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'The Girl With All The Gifts' is a good cordyceps-zombie film.
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I think the pre-production brainstorming of TLOU back before 2013 involved brainstorming non-viral organisms that could result in zombies, and in this process a concept artist drew a monster covered in fungi-like tumorous growths, that grew so large they extended into the environment, forming fleshy tumours that erupt from the walls and floors. The imagery was so strong that it became the basis of the entire game, everything afterwards was used to justify the concept. In fact the imagery was so strong, that in TLOU2, you come across an environment that is inhabited long term by people, but even that place retains scars of past infections by the fungus. That was forcibly burnt out and restored for human habitation. It's a tiny patch of texture and normal mapping, but it was a wonderful worldbuilding detail that I hardly ever see mentioned.
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Feb 8, 2023 11:29
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Stoatbringer posted:'The Girl With All The Gifts' is a good cordyceps-zombie film. Ugh I hope they explain why everyone's listening to ultra Karen, Glenn Close
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Feb 8, 2023 13:36
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flashy_mcflash posted:Ugh I hope they explain why everyone's listening to ultra Karen, Glenn Close "I mean, I'm NOT GONNA BE IGNORED, DAN!" 
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Feb 8, 2023 15:51
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I don't get what makes her a Karen other than the fact she's a woman.
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Feb 8, 2023 17:04
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Maybe the haircut? Idk
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Feb 8, 2023 17:07
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stev posted:I don't get what makes her a Karen other than the fact she's a woman. It’s a riff on people being dumb about the evil doctor shooting lady last episode
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Feb 8, 2023 17:10
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stev posted:I don't get what makes her a Karen other than the fact she's a woman. Being a white woman.
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Feb 8, 2023 19:55
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nate fisher posted:It is Melanie Lynskey and she has been around for almost 30 years now. Come on, you have seen Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (she is the other girl, opposite Kate Winslet's)? She is great in Yellowjackets and season 1 of Castlerock. She has been in tons of other things, some I haven't seen (like 2 & Half Men and Coyote Ugly). I am not sure what to make of her character so far, but that is not because of the acting. They seem to be trying something different with this type of character and I am willing to wait until the next episode to judge. Dumpy? So you want a female that stepped out of a RE game? That dresses like she is going to a rave not the apocalypse? Come on. sorry i've never seen of any of this. i hope she improves in the next episode!
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Feb 8, 2023 20:48
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stev posted:I don't get what makes her a Karen other than the fact she's a woman. Edit: I mean ordering two kids be hunted and killed while ignoring the monster in the basement that is clearly the bigger threat. deoju fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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Feb 8, 2023 20:54
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Stoatbringer posted:'The Girl With All The Gifts' is a good cordyceps-zombie film. was the film good? I LOVED the book. flashy_mcflash posted:Ugh I hope they explain why everyone's listening to ultra Karen, Glenn Close wtf Glenn Close owns
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Feb 8, 2023 22:20
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AndrewP posted:was the film good? I LOVED the book. I was joking, because people seemed to be like "why would anyone deign to take orders from this w...w...woman"
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Feb 8, 2023 22:34
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deoju posted:She's unreasonably demanding her desires be fulfilled to the detriment of everyone else. Pretty Karen-like imo. Yep. "Okay, this is bad, but the TRUE priority is killing a guy with a little kid who's completely on his own, without food, trapped in dilapidated city filled with people acting on orders to capture or kill him on sight, because I HATE HIM AND I WON'T DO ANYTHING FOR ANYONE UNTIL HE'S DEAD."
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Feb 8, 2023 22:40
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stev posted:I don't get what makes her a Karen other than the fact she's a woman. It's because right now she seems to be acting pretty rashly, and irrationally. She's hyper focused on capturing/killing a black man and his son, and killed a doctor for reasons only really known to her right now. Obviously something happened before the episode to get her this way, but we have no idea what this is. So this could all be a reasonable reaction, or it's her being a crazy cult leader attacking an innocent man. The show is definitely trying to get us to not like her after this episode.
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Feb 8, 2023 22:44
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I'm probably forgetting a piece of dialogue but she definitely wants Henry dead? Or just wants to find him? We know Henry is on the run from her/them but we don't know why yet. If he's an estranged husband/lover and Sam is her son I could see why finding them before they starve or get killed is higher on her list than whatever is happening in that sealed off basement.
