WashedOver

WashedOver, 7 months ago

I’ve not made it through the first season. It is so cringe to me at this point. It does get better then?

WashedOver, 7 months ago

Mr Bean is pretty universal no matter the audience. I quite enjoyed Blackadder but I also enjoy history and have grown up on exported British television so I could keep up with the it. Not sure as many could like Mr Bean. Still is amazing the cast and what they did after Blackadder.

WashedOver, 7 months ago

I’m quite enjoying it too but I think it borders on horror with the themes of where the modern world will end up.

WashedOver, 7 months ago

Loved this show. Wish there was more.

WashedOver, 7 months ago

A lot of great shows mentioned. To add to the list of upbeat the gf and I are working our way through Modern Family. The early seasons are pretty upbeat and lighthearted. I do wonder where they will end up in the later seasons as the families age.

Working Moms is something the gf watches and what I’ve seen had been pretty great and has some good fun shock value. I’m surprised where they go with some of the humour. Usually only animated shows get away with this.

I would add Archer but I haven’t finished the last couple of seasons so I’m not sure where it ends up on the fun and outrageous scale.

WashedOver, 7 months ago

Just into season 7.

WashedOver, 7 months ago

I’ve not really watched much of Bob’s Burgers but I think I saw a fan made cross over sometime back and it was weird for sure.

WashedOver, 7 months ago

It was great. Sad it’s already over. It will be interesting if there are spin offs.

WashedOver, 7 months ago

Not the best show by any means due to pacing and scenes that just don’t flow at times but I find Upload to be a realistic horror show of the modern world ahead for us and future generations. The poverty in the new world is a little too realistic for me along with how filtered the world becomes especially without money. They have really nailed some of these aspects while taking shots at what I would call the Amazonification of the world. I’m surprised Amazon is allowing it. Enshitification of the world plays out too.

The hat tipping of the world ahead is more subtle than that of Travellers. The latter was dealing with a horrific future world of survival due to a lack of those today giving a crap about the future which might not be worse than a shift of reality like Upload is trying to portray. Both are real horror shows to me beyond the usual stab stab, guts, blood of many shows today.

Beyond these current interests it’s the usual suspects of Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Mr Robot, Deadwood, Dead Like Me, IT Crowd, Mad Men, first season of American God’s, Community…

WashedOver, 8 months ago

As a Canadian I now have 2 Electric kettles. Replaced my traditional electric kettle with a Gooseneck kettle for my pour over coffee. Still works great for tea. Also have a stove top gooseneck kettle for the camper when camping.

WashedOver, 8 months ago

I was mostly a lurker on reddit for many years. Before that was a forum board user, moderator, and even setup a few for sports leagues. Despite being sports centric there was usually off topic sections for politics and other off subject debates. Often these sections became more popular than the sport.

Then it would became drama filled and once a year there would be complaining about all the new summer users once kids were out of school. They would flood the forums with newbie stuff and people would leave the forum and find a new home. Seems like this pattern repeats to the newer socials too.

With FB etc the forum boards seem to lose a lot of that daily traffic over time. FB and other Socials delivered that quick dopamine hit and it didn’t even need to be in the niche the forums were. For those that wanted the niches, FB groups came on the scene.

For me with Reddit it came on one of my early Android phones which was great for reading with. I didn’t comment much as the threads were usually fairly deep with comments and sort of done by that stage. It didn’t have that small town feel like the old forums so I wasn’t as inclined to add much. Still there was plenty to read, perhaps too much as books began to be replaced by socials too. Since I was only a mobile user, the API changes were a great reason to get off reddit and read books again. Still working on that.

I’m finding myself commenting more on Lemmy but like the life cycle of the forums and reddit, it’s only a matter of time when the users reach the tipping point and the feel of the place will change.

So I’m trying to enjoy things as they last these days. Hopefully get some books in there now too…

WashedOver, 8 months ago

Perhaps composed with this…

youtu.be/lr-Cr999fy0?si=dFTp0m_Nz5w0gS_I

WashedOver, 8 months ago

Is this Fonzie thinking of the 50s in his 50s?