The Democrats utter cowardice towards Mahmoud Khalil is sickening. I can’t believe these cowards haven’t read the Niemöller poem. Even if you don’t like what Khalil has to say, it should bother you that the government is disappearing and deporting a green card holder because they don’t like his constitutionally protected speech.
I live in the SF Bay Area and there was a plan to have a HUGE protest at Chuck Schumer's two scheduled book events here this coming weekend. One was at a bookstore in Marin County which is in sort of an elevated strip mall; the part of the store where they do events has a bunch of windows, and it would have been delightfully easy to hold up signs and disrupt his appearance. Not surprisingly, it was canceled today due to "security reasons." I was pretty bummed, since it would have been a fun time. These cowards shouldn't be able to go anywhere without being yelled at.
Huh, I'm of the mind that if Schumer allowed a shutdown and Musk and Trump would just use it to declare 90% of the federal workforce non-essential and furlough them immediately and indefinitely. Not sure what the Dem endgame of a shutdown is. Dems like the federal government a lot more than Musk and Trump do, and I'm not sure what they have that Republicans want when it comes to bargaining.
I was already ready to fight Zaslav over the Sesame Street cancellation. It's like he's actively hostile to kid's programming that doesn't make me want to die.
And I don't even have kids, just nieces and nephews!
I saw The Actor, which made a whopping $20k after Neon dumped it in less than 25 theaters. I see why - it's incredible visuals and a great Andre Holland performance in search of an organizing principle - but it's always a little sad to watch an indie studio actively cutting their losses.
Which streamer has the Bond movies this month? Did they finally settle at Amazon? I feel like that series and Harry Potter were the biggest offenders.
Some guys in my HS friend group chat were talking about how they watched a movie on Netflix called Electric State this weekend. I had never even heard the title of the movie. I try to stay at least somewhat current on new movie releases but had no idea what this movie was.
After checking it on IMDB I realized it had a cast STACKED with A-list talent. I realize Netflix movies are not theatrical releases, but this was a bit shocking to me. Maybe I'm not the target audience according to the algorithm, or whatever, but if it hadn't been for a random text in a group chat saying how shitty the movie is I would never have been aware of it.
There is also a disclaimer at the beginning telling the viewer it is sponsored by Planters Peanuts, and one of the main characters is a Mr. Peanut robot.
*jams barrel of elephant gun in mouth and tries desperately to get big toe inside trigger guard*
For streaming services, Amazon Prime pisses me off the most in terms of their interface. They'll always show you exactly what you're looking for, then in small font add "available for purchase!"
I KNOW IT'S AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE YOU TURD-MUNCHERS! I understand capitalism, I don't need to pay for a streaming service to explain that I can purchase things.
It's like when you go to a fair, pay 25 bucks a person to get in, then all the good activities cost more. Then they have the gall to have one shit-ass tent advertising "free activities!" Oh how generous of you to offer "free" activities at this stupid fucking winter festival I had to pay to get into. Fuck everything!
1. My podcast cohost (who I describe as the other incongruously left wing southern wrestling fan who hosts a podcast) is the son of the former head of the Georgia AFL-CIO. His dad said that he believed the point of uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and YouTube were to replace well-regulated businesses with good worker protections with deregulated ones that didn’t protect workers.
2. I am a passionate advocate for physical media because of just the thing you’re describing. I also want to have unedited shows with the original music. It’s expensive and takes up space, but I still like it.
3. Zaslav is the dirt fucking worst and he got the job by modernizing the American freak show. Empowering the Duggars and Kate Gosselin should put you in jail, not in charge of one of the great Hollywood studios.
The first thing I watched on Max' launch day was Looney Toons. Every time I'd show a movie in my garage I'd throw them on for about an hour beforehand. My kids and all their friends who had never seen them absolutely loved them.
This Looney Toons news was the first thing I saw this morning and as I sit at home now at the end and if my day, it really set the tone. I guess it's finally time to get my Emby server running and get these shorts from the high seas.
And this is where you get yourself a large network attached storage device, get a Usenet provider, a good usenet indexer, and set up Sonarr and Radarr. Then you never have to worry about this nonsense again.
