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sassassin posted:That's underthinking. If people are genuinely missing an obvious point, accuse them of thinking badly, not of thinking too much. That's... very accurate. Feels like we have moved to an era where pop culture is supplanting ideology. And just like Communists hunted Revisionists who challenged their world view structure, fanboys hate anybody who seriously critiques the merit of the piece of media to which they grew accidentally attached.
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steinrokkan posted:Feels like we have moved to an era Here's my unpopular opinion, statements like these are total bullshit. There's nothing special or new about whatever "era" we're in. I mean, sure, we have smartphones and Internet, but nothing about humanity has changed. Millennials are not uniquely awful, people are not worse or dumber or more reliant on technology than they used to be, etc. Pop culture has always been important in some sense, it's not more important nowadays and we're not in some "era" of pop culture saturation.
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Mar 3, 2017 14:24
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WampaLord posted:Pop culture has always been important in some sense, it's not more important nowadays and we're not in some "era" of pop culture saturation. https://www.google.cz/search?q=harr...AUIBigB&dpr=1.5 https://www.google.cz/search?q=harr...r+games+trump&*
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Mar 3, 2017 14:26
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Pop Culture *is* culture. If you take that away, all you have are those traditional costumes and dances nobody really clings to and identifies with anyway.
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Mar 3, 2017 14:28
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steinrokkan posted:https://www.google.cz/search?q=harr...AUIBigB&dpr=1.5 So? What does this prove? There were kids drawing doodles like these back in the 60s or 70s but using Star Trek and Nixon, they just didn't have an Internet to share them.
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WampaLord posted:So? What does this prove? I sincerely doubt major newspapers and TV stations were routinely using pop culture references as their main means of grounding events for their audiences. Also 60s and 70s aren't that far off, and focusing entirely on America is denying the massive change in pop culture significance in the rest of the world in like last 20 years. Denying the exploding importance of pop culture in generalized discourse is denying the incredible ways in which the entertainment and news sectors are growing intertwined, and that's just talking about journalism alone.
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Mar 3, 2017 14:34
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Anyway, p. sure if somebody in 1920s based his identity around Steamboat Willy, he would be committed to an asylum, instead of catered and celebrated by pretty much every form of corporate media like Disney freaks, SW geeks etc. today. There is The Sorrows of Young Werther and some other stupid poo poo inspired by Romantic fanboys, but back then the public also realized those people were not right in the head.
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Mar 3, 2017 14:41
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Tatoos are so loving stupid. Not from an artistic standpoint but from a self worth standpoint. I do not understand why people can't be content with the contents of their own mind without a physical projection to reinforce their beleifs. Same with piercings or dyed hair or clothes in general. No one cares about your physical versions of your mental representations. loving get over yourselves.
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Mar 3, 2017 14:45
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Ramagamma posted:Tatoos are so loving stupid. Not from an artistic standpoint but from a self worth standpoint. I do not understand why people can't be content with the contents of their own mind without a physical projection to reinforce their beleifs. Not to mention those idiots who write books or paint pictures. Get over yourselves, jeeze 
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Mar 3, 2017 14:52
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Unkempt posted:Not to mention those idiots who write books or paint pictures. Get over yourselves, jeeze loving massive difference between some oval office writing a book and Maggie down the chippy getting a butterfly on her arse crack.
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Mar 3, 2017 14:57
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Unkempt posted:Not to mention those idiots who write books or paint pictures. Get over yourselves, jeeze There are plenty of people writing and "creating" out of unashamed narcissism. That's why vanity press the fastest growing sector of the publishing industry.
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Mar 3, 2017 15:01
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What clothes do you prefer people to wear Ramagamma?
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Mar 3, 2017 15:01
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look at this guy and tell me with a straight face you don't judge him
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steinrokkan posted:look at this guy and tell me with a straight face you don't judge him poo poo, he's married and I'm not, must be doing something right.
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Mar 3, 2017 15:08
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He should be wearing a gray skirt.
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Mar 3, 2017 15:09
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Fitting he's on train tracks, at least.
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steinrokkan posted:I sincerely doubt major newspapers and TV stations were routinely using pop culture references as their main means of grounding events for their audiences.
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steinrokkan posted:look at this guy and tell me with a straight face you don't judge him
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oldpainless posted:What clothes do you prefer people to wear Ramagamma? Plain stuff unless we are taking about 18 year old lassies in which case whatever garment gives me the best view of arse and tit.
