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And Bear and The Dragon kicks off after an abortion in China kills a catholic priest is killed in an abortion because of China's one child rule. China than invades Russia for resources where they get owned NY a single old Russian sniper and than Patriot Missiles shoot down Chinese ICBMs so DC doesn't get nuked
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Some Guy TT posted:absolutely no one has any idea how the one child rule in china works and the internet has not improved their competency in trying to look it up instead of making assumptions based on how it appears in other pop culture Im just describing what was in the drat book
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Sep 11, 2019 17:19
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I just can't wait to see of that a Rainbow Six movie outs going ro keep with the plot about all the millionaire environmentalist hippies weaponizing Ebola to create a mass population die off to prevent global warming
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Sep 12, 2019 12:55
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Farm Frenzy posted:lets talk about rainbow six patriots, a game so overloaded with obama era lib nonsense that it got cancelled Oh my God yes, the OWS are terrorists game that they planned. Good thing Ubisoft doesn't make political loving games! God I tender how disgusted I was when this was announced. And it's kind of weird how almost no one talks about how extremely fascist the very concept of The Division is. There was a bit of talk about it around the release of one, but even Jim Sterling's talk of how 2 is political kind of just stalled at the if you were a gun owner you survived. And no one really hammers home the whole government extrajudicially murdering Americans to "establish order" is extremely political, the point of the game, and incredibly fascist KomradeX has issued a correction as of 23:50 on Sep 16, 2019 |
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Sep 16, 2019 23:35
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Setting all the political stuff aside, absolutely nothing about the scenario in that demo makes a single bit of loving sense. Why is Rainbow Six waiting for terrorists from the top of the Brooklyn Bridge? Why are terrorists fighting on the bridge when their goal is Times Square? They could've just driven there. There's no sane reason that there would be a shootout on the bridge, except as a weak excuse for a video game setpiece. If Manhattan was already in chaos, there wouldn't be tons of people on that bridge trying to get in and causing the traffic jam. Cause they're super smart shootymans who will show those c nasty dumb left wingers whos boss
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Sep 17, 2019 01:51
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Some Guy TT posted:which game was it where in the opening chapter youre a cia agent helping some terrorist mastermind blow up a russian airport Modern Warfare 2 has you shoot up a Russian airport. Modern Warfare 3 has Russia invade the US and Western Europe and minted aren't launched , those hackers got real chuddy real quick. Tough I don't think anything tops Black Ops 2 when the Mujahedeen subdue protagonist and leave Holm buried up ro hiya neck on sand because even though they're fighting the USSR, America has always been the real enemy has always been America Jump to 18 mintues in
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Sep 17, 2019 02:51
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I mostly quit playing Call of Duty after the original Modern Warfare. I love how the plot in Black Ops 2 involves a globe spanning conspiracy by a Nicaraguan drug lord to form a private army to destroy the United States. And it reaches all the way to the Mujahideen? I stopped playing COD after Black Ops, I pirated 2 to see the single player and after this cut scene I quit and uninstalled it and haven't looked back. Three World War 2 one head new intrigues but I heard it wasn't good Black Ops 2 is so disgusting, the first level has you fighting with the UNITA rebels in Angola and routing the MPLA. There's almost the idea that should just spring that all of the bad things that happen on the hanger come from the US doing poo poo in places it has no business, but you have ro squint to maybe get that because everything its played so straight
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Sep 17, 2019 03:55
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Didn't MacArthur want to just go full hog wild war atrocities and start nuking China to "liberate it" from Communism since, well we're at the border anyway
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Sep 17, 2019 05:12
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Jenny Agutter posted:just saw an ad for zombieland 2 and it reminded me that zombieland is classist trash Would you mind explaining? I recall liking the movie when I watched it several years ago, but just a very standard zombie movie set up.
