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Collapsing Farts posted:Hell, rape and slavery was basically all the vikings did The Viking society actually was very progressive. Children of slaves were free men, if you killed a citizen without just cause you had to pay a weregild, etc. Better than the US today.
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doverhog posted:The Viking society actually was very progressive. Children of slaves were free men, if you killed a citizen without just cause you had to pay a weregild, etc. Better than the US today. Medieval cultures of all stripes in Europe tend to be more progressive than we imagine them to be. That's not to say they were great places to live or anything but there's a lot of stuff where we take early modern or even victorian norms and project that the medievals must have been that bad or worse.
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Yeah, like both things are true at the same time. I once argued in D&D that feudalism is better than capitalism, because under feudalism your lord has been commanded by god to protect you. You give him your loyalty and service, and he gives you protection. Under capitalism there are no oaths, the are no gods, there are only things that add value, or don't.
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The 99% of furries that are hard-core Republicans and/or Democrats (but extreme right-wing nevertheless) are all too happy about the "furries are allies now" succdem nonsense.
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I know this sounds racist but I have trouble telling the difference between the Ultramans.
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The human side in Radiata Stories is waaaaaay better than the non-humans side. bonus PHUO: I like Radiata Stories.
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Sep 8, 2020 01:01
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I don't care that Venture Brothers got cancelled.
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Gripweed posted:I don't care that Venture Brothers got cancelled. Hasn't it been canceled for years?
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Solice Kirsk posted:Hasn't it been canceled for years? No like every 30 months they'd put out another four episodes.
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Gripweed posted:I don't care that Venture Brothers got cancelled. I like Venture Brothers a lot but drat Chris McCulloc never deserved the auteur status he got from making that. Also it's super presumptive to expect your audience to wait years at a time between seasons and still be interested. Like your show isn't that good dude maybe get your work done like everyone else if you want to keep an audience.
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It's really weird hearing Americans complain about Venture Brothers like as though gaps between seasons are this wild and unreasonable thing when it's just a normal thing that happens on UK TV. Jonathan Creek had three episodes between 2005 and 2013. Red Dwarf came back after ten years then had four seasons spread over ten years.
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It's not that the gaps are wild and unreasonable, its just that if the show isn't outstanding people lose interest.
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Tiggum posted:It's really weird hearing Americans complain about Venture Brothers like as though gaps between seasons are this wild and unreasonable thing when it's just a normal thing that happens on UK TV. Jonathan Creek had three episodes between 2005 and 2013. Red Dwarf came back after ten years then had four seasons spread over ten years. American and Britain have massively different schedules for shooting scripted television. America can make shows much faster because the actors schedules are way more open compared to British celebrities who are legally required to spend at least 9 months of the year doing panel shows.
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politics always must have an aesthetic component, which means that it's useless to have "leftist X" if it's something that's lame or ugly. this is why paul robeson's music is a legitimate political artform, while "leftist youtube" or "leftist twitter" or "ostensibly leftist hollywood movie" isn't and never can be
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i mostly don't really parse what's in people's avatars and usernames and those dumb gang tags. i think of the poster above my posts here as "yellow avatar guy" for example. i have no idea what any of those tags people have mean or how they got them
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Shibawanko posted:i mostly don't really parse what's in people's avatars and usernames and those dumb gang tags. i think of the poster above my posts here as "yellow avatar guy" for example. i have no idea what any of those tags people have mean or how they got them wow, being old must suck
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not a sight issue, long term use of online forums has taught me that the content of peoples projected online identities rarely matter so to me the posters in this thread are yellow guy, blue face guy, text guy, laughing skeleton guy (that one's more salient because it's immediately clear what it is), purple car dude, green hallway man, etc. same thing for other threads
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Tiggum posted:It's really weird hearing Americans complain about Venture Brothers like as though gaps between seasons are this wild and unreasonable thing when it's just a normal thing that happens on UK TV. Jonathan Creek had three episodes between 2005 and 2013. Red Dwarf came back after ten years then had four seasons spread over ten years. That’s awful though, brits should change that
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Sep 12, 2020 15:45
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Mini reeses pieces are better than mini m&ms.
