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3D Megadoodoo posted:Sorry, MISTER Doctor Frankenstein. 
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kdrudy posted:I assumed it was going to be about Silent Hill. Youngest person to make the speedrun leaderboard?
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poo poo, is The Expanse doing TNG-style time travel episodes where they visit the 1800s now
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He also wrote some of the most trans rights scifi I've ever read. It's basically trans…cendent. I loved the interview where he was asked whether he'd like to live in the Culture, seeing how his books are all about the ultraviolence at its edges, and he was downright incredulous. Hell yes Banks would love to live there.
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Antigravitas posted:He also wrote some of the most trans rights scifi I've ever read. It's basically trans…cendent. Yeah that's a good way of putting it. Culture as whole is downright utopian to the point you can't get anything interesting out of it without that bleeding edge intersectionality with religious bigotry or cultural intolerance from a whole big group. For the trans reader it's just a default that you have as much value as every other person up to and including hijacking a ship to just go gallivanting out in the world. You just have to convince the ship it's a good idea.
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I like the The Culture books, but I don't like how the baddies are always monstrously evil to the point of being cartoonish. Eg in one book Special Circumstances is messing with some nasty, authoritarian, bigoted empire (as usual), way late in the book it also surfaces that the nasty empire have a secret brutal snuff film tv channel for the elites to enjoy. Like, we get it, Banks, they're not nice people, and SC is justified in interfering. You don't have to beat us over the head with it by throwing in some unnecessary, disturbing torture porn. I swear he does this at least four separate times.
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Hyperlynx posted:I like the The Culture books, but I don't like how the baddies are always monstrously evil to the point of being cartoonish. Eg in one book Special Circumstances is messing with some nasty, authoritarian, bigoted empire (as usual), way late in the book it also surfaces that the nasty empire have a secret brutal snuff film tv channel for the elites to enjoy. https://twitter.com/pixelatedboat/status/949100087350710272?s=20 I know its not real
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I still try to convince people it's real.
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I mean, I was pretty ready to believe it was up until the bit with him talking to the TV and watching it 17 hours straight. Right up to and including him wanting a channel that's just gorillas but not that boring documentary poo poo, just them fighting? Yeah. I bought that.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, I would watch "The Gorilla Channel."
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Honestly it just made me want a real gorilla channel. That'd be some awesome background TV to have on
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Honestly it just made me want a real gorilla channel. That'd be some awesome background TV to have on Seaworld used to have a live Penguin Cam online from their enclosure, and it was great background TV to see a bunch of rad penguins just doing penguin stuff.
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Nov 11, 2020 22:46
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I'd believe it up until the part where he praises the gorillas. Would've been more realistic if he told the gorillas he would have done a much more tremendous job of fighting the other apes.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I've said it before and I'll say it again, I would watch "The Gorilla Channel." Gorillas hum little songs while they eat. drat right I'd watch The Gorilla Channel.
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Nov 11, 2020 22:47
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Yeah man sounds pretty far fetched
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Solice Kirsk posted:I've said it before and I'll say it again, I would watch "The Gorilla Channel." I would watch it if Tromp gets thrown into the gorilla enclosure. Although on second thought, that might be cruelty to animals. gare au gori-i-i-i-lle
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Scratch Monkey posted:Yeah man sounds pretty far fetched Yeah I can't at all imagine where he would get that idea from.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I've said it before and I'll say it again, I would watch "The Gorilla Channel." Vice did basically what the fake book said, and it was pretty great. Not just fighting though. I've put it on a few times in meeting rooms when I was making sure the AV stuff worked. https://www.pscp.tv/w/1DXxyEeArRExM
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Memento posted:Vice did basically what the fake book said, and it was pretty great. Not just fighting though. I've put it on a few times in meeting rooms when I was making sure the AV stuff worked. I just checked this for a minute and was surprised that there were a fair number of people watching.
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Zopotantor posted:I would watch it if Tromp gets thrown into the gorilla enclosure. Although on second thought, that might be cruelty to animals. Harambe II: Orange Boogaloo
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Honestly it just made me want a real gorilla channel. That'd be some awesome background TV to have on PlutoTV actually made a Gorilla Channel for a brief, glorious month or two after that came out.
