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PleasingFungus posted:As someone who read the entire thing when it was first posted, Willie Tong's analysis of ISIS is exactly as good as, and on the same level as, SuperMechaGodzilla's analyses of contemporary cinema. I'd agree that it is similar to SMG in that it gives too much credit to the media creators but the point about westerner's tendencies to distance themselves from war and our inability to stomach the visceral poo poo ISIS gets up to is spot on.
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syscall girl posted:I'd agree that it is similar to SMG in that it gives too much credit to the media creators but the point about westerner's tendencies to distance themselves from war and our inability to stomach the visceral poo poo ISIS gets up to is spot on. And with the minor difference that, to the best of my knowledge, Slavoj Zizek hasn't beheaded anyone. Yet, anyway.
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 00:36 |
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that's amazing
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 01:33 |
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PleasingFungus posted:As someone who read the entire thing when it was first posted, Willie Tong's analysis of ISIS is exactly as good as, and on the same level as, SuperMechaGodzilla's analyses of contemporary cinema. lol
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 01:57 |
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thats seriously the most brutal own I've seen on these forums for a long time intentional or not.
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PleasingFungus posted:As someone who read the entire thing when it was first posted, Willie Tong's analysis of ISIS is exactly as good as, and on the same level as, SuperMechaGodzilla's analyses of contemporary cinema. harsh
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 06:49 |
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PleasingFungus posted:As someone who read the entire thing when it was first posted, Willie Tong's analysis of ISIS is exactly as good as, and on the same level as, SuperMechaGodzilla's analyses of contemporary cinema.
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 07:02 |
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Who is this SuperMechaGodzilla and why should I laugh at his pathetic life?
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 07:12 |
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WarpedNaba posted:Who is this SuperMechaGodzilla and why should I laugh at his pathetic life? Cinema Discusso poster who writes hilariously elaborate essays about the beautiful commentary on society and deep Zizekian themes found in masterpieces such as Michael Bay's Transformers series and the video game Duke Nukem Forever.
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 07:30 |
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I think you find that he criticised Duke Nukem Forever for transforming Duke from a working man hero into a rich celebrity 1%-er.
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Chamale posted:Cinema Discusso poster who writes hilariously elaborate essays about the beautiful commentary on society and deep Zizekian themes found in masterpieces such as Michael Bay's Transformers series and the video game Duke Nukem Forever. Even if you don't like his posts, he's loving masterful at drawing out idiots.
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 07:38 |
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SMG is a treasure. Sure it is one of those Indiana Jones "melt your face off" treasures, but, drat it, he is a treasure.
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 07:43 |
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Over-analysis of trashy films is actually fun and good
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Chamale posted:Cinema Discusso poster who writes hilariously elaborate essays about the beautiful commentary on society and deep Zizekian themes found in masterpieces such as Michael Bay's Transformers series and the video game Duke Nukem Forever. SuperMechaGodzilla posted:Duke 3D homaged/parodied 80s/early 90s action films by making the villains such ridiculous villain caricatures that Duke was an acceptable protagonist by comparison. quote:The gameplay is intrinsically tied up in the storyline. quote:While this is true, DNF's main thrust is just to insult its audience constantly. It's fairly unambiguous about this from the start, with the irritating and awful Duke fans. Then the game directly equates the protagonist to George W. Bush and makes him a closet racist. I doubt that the people responsible are sincerely pro-Iraq-War republicans, so what's the joke? Is it that Duke is stupid and evil, even though the game stacks the deck and proves him absolutely and immediately correct? Is it that DNF itself is intrinsically stupid and evil? That's much more likely.
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 08:33 |
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Wulfolme posted:the vagina is really the bottleneck to a lot of ways that life could be more efficient
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 09:13 |
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And SMG is 100% correct on all counts of why DNF sucked. (Besides the poo poo gameplay and content which are hardly worth repeating.)
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mr.capps posted:SMG is a treasure. Sure it is one of those Indiana Jones "melt your face off" treasures, but, drat it, he is a treasure. at one point I thought that SMG was making funny posts and even if I didn't really think they were all that funny I could at least appreciate that effort was going into humor then, with creeping horror, it began to dawn on me that he was serious
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SaltyJesus posted:And SMG is 100% correct on all counts of why DNF sucked. (Besides the poo poo gameplay and content which are hardly worth repeating.) Hes correct in that getting shot in the face sucks. As every bullet is food that has been violently stolen from the mouths of disabled orphans by jackbooted thugs working for Walmart. (Besides the blinding pain and death which is hardly worth mentioning)
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 09:40 |
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Certainly it'd be a lot easier for GBS posters to breed if they didn't have to get admission to a vagina first.
