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Libluini posted:thank god I'm not the only one, I was reading this poo poo like three times and for the live of me could not make sense of his words You get kicked right the gently caress out of my union if you're a racist sexist rear end in a top hat. Other unions will have different standards though. Anyway, people always focus on the dumb eugenics lies about Bob, never on the good work his adoption agency in Brazil does. They've helped nearly a hundred aging domineering civil servants all across Europe, with extraordinarily consistent results.
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Interrupting the latest slap fight... Cat's foot! Iron claw! JoJo fans screamed for more! https://youtu.be/tEDhWT2hmr8 SuperEyepatchWolf's video on why you should watch Golden Wind is out! Really good video that really focuses on what makes this such a good adaptation, especially how the animation actually fixes a lot of the problems with the Manga. Personally I think it's probably my 2nd favourite series of the animé, after part four of course. It's hugely strong, but sadly hamstrung by the weakest antagonist in JoJo. Diavolo suffers for coming right after Kira Yoshikage, the best villian in animé, but he also fails to have any charisma or presence, or even generate any particular heat with the cast. SEPW doesn't touch on this weakness, which is a shame as it's an interesting subject, but if you were at all on the fence about Golden Wind this video is definitely going to get you to watch it.
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Max Wilco posted:That was sort of what I was told (not by an economist or anyone like that, but a relative): that one of the results of unionization is that it results in products being more expensive. Video games was what I was going to bring up, and my thought is that while unionization would eliminate crunch time and those kind of practices, it would drive the costs of games up further. With video games costing as much as they do now, I figured that would be disastrous in the long run, since other people (who might not be union) wouldn't be able to afford that increase in price, and games would stop selling as much. That point aside, I think you're mostly right that it would make the production overall more expensive. In practice this isn't going to make the final product more expensive, since that price point is quite important for keeping sales up. So instead of raising prices, AAA games would probably have less labour put into them. That sounds like it would result in worse games, but in modern times that extra effort has just been going into doing stupid crap like ultra high graphics and modeling horse testicles. I think games would probably be overall improved but removing that cruft. For other products, overall yes, prices would be slightly higher especially where labour is the major cost if the unions are effective at improving wages. The thing to bear in mind is that improved wages would more than compensate for this. Inflation would be running at a slightly higher rate, but we would all in general be better off. If there is an industry would actually be brought down by fair wages and safe conditions, then frankly that is an industry that should not exist.
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Solitair posted:
It's not that he was a late arrival, so was Kira to a big extent, it was the failure to develop him in any serious way. He must be a billionaire, but he acts like a dirt poor stardust crusader villian of the week. He's a mafia don, but other than sending out a few guys, we never seen that. He's just there to be an obstacle.
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Nov 24, 2019 00:06
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Can someone who's more online than me write up a crib sheet as to why dipshits are going off on Anita Sarkeesian again?
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Nov 25, 2019 09:44
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Thanks both. By the time I'd seen the arguement it had reached the point that people were accusing her of being a neo-liberal warmonger so I was utterly lost.
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Nov 25, 2019 10:53
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VanSandman posted:Wait isn't the forge person a lady? I think that's the "slightly incorrect" part. Normal people would shrug and say "honest mistake, but her point is still right". But since we're dealing with nerds and misogynists...
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Nov 25, 2019 11:27
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VanSandman posted:It's a longform serial. She shows up again and defuses violence in episode 3. She is clearly important to the main character in that he implicitly respects her authority in a way he doesn't with literally anyone else. This clearly doesn't weaken the problem the severe lack of female characters in the show.
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Nov 25, 2019 12:26
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Based on graphtreon, that drill operator almost certainly earns more than Mia Mulder. So by the laws of the thread it's him who must face Madame Guillotine.
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Dec 3, 2019 23:47
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I'm pretty happy to have Shaun info dump me for my entire evening, but probably only because I find the subject matter he covers really interesting.
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Dec 4, 2019 16:58
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Anthony Starr is pulling a lot of weight in that show, but I don't think it's enough to make it good overall. The comic is generally meh, but with some really good nuggets. Overall it's just Watchmen, but  .The airplane scene in the comics was literally 9-11. It was distasteful, but also probably the highlight of the series and established how shambolic an irl Justice League would be.
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Sarcopenia posted:Watchmen with alzheimers making GBS threads itself while puking and giving a rape blowjob.
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Dec 5, 2019 20:26
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Kim Justice posted:I didn't know that they'd turned 'Allo 'Allo into a graphic novel. In all fairness, the Frenchman is entirely insane and any resemblance between reality and his recollection in that issue is entirely coincidental. He might not even be French, based in the quality of the French phrases he comes out with (although that might be down to Ennis being happy to go with highschool French for laughs).
