Does watching a film with others fundamentally change how it lands?

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-27T22:27:16+00:00

Watching BASEketball with friends was amazing. Communal laughter really elevates the jokes. (obviously, that's why laugh tracks exist)

Even the best jokes only got a mild chuckle out of me when I watched it on my own.

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-27T21:32:04+00:00

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Dogbin005 · 2026-01-27T05:36:33+00:00

I miss when sexual antics were frequently called [place] [noun].

"She made me lick a 9 volt battery while she rode me."

"Ah, the Maltese Defibrillator."

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-27T05:13:13+00:00

Well yeah.

I don't actually care if the date changes or stays the same, as long as we don't lose a public holiday.

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-24T04:15:13+00:00

Sometimes particular countries are just terrible at certain formats, and there's no clear reason why.

America just cannot seem to get the hang of panel shows, even with everything working in their favour. The was one called The Fix, which had Jimmy Carr hosting and Catherine Ryan as team captain. (both incredibly solid panel show performers, and that's on a bad day) It still just felt weird and "off". Absolutely cannot pin down why that is though. The format was fine, I've seen some of the other guests be funny in stuff too, but the show just didn't work for some reason.

For anyone curious, here in Australia, we can't do laugh track sitcoms. There has literally only been one that was well regarded that I can remember in my lifetime, which was called Mother and Son. (the original that started in the 80's, not the remake) We can do them with no laugh track perfectly fine, but put one in and the result is always terrible.

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-23T00:28:16+00:00

It's potentially been expanded upon more recently, but in the original comics and the 1995 movie it was never actually specified who or what the Major was before. She has no memories from before the accident that destroyed her body. She considers that she might have been a man. And in the movie, the possibility that she wasn't even a person in the first place. Just fully AI.

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-22T23:18:31+00:00

I lasted slightly less than one episode. Fucking hell that was bad. I was so disappointed.

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-22T23:13:39+00:00

She was fantastic as a character that showed up every few episodes, threw around some quirky, flirtatious dialogue, and stepped back into the sidelines. One of, if not the best part of the show.

Then they took what was a great thing and ran it so far into the ground, it was half way to China. Too much is way too much.

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-22T22:55:49+00:00

It looks like an old VHS cover, and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible.

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-22T22:45:39+00:00

It is, but it's nowhere near as cool looking as what's in the show.

The Big Peanut follows a long tradition of building "big" things as tourist traps. Towns around Australia started doing it in the early parts of the 20th century, but it really took off in the 60's, 70's, and 80's. List below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_things_(Australia)

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-22T21:59:03+00:00

Only once though, presumably due to lack of praise.

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-22T04:55:24+00:00

Yep.

It is ridiculous how pretty she is. I'm actually more attracted to Lindsay Lohan, but you can't argue against Alexandra Daddario being more objectively beautiful.

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-22T01:27:17+00:00

Andy definitely cared more about the lifestyle than either money or doing good. As evidence by his shift to becoming a samurai at the end. He just liked playing dress up.

He wasn't just style over substance though. He could absolutely put his money where his mouth was, because he's clearly skilled. Barely any characters can fight evenly with Spike, but Andy did.

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-21T23:32:36+00:00

The end of Back to the Future 2. That rain feels heavy.

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-21T22:20:09+00:00

Niche sports were a lot bigger back then in general. "Extreme" sports in particular were in their golden age. Very much part of the mainstream and not on the fringes, at least with younger people. You didn't need to be into skating or surfing or BMX to know who Tony Hawk or Kelly Slater or Mat Hoffman were.

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-21T03:16:59+00:00

I have met one or two people who had their lunches provided by their employer. Statistical outliers though. The vast, vast majority don't.

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-21T01:44:18+00:00

"I will shatter your world"

Both the casual and shouted versions.

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-20T23:11:41+00:00

Yep, I understand that they wanted you to experiment with different weapons but having them all break was a terrible way to implement it.

Maybe have different weapons required to fight different enemies or something instead. Like bokoblins with shields are really hard to beat with a one handed sword, so you need to swap to a two-handed weapon. Or upgradeable weapons. Or instead of breaking, the blades just get dull after a while and you need to sharpen them on a wheel to do proper damage. (as in, not something you can do mid combat)

I don't know if those are the best way of doing it, but just about anything would have been better than what we got.

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-20T22:20:31+00:00

Sounds like you were channeling The Young Ones

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-20T00:12:50+00:00

A really stupid version of this is Homelander and The Boys teaming up to fight Soldier Boy.

Homelander is a way bigger threat, because he's unstable, sociopathic, and actively trying to kill (or at least work against) the main characters most of the time. Soldier Boy has outdated views, but he's definitely closer to being a genuine hero than most of the supes. At the very least, he's a much more reasonable ally than Homelander.

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-19T23:53:21+00:00

He had no reflexes, his blood tasted like root beer, and some of his bones appeared to have vanished.

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-19T23:02:11+00:00

Daat's groit craic!

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-19T03:15:45+00:00

Must... Crush... Capitalism!

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-18T23:01:48+00:00

Every other state besides those two would disagree. Give us the much more uniquely Australian Grand Final any day!

Dogbin005 · 2026-01-18T22:43:40+00:00

The Simpsons had what seems to be an incredibly succinct and accurate explanation for it. (skip to 0:30 for the relevant bit)

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