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Post by X factor on Jan 30, 2016 2:26:30 GMT -5
Whenever there's to much of anything it all begins to take on generic feel I'm not even really sure why I have cable anymore. Seems with each passing day, week, month, and year, I'm becoming less and less tolerant to what passes for TV programing. I can't stand it, and think I turn it on more to hear voices, than to be entertained anymore. Just hearing voices makes you not feel as alone, when alone, cause your mind can't tell if it's real people in place or audio from TV. But other than for that mental reason, I haven't much use for TV anymore. Radio use to be my choice, but radio programming sucks now also.  A.M. radio now days. Weekday programming 1. Pure partisan political commentary where all the partisan hosts sound exactly the same and all share the same talking points, as if they pass notes from show to show, all sound bittern and negative, and convince their audiences to have same sour outlook on life. 2. Sports talk, which is OK as long as the athletes are the ones making the headlines, but when it's just the hosts blabbing on about nothing, not interesting at all. 3. Spanish songs, nothing but Spanish music, and the old type at that, the tuba circus sounding type, I mean who listens to that crap? 4. Gospel and preaching, either Spanish music or gospel and preaching, same ole tired sermons over and over again, I find it all so uninspiring. And then on the weekends it's even worse, every show production not even worthy of PBS is on A.M. radio Saturday and Sunday. 1. Stupid boring as hell garden and or home improvement shows, yuk 2. Infomercials, nothing but stupid infomercials, where they're always pushing vitamins, health remedies ect. 3. Outdoor game and fish shows, again yuk, where they have Duck Dynasty guys talking about fishing, hunting, and other outdoor activities. All of it makes for terrible radio to me, can't relate to any of it. 4. Finance advice shows, super duper boring, where host spends hours talking about IRA's, Roth's, capital investments, and you can barely pay rent...  gross, all of it. And TV programming just as bad, TV is not special anymore, so many channels that they all have to be filled with something, anything, as such the quality of shows have dropped. Fill just to fill, production just for production has made for some terrible shows, themes. And I can't relate to any of it at all. And commercials make it all worse. Even local TV sucks, they play TV serious like NFI, or a number of other investigatory shows that bore the hell out of me, flat stale characters ect. Nothing inspires me on TV anymore, there's nothing I look forward to viewing anymore. Cable news, all that has become is host ego driven, where the hosts, anchors, think they're movie stars and are the story. Home entertainment is just not the same anymore. HBO sucks. I suppose could spend more on cable and get more channels, but could still be disappointed. For years went without TV, may have to go back to that.
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Post by X factor on Mar 10, 2016 19:40:04 GMT -5
When I watch TV now
When I watch TV now, I don't see much, or hear much.
When I watch TV now I just see people, other common people who are paid to talk.
They don't know any more than me about life or issues, but are paid to give that impression.
Some look good, others I look better than.
Basically common grocery store people who's career paths put them on TV, is what I see now.
Celebrities, to me, are like the class mate who wanted all the attention, to be popular, but never helped anyone else out.
Not sure why I'm suppose to look up to any of these people anymore.
They're not 'bad' per say, but nor are they better than me, or you, and nor do their opinions matter more than mine or yours.
But I guess, now days, in order to be valid, worth listening to, you have to be on TV.
Should the day come where I'm ever own TV...watch out, I guess after words everything I touch would be worth gold...
But until then, I guess I'm just fools gold.
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Post by X factor on Mar 13, 2016 20:29:27 GMT -5
Horror movies help me to escape I miss my horror movies, I say miss because haven't watched on in weeks. Scary movies was how I escaped reality, watching others suffer physically, get tormented physically, helped me to escape my own sense of daily torment and uncertainty, only in the movies the villain or bad guy or monster, always takes on physical form and easy to identity, in real life the villain or monster isn't always so easy to identify. Seems lately everything viewing sucks, on TV, can't type fast on the net do to background scripts running. All do to adds, spying, every F company out there trying to market crap to you...(my mood just took a dive) Ok, continued...needed a break. Anyhow, I miss my scary movies, I could work out a lot of anxiety through watching others go through hypotheticals worse than my own. DVD player is out, and the channels I get on cable don't play scary movies, and 'The Walking Dead' on AMC is nothing but an annoyance. They have destroyed the whole zombie genre for at least 10 years. The show will have to be canceled, and then 5-10 years after that maybe people will have a interest in zombies again, unless creative writer or director can bring some zing back to that genre after the walking dead has turned it into a soap opera series. Also, sometimes I find it's scarier to read scary stuff online rather than view it, like reading about Ouija board stories. When you're alone, the mind can really be a great special effects director. I know if I came into $200 million, like some who won the mega lottery did, I could think of a lot better things to do with rest of life other than punch a time card, like that couple in Kentucky chose to do. I'd take some time off, and then create independent film company and start producing movies. Sucks how some who come into a ton of money, lack creativity so that when they when all they can do is continue to work at paper mill, with $200 million sitting in account. I hope my mind never becomes that generic while young and healthy enough to do other things. Oh well, tomorrow approaches, that's the real monster to me right now.