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Cyrano4747 posted:I mean, I was pretty ready to believe it was up until the bit with him talking to the TV and watching it 17 hours straight. The only unbelievable part is that we know he takes breaks to watch Fox and tweet like a dumbass at regular intervals
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Baba Yaga Fanboy posted:I'd believe it up until the part where he praises the gorillas. Would've been more realistic if he told the gorillas he would have done a much more tremendous job of fighting the other apes. Nah, it falls apart because he'd never root for something where the best is only silver. It's got to be gold to be a winner! ...Hang on, could that be why he tans himself an incandescent orange, rather than trying to look merely tanned?... 
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Nah, it falls apart because he'd never root for something where the best is only silver. It's got to be gold to be a winner! trump watched 300 once and though xerxes was the hero
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TK-42-1 posted:trump watched 300 once and though xerxes was the hero I bet all the CHUDs watched 300 until they jizzed themselves to sleep over the GLORIOUS MASCULINITY
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Violet_Sky posted:I bet all the CHUDs watched 300 until they jizzed themselves to sleep over the GLORIOUS MASCULINITY On a similar vibe. I once had an argument with a bloke I used to work about Top Gun. He argued that the film where there is an extended sequence of shirtless sweaty men being caressed by the camera whilst playing volleyball, and then bitchily flirting in the locker rooms afterwards had no homo-erotic content.
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Nov 12, 2020 03:11
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TK-42-1 posted:trump watched 300 once and though xerxes was the hero Lacodemonian slavery in the helot system was arguably more cruel than the system of labor in Persia, the Persian conquerors have historically been more liberal than others of the Greco-Roman tradition amongst other empires. Consider Cyrus the Great who freed the Hebrews from the Babylonian Captivity. This same Cyrus the great wouldn't defile conquered places of worship but would instead take their idols to the capital to sit amongst the whole Persian Pantheon.
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BasicLich posted:Lacodemonian slavery in the helot system was arguably more cruel than the system of labor in Persia, Laco demons sound like an enemy in Doom.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Laco demons sound like an enemy in Doom. "demon" is an antiplurality slur adopted by the Roman catholic church to keep the people of Greece from their right to self-determination, likewise "Satan" (from the hebrew-arabic 'shaitan') and the old-english and german "Devil" (dēofol and teufel) all of these concepts represent a periphery population that have historically been oppressed by the elites not only in their own nations but by a distant empire
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BasicLich posted:likewise "Satan" (from the hebrew-arabic 'shaitan') I don't know about the rest, but this is bollocks. And I don't know what "Hebrew-Arabic" is. It's from Hebrew directly, שָּׂטָן, meaning "adversary" Making Satan into one Big Bad instead of just a Hebrew word for "enemy" isn't robbing anyone of self-determination.
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The Persians were Zoroastrians and slavery is seen as a big sinful no no in that religion and the empire had a whole bunch of restrictions on it while the Greeks were basically slavery central. The only reason the Spartans were able to have a warrior society was because all the actual work was done by a huge underclass of slaves, called Helots, of which there were probably around a thousand of at Thermopylae. Unrelated:  Furthermore 
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The idea that we look at Greek philosophy as as source for a "Western" ideological tradition that values freedom is loving laughable when you learn that a) the whole society of Athens and Sparta et al was run on a massive slave economy and b) women lived in purdah and had no role in public life and no agency in their affairs.
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Nov 12, 2020 09:21
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but democracy
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Kenning posted:The idea that we look at Greek philosophy as as source for a "Western" ideological tradition that values freedom is loving laughable when you learn that a) the whole society of Athens and Sparta et al was run on a massive slave economy and b) women lived in purdah and had no role in public life and no agency in their affairs. the western traditions of freedom and democracy have always only applied to wealthy men and really boil down to "i have money, why does the king still get to tell me what to do, this is bullshit"
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Kenning posted:The idea that we look at Greek philosophy as as source for a "Western" ideological tradition that values freedom is loving laughable when you learn that a) the whole society of Athens and Sparta et al was run on a massive slave economy and b) women lived in purdah and had no role in public life and no agency in their affairs. The faucet in my kitchen is a source* for drinking water. It is not drinking water. *) PROVE ME WRONG!
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Democracy* *Some restrictions may apply
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Terry Pratchett posted:Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote. Edit: on reflection, I'm not sure why I posted this, so here is a funny picture I took. 
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Beachcomber posted:Edit: on reflection, I'm not sure why I posted this, so here is a funny picture I took. Good ol’ Fuckstreet
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