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Ambitious Spider posted:Chocolate is really good with the kneeing people in the face action too, but it’s premise is a bit uh problematic For a moment I thought this was about Chocolate (2000) with Juliette Binoche and was highly confused.
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I always wondered if people found the Tomahawk album that was heavy metal covers of Indigenous American songs by an Italian and some white guys in poor taste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1q3bWxB_EU
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The trope wherein "you have autism = you have a superpower, but it isn't autism" is demeaning to autistic people, not surprisingly!
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sweet geek swag posted:"I can't be racist, I'm British" is a hell of a take. There was a great Daily Show skit where John Oliver is taking about British Colonialism and its impacts to today, Jon Steward basically asks if that is racist and Oliver's reply is: "Hey, Racism implies that I feel hate for these people. I assure you, I just don't care about them." Which seems spot on for British racism.
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CJacobs posted:The trope wherein "you have autism = you have a superpower, but it isn't autism" is demeaning to autistic people, not surprisingly! Yeeeeah. Taking as much of a neutral view on it as I can, I feel like a lot of writers (for movies in particular) kinda fall into a trap of overdesigning and overfocusing; that this autistic character MUST be a big deal and their big deal MUST be directly related to their autism... but not in a way that's actually giving that character credit by highlighting, say, a special skill they developed on their own or something. And they can't ever be high-functioning, because then how would we know they're autistic!? One of the weirdest instances I've heard of for a movie apparently doing well with an autistic character is, of all things, the 2017 gritty reboot of Power Rangers. Where the blue ranger is autistic, but he's high-functioning and has all his coping mechanisms down pat, so while you know he's autistic (mostly because he says it to explain his actions early on) he mostly reads as an average nerd who still gets to be part of the major team, and the movie never hinges anything on his autism. Cleretic has a new favorite as of 12:48 on Aug 6, 2022 |
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ryonguy posted:And I think pocket trades should still cost <$10, but https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/02/pearson-plans-to-sell-its-textbooks-as-nfts
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I feel like any NFT based textbooks are immediately going to be just...printed out and passed around.
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AngryRobotsInc posted:I feel like any NFT based textbooks are immediately going to be just...printed out and passed around. Probably will end up cheaper than what they charge for the textbook anyways
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Sobatchja Morda posted:For a moment I thought this was about Chocolate (2000) with Juliette Binoche and was highly confused. Definitely had the Chocolat mix up too Was that movie as dull as I remember? Perhaps I was just unrefined but I fell the gently caress asleep
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bunnyofdoom posted:Probably will end up cheaper than what they charge for the textbook anyways College kids need rolling papers
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So, they're uploading their books to a public database anyone can access for free?
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Cleretic posted:Yeeeeah. Taking as much of a neutral view on it as I can, I feel like a lot of writers (for movies in particular) kinda fall into a trap of overdesigning and overfocusing; that this autistic character MUST be a big deal and their big deal MUST be directly related to their autism... but not in a way that's actually giving that character credit by highlighting, say, a special skill they developed on their own or something. And they can't ever be high-functioning, because then how would we know they're autistic!? I take umbrage at that thing being called gritty in any sense. Honestly I wish 2017 Billy wasn't treated as a comedic character as much as he is, but the whole point of him is that he is the heart and soul of the team. He is deeply empathetic, even if socially awkward and gullible, and is the only one of the team who wants to do the altruistic good of being a hero despite how it will impact him as a person. He's a brave, good hearted, heroic person who happens to be autistic. He's easily the best of the film, though the human stuff in general is fairly decent. Shame about any of the Power Ranger things.
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Len posted:https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/02/pearson-plans-to-sell-its-textbooks-as-nfts student, 2035: "gently caress my Torment Nexus 203 class just had their tokens funged and I lost my textbook!" That joke doesn't make any sense I guess but neither does non flushable turd textbooks what does that even mean? "Our textbooks will be non fungible!"? It's like that corpo dipshit who wanted to make Tumblr the next PDF.
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sweet geek swag posted:"I can't be racist, I'm British" is a hell of a take. I know the point of this is to get mad, but I’m pretty sure this is a joke about the British. How did you misread this so hard
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ryonguy posted:student, 2035: "gently caress my Torment Nexus 203 class just had their tokens funged and I lost my textbook!" My understanding of how it actually might work is that it's basically the same system as when they ship textbooks with a code to access their online portal. Except instead of just having that code, you now get an nft that you need to verify ownership of to log in. Why do they need a bulky decentralized step in their centralized user authentication? It's because textbook publishers are always desperately trying to find ways to make money off of second hand textbooks. And, the smart contract bundled with the token gives them a cut every time you resell it. Dont think about who would actually want to buy this when the people who know how to do that probably also know how to download a free pdf from the internet. Just imagine dollar signs and all your questions will be answered.
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CharlestheHammer posted:I know the point of this is to get mad, but I’m pretty sure this is a joke about the British.
