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Freaks and Geeks is a better 80s show.
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In case anyone isn't already familiar here, book podcast I Don't Even Own a Television has episodes on both Ready Player One and Armada. I feel like they strike a decent balance of crit versus just plain fun, so they're even on-topic!
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Feb 4, 2018 21:47
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Arcsquad12 posted:Freaks and Geeks is a better 80s show. Definitely this. Stranger Things is good, but even still it's a little saccharine in some ways. Freaks and Geeks is one of the better TV shows ever aired, and it absolutely is the 80s distilled in feel and character in a way that Stranger Things isn't (although The Americans is close to)
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Feb 4, 2018 22:55
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Waffles Inc. posted:Definitely this. Stranger Things is good, but even still it's a little saccharine in some ways. Freaks and Geeks is one of the better TV shows ever aired, and it absolutely is the 80s distilled in feel and character in a way that Stranger Things isn't (although The Americans is close to) I think it just distills all the hazy, foggy, feverish contours of adolescence that everyone immediately forgets or can’t articulate very well. It looks just like 1980 and gets pretty much every detail of a specific time and place right, but it could probably be set in 1995 and not lose anything that makes people like it. I don’t think you could say the same about The Americans or Halt and Catch Fire, though they’re also excellent as dramas and not just historical fiction.
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Feb 4, 2018 23:21
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Contra’s video on autogynephilia was great, although I got from it an impression of the two genders having specific sexualities in regards to turn-ons from the physical vs emotional. She probably didn’t intend for that; but it was used a basis for disproving the junk science that kind of rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe I reading too much into.
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Feb 4, 2018 23:34
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folytopo posted:I am curious about how chicken is more efficient. I have also heard that dairy is really efficient. Is there a source where it lays out your argument? I've been trying to suss this out for a couple days now, but the best I can come up with is "soy being popular means poorer countries cut down their rainforests to try and grow it", but that's a bit of a bunk accusation because rainforest countries have been cutting rainforests down for decades in order to try and grow whatever they think wealthy countries will buy. First it was corn, then it was beef, now it's soy. The economic pressures leading to rainforest deforestation are so far removed from the specific crops involved that it's disingenuous to connect the two. Also I can't see how poultry would be more efficient than soy given that we feed poultry corn which is farmed in direct competition with soy.
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Feb 4, 2018 23:47
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Wheat Loaf posted:I saw Ready Player One in an airport bookshop today; it had a movie tie-in cover (i.e. photograph of the star) but confusingly, it was in the children's section. Obviously the movie will be a big Spielberg action effects spectacle and kids love that kind of thing, but would anyone who isn't older than 35 or isn't into pop culture nostalgia have any appreciation for loving descriptions of how the hero Kevin Smithed his Bluesmobile with a KITT mainframe until it went faster than a Ghostbusted DeLorean or whatever it is? I'm sure the kids will love the part when the "hero" takes a week out of the quest to gently caress a lubed up sex doll-- hosing her down in between, of course.
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Feb 4, 2018 23:58
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lornekates posted:I'm sure the kids will love the part when the "hero" takes a week out of the quest to gently caress a lubed up sex doll-- hosing her down in between, of course.  I'm not sure if this is an exaggeration or if it actually is in it.
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Feb 5, 2018 01:18
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It is along with a whole bit on masturbation, its...something.
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Feb 5, 2018 01:30
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Apparently the author goes into loving detail about all the attachments and orifices sex dolls can have And also how great scientists like Einstein and the like got where they did thanks to masturbation, placing emphasis on how before discovering radiation, Marie Curie discovered “the little man on the canoe”
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Feb 5, 2018 02:29
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Calaveron posted:Apparently the author goes into loving detail about all the attachments and orifices sex dolls can have Ech, I need a bath just reading that. Too bad I just watched that unlisted Pushing Up Roses video about scary bathrooms, so I'm never showering again. 
