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. :(

Part of what was cutting edge about SNL during the golden years is
that they could push the envelope of what was comedically possible
within the contstraints of allowable TV broadcasting.

But the Internet mostly removed censorship barriers, and even though
though the bar of censorship for mainstream TV has moved a bit with
changing times, it can't keep up with the rawness of content available
elsewhere.

Where I think SNL really jumped the shark was when it seemed like in
almost every skit, cast and guests were going out of their way to
break character and crack up at everything.  During the best days of
SNL, the cast was good enough at what they do that this happened
rarely and when it did it was a sincere moment instead of part of the
act.