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I remember when skate 3 was released. It was the biggest sports game of the year. It outsold even FIFA. BUUUUUUUT, fifa fans are so deranged that they spend like 2 Billions in micro transactions that EA obviously spend all their efforts into making more FIFA and no more skate. Except now Skate. Obviously, and we all know how shit this turned out.

Can’t wait for “Fast & The Furious versus Frankenstein”

Fast infinity: fastest family 4: shaw's laundry, Hobbe's social contract - Istanbul Traffic Jam

SNW does have some great moments. I loved the "documentary" episode most specifically, because it was a neat spin on things that let them experiment a lot with the cinematography and documentary-style shots.

As the documentary was the real 'focus' of the episode, the plot of transporting the enslaved alien creature/ship was allowed to be a self-contained story like old-school trek used to be, and I really appreciated the reflection on the morality of what they do as a crew, and as Starfleet.

There was a lot of TNG's DNA in there, and I liked that.

A what?!?!?

You know what's crazy? The show has existed for my entire life (I'm 36), but I've only seen like 5 episodes ever. And the movie.

When I was around 6 or 7ish, i was just getting into stuff like that and had seen the show a couple times. Then my grandma saw some thing on the news or at church or something and ranted about the show so much, about how vulgar and terrible it was. So my mom decided I shouldn't be allowed to watch it. I was an obedient child, so I didn't watch it. Then my older friend introduced me to South Park a year or two later, and mom hadn't said anything about that show... I never really got interested in The Simpson again after that.

Good news: CSI: Vegas got cancelled last year.

Copaganda in general can just go away.

That's fine for drama and written TV. But nah, reality TV ruined the world.

The Real World and Cribs on MTV led to Big Brother and Survivor - which as well as popularizing the format and leading to endless trash, led to The Apprentice, which revived Donald Trump's image and brand and convinced millions of really dumb people that he'd make a good president.

In the good parallel timelines, the execs that suggested reality TV were laughed at and it never came up again. MTV still plays great music videos all day, the History channel actually talks about history, and barely anyone outside of the US knows the name 'Kardashian' or 'Donald Trump'.

Honestly, I stopped reading after

The power creep just got way too out of control for my liking, and while I know that the power creep always existed, I feel like the adventures before showed how you can tell a good story without just brute force. Plus, even with their superhuman abilities, their struggles still felt relatable. And with what happened before and right after the aforementioned turning point, it felt like that would be left in the dust.

That's just a barrier of entry though. I've never seen anyone read the whole thing and then come out thinking it was just a waste of time. You either enjoy it or give up.

One Piece is kinda different from other long shows because it's not being stretched artificially, but in a more natural way. Like, comparing it to Dragon Ball, it's not a case of "and now we need to find the 7 dragon balls again" but a case of "turns out that finding 7 specific items that may be hidden anywhere in the world is actually fucking hard". In that analogy, the story is at the "we just found out who has the seventh" stage. So now all that's missing is getting that last one, making the wish and seeing the outcome of it.

The first segment of the series was quite linear, but after some point each country they visit has its own story, almost like an Isekai. Some of those stories are incredible, some are extremely boring and others are just fine. Then once Naruto and Bleach ended, OP kinda shifted into trying to absorb the fans of those two series and it became a lot less interesting to people who enjoyed only OP out of the big trio.

TIL Futurama was renewed. I'm so out of the loop these days it blows my mind.

I always have to pop up in these threads because I'm out there, and I'm not alone. I've been watching The Simpsons, more or less, non-stop since it first started airing.

When I was younger it played twice a day during the week with a new episode every Sunday. So when it comes to the earlier seasons, the ten or so seasons often viewed as the golden era, I've seen those dozens of times.

In the 2000s watching TV at a regularly scheduled time wasn't as much of a priority and the availability of videos on the Internet began to increase, so I usually watched The Simpsons that way. When the film came out in 2007 I was there opening day.

As streaming services became popular in the 2010s I started to watch The Simpsons there instead. Although these streaming services rarely had a backlog, just the current season, but I had them all collected over the years.

In the late 2010s my roommates and I decided to watch every episode of The Simpsons but not in release order. We would just pick a random season and episode and watch a few episodes a week over the course of two years.

Now in the 2020s we sometimes get together to watch, sometimes watch solo. I'm personally much more strict about watching every week, they usually watch in short bursts and I don't mind rewatching recent episodes.

But... Is it good? Yeah mostly. Not every episode is great.

The episode that aired this past Sunday isn't anything special, a few funny moments but Albert Brooks who voiced Hank Scorpio and Russ Cargill (from the movie) voiced a new character and that was fun.

The Treehouse of Horror from two Sunday's ago was much better, so if you want a recent episode then watch that.

No it isn't ever going to be as great as the golden age of The Simpsons, but it's still fun to watch and I still laugh, so that's a win to me.