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Feb 5, 2018 02:31
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Pants Donkey posted:Contra’s video on autogynephilia was great, although I got from it an impression of the two genders having specific sexualities in regards to turn-ons from the physical vs emotional. She probably didn’t intend for that; but it was used a basis for disproving the junk science that kind of rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe I reading too much into. From an account of another transperson I've heard (FtM in that case), there is apparently a marked change in attraction style during transition. In his case, he went from an internal reaction of "Oh, I'd love to go talk to that lady!" to one of "pornographic" things. Granted, that's just two anecdotes and I don't make a habit of asking anyone how their sexual attraction manifests, so it could just not be applicable to the wider community. (Or be the result of different factors entirely from whatever the dominant chemicals are.) Still, I wouldn't be especially surprised that the gender hormones influence sexuality in different ways, at the very least.
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Feb 5, 2018 03:26
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I saw ricegum in super bowl commercial. When the fun is my boy Ian gonna be in one of these things.
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Feb 5, 2018 03:28
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Puppy Time posted:From an account of another transperson I've heard (FtM in that case), there is apparently a marked change in attraction style during transition. In his case, he went from an internal reaction of "Oh, I'd love to go talk to that lady!" to one of "pornographic" things. Yeah, people's sexuality flipping because of HRT is not unusual.
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Feb 5, 2018 03:34
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Has anyone else seen that Sonic soyboy ad on here?
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Feb 5, 2018 09:02
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RareAcumen posted:Has anyone else seen that Sonic soyboy ad on here? gbs posters started unironically calling each other soy boys a little while back
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Feb 5, 2018 09:19
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BigRed0427 posted:Yeah, people's sexuality flipping because of HRT is not unusual. Pants Donkey fucked around with this message at 09:53 on Feb 5, 2018 |
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Feb 5, 2018 09:25
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FoldableHuman posted:I've been trying to suss this out for a couple days now, but the best I can come up with is "soy being popular means poorer countries cut down their rainforests to try and grow it", but that's a bit of a bunk accusation because rainforest countries have been cutting rainforests down for decades in order to try and grow whatever they think wealthy countries will buy. First it was corn, then it was beef, now it's soy. The economic pressures leading to rainforest deforestation are so far removed from the specific crops involved that it's disingenuous to connect the two. I don't know how well this argument actually holds up to more intense scrutiny, but that was how it was presented to me last time I heard it.
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Feb 5, 2018 10:03
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Calaveron posted:Apparently the author goes into loving detail about all the attachments and orifices sex dolls can have When I got this part in the audiobook it stopped me right in my tracks. That entire chapter was some of the dumbest poo poo put on paper.
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Feb 5, 2018 11:48
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The more I hear about RPO the less I like. Why is this being made into a film again? Who agreed to this?
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Feb 5, 2018 14:04
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Mraagvpeine posted:The more I hear about RPO the less I like. Why is this being made into a film again? Who agreed to this? Look at the reactions to it from the general public. It's all "Oh I saw _____! Gonna see this day one!". Even the most empty reference still gets people excited. For now...
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Feb 5, 2018 14:21
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Maybe whoever's adapting this thing will actually add tension/the illusion of tension to all the Easter egg hunting scenes, rather than the book's resolution to all of them which was "I had to do [80's thing] to win but luckily I'd seen/played [80's thing] 40 dozen times and had it memorized perfectly, and I did [80's thing] 100% flawlessly and won."
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Feb 5, 2018 14:23
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FreezingInferno posted:Maybe whoever's adapting this thing will actually add tension/the illusion of tension to all the Easter egg hunting scenes, rather than the book's resolution to all of them which was "I had to do [80's thing] to win but luckily I'd seen/played [80's thing] 40 dozen times and had it memorized perfectly, and I did [80's thing] 100% flawlessly and won." Steven Spielberg.
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Feb 5, 2018 14:26
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Wheat Loaf posted:Steven Spielberg. Let's be fair; If anyone can salvage a decent film out of RPO it's the guy who directed most of the stuff it references. And has made good movies out of reputedly-tedious books before.
