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I'm flabbergasted by people who think it would be cool to live in Los Angeles or its many surrounds that only idiot californians differentiate.
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I lived in Los Angeles for 6 months and it was fine. But I was a kid. Also nobody cares about the capitalism message in squid game. It's simply riveting tv because of the the creative games that result in really entertaining/sad/frustrating character interactions. I think if they cut it down to 6 episodes it would be a much stronger show. It had some super boring subplots.
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Nov 24, 2021 04:43
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we're seeing capitalism doing its thing with the anti-capitalist sentiment in real time, basically. there's a market for stuff aimed at people who don't like or are disappointed in capitalism, so naturally capital is flooding there and market shares are carved up and investments are made and content is served for the customers to consume. its like che guevara t-shirts but a hundred times more insidious
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Nov 24, 2021 04:56
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I see people on the twitter react with shock whenever a celebrity or rich person loves an anti-capitalist piece of art like Squid Game or Parasite. They're all like, "I guess you clearly didn't understand it" or "Don't you get it's about you?!" or post that picture of Garfield looking at the no Garfield sign. Which makes me think that people have a very strange opinion of how liking art works. People seem to have this idea that one's taste in art is reflective of one's own values. And it's just not. Barack Obama wouldn't shrivel up like a vampire in sunlight when confronted with anti-capitalist art, because art doesn't have that power.
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Nov 24, 2021 05:15
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nurmie posted:we're seeing capitalism doing its thing with the anti-capitalist sentiment in real time, basically. there's a market for stuff aimed at people who don't like or are disappointed in capitalism, so naturally capital is flooding there and market shares are carved up and investments are made and content is served for the customers to consume. its like che guevara t-shirts but a hundred times more insidious Sentiment is meaningless without a structure to turn that sentiment into political action. It's not bad that Netflix makes shows people want, it's bad that the American government gutted the labor movement. It's bad that the CIA destroyed a score of leftwing governments in the cradle that could've gone on to be alternate models for ordering society.
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Nov 24, 2021 05:19
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Mu Zeta posted:I think if they cut it down to 6 episodes it would be a much stronger show. This is true of most shows in general (a somewhat natural consequence of the move from episodic to serialized storytelling), but Netflix is a fairly consistent offender in that regard.
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Nov 24, 2021 07:31
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Blue Moonlight posted:This is true of most shows in general (a somewhat natural consequence of the move from episodic to serialized storytelling), but Netflix is a fairly consistent offender in that regard. Funny there’s a number of shows I’ve watched that have made me go “this should be twice the length” Although they tend to not be Netflix stuff
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nurmie posted:we're seeing capitalism doing its thing with the anti-capitalist sentiment in real time, basically. there's a market for stuff aimed at people who don't like or are disappointed in capitalism, so naturally capital is flooding there and market shares are carved up and investments are made and content is served for the customers to consume. its like che guevara t-shirts but a hundred times more insidious There's a famous quote about capitalism "selling the rope to its own hanging" which I think fits perfectly. Capitalism doesn't innovate; it recuperates.
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Nov 24, 2021 17:33
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Capitalism doesn't innovate; it recuperates. Can you explain this to me? I'm not sure I follow.
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Nov 24, 2021 18:09
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Robobot posted:Can you explain this to me? I'm not sure I follow. It's just a fancier way of saying that in order to neuter revolutionary ideas, capitalism absorbs and reintroduces them in a less "threatening" way. A great example is Che Guevara t shirts that someone else mentioned. Che was an anti capitalist revolutionary, which is why it's so ironic that people are making money off of shirts with his face on them.
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Nov 24, 2021 18:20
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Ah, thank you.
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Nov 24, 2021 18:23
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Undercuts look stupid. Stop shaving half of your head
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Nov 25, 2021 04:05
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People who eat peanut butter when they don't have to are gross. "Yeah i like legume grease I'm not a sociopath."
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3D Megadoodoo posted:People who eat peanut butter when they don't have to are gross. "Yeah i like legume grease I'm not a sociopath." Why would anyone ever have to eat peanut butter?
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Nov 25, 2021 10:35
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Tiggum posted:Why would anyone ever have to eat peanut butter? I believe it's used as emergency rations during famines and whatnot.
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Nov 25, 2021 10:47
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3D Megadoodoo posted:People who eat peanut butter when they don't have to are gross. "Yeah i like legume grease I'm not a sociopath." 100% peanut butter without palm oil or sugar or whatever is a relatively tasty and healthy thing to put on your bread
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Nov 25, 2021 17:23
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Shibawanko posted:i know a guy who got somewhat rich off bitcoin but he's semi-depressed because he's aware that while he worked hard at his job (a fairly prestigious job too) the thing that made most of his money was this one impulsive decision he made back in 2011 or whatever rather than the things he actually did That's fine, he can give it to me and ill give him a small wage which he can earn from doing my laundry
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Nov 25, 2021 17:34
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2$ an hour??? pfft, of course that's enough to live on??
