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btw never read the state of the art reads like bad fanfic and twilight zone twists
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# ¿ Sep 21, 2023 10:07 |
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Achmed Jones posted:is that the short story collection? I was reading from the first culture book through the last, hit the short stories, and then stopped bc they were bad. never did pick up the novels again. maybe after I go through dune again yes that’s the one the rest of the novels are good (I haven’t read inversions)
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say what you will about the execution of the prequels dude at least its an ethos
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its easy- special circumstances is space cops! in modern day
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oh no idrians have released 99 human criminals sma and a drone who looks like a human for reasons have to hunt them down banter!
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Achmed Jones posted:I care he said no one, checks out
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msrp lol
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the cannibal island religion bits in consider phlebas always seemed a bit off for a culture-aligned orbital also a big part of why I don’t recommend it as a first culture book
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qirex posted:y'all know that before the cadaver synod, lol
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some medieval scholars had a lol GoT blog series that was entertaining other than making fun of the nerd chorus of ‘shows it how brutal it really is, man’ was they emphasized that it was a big deal none of the characters actually appeared to believe in the gods and how big of a deal that would have been
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Sagebrush posted:christopher nolan movies, not counting batmen: now do dunkirk
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The Fool posted:this hayes code viewers knew a lighthouse cut and cigarettes meant rick and ilsa boned down in bone town
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urukz my hobbit-hole
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Jonny 290 posted:sloppy second breakfast elven elevensies
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people who insist on being called trekkers instead of trekkies are extremely suspect
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trekphiles, but i guess that’s redundant
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cc institute for gremlins 2 studies
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twoeady pl2yer one: the squeakwel
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:the entire point of the final episode is that the second-to-final is an incredibly dumb trope where bojack has his bad actions catch up with him, and the audience has the relief of feeling sympathy with him because it is safe and allowed now that his comeuppance had arrived. this is entirely contrary to the theme of the show however, where bojack is an incredibly real hollywood monster who will never face permanent consequences and who will continue to inflict suffering on himself and everyone else forever. agreed re importance of final episode but everyone else (except pb) cuts him out of their life, and their life goes on without him; not the first time that happened (eg herb having a full life etc). there’s more going on than standard premium cable antihero californiacation and i think the creator tried to emphasize over the course of the show how you should not identify with bojack, but i get that not everyone is going to read it that way and I’m sympathetic to the argument that the depiction is glamorizes it; eg no such thing as an anti-war movie
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Jonny 290 posted:also is mr robot Finished finshed? i've never seen a second of it, i was waiting for it to end before i dove in yeah, its done and not bad ending overall; there’s some things I could argue with but he doesn’t lumberjack off
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breaking bad ended with badass walt going out a winner; better to assume he owl creek bridged coming out of the bar at the end of the second to last episode
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Jonny 290 posted:jj abrams and damon lindelhof: it's absolutely not a death/afterlife thing. there is no way they're in purgatory tbf purgatory is only the flash sideways scenes but the network cutting in the deserted beach scenes over the credits certainly muddled that i still have some affinity for lost; remember heroes, lol
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aside from being a decade too early for cheap enough superhero dctv cg (ultimate battle! built up all season! around a corner that you can’t see!) it uh turns out they didn’t have a plan
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haveblue posted:lost sputtered out around season 3 because you can't write a story for a potentially infinite length of time. at that point the episodes got so trash they were able to go to the suits and negotiate how much longer the series would last, and then the plot started moving again truly when you’ve lost gamer joker, you’ve lost society
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like sure maybe but i think the anthology thing was a bit of rear end covering its the drat network forcing me to keep all these characters around america has milomania
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with trek 09 it was fun to spend time with the characters but not a good trek movie into darkness was peak jj bullshit beyond was decent
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TimWinter posted:I was one of those kids who liked Starship Troopers at face value, and only found out years later how dumb I am. In response I now don't trust any media because it might be the most scathing piss-take in a generation. tbf the number of contemporary reviewers who missed it is pretty high an easy mistake to make given that it’s 90%+ similar to avg space sci fi shoot em up doogie swaggering out at the end in full ss gear shoulda been a tell tho there were some p great missing the point .plans from id from the quake 2 era complaining about why they didn’t they just nuke them from orbit
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rotor posted:idk why but Cats Cradle is my favorite Vonnegut book. mine is probably mother night or breakfast of champions.
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bump_fn posted:harry potter is british of course it’s mean spirited at the end of ww2, the uk was able to get a shipment of bananas for uk children, a very rare treat what with rationing, world war, etc. famed english literaturist evelyn waugh proceeded to eat the three bananas his family was given in front of his children, because the children wouldn’t appreciate them as much as he would
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99.6% of poors own an anime???
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mccoy and spock worked because spock was usually smugly superior data wanted nothing more than to be a real boy so it was just bullying
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if ur rudy, who has probably spent the last two decades being the guest of honor at dictator-hosted salo reenactments across four continents, a single consensual-appearing fox news ‘she looked at least 18’ barely moves your kompromat radar
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wanting your own ray cohn but ending up with michael cohen and rudy g fits with the level of competency in every other aspect of his life
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:he probably should have treated his original ray cohn better and he wouldn't have had to settle for the dollar store versions! he treated roy the way roy taught him to treat people
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the framing at the beginning and end of gbh makes it much sadder than you might expect from zany pastel whimsy but i get why folks don’t like wes anderson and that’s fine too
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edge of tomorrow then upstream color then the jerk upstream color is sad but good but wasn’t the most depressing thing ive ever seen ends hopefully im kinda tired of ‘steve martin’ and understand why he decided to take the last 20 years as an insufferable banjoist but the jerk is still worth seeing
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yeezy going for the millennial vote
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:uncle junior thought it was gay to eat pussy all the other fellas thought it was gay to eat pussy
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# ¿ Sep 21, 2023 10:07 |
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vagina dentata but gear teeth
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