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John Wick of Dogs posted:He didn't check his mirror before opening his car. That could have been a truck. Over ten bicyclists are killed in NYC by people doing this every year 
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:https://twitter.com/Completionist/status/1581776851663364096 holy poo poo. G4TV existed until an hour ago? It had a relaunch?
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John Wick of Dogs posted:He didn't check his mirror before opening his car. That could have been a truck. Over ten bicyclists are killed in NYC by people doing this every year I assumed the cyclist was the subject because he was the only one who was potentially injured in the clip.
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Oct 17, 2022 01:43
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I think it was only on directv or comcast or some poo poo. It wasn't widely available. Probably would have gotten more viewers if it was a tubi channel.
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Oct 17, 2022 01:44
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God I hope they brought back that Kevin guy
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Oct 17, 2022 01:45
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THEN FIRED HIM AGAIN HAHAHAHAH
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The Fattest PI posted:I assumed the cyclist was the subject because he was the only one who was potentially injured in the clip.
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Literally A Person posted:God I hope they brought back that Kevin guy He had a show on truTV for a while. It was some dumb life hack poo poo.
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if you know a better way to tow a boat I'm all ears
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:if you know a better way to tow a boat I'm all ears 
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that is an amphibious vehicle, not a way to tow a boat
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Oct 17, 2022 02:14
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:that is an amphibious vehicle, not a way to tow a boat Yeah, and you don't need a trailer for it so when you tow it it won't fall off. Do I need to explain everything to you?
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Inceltown posted:Yeah, and you don't need a trailer for it so when you tow it it won't fall off. Do I need to explain everything to you? I would like that
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I was sceptical but I guess I owe Elon Musk a mental apology - got any pictures of it in the water generating thrust by wheel rotation?
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Doodles posted:Introduce her to the Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett, or Hamster Princess by Ursula Vernon. Either series is infinitely better written than Harvey Potash, and unlikely to turn her into a bigot. I'm just going to let her read whatever she wants instead of giving her homework based on twitter behaviour. If Harry Potter was going to turn someone into a bigot, 90% of millennials would be TERFs. Sometimes the books you liked as a kid were written by terrible people, it doesn't exactly bear that much on you as a person. I'm not going to pretend I never liked David Eddings because he locked a foster kid in a cage.
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bell jar posted:What a nauti truck driven hard and put away wet
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Caesar Saladin posted:I'm just going to let her read whatever she wants instead of giving her homework based on twitter behaviour. If Harry Potter was going to turn someone into a bigot, 90% of millennials would be TERFs. Sometimes the books you liked as a kid were written by terrible people, it doesn't exactly bear that much on you as a person. I'm not going to pretend I never liked David Eddings because he locked a foster kid in a cage. Yeah I’m not going to feel bad about liking a children’s series as a child. I have positive memories tied to HP from childhood, and that’s perfectly fine to have? I also loved the Little House on the Prairie and, get this, you don’t need to open the book to know how they aged. Like I learned how to behave (and not how to behave) from adults around me. I think it’s more important to model behaviors and attitudes for kids. Sure, they totally absorb poo poo from various forms of media but you can draw bolder lines to certain behaviors from child to an adult in their lives. Tldr; just like, talk to your kids, or kids in your life, about being a good person, to themselves and others.
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teen witch posted:Tldr; just like, talk to your kids, or kids in your life, about being a good person, to themselves and others.
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That requires actually *interacting* with my children, though. Can't I just let media do it for me??? This is a joke, I do not have children
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Malachite_Dragon posted:This is a joke, I do not have children yeah, we know
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It would suck to now hate every Weinstein Company movie because Harvey Weinstein is a monster with a deformed penis
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Baron von Eevl posted:The Earthsea books might be slightly above her level, but that's a good alternative. Ursula K Le Guin is so much infinitely cooler and better than Rowling. There's a wonderful quote from Ursula Le Guin that I read the other day and can't find again, about how people go and write fantasy without ever having read any of it, and produce naive, boring stuff that's only enjoyable for people who have never read fantasy. About how the author is wide-eyed in wonder about wizards and dragons and magic and stuff, while the better-read audience is like "yes, we know, that's not really all that interesting. Do something original". Anyway, she cited Rowling and Harry Potter as an excellent example of this.
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Hyperlynx posted:There's a wonderful quote from Ursula Le Guin that I read the other day and can't find again, about how people go and write fantasy without ever having read any of it, and produce naive, boring stuff that's only enjoyable for people who have never read fantasy. About how the author is wide-eyed in wonder about wizards and dragons and magic and stuff, while the better-read audience is like "yes, we know, that's not really all that interesting. Do something original". so we should read who instead? Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, G R R Martin? How bout Steven King, he wrote some fantasy books too. what makes Ursula better read than I am?
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:so we should read who instead? Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, G R R Martin? How bout Steven King, he wrote some fantasy books too. what makes Ursula better read than I am? Well for starters she knows that you put a capital letter at the start of a sentence.
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:so we should read who instead? Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, G R R Martin? How bout Steven King, he wrote some fantasy books too. what makes Ursula better read than I am? Read who you like, but the point is the stuff Rowlings puts out doesn't even begin to cut it for good fantasy - it's fairly basic in it's approach. It's the same argument why people are/were so critical of the Twilight series. Seems only people who aren't real readers of the genre really obsessed over it, but if you have been immersed in that genre for long, you realize how utterly shallow it is. There's no depth or nuance or anything more than basic tropes. If that's what you like, great, but don't be all shocked pikachu when people tell you there's much better stuff out there.
