... and it made me smile.

[vol.2]

took a quick screen cap because I'm 100% positive that it will get removed by the mods.

[Udderdude]

That's pretty dark, lol. Not surprised if that gets nuked.

Something with a bit lighter humor than that: https://twitter.com/gosokkyu/status/1786083612376641560

[BIL]

Waste of a good mouth if he can fit it in w/ torch attachment tbh :O



Watching a bit too much CRIME TV atm, burger audiences are relentless >83



WTB Wakaliwood-financed Crime Fighters 4

[BryanM]

I came in here expecting some Matlock quotes : (

I don't remember a single line or criminal scumbag, but I remember the vibes and how the stock plots go:

Step 1. A murder happens.
Step 2. Small town defense lawyer believes in his client's innocence.
Step 3. His non-white or non-male side kick (I don't think they were ever both?) does all the real work. And might face a couple minutes of peril.
Step 4. After a protracted trial where it looks like his client is fukin' hosed, Matlock saves the day by not only proving his client's innocence, but by finding the real killer!

Indeed, it's basically a Pokemon or Power Rangers episode for the elderly!


(My robot brain doesn't understand why people care so much about the trivial cosmetic differences. It's like those AI latent spaces that you slide around a little and your car transforms into a truck or a golf cart or a dinosaur but everything else around it stays the same.)

[BIL]

Sadly that is a misleading quote from Netflix's upcoming MATLOCK X, where the protagonist does not dispatch Real Murderers with grandfatherly magnanimity - but instead, remarks they're going to "get their cheeks annihilated for fifty years," etc etc. 3; It's Matlock for the Youtube generation! And me (■｀w´■)

Matlock's a bit of a psychological trigger - but a happy one! - for me too; as we had two free TV stations in the early 90s, and one was TBN. So if you were home sick, or school was closed, it was you and grandma watching wizened Andy Griffith BUSTIN CRIMS, in his amiably rumpled way!

If I had 24hrs to live right now, I'd marathon Matlock. Good times. (˘w˘)

I sometimes wonder if... actually scratch that, I know the hardcore "old daytime TV dick" fanbase must be nerdfighting as we speak, with one guy calling Matlock a shitty knockoff of Columbo, and other guy saying Matlock was "Columbo done right," causing guy 1 to call guy 2 a fuckin scrub. Such strife is inevitable, in any community of People Into Things! I bet there's a good afternoon's reading there. Is MATLOCK considered the Raiden to COLUMBO's Kyuukyoku Tiger? Perhaps they both owe too much to that bitch PERRY MASON. The scope for bitter loyalist warfare on par with Rob and EOJ's famous Psikyo/CAVE nerdfights must be immense.

[BryanM]

In retrospect it's kind of understandable the boomers are as brain-broken as they are. Growing up on TV westerns where white hero cowboys purge the savanna of native indian scum. It's like they were exposed to Disney's Pocahontas 24/7 their entire childhood.

I sometimes think about what the scumbag left's version of this propaganda would be like. Basically everything would be the exact opposite and drenched in irony poisoning. No invincible superheroes strapped down with plot armor there; the protagonists would drop like flies and be constantly replaced.

Matlock 2023

Wait what the fuck.

Follow Madeline Matlock as she rejoins the work force at a prestigious law firm, where she uses her wily tactics to win cases and expose wrong doing

.......... is nothing sacred? I do not like this BiL. I do not like this at all.

[BIL]

YUUUCK (◎w◎;) I thought it was about his plucky MILFy daughter or something, at least! You know, "LOL U GOT SOME BIG BRITCHES 2 FILL HERE MISSEH, AT UR LATE DADS GREAT VALUE REAL MURDERER DETECTION CO" "YEAH WELL TURNS OUT YOUR THE REAL MURDERER" "NANIIIIII"

Matlock's Ghost: "GREAT JARB MISSEH, I CAN HEAR EM CLAPPIN HIS CHEEKS FROM ALL THE WAY UP HERE"

My pitiful expectations have been denied!

Matlock X: Cheeks Detonated From God's Sight Like The Terminal Fury Of Collapsing Stars would never chop poor Andy Griffith's meat and two veg off like that. (˘w˘)

[vol.2]

(My robot brain doesn't understand why people care so much about the trivial cosmetic differences. It's like those AI latent spaces that you slide around a little and your car transforms into a truck or a golf cart or a dinosaur but everything else around it stays the same.)

