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Got to add...
Resident Alien.
Alien crash lands near the rural town of Patience, Colorado, Things get out of hand.
Funny not to dark comedy.
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OriginalGriff wrote: what rock have you been hiding under? The one whare I don't have Netflix, or Amazon Prime, or NowTV, or ... any of the others.
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To be honest you are missing quite a bit - the "normal TV Channels" have really become pretty cheap and tedious over the last few years - and lockdowns haven't helped - so the "good stuff" is generally not available on them. And fiction well presented give you a chance to both relax and think outside your normal mind-set. Yes, books are good - but they are a solitary exercise, a good piece of TV shared with a partner can give you insights into the story and your partner that you may have otherwise missed.
Don't get me started on movies though: they are just scared to do anything original and different in case it doesn't top the box office ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Maybe, but we are not serious enough telly addicts.
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Quote: the "normal TV Channels" have really become pretty cheap and tedious Ditto for "normal" TV in the USA. Probably even worse than UK TV. We only use normal TV to watch the news headlines. Now we spend our TV time streaming older shows, especially older British shows via Britbox.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: The one whare I don't have Netflix, or Amazon Prime, or NowTV, or ... any of the others.
I hope you like to read....or, something.
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I was brought up at a time when only the better off had TV in their homes, and even when we did get one, there was only one channel. Since then I have had various periods of my life without one, so i do not see it as the essential item that many people do.
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Game of Thrones: Dumb writers do well as long as they have some source material to stick to. Things get out of hand.
Quote: If you haven't, what rock have you been hiding under on? FTFY. It's (99942) Apophis, where I'm currently mining the minerals (*).
(*) Elite Dangerous, but I lied. They don't let me into the Sol system yet, probably for good reasons. Not a big deal, because the rest of the playground has 400 billion stars. But they let me do the Alpha Centauri Run in less then 12 parsecs to deliver a message. 0.21 lightyears to be exact, because I actually had to fly all the way to Proxima Centauri without jumping, which they did not tell me.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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- True Detective
- The Following
- Code Geass
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OG: Thanks for posting this. The thread is full of good ideas!
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I don't consider any of those to be bingeable.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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OriginalGriff wrote: Anything I should have added? PLENTY!
I only have Netflix so everything here is on there (at least in the Netherlands).
I really enjoyed Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra.
They may be kids shows, but still really good and fun as an adult.
Watched Norsemen last week, a comedy set in a Viking setting
Three seasons so far and more coming (hopefully).
Erased (both the anime and the real-life series) is awesome! About a guy who (uncontrollably) jumps a few seconds back in time whenever something bad is about to happen so he can prevent it. Then his mom gets killed and he jumps something like 20 years back in time. It's only one season so not a long watch, but absolutely worth it.
Dorohedoro, another anime, still only one season, hopefully more underway, but the animation and trippy atmosphere of this one are really awesome.
Loved Your Lie in April, also an anime, even got me to play the piano. Also, I'm not crying, you are!
For something else: The Good Place (comedy); Bojack Horsemen (animated dramedy); Love, Death & Robots (sci-fi shorts); Community (comedy); Peaky Blinders (crime); Stranger Things (horror)...
I could go on all day and some favorites are still missing (especially anime's), but I'll leave it at this as you only got one weekend
Totally agree on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul though, both are pretty awesome.
There's also this movie, El Camino, about Jesse after he escapes in Breaking Bad.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Love, Death & Robots (sci-fi shorts) I love those! I think my favorites are Shape-Shifters (werewolves in the USMC), Lucky 13 (military fighter/landing craft, sans peur et sans reproche), and Zima Blue (artist). I'm really looking forward to the next release.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Those were some of my favorites too.
Loved the ones with the farmers and the invasion from another dimension and the ones with the space ship and weird spider aliens as well
Unfortunately, not all of them were of the same high standard.
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If you add animes to the list, Re:Zero, Sword Art Online (in spite of the dumb title, it is awesome), Wakfu (the first two seasons were great), Overlord, and a few others are worth adding. +100 for The Last Airbender anime series. There is no M. Night Shyamalan version.
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In that they are small things.
Imagine if you would, that people often get chicks and rabbits for pets around this time of year. Further, imagine if you will, that we were instead celebrating symbolically with the Easter Elephant, instead.
And imagine, then, if said pachyderm decided to hope around your living room. Or dying the elephant eggs - in what size cup?
Chris: I realize this is a bit personal, but does Bob lay eggs?
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: in what size cup? B.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: In that they are small things. I don't think we talking the same thing here.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Are Easter eggs all they're cracked up to be?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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What shell I say to a bad yolk like that? One thing, for sure: at this time of year, everyone wants a dye-hard boiled version.
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During most of the year I would eggs-plain why.
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Special punishing remark for you carnivores: Nothing but bacon flavored Peeps for the next week!
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modified 2-Apr-21 11:50am.
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Absolutely - when I was hunting for a new dye-it I found that they are (over) easy to make and I am not scrambling to get ready in the mornings.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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That quacked me up.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A question in the C++ forum today led me to C++ conformance improvements in Visual Studio 2019 | Microsoft Docs[^]. It seems to me that C++ is getting more and more complex and only a select few (some of whom are regulars here) will understand and be able to use these features. So I have to wonder who benefits from them, apart from the compiler writers who will definitely keep their jobs.
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There are several C++20 and beyond features I would like to use in my code, like built in support for coroutines, but my current toolchain I develop with primarily doesn't support them fully.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I'm with you. There isn't much beyond C++11 that I've found use for, at least so far. C++17 added <filesystem> , and C++20 added useful functions to atomic_flag . There's still nothing for sockets, but there's no end of pedantic crap.
Many systems will have platform-specific targets for things that have since been standardized. They won't bother to move to a version of C++ that supports them, because it would likely entail some rework.
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