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Post by X factor on Mar 20, 2016 20:58:56 GMT -5
I'm finding TV programing absolutely abhorrent tonightLine up where I stay... C3- commercial C4-HSN ladies shopping network, with European or transsoxual sounding women selling stuff C5 ABC- 'The family...yawn...don't have the patients for these slow moving made for network TV dramas C6 CBS- 'The good wife'...again yawn...must every TV series evolve around courtrooms and law now? C7- More info mercial TV...selling ovens or something...good grief.. C8- PBS...some series, Royal family series...not interested I could go on and on...nothing on that grabs my interest. I need movie on demand TV, I know what I want to watch when I want to watch it. Oh well, another night in the tank when it comes to TV viewing... 
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Post by X factor on Mar 27, 2016 13:00:38 GMT -5
Is TV designed to just torture us now with bad programing?I TV designed to just torture us now with bad programing? I mean why is 'Mama's Family' still being aired?  And not just one episode, I mean TV land or ect will run like 5 episodes in a row. Who watches this old out dated dry stuff? Really just not sure why I have cable anymore and may just get antenna. All I really watch is CNN/Fox News...and even can't tolerate their childish panels of so called experts, when all they ever end up doing is yelling at each other like some kind of vocal mosh pit! No minds are ever changed, no one ever considers what the other is suggesting, all they do is yell at each other on these panels, and then end session right when you're getting into it. It's just agitation done for ratings purposes only, not educational. Then you have channels that just forever run CSI and other detective series back to back forever, I mean enough already! Why not the 'Dukes of Hazard' ? at least that show was some what slap stick and easy to understand and follow. I'm just not sure why I'm suppose to or should watch TV anymore other than to not feel lonely at times, have it on just for background noise, to hear voices I guess. And since DVD on computer went out, haven't been able to watch movies lately. And not willing to pay more than a car payment to get channels I want. I'd have to pay around $250.00 a month or so to get all that channels I maybe want, to include sports channels, but $250.00 is near dern a car payment!  Yes, I could just go out and get a Ford Pinto and make payments on it rather than see money go up on cable bill. Oh well...where's the remote?
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Post by X factor on Apr 9, 2016 23:24:05 GMT -5
Just had to turn it all off tonight I just turned it all off tonight, all media again, and the only reason I have current media on, like internet, is cause on it I can at least have input. It's sickening, you turn from one channel to another just to find they all go on commercial break together. I don't play that game, so I just cut it all off, I mean when all major networks time their commercial breaks at the same time, tell me there's not some collaboration, tell me corporations don't own and run it all. Was watching CNN's 'The 80's' series earlier, and actually pretty good educational look back at the 80's (when commercials weren't airing) And saw how news really changed when non news corporate entities begin buying up ABC, NBC, CBS ect, Like 'GE' and others, and how all the news people of the 80's got nervous over this, cause now these major firms buying into the media had 'profit' in mind, share holders to make rich, and as a result the news has been getting more sleezy ever since. Going back in media history and learning this stuff really helps you see the 'why' of todays TV programing. Why nothing is educational anymore. I mean not even the History channels cover history anymore (kind of how Mtv no longer plays music videos yet still uses that name). I mean I turn to HC2, and there is no history programing, just reality TV type crap. Every things becoming dumbed down. The programmers of TV programs really do appeal to the dumbest nature in all of us, or try to. Twitter, and other social media becoming the same way, nothing good on there anymore, just Instagram type stuff, meaningless images of mindless people doing stupid things for a few seconds of air time. All the in depth writers, bloggers, no where to be found on social media anymore, every account seems to be a 'corporate' account simply selling something. On here, this site, is one of the last places that you'll actually find true organic 'blog' writing, real life stuff with zero commercial interest or leaning. It's all so plastic now, all of the media, and intelligent people find it very insulting, to say the least. Maybe it's time to start reading books again, that stand still, with no flashing commercials or pop ups or adds, or background scripts or malware or ect inserted in between the pages. Yes, maybe it's time to fill shelf with books again or get library card. 
