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The the thread is dead, long live the thread. Mokinokaro posted:Mandalore is fine except for having SSeth (just an oldschool 4chan edgelord with a penchant for, well, 4chan humor) cameo though SSeth's crass jokes aren't usually on display in Mandalore's stuff Yeah I don't think Mandalore is super woke or anything, but he's fine. Based on what he's said when he's been on the PST pod (mocking Rowling's transphobia, everything having to do with his horror story going to see a play in the deep swamp) I really don't think he's a chud, he just has an unfortunate dude in armor logo and collabs with sseth semi-frequently. quote:How could I forget Kaiserbeamz the other really good retro anime reviewer who covers both good and bad classics. Also this, Kaiserbeamz puts out some incredibly high effort videos that are really good, but has a criminally low view/sub count. Watch this man talk about Japanese cartoons.
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Oct 19, 2020 22:37
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If you're in to pokemon and want something to put on in the background, Jrose11 does a bunch of videos where he tries to beat Pokemon Red/Blue (and very occasionally other titles) with just one pokemon, no items allowed in battle. This ranges from the actual starters, to legendaries, to an Abra that he's not allowed to evolve and can only teach physical moves. His videos can be pretty long and it's not exactly super riveting content visuals-wise, which is why I recommend it more as a background thing, but I've quite enjoyed his stuff.
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Oct 22, 2020 00:22
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 Yeah uh between Trump, the 4chan memes in the thumbnails, and some of these video titles, there's easily like a dozen CHUD dogwhistles here. Not exactly hiding it.
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Oct 22, 2020 22:20
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:I really like how trump is the thing that sticks out as weird in the splash image line up to you. I didn't say it was weird, I said it was a clue in that he's a CHUD. Most non-CHUD's don't exactly like slapping ol' Donny's face around on stuff, even for a joke.  His banner being hosed up as a whole is a completely different can of works though, yes.
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Oct 23, 2020 00:32
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Dragonatrix posted:Youtube's reaction to the DMCA notice for the previous video... Yeah that was insane to hear, they must have Cain down somewhere on record as a known DMCA abuser.
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Oct 23, 2020 19:49
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FuturePastNow posted:She may not have planned the follow-up, but since she clearly consulted an attorney before posting the original (Legal Eagle is in the video) I think she knew there was a fair chance of a fair use fight. One of the more interesting takeaways is Lindsay coming to the realization that the fundamental premises of her first video was wrong, or at least incomplete. The problem isn't Cain abusing the DMCA, it's about Cain being a psycho bully who tries to deplatform anybody who's even remotely critical of her or that she doesn't like, and DMCA takedowns are just one of the many tools her kit for doing so. Hopefully Cain isn't stupid enough to actually go through with trying to sue Lindsay. It's a battle Cain would absolutely lose, but even frivolous lawsuits are expensive and exhausting and nobody needs to go through that, particularly this year of all years.
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Oct 23, 2020 21:51
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Jamie Faith posted:Wait what? It was in a disbarment case against him too. Thompson was convinced the opposing lawyer was working with some Florida LGBT activist who had been rightfully publicly critical of Thompson's homophobic moral crusading. So in order to "discredit" this opposing secret LGBT-agent lawyer, he submitted a massive amount of hardcore M/M porn to the judge, as "proof" of how horrible and gross this other lawyer and his secret LGBT allies really were. The judge, unsurprisingly, was not amused.
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Oct 23, 2020 22:18
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I knew Jack was crazy and I heard about the batman thing, but what's this about him putting porn in his lawsuits?
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:How did Jack last as long as he did? Were people just not paying attention until his lunacy became too public to ignore? Right place right time right victims I think. He publicly went after rap music in '90 when a lot of people on the right where really starting to wring their hands over it, and he started going after violence in video games by using school shootings as a springboard to say "look these kids had violent games, this is why they ended up being violent themselves" and once again rode the wave of a moral outrage. Granted this is just me spitballing. He was definitely always a nutter and had to be known as such in legal circles, like holy poo poo this wikipedia page: quote:In sending documents to opponents, Thompson would frequently attach a photocopy of his driver's license, with a photo of Batman pasted over his own. Thompson said, "I have sent my opponents pictures of Batman to remind them I'm playing the role of Batman. Just like Bruce Wayne helped the police in the movie, I have had to assist the sheriff of Broward County." He also wore a Batman wristwatch.[23] quote:Thompson also said, "the 'social commentary' on this album is akin to a sociopath's discharging his AK-47 into a crowded schoolyard, with the machine gun bursts interrupted by Pee-wee Herman's views on politics".[26] quote:As the debate continued, Thompson wrote, "An industry that says a line cannot be drawn will be drawn and quartered."[28 Like come on, people knew. He was just getting protected/ignored because he was primarily bashing on African Americans, LGBT folks, and kids.
