Do you have a guilty favourite television show? : Television

Do you have a guilty favourite television show?(self)

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I don't have a television, but I do watch television. On occasion. Usually binge watched now. Never as much as I'd like but always too much.

I try to keep up with the decent noteworthy shows. Rick & Morty, The Expanse, etc. I'm always behind, yet never really missing anything.

During my Big Pharama poison prescription induced depression fog all I did was watch TV and movies and now I can't remember much of them. Plus my sense of time is shot now.

There are only a couple from that time I still follow. These are some of my guilty pleasures that I actually download on a weekly basis instead of waiting to binge. None of them are great, but they're not bad either, and I can easily do other things while it plays on my 4th monitor:

The Curse Of Oak Island documents Nova Scotia treasure hunters in a banal reality-TV presentation yet has some occasionally interesting authentic discoveries. (I also like Digging For Britain, but I binge that every few years.)
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Picard is not your Dad's Star Trek but desperately wishes it was. The fundamentals of Star Trek are pushed aside to "modernize" this very unoriginal series dependent on nostalgia while ruining the legacy and failing to improve on anything. As a fan of the original Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation I watch in desperate hopes that it eventually finds good solid footing to take off.
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Endeavour , British ITV murder mysteries solved by a younger Endeavour Morse set around Oxford in the late 60s / early 70s, based on another series I haven't seen. I can't explain why exactly that I like this quaint pseudo-gothic semi-pretentious show, but I think it has something to do with the excellent immersion into another time and place and culture, even if fictionally glazed over in artificial nostalgia propaganda.
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I've also got 1864 (2014) qued up and ready to watch. If anyone is interested I can wait for you to download or whatever and we can watch it together and correspond about it, pros, cons, propaganda, etc.
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" 1864 is a 2014 Danish television historical war drama series written and directed by Ole Bornedal. It is based on two books by Tom Buk-Swienty about the Second Schleswig War of 1864 between Denmark and an alliance of Prussia and Austria which ended in defeat for Denmark and the loss of a quarter of its territory to Prussia. It follows two brothers from a remote village on Funen who enlist in the Danish army just before the outbreak of war, and experience the horrors of combat in Schleswig. It also features actual historical figures such as Danish prime minister D. G. Monrad and Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck. It was the most expensive Danish TV series to be made to date. " ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1864_(TV_series)

IMDb only gives it a 6.6/10, but I figure I can learn a lot about non-English Europe. For period pieces I like to peruse the trivia about the behind the scenes production, fictions, facts, anachronisms, etc. If it turns out to be meh then I'll just multitask.

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My cousin likes Shark Tank and Dragon's Den. I only saw the Canadian version of one of them, I forget which, and found it droll. 9+ years ago?

While I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers, I have no interest in Paris Hilton. And cooking shows make me hungry and envious and sad at my state.

So I avoid such things and try to dig my way out of my state and focus on making the epic I would want to see. (And just maybe it might bring me some "success" to escape my state.) Some days are good and some meh, and it's taking longer than I thought to configure the whole thing, but the more progress I make the more momentum it seems to have, yet it also becomes more apparent that there's ever so much yet to do in getting it out of my head and into words and images. Obviously consumes most of my thoughts. Its exhausting and invigorating simultaneously. And it's also disappointing and refreshing to be putting the pieces in place while leaving a pile of pieces on the side. I have too much story and/or backstory for just a movie, which is kind of a waste, but it's also better than trying to fill time or something. And now I'm trying to "cut" it all down to the essentials, without wasting time or feeling rushed within 2 hours 20 minutes, roughly. (It can always be edited down in post. 2001 and Fight Club were both about that length too, though I felt the former dragged and the latter whipped by.) Really, it might work better as a mini series.

I was actually thinking about PMing you before sitting down to this. I was gonna ask if there was a way of "sharding" the SaidIt database so that you could process, say, each year - then when it's time to look back, tally, search, etc then it could just calculate the most recent year then add that to the accumulated past years. And every year you start a new shard, and add the new shard to the old shard list and re-tally their totals. Or something. Maybe I'm just talking out my ass. Or hopefully it's something to think about 1) before the next upgrade, 2) towards decentralization modularization, and 3) general efficiency. Food for thought?

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JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun 4 years ago

I feel guilty in that they are television shows - as in, a waste of time when I could be saving the world. Maybe I also feel guilty they aren't rare finds worthy of more interest.

In my mind, and I may be wrong, by embracing the sharding it might make it easier to share databases that aren't "complete". Rather than requiring a complete full database, one might be able to use a less than intact database, and collect the rest of the shards over time. Maybe I misunderstood what you and M7 did over the weekend. I thought you were recalculating the whole database, and down the road might need to again. I don't know what that entails but it might be neat if you could do that in parts, and maybe even in shard parts, then maybe it might not be such a big event - and be easier to share (and thus decentralize). Maybe I'm talking too abstractly about things I know nothing about.

I like that you don't archive stuff. I guess that's part of it too. Maybe there's a way to "archive" stuff, and then alter/build changes on it in later epochs.

I'm excited about BsS but fear I might be overselling it. But maybe not. The worst thing is knowing it's good, and not being able to show much yet. I'm ready to explode. But there's sooooooo much more to go before it's even presentable as a first pass. It's also frustrating because it starts very small and humble and builds to an epic scale - so you can't really fathom it until you understand the whole journey.

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