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Mr.Radar posted:Linkara looks at one of Frank Miller's most influential works, The Dark Knight Returns, from before he went completely off the rails with racism and misogyny: See, I never took Gordon killing that kid as something we were supposed to be cheerful about. The coloring and presentation depicted Gordon as a weary old man in a world without hope. He had done this poo poo so long that he didn't even feel the horror of what he did. He was numb to the pain of it all which is really the most tragic of evils. And that is the entire atmosphere of TDKR for me. Batman is not right, he's he's not a hero, he's just (futilely) fighting chaos. He's a traumatized old man who was drinking himself to death and then traded in drink for violence by returning to be Batman. He tried to help Harvey and himself but he could help neither because there is no help for the world of The Dark Knight Returns. I really recommend this book Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism which has a quote describing Miller's attitude going into TDKR: "As Miller’s career was taking off, the everyday violence in Manhattan at the time was taking its toll. “New York is no longer fit for human habitation,” Miller told one friend. After enduring three robberies in the course of a month, he and [the colorist and his then-girlfriend Lynn] Varley decided to escape to LA. While she went out west to search for a home, he stayed behind to set up more work to get them out of debt. He had a check in his pocket when, once again, someone tried to rob him. “Frank just went berserk on the guy,” Varley says. “He didn’t hit him or anything, he just went so berserk the guy backed off and ran away. We were on edge."26 Such anger floats to the surface of his work with a bang in 1986, the year I graduated from high school, with not one but two smash-hit stories about characters that didn’t belong to him: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Miller’s most lauded Daredevil story, Daredevil: Born Again, his 1986 return to the Daredevil series, penciled by David Mazzucchelli. Overall though, Linkara was a lot softer on the book than I expected. I agree with the rest of his sentiments, Too many people have a singular idea on what a superhero SHOULD be and that's bullshit. Batman in particular has a diversity of interpretations - is he the noble knight who is just too pure to kill, or is he a man one inch away from becoming The Joker and if he crossed that line of killing he'd become everything he hates? Is he a brooding loner or the heart of the Bat Family? Is there hope or no hope? Depending on the writing quality, any one of these depictions can be great.
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Apr 29, 2021 13:07
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Pants Donkey posted:Wizards has been super overt about grabbing money lately. They released a set of lands with no art for $29.99. That is ONE of each (5) land. And it’s a limited time sale cuz fomo! Man, that makes Riot and Legends of Runeterra look amazing by comparison. The worst thing Runeterra does monetary-wise is those season pass tracks where if you do so many daily things you get more cosmetic stuff. Obviously Riot has their own problems but when it comes to online CCGs I think they have it.
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Apr 29, 2021 13:23
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They did just recently send some massive clown to threaten and strongarm a fan project out of business though!Endorph posted:https://twitter.com/Toadsanime/status/1387407365268443141 https://twitter.com/David_B_L84/status/1387411398033133571
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Apr 29, 2021 13:39
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Not even a fangame, just a private server that old versions of the client could connect to - versions freely downloadable from Riot themselves.
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Apr 29, 2021 13:40
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Yardbomb posted:They did just recently send some massive clown to threaten and strongarm a fan project out of business though! Oh, sure. Riot is the worst in nearly all respects. Didn't somebody awful do like a lion's share of Runeterra art?
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Apr 29, 2021 14:47
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Did Riot ever fix their overtly sexist bro culture?
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Apr 29, 2021 15:50
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Riot's the one that had the manager guy who would fart on people to assert dominance right
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Apr 29, 2021 15:52
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yoko kanno can borrow whatever she wants, scoring the cowboy bebop movie gave her a lot of leeway with me
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Apr 29, 2021 15:58
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Did Riot ever fix their overtly sexist bro culture?
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Apr 29, 2021 15:58
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Did Riot ever fix their overtly sexist bro culture? Their response was like, a two month suspension or some poo poo of the insanely abusive guy, who last I looked was like COO, so they fixed literally nothing and probably have only gotten worse.
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Apr 29, 2021 16:13
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It wasn't even a year ago it was revealed that one League character was based upon a dev's ex he was stalking.
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Apr 29, 2021 16:21
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Violen posted:ive watched a veritable litany of content creators i like give a platform to bill gates recently and its really depressing lol think im gonna just start emptyquoting this every time it happens sort of like an onion routine but unfunny
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Apr 29, 2021 16:50
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anyone in particular this time?
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Apr 29, 2021 17:12
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michael 'vsauce' stevens
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Apr 29, 2021 17:16
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it's very irresponsible for people with as much influence and reach as youtube video uploaders to give a platform to someone like Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft, with an estimated net worth of $131,000,000,000.00. it's time we recognized that deplatforming works, and without the aid and comfort given to the enemy by these youtube channels, Bill Gates would not be able to spread his malicious lies about Linux to the impressionable youth of today.
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Apr 29, 2021 17:29
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Bill Gates sucks a lot and anyone who is praising him whether they're being paid for it or not deserves flak for it.
