What Did You Watch? 2025-01-27 (Monday)

[Ubiquitous]

I watched:

JOHNNY SOMALI IS BACK AND BEGGING FOR MERCY:
Today we will be looking at the phenomenon of Johnny Somali humiliating
himself for content...

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS *DOUBLES DOWN* WITH 2024 MONSTER MANUAL GENDER SWAPPED
DRYADS AND TRANS SUCCUBUS:
Dungeons & Dragons has been destroyed by Wizards of the Coast and they are
continuing with the 2024 Monster Manual featuring male dryads gender swapped,
and trans succubus and incubus.

STAR TREK SECTION 31 REVIEW | THE WACKY ADVENTURES OF A LOVABLE EYEBALL
EATING TYRANT | PART ONE:
If there is any value to be found in Star Trek: Section 31, it's a moment of
clarity when you realize just how horribly mutated beyond all recognition
this franchise has become after over a decade of abuse. Watching this was
painful folks, and for my own sanity I had to break this review up into
parts. This is Part One. Join me as I try to find the humor in this pile of
ashes. #startrek #paramountplus #section31

WILLIAM SHATNER DESTROYS HOLLYWOOD WEIRDOS ATTACKING ELON MUSK!
William Shatner is Captain Kirk in Star Trek, but he's also a voice of reason
in Hollywood as he defends Elon Musk from the mob of Trump derangement.

DANA LOESCH REACTS TO SELENA GOMEZ CRYING OVER ENFORCING IMMIGRATION LAW:
Actress and Singer Selena Gomez posted a selfie video crying hysterically
over the deportation of illegal immigrants by Donald Trump and Tom Homan.

TEAM KNIGHT RIDER (1997). THE NOT-SO DREAM TEAM:
Stam Fine Reviews takes a look at the the 1997 syndicated TV series, Team
Knight Rider, about five FLAG operatives who swan about in vehicles fighting
crimes. That is to say, they fight crimes while swanning about in vehicles
while also fighting crimes. State of the Art vehicles... from Ford.
Stars Brixton Karnes, Christine Steel, Duane Davis, Kathy Trageser, Nick
Wechsler.

00:00 Introduction
00:27 Knight Rider: The Story So far
01:33 Team Knight Rider
04:03 Main Characters and their Vehicles
09:13 Villainy
10:34 Notable Episodes
12:42 And?
15:37 Whodunnit?

TIMCAST IRL:
Hosts:
Tim @Timcast (everywhere)
Phil @PhilThatRemains (X)
Ian @IanCrossland (everywhere)
Libby @LibbyEmmons (X)
Serge @SergeDotCom (everywhere)

Guest:
Josh Seiter @josh_seiter (X)

Josh Seiter was a reality TV personality and former Bachelorette contestant
known for his work as a model and social media influencer.
https://www.youtube.com/live/pYWC_AgcPd4?si=o7eASYoDuSISqSvi

What did you watch?

[anim8rfsk]

Post by Ubiquitous
What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!

THE TRANSPORTER

It was all I could find on STARZ

[Ubiquitous]

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Post by Ubiquitous
What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!
THE TRANSPORTER
It was all I could find on STARZ

You didn't watch the woman making fish paste?

--
Don't jump!

[anim8rfsk]

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Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Ubiquitous
What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!
THE TRANSPORTER
It was all I could find on STARZ

You didn't watch the woman making fish paste?

About half of it. You didn’t watch the classic Saturday Night Live sketch
with the Bass-o-matic?

Post by Ubiquitous
--
Don't jump!

[shawn]

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Ubiquitous

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Ubiquitous
What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!
THE TRANSPORTER
It was all I could find on STARZ

You didn't watch the woman making fish paste?

About half of it. You didn’t watch the classic Saturday Night Live sketch
with the Bass-o-matic?

Bass o matic

Bass-O-Matic - SNL 40th Anniversary Special

Bat-O-Matic (ft. Dan Aykroyd) - SNL

[Ubiquitous]

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Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Ubiquitous
What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!
THE TRANSPORTER
It was all I could find on STARZ

You didn't watch the woman making fish paste?

About half of it. You didn't watch the classic Saturday Night Live sketch
with the Bass-o-matic?

I'd already seen it many many times. :-)

--
Don't jump!

