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It's my Birthday this month. What do you have to say to me? This poll is closed. |
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| Happy Birthday...and many more! |
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| Happy Bowsette...I mean Birthday (sorry Freudian slip there) |
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Jay Rust posted:One hour til the new thread... what will axelblaze pick as a title?? July 31
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Jul 31, 2019 03:59
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Oh gently caress
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Jul 31, 2019 03:59
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Internet Kraken posted:Nobody saying "kill Nazis" on Twitter has ever had any actual impact.
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Jul 31, 2019 04:00
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Jay Rust posted:Oh last left hand knuckle
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Jul 31, 2019 04:00
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This month has been a good thread. Not too much anime
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Jul 31, 2019 04:06
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Rinkles posted:July 31 August Games Chat Thread - July 31st
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Jul 31, 2019 04:06
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I am surprised we are not closing out the thread with a full on anime meltdown considering Fire Emblem Three Houses released this month.
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Jul 31, 2019 04:10
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there was that one post that thought it was about grooming, briefly
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Jul 31, 2019 04:12
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At least this thread ended in a laugh when once again the posters didn't know how many days there were in a month August is the longest goddamn month of the year and I thought about the title involving Time Compression somehow but we had so many better suggestions.
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Jul 31, 2019 04:16
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Well Rorona (of Atelier Rorona game), who every single character is thirsty for, is 14 in the original Japanese but 18 elsewhere in the world
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Jul 31, 2019 04:18
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Rinkles posted:July 31 lol 
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Jul 31, 2019 04:18
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Anime is trash Jay Rust fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Jul 31, 2019 |
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Jul 31, 2019 04:21
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Jay Rust posted:Anime is trash I thought this would summon Endorph
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Jul 31, 2019 04:31
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i like animation and i like japanese animation. i like the shows written and directed by cool ladies. i like the shows about Waver being a magic detective. i think its cool that as a gay woman there are more and more shows about gay woman i can watch in anime lately. performative hatred for things is weird to me, especially when a lot of it comes from genre fiction fans who are criticizing other genre fiction for the same problems that are prevalent in things they like oftentimes. its kinda a boring take in my opinion.
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Jul 31, 2019 04:31
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Jay Rust posted:I thought this would summon Endorph no no, like this: japan has some problems with the way it treats LGBT people in its media
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Jul 31, 2019 04:32
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Snooze Cruise posted:i like animation and i like japanese animation. i like the shows written and directed by cool ladies. i like the shows about Waver being a magic detective. i think its cool that as a gay woman there are more and more shows about gay woman i can watch in anime lately. Ah ha! All genre fiction is trash. Go read a real book.
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Jul 31, 2019 04:34
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Cowcaster posted:japan has some problems with the way it treats LGBT people in its media Hmm this post seems lovely. Jay Rust posted:Ah ha! Oh I can play this game. Low art vs high art arguments are dumb. Personally I believe people should take in a variety of media from all types of sources and try new things, (they don't really have to force themselves to keep on engaging with a type of media that does nothing for them of course). Anyway "go read real lit" types who say stuff like this in response to conversations about problems with genre fiction are ignoring how much of real lit is also full of creepy stuff written by smarmy white guys about other swarmy white guys wondering if their art really matters or something while they infantlize women. Snooze Cruise fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Jul 31, 2019 |
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Jul 31, 2019 04:39
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Not that it matters but my sense of it is that people who write genre lit are only looking at other genre lit and are kinda boned from the start
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Jul 31, 2019 04:44
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Rinkles posted:July 31
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Jul 31, 2019 04:47
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Jay Rust posted:Not that it matters but my sense of it is that people who write genre lit are only looking at other genre lit and are kinda boned from the start Eh plenty of genre writers take influence from a ton of stuff outside of their genre. Like yeah a lot of it is by the numbers, but even like people who try to write "real literature" are often by the numbers as well. Like there is a difference between like an art house film and like uh, terminator 2, but both are like valid forms of doing stuff. Art isn't like some smash brothers tier and most of the ideas about low stuff can be applied to the high stuff and vice versa. "high art" "real literature" in a lot of ways are just kinda like patriarchal constructs to let people stuff themselves up. its sorta a fetishization of the artistic process, that these subset of people and the people who read/take in this subset have a greater appreciation of the process. Honestly its just a higher level of like stand up comedians who forget to tell jokes and give interviews where htey talk about how the comedian's sacred job is to hold a lens of society, or the whole method acting thing which is just male actors trying to "masculinized" their craft some more. its all "process" porn/fetishization
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Jul 31, 2019 04:51
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I guess I’m struggling to see how gender enters the equation
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Jul 31, 2019 04:58
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Jay Rust posted:I guess I’m struggling to see how gender enters the equation i mean its not hard to see how so much of our framing for art/storytelling is define by dudes from a dude-y perspective. just look at the heroe's journey.
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Jul 31, 2019 05:06
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mehall posted:Carrotcake is great and I will fight you all. carrot cake is for when you want to have a cake but pretend like you're eating healthy just have a fuckin cake and then eat a salad later
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Jul 31, 2019 05:08
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Yeah the idea of one climax per story is actually pretty stupid.
