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In any case, it's a bit of a strange miracle Springer and Maury lasted as long as they did after the lot of other talk shows around their peak died off, especially after the Jenny Jones murder.

Crimson_Corsair posted...

What a nothingburger.

So you're okay with what she said.

"If you don't believe in God, something's wrong with you."

People really don't think any before they speak, do they?

brestugo posted...

What always got me were the shows where someone would be back for the 3rd or 4th time trying to find the father.

When I was actually more into Maury several years ago, I do recall one (white) woman who was there for....8 times total?
Kept testing groups of guys at a time, including (reportedly...) one dead dude.
The final time, she just gave up. No ultra-dramatic meltdowns, just a flat-out "I'm done."

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As a sidenote, I find it telling that Jerry Springer and Maury both never did any grand final episode. Both just called it quits with zero fanfare, only letting entertainment news publications and shows talk about the show(s) quietly ending.

Most kinds of liquors.

Water (for me, room temp when it's winter and house is chilly).

Majority of Japanese Sentai shows (and US Power Rangers).
Majority of the wannabe versions made in the US.

Live action:
X-Files
Charmed
Supernatural
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel
Forever Knight
Big Wolf on Campus
Star Trek The Original Series (most of the time)

*more grounded example*
Criminal Minds

Animated:
Ben 10
Danny Phantom
Swat Kats
Men in Black
Ghostbusters
SCOOBY DOO

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Friday. 'Nuff said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvGiZW5uNhg

HorsemnBusiness posted...

Its amazing to me how clueless parents can be with their kids. They thought it was perfectly normal to let a kid that was diagnosed on the spectrum with major depression, anxiety, some and form of schizo, have a fascination with horror movies, morbid humor, serial killers, and school shootings. Like they started to question him when they discovered a set of knives, duck tape, zip ties, and other weapons for torture previously so he threw them away and they all moved on from it a year prior. He didnt have a bad childhood at all and was just allowed to be molded by his fascination with violence with all his conditions.

It's usually flat-out denial. Even with said red flags of others, the parents won't immediately throw their own child under the bus like that.
"My son/daughter would never do anything bad!"

Until it does happen, of course.

And it is denial "until the bad thing happens" because admitting that maybe your kid really is fucked up and could grow into a serial killer would feel like an admission that the parent failed their child in some way, even if they did everything reasonably correct for raising him or her, as such parents would assume it'd invite a lot of shame and scrutiny that "they're just as bad" and some such.

I know there's a book I spotted on the subject for parents to pay better attention to the signs that their child might be or growing into sociopathy, and ways to steer them away from it.

For the topic title, I don't browse the sites or places that may have such people acting like that.

Personally, never learned manual (I mean, why? If there's none available and parents and relatives always had automatic? Including driver's education that had no manual cars).
Do I want to? Not really.
Do I care about what others drive? No...

Only thing I care about is making sure to get from Point A to B in one piece without being hit by distracted or accosted by angry road-rage fueled drivers.

I actually am curious, and someone can probably answer for me.

Has MTG ever done ANY interviews in front of anyone? I figure by now she would have gone in front of someone who would have questioned her on the lot of the things she's said and done...

thronedfire2 posted...

so are biology professors going to be required to entertain students saying evolution isn't real?

Going by the pics a few folks posted earlier, probably holding a Charles Darwin book in one hand and The Bible in another.

Full title: New Indiana law requires professors to promote 'intellectual diversity' to keep tenure
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https://www.npr.org/2024/03/22/1239534856/new-indiana-law-requires-professors-to-promote-intellectual-diversity-to-keep-te

SNIPS

A new Indiana law allows universities to revoke a professor's tenure if they don't promote so-called "intellectual diversity" in the classroom.

Supporters of the measure say it will make universities more accepting of conservative students and academics. But many professors worry the law could put their careers in jeopardy for what they say, or don't say, in the classroom.

"I'd say it ends tenure in the state of Indiana as we know it," said Ben Robinson, associate professor of Germanic Studies at Indiana University.
Tenure is supposed to mean indefinite employment for professors, where they can only be fired for cause or some extraordinary circumstance. According to Robinson, the status "allows faculty the freedom to pursue their inquiries and their teaching without fear of reprisal."

But some academics in the state are worried that the new law allows university boards of trustees to interfere with tenure, which normally is handled by university departments.

That's not how supporters see it.

