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Years ago, someone introduced me to Penn & Teller: Bullshit! I believe it was the friend that appears in their episode regarding circumcision. However, I watched a few of the other episodes as well. Months ago I watched the entire series. In their show, magicians Penn & Teller show us the bullshit involved in so many things such as circumcision, alternative medicine, and various other topics. While I didn't necessarily agree with them 100%, I found myself agreeing with them almost all of the time.

I highly recommend this show as it contains some eye openers. I think we as a society owe it to ourselves to take a look at all this bullshit that drives... Read All

jdodson wrote on 07/02/2016 at 03:11am

How are you watching it? Hulu, Netflix, YouTube? Cable?

I've heard about this too, kinda want to watch it now.

Travis wrote on 07/02/2016 at 03:59am

The best thing is that their last episode is the Bullshit of Penn & Teller: Bullshit.

They own up to the fact that they aren't infallible and even that they were straight up wrong on some episodes.

And they spew a bunch of... eh, well... Bullshit... about some Libertarian causes. They're die-hard Libertarians and some things are just Libertarian talking points.

Like one episode in which they argue that second-hand smoke isn't harmful, even though it's basically proven that it is.

BUT don't let that stop you from watching. I loved it. It's a fun show and they make some good points that make you think. Just be sure you think, and don't just believe everything they say.

Travis wrote on 07/02/2016 at 04:04am

Huh, apparently that's not the last episode. Maybe it was an extra they did? I'm not sure. At any rate, they definitely call Bullshit on themselves.

Travis wrote on 07/02/2016 at 04:15am

So I'm reading about their episodes now, and realizing that I would have more of a problem with the show now than I did 10 years ago. I'm much more educated and I'm just not sure I could watch "the flat tax is the only moral tax," "global warming isn't real," "the Americans with Disabilities Act is shit" and stuff like that anymore.

GregoPeck wrote on 07/02/2016 at 05:44am

I watched it via Amazon Prime Instant Video.

Yeah, they called some bullshit on themselves. I think they mentioned being Libertarians, but I also read about that.

Like I said, I didn't agree with them 100% either, but it's still a good show.

jdodson wrote on 07/02/2016 at 05:48am

> I watched it via Amazon Prime Instant Video.

We recently signed up for Prime so I just added that to my queue, thanks Greg!

GregoPeck wrote on 07/02/2016 at 06:45am

Sweet! I've been a Prime member for quite a while now. I enjoy being able to watch some shows for free. There are some free movies, but I've also paid a few dollars to rent some. I recently added a bunch to my "watch list." But for now, I'm watching the X-Files for the second time in my life. It's a good show and I recently decided to rewatch it. Also, I use the Amazon Instant Video app for the PS3 to watch stuff on my big TV, I love that I can do that.

As for Bullshit, not every episode is free to watch. For the ones asking for payment or subscription to Showtime, I Googled the episodes and watched them online. There are only a few of them, particularly the one where they take on PETA.

Enjoy!

Travis wrote on 07/02/2016 at 01:44pm

For us, Amazon Prime usually pays for itself in a few months just in shipping alone, then you get special deals, streaming video/music, Kindle specials... it's a no-brainer.

GregoPeck wrote on 07/02/2016 at 02:06pm

Also, Amazon's customer service is among the very best! :)

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Nintendo Support

Posting to the forums because this is incredibly memey yet funny. Or not, but that's fine because it's posted to the forums.

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DOOM It Up

Lyrics by Jack Packard of Previously Recorded during their stream of DOOM4 on 5-15-16. Music is a tribute to DOOM with some original bits thrown in.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

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A few years ago (maybe 10), a friend introduced me to a show on HBO called Curb Your Enthusiasm. I thought it was funny, so I decided to watch more of it. Since I enjoyed it so much, I bought a couple of seasons on DVD. Recently, I was exploring the Amazon video app on my PS3 and found out I could catch up on the show for free, since I'm an Amazon Prime member. Now that I'm all caught up, I've decided to go back and watch the earlier seasons again and I'm loving it. I wanted to tell you about it, hence why I'm writing this post.

I'm not exactly sure how to describe it to you. You could technically call it a “situational comedy,” but calling it a SitCom is a... Read All A few years ago (maybe 10), a friend introduced me to a show on HBO called Curb Your Enthusiasm. I thought it was funny, so I decided to watch more of it. Since I enjoyed it so much, I bought a couple of seasons on DVD. Recently, I was exploring the Amazon video app on my PS3 and found out I could catch up on the show for free, since I'm an Amazon Prime member. Now that I'm all caught up, I've decided to go back and watch the earlier seasons again and I'm loving it. I wanted to tell you about it, hence why I'm writing this post.

