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Beefstew posted:I spent a good chunk of my childhood reading dozens upon dozens of awful EU novels. It made me appreciate TLJ so much more. Same, with an added bonus of "okay I get why people kinda like the prequels now"
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Calico Heart posted:Renegade Cut has made some good content in the past, and works pretty darned hard, but as some posters have pointed out here before sometimes he comes across as so darned smug in his videos they're hard to watch. A few times he's basically said "critics and reviewers need to watch more movies, so they're more likely to be experts and more likely to be discerning, and theeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyy all said Batman V Superman is Bad/Twilight Zone is good etc"
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May 5, 2020 01:03
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Mr Phillby posted:Generations is dumb just like all the TNG movies were. I do wish they'd let Shatner use his "bridge on the Captain" line tho, at least thats fun dumb. First Contact is a fun Die Hard In A Spaceship movie.
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Vagabundo posted:First Contact is a fun Die Hard In A Spaceship movie. The episode where the Enterprise is in space dock for maintenance and Picard has to stop a bunch of terrorists from stealing a bunch of dark matter engine waste singlehandedly is a much better Diehard in a spaceship story. Picard is a cold motherfucker but actually stays in character the whole time, its rad. Its the best tng movie for sure but that puts it somewhere above Into Darkness but below the search for spok for me personally.
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I stopped watching Renegade Cut after watching his Interstellar review where he made the galaxy brain argument that space exploration is exactly the same thing as Imperialism because we are denying microbes on any planet we touch down on the chance to evolve, and thus committing pre-emptive genocide.
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Neo_Crimson posted:I stopped watching Renegade Cut after watching his Interstellar review where he made the galaxy brain argument that space exploration is exactly the same thing as Imperialism because we are denying microbes on any planet we touch down on the chance to evolve, and thus committing pre-emptive genocide. wait what. thats some weird mcintosh level takes right there. like i get being careful with colonialist themes in media/etc or doing them right but some of these dudes take it in stupidly hot take directions. sorta reminds me of the austin walker hot take about monster hunter but i could at least get what he was trying to say. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 02:26 on May 5, 2020 |
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May 5, 2020 02:23
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08e0SmFgu3c This guy seems alright, I've gone through a couple videos, he makes little bite sized reviews and is enthusiastic for the subject matter
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Ghostlight posted:I dropped out of the video once I realised it had transitioned into a boring lecture about how objectivity doesn't exist in order to support its proposal that people who thought the movie was bad are wrong. And even RC's very subjective taste is suspect by calling McDowell's performance 'haunting' and 'memorable.' He does his job as a villain more or less but there's nothing there like Khan or General Chang from The Undiscovered Country.
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Dawgstar posted:And even RC's very subjective taste is suspect by calling McDowell's performance 'haunting' and 'memorable.' He does his job as a villain more or less but there's nothing there like Khan or General Chang from The Undiscovered Country. but dawgstar time is the fire in which we all burn! what the gently caress does that mean
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May 5, 2020 03:47
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Neo_Crimson posted:I stopped watching Renegade Cut after watching his Interstellar review where he made the galaxy brain argument that space exploration is exactly the same thing as Imperialism because we are denying microbes on any planet we touch down on the chance to evolve, and thus committing pre-emptive genocide. I just got baffled by his Disco Elysium video since it was the most boring poo poo about "If I play the cop as a bad person, he is a fascist, and if I play the cop as a good person, he is a communist", which is the stupidest poo poo imaginable and doesn't go into any of the more interesting themes of the game whatsoever, or even that Disco Elysium implies any ideology Harry picks up are partially coping mechanisms for his failed relationship with his ex-wife, which really dims the interpretation that Harry is improving by embracing Mazovian socio-economics and more that Harry is chanting "kill everyone with more than 25 real in their pocket" since he somehow thinks that would've made his wife not leave him for what he assumes is his personal poverty.
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Alaois posted:but dawgstar I think its butchering one of Borges writings: "Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire." Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 05:12 on May 5, 2020 |
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Bakeneko posted:Time to get meta with Caddicarus as he reviews 287 of the worst game reviews ever. I still rewatch a lot of old Retsupurae episodes whenever I need a quick laugh so I’m glad to see Caddy exposing a new generation to this madness. Caddicarus in the review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFJqOlYaJbs Alaois posted:but dawgstar Time destroys us all, just like fire does. We will all die, we will all burn to ash.
