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Still Buffering

Still Buffering: "Battle Royale" (2000)

Still Buffering

Sydnee McElroy

Comedy

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

It's spooky season! In celebration of this wonderful time of year, we at Still Buffering always take a couple weeks to celebrate the spooky and scary media that make this season even better. To start, we're looking back at the original Hunger Games, Battle Royale! CW: This movie contains violence and suicide, and we discuss the contents of the movie in some detail. For an exhaustive list of possible sensitive topics in this film, look at the CW for "Battle Royale" (2000).

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0:00.0

Maybe you change your mind, but too many times, over and over again, over and over again,

0:21.7

but too many times, over and over again, over and over again.

0:30.7

Hello and welcome to Still Buffering, a cross-generational guide to the culture that made us. I'm Riley Smirl.

0:36.7

I'm Sydney McAroy, and I'm Taylor Smirl.

0:39.7

So we did karaoke with the kids last night.

0:43.7

Oh, that's fun.

0:45.7

Yeah, there was a fundraiser for Harmony House where we went and karaokeed for a cause as it was put.

0:55.7

I imagine since it was in all ages.

0:58.7

I love karaoke. I've never done, like, not adult, maybe alcohol involved karaoke.

1:05.7

I'm trying to picture children involved, sober karaoke, and maybe that's different vibe.

1:11.7

Well, children were involved, yes, but it was at a place called the Market, which is like an outdoor area where you have access to multiple stores and restaurants, including a craft beer store.

1:25.7

So I wouldn't say everyone was sober.

1:28.7

Okay. However you like to karaoke, it's fine.

1:33.7

I cannot imagine, but that sounds fun.

1:37.7

Yeah, it was a lot to karaoke without, first of all, it's like a well lit outdoor area.

1:47.7

It felt very much like you're performing.

1:50.7

It didn't feel, you know, like it was definitely, it felt like, oh, I'm just doing a little show here outside.

1:58.7

I ended up at one of those, there's a karaoke place here in the city that it has weird hours.

2:04.7

It's open early. You can book private rooms and I think they start at like 11 a.m.

2:10.7

Wow.

2:11.7

And they have really good deals earlier in the day.

2:13.7

So I once, long time ago, went to a birthday party that was like a daytime karaoke thing.

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