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Rifftrax was unable to secure the rights to riff on Twilight live over the summer. So they're now doing Starship Troopers.
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Tazzillekki posted:The way I see it, money isn't the only thing you can gain from these kinds of volunteering work. The fact that for any reason you cannot afford to take advantage of this internship is not the company's problem. It's not the rich guy's problem. It's not a problem at all. You just lack the resources. I took an internship last summer out of town and it was hard as gently caress on my bank account. I had to borrow money, crash on a acquaintance's couch and all that jazz. I still came out with a net gain from the experience even if I was overall poorer for it. Why the gently caress did you write all those words when 4 would have said the same thing? "gently caress you, got mine"
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May 23, 2013 12:44
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Tazzillekki posted:How is asking for financial support with no direct profit to the financier perfectly okay but asking for musical support while offering nothing but exposure and beer is unbelievably evil? Don't coddle them, they're adults and know what's in their best interest. You've never had a job where people actively tried to scam you out of payment because they thought your services didn't qualify as a "real job", despite having no experience in that field. Horrible Smutbeast posted:Hey guess what, fetish art is really hosed because it's geared towards getting people off by exaggeration, both in the body proportions and posing. "Fetish art" and "well-drawn art" aren't mutually exclusive. Slugbox just sucks. Modern Day Hercules posted:Why the gently caress did you write all those words when 1 would have said the same thing?
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May 23, 2013 12:45
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Toffile posted:Rifftrax was unable to secure the rights to riff on Twilight live over the summer. This is possibly better.
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StevenM posted:You've never had a job I suspect you could have stopped there. I'm getting that "high school conservative" vibe.
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May 23, 2013 13:06
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Tazzillekki posted:The way I see it, money isn't the only thing you can gain from these kinds of volunteering work. The fact that for any reason you cannot afford to take advantage of this internship is not the company's problem. It's not the rich guy's problem. It's not a problem at all. You just lack the resources. I took an internship last summer out of town and it was hard as gently caress on my bank account. I had to borrow money, crash on a acquaintance's couch and all that jazz. I still came out with a net gain from the experience even if I was overall poorer for it. That's a privilege you fool, not something everyone can do. Yes, the lower classes lack the resources to do what you did, because you're able to live a bit of a pampered lifestyle (yes, pampered, even if you had to 'rough it' for a while). Being able to afford to work for free is not something everyone can manage, and your 'well I bucked up and dealt with little money, and so can you!' thing is so myopic it's scary. What about people with kids? What about people who don't have college educations and don't have access to internships? The whole goddamn point of CREAM as a statement is that the lives of the underprivileged is ruled by their access to money, so it's funny and stupid you'd try and turn that phrase around somehow. StrangersInTheNight has a new favorite as of 14:19 on May 23, 2013 |
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Awful Kickstarters Vol II: Transgender Politics and the Proletariat
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Tazzillekki posted:Cash doesn't rule everything around me. Yes but, it does... You had to take out a loan and rely on a friend's financial ability to support you to take that internship. The access to (other) people's cash enabled you to go on your little venture, just like the the unavailability of resources would prevent other people from going on a similar escapade. In fact, it would seem that cash did rule everything around you.
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May 23, 2013 13:59
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Tazzillekki posted:It's not a problem at all. You just lack the resources. ahahahahah what. Anyway, speaking of tone-deaf conservatives, help make the trailer for the documentary of an old conservative woman moving to Denver for some reason. quote:Gathering all this information will allow us to bring our project to the next step, to put together a website, a great 3 to 5 minute trailer, to write a very good project and to start a research for bigger funding to make a great documentary. And then with more funds they can make a longer trailer to generate more funds for a longer trailer to generate more funds for a great documentary. What?
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Tazzillekki posted:The way I see it, money isn't the only thing you can gain from these kinds of volunteering work. The fact that for any reason you cannot afford to take advantage of this internship is not the company's problem. It's not the rich guy's problem. It's not a problem at all. You just lack the resources. I took an internship last summer out of town and it was hard as gently caress on my bank account. I had to borrow money, crash on a acquaintance's couch and all that jazz. I still came out with a net gain from the experience even if I was overall poorer for it. gently caress you, shithead. Must be nice having a large enough bank account to have a negative income for months at a time. Oh wait, you had to borrow money and leech off of other people for it. So your last line is a blatant lie.
