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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Reverend Dr posted:

scifi gun nerds are the absolute loving worst

but it's a real gun

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Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
it's a cool gun

swimsuit
Jan 22, 2009

yeah
this is actually the one acceptable gun guy

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
yeah, forgotten weapons is v. chill

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

KiteAuraan posted:

True.

gently caress that episode pissed me off. Dolphin episode levels of poo poo.

Even worse, the negative AV Club review had the critic say the episode was about castor semenya and that's why it was transphobic. she's not even trans lol

Uncle Wemus
Mar 4, 2004

gradenko_2000 posted:

One early episode of Jack Ryan begins with a Syrian father out in the boonies teaching his son to wash up, to pray, to take care of his grandfather, and then they share a tender moment as he drives away on a motorcycle

As the man gets a few miles out from the city, the motorcycle is then blown up in an instant, and we're made to understand that he was killed by drone strike.

The drone operator is slipped a one dollar bill by his partner for a "good shoot", and he folds it reluctantly. The operator is clearly suffering some kind of emotional trauma from this work, and we see one wall of his apartment covered in individual one dollar bills, numbering what must be in the hundreds.

He takes all of them down and heads to the local casino to spend it all ... except he ends up winning bTig at the roulette table, and that makes him feel even worse

Some lady at the same table starts hitting on him, and they eventually hook up, except it turns out she's married, and he gets beaten up by her husband when they're discovered

And that's the context in which he shows up to the drone facility the next day with a black eye and fat lip, at which point, his partner "jokes" about him getting beat up by a "tranny" that he must have tried to pick up.

he whole point of this mini-arc is supposed to make us feel like A. drone pilots suffer from PTSD also, and B. the Syrian child we saw at the beginning of the episode is now without a father, and THAT'S SAD

But it's never questioned whether America should be doing any of this in the first place.

___

Much later on in the season, the wife of the Syrian Bad Guy runs away from their estate after discovering that he's been working with and training Islamist radicals. She takes the kids with her, and enlists the help of a sympathetic uncle.

They get discovered by the husband's goons, the uncle is killed trying to help them escape, and then the wife is assaulted, and is heavily implied that she's about to be raped.

This is when the camera pans out to inform the viewer that they've been watched by that same drone operator we met earlier this entire time. The operator makes a snap decision to fire a missile without getting prior authorization, and manages to target the Hellfire missile in such a way that the Islamist militiaman assaulting the wife is the only one hit and killed by the missile, without significantly harming the woman. The woman escapes the dead man's clutches, runs over to her children, and continues the journey.

The operator sees all this, and it's heavily implied by the look on his face and the swelling music that this was a redemptive moment for him. He did something good, for once.

i hate everyone involved with this

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

i say swears online posted:

Even worse, the negative AV Club review had the critic say the episode was about castor semenya and that's why it was transphobic. she's not even trans lol

can someone explain why the episode was transphobic i havent seen it but given that south park had i think multiple seasons of mister garrison being transitioned into a woman id think the bar for being more transphobic than that is pretty high

El Pollo Blanco
Jun 12, 2013

by sebmojo

Some Guy TT posted:

i miss the days when superhero movies were self consciously stupid and all the people involved realized there was nothing they could do to change that so they just hammed it up at every opportunity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZl69yk5lEY

todays ironically stupid superhero movies are just obnoxious as all hell because they still expect us to switch gears and start crying at a moments notice because the vague father figure that made sarcastic quips just heroically sacrificed himself over contrived bullshit

the only thing i've enjoyed in any of the MCU movies was tom hiddleston as loki, because he seemed to be hamming it up constantly, and generally looked like he thought everything was real dumb

22 Eargesplitten
Oct 10, 2010



Taintrunner posted:

yeah, forgotten weapons is v. chill

Agreed, he also has history videos on the civil war (which he says was about slavery, pissing off tons of gun chuds) and about armed Jewish resistance to the nazis (also pissing of tons of gun chuds).

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


Some Guy TT posted:

can someone explain why the episode was transphobic i havent seen it but given that south park had i think multiple seasons of mister garrison being transitioned into a woman id think the bar for being more transphobic than that is pretty high

PC Principal's wife, Strong Woman, competes in a local women's athletic contest, only to be blown out of the water by a transwoman who is just Macho Man Randy Savage. Meanwhile their children, the PC Babies, cry at everything.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Taintrunner posted:

gently caress Star Wars, my loving space-waifu Avasarala is coming back to the spotlight in less than a couple weeks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3KTel_MTdU

"I'm a smug old bitch who enjoys playing with life and death on her big chessboard"

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

Choose this life you're on your own

KiteAuraan posted:

PC Principal's wife, Strong Woman, competes in a local women's athletic contest, only to be blown out of the water by a transwoman who is just Macho Man Randy Savage. Meanwhile their children, the PC Babies, cry at everything.

So more right wing circlejerking?

El Pollo Blanco posted:

the only thing i've enjoyed in any of the MCU movies was tom hiddleston as loki, because he seemed to be hamming it up constantly, and generally looked like he thought everything was real dumb

Didn't Ibris Elba hate everything having to do with Marvel movies and just went through the motions until he was met with the sweet release of his contract at the beginning of Infinity War?

