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You may still be able to save your mom if you can find a 10th level cleric or druid who can cast restoration, but make sure she doesn't possess a Solid Gold Talisman of the Dollar, because its power can only be broken if you get her to willingly commit an act of altruistic self-sacrifice for a stranger.
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Ur mom sounds like she's heading down a bad road, fella
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Imagining the bedroom chat of Objectivist couples is very unpleasant to me.
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SedanChair posted:Imagining the bedroom chat of Objectivist couples is very unpleasant to me. 'I don't want you to give it to me - I want you to make me pay for it'  
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Feb 12, 2015 15:31
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Caros posted:Play warhams. Ayn Rand's work is universally garbage. So is Warhammer 40k
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Feb 12, 2015 16:19
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In the end, there's not THAT much difference between Rand and the Dark Eldar.
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Feb 12, 2015 16:21
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Split the difference and play Rogue Trader?
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Feb 12, 2015 16:40
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You're a Something Awful poster and you have to ask whether to play Warhams? Of course you play Warhams.
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Feb 12, 2015 18:17
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Atlas Shrugged is just boring, I don't know how you made it an hour into the audio book. I tried to watch the movie. At ninety minutes, it felt longer than the Seven Samurai, which is more than f double it's length.
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Feb 12, 2015 18:18
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Cemetry Gator posted:Atlas Shrugged is just boring, I don't know how you made it an hour into the audio book. I tried to watch the movie. At ninety minutes, it felt longer than the Seven Samurai, which is more than f double it's length. Reminder that Atlas Shrugged The Movie was so shatteringly successful that they had to resort to Kickstarters and stuff to fund the sequels because the market had such an intense demand for more.
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Feb 12, 2015 18:28
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Mister Adequate posted:You're a Something Awful poster and you have to ask whether to play Warhams? Of course you play Warhams. Everyone is also going to be playing Smash Bros...really impossible to resist. I just wanted to relate my Objectivism related story. I don't really even think my biggest beef with Objectivism is the ideology itself, but more how it seems to infect some of the most intelligent individuals I have met. I don't understand how such level-headed people embrace this. They are not selfish individuals by any stretch, which makes it all the more strange to hear them salivate over it, which makes me wonder what is really going on. Is there just a core of egomania in them that I am missing, or is it purely the desire to be independent?
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Cemetry Gator posted:Atlas Shrugged is just boring, I don't know how you made it an hour into the audio book. I tried to watch the movie. At ninety minutes, it felt longer than the Seven Samurai, which is more than f double it's length. The Atlas Shrugged films are hilarious. They look like they were released by Asylum and should be paired in a $5 DVD set with Sharknado or some poo poo. Main characters are played by different people in the sequels as actors slowly abandoned ship. The scenes border on nonsensical because they had to trim down everything from the bloated piece of poo poo that was the book but hit all the key points, so at times it comes across as a series of bizarre, barely related vignettes. Even if I were an objectivist I would be embarrassed that this is the best they could do. It really is incredible in the sense that it's a failure by every possible metric.
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Feb 12, 2015 18:46
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Mister Adequate posted:Reminder that Atlas Shrugged The Movie was so shatteringly successful that they had to resort to Kickstarters and stuff to fund the sequels because the market had such an intense demand for more. Given how the cast keeps getting more and more obscure and low-rent, I anticipate the final installment will be mostly performed by sock puppets.
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Feb 12, 2015 18:46
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Given how the cast keeps getting more and more obscure and low-rent, I anticipate the final installment will be mostly performed by sock puppets. Nicolas Cage as Jon Galt.
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Uroboros posted:Everyone is also going to be playing Smash Bros...really impossible to resist. I just wanted to relate my Objectivism related story. I don't really even think my biggest beef with Objectivism is the ideology itself, but more how it seems to infect some of the most intelligent individuals I have met. I don't understand how such level-headed people embrace this. They are not selfish individuals by any stretch, which makes it all the more strange to hear them salivate over it, which makes me wonder what is really going on. Is there just a core of egomania in them that I am missing, or is it purely the desire to be independent? The world is kinda hosed and really unfair, a libertarian objectivism is a way to reconcile the fact that it is without admitting that you might be the one getting the longer end of the stick. America is infused with the idea of the underdog being the good guy, so admitting you are part of the group stomping down, even without ever really meaning to be, is not something that a lot of people reconcile with.
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How the gently caress did you people even watch that garbage?
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Disinterested posted:How the gently caress did you people even watch that garbage? Haven't, actually. I'm going off the trailers, news I've heard, and logical deductions from established first principles (ie: Ayn Rand is garbage).
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Haven't, actually. I'm going off the trailers, news I've heard, and logical deductions from established first principles (ie: Ayn Rand is garbage). P.. praxeology! Also 
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Feb 12, 2015 20:24
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Uroboros posted:Is there just a core of egomania in them that I am missing, or is it purely the desire to be independent? Really, though, it's all about its explanatory power. Just about anything can be explained or solved with a surprisingly simple answer. It's incredibly seductive to feel like you have access to all the answers. I expect it's the same way fundamentalists feel about their religions.