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Burkion posted:I take umbrage at that thing being called gritty in any sense. Maybe I'm misremembering but I don't recall Billy being the butt of jokes or the "comedy" guy. At the beginning we are expected to laugh when he takes things literally and gets flustered when people ask him stuff like "how come you didn't laugh?" and he responds with "I'm autistic, I do not understand how that was funny". Then again, as a high-functioner myself, I didn't laugh when others in the theatre were laughing because my thoughts were "yep, I resemble that". Incidentally, my friends recommended I see it based off of Billy alone and I did feel that he was a good representation
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Aces High posted:Maybe I'm misremembering but I don't recall Billy being the butt of jokes or the "comedy" guy. At the beginning we are expected to laugh when he takes things literally and gets flustered when people ask him stuff like "how come you didn't laugh?" and he responds with "I'm autistic, I do not understand how that was funny". Then again, as a high-functioner myself, I didn't laugh when others in the theatre were laughing because my thoughts were "yep, I resemble that". Incidentally, my friends recommended I see it based off of Billy alone and I did feel that he was a good representation There's some unfortunate stuff, I feel at least, played at his expense early on. Like the crayons jokes others were making about him and how he's the only one to 'comically' have his Zord going backwards during the big hero shot. The character himself, as I went on about, is great and I have nothing but praise for that.
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ryonguy posted:The guy saying the joke is the guy being racist which makes the joke dumb and tasteless, so I think the better question is why you have this undying need to be a 2010-era SomethingAwful Contrarian so hard that you miss the obvious context? Yeah, there's a certain class of British argument where they think merely acknowledging the fact that the British were awful gives then liberty to say whatever they want afterwards. So it doesn't matter if it's a joke or not, either way what they are saying is either "I'm British and that makes me above it all," or "I'm British and I laugh about it and that makes me above it all because I'm joking." There is no real difference between these two things, they're both staggeringly racist.
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"Super autism power" is what Sia should have named her loving horrible movie Music.
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According to the Predator series (the best series) autism is the next stage in human evolution and will allow us to instantly comprehend alien technologies.
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Also the Predator wants to scoop up all the autism before global warming takes us. That’s why they take spines. I love ya Shane but no dawg
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I honestly blanked out The Predator because holy poo poo did it get really loving dumb in a hurry.
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so pee is stored in the balls and autism is stored in the spine feel like were making some real breakthrus 2day
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The Predator is a film of such ability that, in a franchise that has run for decades and has included *two* lukewarm crossover VS movies, it is easily the bottom of the barrel no questions asked. It's kind of astounding. It's not a film that didn't age well- it's a film that was born curdled.
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Two decades? Didn't the first Predator come out in the late 80s? I'm pretty sure Predator 2 came out in the early 90s
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Aces High posted:Two decades? Didn't the first Predator come out in the late 80s? I'm pretty sure Predator 2 came out in the early 90s I think you misread what I wrote I said *for* decades
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This is not a popular take. But I kinda liked Aliens vs Predator 1. It was silly, dumb, and not worth a hundredth of either of the original films it was versus-ing. But as a silly little action/sci fi movie you can do far worse. I also liked Predators, with Adrien Brody and Danny Trejo. AvP2 was poo poo. And I have no plans to watch The Predator. Prey looks fun though.
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Burkion posted:The Predator is a film of such ability that, in a franchise that has run for decades and has included *two* lukewarm crossover VS movies, it is easily the bottom of the barrel no questions asked. I wasn't paying the closest attention to the thread, and it took me the longest time to realise everyone is complaining about The Predator (2018), and not Predator (1987). That was a little confusing, tell you hwat.
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muscles like this! posted:The Predator had a really messy production which definitely didn't help the story along any. Yeah, the script felt really stitched together. It felt a bit like at one point it was intended for Munn's character to have a more prominent role with the whole journalism angle, but then at some point Generic McSoldierman was shoved in there as the default lead instead.
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Perestroika posted:Yeah, the script felt really stitched together. It felt a bit like at one point it was intended for Munn's character to have a more prominent role with the whole journalism angle, but then at some point Generic McSoldierman was shoved in there as the default lead instead. It would be like Dana Barrett suddenly acting like Ellen Ripley in the second half of Ghostbusters an no one batting an eye about it.
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They cut out almost all of Munn's introductory scene because Ellie Trashcakes posted:It also originally featured an actual predator it involved her being accosted by a dude played by a friend of Shane Black who was a convicted sex offender. Shane Black says he knew his friend had been convicted but also that said friend lied about what the charge actually was.
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I read the script. It was probably one of the last drafts before they started shooting. The autism stuff was there. Munn’s character’s beats were the same. But what really changed was the ending. It went from the Loonies teaming up with two Predators who work with the military to take down the assassin Predator and his weird hybrid monsters. In the film it just became a really lame quick version of the first movie. 
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BrigadierSensible posted:This is not a popular take. But I kinda liked Aliens vs Predator 1. Prey is legit. Predators and AvP1 get too much poo poo but they both suffer from that 00s decade-long problem of being too diet-80s for their own good. It's like watching someone in the kitchen whipping up a cake and all the ingredients are right there, but then they go to grab the "non-fat" butter and milk and "trans-fat free" eggs and "sugar-free" frosting because they saw a thing on Oprah/Dr. Oz about eating healthier and nothing you say can convince them it's the wrong choice for this product. So it's still a cake, and a pretty drat well-made cake, but the taste is just off enough that you can see why no one bothered with a second slice. The Predator is just downright embarrassing. I feel bad for just about everyone involved in that pile. And not to tangent too hard from Predator stuff, but some kid pointed out that "The Good Doctor" is somehow still on TV and running and I'm just like shocked. That show combines two of the worst autism stereotypes-- cognitively feeble and savant syndrome-- in a way that I do think does genuine harm.
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