A what?!?!?

Copaganda in general can just go away.

Good news: CSI: Vegas got cancelled last year.

Do you really want the public to be aware of how shitty the reality is?

I mean here in Germany e.g the reality is that our justice system is overloaded and many criminals can get away because the courts have more cases than they can handle.

I prefer that the wide public doesn’t know that we could already live in anarchy to some degree…

For a moment I was looking at the ear and wondering what kind of mutated creature that was. You cannot convince me that on first glance, if you miss the actual eyes, that the ears don't look somewhat like an eye.

You need to learn from the IWC. No one hates wresting more than wrestling fans

I always have to pop up in these threads because I'm out there, and I'm not alone. I've been watching The Simpsons, more or less, non-stop since it first started airing.

When I was younger it played twice a day during the week with a new episode every Sunday. So when it comes to the earlier seasons, the ten or so seasons often viewed as the golden era, I've seen those dozens of times.

In the 2000s watching TV at a regularly scheduled time wasn't as much of a priority and the availability of videos on the Internet began to increase, so I usually watched The Simpsons that way. When the film came out in 2007 I was there opening day.

As streaming services became popular in the 2010s I started to watch The Simpsons there instead. Although these streaming services rarely had a backlog, just the current season, but I had them all collected over the years.

In the late 2010s my roommates and I decided to watch every episode of The Simpsons but not in release order. We would just pick a random season and episode and watch a few episodes a week over the course of two years.

Now in the 2020s we sometimes get together to watch, sometimes watch solo. I'm personally much more strict about watching every week, they usually watch in short bursts and I don't mind rewatching recent episodes.

But... Is it good? Yeah mostly. Not every episode is great.

The episode that aired this past Sunday isn't anything special, a few funny moments but Albert Brooks who voiced Hank Scorpio and Russ Cargill (from the movie) voiced a new character and that was fun.

The Treehouse of Horror from two Sunday's ago was much better, so if you want a recent episode then watch that.

No it isn't ever going to be as great as the golden age of The Simpsons, but it's still fun to watch and I still laugh, so that's a win to me.

My kids are mainlining it most days (when they're allowed TV). They're pre-teens and they love it. I don't mind so much, basically because nostalgia - and at least it's not Teen Titans Go, which was so fast it gave me a headache

I loved the simpsons but have not seen an episode in maybe a decade or more.

It's gone from losing my interest 20 years ago to flat out unwatchable. I saw an episode from the most recent season and it was neither funny nor interesting to watch. It's sad that one of the funniest shows ever has been past its prime for so long it's now an animated corpse of what it once was.

funny thing is Im pretty sure the last one I watched was worth watching but I no longer watch over the air real time and it was not streaming in an easy enough to do fashion so just sorta fell out of watching it.

I remember when skate 3 was released. It was the biggest sports game of the year. It outsold even FIFA. BUUUUUUUT, fifa fans are so deranged that they spend like 2 Billions in micro transactions that EA obviously spend all their efforts into making more FIFA and no more skate. Except now Skate. Obviously, and we all know how shit this turned out.

Grey's Anatomy has had a couple of spinoffs (Private Practice, Station 19) so I'd say it counts as a franchise.

More of a soap, isn't it?

As an extremely die-hard Futurama fan I'm starting to feel the same way, especially since disney owns it now. The only thing they'll do with it going forward is see just how much they can wring from it, in the same fashion they're killing star wars, marvel, and every other IP they bought to pump out never-ending crap. I'd be fine if this was the end, even with a tear in my eye.

TIL Futurama was renewed. I'm so out of the loop these days it blows my mind.

I still get frustrated when we get a big games conference to show off a bunch of trailers, and a streamer watching one will start rattling off “Oh. Soldier of Fortune remake? Bloodborne 2? God of War?” up to the title card. Then, when it’s some fresh new IP, not a sequel, everyone has a reaction of “Oh. Dunno what that is.”

Gamers are very much complicit in the terrible state of game remakes/sequels.

Unfortunately, the movie that tried to end it, Saw 3D, sucked.

I did enjoy Saw X but the end was a little wacky (consequence of being a prequel?) and I don't know how they're gonna bounce back from that. And now the next movie is stuck in production limbo.
Ultimately killing John Kramer so early in the franchise was (IMO) a big mistake.
Having a movie with him as the lead was so refreshing, but goddamn you mfs should have never killed him in the first place! Let alone have waited so long to try to rectify your mistake!!

Mcdonalds food taste so bad nowadays.

I saw a commercial for the newest Pokemon game and up until it said it was exclusively for Switch 2, I hella thought it was some F2P mobile garbage. When your ads don't even make the newest game look good, it's definitely time to stop.

You know what's crazy? The show has existed for my entire life (I'm 36), but I've only seen like 5 episodes ever. And the movie.

When I was around 6 or 7ish, i was just getting into stuff like that and had seen the show a couple times. Then my grandma saw some thing on the news or at church or something and ranted about the show so much, about how vulgar and terrible it was. So my mom decided I shouldn't be allowed to watch it. I was an obedient child, so I didn't watch it. Then my older friend introduced me to South Park a year or two later, and mom hadn't said anything about that show... I never really got interested in The Simpson again after that.

I started One Piece about 3 years ago and have read all the manga and just recently caught up on the anime.

Some of the things I really enjoy about it:

The story progression ramps up nicely. Nobody is that OP from the get-go, and the stakes and power levels have increased steadily as the story goes on. There is definitely plot armor, but it's not like every bad guy is on the same level as the previous one.

There is great representation. There are people of different races. There are gay-coded, trans, and gender fluid characters, there are young and old people. And none of them are really played for laughs for those traits. All character types have heros, villians, comic relief, and serious characters. And none of the characters with real screen/page time are flat and one dimensional. This along with the power scaling, really makes the adventure feel important and like a fleshed out and lived in world that you are part of. I can only imagine this is even moreso true for people that have been fans since the late 90s.

At almost 1200 chapters, I feel like I understand this fictional world and how it works. There are macguffins and such, but nothing that feels out of place. Characters still behave how you would expect them to behave and the creator doesn't just pull stuff out of nowhere. There is still great continuity with the earliest things that happened in the story. There are many familiar characters, but more still come and go, but not before becoming necessary parts of the full tale. It's not like Star Wars where it feels there's about 2 dozen characters with names in the whole universe.

And the last thing I'll say is in spite of all this, it still does stuff just for laughs regularly. It knows it's a story primarily for young boys, and despite being one of the best loved anime/manga ever, it doesn't take itself all that seriously. It's a damn fun time to read and watch almost every bit of it with few exceptions. The stuff coming out now is as good or better as it's ever been.

Like anything else, it won't be for ever single person out there, so if you don't like it, you don't like it. I saw a few random episodes on Toonami in the 90s and was WTF is this random stuff then. It is a weird thing to dive into the middle of, and a lot of it is outright silly. But I had people at work keep telling me I'd like it, I finally gave in, and I was hooked from the first chapter.

Honestly, I stopped reading after

The power creep just got way too out of control for my liking, and while I know that the power creep always existed, I feel like the adventures before showed how you can tell a good story without just brute force. Plus, even with their superhuman abilities, their struggles still felt relatable. And with what happened before and right after the aforementioned turning point, it felt like that would be left in the dust.

I've been watching the Fast and Furious movies since the first one. And I actually look forward to how ridiculous each one gets and how it's going to top the previous one. I know it's been time for it to end for awhile, but I will actually be kinda bummed when it does.

Can’t wait for “Fast & The Furious versus Frankenstein”

Star Trek needs to be taken away from Paramount while it still has a good name.

I genuinely thought all of these stopped what the fuck