There's nothing better than watching #Columbo go in for the proverbial kill. Another smarmy, rich asshole goes down (just watched the S3 episode "Publish or Perish").
We also like trying to guess at what point does Columbo start suspecting or even outright know who the killer is. Then it is a slow game of the predator Columbo circling in on his prey.
I started watching Columbo at the start of the pandemic (my Dad was a big fan of the show, so I had watched some of the later TV movies with him as a kid), but kind of dropped it. I thought I got farther, but I guess I stopped in the middle of season 3. Started watching again tonight with Robert Culp's third appearance as the murderer.
@Tim_Eagon@Da_Gut My wife and I are rewatching it, and we're now in season 9 which is from shortly after it restarted in 1989. It's really odd since Hollywood has moved on to the sex-obsessed late 80's/early 90's and he's still the same frumpy, easily embarrassed 70's Columbo.
It's extra fun since we alternate with Murder She Wrote which is from the same creators and we're now at the same point in time with them both. Not having them crossover is such a painful missed opportunity.
@Tim_Eagon My fun little head canon is that the returning actors are actually the same characters seeing if they can outsmart Columbo this time, and he just plays along pretending he doesn't recognize them. 😂
@Tim_Eagon@Da_Gut Watching them on Peacock, I think a couple of them even had the general ABC mystery-of-the-week intro which threw us for a loop when we first saw it.
Richard Levinson & William Link created and wrote most of Columbo. The two of them plus Peter Fischer created Murder She Wrote, although the two of them didn't really write any, only came up with the concept while Peter Fischer and a bunch of rotating writers did the writing (including J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame).
So the way the IDF chose targets was (1) an AI spat out tens of thousands of names of potential Hamas members; (2) those people's homes were made bombing targets; (3) no one bothered to review any of it or even see if the person was home; (4) the potential for civilian casualties didn't matter. https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
@maxkennerly They actually named the software that checks if their target is likely home with their family so that they can bomb the house, "Where's daddy?"
Someone made that conscious decision, many more approved it, and countless more work with it every day.
This is what evil looks like. Pure, cold-blooded evil in every damning sense of the word.
@WiseWoman@inquiline I'm not sure the best response to "racists targeting Black scholars" is to argue "But they deserved it."
It's the exact same reasoning as responding to white youth often avoiding drug charges while Black youth often go to prison for the exact same level of offenses by simply arguing "The Black youth shouldn't do drugs."
There is no difference between that reasoning and responding "But they shouldn't plagiarize."
Racially motivated attacks are racially motivated attacks.
Racist attacks on Black scholars is not comparable to press focusing on politicians at all. There are MASSIVE differences between being targeted for belonging to a discriminated, minority group as opposed to scrutinizing literally the group in power.
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Maybe it's missing the issue of race in America, but the problem is that Black and minority scholars are under far greater scrutiny than white scholars. And this greater scrutiny is a problem for Black and other minorities throughout their lives. Regardless of their career, they are often under greater scrutiny that white co-workers.
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Even walking through a store, they are often watched as potential shoplifters far more than white people. This doesn't mean that we need to work harder to prevent shoplifting!
In fact, this reasoning that Black people deserve defending only if they achieve a level of perfection is exactly one of the kinds of problems MLK was writing about with his warning about white moderates.
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@montecook Thinking about, how often has that song actually been used in a movie or similar? I've heard they are pretty selective about use of their songs. Immigrant Song is used a bunch, but can't recall Stairway. (I'm sure it has, I just can't think of any offhand.)
Without either A) listening to a radio station that specifically plays older rock songs or B) had it on my own playlist, I'm not sure I've heard it at all in years. It's definitely not as "in the wild" as it was 20+ years ago.
We worry about providing Universal Basic Income because people might stop working, but here's a thought: maybe, just maybe, with a little financial security, people might actually pursue work they truly choose rather than work to just not die. Imagine that world for a moment.
@Tim_Eagon Seriously! I loooved this movie growing up! To this day, a tiny little voice in my head still wonders if any video game I play is secretly an interstellar alien test.
@lowqualityfacts Cop's partner entering the room: Hey, anyone ever tell you that you kinda look like Tony Hawk? Huh, I wonder what he's up to nowadays.
I'm unhappy with the layoffs affecting WotC and Hasbro's leadership but found some of the online reactions strange. Then it clicked, this hadn't happened in about a decade (at least not at this scale), so what was once a regular occurrence during the 3e and 4e eras, is completely foreign to the vast majority of 5e players. How things change but also stay the same.
@Tim_Eagon@yukamichi Yep, that view is definitely becoming more mainstream. Just saw PCGamer magazine even included the following:
"In the memo itself, Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks (who received over $9 million in compensation in addition to his $1.5 million salary last year) said the layoffs are intended to "modernize our organization and get even leaner", calling them a "lever we must pull to keep Hasbro healthy". Cocks has not announced any cuts to his pay or compensation to achieve these goals."