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Post by gobshite on Feb 24, 2019 18:46:25 GMT
Imagine StEve remastering butter.
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Post by Felonious Spunk on Feb 24, 2019 19:09:19 GMT
Jesus Christ. What kind of lunatic goes on and about something so fucking mundane? Any SHite.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Feb 25, 2019 2:41:01 GMT
Waiting for DeVoe to appear to talk about what he uses butter for.
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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Apr 26, 2019 17:40:26 GMT
Has James Holzhauer broken "Jeopardy!"?In every endeavor that involves a certain benefit of "fun", there will always be somebody who rises to the challenge of making it all about cold, fun-sucking profit. The radio station that tries to reward demographically-relatable listeners in order to promote something, soon ends up battling with contest pigs who don't even care what station they are monitoring, and are more willing to argue about the rules than make it more fun for the people who actually listen, and like the prizes. I had a college roomate who set up a treasure hunt for his friends, and one of his shiftier ones took all the fun out by finishing first, stealing the prize without announcing it, then stealing some of the clues instead of leaving them there for others to play...just to mess with their heads. There isn't a "sign up today!" jackpot that won't eventually turn into a controversey about who stuffed the ballot box, who took the signup sheets from the busiest signup locations, or who made the biggest stink about how they got away with breaking the rules "or you'll hear from my lawyer", causing the prize to be awarded quietly and fast to some lowlife...who, even at that moment, is eyeballing the booth at the County Fair, figuring out how do dress strategically so the carnival barker can't guess his weight. To these people, the "fun" is only in how they can ruin the fun and excitement for others, if it means they can say "I win" the most times. It's not even about "the prize"...it's about not sharing their little victories. Jeopardy contestants have always tried to win and make the most money. It’s fun to watch for viewers at home, but I hardly think this guy is the first guy to try win the game. He’s just better at it than most other contestants. "Contestants", play the game. "Players", play the idea of the game. Without the sense of ethics the rest of the contestants bring. This is why it matters. What specific ethics is he missing? Funny, I seem to be asked the same question that the last responder didn't seem to grasp... I'll say this once, and let it go, and if you don't like the concept, it won't be worth my time going over it with you again: A "game" is a fun thing, one does with other people they like. It involves competition and incentive, but the real reward is in having fun with other people you like. If somebody comes into the game with no other love for humanity than, "there is a prize, and I want to take it away from everybody else there, because I don't care about them anyway, so that's why I will play"...then, I wouldn't even want to invite you over to my Game Nights, to pay you to park my other friend's cars. Because if I can't trust you with their keys, why should I trust you with our fun...? A game like this, has to be fun to watch along with, moreso than just playing. No matter how much money is on the line, we have to remember, the real money always has to be the ad revenue generated by a critical mass of people at home, with their brains at least minimally engaged. If your off-shift husband can't get one or two before the buzzer sounds while he's digging-into his pot pie, Marge has no reason to tune it in, especially if she'd rather be watching Entertainment Tonite anyways. Based on your definition of a "game", then I would say Jeopardy is not a game. They aren't there to have fun with people they like as they are competing against strangers. Also, what about poker? I play with friends, but my goal is to win every hand. (Of course that never happens, but it is my goal.) Does that make me unethical? That's not my "definition" of a game. It's my definition of why friends come together to play games, not to learn to treat one another as adversaries. I'm gonna go ahead and tell you what I told the last guy: if you don't like the concept, it won't be worth my time going over it with you again.
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Post by daved on Apr 26, 2019 18:12:21 GMT
Here's how much time I have spent thinking about this:
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Post by audiobile on Apr 26, 2019 19:57:17 GMT
Dillydicker wouldn't last five minutes on Jeopardy.
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Post by blahdiofile on Apr 27, 2019 1:53:43 GMT
I have some bad news for him regarding Game of Thrones
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Post by mintyjackhole on May 8, 2019 13:01:45 GMT
Is it just me or is Dildo Dipper's latest dish of word salad even less coherent than usual? Hipsters reading free papers? Suburban K-Pop martini parties? And of course Dildy can't write the word "women" to save his life. Blargh! Here's the thread: forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/when-you-hear-or-think-of-20-years-ago-what-music-comes-to-mind.837896/ . Not that it has fuck all to do with the topic. "The failure of mainstream Country music to beat their set-your-watch-by-it-cycle of losing relevance to mainstream public awareness precicely at the point where they try to quietly "retire" older, more established Country artists in hopes of breaking younger, more exciting artists. That's what I think of when "music of 20 years ago" is brought up. According to my Bulova, we should be prepared for another "Garth-ism"-sized trend upswing riiight aboouut-! (Of course you won't notice at first unless you're currently a mainstream Country radio listener; hipsters won't even catch wind of it until the weekly free papers in the major cities all start running "ya know what's wrong with Country today" articles; but, suddenly ozmosis among young females will occur, and martini parties will suddenly shut up about Sam Smith and BTS, and swooning will begin to occur over The New Guy With The Hat...)"
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Post by bradman on May 8, 2019 16:20:54 GMT
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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Aug 31, 2019 17:31:38 GMT
Personally, I've never been all that chuffed about Bernie's "Rocket Man". First of...what IS a "rocket man"...it it a man made out of rockets? A man who rockets? Does he even know these people have an actual name for what it is they do? If you're building up your whole song based on people thinking of a guy about being this...thing, maybe it should be an actual "thing" people call them, howabout?* "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise a kid..."; okay, well...who was talking about Mars in the first place? We had barely gotten to the Moon at that point. Nor were we talking about colonization. Free-association is a non-starter when you have all sorts of more obvious questions and topics one might like bringing up in the real conversation with an actual astronaut. Not like one is actually going to have a chance to bring these random mundane notions up to somebody when he's miles out beyond the troposphere, or anything...might as well ask him if he's ever met Laika. John's penchant for stretching the lyrics out with pointless vocal jumps during ballads is distracting enough, without taking the actual lyrics into account; you can just see Bernie wondering, "now, why did he do that swoopie-thing there, I didn't write it like that..." Now write down a line such as, "and there's no one there to raise them, if you did", and tell me if that was the exact melody and cadence that comes to mind when you first see that lyric. (Well, maybe for somebody who is, perhaps, using the English language for the first time - who misses his home, and misses his "wieeefe"...) Three examples right there of poorly-formulated lyrics tossed-off to somebody who could clearly have used some vocal coaching while they were at it. "Well, if you're not going to work very hard on making it sound like people speak, I'm not going to work all that hard on making it sound like people sing, so there." And, it's not like Elton John is a poor singer, particularly by this point in his career; it's just like, geez dude, you're a superstar; do a little work on your craft before you play it for everybody and dare anybody to criticize you. (*I wonder if this is a song Seinfeld and Costanza used to talk about when they would start using other alien terms to call people while acting like it was a perfectly-accepted phrase, such as "bubble boy")
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Post by System Tweak on Aug 31, 2019 20:41:11 GMT
Too bad Elton and Bernie didn't take Dilly's advice. They coulda had a hit song there.
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Post by daved on Aug 31, 2019 22:00:22 GMT
I hope he chokes on a dillybar
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Post by Felonious Spunk on Sept 2, 2019 13:48:50 GMT
Could a Gorf fix that thread title?
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Post by Norman ‘Whiplash’ Mailer on Sept 15, 2019 20:29:38 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2019 1:28:17 GMT
I don't think that thread's sticking around long, it's a perfect SHiTe train wreck.
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