39 minutes ago, John.... said:

well quickly, what's this show about?

Along with the trailer Joe posted.  It is sort of a dystopian future where fertility around the world is seriously declining.  There's a hostile takeover in the US.  Fertile women are forced to serve these masters of the new regime, called handmaids.  Their only purpose is to have babies for the top families.  You basically let them rape you impregnate you they take the baby as their gift.  

These people used to be doctors, writers, whatever normal Americans.  But in this new society Men are the leaders.  Women support them raise the children, keep the households.  Some resist and get sent to the nuclear wastelands where its radioactive and eventually die.

Really good acting and writing.  It kind of shows what would happen if nutcase religious fanatics actually did take over.  

1 hour ago, JoeJoe said:

My friends Miles, his gf Jess and I were discussing the show in the car on our way to see comedian Craig Robinson from Hot Tub Machine and Pineapple express last night and even though they've never seen the show they said they don't like it cause they think it promotes suicide. I was like nope and they were saying how some people commit suicide for attention and i'm like how when they're dead? Anyway we were going back and forth. They refuse to watch it

The promoting suicide angle it sounds like your friends are taking is wrong I think.  They clearly in each episode have disclaimers and links and numbers to get help if you are feeling depressed etc.  I think they tackle those issues pretty frankly.  it isn't glorified.  They literally show what happens AFTER the suicide, or attempt.  How if devastates families and communities, people left behind.  In that way the show is good.

But, I do think some suicides like some of these school shooters especially that kill themselves after etc are cries for attention.  Look at that Parkland shooter he even made videos about wanting to be infamous.  He just didn't end up having the balls to follow through and kill himself in the end.

Series finale of Sense 8 on Netflix now

U know you aint ready!

She knew just what to get me today! 

She blamed it on tweeting while on Ambien.

The makers of the drug dragged her on twitter

Shady Dictionary.com had to join in

Handsmaid tale season 2 is ruul good just watched episode 7

They did it so fast though.  They knew they were getting some mess rehiring her.  Shes BEEN into conspiracy theories and shit on twitter.  She has a vast history of anti semetic racist shit.

ABC said fuck the ratings fuck the money we cant do it.  Think about a day where Starbucks literally closed all their shit to have racial bias training.  Millions of dollars to respond to racist behavior by employees.  ABC couldn't stand there and allow their STAR to be racist.  

Love Simon B+

It was cute.  Inspiring for young gays, and young teens in general feeling left out or that there isn't love in the cards for them.  Has themes of acceptance, shows the effect of bullying.  I liked it.

Bloop hope no one was looking forward to more Roseanne next season.  ABC was not having it with the racist tweets cancelled her shit ruul fast

What poor timing to have anything produced by Nutso West though seriously.

He nuked all his credibility unless you are a Trumper or a Kardashian

Cassandra Nova has taken over Jean's homegirl Storm to come for her and the rest of Jean's team in Wakanda

Aww Jeansus will not allow Storm to be attacked.  "You Will not touch her!"  Set her straight baby!

Yass at Storm blowing her ex husband away like the prenup!

Woo the gals getting ready.  

2 minutes ago, bu. said:

Their reputation has been in the pits since Jay Z took over tbh. This is just another hit in a long list of them. 

Tidal is a mess. I wouldn’t be surprised if this happens with all streaming companies but I’d rather Apple or Spotify just bought it out so we can be rid of it. 

I am sure Jay-z would love to be bought out.  Get a payout and maybe some Apple stock be done with it

Its a little weird the "investigation".  How the fuck did they get individual people's names and contact info?  And then posting your shit like that and calling you to see if you listened to it that much?  Uhm.

That is pretty invasive and I am thinking about privacy issues here.

The royalty money gained doesn't seem worth it to me when your reputation as a company is put up against it.  I guess its possible its true but if not I would sue the shit out of these people

" Tidal has been accused of intentionally falsifying streaming numbers for Beyonce’s “Lemonade” and Kanye West’s “Life of Pablo” albums and consequently paying inflated royalties to the artists’ labels, in a report by Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (via Music Business Worldwide). The paper has accused Tidal, which is primarily owned by Beyonce’s husband Jay-Z, of inflating its subscriber numbers in the past, claims the company has denied; in a statement to Variety, it also denied the latest accusations.

Tidal, which has rarely shared its data publicly, had a streaming exclusive on West’s album for its first six weeks of release and continues to be the exclusive streamer for Beyonce’s album. It claimed that West’s album had been streamed 250 million times in its first 10 days of release in February of 2016, while claiming it had just 3 million subscribers — a claim that would have meant every subscriber played the album an average of eight times per day; and that Beyonce’s album was streamed 306 million times in its first 15 days of release in April of 2016.

These claims led the Norwegian paper to investigate the service’s numbers and report that it was intentionally inflating its subscriber count, a report supported by research from British firm Midia, which estimated that Tidal’s total number of subscribers was closer to 1 million globally.

Today’s report, according to MBW’s translation, says that “Beyoncé’s and Kanye West’s listener numbers on Tidal have been manipulated to the tune of several hundred million false plays… which has generated massive royalty payouts at the expense of other artists.” It bases this claim on data contained within a hard drive it obtained that “contains ‘billions of rows of [internal TIDAL data]: times and song titles, user IDs and country codes.” Tidal has disputed the information on the hard drive, but the paper asserts that it matches information received by labels for the time period.

