u/Jolly-Librarian1982

I’m gay, but I’m not limiting this to other gay men. Straight men too. I’m just curious because my whole adult life I’ve just wanted to be in a monogamous relationship with someone who’s got my back, where I’ve got their back to, and we both like each other enough and respect each other enough to stick around. Used to be a pretty normal thing but in 2026 it seems quite unusual.
I’m 41 now and guess I just don’t get it. Yes sometimes people just aren’t that into you, but a lot of the time I can tell that guys are legality afraid of commitment as if it is a rope slowly closing around their neck.
What’s happened exactly in the world that’s made this so common on the last 30 years? 🤔
I look for a partner because as an only child, I’d like to have family members after my parents die. That’s a pretty big anxiety for me. Is it to do with having siblings/big families where that isn’t such a big worry? I can’t figure out what it is.

Irish girl just started at my work. First day here had to go shopping because all she’d packed were t-shirts, shorts and flip-flops. She’s pissed it’s cold.

How can someone be so dumb? More importantly, does this suggest most people think all of Australia is Summer Bay? That’s scary.

Hi all,
I want to get some games on my elderly father’s iPad and our Mac desktop, like crosswords, solitaire, sudoku, etc. But he’s getting REALLY bad with navigating anything on computers. I hate that modern game apps like these are too complicated to work for someone like him. I know he won’t be able to manage the pop-up ads, the buttons he has to press left right and centre.

Does anyone know if there are any games for iOS that are super basic for these exact reasons? I just know he’d love to be able to do crosswords on his iPad if he could just click on the app and it’s basically just a giant “click here to play” option or something.

Hey all,

I recently bought a TCL C7L and have been experimenting with HDR using my Apple TV 4K.

My priority isn’t necessarily reference accuracy. I prefer a punchier image with strong separation between bright highlights and darker areas, while retaining as much control over the TCL’s picture processing as possible.

The problem is that Dolby Vision limits me to Dolby Vision IQ, Bright or Filmmaker Mode and locks out controls like Dynamic Tone Mapping. HDR10+ also locks out some picture controls.

So far, my preferred solution is:

Apple TV Format: 4K HDR
HDR10+: Disabled
Dolby Vision: Disabled
Match Dynamic Range: Off

This forces the Apple TV to output HDR10 consistently, regardless of whether the source is SDR, HDR10, HDR10+ or Dolby Vision. I realise this isn’t technically the most accurate approach, particularly for SDR content, but I much prefer the resulting picture and having access to the TCL’s HDR10 picture controls.

Given that my priority is HDR impact and picture-control flexibility rather than strict accuracy, does forcing HDR10 make sense?

Or is there another setup that would give me similar control and HDR pop without forcing everything into HDR10?

Thanks!

I’m looking at you, Poltergeist and Mrs. Doubtfire. Went to check them out today because I got a new 4K TV recently. Both are now listed as HD purchases. They literally weren’t a month ago.

Why would the iTunes Store/Apple TV downgrade their quality for certain movies? You can’t even buy them in 4K either. Utterly bizarre and inconvenient. I literally bought Poltergeist when it was released on 4K, BECAUSE it was in 4K.

Edit: generally noticed once I started playing these films that they seemed to revert back to 4K, even mentioning it in the information box. Very weird that they say HD though on the main page. And they still don’t show up in my “4K HDR” list of movies. Weird as hell.

It’s arriving in about an hour so I’m sitting here twiddling my thumbs waiting impatiently.
Bit the bullet a week ago because I’m sick to death of the terrible HDR on my 2020 purchase of the TU-8000. Feels like I’m struggling with onset cataracts every time I try to watch HDR. I really couldn’t have picked a worse TV as a film fan.

Just wondering how blown away I am going to be, given TU-8000 is what I’m coming from?

I’m one of those people who did enjoy the sequel quite a bit, but damn the soul was sucked out of it! If anything has ever represented a specific year in film, it’s Independence Day: Resurgence. It perfectly reflected how shit everybody felt in 2016 (and still feels).

But why was it so GRIM? Constance was dead. Hiller was dead. Whitmore dies. Jasmine dies.

WHY??? It’s like the “promising future” mindset from the end of the first film is taken, rolled into a wet ball, and spit into the audience’s faces. It’s just so depressing.

I don’t know if I’m in the minority here, but I really really enjoyed the sequel. In many ways it is just an extension of the first movie, at least for me anyway. And due to how good (I thought) it was, I was hoping that they would be quick to do another movie so that there would be three movies, hopefully the last being called ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’.

But now that O’Hara is no longer with us, I wonder if all plans have kind of been thrown out? It’s a very difficult thing to predict though, because her character died at the end of the second one, and so they could theoretically make the third movie without her the same way they made the second one without Jeffrey Jones. But then I think that, being the sentimental place it is, Hollywood would be inclined not to continue with their plans to make a third movie purely out of respect for O’Hara.

Thoughts?

