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"Blaze your glory" appears to be a repurposing of the phrase "a blaze of glory", which was originally embedded in the phrase "going out in a blaze of glory" and was meant to evoke the image of a violent death involving self-immolation. So, perhaps unconsciously, Elon kinda nailed it.

the man's never going to be a poster and it's obviously something he thought was clever and immediately rolled out without focus grouping it on the site

or he posted it and got a bunch of engagement from the dumbest sycophants on the planet and was encouraged

fact that they had to change it to formerly twitter shows that the name change must be hurting their downloads a lot, of course it wont help much, what would help is calling the app twitter

loving the letter x is extremely gen x brained, it was slang for ecstasy which then became e for old millennials which is more neutral less trying to be cool, blaze of glory feels way older, tho there was the bon jovi song in the prime gen x years

actually bottomed out (in books) during the formative gen x era

https://i.imgur.com/nVTAyrZ.png

doubt elon associates it with ecstasy just an example of how it was considered a totally bad ass letter

when i visited australia as a kid we saw a XXX sex shoppe and then we found out XXXX is queensland's beer and boy did we all have a laugh about that (this was like 1992 or somesuch)

theres also the ol booze jug with the xxx

https://www.prosportstickers.com/wp-content/uploads/nc/w/hillbilly_xxx_jug_decal__59901.jpg

reflecting upon it gen x is when the concept of being cool (acting aloof and wearing sunglasses) really ran its course

Weird how much they put into advertising castlemaine xxxx in the uk when it's nearly unobtainable here

it was big in uk pubs in the 90s iirc

c’mon man the x-files are right there

x-files yeah thats the stuff

scully: victim died of multiple stab wounds
mulder: *throws her a file* ever heard of the knife alien

— 𝔭𝔭 (@athleisure_monk) June 3, 2016

there’s an entire late gen x early millennial cohort who think the x-files were sexy and cool

every magazine article about the show or an interview accompanied by the hottest scully and mulder pics when they were too busy finding the knife alien or getting alien embryos implanted to actually do it

late gen x early millenial cohort otm tho

yeah i mean its a good show

its bad and you should all feel bad

ever hear of the its a good show alien

i’m in that cohort obviously
brb going to watch an x-file

Millennium was a much better show than The X-Files.

too creepy and no scully or aliens

welcome to Xfile's home of the Xfile may I take your order

Millenium was sponsored by Philadelphia cheese on Portuguese TV so it had that going for it.

its bad and you should all feel bad

Wait was x files about actual files

x number of files

actually bottomed out (in books) during the formative gen x era

― lag∞n, Sunday, September 24, 2023 12:58 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Google ngram viewer needs to incorporate back issues of Metal Edge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfmYCM4CS8o

Millenium was sponsored by Philadelphia cheese on Portuguese TV so it had that going for it.

tweet fact

i’m early millennial but i unjustly disdain xfiles as nothing but corporate-processed twin peaks (yes i’m sure i’m not gen x)

I used to sneak into my parents room (at 9pm) as an eight year old to watch the X Files, show is and was legit though I stopped watching around s4 or so. The knife alien tweet is all time.

many xposts but Millennium was MAYBE good for two seasons, and that’s generous allowing that s1 was patchy.
s3 was a dud. but s2 legit great.
so it had one great season.

no way that eclipses xfiles! unless yr just being some contrarian rockist out here trying to love a show no one remembers well enough to argue with you :)

X-Files was legitimately good to great for five, maybe six seasons give or take. even the worst monsters of the week eps were just the vegetables you ate to get closer to another alien story arc, which WERE consistently fucking great tv and that was reliably true for a few years before it fell apart.

Tooms >>>

>even the worst monsters of the week eps were just the vegetables you ate to get closer to another alien story arc

rong, you put up with the incoherent mythos episodes to get the MOTWs

lol <3

I guess I've just never given a fuck about aliens. I assume extraterrestrial life is already here, and we just don't know it because it's in the form of, like, lichen, or a vapor, or those things that swim around in our eyeballs. Not little dudes who want to communicate with us/probe us/kidnap us back to their ship. There is no ship. So Millennium, which was all about all the fucked-up things we tell each other to justify/excuse horrible deeds, was inherently much more interesting to me.

There is no sense in which the X-Files isn't about that, though.

a show no one remembers well enough to argue with you

I've seen at least two articles on it in the last fortnight, due to the 30-year anniversary.

t's in the form of, like, lichen, or a vapor, or those things that swim around in our eyeballs

Octopii. Its Octopusseses.

The only thing wrong with that tweet is that Mulder would actually have a slideshow.

welcome to Xfile's home of the Xfile may I take your order

― I Wanna Find an ILXor That'll Flag My Last Post Till I Have To Go (WmC),

irl LOLs

I like X Files just fine as a card carrying gen xer, but monster-of-the-week eps >>> storyline eps

i've literally never watched an ep of xfiles, though i obv recognize sculder and mosley. what season should i start, i'll have to find a streaming place

Also "The Postmodern Prometheus" episode is one of the finest episodes of television made in the 90s.

Great title, in any case.

I encourage all to watch it. Maybe “best” is the wrong superlative, “smartest” and “cheekiest”
better descriptors.

I've seen a few episodes here and there over the years but never watched it when it was on. Gotta say, it's kind of mind-boggling, when you think about it, that most (American) TV shows typically had 22 episodes a season or whatever, let alone shows with location shoots and relatively high budgets. It's always so daunting when nostalgia directs me back to rewatch something I once enjoyed and I realize what a commitment it would require.

one episode that has always stuck with me as being fun was the one with Luke Wilson, a sort of rashoman where the story is retold a few times and each time Wilson's acting changes to suit how mulder and scully remember him.

"Bad Blood" - a classic.

The one that's on my short list of best TV episodes of all time is "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose," from Season 3.

Re: the commitment of 22 episodes a season - most shows that do that have some kind of formula that makes it a little easier, but the really astonishing thing about the x-files is that it managed that without having much of a formula beyond "Mulder and Scully investigate something wacky." You never quite knew what you were going to get.

What was the one with the split screen thing going on? that was a good ep, I recall, and funny.

I liked the one with the mastodon.