In a statement provided to Variety, Tidal responded: “This is a smear campaign from a publication that once referred to our employee as an ‘Israeli Intelligence officer’ and our owner as a ‘crack dealer.’ We expect nothing less from them than this ridiculous story, lies and falsehoods. The information was stolen and manipulated and we will fight these claims vigorously.” The quotes reference descriptions of Jay-Z and Tidal COO/Roc Nation executive Lior Tibon in a previous Dagens Næringsliv article, which were technically accurate at one time but are decades out of date.

The paper supported its findings with data from NTNU – the Norwegian University of Science and Technology – which it says has “assembled some of Norway’s leading experts in data security and cybercrime prevention.” Its report reads in part, “Using advanced statistical analysis of the data provided by DN, NTNU determined that there had in fact been a manipulation of the data at particular times due to the large presence of similar duplicate records occurring for a large percentage of the userbase that was active at any given time. In reviewing the data, in isolation from any other records or logs, it was not possible to determine the exact means of manipulation; however, the absence of records with unreadable data suggested it was not an external Structured Query Language Injection (SQLi) vector based attacked, but rather manipulation from within the streaming service itself. Due to the targeted nature and extent of the manipulation, it is very unlikely that this manipulation was solely the result of a code based bug or other system anomaly. The following analysis shows in detail why this conclusion is the most likely conclusion and further, the nature and extent it is suspected that the manipulation has affected the accuracy of the data … The manipulation appears targeted towards a very specific set of track IDs, related to two distinct albums,” “Pablo” and “Lemonade.” The report can be viewed here.

Additionally, the paper contacted several Tidal users and presented them with logs of their individual play counts taken from the hard drive, which said one user played tracks from “Lemonade” 180 times in 24 hours. “No, that can’t be right,” the user, Tiare Faatea in Washington, DC, said.

According to the paper, Tidal paid Beyonce’s label Sony more than $4 million for April and May of 2016, of which “Lemonade” accounted for $2.5 million; it also paid West’s label Universal 3.2 million euros, 2 million for “Pablo.”

The paper says Tidal has strongly denied “manipulating streaming figures or tampering with royalty payments,” adding that “The lawyers claim that NTNU’s report is based on false assumptions. TIDAL believes that the data the report is based on is stolen, incomplete for the relevant periods, that DN has changed the data and has lied to NTNU about the origin and content of the data.” The company’s lawyer at Reed Smith, Jordan Siev, is quoted as saying: “As each of these assumptions is demonstrably false, you and DN lied to NTNU to procure a study”.

Reps for Beyonce, West, Sony and Universal either declined or did not immediately respond to Variety’s request for comment."

Variety

At least I have a reason to watch this year!  So happy for Janhova

Yaas get you an Oscar winning sangle Deadpool

Infinity War A+

Epic, fun

Packed theatre in imax! Shit was epic imo. Had a couple cheer and clapping scenes. And the bitch next to me flat cried at the end. 

3 hours ago, hotboy06 said:

The Gifted is my shit.  I love it.  I love that Polaris is a bad ass in it, instead of some good girl..it's pretty good..and I haven't seen Legion yet..

Have you looked @ the Inhumans? I'm on episode 4, and it's ok.

That show was an embarrassment!  The acting, the special effects, the story hideous.

I don't even really like the Inhumans.  But they were downgraded from their own film to the worst Marvel tv show and it was cancelled quickly.

Exclusive: Here’s Why ‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix’ and ‘The New Mutants’ Were Delayed

Some curious news broke recently regarding two of 20th Century Fox’s upcoming superhero films. X-Men: Dark Phoenix, the next installment in the main X-Menfranchise, and the horror-tinged spinoff The New Mutants have both had their release dates delayed, moving Dark Phoenix out of 2018 entirely and pushing New Mutants all the way back to next summer. Dark Phoenix is being pushed out of its initial November 2018 debut to February 14, 2019, so just a couple of months, but New Mutants is being delayed from February 2019 all the way to August 2, 2019.

This was the second major delay for New Mutants, which was originally supposed to bow in April 2018, and the first delay for X-Men: Dark Phoenix. Studios shuffle release dates all the time, but these are two of Fox’s most highly anticipated films on the docket, so many are rightly wondering exactly why these release dates are being pushed. We did some digging and found some answers.

http://collider.com/x-men-dark-phoenix-new-mutants-release-date-delay-explained/

These productions sound like hot messes.  Reportedly 50% of New Mutants need to be re shot and add a new character.  And test audiences not feeling the scary.  They want it to be a real horror movie....but "good"

Dark Phoenix it sounds like standard reshoots but Sophie is booked for Game of Thrones shooting and shes putting off her Jonas brother wedding already for that.

I am not surprised if true.  I mean it SHOULD be funny.  But, people have been complaining about Domino being black, and this X-force team roster has been questioned too.

This bitch looks fierce and I am halfway here for her.  I cant tell if shes supposed to be Surge or what tho

4 hours ago, hotboy06 said:

It really does. I enjoyed JL though..it looks so dark and it was way too long.

But anyway, isn't the X-men suppose to fight along with the Avengers in the comics for the Infinity War storyline?

I thought pretty much EVERYONE in the Marvel comics came together..

They got everyone they have the rights too pretty much!  If Jeansus was there maybe some of these hoes wouldn't be getting they asses beat