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Post by songstarliner on Jan 31, 2016 20:43:34 GMT -5
What friggin' demographic is going to watch that pile of crap? *meekly* "me?" Some of us don't have cable televisions...and there's no other cartoons...or sportsballs on...and American Ninja Warrior makes us feel bad about ourselves and what we've become...and it might be ok...and we live with girls who like that sort of thing...and I don't hate Grease...and... *shows self out, deletes TIF account* Don't gooooooooo!! |
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Feb 1, 2016 17:21:38 GMT -5
I watched Grease Live, actually. I turned it on to see what a trainwreck it was going to be and instead I was pleasantly surprised. I don't really care for the musical in general, but they did a lot of cool stuff with the camera work and staging, and I can't complain about the quality of the dancing.
Also, I keep getting invited to Venture Brothers threads on AVC After Dark and I don't know why. I don't even know what Venture Brothers is.
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Post by firstbasemanwho on Feb 4, 2016 20:09:42 GMT -5
I agree with the earlier comments about Weird Al. I actually like the guy, but the fan-worship at the TOC can get kinda obnoxious. There's a kind of attitude of "he's the awesomest person ever and everyone here absolutely MUST like him" which is just crying for a backlash. I guess it's more of a 'hate the fandom' type thing.
Also, while I love MST3K more that anything, I'm sick to death of Pod People, Mitchell, and The Final Sacrifice due to the constant quoting. It's like a classic rock band where you're bored the overplayed 'hits' and prefer the deep cuts.
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Post by Judkins Moaner on Feb 6, 2016 18:35:26 GMT -5
Assuming Bernie Sanders makes it to the Michigan primary (which I'm guessing he will), I plan to vote for him. That said, if he doesn't make it to the general election, I have no problem voting for Hillary Clinton.
It's starting to feel like a heresy, anyway...
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Post by Ben Grimm on Feb 6, 2016 18:59:19 GMT -5
Assuming Bernie Sanders makes it to the Michigan primary (which I'm guessing he will), I plan to vote for him. That said, if he doesn't make it to the general election, I have no problem voting for Hillary Clinton. It's starting to feel like a heresy, anyway... There's a small group of people on the AV Club who love Bernie and seem to think that Hillary not only is worse than Hitler, but that this should be obvious and anyone denying it is being disingenuous. I think your position which is also mine) is probably close to the norm, but the loudest idiots seem more numerous because they won't. shut. up. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Feb 6, 2016 19:38:17 GMT -5
WUT  I definitely tried to keep going with regular commenting for a while under the theory that the best way to continue to keep the AVC comments a place JL-L likes is to comment like JL-L and try to exert my own little push on the tenor of the conversation (which is why I actually consciously chose to keep commenting after the redesign screwed everything up), but after my move back to the US I just found it hard to get back into the groove for various reasons and, beyond that, I felt like there was no point in trying to “make” the community into anything and now I mostly just comment on articles that I actually read (I KNOW RIGHT?). I know there’s still fun conversations and such, but if I refer to the AVC commentariat as “the unemployable, angry loners” I won’t be doing it ironically (you alcoholics are still a fine bunch, though).
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on Feb 6, 2016 21:19:13 GMT -5
To be fair, "I have invested a hell of a lot of time in making this community a nice place and in trying to sustain a tone of respectful and polite discourse." is an incredibly pompous thing to say.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Feb 6, 2016 21:25:12 GMT -5
It is also very much true in Scrawler’s case.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Feb 7, 2016 0:51:00 GMT -5
Hard to judge what's going on there as it's unclear where the conversation was had or what the context was.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Feb 7, 2016 18:28:18 GMT -5
MrsLangdonAlger It’s basically the culmination of a long sequence of hyperbolic, extended, and haranguing comments berating Scrawler for being insufficiently pro-Sanders/anti-Clinton. It’s particularly galling, especially since Scrawler’s one of the people who brought the AVC commentariat out of the wild west (maybe at the expense of some absurdism, but also at the expense of a lot of youtube-grade stuff), and it really makes what passed for trolling ca-2008 look harmless. That stuff was comparatively sophomoric, like someone looking up swear words in the dictionary. There’s a self-righteousness backing these up (same goes for Fatman’s), and frankly I find the righteous angry unemployable loners far more threatening. People (or, let’s face it, guys) cover their problems and insecurities up with progressive politics as a “respectable” way of taking out their issues on others. What’s really perverse is that this seems like an unintended outgrowth of the AVC comments becoming a place for, as they used to put it, reasonable discussions—one of the reasons I dislike the “one of the best places on the internet” talk that goes around is that it turns into license for people’s worse instincts, provided they dress them up a bit.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Feb 7, 2016 18:55:28 GMT -5
