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Antimemetics are one of those things I find hard to follow a lot. Still easier than the ones written by phd physics people though. The author is good though, I particularly liked this wikipedia article from the future they wrote
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SCP certainly gained a few more readers after the release of the game Control.
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Jun 29, 2021 18:43
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I find antiemetics pretty easy to swallow tbh
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Jun 29, 2021 18:53
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I love SCP. Have written a few stories that I think would be good SCP topics, but never submitted them.
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Jun 29, 2021 18:56
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It'll be the latter and it'll be Declan Rice, I just have a feeling in my bones. Happy to be wrong, not happy that Declan looked like he was carrying an injury, I still remember what England did to Dean Ashton.
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Jun 29, 2021 18:57
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Tsietisin posted:SCP certainly gained a few more readers after the release of the game Control. Yeah the game is essentially SCP just with a AAA budget and Alan Wake Tie in.
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Jun 29, 2021 18:59
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Barry Foster posted:I find antisemitism pretty easy to swallow tbh Typical lefty.
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Jun 29, 2021 18:59
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happyhippy posted:I love SCP. You are a fool to admit this, because I will now insist you post them here, and will hound you until you do or all earthly things come to an end
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Jun 29, 2021 19:02
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Typical lefty. You got me. Just this morning I had antisemitism on toast Yes, Norma, on leavened bread, I'll have you know thank you very much
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Jun 29, 2021 19:03
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Worlds End is the worst of the three, but that's because despite it's bodysnatchers premise, it's the most down to earth and realistically tragic of them all, in a way that isn't as funny as in Shaun of the Dead. So it's not as good a comedy. World's End had the problem that the cliche part and the normal part are neither universal nor clearly enough linked, and so it targets the characters instead, and it doesn't do it in a fun way like Fuzz or Shawn did. It goes hard right off the bat portraying Gary as a loser stuck in the past and only goes on from there. Whereas Shawn showed him resolve his problems and end the movie happy, Gary is kind of... completely unresolved. He gets what he wants and not in an ironic way the film seems to be building to. Andy returns to alcoholism and it's portrayed as a good thing. I feel like the film would have landed better if it'd started off with him cool and the reveal at the cricket club is that he's unemployed and living with his mum, instead of him starting that way and then trying to win sympathy later by revealling that he tried to kill himself. By that point I feel like they've completely mixed up if the point is that the gang should stay together (with Gary's reveal implied to be the consequence of his friends leaving), or grow up and split off (the criticism of Gary). And whereas Shawn ends with that nerd/grownup tension resolved by reaching a balance between the two, World's End just doesn't ever resolve it. I feel like it's painfully close to the demographic most likely to be watching - people who were lads in the 90s and I really don't think a lot of them liked being targetted like that. I don't mean that to say the audience was oversensitive, I think it's just a natural thing about the way the comedy is framed. Shawn and Fuzz had the feeling of being in on the joke, whereas the framing in World's End made it feel like the various aspects that the audience is most likely to see themselves in are the butt of the joke. Also suicide attempts really muddy the water of 'am I supposed to find this bit funny.' *No such thing
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Jun 29, 2021 19:03
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https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/1409934256294567936
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Jun 29, 2021 19:03
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Have we lost yet? e: Yay, I jinxed the loss. Congrats! 
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Jun 29, 2021 19:06
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I've been making a list of all posters who did sufficiently Get behind our team today and you're all off to re-education camps.
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Jun 29, 2021 19:07
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Knowing about Simon Pegg's alcoholism and recovery it's hard to read The World's End as anything except a very personal and pretty uncomfortable work of self-therapy and self-criticism. I remember him saying in an interview how unsure he was about all the work he'd put out to date, wondering if just relentlessly indulging his own inner manchild and the inner manchildren of his audience was the right thing to do or if his whole project had simply been an exercise in arrested development. It feels like a direct repudiation of the preceding films. I think it's universally agreed it doesn't really make for a very fun or funny film, but I have to give him credit for his honesty and for trying.
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Jun 29, 2021 19:09
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serious gaylord posted:I've been making a list of all posters who did sufficiently Get behind our team today and you're all off to re-education camps. Arrested and thrown in jail? For not saying that you're English. Tory Britain in a nutshell.
