Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@colonelkilgore I got the complete uncensored series on dvd, UK region version - 1 or 2 - I forget so do check to avoid getting one you can't play, from eBay. Good luck hunting one down though! Oh yeah and do make sure to watch out for your rival, a certain secret recipe-poultry-pedalling sanders! 🤣

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Sanders and I are far from rivals… hell I have him round for supper fortnightly 😉

@colonelkilgore In the U.S. Boondocks is on Max (Formerly HBO Max)

@Th3solution Ok cool… so it would maybe on Sky Atlantic in the UK in that case as they seem to show most HBO shows. Cheers Sol, I have a bit more of an idea where to look now 👊

@colonelkilgore GL on your hunt colonel. It’ll be worth it. 😆
As a side note, some tv shows can be found digitally on PSN/Xbox stores.

@Yousef- cheers buddy… I’d rather not purchase it individually though as I spend enough on tv subscriptions as it is. I’m kinda like the tv viewer equivalent of a Gamepass-stan 😊

@colonelkilgore aaahhhh gotcha gotcha. It came to mind in case you were running out of options, but that is definitely a good approach thumbs ups

@colonelkilgore You’re welcome. And I agree — for some reason I just don’t like to pay a la carte for TV or movies, and if something’s not on a streaming service I already subscribe to then I’m just not going to watch it! 😅

TV is a little different from games in the sense that 90% of them are disposable and there’s way more options out there so I don’t feel the need to own many of them. I previously bought a lot of my favorite movies, but now I find that I almost never watch them, with a few rare exceptions.

I know there’s are TV and movie enthusiasts that enjoy having physical libraries of their favorite shows and that’s fine too.

Totally agree with people's views on streaming services, except that I don't like the idea of ongoing charges for things for the most part, unless they are absolutely necessary for modern man's survival in the Western world.

I also plan to binge watch a few more episodes of The Boondocks tomorrow and then do some more farming in Elden Ring, still in the mid-late twenties for my character's Strength stat. Planning to go after the trolls once I get to 40.

Edit; Hopefully 40 is enough to kill them easily, any response from the vets amongst you on that?

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN str isn’t really for strength, per se. It’s for builds and to wields specific weapons in mind. It can increase damage, but that’s not necessarily why you raise the stat.

I don’t quite like streaming services either. Don’t have a single one. I prefer owning shows when possible or catching them on tv. Kuwait also occasionally gives a second theatrical screening to old films so there’s that too.

Ronaldo in Fatal Fury is all kinds of funny.
I was hoping the article would be posted on PushSquare to see what the commenters/forums posters here think given the respectable number of footie fans (myself very much included) rather than direct a TI which don’t get me wrong it’s fine but I rarely go there so I’m kinda curious what people here think. This would’ve been a hilarious way to shake up the discourse from all the usual ps5 doomposting.

Anyone feels like comment sections are strongly negative these days

@Yousef- If by these days, you mean the last few years, then yes.

@Yousef- Agreed, though the comment sections are way worse on social media sites like Instagram. I think it’s the bad moderation on that site that enables everyone to be negative. Thank goodness that PS, NL, and PX have active and kind moderators that make sure the site is safe and positive I like these sites way more than social media sites for that reason.

@Yousef- Yes, civility is in short supply in recent years. Discourse has trended toward absolutes and name-calling. As @Pastellioli mentioned, it seems worse on social media at large, which is one of the main reasons I avoid the likes of Twitter/X, Tik Tok, Instagram, FB, etc.

I think I discussed it before, but there’s studies on social interaction to suggest that people respond most openly to changing their minds when spoken to face-to-face, especially if it takes place in a friendly setting (over dinner, for example). Also, people tend to have stronger opinions when they feel like they discover something for themselves and come to their own conclusions, rather than being convinced by someone else. — So in other words, when a person blasts another through the confidentiality of an online argument it’s the least effective form of debate and the involved parties just dig into their positions deeper and deeper.

So I think this is why comment sections spiral into a more toxic atmosphere of polarized extremes. People so rarely talk to each other face-to-face anymore. And everyone has access to mountains of misinformation from which to draw their own erroneous conclusions. Then you end up with large swaths of the populace suffering from the Dunning-Kruger Effect, more and more convinced that they’re right about something, despite them actually knowing less and less about the subject.

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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that…” —Charles Darwin

@Th3solution the Dunning-Kruger Effect is a fantastic reference point and ties in incredibly well. I would also like to add people will harden if they think they’re being put on a spot or confronted on something and have to prove themselves when that’s very likely not what’s going on at all.

Some people also unnecessarily confuse ignorance with stubbornness, and think they if you express a view that means it’s not a view you’re willing to change. I also hate it when people put words in your mouth or lump you with the opinions of someone you never interacted with. Group lynching is the WORST.

Now there’s an extremely thin line between negativity and being critical. You can be critical without being negative, and you can be negative without saying anything of value. We obviously can’t police that stuff nor is it our place to dictate who’s being what but even so… some people need to SERIOUSLY take a chill pill man. Seriously.

Oh yeah. One general note I’ll add to everyone is that I’m not really seeing myself tuning in for today’s livestream to be really honest. Believe you me, I’d die to get in with the guys and have a good laugh throughout, but 1 am in Kuwait is NOT a good hour especially if you work a regular 7-2.
That’s right, you heard me, and not that’s not a typo. Our shifts do actually start at 7 am, as opposed to 9 am compared to a few other countries. I’m also already been really harming my body with how little sleep I’ve gotten in the past two days. If I INCIDENTALLY happen to be online, I’ll tune in. Besides that, I’m probably missing remaster show: the remaster.

@Jimmer-jammer preach 😆

My ex often went in around 4 - 6 in the morning. Will never understand how he did it.

@Ralizah both his and Jimmy’s sound completely brutal. XD