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Last night it was Alice in Wonderland (2010) ... first time viewing. Give it a 6/10. You could tell Burton kind of completed the switch of new ideas to just kind of painting by the numbers of what he thought Tim Burton was supposed to be. Also, my kids picked The Good Dinosaur. Give that one a 7.5/10. No real Disney villain to really make it memorable, but the ending did give you the feels.

I can't remember what part of Summer 2003 I joined as Josey. I think it was September but it could've been a couple of months earlier.

Sailor Moon Crystal with my 8 year old daughter.

Gaius. Dude got under my skin a few times but his novel length responses to every subject, no matter the significance, were overblown and unintentionally hilarious.

I was Josey when I registered on ASMB in 2003. I was Zoombubba for a bit then got tired of it and went for a placeholder that I currently use. For some reason gained a following of people who like to follow me around and state that I did that. I'm triggering I guess, even though I have a life and no idea what it's about.

He also likes to talk about his huge penis when he gets the chance.

My wife and I went to a matinee and saw Beetlejuice Beetlejuice last fall, that was my only adult movie trip since 2016 or something like that. Movies in general ... I usually take my kids to the $5 midday matinee of kid flicks the theatre runs during the summer. Will probably do it again this summer. I don't know if it was because I was a teen who went to the movies 1-2 times a week in the 90s but I just find the newer flicks too noisy, too cookie cutter and too fan servicey. I kind of liked going to the movies and watching Striptease one week and Independence Day the next and that being it instead of nonendings teasing the next sequel.

So, what leadership model will you use? Cool and disciplined TV series Captain Kirk or hot headed and order disobeying Movie Captain Kirk?

I prefer Death 'n' roll Entombed to Left Hand Path Entombed. Actually, I tried to like Left Hand Path Entombed and walked away bored.

To be fair, doesn't pretty much everything we have today start as wishful thinking? Trumpism started as wishful thinking with the far right decades before it manifested. The Great Society -- pretty much the same story but an earlier time frame. The Civil Rights movement was wishful thinking centuries before it happened. Putting a person on the moon just a fantasy for thousands of years. You never know what little bit of wishful thinking can turn into "something." Of course, that something may not manifest for a few hundred years but you can still put it out there and it makes it down the chain even though nobody will ever have an idea it came from you. We have no idea where the idea that "genocide is wrong" and "women are people too" came from, probably just some forgotten person mentioning it one day around someone that heard and told someone else and so on until it was eventually written and then eventually accepted and then eventually acted upon ... kind of like the chaos theory of a butterfly flapping its wings. Where is fucking Gaius? He'd be a novel into this right now arguing from whatever wing he decided to be at that point.

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Man, Thursday nights ... I think that used to be Adult Swim night back in 2001, right? Of course, the only anime they played was Cowboy Bebop at that time. I think there was Midnight Run still going on the other nights with Outlaw Star and Big O? Anyway, probably not going to make much of a dent in things. Hardly anyone watches AXS and Adult Swim is swirling the drain along with other linear cable networks. I think if this happened on a a free TV channel like Comet TV or MeTV, it'd have more impact.

My 7-year-old daughter likes it. It's pretty much the same plot over and over again, so two episodes back-to-back is enough for her. That's the 1992 season anyway.

You say that yet there's Family Guy that's way more everything anime outside of hentai can be. I can't think of a single anime that AS or Toonami broadcasted that wouldn't be OK for broadcast TV.

Digital subchannels are pretty much like cable in the 1980s and 1990s now. Want a history channel? There's an OTA for that. Want a law & crime channel? There's one for that too. Want a cooking channel? There's one for that. Like sci-fi? There's one for that. Probably only a matter of time before there's one that appeals to the AS or Toonami demographics. Only drawback is that you're not going to get all of them unless you're in a major metro. Cable TV without an internet package is quickly becoming irrelevant. Most of the channels, like MTV, seem to be reruns or blocks of single-show reruns all day anyway.