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Everybody knows that the racing and sports games are the only canonical Mario games, and all the narrative Mario games are just plays Mario and his friends put on to entertain the player. But from that it becomes clear that all the Mario characters are also canonically good people, because they are all allowed to race on Rainbow Road which is in heaven.
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Nov 25, 2021 20:52
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Shibawanko posted:100% peanut butter without palm oil or sugar or whatever is a relatively tasty and healthy thing to put on your bread No it absolutely isn't, YOU gently caress.
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Nov 25, 2021 22:48
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phuo: Peanut butter on bread is gross anyway; goopy plus soft? Barf. Try graham crackers and/or chocolate chips.
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Nov 26, 2021 01:02
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You lightly toast the bread before adding peanut butter to it.
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Nov 26, 2021 01:14
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Peanut butter on apple slices is like tasting angel cum
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Khizan posted:You lightly toast the bread before adding peanut butter to it. toasting bread is for anglos who also only eat white bread for some reason
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Shibawanko posted:toasting bread is for anglos who also only eat white bread for some reason What
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Nov 26, 2021 05:28
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Truly, only white people can harness the full power of the Maillard reaction
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Earlier this month I was part of a conversation where someone wondered why we don’t get many stories about a person going from well-meaning revolutionary to authoritarian despite having many examples of that in modern history only for someone else to come in and and say that a story like that would be a slap in the face of anyone trying to make the world better and I don’t know why this has stuck with me but it does. If you can’t handle the notion that “wanting to make the world a better place doesn’t make it impossible for you to do harm” you shouldn’t be a part of any larger movement
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christmas boots posted:Truly, only white people can harness the full power of the Maillard reaction Was wondering if this could be framed as a Captain Planet joke, then realised Wheeler already uses fire.
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Nov 26, 2021 09:20
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Isn't that a really common modern plot beat though? 'Oh no turns out the escaped slaves were just as bad as the slavers, no difference between good and bad, I am very smart'
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Strategic Tea posted:Isn't that a really common modern plot beat though? 'Oh no turns out the escaped slaves were just as bad as the slavers, no difference between good and bad, I am very smart' Yeah there's plenty of stories like that. If there are fewer of them recently than the obvious reasons for that would be that every kid in America was forced to read Animal Farm in school and now as writers don't want to do Animal Farm, and they also don't want to be accused of ripping off Hunger Games.
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Nov 26, 2021 14:59
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some revolutions are authoritarian by design so I am not really sure what the point is. liberal democracy can in many ways be just as destructive and cruel as authoritarian styles of government
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Strategic Tea posted:Isn't that a really common modern plot beat though? 'Oh no turns out the escaped slaves were just as bad as the slavers, no difference between good and bad, I am very smart' I can only think of Bioshock Infinite for doing doing that, tbh. I’m open to being wrong on this but I don’t think it’s a common plot beat at all Following that, I think there’s a huge difference between “actually the slaves and the slavers are morally the same” and “being a revolutionary doesn’t prevent you from being a huge piece of poo poo”
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"What do you want for your birthday/Christmas/whatever?" is a dumb question that defeats the purpose of gift giving. A gift is special because it shows you've been thinking about the person and understand their tastes, or because you want to share something you also enjoy. Asking what they want is throwing that thoughtfulness back onto the receiver and reducing the gift to empty consumption for consumption's sake. If you have to give a gift and don't know the receiver well enough to know what they'd like, either accept "nothing" as an answer or just do cash!
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They're saying Finns aren't white.  Which is true. E: toast rye is delicious, by the by.
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Hardcordion posted:"What do you want for your birthday/Christmas/whatever?" is a dumb question that defeats the purpose of gift giving. A gift is special because it shows you've been thinking about the person and understand their tastes, or because you want to share something you also enjoy. Asking what they want is throwing that thoughtfulness back onto the receiver and reducing the gift to empty consumption for consumption's sake. If you have to give a gift and don't know the receiver well enough to know what they'd like, either accept "nothing" as an answer or just do cash! One million percent this. If you are asking what I want chances are it'd be better off for all involved to go with no gift at all.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:They're saying Finns aren't white. Mmm I’d love to put some peanut butter on those
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I can't even remember the last time I had a piece of pre-sliced white bread. Maaaaybe a couple years ago visiting my parents I had a piece of wheat bread, so the same 30g of sugar. I don't remember my last American cheese single either. Or the last time I 'took communion' (bread, crackers, or wafers). I have failed my homeland  Thank (their) God.Hardcordion posted:A gift is special because it shows you've been thinking about the person and understand their tastes, or because you want to share something you also enjoy. "Asking when expected to give" is probably better than "offending accidentally at random times". But I don't understand people so. 
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Nov 26, 2021 20:46
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I'd rather get something I actually want rather than some random bullshit. 
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Nov 26, 2021 20:57
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Literally every culture with bread also had/has toast. You're dunking in Shibwanako who solely posts the dumbest low hanging fruit troll posts in this thread. Just absolute dogshit opinions no one would have to generate controversy.
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christmas boots posted:Mmm I’d love to put some peanut butter on those HECK YOU!111222elvatolvakatinkorva
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