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Post by The Captain on Nov 17, 2020 20:11:51 GMT -5
I gave. This place has been a source of joy for me for years now and it was my pleasure to help out.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 17, 2020 20:00:33 GMT -5
We cut the cord four years ago, so I don't have access to the local sports channel (used to be Root, may be AT&T now). I have really lost interest in the Pirates over the past three years. Don't really miss watching them, although my wife and I do sit on our deck in the summers and listen to them on the radio. I do miss the Penguins, but we recently got a Xfinity Flex device with Peacock Premium for free due to have their internet service, so I'm hoping that I will be able to at least see the Pens when they play on any of the NBC networks.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 17, 2020 19:55:27 GMT -5
Mine, in ascending order, are:
3. Punisher, Season 1 2. Daredevil, Season 1 1. Jessica Jones, Season 1
Haven't gotten around to DD S3 yet, so that might change my list.
JJ S1 got the top spot because of David Tennant. He was truly frightening as Killgrave and the best villain any of the Netflix shows had, with Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin a close second.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 17, 2020 19:44:23 GMT -5
The final episode of Supernatural airs this week, wrapping up its fifteen season run (which stretched into 16 years due to COVID). They were seven episodes from the end when things went to hell last spring, with five episodes shot without post-production finished, but with the final two episodes still to be filmed (and they had to make some adjustments to their plans due to COVID, so while the end result is the same as planned, the path they took isn't).
I didn't get into the show until the middle of the second season, but I've been with it ever since (my wife dropped out after season 9). It has had some great seasons and arcs, as well as some duds (season 7 is unwatchable as a whole, although there are a handful of episodes that are enjoyable), but for a genre show on a low-rated network, getting to 15 seasons and well over 300 episodes is an accomplishment the creators, stars, and everyone involved with the show should be proud of.
Once this is off the air, I have zero shows on any of the major networks that I am watching. In fact, the only two shows I am still watching are The Mandalorian and The Great British Baking Challenge (which is something my whole family watches together every Saturday night). Looking forward to the Marvel content to start hitting Disney+, but until then, I will not likely be spending much time with my TV except for English football on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 17, 2020 19:38:33 GMT -5
Just curious, who has the oldest music cassettes that still play? Either self-recorded or actual albums.
Was going through some things in a store room and found an unused pack of TDK SA-60s....last time I used tape was in the 90s, and mostly to grab something quick of the radio. Then I'd either go buy a single, an album, until the internet came along and I discovered MP3s....
Might put those tapes to use if only for the nostalgia....
There, I recorded it.
Such a weird question for me, as my dad e-mailed me yesterday to tell me that he found some of my grandmother's old cassette tapes and wanted to know if I wanted them (they were things like Tennessee Ernie Ford and a bunch of old Southern Gospel artists). I told him I did not and that he could take them to the thrift store. Our last cassette player broke about two years ago, but it had been years since I had listened to anything other than a CD or mp3. I still have a bunch of tapes, most of them professionally produced, but there are a few bootlegs that I wouldn't mind transferring to mp3 if I could, live shows from The Dead Kennedys, Nine Inch Nails, and They Might Be Giants that would be worth saving in a different format before the tapes are no longer playable.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 17, 2020 19:34:18 GMT -5
Sorry for the thread necro, but the past six weeks or so have been pretty hectic for me and I haven't been around here as much as I would have liked.
A quick off-the-cuff response would be "twice", although if really pressed on it, I think I have only been in love for real just once. I told a couple of high school girlfriends that I "loved" them, but it is highly unlikely that those were actual true feelings of love and more along the lines of "I really like you and doing stuff with you and making out with you, and since we've been dating for a while, I guess I should say something like this so that you know I'm serious about continuing doing stuff and making out with you."