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I've lost track of whether the eugenics thing is a joke, or if people are stupid enough to believe that some tedious youtube movie review guy is going full Mengele, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask. Anyway, today's Atrocity Guide is astounding. A look at fantastic religious artifacts by an idiosyncratic prophet built out of garbage in a storage locker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtjJWGJfJ6A&t=0s. They later became a massive inspiration for the modern art movment. AG is rapidly becoming my favourite channel. There are a few dud episodes early on, but the things they're documenting are amazing and just get drawn completely in every episode.
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Did he put out a tweet saying "boy I love eugenics" or something? How does that come up in movie chat? Also: no-one is defending Bob. Bug Squash fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Dec 12, 2019 |
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Dec 12, 2019 22:41
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Haha, what a tool. I thought people were calling him a nazi, but he's just a techbro style "lets hack this" guy. Once again he manages the most tedious possible take.
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Fate is a solidly B tier anime, but it does do a few interesting things with it's characters so it gets some props for that. That's probably as many words as the series warrants.
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Dec 31, 2019 04:39
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All this anime talk, but not enough about Legend of Galactic Heroes. While you dorks are watching historical mashups, LoGH is presented by a narrator who is discussing the events of this sci-fi show from the point of view of a historian even further in the future. The show is so committed to this concept, that an early primary antagonist dies of natural causes between episodes, and everyone just has to deal with it. The biggest shits in the galaxy get killed, only for the narrator to mention that they were making massive anonymous charitable donations, or had a really good plan to resolve the conflict. It's so unlike any other anime in it's writing and plot, it feels more like a western prestige history drama sometimes. Bug Squash fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Jan 2, 2020 |
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As the lights go out across the thread, I'd like to reiterate my advocacy of LoGH, and add that Cowboy Beebop is definitively the GOAT anime. Redline is also excellent, and well worth buying the soundtrack (which is somehow longer than the movie).
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I think it's fine to associate with a character in anime, and it's fine to have a twitter picture that isn't your real face. Having an anime avatar in 2020 is drinking from a poisoned well, though. I wouldn't recommend it.
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There's people demanding that Kat Blaque and Mia Mulder denounce ContraPoints, despite them not being involved. It's a real bad look for those doing it. I've only watched the first half-hour of the new video, and a lot of what's been said about essentialism, exageration, and associativeness seems to be spot on. The news story of that Instagram guy seemed really strange to me when it happened.
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Jan 3, 2020 16:57
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Watchmen did it for the comic books when it was written, except it tragically spawned a generation of ironic and/or edgelord comics in it's wake. If the movie had been directed by someone who understood the source material we might be living in a slightly different world. But alas, we got Snyder, a man who apparently lives entirely literally, like Bautista's Drax the Destroyer. Metaphors and subtext are done away with in favour of panel accurate shots.
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The blowups are mostly reactionary Twitter being reactionary Twitter. Ya, she should have done more vetting on Buck Angel, but mostly it's been people putting words into her mouth.
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Been to see Rise of Skywalker: It is an astonishingly soulless movie. Really just feels like a bunch of events that happen one after another. There's a lack of the touching character interactions from previous films, and anything involving Leia feels like that scene in the Simpsons episode when they tried to edit Fallout Man without Milhouse. Especially disappointing after The Last Jedi showed you could do a Star Wars movie that had artistic merit rather than just trying to fluff fans.
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Didn't Yoda use it, or has time eroded my prequel knowledge?
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Arcsquad12 posted:Fortnite has had the same impact as Minecraft except it has accelerated far faster than Minecraft. Minecraft got popular over the years to the point where it was being used as a teaching aid while it feels like Fortnite reached that level in a matter of months. In terms of popularity, maybe, but not impact imo. You do have every tom dick and Harry putting out a battle royale game, but Minecraft inspired multiple new genres and had genuine popularity outside of gaming. Fortnight will be a flash in the pan compared to the long shadow of Minecraft.
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I'm reliably informed that the tendency of anime to use non-word sounds excessively comes from a theatre tradition. Some writers and actors will just naturally ham it up using them because of their training. I saw it happen again on a wrestling promo I saw on Old School Wrestling, where I poo poo you not, the interviewer would just list various Japanese brands while the two Japanese wrestlers would in response, in the words of OSW, make "Japanese sounds". It makes me wonder if there's a bunch of English theater traditions that have made it into movies that drive the rest of the world up the wall.
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egg tats posted:lockpickinglawyer has taught me two things. Locked myself out once, and the guy I called in popped the Yale lock with a sheet of plastic he slid between the door and frame in a matter of seconds. 
