Re: SNL (Re: Free Castle Break on Steam!)

On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 19:34:25 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:

ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 10/10/2024 8:48 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 23:27:25 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1018130/Castle_Break/ until 10/13/2024 @ 10 AM PDT (USA).

 
Urg, retro graphics and arcade gameplay. Not my thing at all.
 
But it's free! And it would make The Number go up.
 
I'm so torn.
 
Internet, tell me what to do!
 

Internet: Get a Life!  :P

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William Shatner said that: https://boingboing.net/2020/10/06/the-snl-shatner-get-a-life-video.html ;)

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I remember watching that live, back when SNL was still worth watching.

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The decaying zombie of snl still shambles on apparently, but there's no
spark of life anymore.

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It's very rare SNL is funny even with its cold openings. SNL is 50 (dang!) now.
Even its season premiere was weak. :(

In fairness, a lot of the classic stuff was crap too. We (personally
and as a culture) tend only to remember... well, the stuff that's
memorable. Either the really good skits, or the really terrible ones.
But the 'just not funny' or 'heh, that was mildly amusing' stuff we
forget, and that makes it seem like older stuff was, on average,
funnier.

Another example of this Monty Python. A few years ago I made it a
point to watch the entire series; all the episodes, back to back. And
while there were a lot of really funny moments, they're all the ones
you'd expect: the Cheese Shoppe, the Lumberjack Song, the Dead Parrot,
etc. But there was an equal number of 'average' skits that were pretty
forgettable, and even more bits that just weren't very good.

Plus, tastes change and what I find funny doesn't necessarily match
what somebody born in 1990 or 2000 or 2010 finds humorous. I've talked
to a number of younger people who think the current SNL cast is
hilarious (albeit, with not quite the same cachet of the old troupe,
just because online personalities -who aren't quite as restrained by
to US broadcasting standards- can engage in wilder gags). And even I
have to admit that, at times, the current SNL cast can perform a
memorable skit.

TL;DR: in twenty years, we (either personally or as a culture) be
looking back fondly on a lot of the current SNL skits and wondering
why the 2050 cast is so unfunny ;-)