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Yardbomb posted:Profile -> Add user to your Ignore List Are you Hbomberguy?
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Censorship of a lovely persons lovely posts, truly, it is the LORD our Bombers work.
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Sep 8, 2017 07:44
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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:Maybe he wouldn't be so depressed if his co-workers didn't stab him in the back and forced him away from TGWTG? 
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Sep 8, 2017 07:56
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Archer666 posted:I think thats got less to do with anno or his message and more to do with gainax milking evangelion for everything its got. The strip mahjong game is just as relevant to eva as the NERV garden barrel is..
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Sep 8, 2017 07:59
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My favourite thing is speeding through a thread and being able to tell without checking the name an IFM post. I've recently been watching some Georg Rockall-Schmidt, and he gives me the same vibe as a Shaun video. Very soothing to have on and can be pretty informative. Also his lamp is cool
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Sep 8, 2017 08:35
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Jurassic Park III (2001) Retrospective/Review
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Sep 8, 2017 08:44
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poparena posted:New Doctor Who Book Guide, this time on "Deceit" by Peter Darvill-Evans, one of those books where everything about it is really interesting except the actual story. Oh hey, I remember Beneath Nightmare Castle. It was a lot more Lovecraftian than the rest of the series, with all the mutant abominations running around. That was cool. It was also the only Fighting Fantasy book to have one of its illustrations banned for being too frightening, although there was more than enough horrific stuff in the text itself to scare me as a young kid. For some reason I was under the impression that the guy who wrote it never did anything else for FF, but in retrospect it makes total sense that he’d be responsible for Portal of Evil as well.
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Sep 8, 2017 13:00
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Ahoy released a new video, diving deep into the myth of Polybius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7X6Yeydgyg And I do mean deep. I'm 23 minutes in but drat, he keeps finding new info to turn over and look at.
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Sep 8, 2017 18:12
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42PPkbZKjo0 Phelous getting into some more Burbank madness with another Beauty and the Beast video.
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Sep 8, 2017 18:29
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SatansBestBuddy posted:Ahoy released a new video, diving deep into the myth of Polybius: I love it and Ahoy has a voice of velvet as usual, but I always thought it was "polly-bee-us" and I'm getting thrown for a loop here.
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Sep 9, 2017 14:11
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failing forward posted:I dunno. Dude sounds pretty misogynist to me. I feel like the bar might be a bit too high when someone can be quoted saying women's pussies look better fat and if they aren't the women are not worth loving, and not be called a misogynist. There's a pretty good parallel in Western media with Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek - cult sci-fi television by a dude with reprehensible opinions about women that attracted a devoted early fanbase that was largely female, which thanks to that early enthusiasm had the juice to evolve into a long-running megafranchise beloved by the worst kinds of nerdbros.
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Sep 9, 2017 16:58
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Anil Dasharez0ne posted:There's a pretty good parallel in Western media with Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek - cult sci-fi television by a dude with reprehensible opinions about women that attracted a devoted early fanbase that was largely female, which thanks to that early enthusiasm had the juice to evolve into a long-running megafranchise beloved by the worst kinds of nerdbros. That comparison goes pretty deep, too - Amuro Ray, the hero of the early Gundam shows, and his great rival Char Aznable had a very similar pop-cultural impact to Kirk and Spock, which the creators didn't exactly go out of their way to dissuade.
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Sep 9, 2017 18:12
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Anil Dasharez0ne posted:There's a pretty good parallel in Western media with Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek - cult sci-fi television by a dude with reprehensible opinions about women that attracted a devoted early fanbase that was largely female, which thanks to that early enthusiasm had the juice to evolve into a long-running megafranchise beloved by the worst kinds of nerdbros. You know what? gently caress all white straight nerds!
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Sep 9, 2017 18:30
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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:You know what? Well, gently caress you, definitely. Maybe just stop posting.
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Sep 9, 2017 18:32
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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:You know what? This but unironically. Also stop posting, go outside.
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Sep 9, 2017 19:36
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poparena posted:New Doctor Who Book Guide, this time on "Deceit" by Peter Darvill-Evans, one of those books where everything about it is really interesting except the actual story. This is pretty good! I was born a little too late to be in the target audience for these, but I find wilderness stuff super interesting. Minor nitpick though, "Wycombe" is actually pronounced similarly to "wiccan"; a lot of British place names (especially old ones) have less than obvious pronunciations.
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Sep 9, 2017 22:46
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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:You know what? I mean, yea except for rare fringes like hoteps writing books about space jews ruining the world and all that get sold to like twenty people tops the 'ruining nerd poo poo' root is almost always 'angry white straight person doesn't like the hated other entering their domain'. The Roddenberry example is great because he did make a genuinely socially progressive show in many ways but in many others he was completely hamstrung by his own extremely normative hangups that he and his thought he was magically immune from because of other progressive aspects.
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Sep 10, 2017 00:09
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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:You know what? You're supposed to say something disagreeable when you do this!
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Sep 10, 2017 00:41
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SatansBestBuddy posted:Ahoy released a new video, diving deep into the myth of Polybius: This video is extremely fascinating
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Sep 10, 2017 15:30
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Welp, looks like the vast majority of Nick Hodges' History Buffs reviews got de-monetized for not being ad friendly.