My dad always used to say that they were adult cartoons; I don't think that the similarities are lost on people. But, yes, the window-dressing seems to be more important to some people than it does to others.

I guess in the same way that you pick one identically featured pick-up truck over another based on looks?

But then again, that's a bit of a naïve read on it; people of my dad's generation are not generally going to take a cartoon seriously, no matter how serious or "adult" you try to convince them that it is (well, excepting for those people who were always going to like animation as adults), even when they are actually taking it seriously (cries at Bambi). It's just too culturally ingrained that cartoons are for kids and of course the McCarthy era smack-down on comics and animation didn't help any to foster more adult works of the kind they got in Europe and Japan.

[BryanM]

YUUUCK (◎w◎;) I thought it was about his plucky MILFy daughter or something, at least!

Yeah, that's what I assumed it was on first blush since what else could it have been?

"Genderswap reboot. OC character, do not steal."

.... nani......?

.... hahhhhh.... If they don't respect the source material, who do they think they're making this for. There's nine seasons of Matlock already, enough to enjoy on repeat for a lifetime. (And let's not kid ourselves, Andy was the main reason to watch the show.)

Let's see how the new seasons of Night Court are doing...

In February 2023, the series was renewed for a second season, which then premiered on December 23, 2023. In May 2024, the series was renewed for a third season

Well, ok then. I don't get new seasons of many things I like, but at least someone in the world's happy. Good for'em!

Symbolic affirmative action

I checked up on how our manned mission to the moon's going (rebuilding capabilities we dismantled with the shitty shuttle program) and there was something a little dire on the wiki page: They're maybe going with the idea of having the two moonwalkers be "a woman and a person of color".

It's fine or whatever, but saying that was part of the selection criteria out loud is really....

.... the demographics on our pilots skew HUGELY in one direction. It's a gate-kept position that requires a college degree. At least for the people who'd meet NASA's criteria.

The pilots who got their certificate next door to the two-day chiropractor's school, who fly the smol planes, don't really make the cut. Nobody in their right mind is putting Harrison Ford in the pilot seat.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

I checked up on how our manned mission to the moon's going

The idea of space travel or terraforming another planet strikes me as a form of escapism. We're literally thousands of years off from having the technology to realistically do it on any kind of meaningful scale, and even then stuff like terraforming is always going to be limited by a simple question of where the hell are you getting the sheer volume of oxygen and other gases to terraform somewhere like the moon? There is no physical way of creating an infinite reserve of water, food, and air for the kind of distances required for space travel, and most of the contemporary stories about this kind of thing get away with it by incorporating technology that is indistinguishable from magic.

We enjoy stories about space travel and investing money in these short rocket trips because it allows us to forget about how awful we're neglecting the planet our species will in all likelihood be stuck on.

[orange808]

The idea of space travel or terraforming another planet strikes me as a form of escapism.

Indeed.

We're literally thousands of years off from having the technology to realistically do it on any kind of meaningful scale, and even then stuff like terraforming is always going to be limited by a simple question of where the hell are you getting the sheer volume of oxygen and other gases to terraform somewhere like the moon?

You've gotten ahead of yourself. Even if you add an atmosphere, you've got no protection from the solar wind. Without a churning dynamo at its core, the moon cannot hope to deflect the nasty radioactive solar wind. Let's ignore the moon's size for convenience. Even if you managed to create an atmosphere of some sort, the sun would strip it all away.

Same problem with Mars. It's certainly large enough, but without a magnetic field, nothing else matters.

[orange808]

So, the only unforgivable sin is insulting God. Do anything else you want.

Gotcha.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

Oh yes, there's a whole host of problems with gravity, atmosphere, radiation poisoning due to a lack of atmosphere, all sorts of stuff we've not even begun to address that scifi tends to ignore or handwave outright. I'd really like the world to focus more on fixing the Earth before we do too much skygazing...

[BryanM]

The idea of space travel or terraforming another planet strikes me as a form of escapism. We're literally thousands of years off from having the technology to realistically do it on any kind of meaningful scale, and even then stuff like terraforming is always going to be limited by a simple question of where the hell are you getting the sheer volume of oxygen and other gases to terraform somewhere like the moon?

I agree that O'neill cylinders or something similar would be the way to go, for the sake of efficiency. I don't know how truly realistic living in a bunker on a planetoid like a mole person would go.

As always, robots are much more suited for the void than we are. No need to worry about pesky gases or food or poop. Solar energy is all they need. The only major problem to overcome is waste heat, but I guess since momentum is preserved there's no need to do anything to generate heat. Just go into sleep mode and be an inert rock until you have to do something.