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nunchi posted:If the idea of being called an rear end in a top hat sucks, then don't be an rear end in a top hat. So if someone asks you to do work for them for free, do you agree to do it and then complain later, or do you say 'no thanks, I'll look for a better option, maybe one where I can get paid'? Only one of those options makes sense to me, personally. I'm not saying Amanda Palmer isn't an rear end in a top hat, of course the idea of not being paid to do real work sucks. I'm glad they got paid in the end, and they should have done in the first place considering the money that was made by the endeavor. However, (from the sounds of things) they were asked to volunteer. She didn't offer to pay them and then decide not to later, did she? Edit: As a guy who works with musicians, artists, actors, and prop people very often, I want to add that people who work in creative industries deserve to be paid for their work. If only I had money to pay them with. Hbomberguy has a new favorite as of 20:35 on May 23, 2013 |
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May 23, 2013 20:30
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Please shut the gently caress up about internships. Thanks.
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May 23, 2013 20:55
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Toffile posted:Rifftrax was unable to secure the rights to riff on Twilight live over the summer. But...Starship Troopers is a GOOD movie.
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TheJoker138 posted:But...Starship Troopers is a GOOD movie. Yeah but even Twilight with Rifftrax was hard to get through
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TheJoker138 posted:But...Starship Troopers is a GOOD movie. Sometimes a good movie is great with a riff, and sometimes a bad movie is unrecoverable even with the best riff.
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May 23, 2013 23:15
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Plague of Hats posted:Sometimes a good movie is great with a riff, and sometimes a bad movie is unrecoverable even with the best riff. Even with Rifftrax I couldn't sit through the whole of Twilight 2. It felt like it was 30 goddamn hours long.
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Elissia posted:Even with Rifftrax I couldn't sit through the whole of Twilight 2. It felt like it was 30 goddamn hours long. Seriously. I use it to fall asleep at night sometimes. Even the jokes can't keep me awake for more than 20 minutes.
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May 24, 2013 06:54
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If you are interested in Amanda Palmer's perspective on the whole thing, appropriately titled The Art Of Asking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMj_P_6H69g
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For what it's worth. This just ended unsuccessfully. $710 of a $3000 goal.   honestly kind of wonder if the arabic actually translates
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cool biRd pics posted:For what it's worth. This just ended unsuccessfully. $710 of a $3000 goal. If anyone answered, I didn't see it. The Good Idea Fairy is military slang -- she whispers into the ear of Military Brass causing them to make stupid decisions which wastes money and man hours. I can attest that she works for federal civil service too. The idea of a Good Idea Djinn working for the other side is a little funny too. Blue Falcon is more military slang which stands for the one jerk that drags everyone else in the unit down and gets them into trouble. It's actually a funny idea executed horribly (like so many things on kickstarter). It doesn't help that the guy's comic site is painfully unfunny and racist too. Verdugo has a new favorite as of 23:53 on May 24, 2013 |
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Verdugo posted:If anyone answered, I didn't see it. The Good Idea Fairy is military slang -- she whispers into the ear of Military Brass causing them to make stupid decisions which wastes money and man hours. I can attest that she works for federal civil service too. The idea of a Good Idea Djinn working for the other side is a little funny too. Just to expand on the Blue Falcon part. It is the non curse slang term for Buddy Fucker. Like Verdugo said, someone that fucks over the people in his unit.
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Waffleman_ posted:But what about Dynamutt? Like Verdugo said, someone that fucks over the people in his unit.
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cool biRd pics posted:honestly kind of wonder if the arabic actually translates If it was supposes to be Arabic. Then it's just gibberish. It's probably Afghani or something.