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Jul 31, 2019 05:09
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Verranicus posted:How is white phosphorus being in a military shooter any more offensive than every other weapon that's already been in it? Bullets and bombs have killed more people than white phosphorus by a country mile. I don't get the sudden outrage. WP is a very controversial weapon of war; it's intended, legal use is for obscuring smoke screens and illumination. Classified as a chemical weapon, deliberately using it against personnel is a Geneva violation (among other treaties regarding chem/incendiary stuff). Unfortunately, recent conflicts still see reports of WP being used to directly attack targets, with offending parties denying their use. Combined with WP's excellent properties for causing tremendous suffering (turns out elemental phosphorus is really bad for your bones) makes WP a real WTF decision for games that aren't A: Pure Mil-sim (ARMA), or B: Making a point with it (Spec-Ops). But hey, maybe Activision is going to use their billion-dollar franchise to highlight humanitarian issues in war with their multiplayer killstreak bonuses, and have every round end with the top scoring players being tried at the Hauge.
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Jul 31, 2019 05:13
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Don't the Call of Duty games let you get mininukes as a kill streak reward.
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Jul 31, 2019 05:20
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The fact that there are “laws of war” is pretty lol tbh
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Jul 31, 2019 05:21
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Snooze Cruise posted:there was that one post that thought it was about grooming, briefly Hey, my implication of impropriety wasn’t influenced by the art style. In an unfortunately related event, I just learned that someone on my pinball league was arrested for some truly, unironically disgusting things.
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Snooze Cruise is correct but I'll admit I do the 'go read real lit' but softer to friends I know who read a lot, but exclusively fantasy/scifi series. More trying to bump from Rothfuss to Le Guin.
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Jul 31, 2019 05:35
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Reminiscing about Command and Conquer Generals, which let you know that the terrorists were the bad guys for using chemical weapons, the Chinese were morally gray for using nukes and firebombing, and America was the good guy for using... very large conventional bombs and drones
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Jul 31, 2019 05:38
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Relax Or DIE posted:Snooze Cruise is correct but I'll admit I do the 'go read real lit' but softer to friends I know who read a lot, but exclusively fantasy/scifi series. More trying to bump from Rothfuss to Le Guin. yeah nothing wrong with that. sorta related, but like its funny to me how you see these attitudes within even genre fiction stuff. like scifi fans act like their preferred genre is greater and about bigger ideas than fantasy, but then like cyberpunk fans are that... but even more so because they treat normal scifi the same lol.
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Jul 31, 2019 06:09
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I enjoy reading all kinds of books, from stories that are probably considered more classically "real" or "higher" literature to stuff that is about a fat orange cat who eats a lot of food that cats should not eat while his owner fails to solve a murder mystery I still wish I could read French well enough to read the La Compagnie des glaces series though.
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Jul 31, 2019 06:15
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Internet Kraken posted:Don't the Call of Duty games let you get mininukes as a kill streak reward. Yeah but you don't have real-world nations doing real-world warcrimes with nuclear weapons to make things uncomfortable. WP's presence in media as something you kill bad guys with normalizes it to your audience, making restrictions on its use in real life ever so harder to enforce. See also: Drones.
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fiction set in the real world is boring as poo poo compared to non-fiction, which is why I just read non-fiction instead. Almost all the fiction I consume is in the form of video games e: specifically history is way more interesting than non-genre fiction so I just read history books instead cheetah7071 fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Jul 31, 2019 |
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Jul 31, 2019 06:38
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cheetah7071 posted:fiction set in the real world is boring as poo poo compared to non-fiction, which is why I just read non-fiction instead. Almost all the fiction I consume is in the form of video games Hey now whoa whoa whoa, fiction set in the real world isn't boring. You ever heard of any of Tim Powers's books? I've only read one of them but I enjoyed it a lot.
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Jul 31, 2019 07:06
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Man I was all ready to poo poo on the new Fire Emblem game but apparently its actually really good which I didn't expect at all after Fates. My little brother has been playing it constantly since he got it and I'm getting jealous. I don't have time to play it AND Mario Maker though 
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FirstAidKite posted:Hey now whoa whoa whoa, fiction set in the real world isn't boring. my post was half sincere (as in I honestly do not care for non-genre fiction) and half shitpost (I wanted to one-up the "read a real book" crowd with non-fiction) To me, learning about stuff is where the real fun is in reading. In fantasy, the stuff you're learning isn't "real" but it's still learning about the constructed world. And of course, non-fiction scratches that itch even better, so that's what I read. Internet Kraken posted:Man I was all ready to poo poo on the new Fire Emblem game but apparently its actually really good which I didn't expect at all after Fates. My little brother has been playing it constantly since he got it and I'm getting jealous. fates was literally four years ago and not even the most recent FE before 3H I don't know why you'd think it was some kind of inescapable black hole for the series
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Relax Or DIE posted:Snooze Cruise is correct but I'll admit I do the 'go read real lit' but softer to friends I know who read a lot, but exclusively fantasy/scifi series. More trying to bump from Rothfuss to Le Guin. I don't like literature discussions because it seems like a contest to see who is the most snob, but this is a good way of putting lovely advice in a nicer light. Just the concept of "genre lit" is ridiculous to me. edit: its 3am but I'm trying to say you're giving good advice to your friends without being a dick Samuringa fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Jul 31, 2019 |
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ChickenHeart posted:Yeah but you don't have real-world nations doing real-world warcrimes with nuclear weapons to make things uncomfortable. WP's presence in media as something you kill bad guys with normalizes it to your audience, making restrictions on its use in real life ever so harder to enforce. Trump probably wants to use it in the coming war with Iran so he paid Activision to help get people used to it.
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