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 09:46 |
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I said repeating not mentioning but nice try. Some real basic poo poo here, "hardly worth repeating" does not mean "not worth mentioning", just that it's been mentioned so much that there is no value in retreading it for the millionth time. Also, they could have made a poo poo game and I wouldn't have been offended, just disappointed. Taking such a thorough poo poo on "a good thing" made it a lot worse than simply making a poo poo game. SaltyJesus has a new favorite as of 09:56 on Mar 13, 2015 |
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ok
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 09:57 |
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Oh my god whenever this thread has any discussion at all it just turns to poo poo.
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 11:16 |
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Those who can post post good. Those who cannot ...... quote.
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 11:29 |
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Koos Group posted:According to you, the vast majority of audiences are wrong, nearly all the time. Your readings, being political, are useless if they never acknowledge this. By isolating yourself, you're infinitely free to make whatever crap up you want, and also infinitely impotent.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Oh my god whenever this thread has any discussion at all it just turns to poo poo. I regret posting an SMG quote because I forgot they send every thread into paroxysm massive spider has a new favorite as of 13:41 on Mar 13, 2015 |
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I enjoyed it- it's fun to walk down memory lane once in a while. The DNF thread was good times(except for the lovely times.)
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 13:56 |
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massive spider posted:I regret posting an SMG quote because I forgot they send every thread into paroxysm
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cock hero flux posted:at one point I thought that SMG was making funny posts and even if I didn't really think they were all that funny I could at least appreciate that effort was going into humor I thought he was serious until I noticed this post analyzing Star Wars: Phantom Menace as a critique of Christianity. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3514675&userid=118075&perpage=40&pagenumber=4#post426421574 Which is all well and good, but there's no serious reading of Ben Hur that would blame his enslavement on being "uppitty". He was enslaved because he jilted his gay lover. Seriously.
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quote:"You can kill us, set us on fire, skin us, beat us and rape us, but you can never stop Duke Nukem Forever. You can drown us in lovely games with emo mutes that trapse around not having sex with anything or even being ballsy enough to saw anything or flood us with generic suit wearing gimps that fight partially inflated trash bags on mars and we will never stop. Duke Nukem Forever is coming. Mortal men may not craft him, gods might not live long enough to play him, the very universe itself may fold under his might, but he will come and there will not be a toilet big enough to park his bricks in.
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Phyzzle posted:I thought he was serious until I noticed this post analyzing Star Wars: Phantom Menace as a critique of Christianity. It was just a regular Roman bromance.
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 14:33 |
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Narciss posted:Holy crap... so I'm playing Byzantium, working my way through North Africa, when I spot this:
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 18:49 |
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It's Narciss. Good troll, though.
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 19:21 |
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The best part about DNF was that some people got so fired up for what was clearly going to be a lovely game (hell, even some mods jumped into the hype train) that they basically banned all discussion that wasn't 100% praise for the upcoming Best Game Ever.
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 20:09 |
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That was when all discussion that wasn't praise of video games was banned though.
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 22:46 |
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I'm sure its been posted, but could someone link me to the quote about the guy who keeps fixing the airconditioner or something because his wife keeps messing it up and complains about the temperature because he'd rather fix it than her being cold?
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# ? Mar 13, 2015 23:48 |
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Those who can post post good. Those who cannot ...... quote. Link to source?
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Nuclear War posted:I'm sure its been posted, but could someone link me to the quote about the guy who keeps fixing the airconditioner or something because his wife keeps messing it up and complains about the temperature because he'd rather fix it than her being cold? Go back to this post
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Mans posted:The best part about DNF was that some people got so fired up for what was clearly going to be a lovely game (hell, even some mods jumped into the hype train) that they basically banned all discussion that wasn't 100% praise for the upcoming Best Game Ever. And then when it came out and was terrible they didn't just gas the thread, they pulled off some kind of forums wizardry that made the thread vanish completely to try and hide their shame.
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# ? Mar 14, 2015 00:54 |
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Shame they can't make DNF vanish
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Phlegmish posted:It's Narciss. Good troll, though. Benghazi is legitimately in Crusader Kings 2, which is an incredibly similar game: the devs even released a program so you can port saves from one game into the other. One time I saw them gain independence and go on a conquering spree, so half of North Africa had BENGHAZI stamped on it.
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