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Rob T Firefly

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  • I usually default to subs, but there are certain dubs that are pretty iconic and I'll sometimes choose over the Japanese. For example I always enjoy the English-language cast of Cowboy Bebop and count that as one of the times they really Got It Right translating the dialogue and casting the dub.

    And, of course, there are the gag dubs like Samurai Pizza Cats or the Funimation version of Shin Chan in which the dub clearly veering away from the source material and doing its own thing is the whole point.

  • Hope Springs Eternal [Feral Mills]

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  • Ad-free podcasts are the best podcasts.

  • If you could add one F-bomb to a kid's movie, which movie would you pick?

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  • Who in your opinion is the worst written FICTIONAL villain in all of media?

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  • I was a 1980s kid. Darth Vader was one of those peak villains one sees in childhood, the ultimate bad guy. He killed indiscriminately. He had space wizard magic to find you and read your mind and choke you remotely. He had the evil (red) version of the coolest weapon in the universe. He was so scary his own soldiers on the bad guy side were afraid of him. He tortured the princess. For some reason he was part robot, had a deep commanding voice, and even his breathing was scary. And to top it all off, it turned out he was the good guy's father. Fathers are supposed to be safe, not scary!

    I had many, many childhood nightmares about Darth Vader. I watched the movies an incalculable amount of times, I cheered when the good guys beat him, or at least escaped him with their skin intact.

    Then I grew up, and the prequels happened. I don't know if any retroactive backstory could have matched the feelings my childhood mind had generated so many years earlier, but I was at least curious about what they'd come up with to explain who Darth Vader had been and what made him that way... only to learn that apparently the ultimate scary badass was apparently just some dull and whiny guy who somehow was randomly lucky, smart, and magical, lived a really nice and comfortable life with lots of support and encouragement, but was just all "no I wanna be bad now because some easily-resolvable life stuff made me angry waaaah."

    So disappointing.

  • If you could add one F-bomb to a kid's movie, which movie would you pick?

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  • Farquaad's name was literally the filmmakers calling their family-movie villain "Fuckwad" and sneaking it past the radar.

  • People who have worked in customer service: Did you ever get hit with a "Do you know who I am!?" Did you in fact know who they were?

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  • Anyone who has worked retail will tell you that one of the funniest things a crappy customer can do is threaten to take their business elsewhere. "You mean you'll stop bothering me with your bullshit and never come back? Oh no!!!"

  • People who have worked in customer service: Did you ever get hit with a "Do you know who I am!?" Did you in fact know who they were?

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  • Imagine feeling the need to name-drop in order to somehow improve your Walmart experience.

  • Google hates you

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  • I personally don't like using catchall for this, I prefer to play with aliases, but it's certainly another way to do it depending on the result you want.

  • What is your absolute favorite joke?

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  • Google hates you

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  • Another fun thing to do when you have your own email on your own domain is create all sorts of fun little forwarders/aliases so you can give out addresses that aren't your main one, track who passes the address you gave them along to spammers, and delete the alias addresses whenever you like.

    For example, you want to buy some cheese from the site Cheesemonger.foo and you need to give them an email address when creating your account. So, you give them cheesemonger@yourdomain.foo which is an alias you set up to forward to your real email inbox, and you receive mail from that site as normal. If you then start getting spam email sent to cheesemonger@yourdomain you know for a fact where the spammers got the address, and you know to delete that forwarder and buy your next batch of cheese elsewhere because screw those address-selling jerks at Cheesemonger.foo.

  • Misleading thumbnails be like...

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  • There! Are! Four! Hands!

  • check mate

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    Engineer builds AI laser defense system that wiped out every mosquito in his home

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  • So I can either set up an expensive machine that will make my electricity meter spin like a helicopter rotor while being a major safety hazard to life and, even if it works only as intended, fill the air with a constant supply of mosquito smoke (don't breathe this!) or I could just get some of those curly sticky strips from the dollar store.

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  • What if AI is their only chance?

    One could always drop coins into a wishing well, which has about as much chance as AI of solving this particular problem.

  • Custom Star Trek movie posters, no AI 👍

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  • I want to print these and put them in my Blu-ray slipcases.

  • On what specific episode does your favorite "I swear it eventually gets really good" television show actually start turning around?

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  • Now I'm imagining someone tuning in to Farscape for the first time on a Harvey episode, and trying to make any sense at all out of anything they were watching.

  • What are you even supposed to do?

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  • Very true! I loved Farscape, and not enough people know about it any more.

  • What are you even supposed to do?

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  • In Blake's 7 the whole cast of heroes are misanthropes in a crapsack universe who low-key hate each other but do what they can to make the best of it, with varying results.

    The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is about a bunch of inveterate losers in a smug universe who would generally rather be doing anything at all apart from their adventures.

    Red Dwarf is a fun tale of screwups in space struggling to accomplish anything meaningful in six seasons (followed by more seasons of diminishing returns.)

    (The Brits seem to be pretty good at this sort of thing.)

  • What are you even supposed to do?

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  • I like being more Barclay than LaForge.

    Barclay screwed up badly and made an ass of himself, but eventually chose to work on himself and get his shit together enough to be the one who Saves the Day now and then. I like imagining that people like me would still have a valued place in Starfleet.

    (Coincidentally, my regular appointment with my therapist is today.)

  • On what specific episode does your favorite "I swear it eventually gets really good" television show actually start turning around?

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  • Bob's Burgers, Season 3.

    Seasons 1 and 2 the seeds were there, but on the other hand they were trying to be yet another Adult-Swim style "edgy" show in the wake of Family Guy. Once that phase passed, the show found a real heart while the humor and storytelling grew up a bit. Now, it's been one of the most genuinely special things on television for a long time.