I'm kind of lost on the first paragraph but on the second, I doubt there is going to be a civil war. When the actual Civil War happened, you had the country divided into two drastically different economies, most of the federal agencies the people of states depend on now didn't exist, less mobility between different parts of the country and a lack of a solid uniting American identity at that point. Also, there were less than 15,000 men in the military in 1860, most of those stationed in the western frontier. With such a small military and many defectors, it's not surprising the South thought that they'd be done with things after a battle or two. I don't think they counted on the Union's ability to amass troops like they did nor did they expect Lincoln's administration to be so good at deterring foreign alliances and recognition for the south. We have a totally different situation today. We wouldn't have a civil war, we'd most likely have something akin to the Troubles in Ireland where terrorists attacked soft targets and conducted political assassinations at a local/regional level. Even that's a stretch since 99 percent of them are keyboard blowhards that would chicken out if they realized they could get a scratch ... kind of like Trump, who has a tendency to suck up whenever he realizes he's at a disadvantage. Also, neurodivergent people are susceptible to extremism since like religion, it offers them the chance to have a community by pretty much going along instead of having to navigate social situations which don't come naturally to them. One thing that is severely needed as part of special education programs is some sort of social therapy for neurodivergent kids. I know schools include them in pull-out classes now, but there needs to be a bit more than inclusion. They need to have an idea "why" you do things a certain way and, even if it's just objective, a way to read how other people feel.

First off, this garbage looking, bad tattoo wearing, stupid sounding, piss smelling, sex criminal idolizing dog shit of a person can go fuck himself. Second, this shit has been a talking point of the America Hating/Russian Idolizing right for the last few years under their "they're trying to make the military/public service sector woke!" bullshit. The opposite of what they're arguing has been shown to be true over and over again. You make public service and even national security work more accessible, you're able to widen your pool of candidates. There's people with cerebral palsy and on the spectrum that might have been overlooked for being experts if it weren't for programs to make things more accessible. Sure, they're not going to be on the frontlines disarming bombs by hand or driving convoys, but there's many that have skills that could prevent potential losses from afar as far as troops go. The far right under Trump has pretty much made it OK to hate and attack physical and neurological challenges. You'll notice they'll say dance around the "N" word and other slangs for race and sexuality, but they love using the R word every chance they get. Same vein, they want to say something shitty and they know that certain words are still taboo, so they just take advantage of the one that's still OK to most people even though the intent is pretty much the same as using the others.

I don't remember. Probably some shallow philosophical post that I was keen on in those rather lonely days.

At this point Lucasfilm is pretty much a zombie that they're trying to find some sort of life in. They've somehow managed to take something like Star Wars and make it feel like less of an event than the next season of the Kardashians. Someone there thought that there was a big audience for Willow, a movie with an extended universe that encompassed only three novels if I remember correctly. The new Indiana Jones film's trailers feel like they have no idea who they're trying to appeal to and just hoping for more nostalgia audiences. I just don't think teenagers and 20-somethings are going to turn out for a movie headlined by an 80-something year old and a late-30s British woman. The people of the age demographic who would be interested don't really go to theaters and are content to wait months for movies to show up on a streaming service or Red Box. After Indiana Jones, I have no idea what's left of Lucasfilm. New management maybe?

At this point they've got plenty of their own properties that have long been canceled to dump in that slot. I'm sure someone would watch Stroker and Hoop at 5 a.m.

I expect them to do what Warner does and just license a lot of their less-watched shows to other streamers. Tbui, Freevee and Roku Channel will probably be the biggest winners in that. Honestly, there's so much stuff on Disney+, I've given up trying to find anything on it. I feel like I'm spending more time looking than I am watching.

Gonna bomb hard. This is going to be like the Willow series in that Disney is just desperately revitalizing franchises there is just no real demand for.

Bluey and the St. Louis Cardinals 2023 season.

I don't go to theaters anymore. They're made for teenagers and nerds who want tentpole movies. I've been looking forward to "Killers of the Flower Moon" but I'm going to wait till it's streaming. If it's on Apple+, I probably won't see it at all. I'm not going to subscribe to a streaming service for one movie. With the way HBO Max and Disney are going, I'm expecting to see most stuff eventually go on free subscription services that use advertising like Tubi, Freevee or Pluto after they do their year on the premium services. Yeah, I'm sure Apple will eventually do a free subscription service as well.

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