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May 5, 2020 04:50
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Alaois posted:but dawgstar I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am, a God. McDowell put some real good effort in for Caligula to become what it did.
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time is the fire in which we burn - malcolm mcdowell oxygen kills us all - brad leone
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SunAndSpring posted:I just got baffled by his Disco Elysium video since it was the most boring poo poo about "If I play the cop as a bad person, he is a fascist, and if I play the cop as a good person, he is a communist", which is the stupidest poo poo imaginable and doesn't go into any of the more interesting themes of the game whatsoever, or even that Disco Elysium implies any ideology Harry picks up are partially coping mechanisms for his failed relationship with his ex-wife, which really dims the interpretation that Harry is improving by embracing Mazovian socio-economics and more that Harry is chanting "kill everyone with more than 25 real in their pocket" since he somehow thinks that would've made his wife not leave him for what he assumes is his personal poverty. its because renegade cuts is also a marxist therefore since he is one and the game has a path where you can cosplay one therefor its the good path and being the galaxy brain he is, he thinks thats the most correct opinion.
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I've continued watching PJ's Nuts and Bolts train gimmick run and yep, things are going about as well as expected: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwerZ43U3bM&hd=1&t=5742s
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The way his terrifying helicopter train made itself known the first time it spawned in after a challenge was just perfect. All of these vehicles hate existing and I love it.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:its because renegade cuts is also a marxist therefore since he is one and the game has a path where you can cosplay one therefor its the good path and being the galaxy brain he is, he thinks thats the most correct opinion. I mean, I lean towards Marxism myself but it's bizarre to conflate it with giving someone good morals by default. Communism can lead to an economic system that is more just and equitable than the one we have, but you can have absolutely lovely people who believe in it simply because the situation it results in would be way more advantageous to them. Disco Elysium notes this by having the leader of the Débardeurs' Union being an absolutely crooked and amoral figure, who everyone in the union trusts to advance a socialist agenda simply because he is so nakedly corrupt that he has nothing to hide unlike his capitalist rivals. I'm sure the militsiya of the USSR was just as unkind to citizens as its capitalist counterpart in the USA.
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tbf, I think saying the ideologies are solely coping mechanisms is a little reductionist in Disco Elysium. When you finally confront the evil ex-something, it's not like you can accuse her of not loving you based entirely on your appropriate ideology. If you're a fash, liberal, moralist or communist you can accuse her of not loving you because you're too poor/whatever. Basically, any excuse Harry can possibly think up is thrown her way. But yeah, that said, you can absolutely get a "good ending" if you play Fash (get reinstated, keep your honour relatively high and complete the important quests).
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Calico Heart posted:tbf, I think saying the ideologies are solely coping mechanisms is a little reductionist in Disco Elysium. When you finally confront the evil ex-something, it's not like you can accuse her of not loving you based entirely on your appropriate ideology. If you're a fash, liberal, moralist or communist you can accuse her of not loving you because you're too poor/whatever. Basically, any excuse Harry can possibly think up is thrown her way. But yeah, that said, you can absolutely get a "good ending" if you play Fash (get reinstated, keep your honour relatively high and complete the important quests). Not quite; Other endings can also get you reinstated, with the implications the cops are gonna be part of the uprising and need people like Harry.
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As a person who lives in post-communism country, I was always baffled by takes like communism=good. Communism is a utopia and the only attempt at bringing it to life turned to poo poo
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macabresca posted:As a person who lives in post-communism country, I was always baffled by takes like communism=good. Communism is a utopia and the only attempt at bringing it to life turned to poo poo Really? Workers owned the means of production and then everything turned to poo poo? How did that happen? And yes, communism is good, a better world is possible. Jamie Faith fucked around with this message at 09:58 on May 5, 2020 |
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macabresca posted:As a person who lives in post-communism country, I was always baffled by takes like communism=good. Communism is a utopia and the only attempt at bringing it to life turned to poo poo on the other hand capitalism is quite literally destroying the world, as in we are likely to see a complete worldwide ecological collapse and concurrent societal collapse within our lifetimes, and that's with capitalism working exactly as intended
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Jamie Faith posted:Really? Workers owned the means of production and then everything turned to poo poo? How did that happen? By 'turn to poo poo' I meant this whole totalitarian system thingy which you might've missed. There are always people willing to abuse others for their own gain and there were a lot of instances of corruption and financial discrepancies, e.g. between members of the Party and regular citizens. I'm not saying capitalism is better. I'm just saying that I can only find such enthusiasm among people who never actually lived in communist country. Here there is much more disillusionment.
