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| Lilac |
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12 | 3.96% |
| Gooseberries |
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8 | 2.64% |
| Turtle soup |
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11 | 3.63% |
| Your favourite Doritos flavor (please specify) |
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14 | 4.62% |
| Gamer girl bath water |
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54 | 17.82% |
| Stop it |
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158 | 52.15% |
| A Pizza Hut Personal Pan Pizza (Pepperoni) |
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33 | 10.89% |
| get stick bugged lol |
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12 | 3.96% |
| tomato pizza |
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1 | 0.33% |
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:Real Hufflepuff post Categorising people? Check out old mate Slytherin over here
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Harry Potter is really a pretty bleak dystopian world if you factor in all of the stuff about how wizards horde their unlimited resources and abilities to themselves. The books straight up endorse prejudice and racism. At least in Black Panther, they decide to share all of their technology with the rest of the world, but then everyone died in the next movie anyways.
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Aug 19, 2020 15:39
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Hagrid's pretty cool Sirius got done dirty though
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Aug 19, 2020 15:45
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From what I can tell there was 1 good guy house, 2 evil houses and then the irrelevant house.
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Aug 19, 2020 15:47
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Spring Break My Heart posted:From what I can tell there was 1 good guy house, 2 evil houses and then the irrelevant house. https://twitter.com/TVsCarlKinsella/status/762038953721597953
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Aug 19, 2020 15:49
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They're all british aristocracy, every house is evil
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Aug 19, 2020 15:51
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Spring Break My Heart posted:From what I can tell there was 1 good guy house, 2 evil houses and then the irrelevant house. what was the other evil one? i feel like ravenclawn and hufflepuff were both irrelevant, largely.
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Aug 19, 2020 15:51
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I bamboozled myself into a loving Harry Potter conversation
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Aug 19, 2020 15:51
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Hufflepuff is the stoner chill house
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Aug 19, 2020 15:53
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Aug 19, 2020 15:56
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I would rather talk about Harry Potter than Star Wars, but if I had to choose, Marvel movies. Although ideally none of these things.
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Aug 19, 2020 15:56
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Sci-fi is the only good spec fic fantasy is boring and reactionary
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Aug 19, 2020 15:57
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sci-fi is just Harry Potter but Gryffindors are humans and the other houses are aliens
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Aug 19, 2020 15:58
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Hwurmp posted:sci-fi is just Harry Potter but Gryffindors are humans and the other houses are aliens Tell me 1 sci-fi that is like this
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Aug 19, 2020 15:58
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Are there any fun books that take the "We're a secret society of wizards/men-in-black/superheroes" premise but have the protagonist realize that they're constantly mind-wiping the populace from casually blowing their cover in stupid hijinks that are not beholden to host-nation laws and in response goes "gently caress this bullshit" and distributes the secret bone-healing potions/alien cancer treatments to the populace?
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Aug 19, 2020 15:59
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What Hogwarts house would Chewbacca be sorted into? Please note that Wookies do not possess souls.
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Aug 19, 2020 15:59
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:Tell me 1 sci-fi that is like this all of them Infinitum posted:What Hogwarts house would Chewbacca be sorted into? Please note that Wookies do not possess souls. Hufflepuff, the house for irrelevant window dressing
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Aug 19, 2020 16:00
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Infinitum posted:What Hogwarts house would Chewbacca be sorted into? Please note that Wookies do not possess souls. Chewbacca has torn the Sorting Hat asunder
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Aug 19, 2020 16:00
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ChickenHeart posted:Are there any fun books that take the "We're a secret society of wizards/men-in-black/superheroes" premise but have the protagonist realize that they're constantly mind-wiping the populace from casually blowing their cover in stupid hijinks that are not beholden to host-nation laws and in response goes "gently caress this bullshit" and distributes the secret bone-healing potions/alien cancer treatments to the populace? If Wizards are so great why do they imprison people in paintings for all eternity after they die?
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Aug 19, 2020 16:00
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Infinitum posted:What Hogwarts house would Chewbacca be sorted into? Please note that Wookies do not possess souls. Hmmm that’s a good question what house would the slave owning human wizard population would put a non-human in.
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Aug 19, 2020 16:01
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Imagining the timeline where Earthsea became as popular as Harry Potter How about Culture instead?
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Aug 19, 2020 16:01
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Awesome Animals posted:How about Culture instead? This is now a Culture ship name thread
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Aug 19, 2020 16:02
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Awesome Animals posted:How about Culture instead? I watch my Let's Plays, not read them
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Aug 19, 2020 16:02
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I've read somewhere that the society in Harry Potter is pretty accurate to the ideal Blairite republic or w/e.