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Post by X factor on May 15, 2016 18:46:14 GMT -5
Maybe cause I'm getting older now, I don't know, but TV programming just seems more and more irrelevant to me. And also there's no news anymore, instead all you get on the major news networks like Fox and CNN is non stop commentary on the election. All you get is commentators, 'special guests' and others, giving their own personal opinions about candidates. That's not news! CNN and Fox don't cover regular news stories anymore, like train crashes, Tornado damage, special reports about some small town dealing with scandal...nothing, you don't get any of that anymore, all you get now is stupid revolving panels of 'experts' giving their opinions about the character of candidates. And unless you want to pay a car payment amount in cable cost, you're stuck with cable, but majority of channels are either info-mercials or re runs from years ago or endless, 24 hours a day CSI and other detective shows..  Just like 'establishment' politicians don't listen to voters, it's obvious establishment media programmers don't listen to what people want to view. As such their product keeps degrading. I think personalities like Bill O'Reilly and Hannity and others on CNN have really destroyed serious, objective reporting, and throw Meygan Kelly in there as well. They all think they're bigger than the news stories they're covering, and themselves want to be the stars. I know most 'conservatives' don't like public radio or TV, but that's about the only place where you can get serious news stories anymore without reporter or commentator injecting their political opinion in it. The only real reason to have TV anymore is for sports, if you're into sports and like watching games or matches. Oh well, back to channel surfing, actually I'm watching old episodes of the Twilight Zone, bouncing between that and TV programming.  |
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Post by X factor on Jul 31, 2016 13:40:14 GMT -5
Everything I'm able to view on TV really annoys me right now, never have I felt so detached from TV programing as I have last few years, and today. It's like I can relate to none of it. There is no more news, all you get now is commentary, people injecting their opinion of news stories framed as L vs R... Sorry, but Fox has greatly deteriorated evening broadcast news, sure they get good ratings, but now there's no more raw news. I don't need anyone, fox or cnn, trying to interpret news stories for me in political manner, I'm perfectly capable of doing that on my own. If a plane crashes, I just want to hear 'A plane crashed'...  I don't need Bill O'Reilly or Hannity or Anderson Cooper or Rush or anyone trying to link plane crash to Rep or Dem party or member...that border lines retarded to me, yet that's become the norm in how news is delivered to people now. These hosts think they must spoon feed interpritations to audience...it's insulting actually. And news shows aside, even TV shows I can't get with, either they play old re runds from shows I never watched when show was in prime, or they flood you with their stale as CSI detective series, like 24/7, who watches this stuff?...zombies with no life? And cartoon, my gosh, they produce new cartoon shows as if the hobbits watching them are special education or something. At least cartoons of the past maintained adult wit to them, like slapstick humor, but today's cartoons just a bunch of characters that grunt and howl and speak like high on drugs...  I totally cannot relate to any of it anymore. Not even sure why I have cable anymore, could save over 100 a month. One of the few shows I like, will watch whole episodes of anymore is 'The Rife man'...comes on on the weekends, in the mornings. Very well written western or Frontier TV series...  Show actually built on ageless themes and storylines that still apply today, writers back then were better, more steady, and actors were way more believable. You forget they're even acting at times, as if they were yanked straight from the badlands, or Western range and adlibbed lines. The better technology gets, the worst writing gets, the worst actors get. Oh well. |
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Post by X factor on Aug 6, 2016 13:40:42 GMT -5
When Television viewing becomes 30% or more commercial viewing time, TV is turned off I just turned TV off, all of it, don't need it. When I flip through channels, and all I get is TV commercials, and not the shows airing, I just turn TV off. CNN and Fox, they're like 3 minutes of agitation, followed by 20 minutes of commercials, it's insulting, so TV off. And other channels as well, it's like 70% commercials, 30% actual show. As networks get more greedy, want more money, seems they're giving more time to commercials, well they can choke on those commercials for all I care cause I'm not wasting good portions of my viewing time, awake time, weekend time, mindlessly watching people in fake scripted TV commercials. 2 commercials should air, than back to programing, than people might actually pay attention to them, but greed will never allow that.