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Mar 3, 2017 15:29
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steinrokkan posted:look at this guy and tell me with a straight face you don't judge him "Well, it's just a top hat, not really too bad" and then i scroll down and see the skirt and realize its a steampunk jerkoff "gently caress"
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yeah I eat rear end posted:The "this movie is misogynistic" critique is just about as shallow as the movie is. You can think whatever you want but parroting the same thing you read on tumblr/huffpo/jezebel/whatever is annoying and tiresome. It's like trying to analyze the tasting notes of a steel reserve the same way they do for craft beer - yeah you can do it and there's nothing "wrong" with doing it, but your time would be better spent enjoying it for what it is in my opinion. The terrible characters and stupid writing are bigger reasons to not like Jurassic World. But the fact that the female lead's entire character arc is learning that she needs to stop caring about her job so much, settle for the only man who will have her, and raise a family. That's not a shallow critique, that's literally a thing in the movie. I'm not parroting that from somewhere, it's a thing I saw in the movie I watched
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spit on my clit posted:"Well, it's just a top hat, not really too bad" Uh huh...
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Mar 3, 2017 16:00
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So steampricks claim top hats, neckbeards claim fedoras... I like big 'ol floppy sunhats. Anyone ruin those yet?
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Mar 3, 2017 16:07
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Well, they're ruined now...
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Aramek posted:Well, they're ruined now... *Eyes your avatar's nursing cap* *Narrows eyes*
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Mar 3, 2017 16:21
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That's fair. (At my clinic we don't *have* to wear scrubs, and it rules.)
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Ramagamma posted:Tatoos are so loving stupid. Not from an artistic standpoint but from a self worth standpoint. I do not understand why people can't be content with the contents of their own mind without a physical projection to reinforce their beleifs. Ok dad.
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Ramagamma posted:Tatoos are so loving stupid. Not from an artistic standpoint but from a self worth standpoint. I do not understand why people can't be content with the contents of their own mind without a physical projection to reinforce their beleifs. Most tattoos are not intended to be "physical versions of your mental representations", instead they signal that you belong to or want to belong to a group, real or imaginary. "Look dude I love this thing so much I got it on me permanent like! So cool, me too! Let's gently caress."
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Nerd culture becoming mainstream has shined a light on how loving dumb it always was.
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Mar 3, 2017 18:57
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Tattoos are awesome because its a socially accepted form of self mutilation and can really look beautiful if done correctly. You're pushink ink into an open wound. That's badass.
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Mar 3, 2017 18:58
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steinrokkan posted:look at this guy and tell me with a straight face you don't judge him What the hell is he holding? some sort of ridiculous pipe?
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doverhog posted:Most tattoos are not intended to be "physical versions of your mental representations", instead they signal that you belong to or want to belong to a group, real or imaginary. "Look dude I love this thing so much I got it on me permanent like! So cool, me too! Let's gently caress." I think that's what he was trying to say.
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Tattoos are a sign of having more money than sense.
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Same with make-up and hair dye, really.
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I hate my loving tattoos and got them all when I was 18, 15 years ago and I still have people ask me about them all the time. Tattoos suck.
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Some tattoos I can get behind, like commemorating a friend or something (even if I personally would never do it), but the ones who just slap their hobbies on their skin to start conversations are kind of lame. Wow, you have a 1up mushroom on your wrist, how unique and deep, I too also have heard of video games and have even played them. There's definitely a line you can cross (and many people do) from having a tattoo that means something to you deeply enough to want it to be permanently on you and making yourself a walking billboard of your interests as a desperate beacon flashing "please talk to me".
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Pick posted:Nerd culture becoming mainstream has shined a light on how loving dumb it always was. Agreed. And nerd culture is responsible for everything being remakes and reboots nowadays. Things like Star Wars became popular because they were unique and interesting and groundbreaking and innovative. But nerds have to obsess over everything so they glomp onto it and end up breaking it by focusing so much on "canon", completely ignoring things like story or themes. And they become so attached to childhood nostalgia that they dont allow their favorite things to change or evolve, only become "grittier" and "darker" so they dont feel so silly for enjoying something. That's why The Force Awakens and Rogue One had all the same Star Wars poo poo from the original movies, even the same plot in the case of TFA, but very little actually new or innovating stuff. This is also true of other franchises. I never bothered to see Jurassic World but everyone has said that its just a retread of the original Jurassic Park. The original JP is an incredible film and actually pretty good science-fiction, in my opinion. Jurassic World doesnt do anything at all that is interesting or innovative and is even pretty regressive in the way it deliberately portrays dinosaurs inaccurately (no feathers) so its not too different from JP, not too challenging to viewers who are used to scaly dinosaurs, doesnt deviate too much from peoples expecations and nostalgia. It sucks.
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If you're going to bother to poo poo-talk a movie at least watch it first.
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"Nerd culture" is really broad. There is some great stuff on TV, like Legion, that would never have happened without comics becoming mainstream. Are scifi novels like A Scanner Darkly part of nerd culture? Is that the same culture as My Little Pony? Really broad.
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doverhog posted:"Nerd culture" is really broad. There is some great stuff on TV, like Legion, that would never have happened without comics becoming mainstream. Are scifi novels like A Scanner Darkly part of nerd culture? Is that the same culture as My Little Pony? Really broad. One would think that would be obvious to goons, look how we group our nerd interests by subforum right here.
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