(June 4, 2025 at 2:20 pm)emjay Wrote: Die Qual der Wahl... German for "the agony of choice"... Why's it so hard finding something new to watch?... can spend hours window shopping in Netflix and still be no closer to deciding what to watch next.

Too right. I spend as much, if not more, time searching than I do watching. We’re spoilt for choice.

When I was a lad, we had three channels to choose from; BBC1, BBC2, and, if the weather was right, RTE from the Republic. There was technically a fourth - Ulster Television, but Da wouldn’t allow it in the house.

Boru

(June 4, 2025 at 2:30 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(June 4, 2025 at 2:20 pm)emjay Wrote: Die Qual der Wahl... German for "the agony of choice"... Why's it so hard finding something new to watch?... can spend hours window shopping in Netflix and still be no closer to deciding what to watch next.

Too right. I spend as much, if not more, time searching than I do watching. We’re spoilt for choice.

When I was a lad, we had three channels to choose from; BBC1, BBC2, and, if the weather was right, RTE from the Republic. There was technically a fourth - Ulster Television, but Da wouldn’t allow it in the house.

Boru

Yep, for me it was the big four... BBC1, 2, ITV and the ever controversial, at the time anyway, Channel 4...then we felt spoilt for choice when Channel 5 came, full of daytime TV and crime dramas like CSI.

Anyway in the end just decided to jump straight into one without thinking too much about it... Black Mirror on Netflix; I get the feeling it's going to be something like XFiles or the Outer Limits, in the sense of self contained episodes of weird stuff, with different actors each episode. I may be wrong but if it is that, there's definitely something nice about having no expectations whatsoever and having a completely fresh story each time. The Outer Limits was really cool for that very reason.

The three hours of the Wicked musical is just part one. The second part is set for a release date some time this year.

Just found out today that, without pitch modulation, Kyle Broflovski sounds exactly like his dad Gerald.





“Yeah, no shit, they’re both voiced by Matt-“ Except that, regardless, most of their other characters at least do something different with their voices.

(June 4, 2025 at 5:07 pm)emjay Wrote:

(June 4, 2025 at 2:30 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Too right. I spend as much, if not more, time searching than I do watching. We’re spoilt for choice.

When I was a lad, we had three channels to choose from; BBC1, BBC2, and, if the weather was right, RTE from the Republic. There was technically a fourth - Ulster Television, but Da wouldn’t allow it in the house.

Boru

Yep, for me it was the big four... BBC1, 2, ITV and the ever controversial, at the time anyway, Channel 4...then we felt spoilt for choice when Channel 5 came, full of daytime TV and crime dramas like CSI.

Anyway in the end just decided to jump straight into one without thinking too much about it... Black Mirror on Netflix; I get the feeling it's going to be something like XFiles or the Outer Limits, in the sense of self contained episodes of weird stuff, with different actors each episode. I may be wrong but if it is that, there's definitely something nice about having no expectations whatsoever and having a completely fresh story each time. The Outer Limits was really cool for that very reason.

As a longtime devotee of Black Mirror who’s probably written enough about it to fill a book, it’s probably more accurate to compare it to a tech-focused version of The Twilight Zone except without a host. And about the “fresh story every time” thing… it’s complicated.

If you’re looking for something more in the anthology vein, I’d recommend Inside No. 9. While it does have the same two actors appearing in most every episode (Steve Pemberton and Reese Shearsmith), it really does throw you for a loop with most every episode. That said, it’s harder to find, but you should easily be able to find it on DailyMotion.

Bat Child has grown up.

(June 8, 2025 at 11:06 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Bat Child has grown up.

Joseph Goebbels has been reincarnated.



Boru

Evidently, my laptop model has a tendency to run hot. Dad found out about a Dell program that can actually help make the fan run harder. Hopefully, It'll work.

Something in the category of "The Reverend Probably Should Have Known This Shit Earlier": For the longest time, when I was told that the Jim Crow-era South kept Black people from voting using literacy tests, I assumed that at least the tests would be relatively straightforward, and presumably banking on the assumption that the barely-funded black schools would do the work of failing them.

In reality, they were alarmingly difficult and often with nonsensical questions and a single wrong answer meant you failed the entire test.. An example from Louisiana's literacy test: "Draw a line around the number or letter of this sentence." It took me several minutes to figure out that maybe they're talking about the letter A used as an article, likely meaning a single line. Probably like this: "Draw a line around the number or letter of this sentence." You needed to do the whole thing in 10 minutes.

Reportedly, one Constitutional Law professor sent it to as many others as he could find, and asked them to fill it out. 70% of America's top legal minds failed the test. So, naturally, the average black person, who probably would have only had an average of five or six years' worth of schooling*, would almost certainly be fucked.





* And given the poor quality of black schools in the Jim Crow South (school would be in session for a lot less of the year, the building itself would often be a run-down version of the one-room schoolhouses of yore, textbooks [if they even had them] would be out-of-date hand-me-downs, and teachers would often only have about 10 years of schooling under their own belt), even these five or six years would probably be worth less than a white person with as many years on them.

(June 9, 2025 at 9:08 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Evidently, my laptop model has a tendency to run hot. Dad found out about a Dell program that can actually help make the fan run harder. Hopefully, It'll work.

Maybe sure it's not clogged with dirt and dust. A short burst of pressurized air from the outside can work wonders