Republican state Sen. Spencer Deery, a former chief of staff for the Purdue University president and the bill's sponsor, said the new law would help conservative students feel more comfortable expressing their opinions on campus.

"The American public and Hoosiers as well are losing faith and trust in higher education," Deery said. "One of the strong reasons for that is, frankly, higher education hasn't done a great job of making every viewpoint feel welcome."

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I have a question for such folks in support of that law.

Exactly, what conservative viewpoints are we talking about?

That guy should change his name to James Coomer, because he may as well be a stain of the ass.

One of the only Halo games I played extensively and tolerated its multiplayer.

Funny enough, out of all the skills I wound up using the Sprint the most.

NoxObscuras posted...

I remember another topic shared that first clip, but these are hilarious. Yeah, it ruins the immersion, but it would have been funny as hell to just be watching the movie, not knowing when someone was going to grab another Cerveza Cristal lol

Dude, now you got me thinking.
What if some folks there who saw Star Wars for the first time, saw it during that broadcast?
Would be trippy if then those people turned around and saw the unaltered version and would be wondering what happened to all the beer.

Yeah, this blew up on social media a few weeks back.

Still insane as hell that it ever happened.

HeroFlyChao posted...

https://youtu.be/qQV6guvFmM0?si=2foMiaFy6xDexPXO

Having seen this, they should have went all-out in making the game as insane as possible.

Oh, and actually marketing it, so like...people would know about it.

it's as if Tencent intended for this to be a tax write-off or some such.

For a game with that much money behind it to be known and that star power, it needs to have like... a budget for marketing, too.

Yo, check it.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b7b2a438.jpg

Regardless of the trial outcome, what I want to know is, who the heck talked him into using said killings to run a grift?

If that boy was any smarter (rhetorical: we know he's not....), his ass would have kept as low of a profile afterwards as possible, instead of continuing to put himself out in the public eye and make his very name and visage be poison.

While I more than likely had instant mash at eateries, personally, I'd rather make my own.

specialkid8 posted...

He's in a jrpg so no

I wouldn't generalize.

I feel the Church and Altima made for damn good villains (plot and motivations) in Final Fantasy Tactics.

Hayame_Zero posted...

Yup. Kefka tends to be revered in terms of how successful he was. But outside of that, he's just another clichd maniacal overlord who wants to rule the world.

Slight correction on that. Dude is a super nihilist. He just wants to destroy everything, including himself at the center of it.
At the time of FF6's release, there were at least two others before him (Cloud of Darkness, Exdeath) who essentially wanted the same thing. Kefka's just number 3 on the list who was going full-omnicide.

DuuuDe14 posted...

Why do people care so much about other people's opinions?

Enjoy the game if you do, or don't. It shouldn't affect you.

But, you're on the internet! You must find validation for what you like/don't like with mutual others, or else what you believe in has no meaning or worth!
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/s

I can understand why people put Sephy into a box descriptor by saying he has "mommy issues," but thinking about it, it's kind of incorrect.

"Mommy issues" imply he's had trauma from his would-be mother, when his actual blood-mother had little to do with him, and Jenova...he just imprints himself on as he drove himself off the deep-end.

wackyteen posted...

Yeah, it's rough af in some spots, but aside from the Lego people aesthetic for charcter models, a lot of the environments still hold up and do their job.

Remember, the fact that said environments are pre-rendered probably helps with that.
Anything 3D modeled (even the characters in the FMVs) are all quite simple.

For comparison's sake, FF9 aged a little bit better on the PS1 due to improvements in graphics by the time that game came out.

Hayame_Zero posted...

Hell of a lot more well-written and interesting than Kefka.

Kefka's popular because he's essentially The Joker in Final Fantasy flavoring. The nihilistic variant from the DCU. Though notable in that he did get most of his goals accomplished.

While Sephiroth's goals, when broken down all the way, basically amount to him wanting to become a god, the method for it and how he psychologically torments the hero on a personal level helps a bit more.

SilvosForever posted...

I promise you that. If "not identical to original" = "bad" then they were never going to like the game, no matter what it was.

Amen.

Bet if the game was essentially similar to OG FF7, just with better graphics, you'd get loads of folks who would also complain because "it's all still the same."

You know of those recorded incidents of Karen-types going up to minorities in neighborhoods saying "You don't belong here!" ?

Well, there's good chance things will get even worse in those instances if cops are called and they respond.

wackyteen posted...

