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Arivia posted:Not specifically in Shakespeare but you do see references like that in other literature and it only gets stronger heading into the Victorians. If I remember my Chaucer correctly he drops a couple favourite inns during the Canterbury Tales. Yes, noted literary powerhouses and unspeakably influential authors, Virginia Woolfe and Gertrude Stein, dimestore novelists, with a side of W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk as a particularly notable dimestore novel. Don't make goofball generalizations.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:She's not wrong, just speaking from an Anglocentric perspective. Dear God did previous generations not know how to cook vegetables. As someone raised in the south it's absurdly wrong. Collard greens, cauliflower with cheese sauce, broccoli spinach soup, buttered green beans, fried eggplant, I could go on and on, all oldschool dishes that are delicious and rich.
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BrigadierSensible posted:So, let's assume that one is a gay trans man, but cannot afford the expensive medical process to transition. If you listen to this bloke, all you have to do is gently caress a lot of other men, and their essence, energy and life force, until you become just like those men. I am understanding him right yes? Generally greater repression in sexual expression including amongst heterosexual couples, sexual education more woeful than even ours (either nonexistent, religiously focused, underfunded, or badly informed), a lack of societal awareness regarding sexual subcultures and kink, and due to how often homosexuality is criminalized and ostracized to a much greater degree than even here, they have no need to blunt their rhetoric in order to avoid public outcry or resistance to outrageous statements. Fundamentalism is obvious. Homophobes in the US do probably have many of the same thoughts, but it's less socially acceptable to state those bluntly, instead they'll have incredibly roundabout tactics like tacitly accusing gay men of being more likely to be pedophiles or some other horseshit. It's harder to say the more frank and absurd stuff when LGBTQ people are far more out in the open here and as such people can obviously observe them as being totally normal human beings that cover a wide gamut of personalities. There are also potential social consequences such as losing your job for saying outright bizarre and bigoted statements. Not even three decades ago it was common to see gay men constantly portrayed as being sexual predators or perpetually lounging around shady, drug ridden BDSM clubs in film, not even getting started on AIDS which homophobes used to paint them as disease ridden which is a massive, incredibly challenging issue in many African nations and regions right now, especially in more rural and poverty stricken areas, making discrimination easier for people who need a convenient scapegoat. This is only scratching the surface though as a lot of regional religions (of which there are countless) have their own strictures and rules regarding sexuality and like a lot of oldschool Catholicism or Mormon poo poo it can extend to specific sex acts or practices so they'll incorporate those into their screeds. Then you have to factor in that a lot of areas are heavily influenced by Abrahamic religions due to colonization, but a lot of the social and spiritual attitudes of religious practices and traditions from before Christian or Islamic conversion will meld together with that and create hyperspecific expressions of sexual attitudes and taboos. Some cultures are somewhat open to transgender people (but often only in culturally specific incarnations which often come with their own difficulties) and various sexualities and gender expressions outside of the binary. When LGBTQ people are so incredibly marginalized it's easier to turn them into weird demons doing crazy sex stuff and say so publicly since there are no voices to speak up against it, but it's not necessarily a 1:1 analogue to historical oppression here, in fact it's tremendously different as a rule. Most of the easy comparisons are from areas with high Muslim or Christian populations, for obvious reasons. There is a lot of depressingly varied aspects of the myriad kinds of sexual repression and oppression in many regions in Africa but also a lot of cool and sometimes more open contrasts - depending on where you're looking at. I'd recommend picking up some easy to get into books like Hungochani or African Sexualities: A Reader if you want to know more.
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This honestly isn't anything new, there are scads of rappers dating back to the 80s who take stock in NWO conspiracy theories which is one of the most classical forms of anti-semitism, Ice Cube has been spewing that garbage for ages. Also he sucks poo poo as a rapper and was one of the most useless members of NWA.
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Henchman of Santa posted:The guy who was the de facto leader of NWA and wrote lyrics for everyone else was the most useless member? Yes he sucked nut and I stand by it.
