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pengun101 posted:http://gamepolitics.com/2014/05/30/glen-beck-criticizes-watch-dogs#.U4jeufldV-M We do have a Superman. His name is Superman. Why shouldn't we have a lots of different protagonists with lots of different traits and motivations? Should every video game and action movie star Superman?
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OAquinas posted:Everything I needed to know about identity theft, hacking, and online pizza delivery I learned from The Net. All my hacking and blowjob-receiving skills come from Swordfish.
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May 30, 2014 22:36
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What's the first movie with a protagonist hacker? War Games?
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May 30, 2014 22:37
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Radish posted:the reason millennial face the issues they do today is because they are too close minded and shut out the glorious conservative ideals that would certainly be better for them. It really made my already crummy lunch taste worse. This isn't anything new, conservapedia uses this rhetoric about open-mindedness as a different take on 'tolerate my intolerance' Of course one can remember the old conservative canard that you can be so open-minded that your brain falls out and anyone can stuff things into your skull. A good democracy requires voters and a culture that asks critical questions; weighing ideas for their merits and considering the balance between communal needs and individual freedom.
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May 30, 2014 22:41
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Lycus posted:"Why must everyone be an anti-hero? Why must everyone break the law? Why can't we have a Superman? Why can't we have somebody who is doing the right thing, does the hard thing? Instead, everybody is an anti-hero," Beck said. Because Superman is boring. Aside from some very edge-case scenarios he cannot be hurt or stopped. In most cases, he has to pull his punches because he will cause staggering damage and/or completely annihilate the enemy--something that runs against his moral code. The only way to cause drama in a superman story is to put other people in jeopardy, or to put him in a gray area morally. Antiheroes can be cliche, but they also tend to be more relatable. They can be hurt (and in most cases tend to already be broken on some level). If they're not completely grimdark they even do want to do the Right Thing--"the hard thing"--but reality gets in the way. Ward, June, and the Beav never existed.
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Lycus posted:"Why must everyone be an anti-hero? Why must everyone break the law? Why can't we have a Superman? Why can't we have somebody who is doing the right thing, does the hard thing? Instead, everybody is an anti-hero," Beck said. And when I think of Superman I definitely think of him doing everything the hard way. 
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May 30, 2014 22:44
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Lycus posted:What's the first movie with a protagonist hacker? War Games? On "modern" computer systems, yeah.
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May 30, 2014 22:46
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OAquinas posted:In most cases, he has to pull his punches because he will cause staggering damage and/or completely annihilate the enemy--something that runs against his moral code. You can tell plenty of compelling stories about the challenge and responsibility of restraining the use of force, about resisting the lure of power and the desire to annihilate the enemy. In fact, we probably need more of them. But I doubt Beck and his ilk are thinking in those terms.
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Glenn Beck is a big fan of Stardust the Super Wizard. Fanboy of the USA, doles out ironic and horrible justice to villains many of which are ill defined secret conspiracies, ultrapowerful and doesn't really have to try to win other than explain what he's doing, is super white, and he flies like he has a four foot stick up his rear end.
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Radish posted:Glenn Beck is a big fan of Stardust the Super Wizard. Fanboy of the USA, doles out ironic and horrible justice to villains many of which are ill defined secret conspiracies, ultrapowerful and doesn't really have to try to win other than explain what he's doing, is super white, and he flies like he has a four foot stick up his rear end.    Glenn Beck's eyes shoot open as he breaks from the peyote fever-dream. With trembling hands he grabs some chalk and a chalkboard and begins scribbling furiously. "Mr. Beck, one minute to air..." Time to warn America.
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May 31, 2014 00:37
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That might just be my favorite thing ever posted in these threads. It's real right?
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May 31, 2014 00:43
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Lycus posted:What's the first movie with a protagonist hacker? War Games? Colossus: The Forbin Project seems like a good candidate.
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May 31, 2014 00:47
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Glenn Beck also likes to play with Barbies.  He's weird.
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May 31, 2014 00:48
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Even having to judge which charicters are good and evil by their actions is too much thinking so let's just make every narrative the moral equivalent of GI Joe.