I'm not exactly sure how to describe it to you. You could technically call it a “situational comedy,” but calling it a SitCom is a bit misleading as it's not the kind you'll find on regular TV. The main character in the show is Larry David, co-creature of Seinfeld. It revolves around him and his (fictional) wife and their life together.

So, he is a Jewish man living in California with his lovely wife. He has a manager he sees frequently and various celebrity friends like Richard Lewis, Ted Danson (from Cheers), and cast from Seinfeld including Julia-Louis Dreyfus. These people apparently play “fictionalized” versions of themselves.

Larry tends to find him self knee-deep in life's little problems. Many of these he creates for himself by saying or doing something that's not quite socially acceptable. There are really plenty of examples to give, but I don't want to give away too many spoilers. The first episode opens up with him talking to his wife about the fabric “tent” produced by his pants when he sits down. This later turns into an awkward situation when his wife's friend accuses him of getting an erection.

The topics covered in the show are clearly for an adult audience, hence it being on HBO. There are adult situations and language, which provide some more flare. The wife of Larry's manager definitely has a mouth on her and drops some serious F-bombs, but not just for flavor, it's because she yells at Larry and his manager for doing or saying stupid things.

It's a very funny show, I think. There is no laugh track, which I think is great because the audience doesn't need to be told when to laugh. It is funny, but often, I find myself feeling sorry for Larry. He can be a bit of an ass and so are other characters. One interesting fact about the show is that it is often unscripted or loosely improvised.

I think the sad thing is that I can sometimes relate to Larry. Sometimes I find myself saying or doing something completely stupid that comes back to bite me. It's tough saying or doing things “off the cuff” as they say. These things happen to some of us, which creates social anxiety because then you have to be careful what you say or what you do. I personally find it a difficult thing to manage.

Anyway, I do seriously recommend this show. If you're interested in what I've described, check it out or feel free to ask me for more information. I'll be glad to provide more examples. I think it's very interesting and humorous.

http://www.hbo.com/curb-your-enthusiasm

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 04/11/2016 at 05:16pm

This is one of those shows that I've always meant to watch, but just haven't gotten around to. It does look really funny, and I appreciate that it doesn't have a laugh track. I generally won't watch shows anymore that have one.

Travis wrote on 06/29/2016 at 11:57pm

Katie and I started watching this last night. I love Seinfeld and the humor is very similar. But this show deals with more R-rated situations and I love that everything in the show is improvised.

GregoPeck wrote on 06/30/2016 at 04:07am

I'm glad you're enjoying it.

GregoPeck wrote on 06/30/2016 at 03:21pm

I think it's "pretty good, pretty, pretty, pretty good. " LOL

Travis wrote on 06/30/2016 at 03:33pm

Yeah that line was in an episode we watched last night, and I finally realized where it came from! I have heard it so many times and never knew its origin.

GregoPeck wrote on 06/30/2016 at 04:55pm

You'll hear it again and again.

GregoPeck wrote on 06/30/2016 at 05:18pm

Well I thought so and I just verified. You'll recognize someone in the show from GTAV J. B. Smoove plays Leon Black. I think he doesn't appear until the last season or two, but he was one of my favorite people in the show. He's Dr. Ray in GTAV, a radio personality.
Check this out LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7BgOYPNTlA

Travis wrote on 08/29/2016 at 01:55am

We finished today, we hadn't been super binging it, just watching one or two a day.

You're right, Leon is one of the best parts of the show. Very funny all around.

GregoPeck wrote on 08/29/2016 at 02:50am

Awesome, I'm glad you two enjoyed a show that I recommended, even if you said you were thinking of watching it before. :)

Travis wrote on 06/19/2017 at 03:53am

Necromancing this thread because we're watching It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia and if you like Curb I think you'd like It's Always Sunny. It's the same kind of humor where people get themselves in awkward situations, BUT in IASIP the main characters are all terrible so you can just focus on laughing at them instead of feeling awkward with them.

Like many series, it gets much better in season 2.

Speaking of Curb, though, did you hear that there's a new season coming this year?

GregoPeck wrote on 06/19/2017 at 07:46am

I'll add that to my long list of things to watch, thanks Travis! :)

No, I did not know about a new CYE season. Sweet!

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Best way to connect old consoles to my HDTV?

I have a bunch of old consoles that I want to hook up to my HDTV. Does anybody know of a good solution that will keep the picture looking decent? Googling seems to point to the Framemeister. Is this still the best solution?

jdodson wrote on 02/21/2016 at 07:07pm

Yeah, something like that OR the Retro.

http://hyperkin.com/Retron5/

You can buy it online OR there is a sweet new retro gaming store I checked out the other day in Beaverton that stocks them all. Call before you head over but if memory serves, they have them all last I saw.

