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loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

https://twitter.com/lesbiaudrey/status/1565396979802427392

# ? Sep 2, 2022 15:11

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# ? May 25, 2024 06:14

Bro Dad: Mar 26, 2010

uber_stoat posted:

actual cannibal Hammer family

there was a long article about how armand hammer hosed up the whole family and the aunt is the only normal person because she's the one that has a regular job

# ? Sep 2, 2022 15:22

Bro Dad: Mar 26, 2010

all children of privilege should be forced to work at the home depot cabinet department

# ? Sep 2, 2022 15:24

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

Bro Dad posted:

all children of privilege should be forced to work at the home depot cabinet department

jesus dude at least start them out mopping floors or something

# ? Sep 2, 2022 15:27

Crain: Jun 27, 2007; I had a beer once with Stephen Miller and now I like him.

I also tried to ban someone from a Discord for pointing out what an unrelenting shithead I am! I'm even dumb enough to think it worked!

Bro Dad posted:

all children of privilege should be forced to work at the home depot cabinet department

gently caress that: Highway off-ramp Gas Station night shift.

Gotta add that existential horror to the to grating, soul destroying, customer service role.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 15:59

Mr Hootington: Jul 24, 2008; I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

https://twitter.com/wongrel/status/1565523617630326785?t=UzlEaDXsrxxHgu-bWpIPQQ&s=19

# ? Sep 2, 2022 16:18

damn horror queefs: Oct 14, 2005; say hello
say hello to the man in the elevator

Benedict Wong seems like a nice guy.

Lolin at the Atwood in its original wrappings though - isn't the point of showing off your ostensible personal library the implication that, like, you've actually read any of it?

Capitalism brain poisoning that buying a book means that you are the book and the book is you

# ? Sep 2, 2022 16:23

AnimeIsTrash: Jun 30, 2018

ginger gonzaga

# ? Sep 2, 2022 16:23

skooma512: Feb 8, 2012; You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

Tried the new LOTR last night.

Haven�t read more than the first 10 pages of the Silmarillion so idk how faithful it is or care all that much, but I recognize the names so yup they sure got that IP.

I�ve seen worse shows, this show was enjoyable enough . It is a little confusing knowing who is who and I was already cheating by having subtitles on.

I�d say it has potential and I don�t really see any reason not to continue watching.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 16:48

MLSM: Apr 3, 2021; by Azathoth

skooma512 posted:

Tried the new LOTR last night.

Haven�t read more than the first 10 pages of the Silmarillion so idk how faithful it is or care all that much, but I recognize the names so yup they sure got that IP.

I�ve seen worse shows, this show was enjoyable enough . It is a little confusing knowing who is who and I was already cheating by having subtitles on.

I�d say it has potential and I don�t really see any reason not to continue watching.

I wanted to like it but � like there�s no point to the show and they dont even have the rights to silmarillion which is why no ungoliant or morgoth destroyed the trees lmao

# ? Sep 2, 2022 16:50

War and Pieces: Apr 24, 2022; DID NOT VOTE FOR FETTERMAN

MLSM posted:

I wanted to like it but � like there�s no point to the show and they dont even have the rights to silmarillion which is why no ungoliant or morgoth destroyed the trees lmao

lmao what's the point if there's no giant spider

# ? Sep 2, 2022 16:55

How Darwinian: Feb 27, 2011

drat horror queefs posted:

Benedict Wong seems like a nice guy.

Lolin at the Atwood in its original wrappings though - isn't the point of showing off your ostensible personal library the implication that, like, you've actually read any of it?

Capitalism brain poisoning that buying a book means that you are the book and the book is you

It�s a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This lady�s a regular Belasco. It�s a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too � didn�t cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?�

# ? Sep 2, 2022 16:57

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

I�ve never seen a Nathan Fielder show before (only know him from the meme picture with all his friends out of the frame). I just finished the first episode of the rehearsal and I�m struggling to put it into words. what the gently caress and lmao

# ? Sep 2, 2022 17:29

Communist Thoughts: Jan 7, 2008; Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!

I thought it was very expensive looking.