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Oct 23, 2020 22:54
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Hey if you're a fan of Fallout New Vegas it's Director/Head Designer Josh Sawyer is currently streaming it on twitch as part of a donation drive for California wildfire relief, check it out: https://twitch.tv/jesawyer He'll be streaming today and tomorrow from late morning to early evening PST.
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Oct 24, 2020 18:25
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The modern Democratic party as constructed is liberal, not leftist. This is an important distinction and why you for example see a lot of people praise Warren as a "progressive" while she's banging the drum that capitalism is good, actually, it's just the bad people who distort capitalism and make it bad that we have to take care of. She's about as far to the left as you can get in the party and still be considered within the primary fold, and she's still a liberal. Yet despite that apparently Biden doesn't want to give her a position in his administration partly because he's worried she's "too left" for moderate voters. Meanwhile people like AOC or Tlaib have the DCCC pouring buckets of money into (D) primary challengers from the right because while they are nominally part of the party, they are considered far too left by the people actually running it. As for actual voters themselves, it's trickier. There is a genuine leftist block in the party, as there is a genuine liberal block. You also have a lot of racial and socio-economic blocks that influence some voting behaviors and loyalties. However there are a lot of other people who simply aren't really plugged in but were beaten to death by a hammer this primary season by the media that a) Trump is a unique, existential threat who has to be removed from power, b) Bernie was not electable because ~reasons~, and c) Biden was electable and so to get rid of Trump you must vote for Biden, and anything else is tantamount to voting for Trump. This is not the block that won Biden SC, but it is the block that won him a ton of victories on Super Tuesday and then on after all the other liberal candidates dropped out en masse. There's also an aspect that the dems are huffing their own farts a bit about how uniquely terrible Trump is, and so thought that once they got their guy the nomination, everybody including the left would just fall in line because, well obviously, they're better than Trump. When the left largely did not fall in line and instead ridiculed Bernie for jumping on Biden's bandwagon and mused about voting green, their options were to sure up the leftist vote by incorporating their policy - but risk alienating the liberals - or try vote shaming. Unsurprisingly they opted for the latter. Whether it works or not - or whether they ultimately even need the left at all this election - will remain to be seen. Lotta NoJoe's are super smug about Biden losing and likewise a lot of libs are super smug about Biden crushing it, but after 2016 I'm not placing any bets. Howie Hawkins could win and I'd barely bat an eye while remarking "oh hey, the polls were wrong." I'm just waiting to see where the cards fall, however they fall.
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Oct 25, 2020 06:44
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Synder is a terrible loving director and the whole idea of a "Synder cut" is dumb as hell and is not going to suddenly make the movie actually good, but hey I'm glad some people are getting what they want and I hope it brings them some joy.
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Oct 26, 2020 01:49
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Yeah the whole gimmick of this thread is that it constantly derails into talking about stuff that has nothing to do with discussing e-celebs. We really do not need somebody in here handing out a shitload of sixers because people won't stay on topic.
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Oct 26, 2020 02:32
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Ariong posted:It's not about being "on topic," it's about staying off "this topic," which "sucks rear end." On the other hand arbitrary gatekeeping of what topics are allowed because they don't "suck rear end" is loving terrible.
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Oct 26, 2020 02:40
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Alaois posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PUCSyIkEus Oh god he actually did it.
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Oct 30, 2020 18:40
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If you haven't seen the infamous Mandalore/Shammy Druids stream from the days of yore, some lovely person on Youtube edited it down into a more watchable format and put it up in a Youtube playlist here. It even includes a video that is just all the times they alt tabbed into the discord to see the insane fanart and shitposts everybody was making in real time.
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Oct 30, 2020 23:29
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Hell yeah new Summoning Salt video on the history of Mario Kart 64 speedruns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6cpa-TvKn8
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Oct 31, 2020 05:18
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Alacron posted:A lot of videos coming out for the end of the month: This video is really good but I'd also like to stress that if you have not played Disco Elysium yet and think that you ever might want to at any point in the future, please play the game first THEN watch the video.
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Nov 1, 2020 02:35
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Rich white guy says revolution is bad, in other news grass continues to grow and be green.
