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Katt posted:I remember in Dune. Frank Herbert made the heroes so drat pragmatic and cynical that he felt he had to make Baron Harkonnen rape and kill children just to put the scales back in order as to who the villain was. Very true. Though he at least dropped that quickly. For most of the other books, the antagonists tend to be on an even moral keel with the Atreides, or even a bit higher considering they are not having a fanatic crusade sterilize dozens of planets in veneration of a false god. It becomes Status Quo Pragmatics versus Future-Seeing Extremists. Of course, then it degenerates into sexual mind-control guerillas, because sci-fi authors can't not be weird about sex.
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Nov 19, 2020 18:12
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See also: Fantasy authors
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Nov 19, 2020 18:28
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RareAcumen posted:Alpharad's having a rough one Lol this literally happened to me once with UberEats. Thankfully there was only a few duplicate orders.
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Nov 19, 2020 21:11
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Arcsquad12 posted:A defense that's also used is that "it was like that back then" which is a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of how ancient societies worked. They had laws. Lots of people hung up on the Viking craze are all about the raping and pillaging but the British Isles had pretty extreme laws against assaulting women even when the Danelaw covered most of the east coast with Danish settlers. Sexual violence obviously happens all the loving time and it's terrible but it's not a valid defense to put it in your story "because that's what it was like back then" since it was considered just as heinous back then as it is now. It's hack writing to either make you sympathetic to a female character in lieu of giving her actual character, or it's an attempt to make an edgy story about a lawless world that doesn't represent the reality you're ostensibly drawing inspiration from. Also I had to learn that yeah, food existed in the past, it wasn't all gruel and hard stone bread or people just not knowing what the gently caress they were doing. Like, I knew that sandwiches and lobster were thought of as low class food and black slaves in America made fried chicken because they were given garbage to start with but I never really thought about it beyond that. Thanks Townsends! RareAcumen fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Nov 20, 2020 |
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Nov 19, 2020 21:19
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RareAcumen posted:Thanks Townsends! I had to look this guy up and this channel seems fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlo-4ugeFU8
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Nov 19, 2020 21:31
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Groovelord Neato posted:I always think of his song "What If Civilization Had Lyrics?" when the song (Baba Yetu) not only had lyrics (the Lord's Prayer in Swahili) but it also won a Grammy. lmao Arcsquad12 posted:I had to look this guy up and this channel seems fun! townsends is great, love that friendly history dad
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Nov 19, 2020 22:19
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He's more nutmeg than man! Edit: Interesting thing I've learned from his channel is how old recipe books were very vague about stuff like measurements. muscles like this! fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Nov 19, 2020 |
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Nov 19, 2020 22:42
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id take brentalfloss over those white guys who said the nword over the double dragon soundtrack. thats absolutely the most embarrassing nerdcore music thing i can remember the internet being into
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Nov 19, 2020 23:11
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RareAcumen posted:Also I had to learn that yeah, food existed in the past, it wasn't all gruel and hard stone bread or people just not knowing what the gently caress they were doing. Like, I knew that sandwiches and lobster were thought of as low class food and black slaves in America made fried chicken because they were giving garbage to start with but I never really thought about it beyond that. Endorph posted:id take brentalfloss over those white guys who said the nword over the double dragon soundtrack. thats absolutely the most embarrassing nerdcore music thing i can remember the internet being into
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Nov 19, 2020 23:44
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Terrible Opinions posted:An embarrassingly low bar. no there's still neil cicierga's meme music pseudo mashup stuff. that's the lowest point
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Nov 19, 2020 23:55
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Impermanent posted:no there's still neil cicierga's meme music pseudo mashup stuff. that's the lowest point I'm gonna go with the goon that tried to do the same thing when Girl Talk was big.
