i remember

https://youtu.be/PJtiPRDIqtI?si=Sb9p8_KofWc_3rge

Ya a friend of mine showed me that. Pretty pathetic. 

Just means they will collapse sooner, clearly whomever is running the place is an idiot..

I thought that was true decades ago.  Much like SNL, it died long long ago.

ITue Oct 14 2025 17:53:35 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: I don't want my MTV

So now it's official: there is no longer any M in MTV.

I think its a combination of 2 things:

1 - They simply have run out of ideas for content. Those days are long behind us.

2 - They keep trying to recycle old ideas and wokeify them.

If they didn't do number 2, a few recycles or extensions would be ok if care was taken. Sometimes, you can do them better the 2nd time around ( like BSG for example. ) But, its easy to screw it up too, even with good intent. 

Thu Oct 23 2025 19:50:57 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: I don't want my MTV

I think they kept creating spinoff channels (like VH-1) and saying that's where they'd focus more on music videos, but over time even the spinoff channels moved towards airing round-the-clock crapola. Eventually, once it became inexpensive to have a lot of channels, they created a few that were dedicated to music videos. Those are the ones they are now discontinuing.

Honestly, most of what's on television now (broadcast, cable, satellite) is utter garbage. The entire industry has descended into an abyss of craptasticity and is unnecessarily prolonging its own death.

At some point they stopped writing shows that they thought viewers would like, and started writing "what they ought to be watching."

That's how you get 500 channels of crap, because there's nothing worth watching unless you have the values of a Hollywood wacko.

Was bored, and off this week.  i tried watching prime last night with the dogs last night.  They now have both product commercials and amazon commercials run at the same time..   ill pass. And really Amazon? im paying as it is, what a scam. Aside from commercials being freaking stupid these days, now you get an Amazon popup ON the add, of an ad... f-that.   AND not just at start up, but like regular TV, all thru the program.  Back in my day, commercials, while annoying that they cut out your show  too often, at least were not ignorant.   

Tho i may download the show to watch, it seemed interesting.  Talking about old classified documents and stuff that have been declassified in recent years. Not real conspiracy stuff (well, at the time they would have been ), but things that were hidden from us over the decades that are surprising.   First episode was about us losing atomic bombs back during the cold war ( plane crashes, etc , not 'weirdo stuff', stuff happens.. expected ), but that some were never recovered. They still out there, sitting.. Metal housing material dissolving.  Will be a bad scene once they collapse and release the uranium into the local areas.

And ya, i'm sure everyone else knows, but i rarely watch tv, and 99% of the time if i do its my DVDs i ripped.

Forgot to mention it.. but a few weeks ago, was bored, pushing buttons and seeing what might be out there.  I think it was Netflix. "hmm quantum leap, its been a while".  Started watching "who the hell is this.. what the F is going on..  this isn't right" oh.. they rebooted it. No thanks.  "off"

I downloaded a torrent of the Planet of the Apes - the TV series, and I'm watching that. It was 1974... I was too young - but saw some of the episodes. They scared me when I was a kid. 

To satisfy my wife I'm watching Deadwood again. But mostly I want to hide in my study and play with my V4. 

I remember the TV series but it bored me at the time. ( but i really liked the original movie... still do )

Thu Nov 27 2025 03:54:40 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

I downloaded a torrent of the Planet of the Apes - the TV series, and I'm watching that. It was 1974... I was too young - but saw some of the episodes. They scared me when I was a kid. 

To satisfy my wife I'm watching Deadwood again. But mostly I want to hide in my study and play with my V4. 

