Chairslinger

Well that was unexpected. Just days after the finale aired they have announced a 3 part special to air in December. It will act as a new three part finale called Archer: Into the Cold. Considering that the regular seasons have only been about 8 episodes each for years now, a 3 episode special out of no where seems like a pretty substantial surprise.....

I have had my eye on the show, but with a few exceptions I like to just let the season air and binge it at the end. I got Archer, Futurama, Asohka, and both seasons of Wheel of Time on deck.

Wanda and Hawkeye were really good, and then Falcon and the Winter Soldier was good but also felt a bit like checking a box to get the shield on Sam. All of the shows since have been pretty bland to me. Secret Invasion really drove it home to me that not only are these shows just alright, somewhere along the way the shorter seasons went from making each episode feel special to being like.....oh, it's like a regular show only you get half or even a quarter of the episodes...fun! The thing that really hit me with Secret Invasion was that I had just finished a rewatch of Agents of Shield. While there have been some real gems with the short show prestige stuff from streaming channels.....if you want a stark contrast to the other side of the coin of how we have reinvented television for the worst go watch AoS and then SI and appreciate that it is basically just a season of AoS.....with one fourth of the content.....and you have to pay for it....

That moment when you realize the Rep you are interviewing truly has no idea who the next Speaker should be much less how to get the votes for it.....

I was paying over 300 dollars for a cable bill back in 2012 or 2013. It had ballooned over time because of people moving in and moving out and adding packages, DVRs and such. When it finally came time that I couldn't afford it I was trying to reduce the package to something manable. I was going through the absolute bare bones options and they told me the best they could do was one box for one TV with basic cable that was only like 8 channels. And it was still going to be a little over 150 bucks. I offhand mentioned that at this point I was just trying to keep some kind of cable because I thought it was required to have the Internet from them and they said it wasn't. So I dropped the cable altogether and my bill turned into 60 bucks per month for internet. I grumble about the streamers nowadays, but I always try to remember that for Amazon, Hulu, Disney, Paramount, and Peacock I still pay substantially less in 2023 for all those channels and the Internet connection to go with them than they wanted me to pay for 1 cable box on 1 TV in 2015. I would never allow a cable box in my house again. I would go without digital entertainment altogether before I ever let a cable company chain another one of those boxes to my ankle.

I have no idea what is going on with my Hulu/Disney+. But I have been preparing for D+ to blow up in price so I am ready to drop it whenever My billing lists Hulu as 14.99 for No Ads and a while back I was offered D+ No Ads for 2.99 as an add on. I have never been clear if that was the typical Disney/Hulu bundle, or if it was some promotional deal I got by chance. I do know that it is saying that my Hulu No Ads is going up to 17.99 in November, but no mention of my 2.99 Disney add on going up. Is this the price increase everyone else is getting?

It's not Rudy's fault. He was sitting up straight. The Deep State was spinning the room around him!

Whenever this thread gets bumped my masochistic self always thinks, "What the hell, my blood pressure could stand to go way up today!" as I click on it expecting the worst. It goes to show the low bar that all I can really manage reading this is, "At least they didn't kill anyone.....".

Apparently the American SCOTUS already weighed in and ruled 5-4 in this guy's favor even though no one asked them to and he hasn't had a trial yet....

And it turned out to be a septuagenarian game show host There was a time when Cruz and Rubio were also seen as the youthful future of the party, as well. Whatever you think of these boring white coat racks personally, it IS funny to watch the GOP repeatedly feed what they think is their future leadership to Trump because.....well hell, who even knows why because anymore. He's basically lost them every election since '16. His underperformance in '22 itself is why McCarthy's whole Speakership has an asterisk next to it like a Barry Bonds batting record right up to and including getting ousted by Captain Helmet Hair. I guess because it's easier to win a Republican primary by being a bobblehead.

Boy, Trump's combover is really starting to lose structural integrity. His hair is like.... I am pretty sure you can see his fucking cranial liverspots through it at this point....

Whenever Scalise takes another step on the GOP leadership ladder I like to post this link about the time Scalise refered to himself as "David Duke without the baggage". A quote itself that gained prominence in 2015 when it was uncovered that Scalise had given a speech at a white supremacist/neo-nazi summit in 2002.

Imagine what the party looks like if Trump loses in '24. It is hard to conceptualize what a 21st century political party Whig-ifying itself would look like....but so much of it's bullshit is catching up with the party all at once... Trump's weird appeal basically put a decade's long pause on a realignment the party knew they needed even in '12.

There are times when the argument that the GOP will "just replace them with someone worse" is valid. But honestly, McCarthy is already their puppet. Let them make Gaetz, Boebert, or Green Speaker so that the public has no choice but to see the stark contrast between parties. That reality check hasn't worked out too well for them with Dobbs.

One of the most obvious legal penalties for a crime to me is that anyone participating in dog fighting rings is that they should be chucked into said ring. Call it the Ramsey Bolton precedent.

When I see a woman who has clearly had so much work done that she has a perpetual selfie duck face I know my first impression is, "Must be a highly accomplished legal mind".

That guy looks like Men's Rights activists recast Fresh Prince of Bel Air to be an all white show and that's who they got to play Uncle Phil.

I want low rez, Jan. 6th style footage of McConnell yonking Feinstein in front of him as Death pointed out his boney finger to finally take him.

Everytime I hear that fucking name I can't help but hear it as Cheese Bro. Like the Trump administration had this weird assortment of lackeys and hangers on like the Pillow Guy and Big Dick Toilet Guy that Trump made Attorney General. And this guy's name always makes me think.... it's the Cheese Bro...a tech billionaire bro who chest bumps everyone he meets who made his fortune in Gouda or something....

I hear that her dying words were, "At least Biden didn't get to replace me on the court". Her aids didn't have the heart to explain she wasn't Ruth Bader Ginsberg .....

Have we stooped to the level yet in the festivities where a GOP congressman presents a 15 minute soliloquy on that one time Joe Biden kinda stumbled walking down steps and that's why he needs to be impeached?

Decades of corruption uncovered at SCOTUS? Sorry, nothing can be done. Tall guy wears a hoodie?