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teen witch posted:Yeah I’m not going to feel bad about liking a children’s series as a child. I have positive memories tied to HP from childhood, and that’s perfectly fine to have? I also loved the Little House on the Prairie and, get this, you don’t need to open the book to know how they aged. I absolutely adored the Little House series when I was young. Read all of them including the series about her daughter and the series’ about her mother, grandmother, and I think great grandmother. It’s been over 20 years since I read them and can only imagine how they’ve aged  I’ve even been to a few of her homesteads while on vacation so I had an immensely positive experience and it’ll always stay that way. I’ll never read them again so it stays that way in my memory. I’ve had enough childhood memories spoiled as it is Reiche fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Oct 17, 2022 |
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:so we should read who instead? Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, G R R Martin? How bout Steven King, he wrote some fantasy books too. what makes Ursula better read than I am? Are you asking us to explain why Ursula K. Le Guin knows more about fantasy, or literature in general, than you? You must not know who she is. Anyway, here's the quote: https://mobile.twitter.com/KrisLorischild/status/1580264766727024640
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Listen 9 year old child, I know that you absolutely love Harry Potter, as did the majority of my entire generation, but your taste is actually quite pedestrian and you should be engaging in a higher tier of literature. Honestly, the fact that you enjoy it means you are quite dumb and you should really know better, and furthermore I am sorry to say that you have been made transphobic.
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jeebus bob posted:Are you asking us to explain why Ursula K. Le Guin knows more about fantasy, or literature in general, than you? You must not know who she is. 
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Caesar Saladin posted:Listen 9 year old child, I know that you absolutely love Harry Potter, as did the majority of my entire generation, but your taste is actually quite pedestrian and you should be engaging in a higher tier of literature. Honestly, the fact that you enjoy it means you are quite dumb and you should really know better, and furthermore I am sorry to say that you have been made transphobic. Cut that poo poo out man. Kids are allowed to love Harry Potter, it appeals right to them. Ursula's point is that writers and book reviewers are expected to know more and be able write fresh things or recommend good pieces rather than rehashing well-trod ground. People are in this very thread listing good YA fiction that's gonna be fresh and interesting to new readers - and so if they start with those and read onwards to whatever they like, by the time they circle back to stuff like Twilight or other schlock it'll have lost all lustre. There's no need to recommend the bad stuff just because it's newer!
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Caesar Saladin posted:Listen 9 year old child, I know that you absolutely love Harry Potter, as did the majority of my entire generation, but your taste is actually quite pedestrian and you should be engaging in a higher tier of literature. Honestly, the fact that you enjoy it means you are quite dumb and you should really know better, and furthermore I am sorry to say that you have been made transphobic. This but ironically.
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Yeah, she’s clearly making the point that critics (who should be very familiar with the genres they’re covering) shouldn’t be gushing over tired rehashed poo poo, like the example of a chef gushing over buttered toast, not the point of “gently caress children with their simple minds and unrefined tastes” Buttered toast is a perfectly normal thing for children to like
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:so we should read who instead? Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, G R R Martin? Yes, those people. jeebus bob posted:Are you asking us to explain why Ursula K. Le Guin knows more about fantasy, or literature in general, than you? You must not know who she is. That's the one. Excellent Caesar Saladin posted:Listen 9 year old child, I know that you absolutely love Harry Potter, as did the majority of my entire generation, but your taste is actually quite pedestrian and you should be engaging in a higher tier of literature. Honestly, the fact that you enjoy it means you are quite dumb and you should really know better, and furthermore I am sorry to say that you have been made transphobic. No, man. Her point is that Harry Potter is quite poo poo, and had already been done, better, in children's and YA fantasy. And she's right. She's not saying it's a nine year old's fault nobody handed them anything decent to read first. If that's what you'd read first, then that's what you'd read first. The contention is that it's wildly popular because its audience hadn't read much else first, and that those that had thought it was boring. Which rang true for me, having already read Enid Blyton and Pratchett and Le Guinn and (not actually that great either!) Dragonlance and Eddings and stuff like that by the time HP came out. Hyperlynx fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Oct 17, 2022 |
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Barry Bluejeans posted:Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality Oh dear.
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By popular demand posted:Dilbert goes to Hogwarts might be a solid idea for a satirical work though. The old Dilbert comics back when Dilbert was the put-upon employee with a lovely boss and coworkers of varying competence, but set in a wizard company with the same stale bureaucracy and incompetent leadership would be fun. There's probably not a whole lot of material there, but having the characters play the boring office environment/politics straight with absurd magic bullshit happening in the background would be worth a few laughs.
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King Carnivore posted:Yeah, she’s clearly making the point that critics (who should be very familiar with the genres they’re covering) shouldn’t be gushing over tired rehashed poo poo, More because genre fic, and YA aren't considered literature the critics who usually review "literature" were suddenly reviewing a popular children's fantasy series, and praising it for being original, when in fact JKR is not original. Critics aren't expected to be familiar with genre or YA, unless they're niche reviewers, so it's funny/infuriating when they do review it and don't know what they're talking about. Harry Potter is a (mostly) fun read... but there's plenty of adults out there who end up like that bossbaby tweet, and that is laughable. killer crane fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Oct 17, 2022 |
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