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Nov 19, 2020 23:58
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Endorph posted:id take brentalfloss over those white guys who said the nword over the double dragon soundtrack. thats absolutely the most embarrassing nerdcore music thing i can remember the internet being into I mostly remember the bizarre sexist aside in their megaman video
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Nov 20, 2020 00:20
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Neil Cicerega is genuinely a genius at a very dumb thing IMO. Brentalfloss has some cute/fine stuff but ultimately his gimmick it to just sing over already popular nerd music. Also some of his stuff is all 'yeah its mario jump in the pipe save the pricess mario yeah' and other times it's 'if you like tetris you must have a vag and boobs'. The tetris thing was really strange, like is that even a thing people associate with tetris it was pretty popular with everyone I thought? I remember seeing the youtube comments when it came out out and everyone was just like 'I genuinely don't understand why you've done this, brentalfloss' and I think he said it was supposed to be an absurdist joke, the kind of funny joke where you disapoint and confuse your fans by writing sexist nonsense haha.
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Nov 20, 2020 00:53
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quote:3) TETRIS WITH LYRICS the mid 2000s were a dire time
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Nov 20, 2020 01:00
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb-ajY8M6gI&t so i was bored last night and trying to sleep and youtube recommended it to me. its like the dumbest theory video i have seen and i am not even sure what the theory is. helped me sleep though.
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Nov 20, 2020 01:01
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Brentalfloss is pretty meh but this is his best work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE5fmZrqtL8
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Nov 20, 2020 01:19
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^^^ Quite suprisingly a pro click right there. Casey Finnigan posted:the mid 2000s were a dire time Anyway here's a good version of the tetris theme with lyrics to wash the taste away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8 Mr Phillby fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Nov 20, 2020 |
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Nov 20, 2020 01:25
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Casey Finnigan posted:the mid 2000s were a dire time Wanna bet that there's some keyboard warrior defending it because it was before EVERYONE WAS OFFENDED?
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Nov 20, 2020 01:30
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Casey Finnigan posted:the mid 2000s were a dire time
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Nov 20, 2020 02:03
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb-ajY8M6gI&t
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Nov 20, 2020 02:10
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb-ajY8M6gI&t it's a shitpost op
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Nov 20, 2020 03:05
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb-ajY8M6gI&t But why was that gorilla underwater in the first place?
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Nov 20, 2020 03:43
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Grimbeard did another excellent review, this time of Fallout 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXhthU0_P9E
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Nov 20, 2020 04:09
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Vonnie posted:it's a shitpost op I assumed it was some weird parody in the vein of quiton or something but I think it’s legit. Sarcopenia posted:I tried to watch this when it popped up in my recommendations a couple of days ago but I tapped out, when the author showed 3 instances of skin reveals a second time just if you didn't get that, that was what you were supposed to focus on in a video titled "Skin Theory". Sure but it’s still super loving vague like I think the dude just doesn’t get jokes.
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Nov 20, 2020 04:22
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Sarcopenia posted:I tried to watch this when it popped up in my recommendations a couple of days ago but I tapped out, when the author showed 3 instances of skin reveals a second time just if you didn't get that, that was what you were supposed to focus on in a video titled "Skin Theory". https://twitter.com/4eyes_/status/805851294292381696
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Nov 20, 2020 05:35
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Dapper_Swindler posted:I assumed it was some weird parody in the vein of quiton or something but I think it’s legit. Nah, it's a parody/joke. There's a few hand tips in the video, but the credits confirm it, even though Poe's Law is quite real when it comes to stuff like this. Although it's more a parody of terrible videos like the Game Theory ones or the plethora of "What if children's show was really dark and edgy!" than something like Quinton or what gets posted here. "Well, I sure hope Skin Theory is real, otherwise Spongebob gave that poor fish 3rd-degree burns. How horrifying is that!" "The man in the horse suit was the guy who voiced Klaus on American Dad, another proof of Skin Theory. The show was really ahead of its time (because American Dad came out 2 years after that episode aired  ). I liked it overall. It's a long joke based entirely on the meta humor of it existing. I like stuff like Episode One though and used to write snarky articles on fake symbolism to piss off my English teacher so it spoke to my soul. Plus I got it recommended to me through Twitter by a person noting it was a deeply committed joke, so that was my headspace going in. I was actually getting ready to link it and you beat me to it. It sucks a little since it being that long is part of the joke, but well, it's an hour-long shitpost. Although it's a good excuse to watch a ton of Spongebob clips. Plus the end kind of drops the conceit to point out that he just really wanted to make a video about how much he liked early Spongebob and was saddened by Hillenburg's Death.
