the empire runs on duncan

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mystes: May 31, 2006

Sagebrush posted:

One of my favorite examples of institutionalized chauvinism in academia.

Men, for decades: "obviously these figures have some sexual meaning or were used in fertility rites, because they're naked ladies and the men who carved them gave them huge honkers and a dump truck rear end. I'm horny for the statue"

A woman: "no, they're just self-portraits done by a woman looking down at her own body."

That's as good an explanation as the other ones but there's probably no way to know for sure and I'm not sure there's even much reason to even try with objects like this that aren't functional when we have nothing to go on.

Assuming it's some sort of religious object always seems like bullshit though.

People can't even agree on those stupid roman dodecahedrons which may or may not have been functional.

Edit: Like while it does explain the proportions well, I'm just a bit skeptical because trying to make a self portrait like this and get a decent result while intentionally leaving the proportions like what you would see looking down at yourself just seems like an absurdly pointlessly hard thing to do and if you interpret these figures as going for a high level of realism but just at a weird angle you would think there would be a lot of other figures from other angles too?

OTOH if it was a very common practice exercise or something that could explain why those are what survived; I guess that's one theory about the dodecahedrons too

mystes fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Sep 29, 2022

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BaldDwarfOnPCP: Jun 26, 2019; by Pragmatica

rotor posted:

hmmmm

/sarx

# ? Sep 29, 2022 20:34

FAT32 SHAMER: Aug 16, 2012

Sagebrush posted:

One of my favorite examples of institutionalized chauvinism in academia.

Men, for decades: "obviously these figures have some sexual meaning or were used in fertility rites, because they're naked ladies and the men who carved them gave them huge honkers and a dump truck rear end. I'm horny for the statue"

A woman: "no, they're just self-portraits done by a woman looking down at her own body."

this is a great post ty

# ? Sep 29, 2022 20:47

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

FAT32 SHAMER posted:

this is a great post ty

lol user/post

# ? Sep 29, 2022 21:35

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN MASTER

shit wizard dad

# ? Sep 29, 2022 22:25

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

NoneMoreNegative posted:

quote:

"The Ballads of Gurney Halleck" by Sir Patrick Stewart & Sting. This rare LP was made in 1984, but all copies were destroyed at the warehouse due to an erroneous credit on the cover. "THE Sting" instead of "Sting." No copies of the LP survived, because none of this is real.

# ? Sep 29, 2022 22:35

Roosevelt: Jul 18, 2009; I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.

bump_fn posted:

https://twitter.com/ewpaisley/status/1574386131352829953

every movie could use a little jennifer coolidge imo

# ? Sep 29, 2022 22:46

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

she is my favorite part of Best In Show

i sometimes say things like "we both like soup" and "we could talk or not talk for hours" but few people ever get the reference

# ? Sep 29, 2022 22:47

FAT32 SHAMER: Aug 16, 2012

Jonny 290 posted:

lol user/post

lmao

# ? Sep 30, 2022 00:28

rjmccall: Sep 7, 2007; no worries friend; Fun Shoe

mystes posted:

well see it was common in ancient times to drop infant girls in well-lit caves with nothing but a hammer and a chisel and sustainable food and water sources to see what sort of art they would produce without ever having seen another human being

# ? Sep 30, 2022 01:32

polyester concept: Mar 29, 2017

FMguru posted:

https://twitter.com/Collider/status/1397561138263515136
huh, who woulda guessed?

iirc this is basically exactly what happened with peter jackson and the hobbit. he basically admitted he had no idea what he was doing and just winged it

# ? Sep 30, 2022 01:56

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

superbad is a much better movie and far more culturally relevant than any of the new star wars movies

# ? Sep 30, 2022 02:15

Sapozhnik: Jan 2, 2005; Nap Ghost

polyester concept posted:

iirc this is basically exactly what happened with peter jackson and the hobbit. he basically admitted he had no idea what he was doing and just winged it

many such cases

# ? Sep 30, 2022 02:36

mystes: May 31, 2006

polyester concept posted:

iirc this is basically exactly what happened with peter jackson and the hobbit. he basically admitted he had no idea what he was doing and just winged it

It sucks when you're supposed to make a trilogy of three hour movies and you run out of content so you just have to increase the paragraph spacing and insert gratuitous action sequences

# ? Sep 30, 2022 02:44

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

gratuitous action sequences own that wasn't the problem with those movies

# ? Sep 30, 2022 02:46

mystes: May 31, 2006

I didn't make it past the first one so I wouldn't know I guess

# ? Sep 30, 2022 02:59

Jabor: Jul 16, 2010; #1 Loser at SpaceChem

*main character gets hit on the head and passes out, wakes up, goes home*

"Wait, it's over? Where's the rest of the book? I was counting on that to fill out a third movie!"

