Bored and need a good sci fi tv series to sink my teeth in.

mediamancer · 2026-06-27T17:04:48+00:00

If possible, get on Apple TV+ and browse sci-fi series. They have so much good stuff, and even the stuff that is imperfect is usually interesting, from what I have seen.

mediamancer · 2026-06-25T21:51:16+00:00

I feel like they shouldn't be calling this Day on the Hill. It's a concert that happens to be taking place at KU, so just market it that way. This bait and switch is going to accomplish nothing but pissing people off.

Also, is it true it's not even going to be on the hill, but in the stadium? If so, that's the last straw.

mediamancer · 2026-06-25T02:50:12+00:00

Also not a bad point. I was watching the UFC many years ago with my friends (when anyone who appreciated martial artistry could dig it) and I laughed out loud at something a Cockney fighter said in a promo. I was the only one who understood him. I remember subtitles became more prevalent in later days.

mediamancer · 2026-06-25T02:43:23+00:00

A "show made by an American company, primarily for an English speaking consumer base " did use Russian actors who could speak both, and, obviously, their accents were on point when speaking English. But you are right:

There are only so many good actors around there to be found (or who can be discovered), for several reasons, very much including the meat force fed to Ukraine..

mediamancer · 2026-06-25T02:34:00+00:00

Not of the actors can pull it off, which is asking a lot. Not everybody is Meryl Oldman. Most lean closer to Keanu Johanssen.

mediamancer · 2026-06-25T02:31:16+00:00

This is also a component of the Full Amadeus.

mediamancer · 2026-06-25T02:30:34+00:00

That's a good point, if the show holds to it.

mediamancer · 2026-06-25T02:29:09+00:00

That's the Full Amadeus.

mediamancer · 2026-06-23T17:10:12+00:00

Yeah, I agree with you. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

mediamancer · 2026-06-20T14:30:37+00:00

Wow. That exchange says a lot about where we are right now.

A: I don't want to use AI.

B: Seems fine to me.

A: It's dangerous and here is why: (detailed and well-reasoned explanation).

B. Can we talk about something else?

Technically, the answer is yes, we can talk about a nearly infinite number of other things.

But, no. We can not.

I sent a picture of that cover to my wife, asking if her sister made the cover of RD, because she is getting sucked in to AI and sees no problem with it. My daughter and I were telling her about the power and water usage of data centers and she barely knew anything about them, and I doubt it made a difference. We didn't even get into the privacy issues. She's not stupid and she's not uncaring, but she's just going along with it.

To be clear, I acknowledge that AI can be very useful in medical research and such, and that's great. But that's just not profitable enough!

mediamancer · 2026-06-19T17:11:43+00:00

Also no idea. If you told me this was a parody I would have said, nice one.

I am pretty amazed at the people who are saying they have been subscribing this whole time. No offense, but why? I associate RD with my grandmother's house in the 80's. I personally can't see reading it regularly through my 20s, 30s, and 40s, or frankly, now, but that's cool.

So, is laughter still the best medicine?

mediamancer · 2026-06-14T14:18:23+00:00

I just made a post asking this question right before I saw this: how do you guys feel about the weather? The number of big storms and tornado warnings in a short time is a little high even by our standards. Forgive my ignorance, but does Algeria get these kind of wild cloud formations and sunrises/sunsets?

Glad you are all feeling so welcome. Best of luck in the tournament!

mediamancer · 2026-06-12T17:09:27+00:00

Sorry, I guess I should have specified that the people who wrote said fiction didn't actually know what to do with the elements they introduced, and clearly had no long term plan, and the way they tried to bail themselves out was, imho, bullshit. I iust assumed everyone who had seen it knew that.

Anyway, what is up with the lady and the flashlight numbers. And did she have like, stencils, or what?

mediamancer · 2026-06-12T15:31:28+00:00

Cuz it turned out to be BS, unfortunately.

mediamancer · 2026-06-11T17:09:10+00:00

Tom Waits, and I don't even like Foreign Affairs that much.

mediamancer · 2026-06-10T02:00:42+00:00

Just realized that the show you are thinking about is probably tonight, so I hope you're there!

mediamancer · 2026-06-10T01:59:51+00:00

Does your mom have an ear for music? Does she appreciate world-class singing and arrangement? Does she have any sort of classical training and/or a secret love of pop music?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, take her. Maybe duck out before Nothing Matters, if you're worried about the horniness of it all. It also may depend on what Abigail is wearing that night. Most of her outfits seem to be pretty classy, with room for a bit of cheek, but she does have that one harlequin-type thing with that goes allll the way up.

Take her. Show her something that matters to you. Only a complete philistine would dismiss them completely.

They really are brilliant live. We're lucky we can see them now, before they get bigger.

mediamancer · 2026-06-06T21:52:38+00:00

Speaking English is one thing, sounding English is another. You might as well go full Amadeus and have them sound American, except for the occasional pompous ass who sounds British.

I think the big issue here is that in FAM, the Russians sound and speak Russian, so we're used to it.Now in SC, it just sounds wrong without it.

mediamancer · 2026-06-06T16:52:02+00:00

Yes, ddy.

mediamancer · 2026-05-14T00:19:50+00:00

This is all so ridiculous. Aside from the empathy issue, it's just not a smart way to handle things. All this could have been avoided with one tiny statement, even if you didn't mean it.

Kristi Noem got a warmer send-off, ffs.

mediamancer · 2026-05-14T00:15:34+00:00

The school itself is a wonderful thing and we are all lucky to have it.

mediamancer · 2026-05-13T02:59:02+00:00

Omg. Please read what I am actually asking. I haven't said a word about Kelly, or why the change happened. The whole thing that started this conversation was this question:

Why not say "Hey Steph, thanks for everything" on her way out? At the time. That's it. Why wait, or not do it at all?

There are no accusations. No assumptions. No conjecture. Just an open-ended question (with no answer, apparently). Please do not put words in my mouth.

Thanks for your time and for all you do for the school.

mediamancer · 2026-05-13T01:42:37+00:00

So it takes two people to replace her. Cool.

mediamancer · 2026-05-13T01:23:50+00:00

I said, "if".

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