Yeah, all that scripting is what makes reality TV so unauthentic and boring. That's why I stick to entertainment where nobody knows what's going to happen. It all comes down to one wrestler's strength and skill vs another.
Look, I don't care what the Screenwriters Guild and the studios do, as long as nobody fucks with my Into the Badlands. It's like somebody put all my shitty tastes and adolescent fantasies into a blender and made a TV series out of it. I love that fucking show.
Quite frankly, a monkey could write the garbage we get fed these days. "Scripted reality", yeah, right, what kind of drugs do you have to be on to consider this to be in any way even remotely close to "reality"? In between we got court TV and other garbage that needs zero writer or talent by the actors, sorry, "genuine people presenting real cases".
Even the most lame reality TV show is scripted. In fact, that's one of the things the Screenwriters Guild is fighting about. Currently, if you write a script for a reality show, you are treated differently than if you write for a drama or comedy.
You didn't think Honey Boo Boo was spontaneous, did you?
Phoenix, Arizona, had a population of around 100K in 1950; it's more like 1.6M now.
The problem is that 1.4 million of them are either on life support or have been dead since 2014 and nobody's told them. They stay on Facebook so their grandchildren can find them.
I'm a lot more suspicious of moral crusaders than I am of criminals who are looking to make a buck or just make mischief.
I don't think I have to list the atrocities that have been committed in the name of a "moral crusade". If you really don't know what I'm talking about, then you are probably already a moral crusader.
The reality is that we now have the least-corruptible administration in a very long time. Many of the top personnel are quite independently very wealthy, which makes lobbying to them pointless and ineffective.
"Corrupt rich people can't be corrupted" is a very stupid argument. How do you think they got rich in the first place?
The benefit of having government made up of rich, corrupt people is that they're already corrupted, so the little dance around ethical barriers can be dispensed with from the get-go and you can go straight to the quid pro quo.
If you think John Hinckley, Jr. was acting out of a sense of patriotism, then you're the fucking idiot. Hinckley was a batshit-crazy "Taxi Driver" wannabe who was trying to impress the object of his obsession, Jodie Foster. He considered killing Jimmy Carter, then switched to Edward Kennedy, before finally settling on Reagan.
You know what they say, even a stopped clock can be right twice a day.
i know apple is easy to blame but it wasn't too long ago when they were at the bottom of the totem pole and IBM, Dell, HP, Nokia all made a ton more hardware and yet were people bitching then?
You bet they were. Extending the usable life-cycle of electronics has been an issue since at least the early 1990s.
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Look, I don't care what the Screenwriters Guild and the studios do, as long as nobody fucks with my Into the Badlands. It's like somebody put all my shitty tastes and adolescent fantasies into a blender and made a TV series out of it. I love that fucking show.
Even the most lame reality TV show is scripted. In fact, that's one of the things the Screenwriters Guild is fighting about. Currently, if you write a script for a reality show, you are treated differently than if you write for a drama or comedy.
You didn't think Honey Boo Boo was spontaneous, did you?
And by interesting, you mean, "totally fucking bonkers".
Wait until he finds out these first humans in North America probably weren't white Europeans.
Fuck you. Seriously, just fuck you.
I have a 5.25" floppy.
But I keep my ASCII porn on Bernoulli tape.
Alex Jones is the real deal. Do not believe the fake news coming out of his own testimony.
Perception is reality.
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I'm a for-real doctor, but you wouldn't want me operating on you.
I'm willing my collection of ASCII porn to the Smithsonian in the case of my death.
OK, I'm convinced. Kill all the bankers and we're in good shape.
OK, so the government owes us money. So what's the problem?
No. China also has a national debt.
Since every single civilized country has a national debt, to whom is all this money owed?
The problem is that 1.4 million of them are either on life support or have been dead since 2014 and nobody's told them. They stay on Facebook so their grandchildren can find them.
I AM THE EGG MAN.
...phone roots you.
He's going to bring back the whale oil industry.
Of course. That's why I'm so suspicious of moral crusaders. Scratch one, and you'll find an opportunist underneath.
We're both old enough to remember that Vietnam, like most US wars, was sold to us as a moral crusade.
I'm a lot more suspicious of moral crusaders than I am of criminals who are looking to make a buck or just make mischief.
I don't think I have to list the atrocities that have been committed in the name of a "moral crusade". If you really don't know what I'm talking about, then you are probably already a moral crusader.
There's ample evidence that in late-stage capitalism, being rich does indeed equal being corrupt.
"Corrupt rich people can't be corrupted" is a very stupid argument. How do you think they got rich in the first place?
The benefit of having government made up of rich, corrupt people is that they're already corrupted, so the little dance around ethical barriers can be dispensed with from the get-go and you can go straight to the quid pro quo.
You know what they say, even a stopped clock can be right twice a day.
You bet they were. Extending the usable life-cycle of electronics has been an issue since at least the early 1990s.