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Sep 17, 2019 06:02
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Jenny Agutter posted:yeah it's been a while for me too but as I recall all the zombies are people who ate gas station food (poor) or couldn't make it like the main character by being to slow, too dumb, too unwilling to shoot someone in the head or whatever I.e. losers in a meritocratic system. then the smug protagonists gleefully mow zombies down with luxury SUVs, it all struck me as pretty gross Yeah, thinking it like that I can see that angle, though it really gets muddled with things like the zombie survival guide that was popular at the time. But yeah that reeks a lot of Obama era poo poo. Pener Kropoopkin posted:it’s one thing to have an abstract idea of nuking China, and another thing to actually see the kind of absolute deprivation people were reduced to by the US firebombing campaign on Korea. I don't know, MacArthur was a racist monster so I wouldn't mind a source on this because I just have such a hard time thinking he had arbut shred of humanity. KomradeX has issued a correction as of 13:37 on Sep 17, 2019 |
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/21/we-burned-down-every-town-in-north-korea/ Hmm, either he was lying to Congress or he had more humanity than I gave him credit for
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SNL sucks, but gently caress that chud and gently caress Lorne Michaels
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I really think the Bush and Obama years have really given comedians an inflated sense of the "worth of comedy" and they need to shut the gently caress up about "PC Culture ruining comedy" one heard that line my whole life. The only thinking ruining comedy is the self important view of it and the dignation that comedy millionaires get when their bits from 2004 haven't aged well. Though a comedy union is a good idea, they are majorly exploited by club owners, especially the unsuccessful ones, or the guys that will never hit it big KomradeX has issued a correction as of 16:54 on Sep 18, 2019 |
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get that OUT of my face posted:i can get on board with this. also: comedy is being viewed from the same lens as it was after Jon Stewart went on Crossfire in 2004. back then it worked because we were in a post-9/11 society where people were too afraid to say anything contrary to the George W Bush line, so it was a breath of fresh air to see a smartass tell pundits that they're full of poo poo. it's brutally obvious that it hasn't worked in a while And they'll never let that go of that because Jon Stewart shaming Crossfire off the air was the high water mark of Stand up Comedy. I actually think the era of stand up comedy is over, not because of "PC culture liberals" but just the amount of ways people can get comedy, from YouTube to podcasts I thunk is changing it. Hell stand up comedy as it is now is little more than an off shoot of part of a Vaudeville show that started to come into its own in the 1950s and didn't hit big until the Boom years of the 1980s and 90s. The "profession" is either going to die out or just get reabsorbed into being part of other entertainment
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get that OUT of my face posted:i'd argue that's kind of happened to some extent. what is late night tv if not a bunch of people trying (and failing) to imitate prime Jon Stewart? It's definitely well on the way ro happening but I think moving forward having a or being just a stand up guy will be less and less important
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Sep 18, 2019 19:35
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Its how you know liberals wrote the show, it has a likable Republican in it
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Sep 18, 2019 22:38
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As an adult I absolutely love Winston. But as a kids he didn't do much. Mostly because they hosed the character over after Eddie Murphy didn't get the part or passed on it for some reason. So they like halved his screen time.
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Sep 23, 2019 05:32
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I really liked Robin in season 3. I did not care for Lucas's little sister being a Black Republican, under Reagan.
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So to go back to Tom Clancy I read this when looking up The Sum of All FearsWikipedia posted:Clancy served as executive producer on the film, and regarding the changes from his book, jokingly introduced himself in the commentary track on the DVD release as “the author of the book that he [director Phil Alden Robinson, who is present with Clancy] ignored”. Nevertheless, he complained about technical inaccuracies throughout the film in the commentary. He must have been just a completley insufferable chud
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Sep 25, 2019 07:54
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get that OUT of my face posted:this article is a better negative review of Avengers: Endgame than Sam Kriss's blathering Wait isn't Jacobite some fash adjacent anti-Jacobin?
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Sep 25, 2019 22:00
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:iirc "capeshit" is an alt right pejorative for superhero movies, because they're all produced by Jews of course So where does the good part of their film criticism come in?
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Sep 25, 2019 22:13
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Probably Magic posted:Gonna make the incredibly LF argument that hand-drawn animation is more ideologically pure than CGI since it does not intend for any kind of realism the way digital does and therefore does not create a substitute reality of which to escape and not engage with capitalism in. Nah, not really, but CGI is so rigid and I'm so pissed that it's become the de facto choice of animation in the West. It's a big reason I like anime even though most of it is the same formula over and over with very little surprise to it or just outright dumb fetish poo poo. But drat does it move better in motion if it has enough budget than the latest Pixar crap. I'm not sure what's worse the low budget CGI cartoons, or those cheap flash looking cartoons from the mid 2000s. Though I think the CGI worked for Clone Wars, Rebels and Resistance
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Doesn't Disney also intentionally create an artificial scarcity for its original properties? They'd only issue limited prints of animated movies for a year or two, then they'd "go back in the vault" just to keep up an ambient market demand. Yes, that's how Disney home releases worked, until their plan for Disney+ came out cause I guess they realized people will pay them continually for that content instead of once every format change
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Percelus posted:i think disney and sony reaching an agreement to keep spiderman in the mcu is more important to most americans than whatever dumbshit is going on with trump and ukraine The nerds sectors poc the internet are testing this in the way the Donuts would if Trump ever actually got impeached. The difference being that since the beginning you could tell this was going to end with a return to the status quo. Even though nowe people are freaking out its for only 1 mcu movie and 1 stands alone and I guess renegotiation after that. But people are speculating this will be Spideys exit from the MCU
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So it looks like HBO is getting ready to do a TV version of the DMZ comic from the late Bush/ early Obama years. And while im interested because I did enjoy the comic, I'm not sure how much of it stands the test of time being extremely steeped in the culture of the 2000s.
