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Post by impulse on Jul 24, 2022 16:22:19 GMT -5
@draketungsten You might be the only the poster here who cares if you even do, but Megadeth is promoting their forthcoming new album. As of today, they have released two of the songs. I don't know if anyone has told them 40 year old bands don't have to go this fast or hard, but I am glad they are. I didn't know, but dang... I checked out Nightstalkers and, yeah, Megadeth sounds as ferocious as ever. I was nervous when I saw Ice T was on the song, but he didn't bring it down at all. Plus, Youtube recommended the new Ozzy/Iommi single that also released today that I had no idea about. I should keep up. Oh yeah, I forgot about the Ozzy/Iommi song. Will have to give that a go. Thanks!
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Post by impulse on Jul 22, 2022 13:35:03 GMT -5
I never saw a problem with Claremont's writing. About 2 years ago, I re-read issues 94-143 of UXM for the first time since I initially read them in the 80's. While I didn't enjoy them as much the second time around, I didn't think his dialog was as bad as many make it out to be. To me, it seems to be a bandwagon people have jumped on. Just my opinion. It was always a bit unwieldy and overwrought IMO, but in his heyday the overall writing was strong enough that it worked well enough. For me, it was his later writings where it started to really stick out, especially where he tried to write a younger character and infuse (what I am sure he thought was) contemporary slang and lingo of the day. It was just cringe-inducing. But mine is just one opinion.
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Post by impulse on Jul 22, 2022 11:59:06 GMT -5
@draketungsten
You might be the only the poster here who cares if you even do, but Megadeth is promoting their forthcoming new album. As of today, they have released two of the songs. I don't know if anyone has told them 40 year old bands don't have to go this fast or hard, but I am glad they are.
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Post by impulse on Jul 22, 2022 11:13:33 GMT -5
I definitely like the Alan Davis written part a lot better than Claremont's. Claremont had some very obvious tics that could get annoying, but also he had no real grasp on the characters of Captain Britain (who was written as arrogant and incompetent, so that Nightcrawler could take center stage as a leader. In addition to his dialogue tics, this is also unfortunately a common habit of his; bringing his pet character(s) to a new book and ignoring previous characterization of the ones who were already there. I can't say whether he is intentionally doing so to boost his pets at their expense or whether he just can't be arsed to try to be consistent with other writers' work, but I went from being a fan of his primary X-MEN run to dreading hearing he was taking over a book I liked. I haven't read anything of his in a while, but the last thing of his I remember reading where this happened, the results were cringeworthy and disappointing to say the least. In fact, that was New Excalibur, ha. How fitting. Side note, I am nearly sure at some point in the past on one of the comics forums I was involved in an argument with someone about whether Excalibur was considered an X-book or not. FWIW I am on team "yes it is" though obviously not a primary one. Side side note, I haven't read much of the main Excalibur book, but I have the impression it's one of those things where it's not objectively the best or most popular, but it has its dedicated fans who find a certain charm in it.
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Post by impulse on Jul 22, 2022 8:23:13 GMT -5
Shaky cam is a trend I won’t be sorry to see the back side of.
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Post by impulse on Jul 21, 2022 14:15:52 GMT -5
From the Daily Star: Full story here: www.dailystar.co.uk/tv/netflix-boss-says-streamers-kill-27535611He may be right. People want to watch soaps in a linear fashion. Sporting events and anything political are best watched live (I doubt many people record a football match so as to watch it 7 days later). Everything else is at our pleasure. Why would I want to watch an ITV cop drama over six weeks, watching at 9pm every Sunday, when I could binge them in a week? Or watch them on a Friday evening? Just one example. And yet the Disney Plus model of releasing an episode a week of the Marvel and Star Wars series is creating "appointment TV" again and doing much better than the Netflix model of sustaining subscriptions for the long term rather than taking the free trial and cancelling after you binge the handful of shows you want or taking 1 month subscriptions then cancelling. Disney Plus has a fair share of those too, but they do much better as sustaining subs than Netflix does and they are growing while Netflix subs are shrinking. -M There is a small but important distinction, I think. It is not quite "appointment TV" in that you are not screwed if you miss the time slot. It is just available at a certain time. It has the benefits of both creating water cooler buzz but also the flexibility of not just being out of the loop until it syndicates if you miss it. Regular appointment TV sucks and I don't want to see it back, but this hybrid approach is doable. I still prefer binging when possible, and I loathe commercials though.