[Ian J. Ball]

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Post by Ubiquitous
What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!
THE TRANSPORTER
It was all I could find on STARZ

ES has been down most of the day, and I'm moving offices at work. I will
do a 2-day catch-up tomorrow...

[Arthur Lipscomb]

Post by Ian J. Ball

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Ubiquitous
What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!
THE TRANSPORTER
It was all I could find on STARZ

ES has been down most of the day, and I'm moving offices at work. I will
do a 2-day catch-up tomorrow...

I thought it was just me. Usually when ES is down I can't download, or
maybe open posts. But today Thunderbird seemed to erase all the posts
and wouldn't download any new ones.

[shawn]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:12:10 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb

Post by Arthur Lipscomb

Post by Ian J. Ball

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Ubiquitous
What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!
THE TRANSPORTER
It was all I could find on STARZ

ES has been down most of the day, and I'm moving offices at work. I will
do a 2-day catch-up tomorrow...

I thought it was just me. Usually when ES is down I can't download, or
maybe open posts. But today Thunderbird seemed to erase all the posts
and wouldn't download any new ones.

No, it was down for us all. Apparently something went wrong with their
DNS server. While you could ping it any attempting at finding one of
the ES servers came back with a "What is ES?" type of response.

[Adam H. Kerman]

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Post by Arthur Lipscomb

Post by Ian J. Ball
ES has been down most of the day, and I'm moving offices at work. I will
do a 2-day catch-up tomorrow...

I thought it was just me. Usually when ES is down I can't download, or
maybe open posts. But today Thunderbird seemed to erase all the posts
and wouldn't download any new ones.

No, it was down for us all. Apparently something went wrong with their
DNS server. While you could ping it any attempting at finding one of
the ES servers came back with a "What is ES?" type of response.

It was very serious. The name server went down. When it came back up,
the zone file had been changed.

Ray is using a different name server now.

[Ubiquitous]

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Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Ubiquitous
What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!
THE TRANSPORTER
It was all I could find on STARZ

ES has been down most of the day, and I'm moving offices at work. I will
do a 2-day catch-up tomorrow...

I don't remember experiencing any problems. I am sure it's Kerman's fault.

--
Not a joke! Don't jump!

[Arthur Lipscomb]

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Post by Ubiquitous
What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!
THE TRANSPORTER
It was all I could find on STARZ

Thunderbird pretty much died on me today. It's been limping along for a
while now. But it suddenly came back to life. I don't know how this
will last. Anyway, I watched:


Southland Tales (blu-ray) 2006 sci-fi movie written and directed by
Richard Kelly. The movie stars Dwayne Johnson as a movie star who is at
the heart of a blackmail scheme by a group of anarchists trying to take
down a fascist police state in Texas following a nuclear bomb being
detonated a few years earlier. The movie is wall to wall famous people.
Too many to list. I have no idea why they all signed up to be in it.

I watched the longer "Cannes cut" yesterday. It was an incoherent mess!
None of it made sense. Yesterday, I watched the theatrical cut with
the director's commentary. This is a totally different edit of the
movie with scenes in a different order. Randomizing the order the
scenes came in really didn't matter much. Though, in some ways this
made it harder to follow because I had just watched the movie the night
before and now, I'm watching it again but it's all different.

But some things were cleared up in the theatrical cut thanks to the
commentary. Two things that came out early in the commentary was both
Dwayne Johnson's character and Seann William Scott's character were time
travelers from the future, but had amnesia because of the time travel.
This detail was vague at best in Cannes cut, and not explicitly shown
for either character until the very end of the movie. But even in the
theatrical cut knowing they are amnesiac doppelgangers from the future
didn't clear much up. On the commentary the director kept going on and
on about "reading" "chapters" and at one point he straight up said,
"Read the graphic novels, it's all there." And I'm thinking if you have
to read some outside source material for your movie to make sense, then
you've failed as a director. The director mentioned Sarah Michelle
Gellar's character having psychic abilities. That was news to me, I
must completely missed that detail in the Cannes cut. And it wasn't
entirely clear in the theatrical cut either. If he hadn't explicitly
said it, I wouldn't have known. He admitted on the commentary that he
intentionally made the movie confusing so no one could figure it out in
one viewing because that's just the type of movie he likes to make. I
probably should have stopped the movie at that point, but I stuck with
it. My having to watch this mess twice in order to make any sort of
sense of was intentional! :-/