One nice thing about the Retron is that it's native HDMI and does a ton of the classic systems.

https://www.facebook.com/RetroGameTrader/

Will_Ball wrote on 02/21/2016 at 08:47pm

If only it played N64!

jdodson wrote on 02/22/2016 at 03:51pm

Ah right. Well let me know what you do and how well it works.

What games are you wanting to play on your 64?

Will_Ball wrote on 02/22/2016 at 06:09pm

I want to dust off Ogre 64 and Shadow Man

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 02/22/2016 at 08:48pm

I want to know how it goes too. I've been contemplating the same thing.

Travis wrote on 02/22/2016 at 10:22pm

From everything I hear, the Framemeister is the best option for sure, but that's not a cheap option.

If your TV can handle 240p you might be OK with what it gives you by default. If not, you can buy a $40 upscaler like this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Mini-Composite-CVBS-Converter-Input/dp/B00I482KZI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456179705&sr=8-1&keywords=upscaler

That doesn't preserve the scanlines and things like the Framemeister can do, but it'll get you playing if your TV won't do 240p resolution.

Will_Ball wrote on 02/22/2016 at 10:30pm

Now I just need to get over the $300 price tag for a framemeister.

Will_Ball wrote on 02/23/2016 at 12:00am

@Travis, yeah I have a cheap converter box that allows me to output to HDMI, but things still look pretty bad. I guess it comes down to, do I want a CRT hanging around, do I want a framemeister, or do I want bad looking games. None of these options are ideal for their own reasons.

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Nice Achievement News. I Just Hit 1,000 Hearthstone Wins!

Not the worlds most amazing achievement to be sure, but one I am happy for. If you are playing Hearthstone and want some incentive to land 300 gold, keep playing because at a thousand wins you will get your wish.

Link Learning Manbos Mambo

Not sure how many videos I will create, but i'll keep them posted to the forums here. In this video Link learns Manbo's Mambo a song Link learns after completing the Angler's Tunnel. You can use the song you learn on your ocarina to take you to Crazy Tracys so you can buy potions.

The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening Intro

After posting the video earlier of The Ballad of the Wind Fish I decided to do a few more videos as I play through the game. Same dutch angle and keeping the videos to story beats in Link's Awakening. This video is of the games introduction and I really enjoy how the pixels go crazy during high white flashes in the intro.

Wife Interuption

Rich and Jack are playing Helldivers and accidentally invite a couple random players (another funny moment is https://youtu.be/LwdfSPCkP1g?t=1h17m when the first player joins and surprises Rich and Jack) to play along with them.

In the main video, one of the random players has his wife start scolding him apparently for being too loud, and for being 30 and talking to people on a computer game. The funny exchange starts at about the 7 min mark.

War of 1996

We always knew they were coming back

Independence Day was one of my favorite movie experiences in my teenage years, so I'm excited to see what the sequel will bring us. This trailer looks pretty rad, and there's a cool interactive website that shows how the world has progressed since the War of 1996. It's a bit clunky, but cool to click through :)

http://www.warof1996.com/

Just Some Rad Music - Synthwave

Recently I heard someone (Jay from RedLetterMedia for those that care) talk about how he listens to a type of music called Synthwave. I looked it up and found out that I really like it. It's been around for a while, and you might recognize if from movies and video games such as Drive and Hotline Miami.

From Wikipedia:
Musically, synthwave is heavily inspired by new wave and the soundtracks of many 1980s films, videogames, cartoons and television shows. Composers such as John Carpenter and Tangerine Dream are frequently cited as influences. The style is mainly instrumental, and often contain 80s cliché elements in the sound such as electronic drums, gated... Read All

A Warrior, a Thief and a Wizard Walk Into a Bar...

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Just a funny picture :)

Did You Know ILM Has A VR Lab?

Disney/ILM is researching new forms of entertainment with VR and it's pretty interesting to see how they utilize the hardware. The thought of a VR Star Wars film is interesting but I am not entirely certain of how awesome it would be. I imagine someday I might be reading this and thinking my fears quaint but I don't know if it's obvious to anyone how a traditional film would work in VR. Not to say I wouldn't want to experience that at some point. Perhaps they will offer a 2D and VR experience for future films so you can watch it as you'd like?

George Clooney Batman VS Tom Hardy Bane

Bane was in both Batman and Robin and The Dark Knight Rises. Red Letter Media has mashed up 2 Batman-Bane fights, with Batman from Batman and Robin (George Clooney) and Bane from The Dark Knight Rises (Tom Hardy).

They fit really well together! Enjoy!

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Best way to connect old consoles to my HDTV?

Nice Achievement News. I Just Hit 1,000 Hearthstone Wins!

Link Learning Manbos Mambo

The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening Intro

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War of 1996

Just Some Rad Music - Synthwave

A Warrior, a Thief and a Wizard Walk Into a Bar...

Did You Know ILM Has A VR Lab?

George Clooney Batman VS Tom Hardy Bane

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