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Grand Fromage posted:I just don't get it. It's not even a good story. There's a monkey who is a six year old's D&D character and beats up everything and uh... like 70% of the book is just nothing at all. The virgin journey to the west vs the chad water margin. The Water margin is like 2000 pages of people getting drunk, beating up imperial officials, and burning poo poo down. Everyone is a giant fuckup and hates the goverment. It rules.
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SerCypher posted:The virgin journey to the west vs the chad water margin. Yeah, but does it have a monkey?
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Imagine how annoyed Chinese tourists to Kiribati will be that they can't walk on people all the time. Hopefully they can still enjoy eating food cooked using plastic wastes that wash up on the beach though!
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BrigadierSensible posted:Yeah, but does it have a monkey? I don't remember. At one point a dude gets really drunk and beats a tiger to death.
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Aug 21, 2020 00:21
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Should I assume nobody is talking about the three gorges dam outside chud twitter because a collapse isn't actually that likely?
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night danger posted:Should I assume nobody is talking about the three gorges dam outside chud twitter because a collapse isn't actually that likely? No one knows besides the CCP. My vote is that it will be fine unless the water levels get so high that they start to overflow the top or something.
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night danger posted:Should I assume nobody is talking about the three gorges dam outside chud twitter because a collapse isn't actually that likely? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/20/china-three-gorges-dam-highest-level-hydro-electric-floods Made the UK press headlines without too much breathless hyperbole. Ignorning the potential (and hopefully unlikely) dam collapse, the flooding is pretty horrific. The CCP are in a poo poo position of their own making. They shot themselves in the foot and have zero credibility. As such, it doesn't matter what they say at all. If they speak to a concern, or if they don't. A case of damned if they do, damned if they don't. 
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night danger posted:Should I assume nobody is talking about the three gorges dam outside chud twitter because a collapse isn't actually that likely? For a while it was looking bad, but the CCP has had boots on the ground doing damage control so at this point it's probably unlikely. We'll have another crisis next year. I mean outside of the monumental flooding.
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Aug 21, 2020 01:03
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SerCypher posted:The Water margin is like 200 pages of people getting drunk, beating up imperial officials, and burning poo poo down, and 1800 pages of telling you an exhaustive history behind why such-and-such bandit doesn't shave and how silk his shoes are.
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Aug 21, 2020 01:07
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TBF that's the same ratio as The Fellowship of the Ring
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yea but the relative brevity made fellowship of the ring feel like pleasant YA pulp after reading water margin lol
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McGavin posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2nNljv0MOw Now with dark souls characteristics!
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MyronMulch posted:A western diplomat's staff would have figured out well in advance that such a thing was being proposed, and would launch into a bunch of negotiations ahead of time to work out how to stage a ceremony that would make everyone either equally happy or equally unhappy -- you know, DIPLOMACY. oohhboy posted:Why the gently caress would you do that? I say it again, it's like their state department is run by wilfully ignorant fresh off the UFO aliens. Not So Fast posted:It feels like they don't actually give a crap, because the media at home won't report on it anyway and that's who matters. That's what I usually say, but I think I should update it to "The CCP wants to collect tribute from a world it refuses to understand," because it really looks like the CCP doesn't even want the token administrative responsibilities of a colonial power. It feels like they just want the old medieval vassal state setup they enjoyed during their 5000 years of history.
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I think what is also important is that China's official response, when called out on the bad optics of having a representative of their government walk on the backs of subservient children, delivered at the highest level by trained diplomats was: "You are all just jealous that we are friends with Kiribati. They like us because we aren't poopy faced Western Imperialists. So ner to you!" Almost word for word.
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I would love to be a fly on the wall (likely drywall that is actively crumbling and shedding carcinogens everywhere) at the CCP Diplomat Training Academy for Harmonious Relations just to see how terrible it must be. Just think how bad and by bad, I mean hilarious, their role-play exercises must be. Who am I kidding, it’s just rote lectures for weeks on end from a senior Party official for who’s never traveled abroad yet has a couple houses in Vancouver and his kids go to college in the US
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Tupperwarez posted:It feels like they just want the old medieval vassal state setup they enjoyed during their 5000 years of history. Martin Jacques was right?
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Grand Fromage posted:I just don't get it. It's not even a good story. There's a monkey who is a six year old's D&D character and beats up everything and uh... like 70% of the book is just nothing at all. the originals in written in Chinese is a good one, for "Journey to the West" 西遊記 at least. while "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" 三國演義 is not the same thing as 三國志. 三國演義 is a novel of glorified history rewritten in Qing dynasty, while 三國志 is mostly a history book written AFTER the era of three kingdoms, so there are myths stuff here and there but not as bad as the novel. and I always believe that literature pieces should be read in their original language, too much are lost during translation so it is not fair to judge it in alien languages. having said that I still haven't got to learn French for reading Soul Mountain......