But I don't really get the point of it, it's just gonna be about the rings being forged? We know what happens to all these guys

# ? Sep 2, 2022 17:31

Frosted Flake: Sep 13, 2011; Semper Shitpost Ubique

mawarannahr posted:

I�ve never seen a Nathan Fielder show before (only know him from the meme picture with all his friends out of the frame). I just finished the first episode of the rehearsal and I�m struggling to put it into words. what the gently caress and lmao

The Nathan For You finale was incredible. Of course redditors found the contact info of the woman featured in it and caused her a good deal of trouble, but incredible.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 17:32

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Mameluke posted:

not sure which actor you thought i was referring to but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Butters

edit: lmao did you think i meant dakota fanning

i heard she's got farts in her head. seems like a pretty big QA issue.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 17:34

mastershakeman: Oct 28, 2008; by vyelkin

mawarannahr posted:

I’ve never seen a Nathan Fielder show before (only know him from the meme picture with all his friends out of the frame). I just finished the first episode of the rehearsal and I’m struggling to put it into words. what the gently caress and lmao

The first ep is great and was pre covid

It gets much , much more insane but is more limited in scope than I initially assumed. It's still awesome though and I'm pumped for the next season

# ? Sep 2, 2022 17:40

DesertIslandHermit: Oct 7, 2019; It's beautiful. And it's for the god of...of...arts and crafts. I think that's what he said.

Communist Thoughts posted:

I thought it was very expensive looking.

But I don't really get the point of it, it's just gonna be about the rings being forged? We know what happens to all these guys

There's about 2000 years between Sauron making the One Ring and getting defeated by Isildur. It might be interesting if each season covered a different time period about Sauron's gradual rise to power but then you're going need a few elves to carry the whole story. People will lose interest when Blippo the Dwarf is no longer in the show because the next season jumped 300 years and he'd be dead.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 17:43

Filthy Hans: Jun 27, 2008; by Fluffdaddy
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drat horror queefs posted:

Benedict Wong seems like a nice guy.

Lolin at the Atwood in its original wrappings though - isn't the point of showing off your ostensible personal library the implication that, like, you've actually read any of it?

Capitalism brain poisoning that buying a book means that you are the book and the book is you

Benedict Wong is usually the best part of whatever production he's in, he's good in dramatic roles but has excellent comic timing too

# ? Sep 2, 2022 17:51

sonatinas: Apr 15, 2003; Seattle Karate Vs. L.A. Karate

mawarannahr posted:

I�ve never seen a Nathan Fielder show before (only know him from the meme picture with all his friends out of the frame). I just finished the first episode of the rehearsal and I�m struggling to put it into words. what the gently caress and lmao

i watched first episode and to me it just seems like someone with autism and infinite money doesn�t know about therapy

# ? Sep 2, 2022 17:56

StashAugustine: Mar 24, 2013; Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

sonatinas posted:

i watched first episode and to me it just seems like someone with autism and infinite money doesn’t know about therapy

I think that's the joke, yes

# ? Sep 2, 2022 17:59

Stevie Lee: Oct 8, 2007

the age reset at the playground was the best moment of the rehearsal to me

# ? Sep 2, 2022 17:59

Communist Thoughts: Jan 7, 2008; Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!

DesertIslandHermit posted:

There's about 2000 years between Sauron making the One Ring and getting defeated by Isildur. It might be interesting if each season covered a different time period about Sauron's gradual rise to power but then you're going need a few elves to carry the whole story. People will lose interest when Blippo the Dwarf is no longer in the show because the next season jumped 300 years and he'd be dead.

then make some new elves, im like "oh this elf politician playing these dwarves to get them to do what he wants is interesting, is he manipulating them, is he gonna become a bad guy?" then i remember nah hes just elrond, hes gonna become an elrond

# ? Sep 2, 2022 18:03

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

saw the first episode, LotR show rules

but it, GoT II, WoT, a bunch of fantasy/scifi shows have this weird version of find-and-replace "diversity" that I imagine you only ever see in board rooms, writers rooms, or casting offices. besides those places, what actual human diversity will just have one (1) black person in a group of white people. oh, there's a (very light skinned) Indian girl hobbit. there's a black guy on the king's council. what, they don't have no brothers or sisters? cousins? similar-looking friends we ever see? no, it's just them in a group of white people. so odd.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 18:28

