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MimicJar

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  • What are you watching and what do you recommend this week?

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  • Apart from the ongoing shows I watched Ponies, starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson, and featuring Vic Michaelis (from Dropout.tv) in a small but sizable real acting role.

    The first episode is ok, but the show actually gets much better as it goes on. The premise is a little silly so we just sorta jump in and you just have to accept it. I watched all eight episodes and while overall I enjoyed it, I doubt it will get a second season. It has its moments, and I like the characters, but I was never wowed by it.

    That being said if you're a huge Dropout fan and thus a huge Vic Michaelis fan, they do a great job in this more traditional acting role.

  • Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 4

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  • I can't speak for Mojang but at work several years ago we had a contest of sorts, who could properly fix and close the oldest bug. I won by closing a similar aged bug that I had actually opened some 12 years prior by me before I was on the team. It had been passed around and moved to so many backlogs, I had long since stopped caring about the issue. But damn was it great to have fixed it.

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  • ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Creator on Premiere’s Shocking ‘Game of Thrones’ Poop Scene

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  • I liked it, but the moment I saw it (a minute into the show?) I knew some people wouldn't care for it. Which is completely fair. It's such a jarring moment. However it definitely sets the tone, even if the show doesn't actually reflect the tone being set.

    But I don't fault anyone for not liking it. It's a divisive choice.

  • ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Creator on Premiere’s Shocking ‘Game of Thrones’ Poop Scene

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  • It’s a moment that even surprised co-creator George R.R. Martin. “Yeah, that was a bit of a surprise,”... “Not to say that my characters don’t take shits, but I normally don’t write about them at any length. When I saw the rough cut, I wrote, ‘What is this? Where did this come from? I don’t know if we really need the shit.’

    Also George,

    Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up, she was shitting brown water. The more she drank the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew.

    Anyway the tone of the show is very different while still being firmly set in Westeros. I really enjoyed the first episode.

    Weekly discussion over in !asoiaf@lemmy.world

  • A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms Review: HBO's Refreshingly Low-Stakes Spin-Off Will Cure Your Game Of Thrones Fatigue

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  • Yes, the last two seasons are especially terrible.

    The first four seasons are solid. Five is where things start to slip, six has its issues, seven we all forgive because we assume it's in service of season eight, but... It isn't.

  • A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms Review: HBO's Refreshingly Low-Stakes Spin-Off Will Cure Your Game Of Thrones Fatigue

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  • I'm so excited for this series.

    I was a huge Game of Thrones fan and between the break of season 4 and 5 read all the main series books and novellas. I've been excited for the possibility of a Dunk and Egg series ever since, especially the first season sincerely I think that's the best of the three released stories so far.

    The ending of Game of Thrones hurt more than any other show I can think of. House of the Dragon did pull me back in, especially with the strong first season. But it wasn't the show I wanted, it just happened to work well.

    But Dunk the lunk? Based on all the media I've seen, they've nailed this show. Based on the reviews, this show is what I expect it to be.

    I think the lower stakes of the show might be tricky, and at 30 minutes spread over 6 weeks, it's a different vibe than previous shows in the series. But I think by the finale, everyone will be onboard.

  • What show do you recommend to watch?

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  • I'm also not sure how you watch Better Call Saul without having seen Breaking Bad. It's like watching Wicked having never seen The Wizard of Oz. Sure, you can do it, but a number of scenes, especially in the final season, don't really make sense of you don't know Saul's story from Breaking Bad.

  • What show do you recommend to watch?

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  • Also if you're going to watch Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, while not a TV show, the El Camino film is worth watching as well. It's a nice Breaking Bad epilogue that we didn't need, but is well done and worth your time.

  • Star Trek: Starfleet Academy tries something different, and I don’t hate it

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  • It also has huge potential. As we learned in First Contact, the Earth was coming out of World War III and it was the event of first contact that caused the world to come together. The Burn lasted about 100 years, which is at least a few generations of humanity and now we're coming out of that.

    Once again the Earth is moving from war to the Federation. Sure it's a little easier this time, but no transition at that scale is a fast one.

    I'm guessing one of the first big themes of Starfleet Academy will be getting to know and understand the "War College", initially as rivals. Then in the future (later seasons) I expect they'll begin to merge.

  • Cartoon physics is now in effect. What are you going to try?

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  • Phone call someone and during the split screen physically jump into their side of the call.

  • Poor representation

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  • The movie itself is excellent. However there is one horrible almost meme like scene where dalmatians run into a fancy party and kill Cruella's mother. If you ignore that scene, it's a great movie.

