r/CFBOffTopic • u/Jaguars4life Clemson Tigers • Sep 16 '26
Discussion Wednesday Thread brought to you by Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel in 2000:Here I am exploring the most infamous cannibal tribe in all of the planet located in Papa New Guinea
Discovery Channel in 2020:Here’s another brainless pseudoscience show
Seriously though it sickens me that there are cannibal tribes out there
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u/ClarinianGarbage Oklahoma State • Nebraska Sep 16 '26
Decided to branch out and start playing 2D Metroid in anticipation of Ravenous, played the first few hours of Zero Mission and it's exactly what I needed from a video game right now
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u/Artvandelay29 Vanderbilt Commodores • Houston Cougars Sep 16 '26
I couldn’t remember the last time I watched Discovery Channel.
Frankly, if it’s not a live sporting event of a team I care about, I won’t watch live TV.
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u/Critical-Passion2928 24d ago
Discovery's fall from "actual nature documentaries" to "shark week fake mockumentaries and gold rush reruns" is genuinely one of the saddest programming trajectories out there, not gonna lie 📉. And yeah the cannibalism thing is heavier than people realize, most of what got labeled "cannibal tribes" in old docs was either historical practice tied to funerary rites (like the Fore people in PNG with kuru disease from mortuary cannibalism) rather than some ongoing horror show, and a lot of that stopped decades ago once outside contact and health crises made it clear what was happening. The old Discovery era definitely leaned into shock value and exoticizing indigenous groups way more than was fair to them, so there's a whole messy legacy of that kind of "exploration" content that hasn't aged great either. Still, RIP to when the channel actually had budget for real anthropology instead of alligator wrestling and ancient aliens guy.