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    Million Dollar Extreme's Youtube account got pulled down

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    sometimes it's good to sell out in the short term to be able to root in and branch out more in the long term

    then use the power of photosynthesis to grow flowers & wait for some bees to help pollinate & spread your seed  

    loiter squad, their show on adult swim. terrible. actually world peace is quite a bit better than that drivel, the mde editing style is still there. 

    oh is actually odd future, going to skip that 

    Million Dollar Extreme's Youtube account got pulled down

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    that sketch is so much funnier than anything in this episode. hope adult swim were just airing something they think is accessible before the real mde stuff starts in the next eps. this felt like any other shitty adult swim show. brought that odd future thing to mind, which is not good.

     

    yeah it felt like a series of very set up set pieces, rather then a harmonious flow of gravy. whats the odd future thing? 

    Stranger Things

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    I don't know what this says about creativity for the younger generation.

     

    Don't bother working really hard for two or three years struggling to write something original like a fucking mug.

    Just lift scenes directly from other movies.

    Again, I think you are missing the point of this show.

     

     

     

    But there are too many movies and shows that do this. I kinda feel like we don't need any more remakes, tributes, homages, inspired-by's for a quite a long time, as there's been no shortage of those at all lol

     

    Hollywood has become a shadow of itself. Every now and then, an original idea comes out with a decent budget, but even then amongst those small occurances, it's very hard to find those kinds of productions that aren't compromised in some major way. 

     

    Hollywood has been rehashing and reinventing itself since its inception - Star Wars was inspired by the Flash Gordon movies of the 40's and the Akira Kurosawa films, etc.

     

    If anything, I think when a truly original idea does come along, it stands out and is more special. The problem is, there just really isn't many original, GOOD ideas anymore.

     

     

    that's the problem i have with this show. it isn't good. it's bringing nothing to the table to subvert or reinvent the ideas it exploits. it's just a checklist of eighties references. star wars functioned as a kind of found art object, a dream of serialized fantasy from the forties with cutting edge special effects and a well developed, universally appealing mythology of its own.

    one of the larger problems with nerd culture suddenly co-opting popular culture and especially movies is the tidal wave of reference laden, plot based films and television shows that reduce narrative story telling to its most basic components. there are no "original" ideas, obviously. everything is the sum of its influences. but a good artist can focus their influences into a statement that gives us some sense of their feelings about the world, some kind of self expression, even if its through the somewhat myopic prism of pop nostalgia. what i get watching stranger things is that the duffer bros watched a lot of shit in the eighties and read stephen king. i have no idea who they are, what they feel, what the purpose of their work is. and then the work itself fails to entertain or surprise. it's a game of spot the reference. this is what most films have been reduced to. either an ideological checklist a blogger can write thinkpieces about (did we have a strong female protagonist, did we subvert the patriarchal/racist hollywood paradigm, was it problematic?) or a bunch of references and techniques that a redditor can create a front page post about (here's all the shots in stranger things that reference other films). it's boring, lowest common denominator commercial art and i think we can do better.

     

     

    true, i think there is a massive problem with nostalgia at the mo, like a strange echo time shift, in film culture anyhow so many remakes etc ec

    The Walking Dead - AMC TV Series (spoilers everywhere)

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    http://www.care2.com/causes/the-walking-dead-just-took-a-major-step-for-animal-rights.html

     

    The trailer introduces King Ezekiel, an intimidating character to say the least, with his pet tiger Shiva. Held by a chain around her neck, Shiva roars to the camera but, rest easy, animal lovers, because Shiva is not an actual tiger. She is made of animatronics and CGIsince the show’s executive producer, Scott M. Gimple, didn’t think having a real tiger on set was a good idea.

     

    because Shiva is not an actual tiger :facepalm:

    posh beers and ales and stuff thread

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    my cousin made these cool beer openers with a really strong magnet embedded in the back of the wood, i really enjoy using it and displaying my caps :emotawesomepm9:

    On that note, is anyone else here interested in collecting caps? I have a deep photo frame on the wall filled with caps, I almost have enough to fill the second one but I've apparently drunk every drink there is to drink in this area with a vaguely interesting cap. Got lots of doubles for swappin', mostly Ontario/upstate NY but also some Eurobooze, anyone fancy a swap by post?