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whats the point of remaking it when Monkey Magic was both Japanese, and perfect? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NK5KW7KFxc
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SerCypher posted:The virgin journey to the west vs the chad water margin. The Water Margin 水滸傳 is like watered down bitter beer, of failed rebellions against tyrant in power where all rebels ends up dying horribly or live their miserable life in the hell of regrets and betrayal. BTW CCP likes that picture a lot.
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McGavin posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2nNljv0MOw is this weird comment section a target of the 50 cent army or are there really that many mainlanders bypassing the great firewall to hype this thing up in english on their own volition
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It looks fun, sorry bud.
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Yeah it looks p good. And you might bitch about „too many remakes” but the main exposure people outside of china had to Journey to the West are Dragon Ball, Enslaved, and playing Wukong in Warframe
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McGavin posted:China remakes Journey to the West for the 1.4 billionth time. Hard pass. Maybe they shouldn't have burned so many books.
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Journey to the West needs more remakes because every adaptation of it (besides Dragon Ball if that counts) is really bad. It's the stereotypical 'person acting like a monkey' thing people always do for Sun Wukong, where they do the shrill voice and bounce around like idiots that ruins them for me. I always get second hand embarrassment. I don't know how else to play a monkey, but I hope someone figures it out someday.
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Given how often Pride and Prejudice is remade by the BBC, I'm not judging china fir endless Journey to the West remakes.
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BrainDance posted:I don't know how else to play a monkey, but I hope someone figures it out someday. Sun Wukong should eat people's hands and faces imo. Monkeys are insanely hosed up and not enough media capitalize on it by making them the default funny animal.
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Does Sun Wukong throw his poo poo everywhere in this adaptation like normal monkeys?
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goblin week posted:Yeah it looks p good. As mentioned before, the Japanese "Monkey Magic" TV show was mega huge here in Australia.
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I didn't mean that it doesn't look cool (it does), just pointing out the weird comment section where there are lots of "this is monkey king, do you know?" and "the unnamed country can only salivate at chinese game superiority" and thought it was funny to see that on an IGN video
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url posted:Martin Jacques was right? For a minute there I wondered if the Tiger Lillies had sung about China, its a dark enough subject.
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HerStuddMuffin posted:
This reminds me. When we went to West Lake in Hangzhou we went and ate at the restaurant Nixon ate at and the waiters and the locals with us insisted we had to order the dish that was Nixon's favorite. It was a loving soup made with a vegetable grown in the lake in actual lake water. It tasted like what you would imagine. Just loving vile. Even the locals were saying it's horrible. I figured what happened is Nixon knew that at a Chinese dinner like that if the guest of honor says a dish is his favorite everybody is supposed to eat a lot of it. So he picked the worst dish the restaurant had to be a dick.
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D-Pad posted:It was a loving soup made with a vegetable grown in the lake in actual lake water. In fairness this sounds like an accurate descripion of most Chinese soups.
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As a GBS Chinathread poster in 2020 I must it very clear that I don't hate the Chinese people, I'm just opposed to their authoritarian and genocidal government. Anyways, back to our discussion about how their food is disgusting, their classic literature trash, and their people shiftless crooks who lie about everything. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mantis42 posted:Anyways, back to our discussion about how their food is disgusting, their classic literature trash, and their people shiftless crooks who lie about everything. Yo this is the China thread not the anglophone thread
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Mantis42 posted:As a GBS Chinathread poster in 2020 I must it very clear that I don't hate the Chinese people, I'm just opposed to their authoritarian and genocidal government. To have valid opinions we must only praise the soup
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Mantis42 posted:As a GBS Chinathread poster in 2020 I must it very clear that I don't hate the Chinese people, I'm just opposed to their authoritarian and genocidal government. This isn't DnD. You are innocent until proven guilty. Rabelais D posted:In fairness this sounds like an accurate descripion of most Chinese soups. Lines up visually. Restaurant house "soups" do look like lake water but can be quite tasty. If Nixon did order literal lake soup that is a power move.
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oohhboy posted:Lines up visually. Restaurant house "soups" do look like lake water but can be quite tasty. I found a band-aid in my "House Soup" once.
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Bonus long pig.
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Kharnifex posted:Imagine how annoyed Chinese tourists to Kiribati will be that they can't walk on people all the time. Hopefully they can still enjoy eating food cooked using plastic wastes that wash up on the beach though! You mean like rice and coconut, steamed in a fleshlight?
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McGavin posted:I found a band-aid in my "House Soup" once. So this is that "good for healthy" thing I've heard so much about
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