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Nov 1, 2020 23:10
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Farm Frenzy posted:just two more days of this poo poo guys and then posts will be good again lol
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Nov 2, 2020 03:06
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Kim Justice posted:Funny that we've kinda gone from World Cham,pion vs A FREAKING SUPERCOMPUTER to more laid back GM's (inc. occasionally the current world champ) gooofing online and actually making Chess big on Twitch. It doesn't seem quite as intimidating and stuffy nowadays. Which has, naturally, pissed off a ton of people in the chess world because they feel their exclusive club for the thinking man is now being opened up to twitch zoomers who lack the intelligence to truly appreciate the game. Which is a real  position to take when the current World Champion likes to spin up Chess.com accounts with all the nuance of xXxWeedLord69xXx and get drunk on stream clowining randos who have no idea who they're playing.
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Nov 3, 2020 19:23
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gently caress's sake this thread is already the land of derails as it is and there is a whole loving other subforum to go take this slapfight to. Post it in any one of the various election threads. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 8, 2020 00:17
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Jamie Faith posted:I'm so sorry for bringing up the election. You just stepped on the toes of a long ongoing feud that recently flared up to a fever pitch because Joe won and all the NoJoe's got their tag changed by an admin which... upset a few people, to put it mildly. Laugh at Trump and for your own mental health don't wade into D&D or CSPAM right now.
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Nov 8, 2020 00:44
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I thought we could all just laugh at Trump, not yell at each other over...whatever it is we're yelling about.
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How many youtube videos do I have to make complaining about games and anime before I can get my Elite Breadtuber business card? Am I required to have a British accent or is that just bonus points?
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Nov 10, 2020 19:14
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This Motion Pictures Robbie guy seems like kind of a creepy rear end in a top hat.
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Nov 12, 2020 06:16
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Nov 14, 2020 09:42
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A lock acts primarily as a deterrent, oftentimes simply by existing and looking like a lock even if it's a piece of poo poo you could rake open in 2-3 seconds with a properly bent paperclip. Master locks are well known to be complete dogshit but it doesn't really matter in the vast majority of cases where you'd be using one to prevent petty, opportunistic theft. If a guy walks past a bike rack looking for an easy score and sees two bikes: one secured with a $10,000 ultra pick/destruction-proof swiss mega lock, and one with a $10 master lock, they're probably not going to bother with either because they were just hoping to find one not locked up they could ride off on. Having said that what really scares me is all the gun safes he shows on the channel that are completely an inexcusably compromised.
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Nov 14, 2020 23:11
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I really liked his video on booting because it was like, hey here are a couple cheap tools you can grab and keep in your car in case you get unlucky and somebody tries to pull the boot scam on you, because if you know what you're doing those things come off in like 10 seconds.
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Nov 15, 2020 03:31
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Katt posted:Anita Sarkeesian is back in the discourse and I am amazed at the diversity of her anti-fans. Naturally over the most milquetoast of takes too lol.
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Nov 16, 2020 19:34
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Yeah it's barely even boob armor, more just the female chest piece is curved rather than straight. That said it is equally dumb that such a mild take instantly whipped a bunch of morons into a frothing rage.
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Nov 16, 2020 20:02
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My only real criticism of Anita is that she sometimes comes off as overly sex negative in her critiques. Not about to make a 45 minute video with a thumbnail of me comically gasping about it though.sexpig by night posted:and the character they teased showing up soon is likely going to be played by Rosario Dawson who's literally a violent transphobe) Which character is that?
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Nov 16, 2020 21:29
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sexpig by night posted:don't wanna spoil but Oh well that loving sucks.
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Nov 16, 2020 22:13
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Anita's initial take is dumb and if she thinks that is "boob armor" then I can only assume she thinks any kind of sexual dimorphism in armor design is bad which, uh, okay. But hey guess what? She is absolutely entitled to her dumb take and the sheer amount of people who immediately sprang up from the woodwork to tell her how terrible she is for expressing it is loving pathetic. fun hater posted:this was my biggest problem with her project at its time of conception, because it seemed like a hysterically simplistic series of explanations on the most basic subjects explained to an audience that likely already agrees with her. i felt like it was vastly overstating the expected outcome/intent of the project (and the need for funding) ...but then it caused the a majority of the internet to become irrepairably deranged just by pointing these normal things out so boy my face is red I mean, the point of FF I thought was to try and apply the most basic, Feminist Theory 101 to a predominantly male created and represented media in the hopes those people would be receptive to a more basic message and maybe invite some change in the industry. Except ot turns out even that most basic critique made capital G Gamers flip the gently caress out and start a culture war against anything even remotely progressive in the medium, so welp!
