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atomheartbevo

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  1. My drill instructors would have whipped my ass for pointing a rifle in their direction repeatedly. Then again, they would not have been walking in front of new recruits with rifles pointed their direction. It was cringe-worthy how amateurish the instructor and the recruits were. We knew they were recruiting older - those didn't look like minorities from the outlying regions nor did they look like hardened criminals - wonder how they got roped into it.
  2. Well yeah, nobody expected the Russians to give two shits about the Norks other than "better them than me". I'm not surprised they'd burn the faces off of the Norks either, given how little they care for their fellow Russians.
  3. The only way I could watch my backlog/queue is if I was stuck in a Palm Springs-style loop for 40 years like Nyles was.
  4. It may not even be televised.
  5. I get that most gamers want a plain-looking young teen girl like Ellie or an older, hunky, rugged handsome guy like Joel as their leads like Last of Us presented, but it’s the first in a franchise series, so there will be other games with other leads.
  6. Which is why they probably know more about what’s going on that we do. The military even said a few days ago that they’ve been used to dealing with drones for years, and that they have the means to deal with them when they are directly over a base. In the same briefing, they said they can’t do anything about them when they only fly near a base or are over civilian areas, other than talk to local law enforcement (and the quality varies greatly based on the interviews we’ve seen). But they absolutely have eyes (or more fancier equipment than the Mark I Eyeball) on this stuff - Picatinny maybe mostly concerned with small arms and small and known for their rifle rail system, but they also test other gear the grunts carry, including optics/sensors. And anybody wanting to spy on a military base is not going to have the running lights going, which makes me wonder if it’s drones being flown out of Picatinny, since they test a lot of the smaller equipment And those are not our most sensitive bases - Naval Weapons Station Earle is for loading ammo on ships, and Picatinny is mostly smaller stuff hidden away in buildings - the really sensitive stuff is not in fucking New Jersey with millions of people around, it’s out west where the military/feds fully control the land and airspace for miles around their Installations.
  7. Ehh, the tinfoil crowd has been trying to see what’s happening on various military installations for many decades (since at least the 70s). The internet is full of their photos of Area 51, etc. Every now and then one of them is arrested for trespassing. Same goes for actual spies. Drones just add another avenue of surveillance for them.
  8. What I like is the “do your own research, don’t trust the government, don’t trust the mainstream media” crowd is not doing any research on air traffic patterns, is not asking why these things have running lights, is listening to grifting politicians trying to stir them up, and is listening to the mainstream media (Fox News).
  9. The alien bullshit is being floated online by the mentally ill/incompetent/Joe Rogan listeners, and we have elected officials at the national level (in the House of Representatives) publicly claiming they were told it was Iranians (because Iran is in a great spot to be picking a head-on fight with us) while other officials at the local and national levels are being careful with their words because they don’t want to be proven wrong, and we have certain news channels stirring the pot with unhinged or grifting guests looking to stir up the tinfoil crowd, and when you mix that all together with a healthy dose of social media, we end up with half the population panicking.
  10. I would watch Shameless with a laugh track.
  11. And the people wishing we were back to 20+ episodes should try watching Star Trek: The Next Generation to find out how much can be padded out. 20 minutes is perfect for a lot of YouTube stuff, and there’s a lot of quality stuff on there, from original creators to people reposting British stuff.
  12. If movie stars did TV work back then, it was usually some prestigious mini-series, like North and the South or Winds of War or Centennial. Now there's plenty of movie stars who will "step down" to TV level because the pay checks and are good and steady and solid TV shows carry a lot of critical weight these days (Billy Bob Thornton, Kevin Kostner, plenty of HBO shows, etc.).
  13. A lot of the shows I watched as a kid didn’t hold up well at all. But when I look at what the top-rated shows adults were watching in the 70s/80s/early 90s, or earlier, there’s not much there that I would want to rewatch down the road. Mostly some of the prestige mini-series, and I know shows like Murder She Wrote or Magnum, P.I. and others have their fans today (but their production values were high), but a lot of it was just shallow as hell or poorly produced.
  14. I didn't see Palm Springs until recently, and loved it, and for whatever reason, even though it would have been the perfect pandemic movie (which is when it came out) I missed it then. I was just not in the mood then, or it was always there and I had a long list of other stuff I wanted to watch. I'm working through Parks and Rec (I had caught some eps here and there) and I enjoy it, but I have no sense of urgency to binge it (everybody I know that liked it finished it long ago). And I'm actually working through The Walking Dead, but only by a YouTube channel that I mentioned earlier, that presents only the important moments from select episodes, as if they were self-contained battles, or forced migrations, or in general important moments in the "history" of the Walking Dead's world. It's actually a bit entertaining and at times makes me want to watch the entire series, but I don't have that kind of time and it ignores the bad writing. I occasionally come across shows that I have to stay current on, not because I'm going to discuss them with other people, but because I really enjoy them. But for the most part, we got what we were told would happen as kids - that someday we'd be able to easily watch any show that ever existed. Obviously, it didn't pan out as expected (everything is scattered between multiple services) and there are exceptions (can't believe Twister was not streaming ahead of Twisters), but it's pretty much all there, whenever we want it. Because it's at our fingertips, it's easy to ignore it in favor of things we classify as being more important. And I left out one thing - we don't have to choose between shows, like we did as kids (assuming you were an 80s or 90s kid). I hated certain times of the year in the 80s when I had shows I really liked, that were on opposite of each other, on different channels. I would have to wait for stuff to hit syndication before I could watch some of it.