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Lycus posted:"Why must everyone be an anti-hero? Why must everyone break the law? Why can't we have a Superman? Why can't we have somebody who is doing the right thing, does the hard thing? Instead, everybody is an anti-hero," Beck said. Also Superman happens to be extremely lame. There's only so much you can do with a one-dimensional character like Superman.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:Also Superman happens to be extremely lame. There's only so much you can do with a one-dimensional character like Superman. Imagine what would happen if they made a movie version of Red Son 
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http://washingtonexaminer.com/dinesh-dsouzas-america-warns-hillary-clinton-will-finish-off-the-country/article/2549114quote:In his highly anticipated new book and movie "America," conservative author Dinesh D'Souza is warning that Hillary Clinton won't be a clone of her moderate husband, but will instead take the baton from President Obama to continue radicalizing the country and “undo the nation's founding ideals.” He's unintentionally correct, of course. Wherever will all the hateful people go? Also, is this supposed to be something that a person would actually want? 
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Another kinda misleading headline, a'la Drudge: Atlantic hurricane season begins Sunday: Will record streak without major hurricane landfall end? quote:The U.S. has been extraordinarily fortunate lately: we have not been witness to the fury of a major hurricane (category 3 or higher) landfall since October 2005 when Wilma hit southwest Florida as a Category 3 storm. (Other countries have not had such good fortune these past few years. ) Seems like an odd thing to claim, after all the damage from Sandy, Ike, Katrina, and all the other major storms of the past decade. As though only a cat 3 storm is actually dangerous.
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Lycus posted:"Why must everyone be an anti-hero? Why must everyone break the law? Why can't we have a Superman? Why can't we have somebody who is doing the right thing, does the hard thing? Instead, everybody is an anti-hero," Beck said. Because it breaks the "gee golly, Leave to Beaver" world Beck wants to create for his audience.
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May 31, 2014 02:48
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ShadowCatboy posted:On its own, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is about an enormous rear end in a top hat whose bitter sense of self-reliance and stubborn independence leads him to join an even bigger genocidal rear end in a top hat. This culminates in the both of them toppling the somewhat corrupt but still functional public institutions currently in place, which leads to the installation of a tyrannical regime that terrorizes the populace. quote:The Harry Potter novels likewise show a strong strain of self-reliance and stubborn independence, and Rowling came upon these themes the hard way. Anyone who has pulled herself out of poverty as Rowling has is likely to believe that self-reliance and hard-work are the keys to success, and to be conversely wary of government intervention" .... SHE WAS ON WELFARE YOU GODDAMNED TWIT 
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Mr Interweb posted:....
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McDowell posted:Of course one can remember the old conservative canard that you can be so open-minded that your brain falls out and anyone can stuff things into your skull. An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded. 
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Intel&Sebastian posted:That might just be my favorite thing ever posted in these threads. It's real right? Nothing is more real than FLETCHER HANKS.
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May 31, 2014 03:51
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Sir Tonk posted:In his highly anticipated new book and movie "America," conservative author Dinesh D'Souza is warning that E: I'm so tired of this "Obama promised to fundamentally change America" crap. As if the Tea Party wouldn't want to fundamentally change the country if they were in power. beatlegs fucked around with this message at 04:39 on May 31, 2014 |
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May 31, 2014 04:36
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Haha christ, the GOP is so terrified and childish they're running hitpieces two and a half years before an election on someone who hasn't even announced her run yet. And they're basing it on the objectively false premise of "Obama is a radical" set to destroy some vaguely-defined values. edit: Has the left done anything comparable in recent memory?
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beatlegs posted:E: I'm so tired of this "Obama promised to fundamentally change America" crap. As if the Tea Party wouldn't want to fundamentally change the country if they were in power. They are honest to God convinced that their vision of America is what we already have/had and they want to preserve it.
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Hazo posted:edit: Has the left done anything comparable in recent memory? What left?
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The Rokstar posted:What left?
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Sir Tonk posted:http://washingtonexaminer.com/dinesh-dsouzas-america-warns-hillary-clinton-will-finish-off-the-country/article/2549114 Oooh, they could finally win an election on their decade-long campaign to make Obama into a demonic figure. Just not an election against Obama.
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quote:“If they succeed, there may be no going back. Then it will be their America, not ours, and we will be a people bereft of a country, with no place to go,” Said the soon to be in prison felon.