Don't Blink (Amazon Streaming) 2024 thriller directed by Zoë Kravitz and
starring Naomi Ackie as a waitress who along with her friend are invited
by a billionaire (Channing Tatum) to his private island. But things get
weird as she and her friend have trouble remembering past events and
eventually people forget the friend was ever there. I've been looking
forward to watching this for a while. Mainly because I couldn't figure
out the plot from the trailers. Although I had some good guesses, and
my guesses were more or less accurate. What happens in the trailer is
what happens in the movie. The rest are spoilers. It's worth checking out.

[anim8rfsk]

Post by Arthur Lipscomb

Post by anim8rfsk

Post by Ubiquitous
What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!
THE TRANSPORTER
It was all I could find on STARZ

Thunderbird pretty much died on me today. It's been limping along for a
while now. But it suddenly came back to life. I don't know how this
will last.

My Cox died last night and I just switched over to T-Mobile, which is
actually faster but has a data transfer ceiling after which it throttles
downloads.

[The Horny Goat]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:30:57 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Thunderbird pretty much died on me today. It's been limping along for a
while now. But it suddenly came back to life. I don't know how this

I've been using Thunderbird for 10+ years but then I use it strictly
for e-mail not newsgroups.

[Arthur Lipscomb]

Post by The Horny Goat
On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:30:57 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Thunderbird pretty much died on me today. It's been limping along for a
while now. But it suddenly came back to life. I don't know how this

I've been using Thunderbird for 10+ years but then I use it strictly
for e-mail not newsgroups.

I use it strictly for newsgroups. But the issue I was experiencing
wasn't with Thunderbird, it was ES that went down. I've just had so
many issues with Thunderbird that I couldn't tell the difference.

[The Horny Goat]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 15:02:58 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb

Post by Arthur Lipscomb

Post by The Horny Goat
On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:30:57 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Thunderbird pretty much died on me today. It's been limping along for a
while now. But it suddenly came back to life. I don't know how this

I've been using Thunderbird for 10+ years but then I use it strictly
for e-mail not newsgroups.

I use it strictly for newsgroups. But the issue I was experiencing
wasn't with Thunderbird, it was ES that went down. I've just had so
many issues with Thunderbird that I couldn't tell the difference.

Hmmm. With one exception (which cost me a lot of 3-5 year old e-mail
archives and may have been hard drive related) Thunderbird's been good
as gold for e-mail. It's been 3-4 years since I've done a test on it
for newsgroups but think it failed on the binary groups which other
than 3-4 text newsgroups (this is one of them) I'm mostly about
binaries.

[anim8rfsk]

Post by The Horny Goat
On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 15:02:58 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb

Post by Arthur Lipscomb

Post by The Horny Goat
On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:30:57 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Thunderbird pretty much died on me today. It's been limping along for a
while now. But it suddenly came back to life. I don't know how this

I've been using Thunderbird for 10+ years but then I use it strictly
for e-mail not newsgroups.

I use it strictly for newsgroups. But the issue I was experiencing
wasn't with Thunderbird, it was ES that went down. I've just had so
many issues with Thunderbird that I couldn't tell the difference.

Hmmm. With one exception (which cost me a lot of 3-5 year old e-mail
archives and may have been hard drive related) Thunderbird's been good
as gold for e-mail. It's been 3-4 years since I've done a test on it
for newsgroups but think it failed on the binary groups which other
than 3-4 text newsgroups (this is one of them) I'm mostly about
binaries.

Cox handed everybody’s email accounts over to yahoo and every time you
tried to go anywhere to check any email it made you go in and authorize
everything again and then one by one each account denied access and all the
emails are lost forever for everyone.

[Ubiquitous]

Post by The Horny Goat

Post by Arthur Lipscomb
Thunderbird pretty much died on me today. It's been limping along for a
while now. But it suddenly came back to life. I don't know how this

I've been using Thunderbird for 10+ years but then I use it strictly
for e-mail not newsgroups.

I tried Thunderbird but it was unable to make threads deeper than two,
which was pointless for newsgroups.

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Let's go Brandon!