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Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

Epic High Five posted:

It's fitting because the whole point of The Watchmen was to point out how superheroes do at least as much harm as good and they're actually profoundly damaged and broken people.

It's hilarious the people who idolize Rorschach, double points if they also think Fight Club was a pro-masculinity anthem

Ironic that Rorschach the character is actually a Rorschach test for people.


Also, people who agree with Col. Jessup's rant in A Few Good Men

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tacodaemon
Nov 27, 2006



you know, technically the north korea meeting is in the big auditorium at the eisenhower executive office building, nor in the white house per se

so much fake news today

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Epic High Five posted:

It's fitting because the whole point of The Watchmen was to point out how superheroes do at least as much harm as good and they're actually profoundly damaged and broken people.

It's hilarious the people who idolize Rorschach, double points if they also think Fight Club was a pro-masculinity anthem

Ok so I wasn't missing the point of the story in the movie when I was like "the gently caress kind of heroes are these they're all a bunch of complete assholes"

I never read the comic book.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Oh uh serious comic book chat

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Shalebridge Cradle posted:

That owns so hard

gently caress now I want to go to Montana. I've never had that feeling before

Gonna be a dental floss tycoon?

Gringostar
Nov 12, 2016
Morbid Hound

FAUXTON posted:

See this is why Dr Manhattan is actually the villain because he could stop the bombs but doesn't give a gently caress

so hear me out then

hillary = manhatten
trump = ozymandias
bernie = rorschach

who would be comedian, owl, and spectre?

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

It's really gonna bug me that I can't figure out which kind of cat that is

silvergoose
Mar 18, 2006

IT IS SAID THE TEARS OF THE BWEENIX CAN HEAL ALL WOUNDS




FAUXTON posted:

Ok so I wasn't missing the point of the story in the movie when I was like "the gently caress kind of heroes are these they're all a bunch of complete assholes"

I never read the comic book.

:same: on both points

Serf
May 5, 2011


FAUXTON posted:

See this is why Dr Manhattan is actually the villain because he could stop the bombs but doesn't give a gently caress

he can't because he's a slave to predestination

also tachyons

Blatzmobile
Nov 1, 2012

This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.

mannerup posted:

David Pecker and yeah, long time friends



Is MIRA! a piss magazine?

SpiderHyphenMan
Apr 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

FAUXTON posted:

See this is why Dr Manhattan is actually the villain because he could stop the bombs but doesn't give a gently caress
Ignoring that Dr. Manhattan quite possibly doesn't have free will, he actually couldn't have because of tachyons.

mannerup
Jan 11, 2004

♬ I Know You're Dying Trying To Figure Me Out♬

♬My Name's On The Tip Of Your Tongue Keep Running Your Mouth♬

♬You Want The Recipe But Can't Handle My Sound My Sound My Sound♬

♬No Matter What You Do Im Gonna Get It Without Ya♬

♬ I Know You Ain't Used To A Female Alpha♬
more details on that WH Eisenhower Executive Office Building North Korea meeting (via Steve Herman)
  • POTUS apparently spent 14 minutes in the briefing
  • US “prepared to respond” to any further DPRK missile or nuclear tests, says senior administration official briefing reporters now
  • DPRK "poses a grave threat to our partners and everyone in the region..and a potential threat to the US homeland"
  • Putting DPRK back on the terrorism sponsor list “being considered”
  • Timeline for further actions "event driven" and also depend on partners pressuring DPRK
  • Senators being informed of strategy and approach by US to “remove this threat” from DPRK

mannerup fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Apr 26, 2017

SHVPS4DETH
Mar 19, 2009

seen so much i'm going blind
and i'm brain-dead virtually





Ramrod XTreme

https://youtu.be/lKJkKnaImic

Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

Intel&Sebastian posted:

HERE WE GO AGAIN ON OUR OWN

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Gringostar posted:

so hear me out then

hillary = manhatten
trump = ozymandias
bernie = rorschach

who would be comedian, owl, and spectre?

Nite Crew
Elon Musk
Elon Musk

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Lol he lasted 14 minutes

radical meme
Apr 17, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

FAUXTON posted:

Hahahahaha does our army even know how to fight outside the goddamn desert/dry mountains anymore

Yeah, we could do a North Korea ground thing; it would be best if we don't try it during the winter. The problem would be convincing China to let us do it and they're never going to agree because, as someone else pointed out, they don't want a U.S. client state on their border.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



FAUXTON posted:

Ok so I wasn't missing the point of the story in the movie when I was like "the gently caress kind of heroes are these they're all a bunch of complete assholes"

I never read the comic book.

If you managed to glean and appreciate the true meaning of the story from the movie you should read the book too. It's a fun read and extremely good, esp if you don't view it through the lens of hero worship

They're pretty much all broken assholes, each one with a different fundamental flaw

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene

prefect posted:

https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/857303831306092544

I hate to be mean, but atomicthumbs is not coming across great here.

