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1. Barry 1. Succession 2. Blue eye samurai 3. Invincible 4. Scavenger's reign 5. Telemarketers (documentary) 6. Gen V honorable mention for David Guetta |
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1.5 How to with John Wilson (documentary/essays) |
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except David Gueta, which is an acquired taste (for sophisticated, monocle clad people and rodents) everyone should watch these. i hope dariusgriffin likes How to with John Wilson. maybe she thinks the way it seemingly goes offscript is too scripted, though |
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Oh fuck Succession. Its a slow motion version of The Thick Of It for Americans still titilated by the occasional F word. Odious and boring. |
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ok did you watch any good series which came out with a season in 2023? |
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also i'll admit that my list is kinda painfully american |
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okay, The Last Of Us had its moments, so maybe it should be on here but the main story if felt a bit disappointed with, somehow |
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typing in the other fav movies thread I thought about True Detective: how is the latest Jodie Foster season compared to the previous ones ? I consider another shot at all the seasons after the immaculate S01. |
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I just checked s04 hasn't been aired yet lol |
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i'm in a reading group 'introduction to Marxism, by Mandel' i'm 'the intersectional guy' i read very poorly the first meeting. but that was okay, because i'd pretty much only read the first chapter of the prescribed five. and that's all we went over, because these peope can't stop talking about socialism |
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wow, jodie foster. good tip, still |
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for some reason that first season is one of the things i haven't rewatched, because i rewatch a lot (like the wire, sopranos, mad men several times) |
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i got them to go after the bar afterwards. guess what was discussed over drinks |
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guess ill share this list with them, anyway |
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i now did. now they'll probs go discuss mlm |
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honestly didn't know youre a tankie i read an obituary on Le Guin today, so am now leaning towards anarchism https://nl.crimethinc.com/2018/01/25/we-will-remember-freed om-why-it-matters-that-ursula-k-le-guin-was-an-anarchist |
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The reading group sounds good. Mandel wrote the introductions to the Penguin editions of Capital. You know, "Formerly, the national question was usually confined to a narrow circle of questions, concerning, primarily, "civilised" nationalities. The Irish, the Hungarians, the Poles, the Finns, the Serbs, and several other European nationalities-that was the circle of unequal peoples in whose destinies the leaders of the Second International were interested. The scores and hundreds of millions of Asiatic and African peoples who are suffering national oppression in its most savage and cruel form usually remained outside of their field of vision. They hesitated to put white and black, "civilised" and "uncivilised" on the same plane. Two or three meaningless, lukewarm resolutions, which carefully evaded the question of liberating the colonies-that was all the leaders of the Second International could boast of. Now we can say that this duplicity and half-heartedness in dealing with the national question has been brought to an end. Leninism laid bare this crying incongruity, broke down the wall between whites and blacks, between European and Asiatics, between the "civilised" and "uncivilised" slaves of imperialism, and thus linked the national question with the question of the colonies. The national question was thereby transformed from a particular and internal state problem into a general and international problem, into a world problem of emancipating the oppressed peoples in the dependent countries and colonies from the yoke of imperialism." |
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I haven't watched any 2023 series, much like the last 3 yXmas! Nothing. Probably *because* Marxist leninsts sprayed their unfortunate scent over Hollywood scripts like mange riddled feminist crybaby skunks. Merry xmas! |
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you and big should |
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Big is a valuable and important member of the xlt community. I like him, here anyway. Buy I try to picture him as a roommate. Coming home after a long day's work, setting the keys down-- and hearing a podcast through the door about Eminem's white privilege. Again: Eminem's white privilege. A podcast. And he's actually listening to it. *Is* that worse tha him listening to mein kampf? It's really, really close. Not joking, in terms of roomate compatibility. It's at least as bad as toto- africa. |
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Only 2023 stuff I’ve seen is the mandalorian. |
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That first season. After watching it I wonder how they could top that. First Fargo series was so good too. |
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good real socialists are fine, anyway. so many are unbearable, though. or i guess many good ones are that, too. like you. not trying to be mean; i am, too, like wolfy accurately describes i think several will have come up with intersectionality. i imagine marroons did too, for instance. they just don't have their ideas republished this topic looks like i'm bragging about how many series i've seen (regarding russelldust). yeah, fargo was best in the beginning |
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Big, you get home, put down your keys, and are immediately hit with 120 decibels of smell from Wolfslice's shoes and socks that are left at the entryway. Then you smell the fish smell from his frozen fish sticks that he's once again heated in the microwave, inundating the apartment with soggy microwaved fish smell. His bedroom door is closed, but you can hear every word of the Joe Rogan podcast featuring his guest, Jordan Peterson, interspersed with the bullet sounds of some mindless shooter videogame. You think of the piss jugs on Wolfslice's bedroom floor and feel ill. Looking down, you see that God has placed a hunting knife in your hand. You know what She wants you to do. what do you do big what do you do |