My most prized possession is my curated film and TV collection - over 1100 Blu-Ray remuxes filling a 60 TB NAS. Remote accessible, so I can stream anywhere, anytime (except China, Russia, Brazil - gross). Being able to grab my phone and Chromecast a quick Dredd or a Starship Troopers when I'm at a buddy's place is so nice. Spent over 3 years working my way through the private tracker scene to get into the best (non-HDBits) tracker. It gives me the warm and fuzzies.
Honestly, Usenet is 99% as good as the private tracker scene and much more user friendly. My wife can easily navigate to our Radarr instance, search for a movie, and if we don't have the Title already Radarr automatically fetches a 4K Remux, downloads it (150MB/s+), renames it and moves it, and adds it to our Jellyfin library. Same with TV and Sonarr.
I used to have kind of a hodgepodge system with RSS feeds, Filebot, and various batch commands. Now it's all seamless, and since it all runs on Docker Containers ridiculously easy to rebuild. If I lost my entire library, Radarr could rebuild it automatically.
My setup is essentially the same. I prefer the tracker scene myself (the top end ones have exclusive groups and good communities). I don't have the search and add automated with RSS because a) I don't trust it fully and b) I enjoy being hands on with the collection, but all the searching, file renaming and hard linking happens through Radarr (I do have cross seeding automated). I use Kodi at home because the playback is higher quality (direct streaming, audio passthrough, great codecs) - Jellyfin I use for remote access, which works great (being able to choose the bitrate and having Chromecast built in is fantastic, plus it has solid hardware acceleration). NEEEERD!
In my home theater I run Kodi with the Jellyfin Addon running on an NVIDIA Shield so I can get full Atmos/HDR/etc. Everywhere else is just Jellyfin because I typically need HDR/SDR tonemapping.
Have you found a Shield replacement? I'm considering buying another so if mine eats it, I have a backup. But I'm hesitant because it's, what 6 year old tech now? Crazy how good that piece of hardware is.
Yeah, it's awesome. I have a second NIB one just in case.
That said, there are rumors about an update since NVIDIA is doing the Nintendo Switch 2 and the Shield Pro just repurposes the Tegra X1 from the original Switch. My fingers are crossed, mostly because NVIDIA started releasing updates for the Shield Pro again out of nowhere in February. That makes me think they are tinkering with the software (after a multi-year gap) in preparation for a new device.
It was one of those comedies where it feels like no one commits and everyone is winking the entire time. It was like Righteous Gemstones with half the acting and none of the one liners. I dunno, it did nothing for me. Or maybe I just can't do Daniel Craig with a southern accent, I hated the Knives Out movies too.
I like Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc voice in the same way I like Kenneth Mars in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, or even the same way I like your version of "Da Stafe". They're not supposed to be accurate, they're supposed to be funny. Although maybe that isn't clear enough in the KNIVES OUT movies, which are unfortunately about as smug as they are funny. (Still funny, though, I think.)
Maybe this is petty, but I quit watching when someone referred to a highway as “the 29”, like nobody on set had ever been anywhere in the U.S. outside of SoCal. (Which I know isn’t true, so why?!)
I'm so California that I didn't even notice the highway thing, but nonetheless came away with the same impression. It's weird because i think Soderbergh is kind of southern? And it's not like I'm some Southern pride guy or anything (see prior sentence) but something about this parody seemed not-knowing (as opposed to Gemstones) and so it came off kind of smug.
Maybe it has something to do with Soderbergh not having a southern accent (lost it? never had it?) while Danny McBride has almost a caricature of a Virginian accent.
Speaking of southern accents, I was looking up how to do a minor repair on a piece of equipment and came across this wild one, as close to Fake Bret as I've ever heard:
The Democrats utter cowardice towards Mahmoud Khalil is sickening. I can’t believe these cowards haven’t read the Niemöller poem. Even if you don’t like what Khalil has to say, it should bother you that the government is disappearing and deporting a green card holder because they don’t like his constitutionally protected speech.
I live in the SF Bay Area and there was a plan to have a HUGE protest at Chuck Schumer's two scheduled book events here this coming weekend. One was at a bookstore in Marin County which is in sort of an elevated strip mall; the part of the store where they do events has a bunch of windows, and it would have been delightfully easy to hold up signs and disrupt his appearance. Not surprisingly, it was canceled today due to "security reasons." I was pretty bummed, since it would have been a fun time. These cowards shouldn't be able to go anywhere without being yelled at.