# ? Sep 30, 2022 03:45

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

echinopsis posted:

superbad is a much better movie and far more culturally relevant than any of the new star wars movies

better soundtrack too

# ? Sep 30, 2022 04:31

polyester concept: Mar 29, 2017

https://youtu.be/4PUIxEWmsvI

# ? Sep 30, 2022 04:31

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

finally watched thor 4: more thor and it had some moments but felt kind of up and down

also disney added �thor will return� to the credits without doing a new deal with hemsworth

# ? Sep 30, 2022 05:27

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

the silliness knob was cranked to 11 and ultimately made it disappointing and forgettable

# ? Sep 30, 2022 05:36

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

the next one should be beta ray bill

# ? Sep 30, 2022 05:42

PokeJoe: Aug 24, 2004; hail cgatan

echinopsis posted:

superbad is a much better movie and far more culturally relevant than any of the new star wars movies

# ? Sep 30, 2022 06:29

Truman Peyote: Oct 11, 2006

echinopsis posted:

superbad is a much better movie and far more culturally relevant than any of the new star wars movies

# ? Sep 30, 2022 13:06

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

qirex posted:

also disney added �thor will return� to the credits without doing a new deal with hemsworth

they introduced the idea that anyone can be Thor

# ? Sep 30, 2022 14:08

Jabor: Jul 16, 2010; #1 Loser at SpaceChem

im thor

'cause i was doing goblet squats with mjolnir and overworked my quads

# ? Sep 30, 2022 14:12

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

if everyone is thor then no one is, thus ends the franchise

thanks taika waititi, you've finally saved us from marvel

# ? Sep 30, 2022 14:12

Ornamental Dingbat: Feb 26, 2007

Watched the new episode of Star And/or Wars and it was still pretty decent.

# ? Sep 30, 2022 14:31

mystes: May 31, 2006

infernal machines posted:

if everyone is thor then no one is, thus ends the franchise

Maybe they can do a new thing for disney+ where you upload a picture of yourself and then you're thor for the new movie

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

Watched the new episode of Star And/or Wars and it was still pretty decent.

Star Wars: Boolean Logic

# ? Sep 30, 2022 14:44

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

disney++ subscribers only

# ? Sep 30, 2022 14:48

mystes: May 31, 2006

hashtag !!disney

# ? Sep 30, 2022 14:49

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

https://twitter.com/shackerferesoth/status/1575837204307386368

# ? Sep 30, 2022 14:55

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

https://twitter.com/richard_kadrey/status/1575325285309988866

# ? Sep 30, 2022 15:19

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Chris Knight posted:

https://twitter.com/richard_kadrey/status/1575325285309988866

awesome

# ? Sep 30, 2022 17:45

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

smdh if you dont already own a ratty, much-used paperback copy of mirrorshades

# ? Sep 30, 2022 17:53

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

I only own a ratty much-used copy of neuromancer, what does that count for

# ? Sep 30, 2022 17:58

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

haveblue posted:

I only own a ratty much-used copy of neuromancer, what does that count for

quite a lot, imho

# ? Sep 30, 2022 17:59

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

i have the sprawl, bridge, and blue ant trilogies, all purchased from my local thrift shop over the course of a decade

# ? Sep 30, 2022 18:08

The Fool: Oct 16, 2003

I liked blue ant but it doesn't really count as cyberpunk imo

# ? Sep 30, 2022 18:24

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haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

The Fool posted:

I liked blue ant but it doesn't really count as cyberpunk imo

gibson wrote the same trilogy 3 times. the first time was far-flung fantastical pure science fiction. the second time was restrained plausible near-future fiction. the third time was just the real world

# ? Sep 30, 2022 18:27

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