 

So last night i went with streaming from jellyfin to avoid the commercials ( but i lose the closed captions, which i like so i don't need to wear earbuds to avoid blasting the TV in the evening ).  Seems like most everything they have i like, especially my odd-ball music taste. i wonder who runs that outfit ( lol )

Ok, so joking aside. Was poking around for something. Ran across 'how to build a human'.  I was a fan of the short lived series "humans" ( basically AI stuff. but was low key and i thought done really well. But they cut it off early.. **ers ) and i though this was a 'behind the scenes' sort of affair so just shelved it "for later".    Man, was i wrong, it was actually the main actress going out and building a AI powered robot clone of herself ( from the waist up ).  They went thru all the tech, bla bla.  Amazing stuff.   And then if you consider it was done in 2016.. its even more amazing.

It is cheesy 70s TV stuff - especially compared to the movies. A lot of FORMULA to the episodes, and ham-fisted telegraphed "messaging," that was handled somewhat more subtly (for the time) in the movies. 

But... you know me and the retro thing - I kind of like how it is a lens into where our collective mind was at that time in our history. There is almost a naivety to it that is... sentimental? 

And along the lines of Plex being dickheads ( i forget which room..  ) amazon is now going to start blocking install of any 'streaming service app' they don't like on their fire-devices.

Under the excuse of 'blocking apps that violate copyrights, bla bla' but its just the door to block everything but their service over time.  "its for the kids" sort of thing. 

I see a market coming for tiny Linux/android sticks. They do exist, but are low volume, but that may change.  ( unless the tariffs and trade issues kill that off, or if places like Amazon refuse to sell them at some point.. )

They won't - it is too difficult for people. What you lose site of being a part of a community like this, despite our disagreements - is that we're in the very top super-minority of intellects. We're not just "above average". We're especially bright. 
Not necessarily geniuses of industry who will leverage our unique perspectives into Bill Gates wealth - but smart enough to see past most subterfuge. 

But most of those behind us - can be bought into complicity with convenience - and will sell their souls as the pot they are in is slowly turned up to a boil where they have no freedom or agency at all. 

And the systems of control in place will generally allow US to exist outside of those rules they are implementing - running pirate radio stations and streaming sites and counter-culture BBSes that have 20 active users - because it doesn't MATTER to their system of control and is a pressure-vent that allows people like US to think we're operating OUTSIDE of the limitations they place on everyone else. 

They'll allow tiny Linux/Android sticks to exist as long as it represents a marginal percentage of the overall population. If it ever caught massive appeal and adoption - they would crush it in a second. 

I mean, if Amazon refuses to sell, Temu certainly will - or some Darkweb site. That isn't the problem. The problem is that average intellects can't navigate the Darkweb, possibly even Temu. If it isn't Amazon, it isn't going to happen - and if it IS Amazon, it isn't going to run against the desired narrative. 

So here is what will happen, Amazon stops "side-loading" on Firesticks. Someone like us will figure out how to jailbreak and root Firesticks, guys like US will understand how to follow those instructions - Amazon will let that happen, because we don't represent numbers large enough to matter - and letting us FEEL like we're "winning," is enough to keep us mostly in line, too. 

Fri Nov 28 2025 17:00:06 UTC from Nurb432

And along the lines of Plex being dickheads ( i forget which room..  ) amazon is now going to start blocking install of any 'streaming service app' they don't like on their fire-devices.

Under the excuse of 'blocking apps that violate copyrights, bla bla' but its just the door to block everything but their service over time.  "its for the kids" sort of thing. 

 

I see a market coming for tiny Linux/android sticks. They do exist, but are low volume, but that may change.  ( unless the tariffs and trade issues kill that off, or if places like Amazon refuse to sell them at some point.. )

That is how i sort of refer to a lot of 'movements' by the big players in a lot of arenas, "If we can hide the facts/access/whatever or instill fear or re-programming into the majority of the unwashed masses.. its a win"

Of course the Streisand effect often comes in to play when they try.

Sat Nov 29 2025 05:45:27 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

They'll allow tiny Linux/Android sticks to exist as long as it represents a marginal percentage of the overall population. If it ever caught massive appeal and adoption - they would crush it in a second. 

Related to some of the casting talk...  Netflix is starting to disable casting from mobile devices in some cases ..  not 100%, but its starting.