     

     

    I like the idea of collecting caps, but I already have too much stuff on my walls

     

    yeah i usually end up just putting them in the recycle bin if i remember the correct one, but yeah they kind of feel like coins lol

    elseq 1-5

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    had to take a break, only got to mesh by now but still, at least so far: no, no jammy release like quadrange. autechre's trademark meticulousness is in full effect here. this shit is edited as fuck. jav, don't judge it from snippets, sit through the whole thing, it's an experience. also really like how tracks seem to have a dramatic over-arc connecting each other. i feel it has a certain narrative quality, album feel fo sho. freaking stoked i'm supposed to only be at midpoint by now, it's been such a ride already. this shit is a fucking gift, like really.

     

    edit: yeh there are snippets of live stuff here and there but c16 is the only track really recognizable as being directly extracted from it.

    yeah agree, not sure how anyone has been able to completely digest this so quickly to get really opienated, give it a couple of listens over some days to sink in at least

    elseq 1-5

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    Perfect soundtrack for my old school Doom session ha !

     

    Have you basically just said that you haven't really listened to the music because you use it as a background noise for your gaming sessions?

     

    My brain can actually process and properly enjoy both yeah. But describing Autechre as "background noise" just isn't right and you know it as much as me :)

    (and, well, Doom is one of those games where you actually don't really have to focus that much lol)

     

     

    Human brain cannot do multitasking. It just constantly skips between the activities you do at a given time. I have noted your name in my list of people who to not trust in music rating. :rtfm:

     

     

     

     

    From 1997's Chiastic Slide onwards, Autechre's music has provoked ever more polarised opinions. Naysayers accuse them of abandoning the sleekness of line and engaging depth of their previous work (1995's Tri Repetae in particular is still senn as an IDM primary text) in favour of a hyper-complexity that can become convoluted and inaccessible. "I usually ask people what they do when they sit on a train, look at every single blade of grass that comes past window?" bristles Booth. "That's bogus, that line of conscious appraisal, it's led by previous programming of how to appraise product. Some people are so tied up with the whole issue of understanding - they think you need to understand something in order to like it. People have been programmed by American advertisers and various other cultural forces throughout the 20th century. They feel they have to be rewarded on their terms. The want you to hold the mayo. That's very much where this comes from in my opinion, this idea that 'We're an audience, and we've got various expectations that you're supposed to fulfill'." Neither are they happy with the line of argument that characterises them as white-coat-wearing eggheads conducting sonic experiments in their studio-cum-laboratory. "That's when you get these bogus theories, because they've used one to explain what should be a basic feeling," complains Booth, Brown is slightly more forgiving: "Our music is there to be analysed if you want to," he concedes, "but there are so many events to consume, you shouldn't tie yourself down to worrying about whether one event is material to the one before it. you should let it come at you like a wave, not look at every bit of froth of a wave that breaks on a shore."

     

    *hugs spiral*

     

    swap jev with jeb :dadjoke:

     

    Better Call Saul (spoilers ahoy)

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by pyramidpanes

    so good

     

    holy shit sniper Mike - but DON'T - must've been Guz...?

    then in the end the voice recorder made chuck a far more efficient assassin.

    amaze

     

    knew he was recording from from the previous scene in the garage, so thats the end of season 2 :( ?

    Better Call Saul (spoilers ahoy)

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    I'm pretty sure Hector will get disabled because of Mike.

    the old rubberhose spike strip gag to hector's car perhaps...

     

     

     

    it certainly looks like a contraption to stop a car, can't think of another use.

    thought it's for the truck, as the ep started with the truck and ended with the hose.

     

    is "the old rubberhose spike strip gag" actually a thing?

     

     

     

    Yea, could also be for the delivery truck as well.

     

    Don't know if it's actually a thing, but if we see a rise in home made spike strip use, we'll know where it came from.

     

     

    i can imagine something pressurised is going to happen with it, it won't be good for the plants

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