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Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman

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  • What movie are you ashamed you love?

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  • Some movies are just good fun, and Nicolas Cage is frankly in a lot of those kind of flicks. Con Air is up there, too.

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  • Robocop singing power ballads.

    Jeff Goldblum in a goofy cowboy outfit.

    John Lithgow as a scientist gone mad from what he's seen and Christopher Lloyd as a weird alien.

    God it's a fucking treasure along the lines of Big Trouble in Little China.

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  • Oh Frankenhooker is far more thoughtful and clever than Zombie Strippers, imho.

    The end of the film almost makes it a feminist film when the tables are turned and the main character gets his comeuppance.

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  • Also Hard Ticket to Hawaii

    I don't know any other film that passes the Bechdel test in a scene where two former Playboy models are topless in a hot tub together and talk about something other than men (there are no men in the scene, just the two women). A very unique and strange way to pass the Bechdel test that feels like it undermines the entire point of the Bechdel test existing.

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  • Frankenhooker.

    It's crass and trashy and I fucking love it.

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  • I feel personally attacked. It's better than the first film.

    Los locos kick your ass, los locos kick your face, los locos kick your balls into outer spaaaaace!

    A great performance by Michael McKean as always.

    We just don't talk about Fisher Stevens. Poor guy deeply regrets the role.

    Punked out Johnny Five is the best Johnny Five.

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  • Will you be ready when there is no healthcare and you're diagnosed young with cancer unexpectedly, which is happening to a growing number of young people. Will you be afraid when you can't take care of yourself and you're dying painfully because the treatment is unaffordable to you?

    All these things are well and good, but your life can get royally fucked in moments where you're suddenly fully reliant on a broken system just to stay alive. Your neighbors, friends, and community can't magically get you your $20k a month cancer meds, they're all struggling, too.

    Source: Got cancer unexpectedly young, have to rely on Medicaid to stay the fuck alive.

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  • Climate change. Shit is going to get super real in the next 20 years. Like half the planet starving real.

  • What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?

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  • The creator behind Scavenger's Reign, Joe Bennett, has animated for the FXX series Cake, and he also created Adult Swim's Common Side Effects, as well as soon to be on Netflix Dealies which is based on one of his Cake shorts.

    Everything he does is excellent, even his illustrations for Joe Pera's bathroom book "A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing but Using the Bathroom as an Escape" are wonderful.

    Also the artistic inspiration for Scavenger's Reign is french graphic novelist Jean Henri Gaston Giraud, also known as Mœbius, if you're looking for similar artwork.

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  • Pete Buttigieg Says He Was Separated From His Children After ‘Swatting’ Tip

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  • “I don’t know how much we can do about it, but so help me God, if there is any way to press civil or criminal charges over this, we will,” he wrote on Substack. “Not just for our own sakes but to draw a line that I thought everyone already recognized: do not mess with someone’s kids.”

    I mean... the people who do this literally support pedophiles and are often the same themselves. So "messing with someone's kids" is like the fucking norm for these freaks.

  • ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Going Digital-Only Is a Car Crash for Physical Media

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  • Yeah unfortunately it does not have the same recommendation engine, just listening stats. I haven't looked for a recommendation engine because I hadn't thought about it. I'll look to see if there's anything like that now.

    EDIT: I always forget about ListenBrainz. Not self-hosted, but definitely a good last.fm alternative that includes artist recommendations.

    https://listenbrainz.org/

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  • You can also buy music directly from artists on Bandcamp Fridays where they still get 100% of the sale going to the artists. I was afraid that would stop when it got sold but it's not dead yet.

    Also, another option is to have a locally hosted Jellyfin or Plex (ha) server and stream to yourself. My music collection is over 600GB so there's not many phones that can hold it all.

    I also self-host a music scrobbling service with Maloja and Multi-Scrobbler docker containers so I can get similar types of stats as last.fm while also having more privacy. I was able to import my stats from last.fm to it as well.

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  • I mean, that part I understand, which is why I either download and keep installers if I can (GOG) or I pirate and store installers (usually also GOG copies). Despite being poor, I have that luxury of hard drive space for these installers.

    I guess my point is, I do own those files, I am in control of them, they are mine, there is either no DRM to begin with or the DRM has been stripped.

    I still consider that to be ownership on physical media that cannot be taken from me. Discs and hard drives both degrade over time, so either way, they must eventually be moved to a new medium of storage, which is always another type of physical media.

    I think the conversation around physical media needs to change and people need to be doing a lot more buying from GOG and keeping torrents of those installers alive so we have a "public cloud" of game installers.

    But I mean, I don't know how to help people on consoles. That's buying into a closed ecosystem to begin with, it comes with the territory.

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  • Literally all of them because there is no way for a game to exist without physical media. If it's on your SSD/HDD, it's on physical media. If it's in "the cloud" it's in someone else's SSD/HDD. It's always on physical media, just not a nice little disk in a box.

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  • Okay, let's get down to brass tacks here...

    Unless you're paying for some kind of "streaming" video game service, the game lives on your solid state drive/hard drive... which is physical media.

    The license is what allows you to re-download and re-install it over and over.

    This isn't a death of physical media, because even the streaming video game services are storing the copies of video games they stream to you on hard drives and solid state drives. The physical media doesn't disappear, but rather corporations are using technology to force you to use it how the company wants you to use it, and the bonus to those companies of the increased price of gaming hardware. Now we will have a difficult time owning our own physical media because it has become so costly.

    Just because you don't have enough physical media space to install every game you've ever bought doesn't mean they aren't all living on a hard drive or old cd/dvd-rom SOMEWHERE. The "cloud" isn't actually ephemeral. Surprise, it's just a bunch of other people's computers.

    Which is what these corporations want, they want to be in full control of who gets access and when, because you're on their property on their hard drives. There is no profit for the game companies in people like us having enough physical media space to keep data forever.

  • The FCC is considering trans content warnings for TV shows. Adding them would be pure propaganda. - LGBTQ Nation

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  • Well the good news is broadcast networks are dying and the Republicans don't want the FCC to have jurisdiction over the internet (they killed net neutrality under the argument the FCC doesn't have a right to regulate it), so this will mean fuck-all to places like Netflix or HBO and most folks watch stuff on streaming services these days anyway.

    Also does this mean any sci-fi shows with alien races who don't have genders will have warnings? Like it's just fucking asinine.

  • Recommendations for a universal TV remote?

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  • It's still $199 for me, which is the price I remember it being for a few years now but maybe I am wrong.

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  • This is why I want one of these little motherfuckers so god damned badly.

    I'm so glad that none of it's components have been hit hard by the AI tech market disaster.