Like i know he thinks of himself as an Ancient (or the heir to) after the Nibelheim incident but I feel like more explanation would have benefited as to why he wanted the Black Materia to summon Meteor to destroy the planet. <_< Maybe I wasn't paying attention but it just felt like he was doing villain things because that is what villains do.

The original game did explain it, though you might have glossed over it since so much was already happening at the time.

But Sephiroth wanted meteor to hit so that (he theorized) the planet would use the Lifestream energy to fix the damage. But it would be a lot of energy, that Sephiroth was planning to be in the center of to take for himself and become similar to his "mother," Jenova.

mystic_belmont posted...

The books have been made since the 1970s.

JKR did a lot of borrowing.

I mean, yeah?

I knew of the books beforehand, but was mentioning it also had a TV show later down the line in 1998.

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And as I was looking up the above, I also came across the darn made-for-TV movie that came out in 1986.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUkVcd7SbTw

CableZL posted...

My favorites were the ones involving Cable,

The wild man from Borneo.

*shifty eyes*

See ya around.

Remember, they basically did a soft retool on everything since Season 5 was an "extra" season (the show was supposed to end after the Season 4 "Beyond Good & Evil" multi-parter).
Season 5 had different animation studio and writers and such, and couldn't even get all the OG voice actors back.

A hand-me-down HP Pavilion from like, 2002 or some such.

mystic_belmont posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_Witch

This had a TV series IIRC.

WingsOfGood posted...

Magic Schoolbus

Wrong context: Topic is calling for books and other media about schools where people learn magic, not using magic to teach science.

For clarification about my dislike on cheese on everything...

It's more of a dislike on it being in stuff I don't expect or don't want it to be in (let's say, cheesy bread, cheesy grits, Mexican corn which I did not expect....). I don't care for stuff that's solely cheese (cheese pizza, grilled cheese sandwiches...). Even had one bad incident where a hole-in-the-wall seafood place mixed in cheese with their fried shrimp batter. Hated it so much, I figured that was when I made decision to never go back to it.
Oh, and had a restaurant dress up my mashed potatoes "loaded" but used waay too much unmelted shredded cheese (in big chunks, too) that I wound up dumping the lot of that crap out.

Kradek posted...

They don't understand that their views are not popular amongst everybody else.

Oh, they know, it's just that those of their skin color aren't "woke" to their ideology yet or are "race traitors."

They just use such language to make it think there's more of their ilk out there than anyone realizes. Yet we know they're still in a minority with their abhorrent, bigoted beliefs.

I remember that clip. Looney toons shit right there.

That show Road Rage is something else.

Well, the last thing the lot of those types want is to be exposed for what they truly believe in...
almost like they know the crap they spew would be jeered and abhorred by normal functioning people.

Not familiar with StoneToss at all....but the material must've really been a piece of work for people to go and out the sucka.

The setpieces kicked ass.

Would make for badass punk apocalypse Mario level of some sort, lol.

Too bad the flick itself was stank.

KFC is fine (may eat it once a month, though)

Cheese on a number of things is a turn-off to me (I detest cheesy bread).

I don't care for eggs much (once in a while, but usually part of something bigger like a breakfast taco or burrito, with other things alongside it).

I don't get the love for avocados. They're fairly tasteless to me.

NO2_Fiend posted...

Depends on the observer in an instance like that. If someone is able to achieve arousal from it then it is pornographic even if the intent of the creator was not to create arousal.

Which would make the description of "pornographic" itself subjective to heck and back.

ClayGuida posted...

Final Fantasy the Spirits Within

It was meh, not bad.

I actually put in the effort to list the bad video game animated flicks :D

Well.. there is Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJQlH4bJgyI

As for other animated flicks, the most I can also think of is the old Art of Fighting anime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3t9rcFNFr0

And oh! The Street Fighter Alpha Generations movie, that got derided to hell and back when the folks at Capcom saw it. And then even more when everyone else did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mP3dHSX7EM

They got it way earlier compared to the US and was one of the early anime series shown there through the years.

Revisited posted...

I checked it out, what do we think of the art style though? I usually prefer comics that have the same art style as the cartoon they're continuing from like dcau comics

Clearly artist is doing their own thing.
Everyone's still recognizable, though the painterly art style will take a bit getting used to, even though so far it has all the trappings of the 80s show down fairly well.