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Feb 12, 2015 22:15
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Given how the cast keeps getting more and more obscure and low-rent, I anticipate the final installment will be mostly performed by sock puppets. I thought they had concluded it. I could have sworn the last of those films was made. Crowsbeak fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Feb 12, 2015 |
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Crowsbeak posted:I thought they had concluded it. I could have worn the last of those films was made. Really? I thought they didn't actually complete the story in part III, and so were going to try for one more or something?
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Really? I thought they didn't actually complete the story in part III, and so were going to try for one more or something? Yeah because part 3 is the speech.
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Feb 12, 2015 22:30
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I would totally watch an Atlas Shrugged puppet show.
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I always thought the best way to do an Atlas Shrugged trilogy would be Part 1 is everything leading up to the speech ending on a "This is John Galt speaking." cliffhanger. Then Part 2 is literally just the speech narrated over shots of people at radios and slow-mo destruction/disaster porn. Part 3 wraps the rest up. Make it a Syfy miniseries, bam. Done.
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Rhjamiz posted:I always thought the best way to do an Atlas Shrugged trilogy would be Part 1 is everything leading up to the speech ending on a "This is John Galt speaking." cliffhanger. Then Part 2 is literally just the speech narrated over shots of people at radios and slow-mo destruction/disaster porn. Part 3 wraps the rest up. Make it a Syfy miniseries, bam. Done. The speech takes 198 minutes (3 hours, 18 minutes) to read aloud at a comfortable speaking speed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUa7s3xuqxI Don't listen to it, just start it and skip around and notice how loving long that is.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Really? I thought they didn't actually complete the story in part III, and so were going to try for one more or something? Crowsbeak posted:Yeah because part 3 is the speech. Hahaha how huge is your book if you can't even fit it into a goddamn trilogy of movies.
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See fishmech's post right above yours? It's really fuckin' long, and that's just the climactic speech by the mysterious savior figure.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:See fishmech's post right above yours? It's really fuckin' long, and that's just the climactic speech by the mysterious savior figure. And it's legally required to be read in its entirety in any film adaptation of the book.
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Nolanar posted:And it's legally required to be read in its entirety in any film adaptation of the book. Not that much different than the amount of time it takes to read a jrode post, really.
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One of the best things about the Atlas Shrugged movie (at least the first one anyway), was that when I saw the original trailer, it was impossible to tell who the bad guys were supposed to be.
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Alien Arcana posted:Hahaha how huge is your book if you can't even fit it into a goddamn trilogy of movies. To be fair, they somehow made noted children's book The Hobbit into 9 hours of film. We're lucky that Hollywood doesn't see blockbuster potential in it, or the John Galt speech would be a trilogy on its own.
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Mornacale posted:To be fair, they somehow made noted children's book The Hobbit into 9 hours of film. We're lucky that Hollywood doesn't see blockbuster potential in it, or the John Galt speech would be a trilogy on its own. That's the thing though, the Hobbit fits into two movies easily. Atlas Shrugged does. not. fit. into three.
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Mr Interweb posted:One of the best things about the Atlas Shrugged movie (at least the first one anyway), was that when I saw the original trailer, it was impossible to tell who the bad guys were supposed to be. Well the "villains" of Atlus Shrugged are literally humanist philanthropists that wish only to devote their lives to helping the poor and downtrodden. If that doesn't tell you everything you need to know about Ayn Rand I don't know what could.
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Who What Now posted:Well the "villains" of Atlus Shrugged are literally humanist philanthropists that wish only to devote their lives to helping the poor and downtrodden. If that doesn't tell you everything you need to know about Ayn Rand I don't know what could. Whoa whoa whoa, let's not get crazy, they don't even have that much nuance. Every villain in the book is only pretending to care about the poor because they're super jealous of the cool genius capitalists and only want to see them suffer out of pure spite. The heroes also don't care about the poor of course, they're just upfront about it.
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Most of this poo poo happened because Ayn Rand took Nietzsche hella literally. Objectivism is basically Pathos Of Distance.txt.
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"I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind--and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.” - a bitch who got lung cancer, lmao
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I found another "nuanced" opinion:quote:"My only question there is, post-apocalypse, are you gonna be a gold guy or a Bitcoin guy?" asked Arrington.
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I wouldn't use gold or bitcoin for the Post-Apoc, because I am not a loving idiot...god drat I hate gold-buggers so much.
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How the gently caress would you use bitcoin in a post-apocalyptic situation? Are the power plants and the internet both still working?
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Chwoka posted:How the gently caress would you use bitcoin in a post-apocalyptic situation? Are the power plants and the internet both still working? Solar panels for laptops, and CubeSats. No, seriously. That is the plan actual buttlords have floated, I'm not making it up.
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