The Miscellaneous Thought Thread

[smooch]

Probably not biology (unless they've expressly stated that).
They mean classes that have to have hours for credit (welding, fire tech., etc.). Our campus' original announcement read "most classes online", and a lot of us in Chemistry and Biology got excited, but it was not to be.

Interesting, my school doesn't have things like welding or fire tech, one of the few things that we do have that comes to mind is the viticulture program. My girlfriend is actually going to school for viticulture and is transferring eventually to a school in Napa to focus on viticulture but the program at our school was 100% hands on so I imagine classes like that will be included hopefully. I have already finished my biology requirements for my associate's to transfer with so it won't affect me personally I just was assuming / hoping lab classes like that would still be in person but we will have to wait and see.

 

[mickEblu]

Season 6 of Buffy is just as depressing and dark as I remember. It's just sad to see Buffy getting her rocks off with Spike and feeling pathetic, Willow OD'ing on magic, Xander and Anya breaking up and these insufferable nerds. However, it remains emotionally exhausting and impossible to not become engrossed in. Spike was interesting when he was becoming a good vamp even without a soul, but they more or less undo that and make him have to redeem himself. It's a season of everyone making the wrong choices, a trope which is just tiresome. The performances by SMG and Alyson in particular are great.

1000% agree

Just kidding. I have no idea what you re talking about. But I do remember enjoying the show as a sophomore in high school because... Sarah Michelle Gellar.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

I'm talking about Buffy. It's my favorite non-Star Trek series (and I'm not talking about all the modern crap including Picard). Since we've got nothing to do but stay home and save lives, I decided to rewatch the entire series. Sadly, I'm almost done. I don't know what I'm gonna do.

 

[mickEblu]

I'm talking about Buffy. It's my favorite non-Star Trek series (and I'm not talking about all the modern crap including Picard). Since we've got nothing to do but stay home and save lives, I decided to rewatch the entire series. Sadly, I'm almost done. I don't know what I'm gonna do.

Star Wars marathon?

 

[Phroobar]

I'm talking about Buffy. It's my favorite non-Star Trek series (and I'm not talking about all the modern crap including Picard). Since we've got nothing to do but stay home and save lives, I decided to rewatch the entire series. Sadly, I'm almost done. I don't know what I'm gonna do.

Are you going on to Angel?

You should watch the Buffy movie. It has Pee-Wee in it.

 

[DrAlice]

Season 6 of Buffy is just as depressing and dark as I remember. It's just sad to see Buffy getting her rocks off with Spike and feeling pathetic, Willow OD'ing on magic, Xander and Anya breaking up and these insufferable nerds. However, it remains emotionally exhausting and impossible to not become engrossed in. Spike was interesting when he was becoming a good vamp even without a soul, but they more or less undo that and make him have to redeem himself. It's a season of everyone making the wrong choices, a trope which is just tiresome. The performances by SMG and Alyson in particular are great.

But.... but.... yellow crayon!

By comparison to what they did to Spike in Angel, post-Buffy, Season 6 is glorious.

 

[DrAlice]

Gotta love it when an early 00s internet gag can still work almost 15 years later.

The thing is, I lived this song. I don't even remember how it became an internet thing. It's just Junior High for me. haha...

 

[Darkbeer1]

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I need the season to resume so the Lakers can win Championship #17 and tie the Celtics.

German Soccerr starts Saturday at 6:30 AM PDT

NASCAR goes to twice a week racing on Sunday.

No more watching iRacing, YEAH!

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

Yeah, I'll watch Angel. Definitely not Star Wars. It's only six movies and the Ewok movies. Wouldn't last even a couple days.

 

[mickEblu]

Yeah, I'll watch Angel. Definitely not Star Wars. It's only six movies and the Ewok movies. Wouldn't last even a couple days.

Don’t hate on the prequels.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

They're my favorite ones. The first three of the six movies in the saga.

 

[Phroobar]

They're my favorite ones. The first three of the six movies in the saga.

I think that is an age thing. You grew up with episodes 1-3. I grew up with 4-6.

I wonder if kids today will think Disney's sequels are the best of the series. Nay, they are smarter than that.

 

[Phroobar]

Just picked up one of these face masks. It was in an egg in the backyard.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

The prequels didn't come out until I was a teenager.

 

[TROR]

Revenge of the Sith came out when I was in first grade and I remember going with my dad and brother to theater after school and waiting in line for hours outside. I have a similar memory for The Force Awakens with my brother, his friend, and my best friends in my senior year of high school. My public education career nicely bookended by waiting in line on opening night for Star Wars.

 

[mickEblu]

The prequels didn't come out until I was a teenager.

I feel like you re exactly my age. Were you born sometime between 1980-1983? More specifically, 1982?

 

[Phroobar]

I feel like you re exactly my age. Were you born sometime between 1980-1983? More specifically, 1982?

So you are both late 30s. Your facing down the gun of the big 40. You guys are old.

 

[mickEblu]

So you are both late 30s. Your facing down the gun of the big 40. You guys are old.

It’s been over for a while. I think 26 is when it started going downhill and every age just started feeling the same. I think 21-26 were my glory days. Of course in hindsight late 20s and early 30s weren’t so bad. I imagine we re always able to look back at the last decade and say the same thing.

 

[smooch]

I'm talking about Buffy. It's my favorite non-Star Trek series (and I'm not talking about all the modern crap including Picard). Since we've got nothing to do but stay home and save lives, I decided to rewatch the entire series. Sadly, I'm almost done. I don't know what I'm gonna do.

I recently rewatched Freaks and Geeks, I know it's not really related but I really like the show. On this rewatch I was surprised they tackled some pretty challenging topics in 1999 especially the whole intersex situation.

 

[smooch]

I think that is an age thing. You grew up with episodes 1-3. I grew up with 4-6.

I wonder if kids today will think Disney's sequels are the best of the series. Nay, they are smarter than that.

I was born in 1999, the same year Phantom Menace came out and so I grew up watching the prequels and the originals (I forget which my dad showed me first) but I remember that even back then I liked the original trilogy more but also really liked the prequels as they came out. I remember the Burger King toys for the prequel releases and that was the only fast food option in the really really small town I lived in at the time and so my brothers and I asked my parents to take us because we wanted all the toys. Probably not the healthiest decision but it was a good memory collecting a good amount of the them.