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Jun 29, 2021 19:10
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therattle posted:I'd be extremely surprised if his agent wasn't sent the script, series bible, character outlines etc before he committed. (I work in film and to a lesser degree TV, so I know a bit about this). It is also very unlikely that someone signed on without knowing what the role was for any actor playing any kind of major or significant supporting role in a TV show, regardless of their experience.
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Jun 29, 2021 19:13
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Barry Foster posted:You got me. Just this morning I had antisemitism on toast I still think that black pudding sounds basically like something that would be invented by a guy on twitter specifically trying to annoy muslims and jews. "I actually like to eat the blood, I save it all up and then mix with with cereal and then fry it in a sausage, what are you going to do about that liberals???"
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Jun 29, 2021 19:16
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The best SCPs are usually the ones that are just plain weird, like the Infinite IKEA Dimension or the Bridge that makes you loving hate Carthage. (Which is the best overall SCP) The best creepy ones imo are the Red Sea Object and the Daeva book. The best other ones are the alien intelligence who ended up making a Tumblr, becoming a Homestuck, and coming out as trans, and the one that generates Siskel & Ebert reviews of whatever you put in the DVD player (even if it's like, Mass Effect).
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Jun 29, 2021 19:17
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OwlFancier posted:I still think that black pudding sounds basically like something that would be invented by a guy on twitter specifically trying to annoy muslims and jews. 
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Jun 29, 2021 19:23
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Ms Adequate posted:The best creepy ones imo are the Red Sea Object and the Daeva book. Did you read the recent 6000 competition entry where it turns out the book is actually all made up by some 18th century brit "historian" who basically made it all up and then cast a spell to make it real and the actual daevite successor state is just kazakhstan https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/6000contestaisstorm It's pretty great.
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Jun 29, 2021 19:24
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I'm glad that the chuds didn't try to appropriate black pudding, they don't deserve it.Ms Adequate posted:the Bridge that makes you loving hate Carthage.
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Jun 29, 2021 19:26
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Go to the mail website (dont) and you have to scroll down for a few seconds to get past how the royals just won us a football match.
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Jun 29, 2021 19:28
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Black pudding is nice. 
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Jun 29, 2021 19:35
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stev posted:Black pudding is nice. 
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Jun 29, 2021 19:39
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learnincurve posted:tory propaganda for children.
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Jun 29, 2021 19:41
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stev posted:Black pudding is nice. shop bought black pudding is pretty cardboard-like and not particularly appetizing but real proper Stornoway black pudding is on a different level
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Jun 29, 2021 19:51
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It's always worth checking out local independent butchers and trying their black pudding offerings.
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Jun 29, 2021 19:55
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A bit shook up that now I need to check all the children's cartoons to see if people i hold in any regard whatsoever are actually smuggling out their milkshake evil under the radar.
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Jun 29, 2021 20:20
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sebzilla posted:
Thats such A limited hang out film. Haha, the CIA spent millions of dollars having men try to kill goats with mind bullets, how kookie! Ignore the mental patients they dosed with LSD for months at a time and the people they tortured to try and mind control them.
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Jun 29, 2021 20:31
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:You are a fool to admit this, because I will now insist you post them here, and will hound you until you do or all earthly things come to an end gently caress no, not until they are 'done' at least. I keep adding and changing parts, not happy with them.
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Jun 29, 2021 20:35
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Gonzo McFee posted:Thats such A limited hang out film. Haha, the CIA spent millions of dollars having men try to kill goats with mind bullets, how kookie! The book it's based on does actually go a bit more into MKULTRA and spends a lot of time drawing a connection and parallel between the First Earth Battalion, later US Army psyops, and particularly the torture methods used at black sites.
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Jun 29, 2021 20:38
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Did England take the knee before the match? If so are there any implosions on right twitter?
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Jun 29, 2021 20:40
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Gonzo McFee posted:Thats such A limited hang out film. Haha, the CIA spent millions of dollars having men try to kill goats with mind bullets, how kookie! I think the film you're proposing would be considerably more limited as a hang out film. If that's what a hang out film is.
