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watch the entire series again, you'll see these plot devices throughout the entire series. gots is great entertainment, but the entire show is hinged on 3423832045 coincidences

I worked in sports media for almost four years just now, seen literally hundreds of articles about ratings, viewership, target audiences/demographics. Some optimistic, most not. you obviously don't have to believe me, but i don't think anything i said was even controversial - minus the conclusion that the popular sports of yesterday will be a niche interest once the wave of boomers dies off. my conclusion is based on declining youth participation + declining youth viewership (both on tv and in person) + mediocre attempts at co-opting youth culture (eg Twitch) if there's something in specific you want me to google for you, I can. but pretty much everything I said is super easy to find a reference for

i'm of the belief that most professional sports are bleeding a slow death - I, personally, cannot imagine the NFL or NHL or MLB being more than a small niche interest within 10-15 years. I would be shocked if ESPN is still operating in 5 years, they are just screwed with their garbage contracts. But beyond that, most teams and leagues are propped up by tv contracts that rely on dwindling advertising deals that just don't look good anymore so much of the ratings for these sports are propped up by older men, not young people. so how long will that last? the efforts to make these sports appealing to young people (NFL on Twitch, etc.) just won't work because the markets aren't the same. young people just care less than ever before about playing these sports, and they're watching them less too. there needs to be massive changes if these sports want to survive, and I think it'll take a total gamble from Amazon, Netflix, etc. to just buy the deals for teams outright, and sell app packages for specific teams to a global audience. no more of this regionalized, local advertisement garbage. let people watch and re-watch new and old games on their own time, on their own interest. stop shoving commercials and advertisements down everyones throat using a platform nobody cares about except the older generation that just hasn't made the move to streaming yet.

before she runs up to the Night King, they show a close up of the Night King's hencmnen, and his hair blows -- implying something runs by him. I think Arya literally just ran through the entrance and charged. I get that they might not be Targaryans, but do we also ignore the flowing blonde hair of the Night King's henchmen? coincidence?

how do we know this? are we given an official timeline on the king himself? or the walkers? i know they're old, but i wasn't aware we knew any lineage or timeframe

thought the first half of the episode was really great and tense. continued to lose me as it went. too many contrived plot devices saving the right people at the right time, too much stuff that just felt cheap and empty - works sometimes, but after a while i find it tiring does this ep confirm that the night king was a targaryan, then? with the fire thing

barry: 6/10 just not that into it. kinda hoped i'd like it, but after the first season i don't have much interest in going on. veep season 1: 7.5??/10 - this is such a weird show. it's a comedy, and it's hilarious. so it automatically does the job. but idk, something about it doesn't feel 'right' if there's a plot, i didn't care about it. it's as if 90% of the sentences exist as a vehicle for a barb or joke, and considering so many of the characters have the exact same voice, it feels borderline exhausting. i've started and stopped this series a few times before, and I guess that's why. maybe it's just not binging material

arya using jaime's face

felt like there was a lot of foreshadowing about jamie's death in that ep both bran and dany reference his potential death after the fight, while he himself admits he can't fight like he used to. maybe reading too much into it, but i could see his being the redemption story - dying protecting bran or something also l m a o at the giant story

i'll go ahead and give that episode a 9.5/10. loved it. thought it was hilarious, sufficiently emotional, and tense

My theory was that Tyrion was a Targaryan, but that obviously isn't going to be true if book 1, there's so many scenes of him dreaming about dragons, having visions of them, blah blah. So many lines about him "connecting" with John and so on then in season 4, 5, or 6, i don't remember which, when Tyrion meets the dragon in that pit, they are oddly VERY receptive to him, for such angry creatures. Plus Tywin always denouncing him. I just thought maybe, just maybe, Tyrion's life mirrored Jon's in that way. I mean, there's so many cheeky lines about them both being bastards. but if Bran is saying Jon my god is it john orJon but with Bran saying Jon is the heir, it must be so

Thought it was a super weak episode -- pleasant in that it was nice to see some familiar faces in the same frame again, but totally unsatisfying in almost every way. Obviously it was a place-setting episode, but man they have to do better. That dragon riding scene may have been the worst in the entire series for me -- terrible dialogue, terrible cgi -- it felt instantly dated by 15 years, and I was very consciously aware of how lame it looked also not really convinced by all this dialogue trying to situate Sansa as some genius? 'sansa is the smartest person i know' 'tyrion, you used to be the cleverest person i know' etc like okay sansa settle down, you're basically the victim of circumstance not a grand strategist

twin peaks: the return - 9.9999/10 finally got around to watching this. loved it. utterly surreal, borderline nonsense - but my god there it has such an amazing pull. takes chances and turns that i've never seen a tv show even attempt before - how can david lynch be like 70+ years old and still doing things like this? up there with mad men for best endings in a tv series, for my money my only complaint is that there was a bit too much music - and my god those scenes were pretty corny, especially when it was blatantly obvious that they were lip-syncing their way through the performance

there's also the Criterion Channel coming out very soon, for those of you who like your older movies. I'm really eager to give it a try, but would like to see what their release schedule is like and how much I'd actually use it.