Being able to etch an AGI onto an NPU is really the first part of any space colonization mission. As every honest machine apocalypse story admits, space belongs to them. Anyone who understands math even a little knows what doubling things repeatedly results in.

Depending on how hard capital wants to grift versus becoming literally god, the timeframe to get started is more like 15 to 100 years.



Honestly don't get the whole "funding science/engineering is a waste" thing, though. What else were we going to spend the five bux on anyway? Leveling another school full of elementary children? C'mon. Tang was a wondrous treasure, compared to that.

[Udderdude]

I'll truly be disappointed if I don't live long enough to see AGI kill us all.

[BIL]

Ah, a bit of everything I like.



1) Bent military/cop whacked without trial [JUSTICE SHOT]
2) Pedo/rapist shot in dick [MAX MULTIPLIER]
3) Blasted so many times his corpse caught on fire [OVER HEAT BONUS]

Well done soldier! Or was it medium rare

[vol.2]

BLOODFIST!!!!

[Lander]

Here at Kansas Instruments, we're all about corn.

[vol.2]

My nephew just completed basic training and is now a Marine! Down at Parris Island with him now for graduation. He's going to MOS in Crash Fire in Austin Texas.

[Lander]

Epic Games bossman Tim Sweeney giving a 20 minute talk on Fornite's new programming language, then rolling out Simon Peyton Jones (OBE, FRS, MAE, DFBCS) - a veritable paragon of programming research - to lower it it into terms understandable by the audience

Funnies aside, I'm pleasantly surprised. The phrases "Fornite" and "mainstream, like Python" conjure up visions of yet another me-too spaghetti language, but it is - by some miracle - a fascinating new kind of calculus heretofore unseen outside of the lab.
Usually such novel things tend to die in the face of Why should i unlearn my billion-dollar-mistake industry standards?, but forcibly punting it into success by way of Fortnite's massive captive audience might just work.

A rather pleasing turn, really. Sweeney tends to come across as a professional shitheel much of the time, but I have to respect spending decades hobby-hacking a research compiler yourself, then putting money on the line so very clever and expensive people can spend more decades reifying it into domain-improving hard theory. That's a nice step up from using it to slap-fight with Apple and Valve.

[vol.2]

Behold, the Suzuki Hustler!

[BIL]

Behold, the Suzuki Hustler!

TAFU WAIRUDO

I should stop underestimating "Daddy" Derek Savage, friend of Vivica A. Fox, Erik Estrada, and Cool Cat. The man has proven an endless minefield of blisteringly unintentional black comedy. He's like Neil Breen's jock big bro who pounded Zima after the game and brained himself on the steering wheel.



Derek didn't want to get political, but Joe Biden made him do it. 3;



(you may know Derek from such hit films and novels as Cool Cat Saves the Kids and Cool Cat Finds A Gun)

Cool Cat Solves The Case (NWS)

Whichever Hollywood exec Derek has a deadman-switched bestiality file on, they have my gratitude for letting him stay in town! Probably less harmful than most in that cesspool, and funnier, too!

[orange808]

I'm rather enjoying the show on the madmax sub. I don't regularly visit and I never post on reddit, but it's always fun for a drive by giggle. It's almost as entertaining as the gaming hardware advice shit posting they do over there on reddit. Hello, misinformation!

Seems Furiosa crashed in a pile of dirt, rubber, and chrome. Inside Out 2 is absolutely killing it, so it's not that people don't go to the movies. People are still spending money. They just didn't want to see the movie. Doesn't matter if it's pretty good. Nobody wanted it.

We just didn't want to watch a fucking prequel with different actors and no fucking Max. That's not what we wanted.

I enjoy all the virtue signaling. It's delicious because the failure is largely due to the fact that women refuse to watch the film.

I don't tell you ladies who should star in your fucking romantic comedies, emo vampire romances, and silly horror films. Maybe you should shut the fuck up and stop telling me what action movies for male audiences should look like--especially since your virtue signaling ass can't be bothered to go watch said films.

Anyhow, don't get me wrong. I really am laughing my ass off at the deep denial in the sub.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

I don't tell you ladies who should star in your fucking romantic comedies, emo vampire romances, and silly horror films. Maybe you should shut the fuck up and stop telling me what action movies for male audiences should look like--especially since your virtue signaling ass can't be bothered to go watch said films.

