twoday posted:

Paging forums user Bulgakov, I have made an av for you if you choose to accept it

Basebf555 posted:

We're not talking about how much it costs, you said people are just bullshitting when they say there's a difference. There's a clear and obvious difference to anyone with eyesight.

Plinkey posted:

a stardew valley man i see

euphronius posted:

spoiler Horus rips and the big E gets sent to a chair for life

twoday posted:

Good night c-spam!

Rah! posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM4IPJUwzsw

Epic High Five posted:

They aren't lying when they say there's a difference but they are when they say there is a huge difference

I built media carts as part of my job, 80ish inch screens tested between everything from 480p to 4k. Anything over 1080p is a waste. A MESS

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

how the gently caress is it only tuesday

Hot Karl Marx posted:

It's like the only good comedy of the 2000's

snoo posted:

reposting 2 make u smile 2nite

https://twitter.com/sn0oie/status/1116766033686220800

Rah! posted:

trub

https://i.imgur.com/CsBaQLT.mp4

Gripweed posted:

Walk Hard is the funniest movie ever made

Rah! posted:

trub

https://i.imgur.com/CsBaQLT.mp4

Poniard posted:

Rah! posted:

trub

https://i.imgur.com/CsBaQLT.mp4

Epic High Five posted:

Big thing that surprised me was that our company was basically giving away a 4k 80 incher a couple months ago because it had a single vertical line of dead pixels, and good lord was it still distracting and unignorable despite the rez

triple sulk posted:

im a fat piece of poo poo

Plinkey posted:

i have a free 60" sharp aquos 1080p that has a half line of dead pixels, all you gotta do it come help me take it off the wall, help me install the new one and it's all yours

Gripweed posted:

Walk Hard is the funniest movie ever made

Rah! posted:

trub

https://i.imgur.com/CsBaQLT.mp4

Chuka Umana posted:

We've been in a perpetual stage of nothing happening since November and people are getting antsy.

We haven't had a news experience we've collectively witnessed together all year!!! Everything is slow and awful and boring.

Xaris posted:

good catte

twoday posted:

I assume a lot of people won’t get the reference here so I will explain the joke and finally make use of the Soviet literature course I took many years ago

Mikhael Bulgakov was a Soviet-era Russian writer, active in the time of Stalin. He is extremely C-SPAM and in the 1920’s and 1930’s he wrote a couple of brilliant novels making fun of Soviet society that were too edgy to be published, so they ended up in his desk drawer until he died. After he was dead they started spreading around, but they were too critical and controversial to be published by the state-controlled press, so they were illegally copied and spread around in the underground cultural scene. But anyone who was anyone in the cultural world got ahold of an illegal copy of his books and everyone loved his writing so much that it became a keystone of Soviet culture despite officially not existing.

His second most famous book was called “The Heart of Dog.” It was written in 1925 but not officially printed until 1987, and a movie was made of it the following year. It’s a critique of Bolshevism. The story is about a very bougie old-fashioned doctor doing medical experiments shortly after the revolution. His existence is really at odds with socialist society. He has a house with 5 rooms to himself, he eats caviar and likes operas. He hates the proletariat, he hates women in positions of authority. But he is allowed to live his outmoded way of life because he has the blessing of the highest authorities, who are very interested in his twisted medical experiments.

One day he decides to bring the corpse of drunk back from the dead by implanting into him the testicles and pituitary gland from a stray dog he finds in alleyway. It works, and he is hailed as a genius, but the dog-man starts acting strangely, increasingly influenced by the dog organs in his body.

Here’s a scene from the movie that summarizes the whole thing in about 3 minutes (make sure the English subtitles are on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOE_3_Ws4y0&t=3546s

In this scene the doctor is presenting the successful results of his experiment to the scientific community, and shows them the dog-man he created. The whole thing is an elaborate metaphor for the creation of the Soviet state upon the basis of Marxist ideology. In this metaphor, the doctor represents Karl Marx, the resurrected destitute man represents Russia, and his new dog organs represent the introduction of Marxist philosophy into Russian society, which breath new life into him but cause him to start behaving differently.

In this scene the doctor shows off his creation to his other bougie doctor friends, and wows them by showing them that this man can even play music. He hands the dog-man a balalaika, and he begins singing. The bougie audience is clapping along and encouraging him until he begins singing a rather vulgar song about attacking the bourgeoisie, at which point they grow silent in shock of this creation. The doctor becomes so upset that he faints.

It’s a metaphor for how Karl Marx, who came from a rather aristocratic 19th century Western European background, came up with a bunch of theories about how socialism could theoretically and elegantly work, and thus create a new and exciting sort of human and society. However, when Marxist ideology finally took over Russian society, it did not lead to the development of the utopian society Marx ultimately wanted. Although the introduction of socialism revitalized the society, it still held on to many of the faults it previously had, and the Bolshevist revolution was limited by the lingering old-fashioned ways and tendencies of the people that it encompassed, and the implementation of Marxist thought proved to be a lot less elegant than the theoretical version of it. This is symbolized by the vulgar folk song of the proletarian dog-man (who represents the Soviet people), sung to the bougie audience (who represent 19th century ideology). The doctor passes out upon seeing the performance, which is to be interpreted as meaning that Karl Marx would be spinning in his grave from distress if he saw how the Bolshevik revolution played out in his name.

Ultimately, the message is, “the realities of socialist revolution are different than advertised, and fail to account for the lasting influence of the cultural tendencies of the people.” It is a good message for leftists in america who imagine they can take over and then quickly reform society and abolish the old rustic ways and beliefs forever. The vulgar and stubborn character of your people will make your revolution harder.

Don’t expect anyone to read this. Good night c-spam!

BAE OF PIGS posted:

my girlfriend made a few recipes the other night which called for kale and she asked me to get the kale out of the fridge and it turned out she bought a ton of collard greens.


it still worked fine but it was like, uhhhhh this totally isn't kale bae.