Filthy Hans: Jun 27, 2008; by Fluffdaddy
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Stevie Lee posted:

the age reset at the playground was the best moment of the rehearsal to me

"planting" fully grown vegetables from the supermarket in the vegetable garden so the batty woman could "harvest" them was truly insane

# ? Sep 2, 2022 18:30

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

indigi posted:

saw the first episode, LotR show rules

but it, GoT II, WoT, a bunch of fantasy/scifi shows have this weird version of find-and-replace "diversity" that I imagine you only ever see in board rooms, writers rooms, or casting offices. besides those places, what actual human diversity will just have one (1) black person in a group of white people. oh, there's a (very light skinned) Indian girl hobbit. there's a black guy on the king's council. what, they don't have no brothers or sisters? cousins? similar-looking friends we ever see? no, it's just them in a group of white people. so odd.

The one black guy in Hot D speaks about how his house is ancient, older even than the Targaryens. He is married to a white woman; their daughter is mixed. There are, as far as we can see, no other black people in Westeros. The implication is that House Velaryon has been exclusively importing spouses from overseas for centuries until the current one married a white woman.

Wheel of Time also did this sort of thing where the secluded mountain village where it starts has somehow sustained multiple distinct racial groups, rather than everyone just sort of amalgamating into a single ethnicity over the village's (confirmed in canon) long history, which doesn't really hold up if you actually think about it.

In both cases, of course, the alt-right has obligingly gotten mad at the fact that minorities exist at all in the setting, you can set your watch by that poo poo.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 18:35

Frosted Flake: Sep 13, 2011; Semper Shitpost Ubique

indigi posted:

saw the first episode, LotR show rules

but it, GoT II, WoT, a bunch of fantasy/scifi shows have this weird version of find-and-replace "diversity" that I imagine you only ever see in board rooms, writers rooms, or casting offices. besides those places, what actual human diversity will just have one (1) black person in a group of white people. oh, there's a (very light skinned) Indian girl hobbit. there's a black guy on the king's council. what, they don't have no brothers or sisters? cousins? similar-looking friends we ever see? no, it's just them in a group of white people. so odd.

Well, yeah I was saying that about Bridgerton. I don�t know if it�s in response to scientific racism or something but it�s a denial that ethnoi are a thing, melenation is the result of proximity to the tropics, etc. Why would one person in a geographically static population have dramatically darker or lighter skin?

It�s uncomfortable because it�s so artificial. I get that in the context of contemporary America, race is uncomfortable too, but the state of racial relations in the US does not tell us about ethnoi, it tells us about capitalism.

For a solid account grounded in the Marxist Tradition (including an opening chapter on Dialectical Materialism), read Ethnogenesis and the Biosphere by Gumilev.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 18:37

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Mr Hootington posted:

https://twitter.com/wongrel/status/1565523617630326785?t=UzlEaDXsrxxHgu-bWpIPQQ&s=19

Lol at the book choices.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 18:37

Echo Chamber: Oct 16, 2008; best username/post combo

Benedict Wong was great as Kublai Khan. Just want to say that.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 18:40

Tankbuster: Oct 1, 2021

Frosted Flake posted:

Well, yeah I was saying that about Bridgerton. I don�t know if it�s in response to scientific racism or something but it�s a denial that ethnoi are a thing, melenation is the result of proximity to the tropics, etc. Why would one person in a geographically static population have dramatically darker or lighter skin?

It�s uncomfortable because it�s so artificial. I get that in the context of contemporary America, race is uncomfortable too, but the state of racial relations in the US does not tell us about ethnoi, it tells us about capitalism.

For a solid account grounded in the Marxist Tradition (including an opening chapter on Dialectical Materialism), read Ethnogenesis and the Biosphere by Gumilev.

America will turn all - past, present, future into an unholy blend of Los Angeles and New york, which by the property of vector addition will cancel out latinos.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 18:40

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

Tankbuster posted:

America will turn all - past, present, future into an unholy blend of Los Angeles and New york, which by the property of vector addition will cancel out latinos.

