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To: xp38

In 1988 I came home from construction work pretty late and saw my wife and four kids looking blank watching the screen. I didn’t think anything, in words at least, I walked in, picked up the TV and took it out to the ally then put a chunk of cement through the screen. Have not had one since. The last movie I enjoyed was Forest Gump. The next movie I went to was The updated Alice-in-Wonderland thing. I had read reviews from two reviewers I thought liked what I liked. They raved about the use of CG with live characters. They didn’t say it was a Disney flick. 10 minutes into the movie I realized it was Disney and I knew how it would progress and how it would end. I left and have not been in a movie theater since nor do I stream them.


91 posted on 06/30/2026 12:04:44 PM PDT by arthurus (l| covfeve |l .....)
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To: arthurus

That’s quite a story. Same here as far as streaming. I’ll readily admit the computer is a type of tv and I’m on it too much but there are characteristics that make it fundamentally different to passive couch potato viewing.


93 posted on 06/30/2026 12:30:22 PM PDT by xp38
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To: arthurus
saw my wife and four kids looking blank watching the screen

Exactly as the programmers intended.

101 posted on 06/30/2026 3:22:52 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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