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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The two part episode "The Menagerie" were episodes 11 and 12 from the first season and recycled footage from the pilot and allowed them to turn out enough episodes in the short time they were given, due to only needing to shoot limited additional content to fill the time.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I'm sure plenty of Trekkies and Trekkers have already set upon you, @olbermann.bsky.social, but why not one more? Referring to an ailing Trump as "Captain Pike from the Pilot of Star Trek" is treknically incorrect. This is what he looked like in the pilot. He's the one on the left.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

And voici! One day later, and I'm in the Old Age Gamers Club, and I've got my little shield flair in the game now. It cracks me up that 40 years later, I've still got a hobby working around Microsoft's machinations. Old Age Hackers FTW.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Undeterred, I figured out that it was in fall of 2020 that MS removed the functionality from the apps and made clubs an "XBOX exclusive" feature. So I tracked down version 2006-0624-0047 from July of 2020, fired up an Android emulator, logged in with my MS credentials, and...

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This is the flair to indicate that you were part of an online club community. The problem is that five years ago, as part of a "feature realignment," MS decided to remove the ability to join and participate in clubs from the mobile and PC apps. You now had to use an XBOX.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I was getting envious of some of the flair that Forza Horizon 5 players were sporting online. I've got the VIP crown, which wasn't an achievement, and I've got a few different badges earned that I can opt from, but there was a shield that some folks had that I couldn't get.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

This one took a bit of upgrade tuning to the Reliant and a handful of attempts to achieve. No wonder only .72% of gamers accomplish this. Do you have any idea how hard it is to land an airborne three wheeler launched from sandy dirt hills without ending up turtled or worse?

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Anderson: What's got 4 eyes and cant see? Ward: What? Anderson: Mississippi

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

93 Places to Holiday Without Running Into RFKj.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

From a Man in the Streets compilation of 100 years ago. "In my opinion, he's the south end of a northbound horse." Now there's an expression that needs reviving!

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Jay has always been an unfunny person's idea of what a comedian is. He buried Carson's legacy. His claim to fame was that he did more performances per year than any other comedian. Never quality, only quantity.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Jay Leno, you are lower than whale excrement resting on the ocean floor. Night after night, your unfunny jokes at my cousin's expense helped create the slut-shaming hell that she inhabited for years. And the water cooler replays I endured at work the next day. Get bent, Jay.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

This is one franchise that I have never partaken of. I think it’s time.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

But, thanks to that subscriber guarantee, even after the project was ended, it took the lawyers another 30 years to get the films to the public. And a few more for me to find it.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Thus, only a small number of people ever saw any of the films in their theatre runs. To enhance the value of the subscriptions, subscribers were guaranteed that the films would never be shown on TV and never released to the public. The experiment was abandoned after 2 years.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

IF you purchased a subscription to the AFT series THEN you could buy tickets to any of its films. (Exceptions were made for movie critics and members of award-granting organizations, such as the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which awards the Oscars.)

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Q. How is it that I've never seen The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) until now? A. It was part of the American Film Theatre series, an experiment in marketing films (based on plays) that would not otherwise have been able to get financing...

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales 1979 Totally missed it when I was a kid, like so many well placed cartoon jokes. Porky can't quite get the "don we now" verse finished, so Bugs has their resident Southerner, Foghorn Leghorn fill in, but he belts out "our GRAY apparel." TWICE

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Police Chase Chopper Commentary Winner of the Day Stu Mundel of @foxla.bsky.social "Oh look, there's Batman behind him," *switches to Michael Keaton whisper voice* "I'm Batman."

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

20, 20, 24 hours to go I wanna be sedatious

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

One of the side effects of living with someone working for one of the top companies in the Fortune 500, is that occasionally some topics are off limits for reasons. Ex. Me - Hey, about that CEO and HR head at the Coldplay concert... Her - Yeah, I can't talk about that... 🤔

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

And for the record, and the kids that don't know, I've only edited ONE thing in that photo.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Thank you, Universe! Signed, Microsoft Paint and (((BeerRabbi)))

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Meant to do this earlier in the week. I'm sure many people beat me to first post. Nevertheless...