It certainly showed the world what a terrific acting talent he was. I remember when he randomly showed up in ‘Doctor Sleep’ I remember thinking “Oh for fuck’s same. He’s gone from being in Room, to doing a nonsense bit-part, how sad”. And then of course as the movie progressed I saw exactly why they had caused Tremblay over any other actors for that role.

So am I alone in thinking he should’ve been nominated for Room? He was insanely good in that. In fact, he was better than DiCaprio that year…🙊

One thing I felt annoying about the 2016 series was how connected to celebrities the characters were in the show. Like how Rachel Ray worked at the Dragonfly for example. Or how Paris worked with Neil Patrick Harris. Little things like that. It bugged me, because it made the characters we knew from the original seem more connected than they should be. They were meant to be regular small-town people like you or me, not “friends with Kiefer Sutherland but never mention it”. You know? I understand with Rory and her Yale/on-the-side connection might lend to her to people like awful Alex Kingston character, but in terms of realistic connections I felt like this season really could barely veil the fact that the show was newly popular AF at that time and was shot in LA. It really bugged me! (Even more so than how clean and perfect everything looked, but that’s another story)

I’m checking out Netflix’s UK catalogue and stumbled upon this show. Forgot how similar it is to Gilmore Girls.

Anyone else a fan? It’s a lot sadder but got that small town funny vibe.

The same way they did with Gilmore Girls. What a huge hit that old show became!

Alex Mack was shot on film, so if they rescanned it for HD and released all four seasons, and pushed it, it would 100% become a huge hit.

Then get the original cast and writers back for an epic fifth season, 8 episodes or something. It could become the next Stranger Things.

I know the creators and a lot of the cast keep trying to bring this show back, and I think there’s a reason for it. The story of this show as it progressed became so incredibly dark and fascinating that it ended almost abruptly. It matured beyond Nickelodeon’s capabilities.

Alex as an adult and whatever her life is like how lends to a WORLD of possibilities. Great sci-fi.

For the record I couldn’t get through Obsession. I found the whole thing irritating and I am a self-confessed Gen Z hater (as a crippled millennial battling old age).

So I was particularly surprised by Backrooms, when at the end of the film instead of going “that was shit” and being done with it, I immediately went on YouTube to look up discussions about it.

Not that it’s a rule or anything for taste is subjective, but for me a sign of a good film is when it gives you something to take away from it, to mull over after it has ended.

The psychological aspect reminds me of Return to Oz, actually. If you google “Return to Oz psychology” there are a few great articles about the hidden details in that film.

I don’t think Backrooms is a five star film, but it is extremely refreshing given most films these days. And the fact it was directed by a 21 year old (who will likely receive a Directing Oscar nom) is quite remarkable.

Well done!

I don’t think I’ve ever come across a show that started out as a drama, and then slowly evolved into a flat-out COMEDY. Season 2 has The Cheshire Cat Inn episode, season 3 had Cat-Kirk, season 4 had Spring Break, and season 5 had SOOOO many hilarious moments. Honestly by that fifth season this show was just flat-out comedy, and the funniest on TV at the time. I couldn’t believe it at the time (yes, I’m old) that nobody was noticing this show. I think the Diorama episode is the peak of its comedy (“And I love Jesus!”).

If I ever committed to being an actor, I could NEVER work on a show like this. It’s so technical and specific and looks extremely intense. On top of that, they don’t let you have scripts on set to hide around in case you need it, and that is a LOT of medical jargon. I’d be overwhelmed before I’d even started.

I’m sure Wyle will win.
LaNasa, if she’d been put in lead this season like she SHOULD HAVE, would’ve been a surefire win. But this year I really think Moafi will win (holy COW that was INCREDIBLE acting).
Any others you think have a decent shot, or nah?

I can’t tell you how constantly disheartened I am by the film score landscape in modern times. In a perfect world I wouldn’t care if scores like The Odyssey happened. Because each to their own, right? But this “sound design” masquerading as film scores has become so insanely popular now that traditional film scores (you know, with MUSIC) is almost extinct in 2026. Göransson can be quite good when he wants to be, but UGH… after giving The Odyssey score a listen this morning, I immediately had to cleanse my palette by listening to The Face of Pan by John Williams.
Imagine if The Odyssey had a score that was actually music, with an orchestra. It could’ve been epic! This is just… a mishmash of different random sounds, not music.

I can’t tell you how constantly disheartened I am by the film score landscape in modern times. In a perfect world I wouldn’t care if scores like The Odyssey happened. Because each to their own, right? But this “sound design” masquerading as film scores has become so insanely popular now that traditional film scores (you know, with MUSIC) is almost extinct in 2026. Göransson can be quite good when he wants to be, but UGH… after giving The Odyssey score a listen this morning, I immediately had to cleanse my palette by listening to The Face of Pan by John Williams.
Imagine if The Odyssey had a score that was actually music, with an orchestra. It could’ve been epic! This is just… a mishmash of different random sounds, not music.