  15. To this day I cannot explain why, but I picked up the Blu-ray in a $5 Walmart bargain bin like 5 years ago.
  16. This is definitely an AI chatbot, but for a brief moment, before it opened up the woke bag of bullshittery and flew too close to the sun, it was actually on to something. We consumers of TV and movie media, and arguably books, radio, music, and video games, are absolutely inundated and burned out with choices. This isn't the 1980s where I had to fake being sick to stay home a few days to catch a G. I. Joe cartoon series because the dumb motherfuckers at the TV station scheduled it for 2:30pm while I was still in school, and I had no VCR. This isn't the 1990s where, once Disney released a movie in theaters and then put it out on VHS, they advertised that it would forever go into the SEKRUT H!DDEN DISNEY VAULTS! and we would never be able to buy it or watch it again unless a TV network blessed us with its presence. This isn't the 2010s and 2020s where every single fucking TV series made since the 1950s has a DVD release just waiting to be bought through some cheesy little company that probably makes a killing selling DVD sets to boomers. This is 2024. I have well over 250 games on GOG, Steam, Epic, Ubisoft, Humble, Itch.io, and a few other sites and the vast majority I will probably never play more than an hour or two (because they were free or they were insanely cheap and I had heard of them). I'll end up pissing away far more time on some cheap iPhone game anyways, of which there are a million just waiting to be downloaded.. And I don't even have to play the longer games because some game streamer has already put out a complete walk-through of any game I'm interested in, so that I can just watch that instead of spending a lot more time figuring out whatever game it is. I can see all of the high-points and low-points without doing anything more than bringing up YouTube, and without having to even buy the game. I have hundreds of free books on my Kindle, plus Kindle Unlimited which means tens or hundreds of thousands more books are at my fingertips (plus I can buy another million or two ebooks as well) not to mention my local library has a fuckton of ebooks I can check out. And I don't even have to read the books because some booktuber has already put out a 5 minute summary YouTube video on any book I'm interested in. I have Netflix, Disney/Hulu, HBOMaxChipJoannaGainesDiscovery, Peacock, Paramount+, Amazon Prime, AppleTV+, plus a few free services (Tubi, etc., something like 20-30 free Google TV channels through my Android TV that all have singular topics) and a million other videos on YouTube, quite a few of which are decent if one looks around. Over-the-air broadcast, I have something like 40-50 TV channels, and dozens of them are channels that are focused on one thing - the Western channel, the Game Show channel, the Hollywood Squares channel, the Murder She Wrote channel, the Little House on the Prairie Channel, and they are running this content non-stop. I don't even have cable TV and haven't had it for 20 or so years, but everything I want to watch, I can stream the next day. If I wanted to get a radio service like Sirius, I could have access to hundreds or thousands of singularly-focused channels, like a Beatles channel, a "songs from the 1970s that were in the top 20, but not in the top 10" channel", a Joe Rogan channel, a surf music channel, a surf music channel that is nothing but European bands imagining what it's like to surf and write surf music channel, and thousands of fucking podcasts through Apple, YouTube, etc., if not tens of thousands. I have access to pretty much the entirety of the 20th and 21st century music outputs, through the aforementioned Sirius, etc. services, plus YouTube, YouTube music, Spotify, Amazon Prime music, Apple iTunes/Music/whatever. Pretty much every movie in a theater these days will be streaming within 6 months, and while I don't have a massive TV, it's bigger than what I had 10 years ago and is just fine. There's only about 1-2 movies a year where I feel like I have to see them in the movie theater. In short, I have at my fingertips, whether it be my phone, iPad, or TV remote, access to more content than I could ever consume in 20 lifetimes. My streaming service and gaming queues are fucking legendary, and someday there will be some emo-hipster-balladeers who write epic ballads about the length of my queues. And if I miss a show, such as The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones or whatever, I know I can easily stream it that night or the next day, or even better in some cases, watch some solid recaps on YouTube with all of the Easter eggs I would have missed. I missed entire seasons of the Walking Dead, but there are some people who put together some awesome YouTube videos covering the most important events in the Walking Dead as if they were historical events, and in some cases, those videos are far more entertaining than the actual shows/seasons themselves were because they can skip right over shitty writing. In short there is no sense of urgency whatsoever about watching anything on TV or in the theaters. NONE. This is not 10 or 20 years ago where some event TV stuff like Lost or the Sopranos had to be consumed the moment it aired because everybody would be talking about it the next day - if I get behind, I don't have to worry about missing out overall because I can stream it over lunch or on the weekend, or better yet, I can binge it down the road, and in the meantime, I can spend a few minutes online or on YouTube and get a recap and pretend like I watched it when talking to my friends or co-workers. In short, it has nothing to do with woke and everything to do with too much content from the last 100 years. Sorry @TwiceHorn for the manifesto.
  17. That is the dumbest fucking thing that's been said in this sub in a long time. Is this you?
  18. There is some colorized footage of that battle. Our pilots were not always the best at map reading People were shooting at all kinds of things they thought were Japanese There was even a ferris wheel that was hit by a Japanese submarine.
  19. Sometimes, but I can always find something interesting on Youtube. There’s a lot of good documentaries and history vloggers on there. Lot of BBC documentaries.
  20. He’s 34 and his wife is 57, so I imagine he works out to keep up with her.
  21. Even though it’s ostensibly an American song, it seems like when any Irishman gets drunk, they automatically know how to belt out the entirety of “Mr. Brightside”.
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