TV Discussion Fisto's Disco: The LACWAC Social Thread

I installed iOS7 on my iPad yesterday. It looks and functions more like my Android phone now.

 

I didn't have any problems with the beta version of iOS 7 on my 4S, but I swapped it for a 5 a few weeks back, so I haven't tried the final version.

iOS 7 still functions like the previous versions. The flatter look and the newer drop down and pull up menus made me think of an Apple spin on the HTC One, the connection is pretty loose though.

 

Hey, did someone say "Mass Effect"?

Mordin does sing some cool songs:


I like this one, given my background (I already posted the protein song here):

In prophase you see chromatins condense to chromosomes,
in metaphase their centromeres align to make new homes!
In anaphase they separate, then telophase arrives, and when cytokinesis comes two cells lead separate lives!

 

Yeah, I have GTA V. I've had to take a few days off of it because I had played so much, and I want to make it last and be enjoyable as possible; I have waited five years for it.

Also, hello ImNotAStarWarsFanboy !

 

My mate and I played GTA V for like 5 hours today and only got through about 15% of the game. It's amazing! There's no way I'm waiting for Christmas to play it, so hopefully I'll start playing my one on Monday. But first things first, I gotta finish off my portfolio to apply for university next year for another graphic design course.

And I also just watched Rush at the cinemas, I'm not a big racing fan, but the film was alright. It's always good to watch something different than what I usually watch. I'd give it a 6/10. I'm hopefully going to watch Riddick tomorrow as well, which looks pretty good.

 

I'm one of the very few individuals in the world that's going to wait for the GOTY edition of GTA V. Because I'm just not happy enough with the amount of content that's available right now.

Busy messing around with XCOM at the moment anyway.

 

Sup Jack, long time no see. How's things?

 

A friend showed me this.

I feel like my life is better for it.

 

You put that on your zoology resume, right?

 

Ah yeah, the latest viral song. When I first heard it last week I didn't think much of it, but now I like it. I just don't think it's as good as the other viral songs, like Gangnam Style and We No Speak Americano.

 

WAKE UP STAR WARS TV. TALK ABOUT STUFF.

Some time ago, while I was watching my niece, she turned on Avatar: The Last Airbender. I was like "Nah, you want to watch Star Wars" and she was all like "Noooooooooo", so I relented. Then she said "this is cool, too", so we watched it together. I must admit, I was intrigued.

So the past few months I've been going through the series and I just finished the other day. I must say, it's a wonderful cartoon, worthy of my childhood. The humor just gets better and better, it actually made me laugh regularly once I got past some of the awkward early episodes. It has kung fu with elemental powers and actually uses it. It makes great use of Asian culture and mythology. It's full of characters I actually like (can you believe that?) and is delightfully short on annoying characters.

In short, it's everything TCW is not.

Yeah I know, I'm like five years late to the party. Usually, the party comes to me.

 

Dave Filoni did some animation on that too. Not really into cartoons anymore, but that's one series that is just ageless IMO. The characters and themes are as appealing to adults as to children.

There's a sequel series, The Legend of Korra, and it's also awesome. If you haven't checked that out too, you should!

 

Yeah, I'll probably get around to it sooner or later. Probably later. Like, after it's over so I can watch it all without breaks.

I don't really watch cartoons, either. Haven't since I was like 12. I think the only cartoons I watched between the ages of 13 and 23 were the micro-series and a few episodes of one of the Justice League shows, don't remember which one. I still haven't caught up on Justice League, but I did blow through Batman Beyond not too long ago and enjoyed it.

Well, plus The Simpsons, Family Guy and South Park, but I don't count them with the rest.

I don't really watch much television, period. Now that Spartacus is done, I think the only show I watch is The Big Bang Theory.

I'm sure there are many great television programs out there, I just don't care if I'm missing them. I prefer to watch them after they're done, anyway.

There's another Starz show coming out that has peaked my interest, Black Sails.

 

I guess you all know what I'm gonna say by now, lol. I just watched Riddick at the cinemas, it was pretty good, not really what I was expecting, but that wasn't a bad thing. Some cool effects and Vin Diesel was great as usual. I haven't seen the two other Riddick films yet, so I'll have to watch them some time. I'd give it a 7.5/10.

 

I don't sit down and watch TV at all, I really only watch shows off of Netflix and HBOGO.

Wilfred, Game of Thrones, and Breaking Bad are the only shows I really watch anymore.

I watched all of Justice League Unlimited and then went back and started to watch Justice League. I got through the first season, but I don't enjoy it as much as JLU.

My favorite show of all time has to be HBO's Rome. I've also been meaning to go back and watch the Sopranos (which I've never seen). I know about how the ending was controversial, but I know my dad loved that show.

On an unrelated note, apparently silvery cheeked horbills are the most selfless of animals, or at least, like humans, they like to keep pets.

Our male/female pair shares an exhibit with a red flanked duiker (a dog sized antelope), and is separated from a ground hornbill exhibit by a grid like fence. I have seen the male take some of his food and pass it through the fence to the much larger hornill as well as blatantly drop food from a perch for the duiker. The s.c. hornbills' call sounds sort of like "HA. HA. HA. HA."

So twice now there has been these hilarious moments where the male will take a grape from his food bowl, lean over and drop it for the duiker. The duiker comes over and eats it. Then both the male and female go "HA HA HA HA." Then repeat. It's probably just coincidental that it looks so ridiculous, since their "laugh" is something they do even if they get spooked, but superficially it looks like they are treating the duiker as a pet and are amused to watch it eat.

Not one of ours, but an example of the "laugh" at approximately 0:13

 

I'm still watching The Simpsons each week and I still love them as the beginning.

 

Anyone who recognizes my new avatar gets 47,000,000 brownie points.

That is all.