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Feb 5, 2018 14:28
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The main thought I had reading RPO was the same one I had with most VR-centric Sci Fi which was "man, if someone introduced you to Second Life you'd be gone and never log out, huh?"
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Feb 5, 2018 14:30
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FreezingInferno posted:Maybe whoever's adapting this thing will actually add tension/the illusion of tension to all the Easter egg hunting scenes, rather than the book's resolution to all of them which was "I had to do [80's thing] to win but luckily I'd seen/played [80's thing] 40 dozen times and had it memorized perfectly, and I did [80's thing] 100% flawlessly and won." To be fair, it may not be possible to narrate playing an arcade game in a way that’s exciting or interesting. Which you’d think would mean that a writer might rethink building a narrative around such scenes, but
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Feb 5, 2018 14:40
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business hammocks posted:To be fair, it may not be possible to narrate playing an arcade game in a way that’s exciting or interesting. Which you’d think would mean that a writer might rethink building a narrative around such scenes, but I'm sure it could be done, just not by a writer like Ernest Cline in a book like RPO
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Feb 5, 2018 14:44
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business hammocks posted:To be fair, it may not be possible to narrate playing an arcade game in a way that’s exciting or interesting. Which you’d think would mean that a writer might rethink building a narrative around such scenes, but Excuse me, Spy Kids 3D is a cinematic masterpiece.
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Feb 5, 2018 14:46
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Alaois posted:gbs posters started unironically calling each other soy boys a little while back When I first got an account here I kinda felt like a dweeb for not really posting in that many subforums but now I just feel kinda old for looking at gbs or YOSPOS and not getting the appeal at all. Mraagvpeine posted:The more I hear about RPO the less I like. Why is this being made into a film again? Who agreed to this? The movie will most likely be bad but let's all take a step back and realize that it's certainly doing much less damage to cinema than Weinstein did to people. Or in a less gross example, it'll probably be no more damaging to movies long term as Sausage Party and the Emoji movie were.
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Feb 5, 2018 14:50
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the appeal of gbs is that unlike 4chan you have to pay for it. wait
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Feb 5, 2018 14:54
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Augus posted:I'm sure it could be done, just not by a writer like Ernest Cline in a book like RPO It worked in The Last of US' DLC but that was probably because the machine didn't work and also neither of them have any idea what a video game is anyway.
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Feb 5, 2018 15:00
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RareAcumen posted:Or in a less gross example, it'll probably be no more damaging to movies long term as Sausage Party and the Emoji movie were. They both came and went. You should have mentioned the FAILING Last Jedi. 
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Feb 5, 2018 15:12
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FreezingInferno posted:Maybe whoever's adapting this thing will actually add tension/the illusion of tension to all the Easter egg hunting scenes, rather than the book's resolution to all of them which was "I had to do [80's thing] to win but luckily I'd seen/played [80's thing] 40 dozen times and had it memorized perfectly, and I did [80's thing] 100% flawlessly and won." See, it is perfectly possible for someone like Spielberg to make this into a good movie. All he has to do is completely change the plot points, pacing, characterization, tension levels, motivations, and drop 90% of the dumb poo poo cruft filler that makes this a reprehensible book. In other words, he has to rewrite the story from the ground up, except make it good. I think of this as the "50 Shades of Paradox". Start with an extremely lovely, horrible, awful book. Not just badly written, but the plot, characters, themes, everything about it is reprehensible and should be considered harmful. But it finds a large niche audience who latch their identity onto one tiny aspect of the book. You like to diddle to BDSM porn? Great, do that. You get a thrill out of being the hero because you memorized Monty Python sketches? Awesome, have your power fantasy. But don't live under and delusion that the book you're basing your likes on is GOOD, or doesn't have AWFUL elements, and that there isn't a FUCKTON of better material out there. Except the crowd will defend the book to the death-- because any criticism of the book as a whole is perceived