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"The Penguin" vs. "Tulsa King"

Watching "The Penguin" and "Tulsa King" back to back is an interesting experience. Both shows are about a mafia guy as the protagonist who enters the drug business and has a black sidekick, but are vastly different.

"The Penguin" is the spinoff of an existing franchise, "Tulsa King" is an unaffiliated show.

Vic becomes Oz's personal driver after he attempted to steal the tires of the car while Tyson became Dwight's personal driver because he was a cab driver and thus a helpful local.

At one point, Oz basically asks Vic if he wants to leave him after everything he did for him. Dwight tells Tyson to think wisely if he seriously wants to be involved. Oz becomes a father surrogate for Vic while Tyson's father is alive and initially not happy about his son working for a sketchy looking Italo-American guy.

While Oz grew up in Gotham, Dwight was reassigned from a different state of the US. The Penguin's theme is backstabbing and Tulsa King's is loyalty.

Sofia Falcone was in an asylum for crimes she didn't commit because she talked to an outsider about her family and takes revenge on the people who brought her there by killing them. Dwight was in prison for a crime he was involved with and kept quiet about the "family" (but they aren't very grateful; see the paragraph above).

Dwight is a made man, something Oz will never be due to lacking Italian roots. Oz is not taken seriously due to this, while Dwight is both sneered at and respected for the outdated values he retained during his 25 years in jail.

Oz is driven by greed, envy and narcissism, Dwight is initially driven by pragmatism, with which he responds like “Okay, my bosses want me to expand our business into some flyover place. How could I do that?” and regularly criticizes people like Oz.

"The Penguin" is a mafia epos crammed into 8 episodes while "Tulsa King" is granted hilarious moments - sometimes intentionally and sometimes probably not. At least I chuckled a bit about a dialogue that went like (roughly reworded):

"I take the children and we move to Denver." "Why Denver?" "Because it's not Tulsa."

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Unpopular opinion: The Google search didn't need Prabhakar to suck. SEO and Google Adwords are the reason and they already existed before Google hired him.

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Atlantis and Atlanta. Am I the only one who felt reminded of a certain Futurama episode?

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People discussing about the best webbrowser.

Otter Browser: "Am I a joke to you?"

Me: "Yes, you are. At least right now. You don't support addons yet. What's the point of installing an Opera 12.x clone then? 🙄"

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Before I read that the "Make-a-wish" kid in season 1 episode 7 of "The Rookie" was a real one, the girl reminded me of Laverne Hookes from the Police Academy films.

Then I read that Marion Ramsey, the actress who played Hookes, died in 2021.

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One "elephant in the room" about Google:

AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) was/is basically Google's attempt to make people forget/never learn slim web-design.

"Make a horribly bloated website and "fix" it with AMP."

We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

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„Um schnell große Summen aufzubringen“ Griechischer Ex-Minister rät Deutschland zum Verkauf seiner Inseln

Dieser griechische Politiker hat 13 Jahre lang darauf gewartet, dass er diesen einen Witz reißen kann. Und als er endlich die Gelegenheit dazu hat... ist auch noch der Bundesfinanzminister ausgerechnet von der FDP.

Das ist auf so vielen Ebenen einfach nur geil gelaufen.

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I've got a weird idea for a Family Guy-based AI cover: "Straight Out Of the Gate" by Tech N9ne with Serj Tankian of System of a Down as feature guest. Jerome would be Tech N9ne and Cleveland would be Serj.

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Post von Wagner Lieber Friedrich Merz, Talkshows sind nichts für Sie. Sie sind zu erregt, Sie sind nicht cool. Sie sagen Sätze, wo einem der Kiefer herunterfällt. „Da sitzen abgelehnte Asylbewerber beim Arzt und lassen sich die Zähne richten und die deutschen Bürger kriegen keine Termine.“ Was für ein Schwachsinnssatz. Jeder Mensch, der in Deutschland Schmerzen hat, wird behandelt. Ich hatte in den letzten Wochen Zahnprobleme. Mein Zahnarzt nahm sich den als ersten vor mit der dicksten Wange. Egal, ob er Asylbewerber war oder Deutscher. Der große Konservative Franz Josef Strauß sagte vor vielen Jahren: „Man muss dem Volk aufs Maul schauen, aber nicht nach dem Munde reden.“ Sie, Friedrich Merz, reden der AfD nach dem Munde. Zurück zur Talkshow. Ich verstehe, dass Sie punkten wollten, immer anklagender werden wollten, immer wichtiger werden wollten. Dabei sind Sie abgestürzt. Ein falscher Satz in der Talkshow und man zerschellt auf den Klippen der Talkshow. Vielleicht sagen Sie: Ich war leidenschaftlich. Ich habe doch nur gesagt … Aber es gibt Dinge, die man nicht sagt und nicht einmal denkt. Damit basta. Herzlichst, Ihr Franz Josef Wagner

Zitat Ende.

Wenn du Franz-Josef Wagner von der BILD derart verärgert hast, dass er etwas schreibt, durch das ausgerechnet er wie eine Stimme der Vernunft wirkt... dann macht die Realität anscheinend gerade eine Pinkelpause.

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"I wish I could invite Kaido from "One Piece" to our next office christmas party and introduce him to my boss. They would be the perfect friends. A heavy drinker with anger issues, who is a pain in the ass for his subordinates and a pirate who can voluntarily shapeshift into a dragon."

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This is supposed to be a Neco Arc AI cover of "Tornado of Souls". But I'll tell my kids this was Bart Simpson filling in for Dave Mustaine when Megadeth played in Springfield.

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I'd like it if the people who make AI covers would (re-)discover Microsoft Songsmith.

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Writing prompt

A skilled drow assassin and a cunning vampire find themselves entangled in a high-stakes game of chess, using their strategic minds to outwit each other. As the game progresses, their moves mirror their real-life battle for power and survival, leading to an unexpected twist that challenges their preconceived notions of each other.

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Canon: And that’s what happened.

Fanfic: Hey, let’s make the protagonist...

[ ] become a Jedi/Sith.

[ ] become the xth Doctor.

[ ] being bitten by a radioactive spider.

[ ] enter a world full of talking ponies.

and so on

canon: they died

fanfic: fUCK YOU