Genre (/ˈʒɒ̃rə/, /ˈʒɒnrə/ or /ˈdʒɒnrə/; from French genre [ʒɑ̃ʁ(ə)], "kind" or "sort", from Latin genus (stem gener-), Greek γένος, génos) is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.
Genre is most popularly known as a category of literature, music, or other forms of art or entertainment, whether written or spoken, audio or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria, yet genres can be aesthetic, rhetorical, communicative, or functional. Genres form by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented and the use of old ones is discontinued.
Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions. Stand alone texts, works, or pieces of communication may have individual styles, but genres are amalgams of these texts based on agreed upon or socially inferred conventions. Some genres may be rigid with strictly adhered to guidelines while others may be very flexible.
MFP is that television by definition cannot be as good as Rick & Morty
I want TV to be better, but I now DVR shows in order to skip commercials, even as I still watch too much TV and spend too much time in DK.
Researchers at University of Chicago concluded that social media addiction can be stronger than addiction to cigarettes and booze following an experiment in which they recorded the cravings of several hundred people for several weeks. Media cravings ranked ahead of cravings for cigarettes and alcohol.
And at Harvard University, researchers actually hooked people up to functional MRI machines to scan their brains and see what happens when they talk about themselves, which is a key part of what people do in social media.
They found that self-disclosure communication stimulates the brain's pleasure centers much like sex and food do.
Plenty of clinicians have observed symptoms of anxiety, depression and some psychological disorders in people who spend to much time online, but little hard evidence has been found proving that social media or Internet use caused the symptoms. There's a similar lack of data about social networking addiction.
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And yet one does have preferences...
Earlier this month, “Rick and Morty” ended its third season as the top-rated show on its network, Adult Swim, and the most popular television comedy among viewers between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four.
The finale drew a total audience of 2.6 million people, all of whom were probably stoned, as befits an animated program given to cheerful nihilism, destabilizing farce, and demented noodling with the texture of space-time.
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I’m not in that demographic and not stoned when I watch it.
….the show supplies an artful answer to the question of what follows postmodernism: a decadent regurgitation of all its tropes, all at once, leavened by some humanistic wistfulness
So what is now to be watched since it will take another 17 months to get a new season of Rick and Morty? This is what I’ll watch later tonight on BBC/America...
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a BBC America comic science fiction detective television series, taking place after the Douglas Adams novel series of the same name. Created and primarily written by Max Landis, it stars Samuel Barnett as the detective Dirk Gently and Elijah Wood as his reluctant sidekick Todd. A trailer for the series debuted at San Diego Comic Con 2016.[2]
and then there’s how monopoly as a board game is a genre frame into which you can insert anything … imagine a DKos-opoly, because isn’t that what it is…. Do not pass Go, do not delete your account.
Play Monopoly with the Smiths without actually playing with Jerry! Gallivant your way to victory by buying, selling, trading, mortgaging, and auctioning locations from the Multiverse including the Cromulon Dimension, Gazorpazorp, and Planet Squanch (not to mention a few places from your own Earth realm).
6 Collectible Tokens: Council of Rick's Badge, Meeseeks Box, Portal Gun, Plumbus, Rick's Ship, and Snuffles Helmet
Custom Designed Game Board featuring locations from the show
Custom Flooble Cranks and Gooble Boxes replace traditional Houses and Hotels
Custom Get Schwifty! and Interdimensional Cable TV cards replace Chance and Community Chest cards
Custom themed Flurbo currency
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WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM (or unleavened wistfulness)?