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Re: It's A Virtual Costume Party!
« Reply #30 on: October 13, 2010, 02:30:06 am »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on October 13, 2010, 02:22:08 am
Actually, if you went as Sam Beckett-as-a-lady and then your fella went as Captain Archer from ENTERPRISE, that'd be Full Geek Win.

There has got to be a Bakula-related pun here.

Actually, we have a little joke about Captain Archer becoming a vampire..."I'm Bakula...Scott...Bakula..." Maybe I should go as Beckett dressed as Archer pretending to be a vampire. That would be awesome.
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Re: It's A Virtual Costume Party!
« Reply #31 on: October 13, 2010, 02:42:54 am »
One of these days I'm going to steal the Count Spocula idea from Basic Instructions.
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Re: It's A Virtual Costume Party!
« Reply #32 on: October 13, 2010, 02:48:17 am »
Yeah.

Some day I'm gonna bust out with a Benjamin Franklinstein.
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Re: It's A Virtual Costume Party!
« Reply #33 on: October 13, 2010, 02:53:28 am »
The Onion once had a Scott Bakula mask (with fangs) that you could print out. I'm not sure if it was also in the print version.
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« Reply #34 on: October 13, 2010, 02:53:39 am »
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Re: It's A Virtual Costume Party!
« Reply #35 on: October 13, 2010, 03:24:54 am »
Quote from: jay-ell on October 11, 2010, 11:43:47 pm
You should watch 30 Rock. It is quite possibly the best-written show on television right now. I have recently (this week?) gotten hooked on it and now Pedro is giving me a hard time because I neglected (refused?) to watch it for the first 4 years it was on.

On the other hand, feel free to not watch any tv at all. Please.
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Re: It's A Virtual Costume Party!
« Reply #36 on: October 13, 2010, 04:30:54 am »
Quote from: Nabubrush on October 11, 2010, 07:09:45 pm
Sadly, I'm going as a petroleum engineer again.

I wish I had checked here before I bought all the shit for this costume on eBay.
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Re: It's A Virtual Costume Party!
« Reply #37 on: October 13, 2010, 12:26:01 pm »
Quote from: Nabubrush on October 13, 2010, 03:24:54 am
On the other hand, feel free to not watch any tv at all. Please.

I have no problem with a certain amount of TV, and I am sure that if JL says that show is funny and well written, that is true. But with keeping up the Colbert and the Daily Show, and all the shows I watch on the Japanese channel with shows in English and no commercials, and even though TV is a good way to keep myself from jumping out the window while working on the references for my book at the same time, I don't have time for any more TV shows.

But, you know, there are DVDs, and like a friend of mine says, you have to save something to watch when you are old and in the nursing home.
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Re: It's A Virtual Costume Party!
« Reply #38 on: October 13, 2010, 12:54:44 pm »
Oh, yes. I do all of my television watching on Netflix Instant or DVD when I am otherwise engaged in something mundane -- folding laundry is a big one, or tidying up the living room/kitchen, or knitting from a pattern that requires a lot of plain stockinette.

There is no room in my life for being in front of the TV at a certain time on a certain night. I am all about the time-shifting, even if the shift can be measured in years (or decades). I was just saying, if you ever find something wanting in your television-watching experience, 30 Rock is extremely worthwhile.

When I was in college, I was extremely self-righteous about not owning a TV, but the end result was that I turned to the internet for entertainment and became a 'net junkie and obsessive gamer. At the time, I would have argued that computers are superior to television because of their interactive nature, but now I realize that that's bullshit and that there's about the same ratio of signal to noise in both places.

TL; DR -- Good TV is good.
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Re: It's A Virtual Costume Party!
« Reply #39 on: October 13, 2010, 02:42:59 pm »
Quote from: jay-ell on October 13, 2010, 12:54:44 pm
...but now I realize that that's bullshit and that there's about the same ratio of signal to noise in both places.

I'm not sure I follow your argument here.  Do you stay away from television because of the poor signal to noise ratio or because it's a huge time suck or because most of it really blows?  Is the internet a huge time suck because of the poor signal to noise ratio or because of the infinite choices and instant availability?
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Re: It's A Virtual Costume Party!
« Reply #40 on: October 13, 2010, 03:07:39 pm »
I was just thinking the other day about how the lady and I are in the process of watching way too many things at once. The list of movies/shows I am not allowed to finish watching without her is getting silly.

I watch Mad Men every week, as soon as it airs if possible. If I have work late on sunday I watch it monday online. (Illegally.)
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« Reply #41 on: October 13, 2010, 03:27:37 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on October 13, 2010, 02:42:59 pm
I'm not sure I follow your argument here.  Do you stay away from television because of the poor signal to noise ratio or because it's a huge time suck or because most of it really blows?  Is the internet a huge time suck because of the poor signal to noise ratio or because of the infinite choices and instant availability?

I try to stay away from things that suck regardless of their media format. Now that I'm well out of my pretentious college phase, I watch TV and goof around on the internet in roughly equal measure.
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Re: It's A Virtual Costume Party!
« Reply #42 on: October 13, 2010, 03:32:10 pm »
to be fair, though, I am having trouble thinking of a good reason to own a TV when you watch all of your television shows on DVD/hulu/whatever.

I own a TV, but I think I could count the number of times I have used it without having to move on to toes.
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Re: It's A Virtual Costume Party!
« Reply #43 on: October 13, 2010, 03:50:32 pm »
Teevee is still cheaper/less work if you're just looking for a piffle to watch in the background.

Hulu and DVD and thisFlix and thatBox are great for things you wanna study in detail but...

For when you just wanna leave a cooking show or a ballgame or a cartoon on in the background while you're eating or chilling out, teevee is still the go-to delivery platform.

And there's something still wonderful about the anticipation of a certain timeslot when there's something you're really into seeing first run.

Late Sunday afternoon, for me, becomes like a damn countdown if there's a new Venture Brothers, for example, and that's a wonderful feeling.
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Re: It's A Virtual Costume Party!
« Reply #44 on: October 13, 2010, 04:21:34 pm »
i hate watching movies and shows on my computer, even though it has a gorgeous 17" display.  id rather watch it on my TV.
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