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Aug 19, 2020 16:03
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:This is now a Culture ship name thread Fart Trapped In A Metal Box
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Aug 19, 2020 16:06
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ChickenHeart posted:Are there any fun books that take the "We're a secret society of wizards/men-in-black/superheroes" premise but have the protagonist realize that they're constantly mind-wiping the populace from casually blowing their cover in stupid hijinks that are not beholden to host-nation laws and in response goes "gently caress this bullshit" and distributes the secret bone-healing potions/alien cancer treatments to the populace? Watchmen, kind of? Definitely subverts this theme but not in the way you suggest.
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Aug 19, 2020 16:07
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ChickenHeart posted:Are there any fun books that take the "We're a secret society of wizards/men-in-black/superheroes" premise but have the protagonist realize that they're constantly mind-wiping the populace from casually blowing their cover in stupid hijinks that are not beholden to host-nation laws and in response goes "gently caress this bullshit" and distributes the secret bone-healing potions/alien cancer treatments to the populace? Wanted.
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Aug 19, 2020 16:11
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Usually when your story is about destroying that society from the inside that happens. New Wolfenstein uses that trope as a basis for why the Nazis got super weapons and its a plot thread that leaves a bad taste in my mouth and I don't like it even if I understand the alternative is also bad.
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Aug 19, 2020 16:12
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Yes, but on the flip side you can kill Nazis to make yourself feel better about it.
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Aug 19, 2020 16:14
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Barudak posted:They're all british aristocracy, every house is evil it was pretty funny when the one irish kid got poo poo on in the latter books. and also the one black kid dated ron's sister and he did a spit take. lol these books were so bad
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Aug 19, 2020 16:14
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Barudak posted:They're all british aristocracy, every house is evil ChickenHeart posted:Are there any fun books that take the "We're a secret society of wizards/men-in-black/superheroes" premise but have the protagonist realize that they're constantly mind-wiping the populace from casually blowing their cover in stupid hijinks that are not beholden to host-nation laws and in response goes "gently caress this bullshit" and distributes the secret bone-healing potions/alien cancer treatments to the populace? The problem is as soon as they do that they stop being secret, so it only works if you're willing to blow up the premise. Alan Moore did it a couple times for example, like in Miracleman, but instead it turns into a sort of benevolent post-human dictatorship that loses sight of what it is to be human. Or you get stuff like Top 10 where all the secret stuff is out in the open but we still get the same crappy world, only with super-capitalism, super-war-crimes, super-crooked-cops, super-cancer and super-lawyers, because human nature has successfully been preserved. I kinda like the Luluco variant where the secret super alien society is out in the open but no one gives a drat because it's turned out aliens are kinda lame. Chev fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Aug 19, 2020 |
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Aug 19, 2020 16:16
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DLC Inc posted:it was pretty funny when the one irish kid got poo poo on in the latter books. and also the one black kid dated ron's sister and he did a spit take. lol these books were so bad Rons whole family treats the french girl one of sons is dating like trash because she's French
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Aug 19, 2020 16:17
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DLC Inc posted:it was pretty funny when the one irish kid got poo poo on in the latter books. and also the one black kid dated ron's sister and he did a spit take. lol these books were so bad Cho. Chang.
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Aug 19, 2020 16:20
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DLC Inc posted:it was pretty funny when the one irish kid got poo poo on in the latter books. and also the one black kid dated ron's sister and he did a spit take. lol these books were so bad none of the kids were black in the books if it helps
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thehoodie posted:Watchmen, kind of? Definitely subverts this theme but not in the way you suggest. "I will avert the onset of war and unite our species!" *obliterates millions of innocents who had little-to-no influence in world affairs, leaving malicious status quo governments intact; all while unloading a deluge of liquid poo poo into my toga costume and the supercomputer behind me*
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Barudak posted:Usually when your story is about destroying that society from the inside that happens. i've seen this opinion posted elsewhere and it's wrong, the nazis basically crowbarred open one of the superweapon vaults and robbed it blind, at which point the secret society tried to convene so that they could determine how to distribute their technology to non-nazis to counter it unfortunately the nazis got to them first
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Aug 19, 2020 16:22
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Oxxidation posted:i've seen this opinion posted elsewhere and it's wrong, the nazis basically crowbarred open one of the superweapon vaults and robbed it blind, at which point the secret society tried to convene so that they could determine how to distribute their technology to non-nazis to counter it Having a secret cabal of technology not shared with people is the plot that lets the Nazi's get the tech and plays into Jewish conspiracy myths. The issue is the alternative is presenting the Nazis as remotely scientific anything in their own right which is probably worse.
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Aug 19, 2020 16:24
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Fleur Delacour was basically a stereotypical French woman. JK didn't hide her politics at all looking back at that series.
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Aug 19, 2020 16:25
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Barudak posted:Having a secret cabal of technology not shared with people is the plot that lets the Nazi's get the tech and plays into Jewish conspiracy myths. The issue is the alternative is presenting the Nazis as remotely scientific anything in their own right which is probably worse. da'at yichud's concept of creation strictly as a way to commune with the divine without practical application was super cool actually
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This is still the best piece of Harry Potter media https://youtu.be/tKNhPpUR0Pg
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