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I checked out sometime after he said some body shaming poo poo about fat people.
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kizudarake posted:What'd you think of Stephen King's Thinner? I never read it but I really liked Dedication
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Interesting that you are intimate enough with the subject to know that there is magic that is blacker than Gypsy magic and yet you took time out of your esoteric studies to watch a comic book show. So which is magic is blackest? And how are you defining 'black'.
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EmptyVessel posted:Interesting that you are intimate enough with the subject to know that there is magic that is blacker than Gypsy magic and yet you took time out of your esoteric studies to watch a comic book show. American Horror Story: Coven had some of the blackest magic ever and was also some of the best TV I've ever watched
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On the topic of Constantine is John portrayed in it as a very powerful mage who uses as little magic as possible and relies on con artistry (like in Hellblazer) or is it BALLS TO THE WALL UBER MAGE SPELL SLINGING ACTION (like in the new comics)?
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EmptyVessel posted:Interesting that you are intimate enough with the subject to know that there is magic that is blacker than Gypsy magic and yet you took time out of your esoteric studies to watch a comic book show. You know their point is that "gypsy" is a racial slur right?
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Zushio posted:On the topic of Constantine is John portrayed in it as a very powerful mage who uses as little magic as possible and relies on con artistry (like in Hellblazer) or is it BALLS TO THE WALL UBER MAGE SPELL SLINGING ACTION (like in the new comics)? A bit of both. He uses magic regularly, but he's not lobbing fireballs about like a superhero. He fucks up often enough and it's only really the weak tricks that work every time. The Twatcave is the biggest weakness, for reasons previously mentioned.
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Idran posted:You know their point is that "gypsy" is a racial slur right? Not quite - Gypsy/Gipsy can be used as a racial slur but that's context dependent. It is also applied to several different unrelated groups. See here. Constantine was obviously making an esoteric joke anyway - "Gypsy" is etymologically derived from Egypt, which is where European gypsies were once thought to originate. The original name for Egypt was Khem/kmt which translates as Black. Simple.  No occultist worth his salt would make the basic dualist error of thinking Black = Bad. "Osiris is a Black god".
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:American Horror Story: Coven had some of the blackest magic ever and was also some of the best TV I've ever watched This is a fantastic troll all around.
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BrigadierSensible posted:The Constantine movie is a fun little movie. I really enjoyed it. It just has absolutely nothing to do with the comics. Peter Stormare was absolutely fantastic as Satan.
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Idran posted:You know their point is that "gypsy" is a racial slur right?
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:It really isn't, and lmao
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Feb 17, 2015 22:50
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It's not a slur in America, which is where the show is written, produced and aired, but by all means continue to spaz out about it.
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Feb 17, 2015 22:58
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Tracula posted:lmao The curse-casting gypsy trope is a bit lazy I grant you but this is fantasy comic book land where everyone does magic all the time, so gently caress it, why not?
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:It's pretty standard vernacular even if Romani or Irish Traveler would be more accurate. It's like "coloured" in that lol
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Feb 17, 2015 23:40
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Personally I stopped watching Constantine with the one where he was dismissive of otherkin
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Feb 17, 2015 23:41
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Words have different meanings in different places. It's like how some people say Scottish when they mean British.
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:It really isn't, and even if it was, it's pretty dumb to turn off a TV show just because a character said a bad word. Is American History X a bad film because Edward Norton says "friend of the family" a whole lot? AHX is bad for a host of other reasons besides that.
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Frostwerks posted:AHX is bad for a host of other reasons besides that. Do tell
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:It's pretty standard vernacular even if Romani or Irish Traveler would be more accurate. It's like "coloured" in that its mostly used by people who don't know better rather than actual bigots. Actual bigots use "gyppo" or "pikey". I loving hate pikeys
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Reivax posted:I loving hate pikeys *fookin
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Please don't eat the Romani
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death .cab for qt posted:Please don't eat the Romani But DO help them with their UFO problem.
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That one guy must have been really offended by Snatch.
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death .cab for qt posted:Please don't eat the Romani That's pikelets, not pikeys.
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kizudarake posted:Archer season 6, episode 4 ends with a really nice Coen Brothers-esque shot with music that calls back to Fargo. The episode is set in Wisconsin. Fargo is set in Minnesota. If anything it's a joke about Alison Tolman.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Fargo is set in Minnesota. If anything it's a joke about Alison Tolman. Minnesota and Wisconsin are p much the same state
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Minnesota and Wisconsin are p much the same state This is a great way to lose important body parts in either state.
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The only way anything important will ever end up in either of them.
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Wait is gypsy actually a racist term? Isn't that just what they're called? Have I been unknowingly racist for my entire life?
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Captain Monkey posted:Wait is gypsy actually a racist term? Isn't that just what they're called? Have I been unknowingly racist for my entire life? Yes, No, Yes. Gypsy was a term applied to them because Europeans thought their dark skin meant they came from Egypt. In actuality their people originated in India and call themselves Romani.
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Captain Monkey posted:Wait is gypsy actually a racist term? Isn't that just what they're called? Have I been unknowingly racist for my entire life? I'm a bit confused as well, because I thought the racist thing was using 'gypped' as a verb meaning 'scammed'.
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Gypsy was good. Lots of catchy songs imo
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I know in my country the dutch term for Gypsy is the official one, but calling a person "a gypsy" is still somewhat insulting.
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Who gives a poo poo, take it to D&D, post more subtle moments and less PC stuff.
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Old James posted:Yes, No, Yes. Huh, I had no idea. There aren't too many Romani in Texas.
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It's (another) one of those things Europeans made racist and ruined for everyone.
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Romani/Gypsy is like Indian/Native American, not that hard to figure out why it's a faux-pas 
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Indian actually tends to come out on top as the preferred term whenever studies/surveys/etc. are done.
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