chyron8472

ray_afraid said:

Jack Van Impe gives me the creeeeeeps.

I had to google to know who that was. And I still don’t know.

DuracellEnergizer said:

TV’s Frink said:

based on a book written by humans in the dark ages

JFTR, the texts of the Bible were written long before the Dark Ages

That does not make them irrelevant.

TV’s Frink said:

they use it as an excuse to discriminate against people that commit the high crime of being different than them.

Yes, and Jesus himself rebuked people who did that and called them “whitewashed tombs.” The scriptures say “they will know we are His disciples by our love for one another”, not they will know by how hypocritically judgy we are.

Warbler said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

my existence is an affront to God.

No it is not.

^

God does not put any sin above any other sin. It is we who do that. There is nothing whatsoever that we ourselves, of our own doing, can do to be worthy in God’s sight. “For all have sinned and fall short of God’s glorious standard.” Your sin, suspiciouscoffee, is an affront to God, but so is your parents’. So is ender’s and Warbler’s. So is mine. That is why Christ gave himself as an eternal sacrifice for us, to cover our sin so that God might see us as worthy.

It doesn’t matter if you are who you are, or whether you can help it, or whether people think it’s wrong. It matters that you pursue a relationship with Him. No, you are not worthy of it but neither is anyone else. Your parents are not worthy of it. If they don’t accept you for your sin, they are hypocrites because God forgave them just as He forgives you. People who judge those who sin forget themselves and the truth of what God had to forgive of them.

“If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? […] No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

You are His child. Don’t forget that. He will not rebuke you for who you are.

dahmage said:

chyron8472 said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

darth_ender said:

I learned the clarinet at school

That slang confuses me because, why a clarinet? A trombone, maybe, but a clarinet? I know I’m overthinking a simple dirty slang term but it just sounds ignorant. Like, let’s pick a random instrument and never mind if it makes sense.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING

I’m saying the actions one takes with the mouthpiece and the motion of the hand would make more sense with something else, like a trombone. To pick a clarinet for that slang just seems so random as to be musically incompetent.

I’m saying that, as a musician, it confuses me. It sounds stupid more than dirty.

suspiciouscoffee said:

darth_ender said:

I learned the clarinet at school

That slang confuses me because, why a clarinet? A trombone, maybe, but a clarinet? I know I’m overthinking a simple dirty slang term but it just sounds ignorant. Like, let’s pick a random instrument and never mind if it makes sense.

This is currently an evil thread.

Warbler said:

I have a youtube channel just so I can comment on videos when I want. I have posted no videos or anything else. Yet I was notified that someone subscribed to my channel. Why would they do that?

“Won’t you tell him please
To put on some speed
Follow my lead
Oh, how I need
Someone to watch over me.”

Possessed said:

Eh wake me up when they make Mega Man X9.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykkdvYThT_Y&t=51s

Collipso said:

Anyway, I remember leaving the theater and overhearing a considerable amount of people (even the people who I went to watch it with) asking “why didn’t she simply lightspeed herself into the FO before? Or why have they never done that before? It’s so useful and overpowered…”

I assume the reason is because the Rebels/Resistance does not have enough money to use expensive ships that way. And to ask why the Empire/FO did not is to ask why Germany did not (or did they not?) but instead Germany spent time and money creating impractically large tanks/cannons (like the Panzer VIII Maus).

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chyron8472 said:

NeverarGreat said:

The US has made clear that we’re not interested in diplomacy [with NK]

Since when?

since Trump referred to the N. Korea leader as Rocketman. Belittling, and insulting the leader of the opposing nation and threatening nuclear war with him as Trump has done is not what I call diplomacy.

Yes, but “The US has made clear that we’re not interested in diplomacy” and “Trump is a narcissistic, incompetent ignoramus who couldn’t diplomatize his way out of a wet paper bag” are not analogous.

oojason said:

I sense there’s a story to go along with this display.

I can play the trumpet and the baritone, having played both in middle school and high school.
I have taken piano lessons, but not for very long so I’m a novice at best.

I do also sing rather well, and I currently sing in the choir at my church. I know that’s not technically an “instrument”, but I’m really quite good at it (and not in the you-think-you-sound-good-but-you-really-suck sort of way.) I sing baritone, which means my vocal range has some trouble with higher tenor and lower bass.

