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| 49810 | Jerry Springer died | <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0XyroUf1QFk" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p> <p>I've heard many people say that The Jerry Springer Show was a 90's icon of popular culture. Entertainment takes many forms and I watched my fair share of Mr. Springer's show.</p> <p>The "Springer formula" for lowbrow television came up a lot at my job and it was a co-worker who suggested, <em>"what if all the people who appear on The Jerry Springer Show are actually bit-part actors receiving union scale pay to play ordinary people on a television show?".</em></p> <p>That idea began to make sense as the show's storylines became more bizarre and many of the show's "guests" seem very comfortable on camera talking about the unthinkable, lol.</p> <p>Rest In Peace Jerry Springer. I fear your legacy is a change in popular culture for the worse.</p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zda-FC7NK24" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><img alt="" src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/4f/c6/c0/4fc6c0d9d726714da0f7213b43cb8d55.jpg" /></p> | eddstarr | Apr 27, 2023 |  |
| 49809 | The Café | <p>Or so he says.</p> <div data-oembed-url="https://movie-sounds.org/disney-movie-sound-clips/quotes-with-sound-clips-from-toy-story-1995/and-i-m-from-mattel-well-i-m-not-really-from-mattel-i-m-actually-from-a-smaller-company-that-was-purchased-in-a-leveraged-buyout"> <div> <div style="height:170px; left:0; position:relative; width:100%"><iframe allowfullscreen="" src="//if-cdn.com/e0HxvWU?app=1" style="top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;" tabindex="-1"></iframe></div> </div> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//if-cdn.com/embed.js"></script> </div> <p> </p> | Mr Magic | Apr 25, 2023 | |
| 49808 | The Café | <p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">@Vapor</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Imagine the dismay from Rex after Andy brought home a Grimlock action figure. Get it? since Rex has said he's from Mattel in the first Toy Story? :lol:</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><img alt="" height="337" src="https://retro-daze.org/upload/grimlockrex.png" width="500" /></span></p> | Benjanime | Apr 25, 2023 | |
| 49806 | The Café | <p>So apparently Mattel and Hasbro have brokered a multi-year deal to share IP for product development? That’s cool.</p> <div data-oembed-url="https://www.cbr.com/hasbro-mattel-crossover-deal-transformers-hot-wheels-barbie/"> <div> <div style="height:0; left:0; padding-bottom:50%; padding-top:120px; position:relative; width:100%"><iframe allowfullscreen="" src="//if-cdn.com/iKSfXl1?app=1" style="top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;" tabindex="-1"></iframe></div> </div> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//if-cdn.com/embed.js"></script> </div> <p> </p> | Vaporman87 | Apr 24, 2023 | |
| 49805 | Legacy Sequels | <p>I would rather see something new on the big screen and on TV. That isn't to say that there aren't properties out there that I wouldn't mind revisiting again, even decades later. The problem is that Hollywood is almost incapable of doing it right. And they've steadily gotten worse at it. They can't seem to revisit a legacy character now without first deconstructing him/her, which essentially takes all of their previous progress and growth and destroys it. It's the stupidest tactic in all of movie making. It's lazy and juvenile. The only film I can think of in recent times that didn't resort to that tactic is Top Gun: Maverick.</p> | Vaporman87 | Apr 24, 2023 | |
| 49804 | New Sonic Lego sets announced for August 2023 | <p>'bout time. Mario already has his collection.</p> | Mr Magic | Apr 24, 2023 | |
| 49803 | Legacy Sequels | <p>Rocky is a great example.</p> | Mr Magic | Apr 23, 2023 | |
| 49802 | Legacy Sequels | <p> </p> <blockquote><strong>eddstarr wrote :</strong> <p> </p> <p><em>This horrible cycle of "sequels/reboots/prequels/remakes" must come to an end. Otherwise one day this generation will see "2060" on a calendar, and realize they wasted the best of their lives reliving the 20th century.</em></p> <p> </p> <em> </em><strong>-end quote</strong></blockquote> <blockquote> </blockquote> <p>For some reason this reminded me of that stupid new song that has the exact same tune as "Blue" by Eiffel 65. As soon as I heard it, I knew that we'd have an entire generation of people singing the wrong words to "Blue".</p> <div data-oembed-url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8wdVF88NHA"> <div> <div style="height:0; left:0; padding-bottom:56.25%; position:relative; width:100%"><iframe allow="accelerometer *; clipboard-write *; encrypted-media *; gyroscope *; picture-in-picture *; web-share *;" allowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//if-cdn.com/r5tg8tv" style="top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;" tabindex="-1"></iframe></div> </div> </div> <p>I guess the way it's relevant is it shows how the people producing mass media are so focused on remixing nostalgia because they think it's what sells, but they do so without realizing that they're making it way worse. Even if they create something that newer generations who didn't experience the original might like, and might initially suck in nostalgic audiences, they've isolated fans of the original and complicated their relationships to it.</p> <p>I can typically separate my love for something from a bad sequel that other people claim "ruins" the original. Like the people who say the Star Wars sequels/prequels ruined the original movies, I never thought like that. I can enjoy the original thing and keep it isolated from all of the awful follow-ups. But it does make it so I can't get as excited about any new stories taking place in the same continuity as the new things.</p> <p>Star Trek Discovery is a good example of this. I love Trek, but I hate Discovery (and to a lesser extent Picard). Please don't get me wrong, though. I'm not one of those people who complain that Star Trek has gone "woke" because Discovery has a black female lead. Those people are stupid. Star Trek has always been progressive and ahead of its time on social issues.</p> <p>I was really excited when they announced Star Trek was coming back, but what bugs me is that the new Trek canon is so pessimistic about the future and that's not what Star Trek ever was to me. Suddenly all of Starfleet is basically as bad as Section 31 and the gubbermint is the baddies and the memes about Starfleet being fascist are actually being taken seriously by the writers. All of that is what they gave us instead of the utopic vision of a galaxy unified by common ideals that Star Trek was always about. Yeah, nu-Trek mirrors real life in its pessimism and social issues, but Star Trek was never supposed to show how bad our world is right now. It was supposed to show us what we can aspire to.</p> <p>Thankfully we now have Strange New Worlds which finally feels like a return to classic Trek, and it looks like Paramount wisened up and are totally ditching the awful Discovery redesign of the Klingons. But now when there's a new Star Trek-adjacent <em>thing</em> announced, I can't get immediately exicted for it because I know it could easily go back to being like Discovery.</p> | MamboGator | Apr 23, 2023 | |
| 49801 | Best Fighting Games | <p>Even after all these years, Dragon Ball Fighter Z still looks awesome on Unreal Engine.</p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/C3rTYAGu51k" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p> | eddstarr | Apr 23, 2023 | |
| 49800 | My Danny Thomas Moment | <p><img alt="" src="https://i.pinimg.com/236x/cb/4c/f9/cb4cf91c3a9d8773d00dc894bc66f809.jpg" /></p> <p>My age is really starting to show as I've gotten into online shout downs with tubers who think the best TV shows from the 60's were just lucky accidents.</p> <p>I've had to sing the praises for Danny Thomas a lot, lately. But I also want the praise Lucille Ball as the real believer in Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek" series proposal. Lucy put in a lot of background networking, contacting everyone she knew in the industry to give Star Trek a chance. NBC passed the first time but said Yes when the proposal came around for a second time.</p> <p>Sometimes, magic happens when actors move from in front of the cameras to become producers behind the camera.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/54/71/05/5471051e49658b337f9176cc6fc3ebf0.jpg" /></p> | eddstarr | Apr 23, 2023 | |