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Nov 20, 2020 07:51
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Motto posted:I mostly remember the bizarre sexist aside in their megaman video That was uncomfortable
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Nov 20, 2020 10:10
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RareAcumen posted:Also I had to learn that yeah, food existed in the past, it wasn't all gruel and hard stone bread or people just not knowing what the gently caress they were doing. Like, I knew that sandwiches and lobster were thought of as low class food and black slaves in America made fried chicken because they were giving garbage to start with but I never really thought about it beyond that. Tasting History also seems to be pretty good for this, although I always think the guy presenting it is the son of Peter Rosenthal from the the Onion's movie review.
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Nov 20, 2020 10:43
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Mr Phillby posted:Oh holy poo poo I forgot just how bad that was, god drat lol. I remember reading somewhere that he regrets doing that now for what it's worth.
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Nov 20, 2020 11:44
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https://twitter.com/AshBCoffin/status/1329754140310974466?s=20 What did she think vagina museum wrapping paper was going to look like? Everything they sell is vagina themed.
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Nov 20, 2020 13:57
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Katt posted:https://twitter.com/AshBCoffin/status/1329754140310974466?s=20 Is there a cock museum? I feel like there should be a cock museum that does that.
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Nov 20, 2020 14:09
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Archer666 posted:Is there a cock museum? I feel like there should be a cock museum that does that. https://phallus.is/en/
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Nov 20, 2020 14:14
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During an unexpected layover in Reykjavik a few years ago my wife and I went to this penis museum on a lark. Being hungover and queasy, the novelty of a room full of severed penises in jars wore off for me quickly. Lotta pickled dicks with frayed masses of tissue at their base.
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Nov 20, 2020 14:26
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Pickled Dicks sounds like an obscure British foodstuff.
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Nov 20, 2020 14:48
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i'm pickled dick
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Nov 20, 2020 16:51
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Archer666 posted:Is there a cock museum? I feel like there should be a cock museum that does that. https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/other-worlds-sf/sheila-marie-borideux/the-third-martian-dick-temple Reminds me of this goon-written SF short story.
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Nov 20, 2020 17:06
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:i'm pickled dick He turned himself into a dick its a funniest poo poo I've ever seen This goes on my to-visit museum next to Japan's cool poop museum
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Nov 20, 2020 17:20
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muscles like this! posted:He's more nutmeg than man! Instructions too. Phrases like "prepare in the usual style" show up a lot in Townsends and Tasting History. Arcsquad12 posted:I had to look this guy up and this channel seems fun! Townsends is great. He also frequently does episodes with Michael Twitty, that are about Black and Indigenous food of the time period (often specifically enslaved people, for obvious reasons) which are really worth seeking out if you're interested in that sort of thing.
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Nov 20, 2020 18:31
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Katt posted:I remember in Dune. Frank Herbert made the heroes so drat pragmatic and cynical that he felt he had to make Baron Harkonnen rape and kill children just to put the scales back in order as to who the villain was. Calling a paul a hero is a bit debatable. The whole point of the book is how he failed to stop a galaxy wide genocide and cult put into his name, while(in the sequels) effectively killing an entire culture. yeah hes not raping children, but its a good example of hero vs protagonist. then his son turns into a worm and get gets weird about sex.
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New Folding Ideas on that wacko documentary pushing geocentrism that tricked Kate Mulgrew and some physicists into appearing in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icwDF8wRgF4
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