I want to learn to play guitar. At some point (probably sooner than later), I’m going to buy a starter kit and a copy of Rocksmith.

NeverarGreat said:

The US has made clear that we’re not interested in diplomacy [with NK]

Since when? I was under the impression it was the reverse, and that Kim’s interest in nuclear weapons is akin to what Saddam’s interest was in them. That is, he just wants to make himself look and feel powerful because, as dictators usually are, he is incredibly insecure and paranoid about looking weak.

yhwx said:

chyron8472 said:

yhwx said:

chyron8472 said:

I’m saying I wish they didn’t choose to just because they can.

Yeah, that’s not how it works.

In an interview about Star Trek Discovery, the writers basically said it was. The show got a lot of flak for using “fuck” twice in the same episode, and the writers said it was freeing to not have censors saying they couldn’t do that.

I’m sure there was a reason other than just being purely rebellious.

http://ew.com/tv/2017/10/16/star-trek-discovery-fuck/

“Every writer’s impulse when you get to work on the streaming shows with no parameters is to go crazy,” Harberts said. “But then you look at things like: How does nudity play on Trek? Eh, it feels weird. How does a lot of [profanity] on Trek? Not so great. Are there moments where it merits it that we’re trying to push here and there? I would say we’re trying to push more by having the type of complicated messed-up characters who aren’t necessarily embraced on broadcast.”

That sounds like being purely rebellious to me.

DominicCobb said:

And streaming services aren’t broadcast, they are premium subscription services, like HBO. Could they/should they put a card up front that says “Language, Violence, Nudity, etc.” like HBO? Yeah sure, that’d be nice. But censorship is bullshit.

It seems to me that in 10 or more years streaming services are all that most people will use anymore. Back in the day, one could channel surf and not even bother wondering whether something was appropriate or why. I’m just feeling like the content produced by streaming services isn’t bothered about whether it’s mostly low-brow.

yhwx said:

chyron8472 said:

I’m saying I wish they didn’t choose to just because they can.

Yeah, that’s not how it works.

In an interview about Star Trek Discovery, the writers basically said it was. The show got a lot of flak for using “fuck” twice in the same episode, and the writers said it was freeing to not have censors saying they couldn’t do that.

DominicCobb said:

chyron8472 said:

DominicCobb said:

chyron8472 said:

On the subject of the regulation (or lack thereof) of streaming content, it continues to bother me that streaming services have very little in the way of censorship. I posted in the TV Shows thread about Altered Carbon and dahmage said he doesn’t have the time for yet another non-family friendly show. I agree.

I really wish there was some sort of censorship board for streaming content because I’m sick of professional content producers (like CBS All Access or Netflix) including swearing, violence, and nudity simply because they have no one telling them not to. I would also include HBO, but that particular ship has long since sailed.

Why censor and tie the hands of creatives just because you don’t like bad words? You can always use IMDb’s parents guide if you’re worried they’re going to show too much side boob.

It’s not just for my daughter or my wife. It’s for me. I don’t appreciate the gratuitousness of some content being unnecessarily adult. I don’t like Veep swearing like it’s going out of style just because. I don’t like characters in a Star Trek show repeatedly saying “fuck” because it’s edgy and no one says they can’t. They are so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they don’t stop to think if they should.

I mean, they could at least put a MPAA rating info or whatever on the card for a show or movie.

You can always use IMDb’s parents guide if you’re worried they’re going to show too much side boob or use incredibly common place words that unfortunately hurt your ears.

So you’re saying that before I watch anything anywhere online, I am required to do research on it? And you’re also attacking my interest in tastefulness or decency? You might not care if words and actions are “incredibly common place” among your circle of friends and family, but don’t belittle me because I do care.

 
I like that OTA TV broadcast content is censored to a degree. Creativity be damned. You don’t need to be vulgar or lewd to show creativity in your writing. Censorship does not inherently stifle creative thought. Some would even argue that lewdness and vulgarity shows a lack of creativity, rather than showing creative freedom.

So basically you’re wishing that creatives tailor make shows to your personal specifications. Cool.

That is a strawman argument.

I am saying I wish streamed shows had similar censorship rules as do broadcast shows. That is not “tailor made to my personal specifications.” Nor is it stifling to creatives to require them to assume children might be watching it, or else to have a This-is-why-children-shouldn’t-watch-it card or icon or blurb or whatever at the start of the show. Broadcast shows already do that.

