppXU?si=YHPLAbQczAS_UUCO

    I'm playing this now.

    I was surprised by the intra-Corey war. They started as fellow victims. >Seems like something like this always happens. Very few people are utter >villains or utter victims.

    I was surprised as well, but having watched Jim And Them for awhile, I
    am not surprised. Be sure to watch their coverage of his "Corey's Angels"
    days. Yikes!

    I watched naught but some Bob's Burgers reruns. I enjoyed them, but I
    should get back to The Neighborhood and movies. I watch too many reruns.
    I should be encouraging original creators.

    There's a theory that this is another Dark Ages, because once again
    we're exhaustively mining the past instead of creating anything
    ourselves. I don't know if it will last as long. We're mining the
    culture of mere decades ago, and I'm not sure there's enough of it to
    keep us going as a society of sequels and reboots.

    Dave Cullen discussed that recenrtly:

    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and The Slop of Hollywood https://youtu.be/PNTHlAn6AyU?si=NJfr_z6J49cj2Ih3

    --
    Democrats and the liberal media hate President Trump more than they
    love this country.


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    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Wed Jan 14 06:22:09 2026
    Verily, in article <Qx6dnePbpJHq1vr0nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@giganews.com>, did weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:

    thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:
    Verily, in article <UBI20260112@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net >deliver unto us this message:
    There's a theory that this is another Dark Ages, because once again
    we're exhaustively mining the past instead of creating anything
    ourselves. I don't know if it will last as long. We're mining the
    culture of mere decades ago, and I'm not sure there's enough of it to
    keep us going as a society of sequels and reboots.

    Dave Cullen discussed that recenrtly:

    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and The Slop of Hollywood https://youtu.be/PNTHlAn6AyU?si=NJfr_z6J49cj2Ih3

    I just watched that. He seems to tie the mining in with wokeness, and
    I'm not sure that's so. There may be common factors, though.

    I've come to believe that we should rewind the world by at least a few
    decades and try again. We didn't do it right.

    --
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    United States of America - North America - Earth
    Solar System - Milky Way - Local Group
    Virgo Cluster - Laniakea Supercluster - Cosmos

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  • From Arthur Lipscomb@3:633/10 to All on Wed Jan 14 07:02:57 2026
    On 1/13/2026 11:15 PM, shawn wrote:
    On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:11:14 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

    On 1/13/2026 7:02 AM, shawn wrote:
    On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:18:40 -0500, The True Melissa
    <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Verily, in article <UBI20260112@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net >>>> deliver unto us this message:

    After my workout, I watched:

    Corey Feldman Gets Destroyed By Corey Haim's Mother:
    Judy Haim, the mother of Corey Haim, slams Corey Feldman in latest
    statement.
    https://youtu.be/cxa8SXwppXU?si=YHPLAbQczAS_UUCO

    I'm playing this now.

    I was surprised by the intra-Corey war. They started as fellow victims. >>>> Seems like something like this always happens. Very few people are utter >>>> villains or utter victims.


    What did you watch?

    I watched naught but some Bob's Burgers reruns. I enjoyed them, but I
    should get back to The Neighborhood and movies. I watch too many reruns. >>>> I should be encouraging original creators.

    There's a theory that this is another Dark Ages, because once again
    we're exhaustively mining the past instead of creating anything
    ourselves. I don't know if it will last as long. We're mining the
    culture of mere decades ago, and I'm not sure there's enough of it to
    keep us going as a society of sequels and reboots.

    What did everyone else watch?

    Over the weekend I watched both seasons of the anime SOLO LEVELING.

    Where is it airing?

    I downloaded it in search of another anime that had a similar concept,
    but you can watch it here on Crunchyroll. https://www.youtube.com/show/SCHSJcfyXqldHaJWgcrMUY5w?season=1&sbp=CgEx


    Sounds like when you search for one movie on Netflix, but they don't
    have it so they recommend something else that's similar. That also
    happens when I'm searching for movies on Target's website. They don't
    have the movie I want, so they just show me similar movies. That gets *really* annoying!


    The anime I was looking but didn't find had a similar concept of a guy
    who was very low level. He worked as a porter for a high level team
    and somehow got stuck in the dungeon and somehow managed to survive constantly leveling up until he finally met back up with his team, but pretended to still be the same low level porter. Never did find it in
    either anime or manga/manwha form.


