Cockopotamus

re: New website turns your streaming libraries into a virtual Blockbuster to browse

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/7/26 at 1:05 pm to hawgfaninc

Man I miss Blockbuster.

Nothing like getting out of school on a Friday and figuring out what we were going to play and watch that weekend.

re: Julie got her new headshot

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/6/26 at 3:35 pm to DarthRebel

re: Civilization discovered in the Amazon estimated to have had more people than Rome

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/6/26 at 1:11 pm to hawgfaninc

That’s why people who are dogmatic about “tRuSt ThE sCiEnCe” are smooth-brained, mouth-breathing retards.

-6

re: Miss North Carolina USA has been stripped of her beauty pageant title

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/6/26 at 11:38 am to soccerfüt

quote:
Brittany Boltinhouse

I’d put my bolt in her house

re: Trump: Maybe we'll pay off our 35T dollar debt by handing them a little crypto check

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/5/26 at 4:46 pm to keks tadpole

quote:
The first since tulips?

:rolleyes:

Tulips were never an asset class.

re: Trump: Maybe we'll pay off our 35T dollar debt by handing them a little crypto check

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/5/26 at 1:27 pm to Ailsa

Anyone that doesn’t take Bitcoin seriously at this point is in denial.

It’s the first new asset class since equities in the 1600s and institutions/sovereign wealth funds have stopped asking if they should allocate and started asking how much they should allocate.

Should you mortgage the house on it? No.

Should you continue to laugh at it and insist that it’s a scam that will go away? Also no.

-20

re: Scientists in Ukraine claim they saw 20 UFO’s on the moon

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/4/26 at 4:19 pm to hawgfaninc

quote:
However, the remarkable findings rest on the assumption that the faint shapes were genuine objects near the Moon rather than atmospheric distortions, camera artifacts or errors introduced during image processing.

The study has not been peer-reviewed, and its claims of giant, technologically advanced craft have not been independently confirmed.

re: How is your city dealing with the scourge of e-bikes being driven by teenagers?

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/4/26 at 2:09 pm to PsychTiger

quote:
Don't see these much in Charleston.

Tell me about Charleston, West Virginia.

-8

re: How is your city dealing with the scourge of e-bikes being driven by teenagers?

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/4/26 at 2:06 pm to Chicken

Parents held liable for child neglect and reckless endangerment or whatever similar charges for letting their little shitheads on those death traps.

re: Darlene Graham calls for ending the filibuster

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/4/26 at 1:37 pm to Padme

quote:
The original reason was supposed to be for debate. Yet we have zero debate.

I would support abolishing the bs silent filibuster and require talking filibusters.

re: Darlene Graham calls for ending the filibuster

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/4/26 at 1:11 pm to Padme

Ending the filibuster is very short sighted for republicans.

Congress is already neutered by the direct election of senators. A mere majority of senators to pass legislation would destroy the senate.

Might as well do away with pretenses and abolish the senate or merge it with the house, which is what democrats ultimately want to do.

-1

re: Barbie 2 in danger of not happening due to haggles over salary...

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/4/26 at 9:52 am to RollTide1987

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If they can't get a deal done by December, Mattel gets the film rights but Warner Bros. holds onto the intellectual property rights for the 2023 original. Which means Mattel can't make a Barbie 2 with another studio and would be starting the franchise over from scratch.

Good.

The first one made me want to campaign against women’s suffrage.

re: The time Nixon smuggled pot for Louis Armstrong

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/4/26 at 9:06 am to HenryParsons

Watergate was a coup. Nixon did nothing wrong.

re: If there is no heaven or hell, does the purpose & meaning of your life change?

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/3/26 at 9:52 pm to Everyday Is Saturday

Know it’s been a couple days but I listened to this tonight and think it addresses several points others made in this thread and wanted to share.

re: GoT: House of the Dragon Season 3 Official Thread [NO BOOK SPOILERS]

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/3/26 at 4:24 pm to RT1941

quote:
The writers have all but neutered Daemon & Aemond.

Thanks Sarah Hess.

re: I had never heard the entire story behind the scenes of the showrunner for She-Hulk

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/3/26 at 3:43 pm to Fun Bunch

nb4

YoU DoN’t HaVe To WaTcH iT

WhY dOeS eVeRyThInG hAvE tO bE pOlItIcAl

PoLi BoArD

-7

re: Christopher Nolan and amateur film critics

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/3/26 at 2:52 pm to RollTide1987

quote:
The Prestige (2006): 77% on Rotten Tomatoes
The Dark Knight Rises (2012): 87% on Rotten Tomatoes
Interstellar (2014): 73% on Rotten Tomatoes

re: Christopher Nolan and amateur film critics

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/3/26 at 11:40 am to iwyLSUiwy

quote:
You're missing The Odyssey and Insomnia.

Edited to add Insomnia as mid.

May be a difference in semantics between good/great and mid/good.

quote:
Though I do agree with the Radiohead statement

:cheers:
I’m not saying everything else Nolan has done is arse, just overhyped.

re: Christopher Nolan and amateur film critics

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/3/26 at 11:23 am to iwyLSUiwy

quote:
I don't think everything he has done is amazing, but it's kind of laughable to say he's only made about 5 good movies.

Memento, the prestige, Batman begins, the dark knight, inception, interstellar. So 6.

Following, Insomnia, Dunkirk, Tenet, and Oppenheimer are mid. Dark Knight Rises is trash.

-3

re: Christopher Nolan and amateur film critics

Posted by Cockopotamus on 8/3/26 at 10:58 am to LoveThatMoney

quote:
I mean… Radiohead is fantastic

The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, and In Rainbows are great.

Pablo Honey, Hail to the Thief, Amnesiac, and everything after In Rainbows is arse. Yet there are fans/critics who insist that everything Radiohead has put out is amazing.

Which is the point the previous poster was trying to make. Some people insist that everything Nolan has made is amazing when he really only has a handful of good movies.

Also Nolan has the same issue Judd Apatow had. Even his “great” movies are 30 minutes too long. Except maybe the Prestige