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Jun 29, 2021 20:42
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The book it's based on does actually go a bit more into MKULTRA and spends a lot of time drawing a connection and parallel between the First Earth Battalion, later US Army psyops, and particularly the torture methods used at black sites. The book is awesome and one of the wackiest things I've ever read (I would love to know if the US DoD was actually that serious about investigating paranormal poo poo), I was very disappointed by the film.
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Jun 29, 2021 20:54
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keep punching joe posted:Stewart Lee (the liberal melt) does a good bit on that, i think it's a comedy vehicle episode. He's happy to do controversial/edgy material in a club because the audience in his head are all intellectual liberal Londoners who are in on the joke. Once it's on DVD or broadcast, any horrible prick can be laughing along. It risks falling into the Al Murray Pub Landlord trap where the bulk of the audience don't get that the performer is supposed to be satirising a typical English middle aged bigot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_JCBmY9NGM
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Jun 29, 2021 21:21
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I think the film you're proposing would be considerably more limited as a hang out film. If that's what a hang out film is. "Limited hang out" is a term the online left learned from the conspiracist scene who in turn (claim to have) learned it from US intelligence. The idea is that if people are getting too close to the truth (either through actual investigation or your own security cockups) you reveal sufficient amounts of the truth that people believe that they have found the whole of the truth, allowing you to protect the biggest secrets. It is a term that, as far as I can tell, has not been accurately used on the internet this millennium. It's bad enough when they use it for things that are in fact smoke screens or disinformation - e.g. the US UFO file stuff which is much more about securing even more MIC money rather than hiding the Pleidian takeover of Earth - but when it's used for things that literally aren't even *pretending* to be the actual truth, like this film, or, say, The X Files, it renders the entire thing meaningless. (FWIW the original book *may* be part of a limited hang out - one theory has the declassification of the MKULTRA stuff, always heavily hinted at in conspiracy circles, as a way of deflecting deeper investigation into rendition and the whole apparatus of torture (and in particular the extremely suspiciously quick way the CIA managed to stand it all up, almost as if they were already experience with such things))
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Jun 29, 2021 21:26
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Lamont posted:The book is awesome and one of the wackiest things I've ever read (I would love to know if the US DoD was actually that serious about investigating paranormal poo poo), I was very disappointed by the film. The 70s were a very, very strange time, and the post-Vietnam US Armed Forces were willing to listen to any explanations as to how they lost in Vietnam and how they could avoid that kind of quagmire in the future (lol, but a sad lol). They definitely *did* put money into investigating remote viewing and other ESP stuff, as did an awful lot of pretty serious institutions, and the psyops stuff had a big following among a certain type of officer who genuinely couldn't understand the appeal of Marxist revolution, and believed the commies had some special device or technique or *something* that made people love them instead of Mom, Apple Pie, and the profit margins of the United Fruit Company. How seriously they *really* took it we can't tell - especially the much more hippy side of it - but I think Ronson makes a pretty convincing case that you see its echoes at Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and the dozens of other Undisclosed Locations.
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Jun 29, 2021 21:34
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I'm sure it's been mentioned but rewatching The World's End now it really feels like a film about Brexit. I still have good memories of the film, since my wife and I watched it together on our Mini-moon post wedding. Though I do recall at one stage the film was going to be called Dave of the Triffids which might have made for a better film.
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Jun 29, 2021 21:42
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goddamnedtwisto posted:They definitely *did* put money into investigating remote viewing and other ESP stuff, as did an awful lot of pretty serious institutions, and the psyops stuff had a big following among a certain type of officer who genuinely couldn't understand the appeal of Marxist revolution, and believed the commies had some special device or technique or *something* that made people love them instead of Mom, Apple Pie, and the profit margins of the United Fruit Company. There is also, funnily, an SCP about that.
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I felt this piece in the New Statesman about Starmer by Simon Fletcher who recently stood down after working for Ed Miliband, Jezza, and Starmer, was subtly damning. (You can read 4 articles a month for free). https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2021/06/keir-starmer-s-labour-desperately-needs-stand-something quote:Keir Starmer’s Labour desperately needs to stand for something
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