Ed Balls

big fucker, here,

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Serf posted:

he can't because he's a slave to predestination

also tachyons

:this:

tacodaemon
Nov 27, 2006



Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

Shalebridge Cradle posted:

That owns so hard

gently caress now I want to go to Montana. I've never had that feeling before

there's a reason the comrade in hunt for red october wanted to go there, friend

the wilderness there is not to be missed if you consider yourself at all an outdoorsy person, it's sublime


pathetic little tramp posted:

Americans aren't actually pissed off about nudists are they? I don't think anyone views them as perverts nowadays.

not in general no, once it kinda became understood that nudist camps are less nonstop sex orgies and more a ton of wrinkly old people airing out their genitals people largely stopped giving a poo poo because YOU try telling grandma it's immoral

SHVPS4DETH
Mar 19, 2009

seen so much i'm going blind
and i'm brain-dead virtually





Ramrod XTreme

Gringostar posted:

so hear me out then

hillary = manhatten
trump = ozymandias
bernie = rorschach

who would be comedian, owl, and spectre?

bill mitchell, Jeb!, and kellyanne

tenderjerk
Nov 6, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 359 days!
since im not going into bss to ask this (because this is sa's de facto comic book chat thread) are any of the after watchmen minis any good

the premise is dumb as hell but they got good talent on alot of those books

Gringostar
Nov 12, 2016
Morbid Hound

the next 6 fairways are critical

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

SHUPS 4 DETH posted:

bill mitchell, Jeb!, and kellyanne

You nasty bitch

crazy cloud
Nov 7, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Lipstick Apathy

FAUXTON posted:

Ok so I wasn't missing the point of the story in the movie when I was like "the gently caress kind of heroes are these they're all a bunch of complete assholes"

I never read the comic book.

the scene in the movie with the armbones snapping and poo poo with night owl and silk spectre is this too, taken by a lot of people as simply "holy poo poo awesome nonlinar wing chun moves :shittypop:"

Gringostar
Nov 12, 2016
Morbid Hound

SHUPS 4 DETH posted:

bill mitchell, Jeb!, and kellyanne

:kiss:

crazy cloud
Nov 7, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Lipstick Apathy

Gringostar posted:

so hear me out then

hillary = manhatten
trump = ozymandias
bernie = rorschach

who would be comedian, owl, and spectre?

owl is ted cruz silk spectre is carly fiorina aughh

succ
Nov 11, 2016

by Cyrano4747
How many soldiers are even around Korea? Wouldn't any type of conflict -- air/land -- involve hundreds of thousands of assault and auxiliary personnel?

crazy cloud
Nov 7, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Lipstick Apathy
the comedian is jeb! cmon

SpiderHyphenMan
Apr 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

tenderjerk posted:

since im not going into bss to ask this (because this is sa's de facto comic book chat thread) are any of the after watchmen minis any good

the premise is dumb as hell but they got good talent on alot of those books
None are good enough to justify their existence, no.

tacodaemon
Nov 27, 2006



https://twitter.com/MelindaKCMO/status/857318601644224512

Gringostar
Nov 12, 2016
Morbid Hound

crazy cloud posted:

the comedian is jeb! cmon

cruz makes a better comedian

and jeb! is the prefect owl since he's such a loving cuck dork

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
the impotent superhero unable to get it up unless faced with nuclear annihilation is definitely trump

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

I'm also having fits at thinking of rorshach's lovely internal monologue done in Bernie's voice


TYAH TREAD OVAH BURST


STUMMUCK

Intel&Sebastian
Oct 20, 2002

colonel...
i'm trying to sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps alerting the guards!

mannerup posted:

more details on that WH North Korea meeting (via Steve Herman)
  • POTUS apparently spent 14 minutes in the briefing
  • US “prepared to respond” to any further DPRK missile or nuclear tests, says senior administration official briefing reporters now
  • DPRK "poses a grave threat to our partners and everyone in the region..and a potential threat to the US homeland"
  • Putting DPRK back on the terrorism sponsor list “being considered”
  • Timeline for further actions "event driven" and also depend on partners pressuring DPRK
  • Senators being informed of strategy and approach by US to “remove this threat” from DPRK


Watching Trump start a war

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

mannerup posted:

more details on that WH North Korea meeting (via Steve Herman)
  • POTUS apparently spent 14 minutes in the briefing
  • US “prepared to respond” to any further DPRK missile or nuclear tests, says senior administration official briefing reporters now
  • DPRK "poses a grave threat to our partners and everyone in the region..and a potential threat to the US homeland"
  • Putting DPRK back on the terrorism sponsor list “being considered”
  • Timeline for further actions "event driven" and also depend on partners pressuring DPRK
  • Senators being informed of strategy and approach by US to “remove this threat” from DPRK

so this is basically just setting up for preemptive strikes huh?

Dalaram
Jun 6, 2002

Marshall/Kirtaner 8/24 nevar forget! (omg pedo)

crazy cloud posted:

the comedian is jeb! cmon

It's all just one big joke.... please laugh at it.

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brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Coolguye posted:

there's a reason the comrade in hunt for red october wanted to go there, friend

the wilderness there is not to be missed if you consider yourself at all an outdoorsy person, it's sublime


not in general no, once it kinda became understood that nudist camps are less nonstop sex orgies and more a ton of wrinkly old people airing out their genitals people largely stopped giving a poo poo because YOU try telling grandma it's immoral

glacier national park owns so hard

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