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Tazzillekki posted:If it was supposes to be Arabic. Then it's just gibberish. It's probably Afghani or something. I think you mean Farsi. Yeah, it's definitely not traditional Arabic, but the words being used can all easily be real ones (depending on pronunciation etc.)
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May 25, 2013 01:10
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/378279437/the-man-card It's a steel card with the word "MAN" on it. You pull it out when you're not secure in your own masculinity.
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Waffleman_ posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/378279437/the-man-card This would be quite handy for people who have a hard time demonstrating that they have testicles to others and/or people who have long term memory disorders and very short arms. It's also a bar mitzvah gift. For everyone else, I can see that it would be a solid reference in situations where you absolutely have to prove that you're a douchebag.
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May 28, 2013 18:48
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MAN CARD posted:Finally—The MAN card that cannot be revoked. Wouldn't it be cheaper to just send an e-mail to everyone who would buy this that says "GET NEW FRIENDS". Alternatively, a better product would be a glove to put on so you don't hurt your hand when you slap your friends for being dumb.
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May 28, 2013 19:14
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The man card is a bit of a conundrum. Anyone that would use it is probably not secure in their man-ness anyway, so they would have to constantly flash it to themselves as a reminder that they are a man. At the same time, many of the uses described on the kickstarter page are not examples of men, but of assholes pretending to be men. If you are so insecure about your own masculinity that you use that card, perhaps you are not really a man after all.
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May 28, 2013 20:00
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I'm fairly certain I could take a MAN card from anyone that would pull it out and actually try to "use" it.
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May 28, 2013 20:42
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The MAN card is the 2013 version of that 1982 classic book Real Men Don't Eat Quiche. And it's equally lame. No, lamer. RMDEQ actually could make a case for itself. The MAN card can't do that. Does it say "Pretentious Douchebag" on the other side? Because that works, too!
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Perpetual Hiatus posted:If you are interested in Amanda Palmer's perspective on the whole thing, appropriately titled The Art Of Asking. I skipped around a lot, but apparently her side is, "she asked for money without shame"? Also she let germans draw on her. This doesn't sound like wise, sane or practical advice. That MAN card is some terrible poo poo that Adam Corrolla would "ask his fans" to buy.
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AxeManiac posted:I skipped around a lot, but apparently her side is, "she asked for money without shame"? Also she let germans draw on her. This doesn't sound like wise, sane or practical advice. It's more like "I feel more comfortable with being treated like a street performer."
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The steel man card would be the best. Next time I'm playing Nintendo games and my friends make a snarky comment of "I should revoke your man card" I can whip that out. Go ahead, try and rip it 
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genesplicer posted:The MAN card is the 2013 version of that 1982 classic book Real Men Don't Eat Quiche. And it's equally lame. No, lamer. RMDEQ actually could make a case for itself. The MAN card can't do that. Does it say "Pretentious Douchebag" on the other side? Because that works, too! Real Men Don't Eat Quiche was actually written as a satire that proto-MRAs ended up believe in. Young Freud has a new favorite as of 03:03 on May 29, 2013 |
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Perpetual Hiatus posted:If you are interested in Amanda Palmer's perspective on the whole thing, appropriately titled The Art Of Asking. Her perspective on it now. The biggest pissoff is that for years she went on and on about not having money and the virtues of true friendshipTM and love for her fellow artists. This woman wrote pages and pages on the artness of art and guaranteed, for years, that all her money would go into making bigger, better art. Apparently artistic integrity is nothing in the face of an even million, though. I mean, uh, that man card. What a bag of dicks, yessir.
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Do people really talk about 'man cards' in real life? I've never heard the expression before. I've read it once or twice but that's it. Is "your man card is revoked" the new "that's so gay"?
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Waffleman_ posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/378279437/the-man-card
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Nubile Hillock posted:Her perspective on it now. The biggest pissoff is that for years she went on and on about not having money and the virtues of true friendshipTM and love for her fellow artists. This woman wrote pages and pages on the artness of art and guaranteed, for years, that all her money would go into making bigger, better art. Apparently artistic integrity is nothing in the face of an even million, though. Can I ask what you think she did with that Kickstarter money?
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