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goblin week posted:Loud sneezers are indeed the worst though. If I managed to restrain my sneezes after transitioning than so can men It's utterly meaningless. Anyone can be a loud sneezer. It's a autonomic response that functions by drawing in large amounts of air then creating strong pressure by forcefully and quickly expelling it, it will make noise. Deal with the five seconds of annoyance this completely innocuous physiological function inspires in you and move on instead of believing that everyone should change some harmless aspect of themselves to spare you those five seconds of annoyance.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:"burn the village" If she had been born over a hundred years ago to a white family she probably would be as racist as anyone else. Bizarrely self-aggrandizing to claim your psyche would be the exact same in that context, unless she time travelled.
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AlbieQuirky posted:Eh, there were non-racist white suffragists who led integrated groups (Lucretia Mott was one), but more importantly there were Black suffragist groups that were extremely awesome. My point is that it's really odd to phrase it as "I would have done it properly." when you have literally no idea what you would have been like back then versus the environment you were raised in now, and that it's weird to make a retrospective judgment of moral errors in history by framing it as something you would have fixed had you been there. It's just an extremely bad way of saying something by presenting yourself as an important part of the equation instead of just presenting it in a third person context without the weird connotations of self-importance. Like if it were me I would have properly blown Hitler up during Operation Valkyrie. I don't have any issue with her point, she just made it terribly.
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behind her, she had way more power than the leaders of the Black and integrated groups.
why we can’t have nice things.
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Samovar posted:...in Dean's defence, he didn't claim that his brother was. Additionally Historic.ly has straight up used NazBol sources and is generally a monumental source of turdery so this is like vomit insulting a diarrheatic slurry.
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Sep 5, 2020 08:31
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I WANT TO LIVE STARSHIP TROOPERS
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I once had a video of the 1980s PC RPG Wasteland, which exclusively only has PC speaker bleep and bloop audio (thus no actual sound effects or music), be flagged as some Indian song. So it really isn't that farfetched.
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Nov 16, 2020 16:41
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:They are litigating bodega vs convenience store nuances in the comments. Coooool. The comments are pretentious NYC morons concentrate.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Here we have both. Philly has places like this too, so does Baltimore and even Wilmington in DE.
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You use shampoo for your scalp and your hair regardless of how long it is you utter weirdos.
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This weird "Spielberg invented modern film." opinion is one of those ever present popular online theories that just kind of propagated out of people repeating what they heard elsewhere, but a few months in filmschool or having watched more than a handful of pre-70s films easily disprove it. He's massively influential but the extent of his influence is absurdly overstated.
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Titanic, Braveheart, Dances With Wolves, Casino, Schindler's List (which is Spielberg lmao), Wolf of Wall Street, Pulp Fiction, JFK, Malcolm X, Ghandi, Magnolia, The Green Mile, The Deer Hunter, The Right Stuff. That poo poo went nowhere. Epics never went out of style, only whatever genres they belonged to.
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:Whatever the run time of terminator 2 is, thats the perfect movie length It's over two hours. So is Aliens. Lil Swamp Booger Baby has a new favorite as of 12:56 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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For the mere price of a movie ticket you could be a kid in the 90s and get suckered into watching anal waste like Armageddon for two and a half hours that made you wish you were stuck at home watching Bridge on the River Kwai on TCM via your 14" CRT TV screen.
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seiferguy posted:Strong phrenology vibes! https://twitter.com/RedemptiveKing/status/1378787434461208578?s=19 As someone who had a lovely dad this kind of rhetoric sends off virtually every alarm bell in my head. This kid is not in for a good time.
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Ernest Hemingway was gay according to these new standards.
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Grimdude posted:Boneless wings are basically the same drat thing as boned wings except easier to eat. I'm convinced the "boned wings taste WAY better" crowd is just full of poo poo whether they know it or not. Bone in wings are dark meat, boneless are not, are you saying there's zero difference between dark and white meat, the macros are literally different lol.
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Ban both the pedophile and kiwifarms user stunt_enby
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Tbh stunt_enby was annoying as poo poo and an insanely aggro poster 99% of the time but I guess the best way to go out is to nuke a pedophile
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christmas boots posted:That is 100% bait. Making disabled people or people dependent on regular medical healthcare to survive mad as a troll is insanely pathetic imo.
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OKCupid, before it degenerated into a Tinder clone; was legit the best dating site in existence because you could filter out people on questions like "Should abortion be allowed?" or "Do you think same sex people should be allowed to get married?" It was an invaluable mechanism.