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Post by X factor on Oct 23, 2016 20:02:35 GMT -5
Really hating TV tonight, todayReally hating TV tonight and all of most of the day. The only show I slightly enjoyed this weekend was 'The Rifle Man', last produced in the 1960's, but at least story line solid, characters believable. Outside of that nothing but stupid commercials, where people act fake, fake smiles, fake joy ect. Cause when you really go to their stores, the employees rarely greet you with such enthusiasm. And what's with AMC's 'The walking dead' marathon?...I'm so sick of that series. Talk about over saturating the zombie genre. Give it a break already, it's October, Halloween is near, why can't AMC play regular horror classics like Carrie, or the Exorcist or A-ville horror, or The evil dead or 'Record' and or so many other truly scary classics.  TV viewing sucked this weekend, and those who think they know what others want to view suck, cause they don't know what others want to view, instead put on generic garbage that bores people to hell. And Fox and CNN don't even cover news anymore, all they cover is election BS...and all they do is give opinion. No factual stuff anymore from neither channel, it's all main stream plastic glam news. Oh well...
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Post by X factor on Nov 21, 2016 21:42:42 GMT -5
Would rather watch old DVD movie 'House on Haunted Hill' (the remake)than shift through what's on TV tonight.
There is no news anymore, and sorry but constant coverage of Trump is not news, all it is is news pundents writing, and talking amongst themselves, and forcing the rest of us to watch as they air it.
Trump won election, can we move on?
The rest of us have, most of us have, but the news media hasn't and won't.
There's no more news...just gossip, 'glam' 'Access Hollywood' type stuff, it's sickening.
Police ambushed this weekend all over nation, and none of the news outlets even mention it...they're sick...this fascination with Trump, they're sick.
So I chose to put in old DVD horror movie tonight instead, and watch that, rather than the slush, glam, crap news shows like CNN and Fox chose to air.
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Post by X factor on Jan 21, 2017 21:49:59 GMT -5
One of the worst days of TV viewing in months
First off, was hoping this would be happier times, after election of Trump, in that media would focus on more positive things, but they haven't, instead all day long all CNN has been doing is aiming cameras on unhappy, mean spirited whiny, cry baby, protester types, all day long, nothing but negative unhappy people.
And Fox has pretty much done the same, and twitter news outlets repeat same negative picture tweets over and over again, which makes the whole day seem gloomy.
None of these news shows focus on the happy content Trump voters, instead all day long, and probably tomorrow, and all week ahead, the news will just focus on unruly street protesters who's ugly moods are bringing whole nation down, at least if one watches TV.
And none news TV viewing has sucked also, commercials after commercials.
You'd think after viewing TV since could barely walk, I'd be use to commercials by now, but I'm not, and don't think I ever will be.
Commercial seem like an intrusion to me now, more than they did years ago for some reason.
I just feel agitated by all the media today, agitated at circumstances in own life where I even have to rely on TV for entertainment instead of being 'out there' doing something.
And just like I saw irrational people criticize the character of Obama for 8 years, now I have to see more irrational people unfairly criticize Trump for his term in office.
No one is an adult anymore, everyone cries, complains, whines, if don't get their way.
The Conservatives did it daily for 8 years, now Democrats will whine, and bring nation down for Trumps term.
It just all gets so old and predictable.
Not much to turn to for inspiration right now.
Nothing can ever appease all of mankind
There is no one god that can make everyone happy, no one view, outlook.
Sin and selfish DNA based hearts, minds and spirits can never ever be pleased.
Not through politics, religion or anything else, everyone is selfish and wants their way, and if don't get their way then go about undermining others, lying and worse.
And sadly Trump will no more be able to bring people together than Obama could or did, man can never come together on nothing.
Seems diversity is a weakness, not a strength.
Life just sucks for me today, feel like there's no hope, not in the world or my own future.
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Post by X factor on Mar 5, 2017 0:23:45 GMT -5
The acting in the TV show 'Gangland Undercover' comes off as plastic and fake Some of the worst acting I've seen in a long time, at least in the portrayal of Outlaw bikers. Why? 1. In real life, bikers have accents, they all do, they don't speak in mono tone, whisper type voices. In 'Gangland', all the performers speak with dry, or non existent accents, totally fake, unless an actor. In real life, bikers have accents, like most real people do, either SE, or NE or Western or rural, or Californian or ethnic ect. 2. The main character in this movie, 'Charles Falco', doesn't look nothing like a real biker, no tattoos, no prison tattoos, that's the first thing bikers would notice about you, the character in movie has none! And their hair cut is dead give away, real Outlaw bikers don't have freagen Marine or Cop style 'high and tight' hair cuts!!, for crying out loud.  Sorry, but this guy looks more like a auto mechanic weekend warrior type of Honda rider, not a Outlaw biker. In real life true Bikers would sniff this rat out immediately, he looks more like a college boy, or again, a actor. I've been around real bikers, and why the hell would the producers of this show cast this guy?, he doesn't fit the role. Outlaw bikers are not clean and tidy, at least not the ones on ground level, not the riders. The actors chosen to play the undercover roles in this TV show totally ruin it for me, destroy any believability, cause they would not pass the muster on the streets!  In real life, real Outlaw bikers are dirty, and looked like they just escaped from hell, or on parole from Hell. Ever get passed by a ban of bikers on the highway?...none of them ever have clean shaven military style police recruit haircuts, like the snitches do in 'Gangland'...it's so freegan fake, and again no tattoos, in real life bikers would sniff these characters out so quick. I know Gangland is based on true stories, but at least cast actors that better portray what 'snitch' would have to morph into to blend in with real bikers. Casting did a poor job with this TV series, a very poor job, the bad acting ruined it for me.
