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bart wrote:The first Sabre ep is really good, one of the best post S5
Dwight setting the hot dogs on the floor gets me every time.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Is that you narrating that video, tree?
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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durdencommatyler wrote:Is that you narrating that video, tree?
no.. my voice is much deeper and more confident.. that's big Joel on YouTube.. he has many good videos.. I love his nathanforyou video and in his a.i. artificial intelligence video comments section I'm one of the top commenters
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tree_ wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Is that you narrating that video, tree?
no.. my voice is much deeper and more confident.. that's big Joel on YouTube.. he has many good videos.. I love his nathanforyou video and in his a.i. artificial intelligence video comments section I'm one of the top commenters
I'd have thought Big Joel was too much of a lefty for you
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theplatypus wrote:
tree_ wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Is that you narrating that video, tree?
no.. my voice is much deeper and more confident.. that's big Joel on YouTube.. he has many good videos.. I love his nathanforyou video and in his a.i. artificial intelligence video comments section I'm one of the top commenters
I'd have thought Big Joel was too much of a lefty for you
why?
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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How am I a conservative?
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tree_ wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
tree_ wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Is that you narrating that video, tree?
no.. my voice is much deeper and more confident.. that's big Joel on YouTube.. he has many good videos.. I love his nathanforyou video and in his a.i. artificial intelligence video comments section I'm one of the top commenters
I'd have thought Big Joel was too much of a lefty for you
why?
Just from what I've been able to glean from you politically around here... but I'm probably wrong, pay no mind. I like Big Joel a lot
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Me too
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The scene in Season 4 where Jim follows Dwight into the stairwell to comfort him after Angela accepts Andy's advances makes me cry like a little fucking baby.
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run2death wrote:The scene in Season 4 where Jim follows Dwight into the stairwell to comfort him after Angela accepts Andy's advances makes me cry like a little fucking baby.
Dwight comforting Pam, too. They do a really good job of blending these emotional, touching moments with their typical comedy without actually ruining the moment.

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By the end of the series I think I like Jim and Dwight's relationship more than Jim and Pam's.
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I like Dwight and Pam's relationship.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:What’s the general feeling on the addition of Pete and a Clark? I really liked Pete, am ambivalent about Clark.
Their characters were never really fleshed out much. They feel hollow.
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tragabigzanda wrote:What’s the general feeling on the addition of Pete and a Clark? I really liked Pete, am ambivalent about Clark.
As a way to do a soft reboot of the show within the show so that the series could live on after the primary cast left, I liked them well enough. There were a bit too "Jim and Dwight-seque" for my taste and I'm glad they chose to turn away from that dynamic as it progressed. Pete was a nice character that felt obvious and a bit dead-end. Clark was an annoying and flimsy character that had a lot of story potential depending on where they chose to take him.
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