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It's entirely because elephants aren't labeled as predators so they think a "prey" animal that needs entire prides to strategically swarm them down who still end up getting crippled or killed a good proportion of the time probably isn't dangerous and will just roll over and die. Most people literally operate on the principle that predator meat eater = dangerous and herbivore migratory pack animal = weak and ineffectual, even though a hippo can murder virtually 99% of the animal kingdom with ease.
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theironjef posted:Trinity is carrot, onion, bell pepper. Celery doesn't grow well around that region. It's 100% celery. I grew up eating that poo poo almost every day.
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Can't imagine a gumbo or jambalaya without it, it vanishes into the dish as it cooks down but leaves all that deep, grassy flavor.
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No that is a very good answer
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The deus vult people are basically the same thing as if a kid that's 14 right now looked in a history book and saw a photo of a disembowled GI run through by a Vietnamese bayonett and said WOW I WISH THAT WERE ME
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Mocking height regardless if it's "deserved" perpetuates toxic masculinity whether you like it or not. Saying you're short as well doesn't change jack poo poo. Also "manlet" was a term birthed on the BB forums and is basically proto-incel terminology that you're using without a trace of irony. At least stop making transparently wack excuses.
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Vib Rib posted:A pretty vocal subset of men will absolutely lose their poo poo about even cis-hetero women getting breast reductions, to begin with, so I'm pretty sure I know where their obsession with breast tissue is coming from. They eat the tissue, it is food that they are being denied.
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Skwirl posted:I'm curious about those early western rpgs that emphasized player choice Ultima IV pioneered reactivity and player choice in RPGs, Ultima V introduced the simplified karmic system that is basically still used in games like Mass Effect and virtually every major RPG with some kind of morality system (though slightly based off of Wizardry's moral alignment system) not to mention things we take for granted now like NPC schedules and day/night cycles. Ultima IV was released in 1985 and to this day still features layers of complexity that other developers won't bother with, things like letting enemies flee making you more Compassionate, giving a blind shopkeeper the correct amount of money making you more Just, or not being boastful making you more Humble. All these tied into a central theme of becoming the "Avatar," a role model for the kingdom. You weren't the hero in the story and your goal wasn't to defeat some great evil, your goal was literally just to become a good enough person that you could be held up as a standard for Britannia. Even to this day that's a pretty unique angle. Ultima V did some inversions on those themes, and Ultima VI eventually skewered it completely by challenging the idea of "absolute good" since the book you quest to retrieve in Ultima IV and prove your worth as a hero inadvertently causes a catastrophe that leads to the near genocide a sentient race of gargoyles. Basically one person's hero is another's villain. The entire series hinged on making choices and the gameplay and plot reflecting the Virtue system that was present in the games. Without Ultima, the vast majority of modern RPG conventions, Western or Japanese or otherwise, would not exist and post Ultima III it was an entire series dedicated to ideas of morality and how your choices as a player had consequences. Oh, and Ultima III was the first major title to utilize the now extremely ubiquitous mechanic of running into an enemy on the overworld then zooming into a battle screen, which seems like such a given now. Ultima V also set a standard for object reactivity by allowing you to mess with most anything in the environment, taken to a far greater extreme in VI and VII, where you can basically move around and interact with anything in the environment that isn't strapped down. Many nostalgic Ultima fans will happily tell you about stripping the cannons from Lord British's castle, and doing drive bys from the comfort of a magic carpet. So if you like things like putting buckets on NPC heads in Skyrim, thank Ultima. Darklands in the early 90s still beats out the majority of modern RPGs for reactivity, and along with Wasteland, which also touted heavy reactivity and open-ended quest design, directly led to games like Fallout 1 and 2. Wasteland came out in '88 and is one of the clearest examples of how CRPGs contrasted in their world design compared to JRPGs. This of course, had its cost, CRPGs were far more notorious for their instability and bugginess due to their penchant for open ended design, it's pretty obvious that due to the standards of publishers like Nintendo, JRPGs were generally more controlled experiences. Dragon Warrior is a direct Ultima rip-off, more likely Ultima III than IV. Virtually every first person dungeon crawler JRPG is in some fashion a Wizardry rip-off, which was an absolutely enormous series in Japan. To the point that the license for Wizardry post Wizardry 8 was