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

50/50 chance that I'm in the reflection of the window of Swan Oyster Depot. My neighborhood Walgreens is directly across the street.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Backyard of the Mad Dog in the Fog 20+ years ago; the bartender, a big tattooed Scotsman who took breaks from bartending to tour with @qotsa-official.bsky.social, heard his little brother say "conversate." Pinned against a wall, he told him he'd beat the shit out of him if he ever heard it again.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

*New to me video, the video itself is four years old.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Great new video from @slopesgameroom.bsky.social about the classic Strike video game series and the origin of the franchise from the days when IBM were plotting to launch a *gasp* PERSONAL Computer. (Editors Note to VO talent; "heresy" isn't pronounced "hearsay.") www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMXu...

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The Strike Series: The Complete History (DESERT, JUNGLE, URBAN, SOVIET, NUCLEAR)

YouTube video by Slope's Game Room (Video Game Documentaries)

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Literally heard a professional YouTuber trying to get back to their main point with the phrase, "but I digest." And I...just...died a little bit.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

As was the tradition at my best friend’s Fourth of July party during the 90s and early noughties, here I am "walking the plank." www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVAB...

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2010 Fourth of July Balance Beam / Walk the Plank at BMK

YouTube video by Maj0rB00thr0yd

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Did I just spend half a year trying to get an almost 10 year old delisted game working on my modern PC? For a chance to escape to Australia? Worth all the hours of troubleshooting and cleverman work! Now if you'll excuse me, it's Forza Horizon 3 time!

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

When you name your mobile carrier "Three," headline hilarity ensues when you have major outages.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

For the last time, @wxyzdetroit.bsky.social , a Whippet is a cute little doggo, a Whip-It is a brand of Nitrous oxide canister.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Fans of The Streets of San Francisco will remember this building from the episode "Dead Lift," featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Diana Muldaur. www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

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Shuttered, historic San Francisco building to reopen to the public

Laurene Powell Jobs has an ambitious new plan for SFAI's shuttered campus.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Props for not using a body double. The source for this appears to be the same master as the 1080p BluRay. It looks amazing for a GG production. On the subject of vintage cable schlock, the HD print of Death Before Dishonor is also very good. I saw that recently.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Where else are you going to hear Rock Hudson say, “I’ve got a gun cocked, ready to shoot your balls off?”

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Attention Cinema Schlock Connoisseurs - Free on Amazon (Just Past Their) Prime, a wunderschön B Movie with an A Movie Cast. Cannon at their 80s best. Rock Hudson, Donald Pleasance, Robert Mitchum and Ellen Burstyn gets her Golan Globuses out! www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...

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Watch The Ambassador | Prime Video

An American ambassador, his wife, and her Arab lover are caught up in a dangerous game of intrigue, extortion, and murder in the explosive thriller set in the Middle East.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Lovely day for football in Lichtenstein! I'm guessing this is their national stadium. It looks big enough to hold the entire population of the country.

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Microsoft gets points for consistency. Busy playing catch up with technology in the 90s. Sometimes resorting to stealing other companies tech. Introducing the XBOX portable! Huge news to those of us that have been playing XBOX games on our SteamDecks FOR YEARS. 🤣🤦‍♂️

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Everybody was so excited about the camera angle in one photo that made Taylor Swift look like she was pregnant, but I don't hear anyone discussing the fact that King Charles has a flipping talon!

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This Battle of the Bond Villains between Elon and Trump is really heating up!

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

HEADLINE : SCOFLA takes down Scofflaw

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

RUFKM? "...to realign with Trump's priority of reestablishing a warrior culture" - DoD "which is interesting seeing as Harvey Milk was a combat veteran, a decorated officer on a Navy rescue ship during the Korean War." - @jimmykimmel.com Hear, Hear!

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Hear ye, hear ye This court is now in session His Honor, Judge Pigmeat Markham presidin

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(((BeerRabbi)))🍺 @beerrabbi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

13 (unlucky for some) years after the James Bond video game franchise was killed off after the failure that was 007 Legends, 007 video gaming returns! Aaaaaand it's bloody James Bond Jr. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4qY...

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007 First Light - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games

YouTube video by PlayStation

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