Huh, I'm of the mind that if Schumer allowed a shutdown and Musk and Trump would just use it to declare 90% of the federal workforce non-essential and furlough them immediately and indefinitely. Not sure what the Dem endgame of a shutdown is. Dems like the federal government a lot more than Musk and Trump do, and I'm not sure what they have that Republicans want when it comes to bargaining.
Who said anything about a shutdown
I guess I'm projecting! My bad.
I just wanted to yell at Chuck Schumer!
I was already ready to fight Zaslav over the Sesame Street cancellation. It's like he's actively hostile to kid's programming that doesn't make me want to die.
And I don't even have kids, just nieces and nephews!
I'm unlikely to ever see Last Breath, but the documentary of that story is insane awesome.
I saw The Actor, which made a whopping $20k after Neon dumped it in less than 25 theaters. I see why - it's incredible visuals and a great Andre Holland performance in search of an organizing principle - but it's always a little sad to watch an indie studio actively cutting their losses.
Which streamer has the Bond movies this month? Did they finally settle at Amazon? I feel like that series and Harry Potter were the biggest offenders.
Some guys in my HS friend group chat were talking about how they watched a movie on Netflix called Electric State this weekend. I had never even heard the title of the movie. I try to stay at least somewhat current on new movie releases but had no idea what this movie was.
After checking it on IMDB I realized it had a cast STACKED with A-list talent. I realize Netflix movies are not theatrical releases, but this was a bit shocking to me. Maybe I'm not the target audience according to the algorithm, or whatever, but if it hadn't been for a random text in a group chat saying how shitty the movie is I would never have been aware of it.
I keep trying to watch it to review it but I keep falling asleep. There are already so many plot holes just in the first 10 minutes.
I believe it also cost $300 million, making it the most expensive Netflix movie ever made.
There is also a disclaimer at the beginning telling the viewer it is sponsored by Planters Peanuts, and one of the main characters is a Mr. Peanut robot.
*jams barrel of elephant gun in mouth and tries desperately to get big toe inside trigger guard*
For streaming services, Amazon Prime pisses me off the most in terms of their interface. They'll always show you exactly what you're looking for, then in small font add "available for purchase!"
I KNOW IT'S AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE YOU TURD-MUNCHERS! I understand capitalism, I don't need to pay for a streaming service to explain that I can purchase things.
It's like when you go to a fair, pay 25 bucks a person to get in, then all the good activities cost more. Then they have the gall to have one shit-ass tent advertising "free activities!" Oh how generous of you to offer "free" activities at this stupid fucking winter festival I had to pay to get into. Fuck everything!
1. My podcast cohost (who I describe as the other incongruously left wing southern wrestling fan who hosts a podcast) is the son of the former head of the Georgia AFL-CIO. His dad said that he believed the point of uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and YouTube were to replace well-regulated businesses with good worker protections with deregulated ones that didn’t protect workers.
2. I am a passionate advocate for physical media because of just the thing you’re describing. I also want to have unedited shows with the original music. It’s expensive and takes up space, but I still like it.
3. Zaslav is the dirt fucking worst and he got the job by modernizing the American freak show. Empowering the Duggars and Kate Gosselin should put you in jail, not in charge of one of the great Hollywood studios.
The first thing I watched on Max' launch day was Looney Toons. Every time I'd show a movie in my garage I'd throw them on for about an hour beforehand. My kids and all their friends who had never seen them absolutely loved them.
This Looney Toons news was the first thing I saw this morning and as I sit at home now at the end and if my day, it really set the tone. I guess it's finally time to get my Emby server running and get these shorts from the high seas.
Lying about golf is looking like a trend among dictators. Kim Jong-Ill once claimed he shot a 38 under par with 11 hole-in-ones…
https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/index/_/id/7369649
And this is where you get yourself a large network attached storage device, get a Usenet provider, a good usenet indexer, and set up Sonarr and Radarr. Then you never have to worry about this nonsense again.
My most prized possession is my curated film and TV collection - over 1100 Blu-Ray remuxes filling a 60 TB NAS. Remote accessible, so I can stream anywhere, anytime (except China, Russia, Brazil - gross). Being able to grab my phone and Chromecast a quick Dredd or a Starship Troopers when I'm at a buddy's place is so nice. Spent over 3 years working my way through the private tracker scene to get into the best (non-HDBits) tracker. It gives me the warm and fuzzies.
