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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Sorry I just said that because you said you couldn’t get through the first episode—I don’t think I’d have thought it was any good if that was all I saw either. The standard American sitcom rule I follow is 4-6 episodes before I can really tell if it’s actually gonna work, until that point the characters usually come across as 1 dimensional even if it ends up being good.

    But fair play regardless, everyone likes different stuff!




  • You kinda have to give any American sitcom at least half a season before you can really judge it. They pretty much all start out rubbish and it’s only when the actors grow into the roles can you tell if it’s actually gonna be good.

    FWIW Brooklyn 99 was very much an ensemble comedy by the time it got going rather than primarily focusing on Samberg, even though he was still ostensibly the lead role.



  • I assume it’s a symptom of government IT generally not getting the funding it needs.

    For a good while Microsoft was pretty much the only game in town that could give you the whole server OS, distributed identity (AD), email, and end user OS & productivity software as one big procurement and support contract—plus every other IT guy had MCSE certifications anyway so it was what they ended up selecting.

    Once that was all set up in the 90s when governments were going hard on the IT bandwagon, I imagine the cost of migrating all of that to an alternative was seen as an unnecessary expense when governments could consider the US a stable ally.