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Apr 29, 2021 17:37
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Chris Davis on Theme Park Smulators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfyc-bkWGWA
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Apr 29, 2021 17:46
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Bonaventure posted:it's very irresponsible for people with as much influence and reach as youtube video uploaders to give a platform to someone like Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft, with an estimated net worth of $131,000,000,000.00. I know you're joking but this is less "people want to censor one of the world's most well known tech and economy figures" and more "He is trying to clear the poo poo out of his reputation after an article detailing him blocking the vaccine patent releases, something that both the US and EU had put under debate and is right now strangling most of the 3rd world, including both Brazil and India and said content creators were too happy to help him do this on softball avenues where he can dismiss, let's say , him forcing Oxford to not release the rights and schematics to the Astrazenaca shot to the public domain, which could have greatly helped stiffen the tides of the roni to ravage thru such territories, even with people like Modi and Bolso at the helm of such regions, as conspiracy theories and a chunk of those creators could have been a bit wiser about whenever or not to help him on this" ... I would love to have a funny or neat video to show here but nearly every video I could put here has either trailers or teasers on it. Kunster fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Apr 29, 2021 |
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Apr 29, 2021 18:14
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New Thew! Kingdom Ractonite! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch3ctm8pWgs&ab_channel=ThewAdams
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Apr 29, 2021 18:32
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Bonaventure posted:it's very irresponsible for people with as much influence and reach as youtube video uploaders to give a platform to someone like Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft, with an estimated net worth of $131,000,000,000.00. so you are just gonna lie about why Gates sucks to make your point or what is going on here
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Apr 29, 2021 18:37
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Goa Tse-tung posted:what is going on here i found the use of the word "platforming" in relation to multibillionaire Bill Gates very funny, and made a joke on SomethingAwful.com
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Apr 29, 2021 18:44
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At least Bill Gates didn't make Balan Wonderworld that would be terrible Anyway here's Wha Happun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuRl_AOe57w
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Apr 29, 2021 18:59
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Violet_Sky posted:At least Bill Gates didn't make Balan Wonderworld that would be terrible This game is the poster child for "good idea, bad execution." For starters, why'd they put the guy on the cover art and you don't even play as him?
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Apr 29, 2021 19:44
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:This game is the poster child for "good idea, bad execution." For starters, why'd they put the guy on the cover art and you don't even play as him? lots of games are like that to some degree. especially kids stuff. yeah the idea of the game is nice. "lets make a super easy platformer for kids and their parents" but then they did it in the worst way possible.
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Apr 29, 2021 20:00
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yeah its absolutely appaling to see a potential genocide enacted upon the third world - almost as apalling as a bat credit card! Anyway here's doug walkers review of steven universe part 3
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Apr 29, 2021 20:12
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Dongicus posted:Anyway here's doug walkers review of steven universe part 3 i hate that guy edit: doug walker, not steven universe
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Apr 29, 2021 20:18
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Bonaventure posted:it's very irresponsible for people with as much influence and reach as youtube video uploaders to give a platform to someone like Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft, with an estimated net worth of $131,000,000,000.00. it's not that somehow some rear end in a top hat with a youtube channel is genuinely somehow signal boosting the guy who basically straight up runs the pharma commodities market behind the scenes through sheer momentum and snowball effect of his money, it's more that gates is a eugenics loving racist sack of poo poo who nobody should listen to unless the topic is 'how to create a monopoly'.
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Apr 29, 2021 20:23
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WabG3H-QnFwquote:Part 1; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PALQhiCo6hg quote:part2;
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Apr 29, 2021 20:23
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Qwezz posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WabG3H-QnFw i assumed it was because he probably saw a gently caress ton of people die plus almost died himself and basically saw the outer limits. pretty sure all that poo poo combined would probably give you some kind of PTSD.
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Apr 29, 2021 20:40
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even if you don't slide in the pure comic stuff like Tony's alcoholism and all in the MCU he watched tons of people, both friends and random bystanders, die often due to his own actions and himself almost died multiple times. Pointing out that he probably has PTSD is not something you need a pro shrink and two youtube videos to do. if you're gonna frame it as 'why does this only come up a few times' the answer is 'the mcu is not a series where they're writing actual human psychology', but I guess that'd damage the thesis of 'this is proof of the depth and beauty of the mcu' sexpig by night fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Apr 29, 2021 |
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Apr 29, 2021 20:43
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come watch my five part series where I interview multiple heads of psychiatric study at medical clinics to ask if Spider-Man has guilt issues.
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Apr 29, 2021 20:43
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Starting to watch Elfen lied. There's no way I can accept this girl as some sort of cheeky anime schoolgirl type. The way she casually, almost gleefully toyed with and killed all those people was gross as hell. She didn't make some mad dash for freedom, she took her time and played with her victims.
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Apr 29, 2021 20:44
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Don't worry, it gets worse.
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Apr 29, 2021 20:46
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Katt posted:Starting to watch Elfen lied. don't
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Apr 29, 2021 20:47
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Katt posted:Starting to watch Elfen lied. Play this theme while you watch the show, it'll help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yGGNohmAT0
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Apr 29, 2021 20:50
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https://twitter.com/Q_Review/status/1387855362104119305
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Apr 29, 2021 20:57
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Got to the scene where the clumsy girl stumbles over to the "prisoner" and I was like "Oh yeah I see where this is going. They escape together in some wacky way and the clumsy girl teaches the prisoner about life in the city or something like that as they build up a friendship. Nope.
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Apr 29, 2021 20:59
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Katt posted:Starting to watch Elfen lied. I liked elfen lied when I was 12 but watching it again later I realized it was kinda poo poo. That describes most of lynn okamoto's works though.
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Apr 29, 2021 21:00
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Katt posted:Starting to watch Elfen lied. being a filthy casual anime fan in my teens and not knowing what actually was out there until I first went to college and met other anime fans Elfen Lied was one of the first things I saw that wasn't Gundam or DBZ. It's not good at all but in the early 2000s when you're thinking anime is just cooler versions of American cartoons it was a pretty amazing experience.
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Apr 29, 2021 21:07
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New Cosmonaut Variety Hour! Reviewing my old reviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-gCq1Gd42M
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Apr 29, 2021 21:08
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