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Post by impulse on Jul 21, 2022 8:51:22 GMT -5
Right, I am sure the majority of reaction channels are staged, and I don't bother with but a handful. I've seen the opera singing coach, and she is good, too. And for other, it's less wanting their opinion as some sort of "the kids say my music is good so I am still with it."
At least for me, I always like sharing my music and having someone else enjoy it the same way I did. When they genuinely have a good reaction and are blown away in the same way, it's enjoyable to watch. It's almost like remembering when I listened to it the first time.
Again, it's basically one out of the dozens (hundreds?) I listen to with any regularity, and even if it is staged, I still enjoy it because it helps me hear my favorites from a fresh perspective again.
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Post by impulse on Jul 20, 2022 17:22:25 GMT -5
If it was playing on "classic rock" stations in the 80s and 90s I don't want to be arsed with it. In a nutshell.
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Post by impulse on Jul 20, 2022 16:23:30 GMT -5
I do get a kick in watching various YouTube music reactor videos. Many are very young and were brought up listening only to hip hop or this century's pop music. They have absolutely no clue about music from the 20th century. A bunch have been doing it for a year or 2, getting suggestions from comments on their posts or on their patreon accounts. You see them embrace certain artists or time periods and their perspectives are very interesting My absolute favorite (I subscribe to their Patreon) and only one I really listen to regularly is Lost in Vegas. They're not totally clueless on other times, and they have some familiarity with other genres already, but they come from primarily a hip-hop and R&B background. Their reactions and insights are very interesting, and the two of them have a very entertaining charm and back-and-forth. It is the closest I have come to getting to hear some of my favorites for the first time again with fresh ears. I cannot recommend them highly enough to anyone who will listen.
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Post by impulse on Jul 20, 2022 16:03:33 GMT -5
That's more the fault of unimaginative, play-it-safe rock radio station programmers than the music itself. If you only listen to commercial radio stations, then you'll get lowest common denominater type choices, over and over again. I haven't listened to a rock radio station in over 30 years but i find plenty to listen to in spite of that I haven't listened to commercial radio in at least 20 years. So it's not that. The same five songs are in every movie and TV show. I'm glad you find stuff to listen to. I do too. I just prefer it not be rock, because I'm bored to tears with it. Side note, I like rock-adjacent stuff and some offshoot genres, especially heavier stuff. For me it's specifically "classic rock" I'm just over. Edit... I say all this while listening to AC/DC's first album absent-mindedly.
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Post by impulse on Jul 20, 2022 16:00:29 GMT -5
That's more the fault of unimaginative, play-it-safe rock radio station programmers than the music itself. If you only listen to commercial radio stations, then you'll get lowest common denominater type choices, over and over again. I haven't listened to a rock radio station in over 30 years but i find plenty to listen to in spite of that It's not even that the music is bad. It's just been overplayed for 50 years, and even the sound of it is unpleasant now. I will say I can appreciate if I get to hear it from a fresh perspective. My wife wanted to run through Led Zeppelin from start to finish, so that was interesting getting someone else's fresh perspective and also hearing some of the deeper cuts I hadn't heard in a long time with my now-more-insightful ears. I like going back to things I haven't listened to in a while to see how they fare over time. A lot of times I hear a new influence or pick up on something I didn't have an understanding of before. I will say side 1 of Physical Graffiti is REALLY funky in its rhythms, so that was neat. Now I don't need to listen to it again for a long time.