MrsLangdonAlger It’s basically the culmination of a long sequence of hyperbolic, extended, and haranguing comments berating Scrawler for being insufficiently pro-Sanders/anti-Clinton. It’s particularly galling, especially since Scrawler’s one of the people who brought the AVC commentariat out of the wild west (maybe at the expense of some absurdism, but also at the expense of a lot of youtube-grade stuff), and it really makes what passed for trolling ca-2008 look harmless. That stuff was comparatively sophomoric, like someone looking up swear words in the dictionary. There’s a self-righteousness backing these up (same goes for Fatman’s), and frankly I find the righteous angry unemployable loners far more threatening. People (or, let’s face it, guys) cover their problems and insecurities up with progressive politics as a “respectable” way of taking out their issues on others. What’s really perverse is that this seems like an unintended outgrowth of the AVC comments becoming a place for, as they used to put it, reasonable discussions—one of the reasons I dislike the “one of the best places on the internet” talk that goes around is that it turns into license for people’s worse instincts, provided they dress them up a bit. Ah, I understand better now. Anyone who harasses Scrawler should be struck with lightning, especially when they're doing it over something like that. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Feb 7, 2016 19:44:50 GMT -5
Yeah, there's a few people (The Ghost of Easy E stands out) who I may never be able to take seriously again because of this crap.
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Paleu
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Post by Paleu on Feb 9, 2016 15:31:52 GMT -5
Assuming Bernie Sanders makes it to the Michigan primary (which I'm guessing he will), I plan to vote for him. That said, if he doesn't make it to the general election, I have no problem voting for Hillary Clinton. It's starting to feel like a heresy, anyway... There's a small group of people on the AV Club who love Bernie and seem to think that Hillary not only is worse than Hitler, but that this should be obvious and anyone denying it is being disingenuous. I think your position which is also mine) is probably close to the norm, but the loudest idiots seem more numerous because they won't. shut. up. I've seen it all around the internet, and it frankly astounds me that Sanders supporters can be that asinine. I've seen people claim Hillary's worse than Trump and Cruz, for Christ's sake. It's bizarre. |
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Feb 9, 2016 15:39:00 GMT -5
There's a small group of people on the AV Club who love Bernie and seem to think that Hillary not only is worse than Hitler, but that this should be obvious and anyone denying it is being disingenuous. I think your position which is also mine) is probably close to the norm, but the loudest idiots seem more numerous because they won't. shut. up. I've seen it all around the internet, and it frankly astounds me that Sanders supporters can be that asinine. I've seen people claim Hillary's worse than Trump and Cruz, for Christ's sake. It's bizarre.  |
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Feb 10, 2016 23:49:55 GMT -5
MrsLangdonAlger It’s basically the culmination of a long sequence of hyperbolic, extended, and haranguing comments berating Scrawler for being insufficiently pro-Sanders/anti-Clinton. It’s particularly galling, especially since Scrawler’s one of the people who brought the AVC commentariat out of the wild west (maybe at the expense of some absurdism, but also at the expense of a lot of youtube-grade stuff), and it really makes what passed for trolling ca-2008 look harmless. That stuff was comparatively sophomoric, like someone looking up swear words in the dictionary. There’s a self-righteousness backing these up (same goes for Fatman’s), and frankly I find the righteous angry unemployable loners far more threatening. People (or, let’s face it, guys) cover their problems and insecurities up with progressive politics as a “respectable” way of taking out their issues on others. What’s really perverse is that this seems like an unintended outgrowth of the AVC comments becoming a place for, as they used to put it, reasonable discussions—one of the reasons I dislike the “one of the best places on the internet” talk that goes around is that it turns into license for people’s worse instincts, provided they dress them up a bit. Somehow I keep missing all of this. The whole "people dressing up their problems with progressive-seeming politics and taking their inner pain out on others" is particularly disappointing here because I thought we were getting a bit better about that. Marginally. But, no, turns out we've just found a new thing to be horrible to others about. |
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Post by Tellyfier on Feb 16, 2016 1:12:53 GMT -5
Finally getting the pop culture news from 2002, I just now realized Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs and Monk's Captain Stottlemeyer were played by the same actor, Ted Levine.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Feb 17, 2016 8:06:04 GMT -5