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Post by X factor on Mar 9, 2017 19:30:33 GMT -5
I wonder if more people are doing like me, and just starting to tune the news media out, particularly the cable network shows, rather than be annoyed over and over again by same pundents over and over again who seem to be hired just to annoy audience for ratings. These news shows don't care what we think, left or right, they're all apart of same club. They create panels, exchange opinions about topic, comment on each others shows, quote others in their profession or colleagues of similar stature, and the rest of us be 'da..med', as far as they're concerned. Even so called 'talk radio' is controlled, I mean when's the last time a caller has gotten through on Rush or Savage or any national show, that wasn't thoroughly screened? As such the only callers that get through are those who 100% reflect hosts ideas and opinions?...to me that's scary. Dennis Prager may be one of the few exceptions to that rule. Everything thinks they're 'right' and unwilling to listen or consider other view points, as such there is no more conversation, just rhetoric. rhetoric, assumes that you the viewer, or listener, are dumb, and need to be 'nudged' in this or that direction so that you can 'see the light'. The left does it, the right does it, religions do it, companies do it, but right now speaking of media mainly. The more you back up and examine things from neutral view point, the more you realize how dishonest everything is, left, right, it don't matter. Even those terms or predicated on falsehood. Radio hosts who overly use those terms think or need you to be 'dumb', in order to corral you into certain demographic to keep their ratings high. I tire of it all, I have no voice like they do, reach a billionth of the people they do, so after a while I'm like 'what's the point of getting all worked up, trying to correct things, if in the end doesn't matter one single bit?'. Other than for self I suppose, self therapy, to keep own mind sharp, I suppose. But does politics really sharpen the mind? I think I get more out of watching a Pelican soar just millimeters above the water, than I do listening to Hannity, and people on CNN yak all night about nothing. The media profits out of controversy and chaos, the rest of us average types just victims of it.  |
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Post by X factor on Mar 19, 2017 12:54:54 GMT -5
Need to find alternative to cable TV
I really only got cable again do to wanting to watch the news a few years ago, back when both CNN and Fox were more news orientated.
CNN never talked about Presidential politics under Obama, but now all they cover, 24/7 is 'Anti Trump news'.
1. Russia
2. Hacking, related to Russia
3. Wire tapping allegations
4. How resending Obama care is not so good
5. Trumps latest tweets
And that's it, all they'll do is make accusation against President, then assemble a panel of 2-6 people and share their opinions about the matter, sorry, but that's not news.
Hearing other peoples opinion about matters is not news, it's 'couch talk'.
Opinion is not news, but lately that's all cable news shows have become, just opinion.
Another reason about to cut out cable is do to the massive amount of commercials, commercials waste large portions of my off time, TV viewing is now like 60% or more of watching commercials that pitch products one doesn't care about or simply cannot afford.
People would watch commercials more if less of them strung together.
Another reason cable TV annoys me is how certain channels just play one TV show forever, 24 hours around the clock..like 'CSI', or 'The walking dead', and other TV series.
Also sick of these hill Billie reality shows like..
1. 'Storage Wars'...hate this show, if ever had your storage items 'sold', do to lack of payment, than this show is very painful to watch, cause it just reminds you of what you lost years ago.
2. 'Alaskan outback'...a show that follows Alaskan hill Billies around, yawn.
And a host of other shows where cameras just follow around ordinary people living ordinary lives, boring!
There's just nothing on TV I'm interested in anymore, and to get more channels, price goes up a lot.
'HBO', forget it, you get better movies on free cable movie channels like 'AMC'.
HBO plays movies from 20 years ago, as if you're getting a special treat.
Anyways, I've wasted enough time just writing about how I can no longer barely stomach cable TV
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