The first time I thought I was in love was with the girl I dated in college. We got together in January of our freshman year, after she kept stopping by my room just to hang out. Apparently, she lived just a couple of towns over from me and used to come into the place where I worked in HS, but she never got up the nerve to approach me then, so she was going to take the opportunity that presented itself in college. We spent a lot of time together that semester, then continued dating that summer and into the fall, with us both skipping lots of classes our sophomore year (I got my worst grades that fall, and my parents were PISSED) to just hang out. I eventually asked her to marry me and she said yes, but at that point, things just stalled. She never wanted to set a date, she didn't want to discuss plans, and she started relying on me to help with her bills and expenses; everyone around me saw what was happening and tried to intervene, but I ignored them because I "loved" her. We graduated and moved into an apartment together, but then she started becoming distant, going out to bars and clubs with her friends more than spending time with me, but it was OK, because I "loved" her and knew she was just blowing off some steam before we settled down. She cheated on me repeatedly and eventually she moved in with one of the guys, which was the instigating act that drove me to return to college and get my life together after wasting five years.
What I've had time to reflect on in the ensuing two decades is that I really don't think that I "loved" her, but rather, I was looking to her to provide me with a stable relationship that I did not get growing up. My parents were the most toxic couple that I have ever known, and I thought that all I had to do was find that one person, that special someone, and I could do marriage better than my parents and have the life that I had been denied as a youth. Sadly, I hitched my hopes to a person who was manipulative and cruel, a user who lied and stole and cheated because she that was the environment she was raised in (her parents were both horrible people as well, cheating and lying and doing things to harm the other emotionally whenever possible).
Honestly, the only person I have ever been truly fallen in love with is my wife of now 18.5 years. I pretty much knew after the first two months or so that she was "THE ONE", as she was kind and caring and stable and interested in creating the kind of life with me that I had always dreamed of having. We could spend hours just sitting and talking, doing nothing but diving deep into each other's thoughts and desires for the future, discussing plans for our "what if" and our "happily ever after". There was a little rough patch about eight months before we married, all of my making due to me being less than forthcoming about some things, but we worked through it and have been building our life together ever since. She gets me and accepts me, with all of my quirks and flaws and faults, and she doesn't try to change me, but rather adapts to who I am and lets me be me, as I do with her. It hasn't been perfect, but I really can't imagine me having this life with anyone else.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 17, 2020 19:06:21 GMT -5
Slam_Bradley - so sorry to hear that you tested positive. Hope you recover quickly and are back to your old sarcastic self as soon as possible.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 17, 2020 16:48:46 GMT -5
It is November 17th today, and it is SNOWING and SLEETING, with 30+ mph winds, in Pittsburgh.
2020 cannot end soon enough.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 13, 2020 17:45:10 GMT -5
I don't know if it's so much humility as he's just being mopey. He's tired of being blamed for when things go wrong, and he's trying to figure out why people don't adore him like they used to. It's better than the "nothing bad ever happens to me" version of Tony who could buy his way out of any problem, and it certainly is better than the "oh, no, I'm drinking again" iteration as well. I really liked the scene on the plane where Patsy tells him to basically get over himself, even referencing an event that happened in the old Hellstorm series (which I happen to own, and I read the Warren Ellis issues, if not the whole series, every couple of years or so. Lot of wasted potential there, but it was the 90s and it wasn't a mutant book, so it was pretty much ignored by the public). Yeah, it's definitely different than past iterations which does make it a good read and the plane scene was definitely the highlight of the issue but despite that I think it was the lack of peppy Patsy that kind of threw off the balance a bit for me...that and I'm not a huge fan of Korvac and felt that the reveal that he was the mastermind behind the D-List villains just felt random. Still a fun book overall though. It's funny how time changes our perceptions. Controller, Blizzard, and Unicorn used to be at least B-List villains in the Iron Man run, but their status has definitely dropped as the decades marched on. A couple of years ago, when I was doing my Captain America review thread, I wrote about how Batroc used to be an actual threat to Steve, while over the ensuing years, he's become little more than a punchline as power creep has taken over and the threats always need to be bigger, Bigger, BIGGER!!!!!!
