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April 22 is Earth Day, and also Earth-2 Day on Earth-2. Celebrate these days by chatting about how lovely that other Earth is. Not this one, that one. With those people on it, all backwards and poo poo.
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Apr 2, 2017 19:15
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To start, who won the election on Earth-2? I haven't read any of Rebirth so I don't know how Earth-2 is handled. Is it just different Earth, or is it "everyone sports a goatee" evil Earth?
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Apr 2, 2017 19:18
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I read Clowes' Patience recently and thought it was pretty good, and also recently finished the very good Here by Richard McGuire. I'm trying to get my wife, who has shown interest in the past, to read Here as a good intro to comics, but I'm not sure what the preferred nomenclature is for these types of books. Is "graphic novel" the established term? I know BSS has made fun of that in the past, but it's usually directed at people saying "I read graphic novels" instead of just saying they like comic books about punching. Graphic novel also seems misapplied to something like Corrigan's Building Stories, but lacking a better term I still drift towards that. Thoughts?
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Apr 2, 2017 19:25
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Zachack posted:To start, who won the election on Earth-2? I haven't read any of Rebirth so I don't know how Earth-2 is handled. Is it just different Earth, or is it "everyone sports a goatee" evil Earth? Bad news. We are the evil earth.
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Apr 2, 2017 19:31
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Earth 2 is like Earth but it blows up every few months.Zachack posted:is it "everyone sports a goatee" evil Earth? Earth 3 
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Apr 2, 2017 20:10
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I somehow stumbled upon a Catholic blog post about the philosophy of Avengers: Age of Ultron. While the quality of the post was questionable, it got me thinking about the philosophy of superheroes, or super-powered beings. Are there any decent books on the subject? I know there's a line of "The Philosophy of <Pop Culture Thing>" books but I wonder if those are actually good. Thanks!
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Apr 3, 2017 01:38
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They're usually worth a look, but gear up for at least a few essays that amount to "Isn't this moment from [franchise] cool? Did you know this passage from Kant is just like that?"
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Apr 3, 2017 02:38
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I checked out a book called The Philosophy of Batman once and after the lead story was a thoughtful examination of the trolley problem (just dressed up with it being a Joker deathtrap and Batman being forced to decide to pull the lever or not so it'd fit) that I really enjoyed, the next one was How Can We Tell Batman Is Not The Joker, and I go in thinking "okay, like, a multiple personality thing, or...?" Nope. It was about how philosophy can help us prove that two completely different people are in fact not the same thing. Whereupon I closed the book in disgust and that was the end of it.
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Apr 3, 2017 06:35
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I got waaaay too into the Matrix when it came out so my dad bought me a "Philosophy and the Matrix" book and jesus christ the author was so far up his own rear end.
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Apr 3, 2017 06:41
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Rhyno posted:I got waaaay too into the Matrix when it came out so my dad bought me a "Philosophy and the Matrix" book and jesus christ the author was so far up his own rear end. Seems faithful to the source material then.
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Apr 3, 2017 06:43
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As a philosophy minor: those books are half-assed trash that people who couldn't become professors write to justify their mistake of a degree which rarely, if ever, go more than surface level in philosophy so they can justify having spent a year on someone's couch watching/playing (topic) as "research". If you legitimately want some good explorations of the topic I can pull a few selections.
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Apr 3, 2017 07:03
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END ME SCOOB posted:As a philosophy minor: those books are half-assed trash that people who couldn't become professors write to justify their mistake of a degree which rarely, if ever, go more than surface level in philosophy so they can justify having spent a year on someone's couch watching/playing (topic) as "research". Yes, please.
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Apr 3, 2017 09:40
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Rhyno posted:I got waaaay too into the Matrix when it came out so my dad bought me a "Philosophy and the Matrix" book and jesus christ the author was so far up his own rear end. So it was by the writers (and therefore directors) of the sequels.
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Apr 3, 2017 17:14
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Schneider Heim posted:I somehow stumbled upon a Catholic blog post about the philosophy of Avengers: Age of Ultron. While the quality of the post was questionable, it got me thinking about the philosophy of superheroes, or super-powered beings. Are there any decent books on the subject? I know there's a line of "The Philosophy of <Pop Culture Thing>" books but I wonder if those are actually good. Thanks! Not exactly superheroes, but Donaldism is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donaldism
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Apr 3, 2017 19:01
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In case y'all were wondering who the worst superhero is, it's Manikin, the boy with the power to summon more and less evolved versions of himself
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Apr 3, 2017 19:04
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I dunno, that might be a terrible power, but he still seems cooler than Stingray.
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Apr 3, 2017 22:33
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His superpower seems at least three times more useful than Arm Fall Off Boy.
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Apr 3, 2017 22:55
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In light of their recent comments, I think Marvel is missing out on an opportunity here. The greatest Deadpool book ever. DEADPOOL KILLS DIVERSITY It's him killing all the minority characters in the Marvel Universe one at a time.
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Apr 4, 2017 02:07
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If Manikin met the High Evolutionary he'd be set.