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


Forceholy posted:

So more right wing circlejerking?
Yeah basically. It reads like Matt and Trey screaming "I am not mad! You're mad!" but that is PC Babies in general.

A Big Fuckin Hornet
Nov 1, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
the episode is basically just pretending that the attack helicopter crowd are actually making nuanced points when they Just Ask Questions like "well but what if lebron decided to identify as a woman and play in the WNBA"

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

Choose this life you're on your own
They're rich white guys from the Colorado suburbs. What kind of politics did you guys expect them to have?

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


The issue is more that they occasionally seem to learn, for example "The Cissy", while far from perfect was an improvement over Trans-Black Kyle and Dolphin Gerald, and then they sink right back to that level a few seasons later.

They'll be denying climate change in a few years, I am certain.

foobardog
Apr 19, 2007

There, now I can tell when you're posting.

-- A friend :)

KiteAuraan posted:

The issue is more that they occasionally seem to learn, for example "The Cissy", while far from perfect was an improvement over Trans-Black Kyle and Dolphin Gerald, and then they sink right back to that level a few seasons later.

They'll be denying climate change in a few years, I am certain.

Didn't they already do that? I thought that was the manbearpig episode with Al Gore.

Which they apparently revisited with a message of "oh, he was right, but he annoyed us, so still".

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

is fist of the north star ideologically fraught

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn3cHUtNZKo

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Stairmaster posted:

is fist of the north star ideologically fraught

I guess it's kind of anarchist but not really. Ken just does whatever he wants, and mostly what he wants to do is beat up bad guys.

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


Raoh did nothing wrong. He was just cleaning up Nanto Seiken counterrevolutionaries.

Percelus
Sep 9, 2012

My command, your wish is

fist of the north star is literally ken killing the poo poo out of bandits and usually after offering them a peaceful solution to end their rape and pillage

i don't think there is a deeper message than bandits raping and pillaging are bad and you should stop them if capable, through peaceful means if possible except it never works out

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://youtu.be/8QOxKCKC09A

A Gnarlacious Bro
Apr 25, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

ATP_Power
Jun 12, 2010

This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbE7bwlRH3s

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://twitter.com/ign/status/1198689264743198720?s=21

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://twitter.com/BitchAssBowie/status/1198698439695048705?s=20

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

This displeases Dev- ..van. Shut up.

God I hate that this doesn’t shock me

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
we live in a kingdom

princesses rise up

Serf
May 5, 2011


last night's episode of watchmen was pretty good. i'm kinda enjoying the angle they're taking here, but i still need more of the puzzle pieces to fall into place because i'm not seeing how things line up just yet

changing it so that hooded justice was actually a black man fighting kkk mesmerists is actually pretty good

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

This displeases Dev- ..van. Shut up.
DIRTLUST, MISSOURI - Things took a turn for the worse early Thursday morning during the premiere of Dreamworks’ The Princess & The Pea when overeager fans lost control of their chainsaws during a staged duel, beheading a six year old girl. Spokeswoman for Regal Cinema Group Elaine Winthorpe, when reached for comment, said “Eh” shrugged, and quietly held the shrug at its highest point while an assistant disconnected the Skype feed.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

not clear to me that the brawl actually had anything to do with the movie the article just says it was in the same theater

so does disney just cut checks to articles that gratuitously mention frozen 2 at the slightest excuse or are they just trying to be consistent for that time they blamed batman for a theater shooting

A Gnarlacious Bro
Apr 25, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Remember when Alamo drafthouse had extra security for their Joker screenings and also when they did that Women Only wonder woman screening

Dr. Killjoy
Oct 9, 2012

:thunk::mason::brainworms::tinfoil::thunkher:


homestuck cosplay lends itself well to entirely novel lows

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://twitter.com/slasherdaysaint/status/1198622798027067394?s=21

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

he's $100, not bad

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost
Wonder if I can get Charlie Day to sing "Go gently caress Yourself".

Echo Chamber
Oct 16, 2008

best username/post combo
I'm late to the Parasite train.

But I'm glad I finally caught it.

It's a very 2019 movie.

Freaking Crumbum
Apr 17, 2003

Too fuck to drunk


Stairmaster posted:

is fist of the north star ideologically fraught

i don't know where the original manga series for hokuto no ken lines up with the manga for dragon ball (i think it precedes it) but the manga goes into a lot more detail than the 80s anime and both ken and raoh are actually special super humans and that's why they're such bad rear end dudes. it's been forever since i read them but IIRC it's implied ken & raoh are even aliens and i made the connection between this and dragon ball, one definitely inspired the other

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Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

Freaking Crumbum posted:

i don't know where the original manga series for hokuto no ken lines up with the manga for dragon ball (i think it precedes it) but the manga goes into a lot more detail than the 80s anime and both ken and raoh are actually special super humans and that's why they're such bad rear end dudes. it's been forever since i read them but IIRC it's implied ken & raoh are even aliens and i made the connection between this and dragon ball, one definitely inspired the other

uh no that's not a thing in either the original HnK or the prequel manga SnK set in the 1930s.

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