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Sep 12, 2020 15:52
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v8 is pretty good once you get over the fact that its basically just cold drinkable soup
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CYBEReris posted:Caesars are pretty good once you get over the fact that its basically just cold drinkable alcoholic soup
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The only value regular M&Ms have is in baking. As a standalone candy, there's no point to them. Move regular M&Ms to the baking aisle and allow Peanut M&Ms to take their place as the default M&M.
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Solice Kirsk posted:The human side in Radiata Stories is waaaaaay better than the non-humans side. 
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Gripweed posted:The only value regular M&Ms have is in baking. As a standalone candy, there's no point to them. Move regular M&Ms to the baking aisle and allow Peanut M&Ms to take their place as the default M&M. Wrong. Peanut Butter M&Ms are the superior M&M.
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Blue Moonlight posted:Wrong. Peanut Butter M&Ms are the superior M&M. Did I say peanut M&Ms are the best M&Ms? No I loving didn't. I said they should be the default M&M. Which they should. They have M&M seniority over later M&M variants.
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they definitely are the best though has anyone tried the brownie ones?
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Gripweed posted:Did I say peanut M&Ms are the best M&Ms? No I loving didn't. I said they should be the default M&M. Which they should. They have M&M seniority over later M&M variants.  Fair enough.
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Sep 12, 2020 18:05
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They have Nutella ones now and they’re good, but peanut butter is the king for sure.
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Pretzel is the best
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Oh boy, here comes the derail about how North Americans don’t know REAL chocolate.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Pretzel is the best good pretzel ones are very good but there are at least a couple of extremely gross duds in each pack
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The caramel in the caramel M&Ms is too firm. I'd bet that it's to make them tougher so you don't end up finding broken ones in the bag and caramel smeared everywhere, but it makes for a disappointing candy.
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raisin bread pairs best with savory stuff, not sweet things. raisin bread is great if you put some serrano ham and good butter on it, or steak tartare with mustard
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The Mighty Moltres posted:Oh boy, here comes the derail about how North Americans don’t know REAL chocolate. Europe doesn’t have coffee crisp QED
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Shibawanko posted:raisin bread pairs best with savory stuff, not sweet things. raisin bread is great if you put some serrano ham and good butter on it, or steak tartare with mustard
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Tiggum posted:Sweet stuff generally works best as contrast to savoury rather than in all-sweet foods. Fruit, in particular, really elevates a sandwich to a whole new level. Ham and cheese? Fine. Whatever. Ham, cheese and strawberries? Amazing. Banana, peanut-butter and honey? It's OK. Banana, peanut-butter and bacon? Now that's a sandwich. yeah exactly, i generally cant really stand stuff thats purely sweet, but i love the fruit-meat combo. one of the best pizza toppings ive ever tried was spiced meat with dates. another one is korean yukhoe with sliced pear
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The AFP thread on SA has taught me that a ton of people have a weird hang up about combining sweet with anything other than more sweet and I don’t get it
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Gripweed posted:I'm pretty sure I mentioned earlier that PS3 level graphics were more than good enough, there's no real reason to invest resources into making games look better than the best looking PS3 games. I used to believe this after playing games like Drake's and thinking "why would I ever need/want better graphics". But then I watched high-spec playing of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. There is a whole new world of gaming to discover when we get to near eye-sight level graphics with real world accuracy.
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Gripweed posted:The only value regular M&Ms have is in baking. M&M cookies > chocolate chip cookies. quote:As a standalone candy, there's no point to them. Move regular M&Ms to the baking aisle and allow Peanut M&Ms to take their place as the default M&M. I agree. Anyway, my unpopular opinion for the day is that I think it would be stupid if Rollins and Carisi got together on SVU but I think it would have been awesome if she had homewrecked Amaro.
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Tiggum posted:Banana, peanut-butter and bacon? Now that's a sandwich. Grilled banana, peanut-butter and bacon.
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