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It's something I've talked about a lot with people that you know is mostly seen in Batman, where the high crime of the 70s and 80s really informed, Batman, Daredevil, The Punisher, and well it doesn't ring true living in era with a near total collapse in the threat of street crime, not that you're local news would ever give you that impression. This was really blatant in Netflix's Daredevil where you have to assume that the events of The Avengers completely reversed the Gentrification of Hell's Kitchen. Hell you couldn't do The Dark Knight Returns unless it was a period piece because The Cold War looms in that story. But no one ever really wants to go in on that abs instead just focus on the spectacle
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Freaking Crumbum posted:just gonna drop that there with no explanation huh? I think in Ultimates, Magnetos kids were loving each other
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The Ultimates was complete dogshit except for Black Nick Fury and Miles Morales, everything else was bad. My God all the cannibalism
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Echo Chamber posted:I do like the "Millennial Socialism" reading of Spider-Man: Homecoming. I'm reminded of a popular thing that circulated around the nerd corners if the Facebook a few months ago and it was what Marvel character would vote Trump and isn't a villian? ABC's a lot of people got mad when people said Tony Stark
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coathat posted:Thank God they made an anime about playing german boardgames What?
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coathat posted:https://www.funimation.com/shows/after-school-dice-club/?qid= Wonder if half the anime will about buying games buy never having the time Rio actually play them with people. drat will anime just turn anything into a show
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I like the Marvel movies (as well as the Disney Star Wars movies) but Scorsese is 100 percent right about the Marvel movies. There's been what 23 of these movies over the past 11 years and like what are the quotable lines from these movies? I would say the biggest problem with the Marvel (and Star Wars) movies it's the assembly line nature of then where the studio has mapped out most of the movie and doesn't give the director much freedom in the crafting of the movie and their willingness to reshoot shoot so much of their movies well makes a voice that isn't what the studio wants impossible and that's a huge detriment to these movies and to the medium as a whole
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Like unless you mean movies and poo poo which absolutely but there's plenty of dudes that get on books that the company doesn't give a poo poo about and go batshit with it and when the company realizes they're arguing for murdering Jeff bezos it's too late because the book is popular What book did this?
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Farm Frenzy posted:there were a few movies a few years ago that transparently pandered to chinese people like independence day 2 but i dont think they worked that well so they gave up The Meg also fod this to a hilarious degree
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Oct 7, 2019 21:11
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Remember when Batman had a villain in the early 2000s that was just a teenaged anarchist
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I stopped watching South Park after they did that anti WGA episode, about what a decade ago now? Tough I did buy their latest videogame because I heard it was a good tactics RPG
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So Scorsese is doubling down in his correct opinion about Marvel movies and all the nerds ste even madder
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I'm going to second that. Apostle and The Ritual are great. Midsommar was really good as well.
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get that OUT of my face posted:
That's what gets me, is I've asked a few people if they really think any of the Marvel movies come even close to being able to look into the eye of Goodfellas, Casino, or Raging Bull. And they always say it's an unfair comparison, which is exactly what Scorcese is saying. Witch you would think they'd realize, but no. So I've just started comparing them to other great pop culture movies. Like are any I'd the Marvel movies as good as Raiders of the Lost Ark, or what I think might be the best Marvel movie Winter Solider, is even close to being a better super spy movie than Goldeneye?
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get that OUT of my face posted:i haven't watched any of the MCU movies, and i've noticed that nobody really mentions any standout moments or lines in them aside from Thanos memes. that's a big sign of mediocrity. it's telling that the only Marvel movie people have regularly referred to a month after it left theaters was Black Panther, and only because it's Hotep Potter That's something else that these, besides that these 23+ movies have maybe 5 lines that get quoted between all of them, they're are no stand out set pieces like running from the boulder, ripping the heart out, choosing the wrong grail, the Death Star trench run, the Canal chase from T2, anything from Aliens or any of the other rich stones of well cinema that have been absorbed into culture. It's like the opposite of Avatar that made a billion dollars but left no pop cultural foot print, these Marvel movies make so much money and god knows their toys and other related things are everywhere but nothing from there movies themselves have entered into our cultural history like these other scenes have. Maybe the elevator fight from Winter Solider?
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