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Post by impulse on Jul 20, 2022 14:57:06 GMT -5
I have agreed with Slam on this before, and I will likely agree with him again, but I, too, am beyond sick of rock music, specifically what is generally considered "classic rock" and especially Led Zeppelin. The airwaves, movies, TV shows, commercials, and nearly anything else with sound have been saturated with it for decades. A lot of it is very good and was overplayed for a good reason, but my classic rock tolerance receptors are just worn out.
There are a handful I still enjoy on the rare times I listen to them, and I rarely will seek them out deliberately, but the Stones are among those I can tolerate these days, though they absolutely peaked before 1985.
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Post by impulse on Jul 19, 2022 16:29:41 GMT -5
Well, on the flip side, I guess that's one way that our strict legal adherence to a shot being 25ml is a good thing; regardless of whether it's on the rocks on not, a shot of whisky is a shot of whisky. Which is quite a let-down to hard-drinking yanks who wind up in a pub in Inverness, expecting tall pours of scotch in its country of origin. It's rather interesting-- in the US, a "shot" of liquor is generally considered to be 1.5 oz (42.5 ml). Conversely, a standard US "pint" is 16 oz, while an imperial pint is a little over 19 oz. Lesson learned-- for most Americans-- when visiting the UK, stick to beer during your stay and get more for your shilling... save the hard liquor for the duty-free purchases on the way home. When I was in Scotland a few years back, it was annoyingly difficult to get the whiskey down fast enough to get to that happy place before it metabolized off with those little thimble pours. Soda, maybe, in some fast food places, I guess, but not for iced tea or coffee at places like Dunkin' Donuts or Starbucks, etc., and definitely not liquor. (Ah, for the 70s, when bars had two-for-one nights all week.) Yeah, but iced tea in most restaurants. And coffee in diners. Though almost without exception diner coffee is undrinkable swill. And yet when I'm at a diner, I will drink it because it's coffee. I won't enjoy it, but I'll take a sip, say "that's dreadful" and then down it plus three more.
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Post by impulse on Jul 18, 2022 9:57:36 GMT -5
What's the conversion between an assload, a shitload, and a f***ton? Is there a difference between an Imperial and metric shit loads, or is it a universal term? Is a buttload the same as an assload? I don't want to be hyperbolic in my correspondence, so it seems good to know the actual ratios. A buttload is much more than an assload. An assload is equivalent to 60 bushels, or approximately 480 lbs. (218kg), while a buttload is roughly equivalent to two hogsheads, or 126 gallons (477 litres). Now, comparing a mass measurement to a volume measurement is tricky, depending on the density of the liquid, but assuming that it were a buttload of water or wine, the actual mass weight of a buttload would be a little over 2000 lbs., or roughly 914kg.
Therefore, a buttload is a little less than a double assload. Obviously, if it were a buttload of molasses, pure alcohol or milk (all heavier than water), it would possibly weigh even more. A shitload eclipses either an assload or a buttload, coming in at approximately 2.7 short tons (2.45 metric tons), which is the weight of one fully loaded sewage scow.
By the way, don't trust Google's explanation of these measurements, which is spurious and laughable at best. The illustrations that I have used are based on real-world scenarios instead of hyperbole.
I love science. Thank you for your wisdom. Now I wonder how much energy is consumed hauling ass... Thanks for the genuine laugh. I needed it.
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Post by impulse on Jul 18, 2022 8:51:16 GMT -5
Been having a bit of an itch for an FPS that wouldn't take forever to download and install on Steam or GOG, tried the original Unreal Tournament (a favorite since fifth grade) but it doesn't seem to want to play well with modern systems and I wasn't interested in tinkering with modern solutions to get it working. But then I remembered that I had UT04 and quickly downloaded it Man, does that stuff ever feel like a very well-worn and yet still comfortable shoe~ Played a couple of rounds of the single player campaign to warm myself back up on the controls and I was constantly getting top scores. Really like the special abilities you get with the Adrenaline pills I love the original Unreal Tournament. It's still a favorite around here. I like to do bots, instagib, and Morhpheus on loop. Chaotic fun.
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