    For fans of Anime, "All You Need is Kill" is getting a theatrical
    release this week. I've never seen the movie before, but I plan to see
    it this weekend. It's from the same source material as the 2014 Tom
    Cruise movie, "Edge of Tomorrow."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MzSWdkqqCc

    So this movie appears to be based on the light novel, while EDGE OF
    TOMORROW more closely held to the manga. So there will be differences
    which is pretty clear if you watch the trailer.

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2NtcD7V-vgY
    This short covers the basics of the manga and you can clearly see how
    it relate to the Cruise/Blunt movie.




    Thanks. I didn't realize there were two different sources. I just
    assumed the Cruise movie mostly ignored the source material and this
    upcoming Anime was closer to it.



    I also got in the first episode of BERLIN STATION,

    I think this might have been on might watch list at some point, then I
    probably forgot it existed.

    Yeah, that happens. I had this recorded but never got around to
    watching it. Just happened to decide to watch it this weekend when
    looking for something new to watch.

    which appears to
    open with the death of the main character but then goes back in time
    to show how we got there. The premise is that someone is leaking CIA
    secrets to a reporter in Berlin. A CIA analyst figures out something
    about the leaker which ends up having him sent to Berlin to track down
    the source of the leak.

    What did you watch?


    I watched:


    Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (blu-ray) 2016 movie set in the
    "Harry Potter" universe and a prequel to those films. First up, Eddie
    Redmayne stars as "Newt Scamander" a wizard and author of one of the
    text books the kids will rely on later in the series. He travels to
    America in 1926 and gets caught up plot that's too complicated to try
    and summarize. But I like the movie. Technically, I like all the
    movies in the franchise, but this is one of the better ones.

    I watched the first movie but I'm not sure I ever got around to
    watching the second one. Still on my list.



    There are 3 Fantastic Beast movies. The thing I like about the
    Fantastic Beasts movies, even over the Potter films, is the wizards in Fantastic Beasts are all fully trained adults who *know* how to use
    magic. There's a fight scene in the first movie where two wizards are fighting with wants and one then uses their powers to simultaneously
    throw a car at someone. You won't see those types of fights in the
    Potter movies because the kids aren't anywhere near close to that level
    of magic. Also, the Fantastic Beast movies have much more adult drama
    and violence. It really is just Harry Potter for a more adult audience.
    :-)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZdPGLG9mx4



    The Copenhagen Test (Peacock) - "Copenhagen" - New spy series starring
    Simu Liu as a spy who has his head hacked allowing for an unknown enemy
    to see and hear everything he does. It took me a while to work my way
    through the first episode, but now that I'm done with episode one, I
    might make my way through the rest a bit faster.

    Yeah, I watched the first few episodes and enjoyed it.


    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Wed Jan 14 10:21:18 2026
    Verily, in article <10k8b70$1eeq$1@dont-email.me>, did arthur@alum.calberkeley.org deliver unto us this message:
    Sounds like when you search for one movie on Netflix, but they don't
    have it so they recommend something else that's similar. That also
    happens when I'm searching for movies on Target's website. They don't
    have the movie I want, so they just show me similar movies. That gets *really* annoying!


    Gawd, I hate that.

    Amazon Prime is even worse. They'll claim to have things which in fact
    only their "partners" have. I'm considering ditching streaming and going
    back to cable.

    --
    The True Melissa - Canal Winchester - Ohio
    United States of America - North America - Earth
    Solar System - Milky Way - Local Group
    Virgo Cluster - Laniakea Supercluster - Cosmos

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Wed Jan 14 17:43:10 2026
    On Jan 14, 2026 at 3:22:09 AM PST, "The True Melissa" <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Verily, in article <Qx6dnePbpJHq1vr0nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@giganews.com>, did weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:

    thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:
    Verily, in article <UBI20260112@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net
    deliver unto us this message:
    There's a theory that this is another Dark Ages, because once again
    we're exhaustively mining the past instead of creating anything
    ourselves. I don't know if it will last as long. We're mining the
    culture of mere decades ago, and I'm not sure there's enough of it to
    keep us going as a society of sequels and reboots.

    Dave Cullen discussed that recenrtly:

    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and The Slop of Hollywood
    https://youtu.be/PNTHlAn6AyU?si=NJfr_z6J49cj2Ih3

    I just watched that. He seems to tie the mining in with wokeness, and
    I'm not sure that's so. There may be common factors, though.

    I've come to believe that we should rewind the world by at least a few decades and try again. We didn't do it right.

    It was when Harambe was killed. That shunted into a pocket universe and everything's been going off the rails since.



    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)