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Lycus posted:"Why must everyone be an anti-hero? Why must everyone break the law? Why can't we have a Superman? Why can't we have somebody who is doing the right thing, does the hard thing? Instead, everybody is an anti-hero," Beck said. Oh, that's why the most boring character possible for telling a dramatic story is so popular among Act Tough (Secretly Omniphobic) people. Sir Tonk posted:http://washingtonexaminer.com/dinesh-dsouzas-america-warns-hillary-clinton-will-finish-off-the-country/article/2549114 This is the official byline of The Party: move the goal post further and further back. There were shitawful magazines published on the day of the election announcing: HOW TO SURVIVE THE OBAMANATION. He somehow didn't make America commu-islamo-socialist in four years, so they said he would do it in his second term. Now, it's up to Clinton, really? Post 9-11 User fucked around with this message at 07:27 on May 31, 2014 |
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Sir Tonk posted:Also, is this supposed to be something that a person would actually want? 
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I keep trying to enter my email address but it won't let me. Please help this is important.
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Ben Has Tiny Weenus posted:They are honest to God convinced that their vision of America is what we already have/had and they want to preserve it. I just heard Ben Carson cite that Obama is trying hard to follow saul alinsky or something. How come no one ever calls out the GOP for worshiping at the feet of Ayn Rand? How come people like Mike Huckabee are never called out for trying to blur the line between the separation of church/state? Also Obama is the worst socialist ever. Where the hell is Single Payer healthcare? Taxes for the rich? 
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Post 9-11 User posted:Oh, that's why the most boring character possible for telling a dramatic story is so popular among Act Tough (Secretly Omniphobic) people. Televangelists been telling evangelicals that Jesus is coming real soon for like fifty years now, it's not a stretch to get many of the same people to believe the same thing about communism and gun control. As longs as they can come up with a new thing to show off each month or so, or they just go back to something like with Benghazi. Sucks, though, they're just serving to create this group of millions that is constantly in fear for their life and country for no better reason than someone told them to be scared. edit FuzzySkinner posted:I just heard Ben Carson cite that Obama is trying hard to follow saul alinsky or something. It was noticed that Paul Ryan had been handing out copies of Atlas Shrugged to his staff back in the day and it came up during the last election. He had to essentially say that he didn't follow her anymore, but it was mostly criticism from the right since she was an atheist. And the Alinsky stuff is just part of that list of words to scare people with. He's got a book with a scary name, that's all they needed.  But really, these should not be the "also searched" things for him. Thanks to Rush and Beck being all obsessed with him, he's now tied into this scary network of him, Bill Ayers, and super-communist Barack Obama. Oh and Soros, of course. Sir Tonk fucked around with this message at 13:54 on May 31, 2014 |
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The Rokstar posted:What left? Sir Tonk posted:
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Sir Tonk posted:Televangelists been telling evangelicals that Jesus is coming real soon for like fifty years now, Christians have been saying Jesus is coming back real soon since he moment he supposedly ascended back to heaven. I was at the movies last weekend and saw a trailer for Dinesh D'douchebag's new film, America. It looks like right wing fanfic targeting Hillary now. http://washingtonexaminer.com/dinesh-dsouzas-america-warns-hillary-clinton-will-finish-off-the-country/article/2549114
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Intel&Sebastian posted:That might just be my favorite thing ever posted in these threads. It's real right? According to Wikipedia, it's not only real, but one of his common powers is "retarding rays." 
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FuzzySkinner posted:
Someone did call Paul Ryan on his love of Atlas Shrugged and he backed off of it saying how "Now that he's older, he doesn't agree with the non-christian views held in the book." And that was about the end of the discussion. He still all about the terrible Rand libertarian ideas in it though. As far as Huckabee goes, it's because very conservative christian people don't want a separation of church and state. God's law is the supreme law, therefore it should be the law of the land.
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sleepingbuddha posted:Christians have been saying Jesus is coming back real soon since he moment he supposedly ascended back to heaven. Strong indication that something is propaganda: comments and/or ratings are disabled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r3Emj-uSsE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPsLB11POtQ "Mangalores don't fight without their leaders." -General Howe, Commander Of The British Army, His Majesty's North American Colonies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Qcm24dxaA&t=31s
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