i got Crave recently, and it's pretty expensive ($20 for movies + live). but man, there's so much content on there I want to watch or re-watch. it's definitely a good investment for at least a few months. plus HBO has a pretty good lineup this year. because you can have multiple logins, I just split the cost with another person and we share. edit: but I will say the Crave app on my tv (Samsung smart tv) is maybe the worst app of all time, like it's garbage.

yeah i agree, after i started getting a lot of money i literally spent it on nothing. i never even had to buy ammo, rarely bought food. rarely went shopping ever, because you could always find that stuff in various camps and on corpses also agree regarding the weapons. i felt like i used the same gun for 90% of the game. i'm not really sure how they could have fixed this while staying 'realistic' but yeah, it's something i noticed too

Got this game around christmas and finally just beat it. Took my sweet, sweet time trying to do as much as I could. Had the end spoiled somewhere along the way, but still felt tremendous emptiness by the end - felt like I had just completed a great tv series or novel or something For my money, the game is a masterpiece of the medium, and I really don't know how I could go back to playing a "normal" game right now. With that said, I do think there were a few things I would change - a few things felt a bit anticlimactic, a few things were just too on-the-nose with references or messages. But overall, easy 10/10

You probably also seen the name recently because one of the sleazy members of the band literally cops to rape in the book, but just recently tried to avoid the #metoo by saying he was high and drunk while "writing" the book, so he just made stuff up. Is there a big group of degenerate subhumans on this planet than Motley Crue and their fans?

O.G. 6.5?/10 new HBO movie starring that black guy from Westworld. thought it was pretty good, actually. Quite slow in pace, but I also felt engaged the entire time. But then the end rolled around and I was like "that's it?" and I felt literally zero emotion. Haven't had that feeling in a long time - total engagement leading immediately to total disinterest

after life - 5/10? ricky gervais' new show on netflix. some hilarious jokes/one-liners, but the godawful hammy drama is just too much. what's with comedians and trying to make good drama? reminds me, in a way, of that terrible louis ck show, horace and pete. stay in your lane. people just do nothing: season 1: 9/10 season 2: 8.5/10 season 3: 8/10 good grief this show is funny. british mockumentary-style sitcom. like The Office, I guess. the first couple of seasons are hilarious and stay totally focused, but I feel like in season 3 there's a bit of a shift i didn't care much for. i'll definitely finish the series, but some of its early magic is gone.

you guys are hilarious

The problem here is that it's virtually impossible for regulators to keep up with the technology. While bitcoin itself can be traced (to some extent), there are widely used/accepted "privacy coins" (such as monero) which make it virtually impossible, if not extremely difficult to trace movement in. So if regulators came down too hard on any of this technology, a new tech would just emerge. This is the weird thing about bitcoin and crypto altogether - the cat is already out of the bag, and it's been out for a decade now. There is no going back. The best option here would be for the government to stop creating terrorists abroad but either way, glad you enjoyed it and learned a thing or two. next step is throwing $10 in. let us know when that happens

because he's a filthy rich man who has traveled around the world on the most luxurious level imaginable sounds like the health problem was a total freak thing, if not a misdiagnosis... if not malicious. Not difficult. But (again) in that G&M piece there are so many hospital workers (independent of each other) all colluding with interviewers and authorities. I imagine, actually, it might be difficult to pull that off. How many people were conveniently bought off along the way? The entire hospital? However, if someone just "disappears" in india, I think maybe it would be easier? idk bitcoin's price hasn't moved an inch as a result of this news

These outlets you just listed have been covering it! CBC has published loads of articles on it, actually. Many of them absolutely horrific, mind you. The best coverage on the matter will not come from these people. Of course it could lead to increased pressure for an investigation, but the best analysis is coming from bitcoin-centred communities and websites that include blockchain analysis and things that CBC would have no idea about. The globe and mail piece linked above is the best 'traditional journalism' read on the subject so far. Primarily because there are reporters in India discussing it - which is big that you have multiple sources confirming their experiences with the situation In that article, it says the wife did return home with body. The body wasn't cremated or even embalmed, so who knows. The article doesn't make his wife look too good, I'm afraid -- my immediate reaction was whether she played a part in his death? Whereas before I was convinced it was a faked death. I also feel like this "open an orphanage" angle has been tremendously overblown in order to make it read like a conspiracy - the point of the trip was very obviously a celebration of luxury and excess, with a small trip to "open" an orphanage (for all of two hours lol) on the side. It doesn't at all seem unlikely or uncharacteristic for this couple to do that.

Thorough, interesting report by the globe and mail. Still a lot of weird stuff going on, though. Behind paywall: http://archive.is/FexAP