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Good news for anyone who thought Chapo has been dipping in quality lately. That's gonna be a goldmine of content.
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What a ghoul. https://twitter.com/jonny_is_good/status/1280891679717961741?s=20
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Jul 14, 2020 19:59
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tucker carlson just "went on a planned vacation" after it came out his writer has been doing lots of racisms online and got fired... hmm...
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Jul 14, 2020 20:01
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Thompsons posted:This is a dumb thing for me to correct anyone on but people are misremembering, that scene's at the beginning and I feel like it is mostly just played as a joke. Later on they actually do get reinforcements who look like they're maybe 16 years old and the characters are like "whoa what the gently caress" Oh, yeah, I haven't seen this thing in loving years.
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prefect posted:But I am 100% sure she will be making much more money than she was at the Times. There's always money for horrible people.
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Jul 14, 2020 20:05
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Virgil basically disappeared from this episode after like 20 minutes, very sad
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Jul 14, 2020 20:15
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HannibalBarca posted:Virgil basically disappeared from this episode after like 20 minutes, very sad He has a very specific time table for his catgirl injections and if he misses even a single one he has to start over so cut him some slack here
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Jul 14, 2020 20:32
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Hooplah posted:tucker carlson just "went on a planned vacation" after it came out his writer has been doing lots of racisms online and got fired... hmm... it would own if the network that trump clearly wanted to do when he lost in 2016 has started coming together but then he wins again and has to push it back again
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HannibalBarca posted:Virgil basically disappeared from this episode after like 20 minutes, very sad
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Don't they each record their end and send it to Chris? Maybe his recording hosed up.
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I dunno. I've noticed that Virgil hasn't actually said any new words since he rejoined the cast and I'm wondering if "Virgil" is actually just Chris cutting up old audio and what we are getting is actually just synthesized audio, like way back when that goon made a bizarre creation mythology just by splicing Obama's audiobook.
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Jul 14, 2020 21:13
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uber_stoat posted:my dumb rear end pug dog would look at what I pointed at. crepeface posted:maybe your dog is stupid unlike my dog, who's smart and also a good boy Omnicarus posted:
Look at these idiots, I guess it's only something you'd know if you interact with more than one dog ever, lol
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you got a lowkey defective dog they get pointing and my dog is also a very good boy who doesn't really get object permanence but def. gets pointing
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papa horny michael posted:it's been a half hour of dated jokes about the orange man is bad so far. hope this gets better! The Trump food stuff was excellent.
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There is basically no textual evidence in Starship Troopers suggesting that humanity is losing its war with the bugs. The citizen/subject distinction (lack of compulsory service) confirms this beyond a doubt.  E: And they downplay some of the weirdness surrounding Wayfare The Kingfish fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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Omnicarus posted:I dunno. I've noticed that Virgil hasn't actually said any new words since he rejoined the cast and I'm wondering if "Virgil" is actually just Chris cutting up old audio and what we are getting is actually just synthesized audio, like way back when that goon made a bizarre creation mythology just by splicing Obama's audiobook. I haven't thought of that fake Obama audiobook in years. A simpler time when you could splice together nonsense without worrying about Q weirdos taking it seriously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Any38uNUelM
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The Kingfish posted:There is basically no textual evidence in Starship Troopers suggesting that humanity is losing its war with the bugs. The citizen/subject distinction (lack of compulsory service) confirms this beyond a doubt. The reinforcements at the end are teenagers.
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It's somewhat difficult to reconcile the idea that Starship Troopers is the sort of movie that its society would make with the idea that humanity is losing the war with the bugs. That theory seems a bit half-baked. Then there's the sequels...
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Groovelord Neato posted:The reinforcements at the end are teenagers. Yeah I'd never bothered to think about whether humanity was winning at the end of the movie but all signs kinda point to "no," which, lol nice and yeah it's never explicitly stated (because if it the movie is meant to be in the style of an in-universe propaganda film, they would never) but hard to ignore child soldiers and, it's been a while but I remember humans getting solidly owned in every bug encounter, outside the brain bug. lol at the idea that the psychic stuff is all bullshit though, I want to rewatch the movie and see if that fits. slicing up eyeballs fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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The Kingfish posted:And they downplay some of the weirdness surrounding Wayfare There's no "weirdness", it's basic standard fare for extremely dumb 4chan conspiracy garbage.
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It's been awhile since I've watched the movie, but isn't there some implication that the meteor that wipes out Buenos Aires was random and not an actual attack as well?
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FlamingLiberal posted:It's been awhile since I've watched the movie, but isn't there some implication that the meteor that wipes out Buenos Aires was random and not an actual attack as well? Yeah there's really no way for the bugs to have a meteor hit a city directly like that and it flies by the planetary defense grid.
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Did no one read the actual book? Jesus Chroist. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Omnicarus posted:I dunno. I've noticed that Virgil hasn't actually said any new words since he rejoined the cast and I'm wondering if "Virgil" is actually just Chris cutting up old audio and what we are getting is actually just synthesized audio, like way back when that goon made a bizarre creation mythology just by splicing Obama's audiobook. Every couple months I dig up the old “Obama made the Muslims disappear” post. It’s still really good.