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macabresca posted:As a person who lives in post-communism country, I was always baffled by takes like communism=good. Communism is a utopia and the only attempt at bringing it to life turned to poo poo I mean not going too hard on this cause frankly I'm not too educated on this or that invested, but as someone that works with statistics the statement that 'the few attempts at communism failed' kinda sucks as an argument given most attempts at capitalism fail as well. People aren't good at setting up countries that aren't oppressive, poverty ridden shitholes, regardless of chosen economic system. In the USSR's case in particular, Tsarist Russia and post communist Russia kind of have a lot of the same problems to varying degrees, and I'm not sure how many of it's problems are more about underlying issues with Russian society and not a result of feudalism/communism/capitalism. There are other arguments for and against communism and capitalism that people more educated than me can throw around (preferably somewhere far far from this thread) but just statistically 'the few attempts at this failed so we should stick to the system done hundreds of times that also almost always results in failure for most of it's population' is a weird argument.
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CmdrKing posted:Cracked, like any thing that absolutely blew up on the late 00s internet, started out with a solid premise and was worth some good laughs but let quality control slip in the name of ever more content and was a parody of itself a few years later, then jettisoned everyone that was still doing good work. Fortunately many of them landed on their feet and still do good work. There is only 1 good person left on cracked and that's Seanbaby. No idea why he's on there, though. macabresca posted:As a person who lives in post-communism country, I was always baffled by takes like communism=good. Communism is a utopia and the only attempt at bringing it to life turned to poo poo Sup post-commie buddy  Its basically just people who never lived in a Communist country thinking the grass is greener on the other side.
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A Sometimes Food posted:There are other arguments for and against communism and capitalism that people more educated than me can throw around (preferably somewhere far far from this thread) but just statistically 'the few attempts at this failed so we should stick to the system done hundreds of times that also almost always results in failure for most of it's population' is a weird argument. It's more like if communism is ever reintroduced on such a scale it should be thoroughly examined in order to avoid the mistakes of the past. And, well, I'm obviously biased because people in my country are pretty salty when it comes to the subject. I just think those differences in perspective are very interesting. Archer666 posted:Sup post-commie buddy Howdy! Also yeah, this
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Suggesting communism as an alternative to capitalism is like saying “we could cut down on pollution caused by aircraft if we taught people to instead fly by flapping their arms really fast”. It highlights a real problem but undermines itself because the solution is incompatible with how people function. I’ve said it before but I believe that humans have always gravitated towards a capitalistic mentality, even before we attached a name to the concept. We’re not blind slaves to our instincts but neither can we ignore those instincts. If I were designing a perfect society for a type of robot that lacked emotion and always acted rationally, I’d probably make them communists, but we aren’t robots, just like we aren’t birds with the wings and hollow bones required to enable flight, and we have to work within those limitations rather than wasting our effort lamenting them. Personally I’d say that, if a practical path to a better world exists, it’ll involve implementing more socialist policies like UBI that exist in parallel to capitalism while acting as a safety net for those left behind by it.
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The major function of capitalism is that the possession of wealth allows you to possess more wealth, inevitably corroding and dismantling the restrictions you put in place to protect people. This is exactly what has happened in capitalist countries around the world, since the "third way politics" you describe had their heyday in the 90s.
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Bakeneko posted:Personally I’d say that, if a practical path to a better world exists, it’ll involve implementing more socialist policies like UBI that exist in parallel to capitalism while acting as a safety net for those left behind by it. Basically what I think too. Applying Hegelian dialectic to Capitalism with Communism and seeing how the synthesis will work.
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when capitalism's contradictions are no longer able to be swept under the rug, the people choose socialism or barbarism as a direct response to addressing those specific contradictions. capitalism is designed to grow unchecked exponentially, like cancer in a human body; trying to reform capitalism is like trying to treat a cancer patient with a placebo.
