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Trammel
Dec 31, 2007
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

full disclosure: i bought the book

I bought two. One is still on the office bookshelf.

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Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/bonerhitler/status/1102409660265582594?s=19

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/moghilemear13/status/1102404560654659584

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

I would encourage cocaine instead and running on stage to become an impromptu extra

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Typo posted:

I would encourage cocaine instead and running on stage to become an impromptu extra

200 years of civilization reborn

Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 19:08 on Mar 4, 2019

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007


Look if I wanted it to be that literal I would just read the light novel.

sincx
Jul 13, 2012

furiously masturbating to anime titties
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sincx has issued a correction as of 05:28 on Mar 23, 2021

sincx
Jul 13, 2012

furiously masturbating to anime titties
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sincx has issued a correction as of 05:28 on Mar 23, 2021

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Typo posted:

I would encourage cocaine instead and running on stage to become an impromptu extra

why not both

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

All my complaints about the Karl Marx anime not going in-depth enough boils down to they only planned for 7 episodes. The Netflix show about trans yakuza pop idols has a longer run time.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

All my complaints about the Karl Marx anime not going in-depth enough boils down to they only planned for 7 episodes. The Netflix show about trans yakuza pop idols has a longer run time.

That's because it's a proper anime licensed by Netflix (and possibly them as part of the production committee) and not a special thing.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Xelkelvos posted:

That's because it's a proper anime licensed by Netflix (and possibly them as part of the production committee) and not a special thing.

I think the Communist Party of China can command enough resources for a full-season run about Comrade Karl. :colbert:

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I think the Communist Party of China can command enough resources for a full-season run about Comrade Karl. :colbert:

They didn't though. Curious :thunk:

There's a J-Drama I'm following that's only 7 eps for whatever reason too so it might just be because that's the size of the schedule hole for the time of year that it's airing in that part of the world.

CountFosco
Jan 9, 2012

Welcome back to the Liturgigoon thread, friend.

Sounds like Xi's looking for some Stakhanovites.

tino
Jun 4, 2018

by Smythe
Is there a decent biopic of Karl Marx? Like Gary Oldman in a fat suit level of good.

This animu is basically the Communist version of Atlas Shrugged (2011). Didn't Zack Snyder want to make an Atlas Shrugged movie? Where is the communist Zack Snyder?

tino has issued a correction as of 19:55 on Mar 4, 2019

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

There's The Young Karl Marx from a year ago. Haven't sat down to watch it yet, but they reviewed it on Chapo.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

tino posted:

Is there a decent biopic of Karl Marx? Like Gary Oldman in a fat suit level of good.

This animu is basically the Communist version of Atlas Shrugged (2011). Didn't Zack Snyder want to make an Atlas Shrugged movie? Where is the communist Zack Snyder?

It's impossible to make a Communist Atlas Shrugged because Marx & Engels weren't hacks.

Anyway they already produced a series of Atlas Shrugged movies. Everybody hated them, even libertarians. I think Zack Snyder wanted to make a movie about The Fountainhead.

Captain Billy Pissboy
Oct 25, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo
College Slice

https://twitter.com/molleindustria/status/1102546088966393856?s=20

Aren't the English subs being done by fans too?

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016


if they end up dubbing it they should have all the characters speak vernacular british english except marx, who speaks in the late 19th century academic voice of his son-in-law, the biology lecturer who translated Kapital into English

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Trammel posted:

I bought two. One is still on the office bookshelf.
m... mark???

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
china's legislature is in session... i sense many productive things happening

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
i was right!

https://twitter.com/XHNews/status/1103268020049272832

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
is it time to start the fight for full AI citizen rights yet?

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Something about it just keeps making me think of the animation software that the Big Head Scientist guy uses.

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016


literally a plot point in a Deus Ex game lmao

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Fallen Hamprince posted:

literally a plot point in a Deus Ex game lmao

I think in Deus Ex the news anchor being an AI was supposed to be a secret.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I think in Deus Ex the news anchor being an AI was supposed to be a secret.