DominicCobb said:

chyron8472 said:

On the subject of the regulation (or lack thereof) of streaming content, it continues to bother me that streaming services have very little in the way of censorship. I posted in the TV Shows thread about Altered Carbon and dahmage said he doesn’t have the time for yet another non-family friendly show. I agree.

I really wish there was some sort of censorship board for streaming content because I’m sick of professional content producers (like CBS All Access or Netflix) including swearing, violence, and nudity simply because they have no one telling them not to. I would also include HBO, but that particular ship has long since sailed.

Why censor and tie the hands of creatives just because you don’t like bad words? You can always use IMDb’s parents guide if you’re worried they’re going to show too much side boob.

It’s not just for my daughter or my wife. It’s for me. I don’t appreciate the gratuitousness of some content being unnecessarily adult. I don’t like Veep swearing like it’s going out of style just because. I don’t like characters in a Star Trek show repeatedly saying “fuck” because it’s edgy and no one says they can’t. They are so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they don’t stop to think if they should.

I mean, they could at least put a MPAA rating info or whatever on the card for a show or movie.

 
I like that OTA TV broadcast content is censored to a degree. Creativity be damned. You don’t need to be vulgar or lewd to show creativity in your writing. Censorship does not inherently stifle creative thought. Some would even argue that lewdness and vulgarity shows a lack of creativity, rather than showing creative freedom.

Mrebo said:

chyron8472 said:

On the subject of the regulation (or lack thereof) of streaming content, it continues to bother me that streaming services have very little in the way of censorship. I posted in the TV Shows thread about Altered Carbon and dahmage said he doesn’t have the time for yet another non-family friendly show. I agree.

I really wish there was some sort of censorship board for streaming content because I’m sick of professional content producers (like CBS All Access or Netflix) including swearing, violence, and nudity simply because they have no one telling them not to. I would also include HBO, but that particular ship has long since sailed.

Are you an American? I’m curious, not judging 😉

Yes. Why?

I’m not saying producers can’t create mature content. I’m saying I wish they didn’t choose to just because they can. I wish it was easier to curate content and sift out adult stuff from something safer for my daughter to watch or something my wife wouldn’t want to quickly turn off.

DominicCobb said:

chyron8472 said:

DominicCobb said:

So, a current event. If you brought it in here and asked what people thought about legislation of some sort or, then okay, but you literally just posted the article.

People don’t post current events in here?

In the past when there wasn’t a dedicated current events thread, sure.

I admit I didn’t know there was one.

On the subject of the regulation (or lack thereof) of streaming content, it continues to bother me that streaming services have very little in the way of censorship. I posted in the TV Shows thread about Altered Carbon and dahmage said he doesn’t have the time for yet another non-family friendly show. I agree.

I really wish there was some sort of censorship board for streaming content because I’m sick of professional content producers (like CBS All Access or Netflix) including swearing, violence, and nudity simply because they have no one telling them not to. I would also include HBO, but that particular ship has long since sailed.

DominicCobb said:

So, a current event. If you brought it in here and asked what people thought about legislation of some sort or, then okay, but you literally just posted the article.

People don’t post current events in here?

Also, people don’t at times simply post articles in here and let the chips fall as far as followup conversation? Where did the article about the sexual harassment whatsit at Google (and the following conversation about corporate culture in Silicon Valley) get posted?

DominicCobb said:

Sure you can define it as YT politics. Just like you can say who’s going to win the Oscar is based on politics like “for your consideration” campaigns. But I don’t think it belongs in this thread.

But there isn’t a thread for general social/cultural issues. …for which such a thread could also include the subject of kneeling at football games. But we also talk about that in here.

DominicCobb said:

I don’t think it’s politics at all.

Well, not governmental politics, but there is surely business-related politicking involved, though maybe not exclusively. I imagine, yes, there are moral interests involved, but if there wasn’t a big public stink about his antics YouTube would likely not take action against him.

…especially considering the ad-suspension is still only reported as temporary.

Mrebo said:

Mixed feelings on the YT thing. There is much that is dumb and dangerous that YT ignores while taking a hamfisted approach to ad revenue to appease advertisers.

It’s politics. YouTube is getting bad publicity due to Logan Paul’s antics specifically because it’s in the news and makes the people with the money mad.