  • I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows

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  • In contrast, Linux won’t stop you if you try to use a command that deletes every file on your PC (“sudo rm -rf /”).

    Actually AFAIK it will stop that specific command nowadays. I don't have a VM handy to test, but without the "--no-preserve-root" flag it should give an error.

    (Don't actually run that command on a machine you care about, I'm only 80% confident.)

  • Ted Season 2 | Official Trailer | Peacock Original | March 5, 2026

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  • I missed this show existing but found it over this past Christmas break and honestly really enjoyed it. This show should be a 20 episode per year sitcom, so 8 episodes after 2 years is a wild break.

    But also Ted (the film) came out in 2012 and the sequel in 2015, so this series is coming out about 10 years too late.

    But also Seth MacFarlane is a talented man. Why is he working on Ted when The Orville is just sitting there waiting for someone to write it.

    So yeah, I'll watch this, but I wish it was The Orville.

  • Heavy Is the Crown: George R.R. Martin on His Triumphs and Torments

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  • There is, however, one potential problem for the show’s future. “The big issue is that I have only written three novellas, and I have a lot more stories about Dunk and Egg in my fucking head,” Martin says, looking a bit shamefaced. “I’ve got to get them down on paper. I began writing two at various points in the past year. One is set in Winterfell and one set in the Riverlands …”

    There aren't least two additional problems.

    The first is actors ageing out of their roles. The actor who plays Egg is 11(ish?) and assuming the rumor is true and they shoot the next two novellas back to back, he's still going to quickly age out of the role.

    Maybe the later stories take place with an older Egg, certainly there are plenty of stories to tell about an older Dunk and Egg. We know the adventure ends at Summerhall, and while the details are missing, the general idea could be written by any competent writer. The only catch is if Martin has some specific magic he wants to add.

    The second problem however, and it's highlighted more by the later part of the interview, is that the Dunk and Egg stories aren't the meat of the story. They're an appetizer. They exist as a fun little series of tales between the main stories. The interview highlights that George isn't confident in season 3 of House of the Dragon. Season 1 was excellent and Season 2 was mostly good, but ended abruptly. It gave similar vibes to Game of Thrones season 7. "It's ok, I can forgive a lot as long as next season fixes it."

    If there is no main course "Game of Thrones" or "House of the Dragon" show... I don't see Dunk and Egg getting the ability to continue. There is plenty of mythos to pull from, but they need to find someone who can actually turn it into a TV show.

  • Euphoria Season 3 | Trailer | HBO Max

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  • Season 1 of this show was excellent and the COVID specials, especially the one with Coleman Domingo is truly something else (and I was glad to see him in the trailer).

    Season 2 struggled a bit, but storylines with Maude Apatow and Angus Cloud (RIP) shined.

    This trailer for season 3... makes this show look wildly different from season 1 & 2. The themes seem the same, and the characters seem to fit, but i think the shift from "high school" kids to adults just really changes the tone.

    It could work. There really isn't a different direction to go, although the drug plotline seems cranked up to 11, which might be a bit much.

  • Emilia Clarke Is Done With the Fantasy Genre After ‘Game of Thrones’: ‘You’re Unlikely to See Me Get on a Dragon Ever Again’

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  • We might get it someday. "Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord" comes out this year and covers the post Clone Wars era. Solo is a bit beyond that, but could get there if the show runs long enough, has time jumps or a follow up show.

  • Companies with TLDs named after them is the best example of how ridiculously big those companies are.

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  • Gives? They charged a high price for these TLDs.

    I think it was fine to expand the number, but they probably shouldn't have approved company names.

  • ‘Pluribus’s Rhea Seehorn: “I’m Too Thin-Skinned” To Read Online Theories; Season 2 Will Be Back “As Fast As We Can”

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  • I mean things do change.

    Starting with Pluribus, Vince Gilligan has said he expects about four seasons from Pluribus. He's also said he could probably keep going after that. So he has an idea of how things end, but it isn't set in stone.

    Also look at How I Met Your Mother, it's clear they had an idea for an ending from the start. However the show got renewed and extended and eventually outgrew the originally planned ending. Unfortunately the finale then had to undo a bunch of things just to get that original ending.

    Going back to Vince Gilligan, if you watch Better Call Saul it's clear that the first season was shot with the idea that if it didn't get any more seasons, it would be a decent ending. Once it was renewed it started to expand and setup where the series would end up. The result however is that season 2 has some season 1 retreads.

  • what are people still doing on twitter?

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  • Since it's clear shame isn't working I'll happily congratulate anywho leaves Twitter in 2026. Late to the party is better than never.