Finally getting the pop culture news from 2002, I just now realized Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs and Monk's Captain Stottlemeyer were played by the same actor, Ted Levine. To be fair, I didn't realize it until I read the Random Roles with him. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Feb 17, 2016 22:30:18 GMT -5
Finally getting the pop culture news from 2002, I just now realized Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs and Monk's Captain Stottlemeyer were played by the same actor, Ted Levine. To be fair, I didn't realize it until I read the Random Roles with him. Is it a bad thing that I only know Ted Levine from the American version of The Bridge and Shutter Island? In my defense, When I saw him in Shutter Island, I immediately realized "Holy shit, it's Ted Levine!" Also Ted Levine is definitely the best thing about Shutter Island and probably the best thing about the American version of The Bridge. I'm not sure that that's an AVC heresy, though. |
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Post by firstbasemanwho on Feb 20, 2016 8:14:44 GMT -5
I just installed an Mozilla add-on (here it is link) that let's you block Disqus users. Don't worry, I'm only gonna use it on trolls or anyone who talks smack about the Beatles. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Feb 20, 2016 9:29:26 GMT -5
I just installed an Mozilla add-on (here it is link) that let's you block Disqus users. Don't worry, I'm only gonna use it on trolls or anyone who talks smack about the Beatles. Online life is so much better since I blocked Ricky Coogin, Gentle Herpes, and Vogon Poetry. |
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Post by ganews on Feb 21, 2016 22:42:33 GMT -5
I sure do miss Todd, and I miss his Girls reviews. He might have been a too-big apologist, but at least he knew how to write a review for a 30-minute comedy on time. It's 2016; what the hell is with Joshua Alston?
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Post by monodrone on Feb 22, 2016 7:12:39 GMT -5
I just installed an Mozilla add-on (here it is link) that let's you block Disqus users. Don't worry, I'm only gonna use it on trolls or anyone who talks smack about the Beatles. Online life is so much better since I blocked Ricky Coogin, Gentle Herpes, and Vogon Poetry. Appropriate that Vogon Poetry is the third in line there. |
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Feb 22, 2016 7:28:43 GMT -5
I just installed an Mozilla add-on (here it is link) that let's you block Disqus users. Don't worry, I'm only gonna use it on trolls or anyone who talks smack about the Beatles. Online life is so much better since I blocked Ricky Coogin But you'll miss the latest chapter of Return of the Crazy Puerto Rican Friend: Part IX: Still Puerto Rickin'!Online life is so much better since I blocked Ricky Coogin, Gentle Herpes, and Vogon Poetry. Appropriate that Vogon Poetry is the third in line there. Man, I'd block Vogon Poetry too, but I still need to invite him to the yearly AV Club PETA Lawn Barbecue. He wouldn't want to miss that. |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Feb 22, 2016 16:39:32 GMT -5
I didn't have a problem with that Fury Road piece about Mel. Not saying he's right, but it's a fair position to argue.
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Post by Hawkguy on Feb 22, 2016 16:45:09 GMT -5
I didn't have a problem with that Fury Road piece about Mel. Not saying he's right, but it's a fair position to argue. eh, I got where he was coming from but the logic is very flawed |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Feb 22, 2016 17:04:13 GMT -5
I just installed an Mozilla add-on (here it is link) that let's you block Disqus users. Don't worry, I'm only gonna use it on trolls or anyone who talks smack about the Beatles. Online life is so much better since I blocked Ricky Coogin, Gentle Herpes, and Vogon Poetry. Is anyone ever going to call Coogin on his shit? |
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Post by Dellarigg on Feb 22, 2016 17:05:43 GMT -5
Online life is so much better since I blocked Ricky Coogin, Gentle Herpes, and Vogon Poetry. Is anyone ever going to call Coogin on his shit? He got banned from here, if that counts. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Feb 22, 2016 17:08:03 GMT -5
Is anyone ever going to call Coogin on his shit? He got banned from here, if that counts. It seems frankly irresponsible for so many people to interact so much with someone so clearly disturbed without actively trying to intervene and, like, help him.. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Feb 22, 2016 17:26:15 GMT -5
It seems frankly irresponsible for so many people to interact so much with someone so clearly disturbed without actively trying to intervene and, like, help him.. We tried, man. We really did. He actively does not want to be helped. That's something, I guess. Sigh. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Feb 22, 2016 17:57:51 GMT -5
We tried, man. We really did. He actively does not want to be helped. That's something, I guess. Sigh. Yup. I've tried a couple of times but the guy is not going to get help on his own, and none of us are in a position to do anything about it. The guy is just wallowing in his own misery at this point. |
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