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MiddleOne posted:Love the lock industry. It's still beyond the ken of the average junkie looking for a quick grab, so I'm not about to go lockless just yet. Plus the police come down harder if you've got the kit on you. So while a lock is mostly just a road bump, it's still usually enough to deter most burglarers who are looking for an easier target. Does seem like a really fun hobby that might just come in handy.
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CmdrKing posted:Or the more likely outcome, COntra continues to be the first and only source for most cis people about trans issues, the lovely low-grade transmed views espoused by the channel continue to be the only mainstream counternarrative to raging bigotry, and in five years we “win” trans rights in a way that helps perhaps 20% of extremely binary trans people just like happened with marriage equality. I went to the SA trans thread to try and educate myself before it got locked. Not to post, just read people's discussions. Maybe it was healthy in the past, but there was just people being abusive to each other and accusing the mods of gaslighting. What I'm trying to say is that finding resources is genuinely hard, especially when a lot of material is disinformation being put out by terfs. So at the moment, Contra is still probably the best starting point for a cis person to get babies first intro to trans issues. Her experiences aren't universal so it's important that people continue to find and read other sources, but like I said, she's useful as a starting point. Since it's been mentioned, I will say it's clear from her writings and the full body of her work that she isn't a transmedicalist.
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sexpig by night posted:what time is it? It's 'racism, but woke' time!!!! Whooo! The savage oriental simply is too primitive to understand things, never mind that like half of the conservative bullshit of Japanese society was literally forced on them at gunpoint by the west, they made a game with boobs so they're basically just rape monsters who lynch gays or whatever. No-one is blaming them for having that poo poo imposed on them, but Japan has autonomy now so you absolutely can blame any rear end in a top hat over there who is continuing to be a regressive rear end in a top hat.
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DoctorWhat posted:Much like quicksand, as children we were conditioned to believe geological features would be very important in our day-to-day lives. The British education system left me prepared for two things: caves, and ox bow lakes.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Cavemen were communists who had more free time than you do now. Paleontological evidence suggests the murder rate was many orders of magnitude higher than current rates, to the extent that for some regions it may have been the leading cause of death. I wouldn't hold them up as an example of whatever economic system you're projecting onto them promoting harmony. Also they didn't have video games or animé, so what's the point of having that much free time? I dunno, maybe go hard in on socialism and work from there. Once progressive taxation has wiped out billionaires we can try some more speculative solutions. Let Portland or somewhere similarly expendable try out full anarchism and if it works out we can try rolling it out further. Bug Squash fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Feb 27, 2020 |
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I've really enjoyed Innuendo Studio's videos, and they're doing god's work documenting all the dipshit rhetoric of the modern internet nazi. I'm sure a few people have been inoculated against it by viewing his videos. Complaining that he's not addressing offline vectors of radicalisation, when that's out of scope of the series and outwidth the creator's expertise, is a really daft take.
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If I see a bad take from a creator I like I just shrug and continue watching their stuff since I still enjoy it. I'd draw the line if they said something about how they think Hitler was good, but short of high dickery I just don't care what they've got to say.
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Tesseraction posted:This reminds me that I recently found out about an anime-variant of cum town called "anime pussy podcast" which is basically listening to three people with varying levels of mental health problems mostly talk about that and then occasionally going "oh I started watching haikyuu this week" before moving back to the original topic. So like cum town I guess. That's just this thread fed into screen reader.  Anyway, I've started out on Pop Team Epic, which is just great. Don't know what I was expecting, but a behelit sketch into a Skyrim joke wasn't it. Starting Full Metal Alchemist too. I can't help but feel like the original anime had better artistry in a lot of scenes, despite the lower budget.
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I just did a Google image search, and honestly America might be the only country in the world that would consider this Angry Joe to be a person of colour, but I 100% believe he experiences racism. Because here's the thing: if the people doing the racism think you're a different race, that's all they need. It doesn't matter if you'd be the considered the same race anywhere else in the world, because the racism is being done to you here and now.
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Yardbomb posted:The main problem with it before was that the people reading through it were being actual shitheads about it and harping on things that felt gross to be like that about. Then they started doing some forced 'gotcha' attempt as well, where they fake approached him as some kind of boss of theirs? Which was them pushing him to want to endorse punishing them or something in the DMs, then when he said that's not necessary they kept trying to push it to eek out any kind of dirt whatsoever from whatever that whole douchey deal was. So hopefully you could otherwise find a read-through that's not by some extremely online weirdos. Be careful when fighting internet weirdos, lest you become an internet weirdo yourself. Jesus Christ.
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