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Sep 10, 2017 17:05
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sexpig by night posted:I mean, yea except for rare fringes like hoteps writing books about space jews ruining the world and all that get sold to like twenty people tops the 'ruining nerd poo poo' root is almost always 'angry white straight person doesn't like the hated other entering their domain'. The Roddenberry example is great because he did make a genuinely socially progressive show in many ways but in many others he was completely hamstrung by his own extremely normative hangups that he and his thought he was magically immune from because of other progressive aspects. The correct answer for ruining nerd poo poo is : Big business using nerd poo poo as a platform to sell stuff to gullible morons who think they are part of nerd culture because they have a Star Wars phone case and a Batman T-Shirt
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Sep 10, 2017 18:15
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Arcsquad12 posted:Welp, looks like the vast majority of Nick Hodges' History Buffs reviews got de-monetized for not being ad friendly. The sword cuts both ways
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Sep 10, 2017 18:15
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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:The correct answer for ruining nerd poo poo is : Naaah, racism in nerd subcultures is a pretty big deal. See the Sad Puppies mess around the Hugo Awards, the World Fantasy Awards confronting their genre's history of overt support for white supremacy, Warhammer 40K going from dark satire to straight-faced fascist apologia, or the way that the Western comics industry has chosen to drive itself off a cliff rather than catering to anyone other than a shrinking demographic of white male nerds.
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Sep 10, 2017 18:37
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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:The correct answer for ruining nerd poo poo is : capitalism is a system that inherently profits off racism and bigotry and its status quo encourages it but it doesn't magically create it.
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Sep 10, 2017 18:49
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sexpig by night posted:capitalism is a system that inherently profits off racism and bigotry and its status quo encourages it but it doesn't magically create it. Depends whether you think racism as a codified ideology (as opposed to simply 'people from other cultures are weird and scary') was created during the Enlightenment to morally justify the Atlantic slave trade. There's actually some decent arguments for it.
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Sep 10, 2017 19:01
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Darth Walrus posted:Depends whether you think racism as a codified ideology (as opposed to simply 'people from other cultures are weird and scary') was created during the Enlightenment to morally justify the Atlantic slave trade. If we're thinking of the same essays on the topic I think you're thinking of white supremacy vs general racism, which many historians argue formed as an actual doctrine rather than a general 'I like people like me' thing around that time from the ashes of nationalistic schools of thought to justify colonialism and slavery and all.
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Sep 10, 2017 19:13
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speaking of racist nerds, https://twitter.com/backtowack/status/906910495495647233 
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Sep 10, 2017 20:23
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is that day z
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Sep 10, 2017 20:26
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a.lo posted:is that day z PlayerUnknown's Battleground, the hot new stream game because it's just Battle Royale
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Sep 10, 2017 21:24
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Darth Walrus posted:or the way that the Western comics industry has chosen to drive itself off a cliff rather than catering to anyone other than a shrinking demographic of white male nerds. Marvel bet the farm on the path of injecting post-modern SJW politics into their books by hiring a whole load of SJW aligned creators and have completely hosed up their sales and are only held up by Marvel Studios and the Star Wars comic book license
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Sep 10, 2017 21:27
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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:Marvel bet the farm on the path of injecting post-modern SJW politics into their books by hiring a whole load of SJW aligned creators and have completely hosed up their sales and are only held up by Marvel Studios and the Star Wars comic book license Except if you actually looked at the numbers at the time and saw that the books with greater diversity were selling better than most of their other books, and there were several different factors that led to a general sales slump. This CBR article is a pretty good writeup of why Gabriel was talking out his rear end
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Sep 10, 2017 21:44
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Direct sales are a kinda lovely way to read stories. All series should be cancelled and replaced with trades.
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Sep 10, 2017 21:50
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Darth Walrus posted:Warhammer 40K going from dark satire to straight-faced fascist apologia Okay maybe it's cause I'm not a part of the fandom or whatever, but when and how did this happen?
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Sep 10, 2017 22:03
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HorseRenoir posted:speaking of racist nerds, I'm not listening to his pig voice, what's happening in the video
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Sep 10, 2017 22:05
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Calaveron posted:I'm not listening to his pig voice, what's happening in the video He says the N-word.
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Sep 10, 2017 22:08
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Calaveron posted:I'm not listening to his pig voice, what's happening in the video
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Sep 10, 2017 22:09
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Darth Walrus posted:Naaah, racism in nerd subcultures is a pretty big deal. See the Sad Puppies mess around the Hugo Awards, the World Fantasy Awards confronting their genre's history of overt support for white supremacy, Warhammer 40K going from dark satire to straight-faced fascist apologia, or the way that the Western comics industry has chosen to drive itself off a cliff rather than catering to anyone other than a shrinking demographic of white male nerds. Pretty sure Warhammer 40k is having a new universe event where one of the primarchs wakes up and flips his poo poo that everyone became religious fascists instead of interpreting the Emperor's words critically and within reason, but I could be wrong
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Sep 10, 2017 22:12
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It's totally cool you guys. He didn't mean it in a racial way. He just said the first word he thought of when he gets real angry.
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Sep 10, 2017 22:12
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Calaveron posted:I'm not listening to his pig voice, what's happening in the video He called some one a jolly african-american
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Sep 10, 2017 22:13
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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:The correct answer for ruining nerd poo poo is : I get that engaging you is a inherently a lost cause because you're either a troll or just retarded, but I feel compelled to point out that covers most "actual" geeks. Have you read Ready Player One? It's this made into a novel. Geeks have surrendered themselves to pandering consumerism because all they have to base their identity on is the media they like. People like Sad Puppies who think nerd poo poo sucks now that SJW stories are replacing pew pew laser fightsshows how fundamentally unfamiliar with nerd poo poo they actually are, because nerd poo poo has always been that way. The 1920s play that gave the world the word "robot" advocated loving communism.
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