Her real purpose was to almost instantly be able to distort and manipulate news stories in order to further the goals of the illuminati; Cassan was Fox News on hyper steroids. Her being an AI was mainly to make sure she could do it quickly and in a calculated way to sway the most amount of people to whatever side the Illuminati wanted to support.

Captain Billy Pissboy
Oct 25, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo
College Slice

Grapplejack posted:

Her real purpose was to almost instantly be able to distort and manipulate news stories in order to further the goals of the illuminati; Cassan was Fox News on hyper steroids. Her being an AI was mainly to make sure she could do it quickly and in a calculated way to sway the most amount of people to whatever side the Illuminati wanted to support.

I hated that part because why did she need to be a hologram or whatever? Just have the AI write the talking points and scripts for real humans to push. I am irrationally angry about this

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

You don't have to pay holograms. Plus it further establishes the media as being pure simulacrum with no reference in the real.

CAPS LOCK BROKEN
Feb 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

Fallen Hamprince posted:

literally a plot point in a Deus Ex game lmao

my favorite part of deus ex is the PRC being one of the last countries left not under Illuminati control in 2052.

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes
deus ex was stupid because the PRC privatized their police force in it

loving lol if you think the CPC would ever do that in a zillion years, the party must control the gun

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

Her face doesn't move along with her mouth.

tino
Jun 4, 2018

by Smythe

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:

Her face doesn't move along with her mouth.

They brought the tech from Conan OBrien.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
Interesting

https://twitter.com/windlord03/status/1103391147219660800

quote:

The outlet in the southern province of Hunan is KFC first’s “Lei Feng spirit”-themed outlet. According to Xinhua, it opened March 3 ahead of yesterday’s commemorations of the legendary story of Comrade Lei Feng, a 5-foot-tall orphan-turned-solider immortalized by Mao Zedong for his selfless devotion to the revolutionary cause. Lei—who may not have actually lived—is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 at 21, struck by a falling telephone pole. In the decades since, Lei Feng has lived on in the collective Chinese memory, held up as a selfless model citizen in party propaganda—though some scholars contend he may not have existed.

Photos posted online (in Chinese) show tables decorated with illustrated images of Lei Feng. One photo shows a tabletop emblazoned with the slogan, “Promoting Lei Feng’s spirit, striving to be the new figure of the times.” With a red cape, green pants, and a black eye mask, Lei almost looks a little like the American superhero Robin, Batman’s sidekick.

KFC also will “promote the Lei Feng spirit in its over 250 outlets in the province,” according to Xinhua. The campaign comes amid KFC’s broader push to aggressively expand in China, where it is run by Yum China, which spun off from parent Yum Brands in 2016.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
a five-foot-tall soldier getting conveniently crushed out of existence by a falling telephone poll is very much a "has returned to his home planet" routine

Autism Sneaks
Nov 21, 2016
please don't besmirch Comrade Poochie and his delicious friend chicken

Slim Jim Pickens
Jan 16, 2012

This sounds the same as the robocalls I've been getting about HSBC closing down or my 5 cruise tickets that have gone unclaimed

BrainDance
May 8, 2007

Disco all night long!

Mantis42 posted:

Plus it further establishes the media as being pure simulacrum with no reference in the real.


drat Mantis42 you are getting what you want today.

Someone dig up Baudrillard so he can write about 2019 China.

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes
imagine if Lei Feng were alive today!

He would be proud of New China built by the Communist Party! As are his peers from his entire generation of youth!

没有共产党就没有新中国

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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
this just means that socialism with chinese characteristics, exemplified by the fusion of KFC with lei feng spirit, is a development over inefficient, western capitalism -- not only in terms of efficiency of delivery but also in terms of price and tastiness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4sZ8HlQsvE

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