Honestly, Usenet is 99% as good as the private tracker scene and much more user friendly. My wife can easily navigate to our Radarr instance, search for a movie, and if we don't have the Title already Radarr automatically fetches a 4K Remux, downloads it (150MB/s+), renames it and moves it, and adds it to our Jellyfin library. Same with TV and Sonarr.
I used to have kind of a hodgepodge system with RSS feeds, Filebot, and various batch commands. Now it's all seamless, and since it all runs on Docker Containers ridiculously easy to rebuild. If I lost my entire library, Radarr could rebuild it automatically.
My setup is essentially the same. I prefer the tracker scene myself (the top end ones have exclusive groups and good communities). I don't have the search and add automated with RSS because a) I don't trust it fully and b) I enjoy being hands on with the collection, but all the searching, file renaming and hard linking happens through Radarr (I do have cross seeding automated). I use Kodi at home because the playback is higher quality (direct streaming, audio passthrough, great codecs) - Jellyfin I use for remote access, which works great (being able to choose the bitrate and having Chromecast built in is fantastic, plus it has solid hardware acceleration). NEEEERD!
Oooh, Nerd Stuff.
In my home theater I run Kodi with the Jellyfin Addon running on an NVIDIA Shield so I can get full Atmos/HDR/etc. Everywhere else is just Jellyfin because I typically need HDR/SDR tonemapping.
Have you found a Shield replacement? I'm considering buying another so if mine eats it, I have a backup. But I'm hesitant because it's, what 6 year old tech now? Crazy how good that piece of hardware is.
Yeah, it's awesome. I have a second NIB one just in case.
That said, there are rumors about an update since NVIDIA is doing the Nintendo Switch 2 and the Shield Pro just repurposes the Tegra X1 from the original Switch. My fingers are crossed, mostly because NVIDIA started releasing updates for the Shield Pro again out of nowhere in February. That makes me think they are tinkering with the software (after a multi-year gap) in preparation for a new device.
Vince, which would you rather do? Golf against Donald Trump or Jiu Jitsu (verb?) Mark Zuckerberg?
Tough one. I think Trump is decent enough at golf that id have to at least play okay, but not in a million years am I losing to Zuck.
Vince, you think Logan Lucky was bad? Why?
It was one of those comedies where it feels like no one commits and everyone is winking the entire time. It was like Righteous Gemstones with half the acting and none of the one liners. I dunno, it did nothing for me. Or maybe I just can't do Daniel Craig with a southern accent, I hated the Knives Out movies too.
I like Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc voice in the same way I like Kenneth Mars in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, or even the same way I like your version of "Da Stafe". They're not supposed to be accurate, they're supposed to be funny. Although maybe that isn't clear enough in the KNIVES OUT movies, which are unfortunately about as smug as they are funny. (Still funny, though, I think.)
Maybe this is petty, but I quit watching when someone referred to a highway as “the 29”, like nobody on set had ever been anywhere in the U.S. outside of SoCal. (Which I know isn’t true, so why?!)
O.K., definitely petty.
I'm so California that I didn't even notice the highway thing, but nonetheless came away with the same impression. It's weird because i think Soderbergh is kind of southern? And it's not like I'm some Southern pride guy or anything (see prior sentence) but something about this parody seemed not-knowing (as opposed to Gemstones) and so it came off kind of smug.
Maybe it has something to do with Soderbergh not having a southern accent (lost it? never had it?) while Danny McBride has almost a caricature of a Virginian accent.
Soderbergh grew up in Georgia, Virginia, and Louisiana, so yeah, what gives???
Speaking of southern accents, I was looking up how to do a minor repair on a piece of equipment and came across this wild one, as close to Fake Bret as I've ever heard:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8DE2qhs4e5E
Holy shit book this guy on the pod
No, that's actually pretty spot on. Definitely pulls me out of any film for a moment. Like the obviously empty coffee cup physics.
In regards to Looney Tunes being axed, saw this today:
https://www.ign.com/articles/classic-wb-cartoons-from-every-era-are-discounted-on-amazon-after-the-looney-tunes-purge-at-max