I don't know what you're going on about, no one told Miller what his films should look like, the guy just enjoys weaving feminist themes into his films, and if you make as many excellent flicks as he has made you're entitled to do whatever the fuck you want.

[orange808]

I don't tell you ladies who should star in your fucking romantic comedies, emo vampire romances, and silly horror films. Maybe you should shut the fuck up and stop telling me what action movies for male audiences should look like--especially since your virtue signaling ass can't be bothered to go watch said films.

I don't know what you're going on about, no one told Miller what his films should look like, the guy just enjoys weaving feminist themes into his films, and if you make as many excellent flicks as he has made you're entitled to do whatever the fuck you want.

The butthurt is real.

No consumers manufacture the media they consume. Making a prequel that nobody wanted about a side character with all new actors wouldn't work for any agenda. It's still alienating the audience.

And, the target audience (young women between the ages of 18-34) represent 7% of the ticket sales for Furiosa. The guys are 70% of the audience this time. Many of the remaining 23% tagged along with their SO to the film. The girls didn't show up; they went to see Inside Out 2. That segment may be vocal online, but their real world interest in this genre is extremely limited; betting on them just killed the franchise.

So, as the real target audience for a proper entry into the series, I probably am entitied to my opinion or whatever the fuck I want. And, I'm entitled to smile when a bad idea (no matter how well executed) crashes and burns.

I was smiling when the gaming press got their pretentious wish with the last AC as well. It didn't sell, because the often silent majority and target audience didn't want a short little dinky shit game. Just like Furiosa, they tried to sell a DLC at full price. Furiosa is a long DLC. It didn't work out. No politics required. Mirage subverted expectations and catered to a vocal minority. Stupid side character and prequel. Same mistakes. Crash and burn, dogmeat!

[Lemnear]

I found my very old encyclopedia OMNIA 2000

"Omnia is a multimedia encyclopedia published by De Agostini. It is distributed on 5 CD-ROMs. It includes an encyclopedia of 40,000 entries, a dictionary of 15,500 and a geographical atlas. There are also videos, GIF animations and 21,000 3D maps, anatomies and images. The narrative voice is by the voice actor Carlo Valli.

It has a section with the biographies of the main famous people of the world of every era and can be updated from the internet. It also includes research by subject areas and innovative design. Furthermore, it uses Boolean logical operators for searches."

Spoiler

how much i used it in elementary school... it's one of the things that most shaped my current tastes, like the whole 90/05 era probably... i miss that atmosphere of a utopian future.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

I don't tell you ladies who should star in your fucking romantic comedies, emo vampire romances, and silly horror films. Maybe you should shut the fuck up and stop telling me what action movies for male audiences should look like--especially since your virtue signaling ass can't be bothered to go watch said films.

I don't know what you're going on about, no one told Miller what his films should look like, the guy just enjoys weaving feminist themes into his films, and if you make as many excellent flicks as he has made you're entitled to do whatever the fuck you want.

The butthurt is real.

No consumers manufacture the media they consume. Making a prequel that nobody wanted about a side character with all new actors wouldn't work for any agenda. It's still alienating the audience.

And, the target audience (young women between the ages of 18-34) represent 7% of the ticket sales for Furiosa. The guys are 70% of the audience this time. Many of the remaining 23% tagged along with their SO to the film. The girls didn't show up; they went to see Inside Out 2. That segment may be vocal online, but their real world interest in this genre is extremely limited; betting on them just killed the franchise.

So, as the real target audience for a proper entry into the series, I probably am entitied to my opinion or whatever the fuck I want. And, I'm entitled to smile when a bad idea (no matter how well executed) crashes and burns.

I was smiling when the gaming press got their pretentious wish with the last AC as well. It didn't sell, because the often silent majority and target audience didn't want a short little dinky shit game. Just like Furiosa, they tried to sell a DLC at full price. Furiosa is a long DLC. It didn't work out. No politics required. Mirage subverted expectations and catered to a vocal minority. Stupid side character and prequel. Same mistakes. Crash and burn, dogmeat!

I won't invest the time and energy to sift through this confusing mish mash of arguments and incel-flavoured antifeminist ranting, let me just say that I haven't seen Furiosa yet, so I'm not even talking about the film itself/ ze butt is not hurting in this case. The statement "Miller made this film to pander to woke chicks" or whatever the fuck you had been going on about was so obviously false that somebody had to point it out.
Miller made Mad Max, Mad Max 2, Fury Road, and Three Thousand Years of Longing, all of which were great to ridiculously awesome films. If he thinks he wants to make a Barbie film or whatever else, he should be allowed to do so on teh ground that he's shown that he's an amazing director. No need to start another "women are ruining my media!" rant.