as a criticism of the one thing they like, and thus a personal attack on themselves. They will absolutely refuse to acknowledge any problematic elements, or the implications of those elements-- either by claiming "they aren't that bad", or "you're reading too much into this, they don't exist". So the movie gets announced, and you can say "Fine, when it's all up there on the screen, there will be no doubt about XYZ". But the filmakers know there is absolutely no way in hell they'll be able to put on screen half the poo poo in the book. Not if they want ANY chance of a mass market blockbuster acceptance (and thus ticket sales) of the movie. Ain't no goddamn way they're going to film a sex scene that starts with the dude lovingly taking out a used tampon.. If they make the movie from the book as-is, they have to acknowledge there are awful, problematic things with the book, and their movie will not be accepted by the mass market. People will come in for "sexy times with light spanking", and instead get to watch someone get verbally berated and physically forced to take birth-control injections. It might satisfy the hardcore core audience, but that isn't where the mass-market sales are coming from. They just want some softcore porn. Thus, the film maker rewrites the script, drops the problematic stuff, paints over some of the other cracks, and presents something resembling the source material. But that act, in itself, proves that the source material was lovely and horrible, because it was unfilmable. The "50 Shades Paradox" kicks in for the fanbase. If the movie was book-as-is, it would showcase the awfulness of the book that they refuse to acknowledge, and the boxoffice backs that up. The shittiness of the book is proven. BUT if the movie is a sanitized version of the book, it by implication proves the book was lovely because they had to change so much of it, and the boxoffice "success" again proves that this is the only way the book would be successful in the mass market. No matter HOW the movie turns out, it showcases how poo poo the book was.
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Feb 5, 2018 15:57
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Dunno who listens to This American Life, but half of the newest episode is about Laci Green and it's a pretty bad look for TAL because it's essentially "Laci Green did nothing wrong and why won't SJWs just talk to the alt right people what's wrong with thaaaaaaaat?????" Pretty huge misstep from one of the biggest podcasts/radio shows
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Feb 5, 2018 16:33
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Waffles Inc. posted:Dunno who listens to This American Life, but half of the newest episode is about Laci Green and it's a pretty bad look for TAL because it's essentially "Laci Green did nothing wrong and why won't SJWs just talk to the alt right people what's wrong with thaaaaaaaat?????" No surprise, the Koch brothers own NPR
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Feb 5, 2018 16:35
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lornekates posted:See, it is perfectly possible for someone like Spielberg to make this into a good movie. All he has to do is completely change the plot points, pacing, characterization, tension levels, motivations, and drop 90% of the dumb poo poo cruft filler that makes this a reprehensible book. It's times like this that I wish Youtubers spent even a fraction of their time doing deep dive analysis on books that they do movies and video games. I'd love to see a feature-length video entitled "Ready Player One Is Garbage, and Here's Why." (Yes, I know about Booktube, but that's just casual vlogging as far as I can tell.)
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Feb 5, 2018 16:46
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Waffles Inc. posted:Dunno who listens to This American Life, but half of the newest episode is about Laci Green and it's a pretty bad look for TAL because it's essentially "Laci Green did nothing wrong and why won't SJWs just talk to the alt right people what's wrong with thaaaaaaaat?????" what did laci green do wrong?
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Feb 5, 2018 17:22
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Didn't Spielberg say he wasn't gonna include any references to his own work because it'd be too masturbatory? Also how will the climax with ultraman and gamera and jet jaguar work out with the rights issues And any of the references that are not intellectual property of Warner Brothers and its affiliates of which there are millions because that's all the book is
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Feb 5, 2018 17:26
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Augus posted:what did laci green do wrong? She's in a relationship with an alt-righter and constantly goes on about how a lot of alt-right youtubers aren't bad people
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Waffles Inc. posted:She's in a relationship with an alt-righter and constantly goes on about how a lot of alt-right youtubers aren't bad people She's also a terf and severe both-sidesist.
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