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Nov 17, 2020 21:27
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:This is a thing that more or less actually happened during the heyday of GG or the Jordan Petersen crowd, angry kids would go to college courses on intro to crit theory or basic logic and lose their loving minds in rage at the classes not lining up with what they expected them to be. Peak "I used Ben Shapiro's debate logic for my persuasive essay and my teacher failed me, why?!" energy.
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Nov 17, 2020 21:39
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Casey Finnigan posted:nerd gatekeeping is so funny.  But for all nerd poo poo, on repeat forever.
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Nov 18, 2020 01:33
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The only two James Bond movies I've ever seen are GoldenEye and Moonraker, both because of the N64 game. I literally could not tell you a single thing about Moonraker, I think there's a scene where they shoot the laser gun in a garden maybe? That's about it. GoldenEye loving slaps and has the perfect amount of cheese and ham.
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Nov 21, 2020 07:54
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The thing with ratings is that a lot of people treat them as shorthand to decide if they should consume that media product or not. Partially because as a species we're pretty mentally lazy about that sort of thing and love shorthand, and partially because there's so much goddamn media available that critically pouring over everything to decide what is and is not worth your time isn't feasible. Like if you're a working parent with three kids you don't have time to tear into all the reviews for the summer releases, you open up the Now Showing page and see the thing rated G with a cute name and go "yeah okay I'll bring my kids to that." A problem that arises though is that ratings really only care about superficial elements like the level and type of violence, sex, and language. They don't really care about themes or target audiences. Which can result in oddities like 2001 Space Odyssey getting a G rating (imagine bringing your ~10 year old kids to that one lol) or Breakfast Club getting an R because it acknowledges that teens experiment with drugs and sex and alcohol, which gates the film off from what is arguably it's target audience. The thing is, studios know ratings are used as shorthand, and so they will add or withhold certain elements to achieve a rating that matches the audience they're going for. Office Space didn't need tons of swearing - you could rip pretty much all of it out and the story still works - but without it you're looking at a PG movie whose whole thrust relies on the viewer having experience at the very least familiarity with the soul-crushing insanity that is corporate office culture. Kids movies have to bend over backwards to make sure any violent elements are depicted in a ratings board friendly way: the infamous "Disney Villain death" is one such example. So movies with "mature" themes often have gratuitous sex, violence, or swearing thrown in because that bumps the rating up to an "R" and makes adults more likely to show up for it, which conflates those superficial elements with something being "mature". It's not just limited to movies either: TV and video games suffer from the same problem. HBO is a particularly big offender: pretty much any prestige television they make throws in a ton of gratuitous nudity and swearing even when it doesn't serve the story whatsoever, presumably just to get an MA rating and drum up interest. tl;dr a lot of people who think "Batman but he says "gently caress" and shoots people" is more mature only think that way because the way media ratings incentivize writers in such a way that media aimed at adults often has elements thrown in to artificially pump the rating up to one that matches the target audience.
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Nov 26, 2020 02:37
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Schwarzwald posted:HBO doesn't add gratuitous nudity and swearing to their shows to get an MA rating. HBO gets their shows an MA rating to advertise that their shows have gratuitous nudity and swearing. The gratuitous nudity and swearing is the part people like! Sure but you can't deny that people also conflate those things with a show being "mature" even when those elements are actually used in a juvenile manner. GoT certainly has mature elements, but Jamie opening the door to reveal a bunch of half naked prostitutes who dogpile Tyrion while he makes jokes about the size of his dick is not one of them. Shows aimed at adults throw in gratuitous elements and while there is undeniable natural attraction to gratuity, it also reinforces to audiences that nudity/violence/etc = mature even when it isn't used in such a manner. I guess if anything I'm critiquing our country's puritan bullshit. Take something like the original Dragonball, which is very clearly aimed at children. It has sex jokes and full frontal nudity that - because they're entirely juvenile in nature - are perfectly fine to publish in a Japanese serial aimed at kids/teenagers, but over here would either have to be censored or slapped with a mature content warning. Gating off boobs and blood and bad words as things only adults should experience creates a media perception that those things are "mature" when they really aren't that intrinsically.
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Nov 26, 2020 09:44
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I mean the Hays Code (the predecessor to the modern MPAA rating system), ESRB, and TV Parental Guidelines all arose from moral panic pearl clutching. Scapegoating media as causing violence by imitation is as old as dirt in this country.
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Nov 28, 2020 00:27
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Kim Justice posted:A different bluetick to mock: This is some peak "If I lived in the Roman Republic I'd be a philosopher living in a mansion and not a slave" energy.
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Nov 30, 2020 08:22
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"Yeah I'll just fight in WW1 and WW2 without dying and go on to enjoying my retirement" 
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Nov 30, 2020 08:24
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