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Friday Fun Thread for October 14, 2022

Be advised; this thread is not for serious in depth discussion of weighty topics (we have a link for that), this thread is not for anything Culture War related. This thread is for Fun. You got jokes? Share 'em. You got silly questions? Ask 'em.

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I refuse to consume any franchise-milking media. People shat on Scorsese, but he was basically right: there's already too much content in the world, and we shouldn't busy ourselves with something explicitly designed to be sold from the ground up.

Why do you have to refuse ?

Most of it is either intensely boring or offensively stupid. Somehow our NAS ended up having some Avengers films and we watched one and I think I fell asleep doing so. Somehow, none of it seems interesting. All so contrived.

Principles are there to lighten cognitive load. I don't have to worry about whether to watch something or not. MCU? Pass. Disney Star Wars? Pass. Expanded universe anything? Pass.

I guess we basically agree; it'd never occur to me to watch these because I found it a snoozefest , and you refuse to watch it because it's proven to be commercialised crap made with little care to appeal to the lowest common denominator.