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Post by The Captain on Nov 12, 2020 21:08:44 GMT -5
So I’m hanging out waiting for the results of a COVID test. One of the attorneys in my office was positive a week and a half ago or so. So that’s fun. Not. Sorry to hear that, my friend. I'll be praying your test turns out negative and that you stay healthy. We've been dealing with some COVID-related drama of our own. The place where my mom lives has two positive cases, so they're on total lockdown and she's freaking out because she might not be able to come to Thanksgiving dinner (the lockdown ends on 11/24, with the holiday two days later). On top of that, we got an e-mail late last week that our younger daughter may have been in close contact at school with someone who tested positive (it turned out to be her Social Studies teacher). Thankfully, it's been a week and her temperature hasn't been above 99.4 degrees any morning, as we were instructed to take it every day. Take care!
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Post by The Captain on Nov 12, 2020 20:41:56 GMT -5
@rags - my wife is now the "shorty" in our house. She's 5'3", while our older daughter (15 yo) is 5'5" and our younger one (12.5 yo) just hit 5' 3.5". The wife is not happy. adamwarlock2099 - your story sounds like the wedding I went to a number of years back when my wife's cousin got married. He's a big strapping guy, probably 6'4" and 225 lbs of solid muscle, and his wife is maybe 4'9" and 95 lbs soaking wet. She was wearing 4" platform sandals under her dress just so she didn't look like a complete Munchkin next to him.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 12, 2020 20:35:39 GMT -5
Holy crap, that's amazing! Thank goodness someone stepped in and saved them from winding up in a landfill with the rotting fruit and veg from last Sunday's dinner.
And for the record, those stupid F@#$ing Jawa guns were the easiest accessory to lose of all the SW figures. I managed to keep an almost-perfect set of complete figures for years EXCEPT for those, as I managed to misplace all three of the guns for my Jawas (and no, I didn't have any of the vinyl cape ones).
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Post by The Captain on Nov 12, 2020 20:29:51 GMT -5
And Iron Man #3? I mostly agree with your review. I don't mind Tony being down. He has been an arrogant SOB for so long it's refreshing to see him brought down a few pegs in humility. I don't know if it's so much humility as he's just being mopey. He's tired of being blamed for when things go wrong, and he's trying to figure out why people don't adore him like they used to. It's better than the "nothing bad ever happens to me" version of Tony who could buy his way out of any problem, and it certainly is better than the "oh, no, I'm drinking again" iteration as well. I really liked the scene on the plane where Patsy tells him to basically get over himself, even referencing an event that happened in the old Hellstorm series (which I happen to own, and I read the Warren Ellis issues, if not the whole series, every couple of years or so. Lot of wasted potential there, but it was the 90s and it wasn't a mutant book, so it was pretty much ignored by the public).
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Post by The Captain on Nov 12, 2020 20:22:43 GMT -5
Yup, I'm in.
This is one of the great parts of the community, and I'm just hoping that my Secret Santa this year is as good to me as last year's was. The two books I got were AWESOME!
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Post by The Captain on Nov 3, 2020 16:17:00 GMT -5
Bob Seger is meh. My dad (73 yo) likes him, so that is my Dad's rock, although he does also like The Who, so he does get credit for that.
I can take the Foo Fighters, but they aren't my favorite. Saw them in concert a few years ago, as my sister got us tickets for my birthday; it was a good show. While I do have a couple of their songs on my playlist, I'm not above skipping them if I'm not in the mood.
I have pretty varied interests in music. Can listen to almost anything except most rap music and "new country" (the Luke Bryan/Kenny Chesney party boy style). My playlist can go from The Smiths to The Sex Pistols to The Rolling Stones to Guns 'n Roses to Gary Numan to The Beatles to U2 to The Killers to Oingo Boingo within 30 minutes.
Been listening to a lot to one of our local listener-funded stations here in Pittsburgh lately; they have a bluegrass show on Saturdays, and a folk music show on Sunday mornings while I'm grocery shopping. During the week, they might play Kula Shaker, then Alison Krauss, then David Bowie, then The Cure, then some indie folk singer I've never heard of, and I kind of dig them all.
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