purchased by a Japanese company called Gamepot who made a short lived MMO. There are still occasional Japanese Wizardry titles released for mobile platfotms. Almost every major JRPG that we pretend these days were "revolutionary" like Final Fantasy or Dragon Warrior were just iterations on CRPGs that were selling like hotcakes on PC systems in Japan. Later on they would go nuts for Might & Magic as well, which while never reaching a similar level of popularity, still inspired scads of JRPG blobbers, but it eventually did inspire the creation of the Elder Scrolls series. Temple of Apshai let to Rogue, which itself created an entire genre and inspired series like Ys. Even less "hard" RPGs like Pirates! inspired games like Uncharted Waters. Ultima Underworld essentially invented the immersive sim genre and inspired titles such as King's Field, which we know as the progenitor to Demon's Souls. This isn't even getting into things like MUDs which were the blueprint for MMOs, or Wizard's Crown, which created the skeletal framework of SSI's later Gold Box games and eventually, the foundation of the tactics genre. So there wasn't really a split so much as Western RPGs just trying every idea under the sun and JRPG developers taking what they liked and refining them into more digestible and marketable experiences for console markets, which came with the caveat of less open ended design and definitely nothing as reactive as the Ultima series. I wouldn't say that games like Wizardry or Might & Magic gave a poo poo about reactivity or player choices, but games like Ultima and Wasteland certainly did. You can even see this on console with games like the Genesis Shadowrun or Naughty Dog's Rings of Power being far more open ended than their Japanese counterparts.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte/status/1450054055682879488 Lol the comments in the primary tweet are almost nothing but oblivious liberals practicing insane amounts of homophobia.
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Where is the lie? The lie is in dumbasses who project bizarre human insecurities onto animals and have weird hangups about animals that are likely spawned from their personal stereotypes about what those animal owners' are like. Dogs are intelligent animals, as are cats. This person just wants to poo poo on dogs because they probably got mad at a dog owner recently and wanted to steam over it. People with ridiculous animosity towards animal species never have any coherent or salient viewpoints about them, and their entire motivation for this cringy poo poo is informed by that animosity. This is just a repeat of that post where people were theorizing that people get dogs "because they want something to control" because they cannot fathom - or are so boringly cynical - that the primary reason people get any pet is for companionship. Lil Swamp Booger Baby has a new favorite as of 18:07 on Oct 25, 2021 |
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They got Wild Hogs on Amazon Prime
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DID in reality is boring af except for the person dealing with it. It's characterized by moments of amnesia and dissociation where people can behave in ways uncharacteristic to their usual personality, but as far as the actual presentation of it, that's the long and short. Not fully defined personalities, not hyperspecific triggers like squeaking a dog toy making Shayla the dog groomer from Georgia who talks in a drawl start loving play acting in front of you. They changed the name from "multiple personality" for a reason, because it was insanely inaccurate as to what the sufferers were actually experiencing. It's characterized by memory problems, dissociative episodes, and a fractured sense of self due to those episodes which you cannot recall. It's more like the self you are is fractured by those memory issues and instances of amnesia. The difference in "identity" is that a day ago you learned something cool and were telling everyone about it, and now suddenly today you can't remember any of it, or you had a dissociative episode and have an extremely foggy recollection of anything you did in the past two days but everyone tells you that you were acting extremely odd and unlike yourself. That kind of loss of information and experience causes identity issues and fucks with your sense of self, but all the TikTokers with their "systems" are full of horseshit.
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The difference is that people with DID FEEL like their body was hijacked by another personality oftentimes because of the episodes, behavioral changes, dissociation and memory loss, but they don't actually have other fully formed personalities or identities besides their own. Of course, if you don't understand what's going on during these episodes, it can be easy to assume that some other alien identity living in your head decided to commandeer your body, but that isn't the actual case. It's like saying bipolar people have three different personalities or identities because they act wildly different while manic, depressed, or not exhibiting either extreme. poo poo isn't "plural." It's singular. The MPD era was some Jungian level psychoanalysis of overcomplicating far more simple and grounded symptoms by turning them into ridiculous overwrought poo poo, often informed by people describing their symptoms in metaphorical means and idiot psychologists taking it at face value.
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