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Apr 4, 2017 02:24
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In honor of the month of fools, I'd like to remind everyone that this exists.
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Apr 4, 2017 02:25
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END ME SCOOB posted:As a philosophy minor: those books are half-assed trash that people who couldn't become professors write to justify their mistake of a degree which rarely, if ever, go more than surface level in philosophy so they can justify having spent a year on someone's couch watching/playing (topic) as "research". I always got the impression that it was mostly adjuncts and younger professors knocking out something fast and easy for a little walking around money. I've never read an essay in one of them that was any good but I mean, generally nothing any more offensive than when I'm floundering in a lesson plan and just throw in some facile pop-culture thing because I know it'll get a flash of recognition and make a concept slightly easier to get a handle on. So I mean yeah, I agree that they're pretty bad and/or, at best, geared towards VERY entry level philosophy readers, but I feel a lot of sympathy for the contributors. I'd do one if they did them in my field, I wouldn't be proud of it, but like, if someone wanted to pay me to write about the duality of Nightcrawler's penises I wouldn't hesitate for a second. As far as slightly dubious side-gigs in academia go you could do far worse. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Apr 4, 2017 |
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Apr 4, 2017 05:50
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Lurdiak posted:In honor of the month of fools, I'd like to remind everyone that this exists. Cover aside, that's a loving great issue.
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Apr 4, 2017 05:53
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That just makes me realize how much better Black Widow's costume would be if her little wrist things were huge Monev the Gale style gauntlets
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Apr 4, 2017 05:57
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Guy Goodbody posted:That just makes me realize how much better Black Widow's costume would be if her little wrist things were huge Monev the Gale style gauntlets wrong
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Apr 4, 2017 06:11
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Guy Goodbody posted:That just makes me realize how much better Black Widow's costume would be if her little wrist things were huge Monev the Gale style gauntlets Yeah, that costume would be a good Black Widow costume in regular continuity.
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Apr 4, 2017 08:06
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Guy Goodbody posted:That just makes me realize how much better Black Widow's costume would be if her little wrist things were huge Monev the Gale style gauntlets That's not very stealthy.
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Apr 4, 2017 13:31
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I like how in that issue Sunspot and Cannonball party with AIM folks while Black Widow straight-up murders people in cold blood. Which is, yeah, a good issue.
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Apr 4, 2017 16:17
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And Captain Marvel does a better job than James Bond at making playing cards look bad rear end.
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Apr 4, 2017 18:23
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Schneider Heim posted:I somehow stumbled upon a Catholic blog post about the philosophy of Avengers: Age of Ultron. While the quality of the post was questionable, it got me thinking about the philosophy of superheroes, or super-powered beings. Are there any decent books on the subject? I know there's a line of "The Philosophy of <Pop Culture Thing>" books but I wonder if those are actually good. Thanks! *sprints into thread* OH poo poo HERE'S MY CHANCE A couple friends and I actually are doing a podcast that aspires to that kind of analysis; our second episode was all about Jack Kirby, and got some into considering the deeper ethical/philosophical underpinnings of Kirby's work, and our most recent episode was all about what makes the comic form work specifically with memoirs, so it isn't just the philosophy of superheroes, but it's comics & intellectualism and we occasionally name-drop important thinkers. We also end up bullshitting about dumb comics poo poo too, like whether the yellow and brown or the yellow and blue is a better Wolverine costume, but even that's at least pseudo-intellectual, so, uh, check us out?
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Apr 4, 2017 19:34
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I like it when the good punchman hits the bad punchman until the bad punchman is stopped doing his bad.
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Apr 4, 2017 19:51
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Mr Hootington posted:I like it when the good punchman hits the bad punchman until the bad punchman is stopped doing his bad. But have you ever thought about why you like when good punchman hits bad punchman? You don't want to be one of those unthinking plebeians, do you?
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Apr 4, 2017 20:28
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RandallODim posted:But have you ever thought about why you like when good punchman hits bad punchman? You don't want to be one of those unthinking plebeians, do you? I do
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Apr 4, 2017 21:23
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Being a plebeian owns. Give me all the pot boiler garbage
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Apr 5, 2017 01:32
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Sorry guys, but you all need to read my thesis on how superheroes are fascists.
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Apr 5, 2017 01:34
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I think I'm supposed to return to my home dimension now.
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Apr 5, 2017 02:15
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Roth posted:Sorry guys, but you all need to read my thesis on how superheroes are fascists. Lol if you are a grown man still reading juvenile power fantsasies.
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Apr 5, 2017 02:34
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Madkal posted:Lol if you are a grown man still reading juvenile power fantsasies. Luckily I have no shame and death is certain.
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Apr 5, 2017 02:52
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How are still on page 1?
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Apr 5, 2017 03:51
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Rhyno posted:How are still on page 1? Okay fine, I like Mark Millars Ultimates and think "This A doesn't stand for France" is a funny line.
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Apr 5, 2017 03:56
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That Marvel guy was right that replacing all of their main characters with new people in a well-intentioned attempt to increase diversity was a mistake.
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Apr 5, 2017 04:04
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