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Lambert posted:Did no one read the actual book? Jesus Chroist. Do what the what now
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Lambert posted:Did no one read the actual book? Jesus Chroist. They bought the rights for the book after the script was written after someone pointed out the similarities. Verhoeven couldn't even finish the book.
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Groovelord Neato posted:They bought the rights for the book after the script was written after someone pointed out the similarities. Verhoeven couldn't even finish the book. Is this actually true? Lines and characters from the book show up verbatim in the movie. Seems dubious.
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HannibalBarca posted:It's somewhat difficult to reconcile the idea that Starship Troopers is the sort of movie that its society would make with the idea that humanity is losing the war with the bugs. That theory seems a bit half-baked. Then there's the sequels... The scene with the kid at the beginning is a bog standard recruitment advertisement that would play before any movie in such a society, its only after Rico and his friends enter the picture that the fiction within a fiction 'movie' starts. Its subtle but its definitely a valid reading of the film. also I refuse to acknowledge that Starship Troopers ever got a sequel
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AnEdgelord posted:its only after Rico and his friends enter the picture that the fiction within a fiction 'movie' starts. Its subtle but its definitely a valid reading of the film. yeah but they're talking above about the scene towards the end of the film where the teenage replacements arrive and Rico says something to Jake Busey like "we're the old men now, Ace"
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HannibalBarca posted:yeah but they're talking above about the scene towards the end of the film where the teenage replacements arrive and Rico says something to Jake Busey like "we're the old men now, Ace" Not to say that they aren't recruiting teenagers, but could that just be what Rico sees when he sees 18-year-old recruits now that he's slightly older? Like to him they look like kids and the only way to make that come across visually is by casting teenagers?
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Lambert posted:Did no one read the actual book? Jesus Chroist. they made a novelization of starship troopers??? The North Tower posted:Not to say that they aren't recruiting teenagers, but could that just be what Rico sees when he sees 18-year-old recruits now that he's slightly older? Like to him they look like kids and the only way to make that come across visually is by casting teenagers? seems like a bigger reach than "humanity is pretending everything is fine despite being on course for annihilation due to their own hubris." "We're losing, actually" also fits the movie better thematically imo but I'm not very good at media interpretation or criticism so I may just be parroting funny podcast man slicing up eyeballs fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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"We're losing, actually" doesn't fit the theme of the movie at all. Trying to make it into some kind of weird Iraq analogy is misguided.
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I always got the sense that the purpose of the war in the movie wasn’t to win or lose in any meaningful sense, but just to keep going.
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The North Tower posted:Not to say that they aren't recruiting teenagers, but could that just be what Rico sees when he sees 18-year-old recruits now that he's slightly older? Like to him they look like kids and the only way to make that come across visually is by casting teenagers?
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Juul-Whip posted:this was my initial reading on it as well but as I get older and on subsequent watches I'm liking the other interpretation more and more. it is true that they suck poo poo at fighting the bugs and Doogie Howser's psychic powers when demonstrated, are parlour tricks at best Yeah, I think I'm getting converted to yours/slicing up eyeballs' almost-child soldier take that they're hosed (but everything's GREAT!). Now that I think about it, the Nazi imagery makes me think this is more likely, as they're starting to dig up the Volkssturm. \/ exactly what I'm thinking now: Soviets at the gates of Berlin The North Tower fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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Lambert posted:"We're losing, actually" doesn't fit the theme of the movie at all. Trying to make it into some kind of weird Iraq analogy is misguided. trying to make it into an Iraq analogy fits pretty well, but it's also not easily compatible with a "soviets at the gates of berlin" sort of thing turns out you can get a lot from starship troopers without forcing it to fit 1:1 with discrete historical events!
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Lambert posted:"We're losing, actually" doesn't fit the theme of the movie at all. Trying to make it into some kind of weird Iraq analogy is misguided. I'm sure it seems that way because your brain is the exact surface and consistency of a bowling ball
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like wow, he taught his ferret a voice command, very spooky psychic powers there. He could easily be lying/embellishing to impress his friend like every "lying guy" friend you ever head, they openly treat each other like poo poo all the time anyways
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This creature we subdued and wounded and captured? Guess what it’s afraid. Only I could know this due to my magic powers
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Groovelord Neato posted:The reinforcements at the end are teenagers. No, they are applecheeked goobers fresh out of the academy. They are in the same position as Johnny and the gang were before deployment. This is said explicitly and is framed thematically by Rico giving the new kids the same speech he got from Rasczak. It also makes no sense for children to be conscripted without compulsory service for adults. Basically the only thing we know about earth’s society is that it has a volunteer military.
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Rico joins right out of high school he and his friends were supposed to be teenagers. The people replacing them look like actual teenagers. They haven't been in the war all that long before the new recruits come in.Lambert posted:Is this actually true? Lines and characters from the book show up verbatim in the movie. Seems dubious. Yes the original script was called "Bug Hunt". Obviously a script goes through revisions.
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