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I'll own the shoes in the doorway. My wife HAS sprayed them once or twice. While I haven't eaten fish sticks since I was a kid, they are a good metaphor for my general toddler's palate. So far so good, but believe it or not, I do not particularly like Rogan or Peterson. I don't hate them either, I guess, but I never listen to them. If Rogan had the Coen Brothers on or something I might tune into just that one episode. My political guy is Bill Maher. What you'd really hear through the door is the wife and I getting caught up on about 150 episodes of One Piece. I'm also rewatching Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington's On Cinema. I don't really play many shooters. Just a bit of Team Fortress 2, but not too often. Here is my . |
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My most annoying roommate habit would be stepping outside regularly to smoke. I don't smoke inside. I'm turning 40 in a few days and want to cut back cigs and stop drinking. I've proclaimed this publicly, we'll see how it goes. I can't do the vape thing.. it's like sex with a condom on. Actual smoke or bust. Otherwise I would keep my noise down and wouldn't eat your food. I'd install a bidet on the toilet. I'd cook meals. My wife does all the dishes so that's taken care of. Aside from the shoes in the doorway it probably wouldn't be so bad. Big, spare me. |
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my God's pan binary tho |
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If I was a dick to big I apologize. To not talk to you in the 3rd person, I'll address directly: I meant what I said that you're an important member of the xlt community. More than me. If I felt I had to leave so you could thrive, I'd do so. And you're a good person. However misguided or counterproductive I feel your *solutions* are, you're at least trying to make the world a better place. Attending meetups, focusing on problems, these are good things. I just can't bring myself to agree with where you've ultimately landed. It doesn't mean anything beyond one man's point of view, for either of us. My solution is bad too. I would simply be to reduce the world's population by 2/3rds, because almost every problem can be traced back to just "there's too many of us." I get how nihilistic and cynical my view is. But still 70 years ago, there was more individual freedom and autonomy, and the cows and chickens could spread out on an actual farm. It's fucked up now. Anyway the eminem podcast IS the most stupid thing I've ever heard of, it IS. It's a dogshit philosophy and it's done you no good. It's racist and it deserves to be made fun of, thoroughly. But I can do it with some respect for the man listening. |
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and ofc not everything was great for everyone 70 years ago. This is more an american perspective here. It was good enough in this country that people were comfortable having like 10 children a pop. |
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Things were better 70 years ago because of that were clawed back. |
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Gonna watch Ozark. |
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i didn't feel dicked to wolfy is of course objectively wrong (then again, no one named fav series of the year) |
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i liked it a lot for some reason, i couldn't get into the second half of the last series. i couldn't get into the story anymore, not sure if that was on me or the series. could really be they ran out of interesting things to say (like that story with the brother was top tv, but also it's was artificial drama to come up with said brother) |
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also i liked both roommate stories |
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I’m going to watch it as you mentioned it a few times in good light and it seems like my type of show. (White of course, aye big) |
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i think you'll like it! has some incredible performances |
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Arnold, probably the only one I saw this year. |
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didn't we force you this year to watch this other series? i forgot what it was |
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oooh, it was video game Disco Elysium |
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Barry best https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/may/29/barry- finale-review-farewell-to-the-true-best-series-on-televisio n (has spoiler for finale) |
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I made a thread about it… |
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Missed this thread. The Mandalorian was so good. Give me more of that crack pls Big… if you like The Wire, then watch We own this city - also a David Simon thing |
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yeah, seen it. it is great. love what they do with the actor that played Marlo a leftist will get tired at some point at works like these because they don't just state that the overarching problem is capitalism. the system isn't fixable |
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i now did Apple+ TV Severance is a great one |
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He probably said “pls don’t make me a gangster again” I’m not into guys but I kept imagining him posing for an underwear ad 🤷♂️ |
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Couldn’t get through that one. Foundation is quite good. I’m sure the Asimov purists would hate it but it is enjoyable imo |
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it seem too general scifi for me. yeah, i'm a purist i watched the first season of For All Mankind (it didn't like it, the family stuff was so trite) and i watched Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (i liked it. not Great, but i saw what it was going for. also liked it because i've been getting into Godzilla (the animated movies on Netflix i liked best)) |
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startrek lower decks should be on here, before Gen V i still have to finish the season, but i'm just a fan. it's so wholesome ^_^ |
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