Latinos in Westeros actually DO get to form a distinct ethnic group, as the Dornish. They're the only ones though

e: I guess wildlings are all super pale too

# ? Sep 2, 2022 18:41

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

optimistic near-future sci-fi story where a virus takes out anyone speaking a P-I-E language

# ? Sep 2, 2022 18:42

AnimeIsTrash: Jun 30, 2018

Frosted Flake posted:

Well, yeah I was saying that about Bridgerton. I don�t know if it�s in response to scientific racism or something but it�s a denial that ethnoi are a thing, melenation is the result of proximity to the tropics, etc. Why would one person in a geographically static population have dramatically darker or lighter skin?

It�s uncomfortable because it�s so artificial. I get that in the context of contemporary America, race is uncomfortable too, but the state of racial relations in the US does not tell us about ethnoi, it tells us about capitalism.

For a solid account grounded in the Marxist Tradition (including an opening chapter on Dialectical Materialism), read Ethnogenesis and the Biosphere by Gumilev.

its lightskin behavior

# ? Sep 2, 2022 18:43

Tankbuster: Oct 1, 2021

loquacius posted:

Latinos in Westeros actually DO get to form a distinct ethnic group, as the Dornish. They're the only ones though

e: I guess wildlings are all super pale too

The dornish literally are a much more naturalistically diverse group than most hollywood casting. You have Sandy, stony, and the other one dornish who are a blend of whatever nymeria crossed with her boats from mixed with the native andals/first men.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 18:44

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

Frosted Flake posted:

Well, yeah I was saying that about Bridgerton. I don�t know if it�s in response to scientific racism or something but it�s a denial that ethnoi are a thing, melenation is the result of proximity to the tropics, etc. Why would one person in a geographically static population have dramatically darker or lighter skin?

It�s uncomfortable because it�s so artificial. I get that in the context of contemporary America, race is uncomfortable too, but the state of racial relations in the US does not tell us about ethnoi, it tells us about capitalism.

I think it's cause it's the same version of diversity many tv writers and most tv producers experience irl and they just don't think about it beyond that. they know they have a [brown, female, gay] colleague, so that's what the hobbit village needs, black hobbit. ok I'm calling it we're done for today everyone great work

Echo Chamber posted:

Benedict Wong was great as Kublai Khan. Just want to say that.

yeah

# ? Sep 2, 2022 18:51

StashAugustine: Mar 24, 2013; Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

lord of the rings is already a mythic fantasy about a reality where nobles aren't universally scum so idc about how the genetics works tbh

# ? Sep 2, 2022 18:53

damn horror queefs: Oct 14, 2005; say hello
say hello to the man in the elevator

StashAugustine posted:

lord of the rings is already a mythic fantasy about a reality where nobles aren't universally scum so idc about how the genetics works tbh

I want to enjoy this fantastical world of magic, ghosts, dragons, wizards, and immortal elves, but... races mixing together? My suspension of disbelief only goes so far!!!

# ? Sep 2, 2022 19:01

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

drat horror queefs posted:

I want to enjoy this fantastical world of magic, ghosts, dragons, wizards, and immortal elves, but... races mixing together? My suspension of disbelief only goes so far!!!

what races are mixing?

# ? Sep 2, 2022 19:07

Communist Thoughts: Jan 7, 2008; Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!

It bugs me too but you can't really discuss it without people thinking you've got common cause with the racists.

In fantasy settings you can just assume genetics doesn't exist since evolution doesn't seem to exist

It bothers me more when they use it to sanitise history while also ignoring all the cool actual stories they could tell or the struggles people had to go through.
It's basically the woke way to dewokify history if that makes sense, both are seemingly ways to just ignore that racism was ever a structural thing rather than just personal prejudices.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 19:38

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# ? May 25, 2024 06:14

DesertIslandHermit: Oct 7, 2019; It's beautiful. And it's for the god of...of...arts and crafts. I think that's what he said.

indigi posted:

saw the first episode, LotR show rules

but it, GoT II, WoT, a bunch of fantasy/scifi shows have this weird version of find-and-replace "diversity" that I imagine you only ever see in board rooms, writers rooms, or casting offices. besides those places, what actual human diversity will just have one (1) black person in a group of white people. oh, there's a (very light skinned) Indian girl hobbit. there's a black guy on the king's council. what, they don't have no brothers or sisters? cousins? similar-looking friends we ever see? no, it's just them in a group of white people. so odd.

Yeah it's bare minimum diversity effort. And they'd probably turn down having a larger non-white cast out of 'concerns'.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 19:41

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