[Lemnear]

I don't know what you're going on about, no one told Miller what his films should look like, the guy just enjoys weaving feminist themes into his films, and if you make as many excellent flicks as he has made you're entitled to do whatever the fuck you want.

The butthurt is real.

No consumers manufacture the media they consume. Making a prequel that nobody wanted about a side character with all new actors wouldn't work for any agenda. It's still alienating the audience.

And, the target audience (young women between the ages of 18-34) represent 7% of the ticket sales for Furiosa. The guys are 70% of the audience this time. Many of the remaining 23% tagged along with their SO to the film. The girls didn't show up; they went to see Inside Out 2. That segment may be vocal online, but their real world interest in this genre is extremely limited; betting on them just killed the franchise.

So, as the real target audience for a proper entry into the series, I probably am entitied to my opinion or whatever the fuck I want. And, I'm entitled to smile when a bad idea (no matter how well executed) crashes and burns.

I was smiling when the gaming press got their pretentious wish with the last AC as well. It didn't sell, because the often silent majority and target audience didn't want a short little dinky shit game. Just like Furiosa, they tried to sell a DLC at full price. Furiosa is a long DLC. It didn't work out. No politics required. Mirage subverted expectations and catered to a vocal minority. Stupid side character and prequel. Same mistakes. Crash and burn, dogmeat!

I won't invest the time and energy to sift through this confusing mish mash of arguments and incel-flavoured antifeminist ranting, let me just say that I haven't seen Furiosa yet, so I'm not even talking about the film itself/ ze butt is not hurting in this case. The statement "Miller made this film to pander to woke chicks" or whatever the fuck you had been going on about was so obviously false that somebody had to point it out.
Miller made Mad Max, Mad Max 2, Fury Road, and Three Thousand Years of Longing, all of which were great to ridiculously awesome films. If he thinks he wants to make a Barbie film or whatever else, he should be allowed to do so on teh ground that he's shown that he's an amazing director. No need to start another "women are ruining my media!" rant.

Miller is really old, i really don't think he cares about trends, feminism and other ideologies.
After all, he already did the Witches of Eastwick... where Satan impregnates three women... very feminist... yeah, yeah...

Do you really criticize him for Furiosa? people forget that he also made Babe: Pig in the City ... or Happy Feet ...

PS: ah yes he is also in Death Stranding 2

However i find Inside Out 1 and 2 both IRRITATING...like almost all modern Disney movies

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

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Miller is really old, i really don't think he cares about trends, feminism and other ideologies.
After all, he already did the Witches of Eastwick... where Satan impregnates three women... very feminist... yeah, yeah...

Do you really criticize him for Furiosa? people forget that he also made Babe: Pig in the City ... or Happy Feet ...

PS: ah yes he is also in Death Stranding 2

However i find Inside Out 1 and 2 both IRRITATING...like almost all modern Disney movies

I'm not saying his films always take a feminist stance; a) having feminist themes in your work doesn't mean your films are feminist as well and b) he made lots of films over several decades, and people can and do change, so their perspective changes as well.
I haven't seen Furiosa (like I said in the post you quoted...), but I'm sure it's at least decent entertainment. I will watch that Babe film and Happy Feet, since like I said I don't think the man can make a bad film if he tried.

[orange808]

I won't invest the time and energy to sift through this confusing mish mash of arguments and incel-flavoured antifeminist ranting,

I'm not right wing and you should learn to read. My point of view isn't confusing and I have my facts straight.

You might also search BIL's comments on Brianna Wu. I'm sure you won't be able to understand how the guy isn't an incel. Or how he could criticize her and simultaneously understand what feminism is.

This reminds me of the argument over the new Star Wars. Yes. She was a Mary Sue. And, it made the film bad. Ripley, she was not. Furiosa she was not--as well.

But, there can be no valid criticisms with your type. Keep talking.

Furiosa was a bad idea. It tanked for a reason. It still reminds me of a bad overpriced DLC. Yanking the protagonist completely out, inserting a side character, and going with a boring prequel (telling me details of the past I wasn't particularly interested in). All inside of the same setting. Even worse, it's a movie, so we get all new actors. And the people that would relate most to the star? They didn't bother to show up.