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trza-hawk

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  1. I can save Netflix some money on all the consumer analytics and data models they do by just saying Road House at a meeting then walking out.
  2. Something is wrong with the recommendations algorithm when Roadhouse is available for streaming and any other show is recommended above rewatching Roadhouse.
  3. I just finished the French submarine movie and it has a real awkward sex scene with the audio turned way up like its that one movie The Conversation
  4. I always wondered what it would be like to be friends with this guy.
  5. I have been reading about the new level released and thought about downloading it. So much of what made the games so appealing in the first installments has been picked up by other developers. The shooting with a little customization, the skill tree that doesn't really change the game, the loot and the feedback loop of basically whack-a-mole enemies that just go down whatever your skill or character level is. Anyway, I remember an extra game mode at the end of BL2 where they switched up the learning curve or gameplay loop and made all the enemies the same health and level as your character and their health and shields would recharge fast. It made every little group of enemies into a tactical chess match where you had to take down one guy at a time. I just thought it was funny for a few minutes.
  6. I was watching some bbc documentaries and while watching World's Busiest Cities I couldn't stop looking at Anita Rani. I looked up her name and she co-hosts a educational show about a train station in Mumbai that is also on Netflix, Mumbai Railway. Anyway, I couldn't get enough of Anita Rani and I looked up her appearances on other bbc shows and the interviews she did after that "Who are you" show where she shares a story about Partition of India. The Netflix algorithm then dug up more documentaries about trains in India for me to watch now.
  7. The show from Killer Ratings seems pretty good to me, i would tune in to watch this guy sing while a guy selling esfihas fights a puppeteer any time. I would never suspect these guys of anything shady behind the scenes.
  8. Okay, I will watch the doc Killer Ratings about some guy in Brazil with a true crime show who turns out to be one of the crazy killers or something.
  9. Can someone tell me the name of the song in the trailer? I think I heard it before but I can't remember where?
  10. I have been watching some of the racing docs and docu-series and the way the racecast or radio narrator is recorded after the fact but presented like live commentary is getting kind of old. Its like whatever situation the subject driver or team is in the English voice comes in and summarises it in a way that doesn't quite work right.
  11. I saw the show Colony pop back into my list of recommendations, but the shows for the last season don't have descriptions and so I looked it up and the show was cancelled last year. It seems like they didn't do any series finale, just a season ending cliffhanger. I like Sawyer from LOST and they have another actor who does the weasel like political type guy well. Its family drama and personal relationship show with aliens that you never see. I almost think its better to stop a decent show before it turns to crap like nearly every other serialized drama in the past fifteen years. I haven't heard of a single good ending or series finale for any of these kinds of show either.
  12. Is the Spike Lee time travel movie worth watching?
  13. Another thing about that movie where the annoying Ralph Macchio talks that one guy to travel to Mississippi, is when they are just wandering around and run into smokin' hot teen runaway Jamie Gertz.
  14. I thought the movie from the eighties with Ralph Macchio looking for Robert Johnson and ending up in a guitar battle with the devil was the real story.
  15. I thought the song was about starting a car engine. I don't know a lot about cars.
  16. I have been making my way through the military history and documentary series and one set that stands out as good is a series of docs hosted by Cambridge Professor David Reynolds. The guy is too kooky to be on American television, and this kind of history programming just isn't possible on any cable channel. The docs were made for BBC2 and BBC 4 over the past ten years, and have the host visiting the usual locations but also some out of the way locales affected by the conflicts like Northern Ireland or Egypt or a small coal mining town in Slovenia. Anyway, the shows aren't linked together so here is a list of the ones I found on Netflix 2008: Armistice – 2011: World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel 2012: World War Two: 1942 and Hitler's Soft Underbelly 2014: The Long Shadow – three-part series: (1) Remembering and Understanding; (2) Ballots and Bullets; (3) Us and Them 2015: World War Two: 1945 and the Wheelchair President
  17. I know this is the place for recommending shows, but Netflix is burning through about a billion dollars a quarter, something like 3.5 or 4 billion a year in cash burned. They expect to add more customers or even increase subscription fees while more competitors enter their market. I don't follow the stuff closely enough to know if this is sustainable.
  18. I have been going through a show Coisa Mais Linda or Most Beautiful Thing, because I am in a lot of musical groups and discussions and my thing is being the be-all end-all expert on all things related to Brazilian music. The show is boring but through three episodes and three quarters of the girls have taken their tops off when I didn't even know Netflix showed nudity. If you want to watch a show about female empowerment and feminism in the fifties/sixties with period costumes and Brazilian music in the background then it could be your thing.
  19. Not sorry if already Buble'd
  20. I don't want to go too long on a minor point, but a pretty good physically fit guy will get tired and winded after walking over a couple of hills in a town like Denver. The altitude will just get you winded really fast. Even if the guys have mules for the money, carrying their weapons and any other supplies for days, then crossing mountaintops without any gear just with ropes left by previous smugglers. Or sleeping out at night at that altitude without a fire. I know it doesn't sound like the right thing do do when you are sitting at home, but you can always eat your dead friends body and make up for it by leaving more money to his kids for how much you eat.
  21. Call me skeptical, but even five guys who are in good shape wouldn't last that long climbing over a mountain range with over a hundred bags loaded up, plus weapons and whatever supplies they took. Just the cold weather and the altitude would get to them. Don't get me started on how helicopters behave when they just get close to their limits, or the way the sun and wind and other factors play games with regards to ridge lines when you are flying in a place like that. Crazy drafts develop and can push planes down so fast it isn't even funny.
  22. Kind of odd for a guy to single out the Montgomery County Chronicle in a resignation letter.
  23. more stuff from the nineties that just randomly pops into my head, Faze Action and their orchestra sampling disco house phase
  24. I didn't check the previous pages, did somebody already post the picture of him from the nineties with the frosted tips?
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