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Archer666 posted:There is only 1 good person left on cracked and that's Seanbaby. No idea why he's on there, though. macabresca posted:It's more like if communism is ever reintroduced on such a scale it should be thoroughly examined in order to avoid the mistakes of the past. And, well, I'm obviously biased because people in my country are pretty salty when it comes to the subject. I just think those differences in perspective are very interesting. I mean yeah, insane tankies aside no one wants to repeat the Soviet Union, China or North Korea. But like the current capitalist system is kinda inevitably leading to apocalypse in the long (or medium) term and in the short term is hellish for most people already, so people are understandably wanting to reexamine the only alternative that's really been tried to see if they can get it to work or at least lift what could work out of it to replace the things that will kill us all if they continue.
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macabresca posted:As a person who lives in post-communism country, I was always baffled by takes like communism=good. Communism is a utopia and the only attempt at bringing it to life turned to poo poo imo it is because the ways in which capitalism is destroying the planet and causing inequality is getting harder and harder to ignore, as as those in power don't seem to care/actively support that process, the "polar opposite"/alternative has become an increasingly more utopian prospect. One of my big problems dumb youtube people like me is that we don't really spend much time talking about how to prevent the failures of instituting communism/an-com/whatever. In general my problem with Breadtube overall is how reactive it is; we respond to content made by Bad People and respond to current social situations and topics. I genuinely don't say this in a salty or angry way, but the content I've made that positions itself as being opposed to or in response to something typically does much better than videos that simply explore concepts. Though he still makes more pro-active content, this is also true with content creators like Thought Slime; his "thing bad" videos do way better than his "join a co-op/labour org" stuff. This isn't to say Breadtubers aren't putting in a lot of effort or creating good content; just that it's a rend I've noticed that has me drifting away from certain creators/content. I know PragerU is bad and don't really get anything out of a a simple example of their badness.
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SunAndSpring posted:I just got baffled by his Disco Elysium video since it was the most boring poo poo about "If I play the cop as a bad person, he is a fascist, and if I play the cop as a good person, he is a communist", which is the stupidest poo poo imaginable and doesn't go into any of the more interesting themes of the game whatsoever, or even that Disco Elysium implies any ideology Harry picks up are partially coping mechanisms for his failed relationship with his ex-wife, which really dims the interpretation that Harry is improving by embracing Mazovian socio-economics and more that Harry is chanting "kill everyone with more than 25 real in their pocket" since he somehow thinks that would've made his wife not leave him for what he assumes is his personal poverty. I have to ask if you're being deliberately obtuse here? The whole video is about the inherently fascistic nature of policing, and how Disco Elysium is able to emulate this: if you act like a regular cop you end up with a fascist, and even if you do the exact opposite of those things and play as a communist, you still end up supporting a fascist institution because the things you're forced to do have that impact. I mean if you wanted a video actually about Disco Elysium that's fair, I'm sure there's way, way, way more things you can pull out of it that engage more with its own themes and events, but it's okay to just use it as a springboard to talk about things within the game too.
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Alaois posted:but dawgstar Schwarzwald posted:I think its butchering one of Borges writings: It's from a poem called Calmly We Walk through This April's Day by Delmore Schwartz (1959): https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42633/calmly-we-walk-through-this-aprils-day quote:Time is the school in which we learn,
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CYBEReris posted:when capitalism's contradictions are no longer able to be swept under the rug, the people choose socialism or barbarism as a direct response to addressing those specific contradictions. capitalism is designed to grow unchecked exponentially, like cancer in a human body; trying to reform capitalism is like trying to treat a cancer patient with a placebo. which is probably the reason why capitalism got such a good hold on humans: as an organic species we're kind of made to exponentially grow and consume ever more resources, so capitalism feels appealing to us on a deep level. normally, a species would sooner or later run out of resources when growing out of control and mother nature would step in with a variety of predators, diseases or just simple starvation to cut numbers back obviously sharks and lions aren't a threat to us anymore though, which means the humble virus and mass starvation have to step in to get our numbers back under control or we could just invent a social system which isn't just the biological imperative translated into human language and then make it appealing enough to make it take hold among the larger population but don't worry, even if that never happens, eventually capitalism will cause enough unrest by its very nature that it will break down, hopefully before all humans are dead and the planet is ruined
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