Pener Kropoopkin posted:Lord Byron hated the English aristocracy, preferred to live in Venice, and became a hero of Greece. Sheridan Le Fanu is Irish. I love scoring points on English people as much as the next man of Hibernian descent, but you are really picking the wrong targets. A racist Irishman? Now I've heard of everything!
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lollontee posted:right, but thats not really a cultural study. like yeah im sure the concept of a vengeful undead was used in a lot of contexts over the course of the history of folk tales and theatre, but that doesn't really prove anything against the argument The argument was “Vampires were a way for the common people to insult the aristocracy” I went and showed how Vampires being aristocracy didn’t come until the 1800’s and even then were written by upper class dudes. That’s a pretty good proof against the argument.
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Yeah an Irish author who agitated for famine relief, writing about an English aristocrat being preyed upon by an eastern european aristocrat is racism, not a poetic irony. You figured it out.
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galagazombie posted:The argument was “Vampires were a way for the common people to insult the aristocracy” I went and showed how Vampires being aristocracy didn’t come until the 1800’s and even then were written by upper class dudes. That’s a pretty good proof against the argument. ...in the english public literature of the 19th century which is... wtf dude?
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May 19, 2021 15:10
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thats not a culture man. english literature before 20th century is like a miniscule part of anything you could call a cultural sphere
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May 19, 2021 15:11
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You can just enjoy vampire stories, you don't have to convince yourself they're Marx-approved.
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May 19, 2021 15:19
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i prefer pirateous vampires
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May 19, 2021 15:23
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Castlevania's biggest sin was the erasure of Grant DaNasty.
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May 19, 2021 15:29
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Gripweed posted:You can just enjoy vampire stories, you don't have to convince yourself they're Marx-approved. the aristocracy as a parasite class is a literal liberal critique tho
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May 19, 2021 15:32
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I thought all vampires were buff Aztec supermodels
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May 19, 2021 15:43
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Feldegast42 posted:I thought all vampires were buff Aztec supermodels The Pillarmen fed on vampires you absolute moron.
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May 19, 2021 15:45
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they're supervampires. come on
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May 19, 2021 15:46
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when you become a vampire you permanently give up your ability to use hamon or to even be outside during the day and it doesn't even improve your stand abilities in any way. It's a straight downgrade...
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May 19, 2021 15:46
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Kars could bud off individual parts of himself and control them remotely. Eventually he could turn himself into a cloud of prions and wreck any Joestar's proteins stand or not.
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May 19, 2021 15:48
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all Enigma would have to do is watch Kars get surprised, make a note of it, and then stuff him into a piece of paper and put him in a shredder.
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May 19, 2021 15:50
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Casey Finnigan posted:when you become a vampire you permanently give up your ability to use hamon or to even be outside during the day and it doesn't even improve your stand abilities in any way. It's a straight downgrade... DIO could still have done the eye laser thing and the flash freeze thing and could probably bend steel girders without a Stand and just straight up chose not to because he's a dingus
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May 19, 2021 15:50
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I get the reference but I still lol that the Ultimate Lifeform's name is Kars When I ascend into Godhood I will take the holiest of names, Ford Focus
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May 19, 2021 15:51
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grate deceiver posted:drat, Odd Taxi is insanely good The taxi...is odd.
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grieving for Gandalf posted:DIO could still have done the eye laser thing and the flash freeze thing and could probably bend steel girders without a Stand and just straight up chose not to because he's a dingus I think Dio could hold his time stop ability for longer than Jotaro because he was a vampire. Does that actually outweigh the fact that Dio would have been instakilled by someone whose stand power was just to give off a bunch of UV light or to hold him in place until sunrise? dunno
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Casey Finnigan posted:I think Dio could hold his time stop ability for longer than Jotaro because he was a vampire. I think it's fair to say that there are a lot of abilities that could kill DIO without overwhelming force but those will kill regular people too. being a superhuman monster doesn't hurt his chances though (unless it's just The Sun)
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May 19, 2021 16:09
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Where the gently caress is the third volume of Hajime no Ippo, gdi, it's supposed to have Champion Road and the OVA on it too Let me give you my loving money already Discotek, i want you fuckers to get the rest of the series too Edit: looking at my only anime purchases in my office and I spot the Fist of the North Star SDBD collection and I'm forever sad that the whole thing never got a proper dub or Adult Swim/other mainstream airing beyond that weird poo poo in the 90s that stopped at precisely the moment the series gets Real Good
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May 19, 2021 16:13
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Casey Finnigan posted:all Enigma would have to do is watch Kars get surprised, make a note of it, and then stuff him into a piece of paper and put him in a shredder. oh sure if you can just make up any stand power then of course he'd lose
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May 19, 2021 17:20
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:oh sure if you can just make up any stand power then of course he'd lose gold experience requiem could simply win and kill kars forever, somehow, in an unclear way
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May 19, 2021 17:25
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Casey Finnigan posted:gold experience requiem could simply win and kill kars forever, somehow, in an unclear way kars is already lost to an immortality of reliving his final moments so GRE already won
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May 19, 2021 17:27
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It’s hilarious that one of DIO’s random henchmen had the power to just summon Vampire killing sunlight at will.
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May 19, 2021 19:07
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Gripweed posted:A racist Irishman? Now I've heard of everything! Were the Irish capable of being racist in the 19th century? I don't think they were even allowed to be cops at that point.
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May 19, 2021 19:37
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Can't remember who said "Only an Irishman would write a book where a Swede, a Texan and a Woman save Englnd".Retromancer posted:Castlevania's biggest sin was the erasure of Grant DaNasty. Last season had Greta Danesti.
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May 19, 2021 21:47
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lollontee posted:thats not a culture man. english literature before 20th century is like a miniscule part of anything you could call a cultural sphere lol wtf is this poo poo dude if you want to say you know poo poo all about this there are less embarrassing ways fam
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May 20, 2021 01:18
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quote:In his entry for "Vampires" in the Dictionnaire philosophique (1764), Voltaire notices how the mid-18th century coincided with the decline of the folkloric belief in the existence of vampires but that now "there were stock-jobbers, brokers, and men of business, who sucked the blood of the people in broad daylight; but they were not dead, though corrupted. These true suckers lived not in cemeteries, but in very agreeable palaces".[148]
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May 20, 2021 01:42
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My only desire for the Castlevania series is that Soma Cruz shows up and just loving domes some poor merman.
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May 20, 2021 01:47
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Author of Berserk passed away. https://twitter.com/berserk_project/status/1395212918040391680
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May 20, 2021 04:21
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it really is the end of an era
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May 20, 2021 04:27
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gently caress, man. just. goddammit.
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May 20, 2021 04:27
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RIP to a legend 
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May 20, 2021 05:25
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it's so sad that he died full of regret, unable to finish,... thje latest idolmaster
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May 20, 2021 05:31
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MonsieurChoc posted:I forgive the dumb Death dialogue because it's Malcolm McDowell. I liked scumbag Death personally, but I'll admit it was probably Malcolm McDowell that made it work.
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May 20, 2021 05:44
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Augus posted:RIP to a legend
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May 20, 2021 05:58
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how many mangaka or animators get hit by heart disease in their 40s-50s? seems like a lot.
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May 20, 2021 06:04
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Dr. Killjoy posted:how many mangaka or animators get hit by heart disease in their 40s-50s? seems like a lot. Chronic sleep deprivation and smoking are contributors to heart disease, and those folks have obscene schedules and often smoke like chimneys
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Lostconfused posted:Author of Berserk passed away. gently caress.
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