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Feb 8, 2023 22:46
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Bird in a Blender posted:It's because right now she seems to be acting pretty rashly, and irrationally. She's hyper focused on capturing/killing a black man and his son, and killed a doctor for reasons only really known to her right now. Obviously something happened before the episode to get her this way, but we have no idea what this is. So this could all be a reasonable reaction, or it's her being a crazy cult leader attacking an innocent man. The show is definitely trying to get us to not like her after this episode. Also, we know she's rational enough to have asked if a doctor could save the guy that was mortally wounded - but evil enough that as soon as she heard "no, he's done for," she immediately went back into the detention wing and murked the doctor that delivered her. I didn't like how they cast and played "The Governor" in TWD and I don't like this character for reasons others have explained. (Oh, and she wasn't wearing ear protection and fired a gun in an enclosed space with high potential for echo and ricochets  )
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Feb 8, 2023 22:54
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The conversation with her security guy implies that Henry works for FEDRA, and they suspect Joel was a mercenary he hired to attack the city.
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Feb 8, 2023 22:57
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Yeah, there's a lot of incomplete or false info. No one knows that Bryan's group was operating on their own. Joel thinks the normal policy is to ambush strangers. Immortan Karen thinks Joel is an outsider who sought out Bryan's peaceful militia, and in her mind the only rational explanation is they're FEDRA reinforcements called by Henry, who occupies space rent free in her head.
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Feb 8, 2023 23:03
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Y’all are being weird about women.
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Feb 8, 2023 23:05
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stev posted:I don't get what makes her a Karen other than the fact she's a woman. Hunting down two black males
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Feb 8, 2023 23:56
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How do you suppose that Henry and Sam found Joel and Ellie, anyway? It’a a big, empty building in a big, empty city.
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Feb 9, 2023 00:05
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they might've just had the same idea of seeking high ground, or were already hiding out in a nearby room/floor before joel and ellie arrived. or they could've been following them. plenty of plausible ways.
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Feb 9, 2023 00:12
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Chamale posted:The conversation with her security guy implies that Henry works for FEDRA, and they suspect Joel was a mercenary he hired to attack the city. I didn’t get the impression Henry worked for FEDRA. He ratted her brother out to FEDRA.
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Feb 9, 2023 01:03
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Y’all are making a whole lot of assumptions about a character who clearly is in a very complicated situation, and a bunch of you have decided to fill that void with misogyny.
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Feb 9, 2023 02:24
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Xiahou Dun posted:Y’all are making a whole lot of assumptions about a character who clearly is in a very complicated situation, and a bunch of you have decided to fill that void with misogyny. Real Karen rear end posting
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Feb 9, 2023 03:14
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Demon Of The Fall posted:sorry i've never seen of any of this. i hope she improves in the next episode! Almost entirely unrelated to anything else being discussed, but Heavenly Creatures rules and is well worth watching.
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Feb 9, 2023 03:29
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Phenotype posted:Yeah, the first Tales from the Borderlands was great. I played the sequel a few weeks ago, and it's not TERRIBLE, but it's definitely not as good as the first. Stars a new cast of characters, one of whom I found entirely unlikable, and it almost entirely ignores the first game. It was kind of a fun Borderlands adventure, but the plot kinda falls apart halfway through, and the actual ending was unsatisfying. It changes based on your choices, but not in a way that makes sense in-universe, like "I was mean to the guard and so he decided not to help me." Instead, one of my characters died at the end apparbently because I was always mean to Octavio (who sucks). Note that Octavio had nothing to do with the death -- it was caused by a spaceship crash and even if I'd been super nice to him, he wouldn't have been able to do anything to prevent it. But it's a video game, so she just dies because the OctavioRelationship variable was too low. To be fair Tales from Borderlands 1 was made by TellTale and good. TfB2 was made by Gearbox. The least funny developers in gaming even though they keep loving trying and trying God knows why.
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Feb 9, 2023 03:45
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A talking coyote posted:Real Karen rear end posting I think we can talk about someone traumatized into violence and tragic self destructive idiocy by personal and community tragedy beyond our comprehension without calling them an over entitled woman. Honestly, she's not a really sympathetic character at this point, but 'Karen' is still a weird way to describe her, unless all women exerting authority fall into the same category for you.
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Feb 9, 2023 04:08
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Eiba posted:I rolled my eyes when people first said "Karen" was a slur. But then people like you kept using it as a slur out of some sort of defensive spite and I had to admit the original accusation seems to have had some weight. A middle aged white woman calling on others to hunt down two black people is the definition of Karen rear end behavior I don’t know what to tell you. If you want to turn all words into slurs I’m not gonna stop you but it seems kind of dumb.
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Feb 9, 2023 04:11
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A talking coyote posted:A middle aged white woman calling on others to hunt down two black people is the definition of Karen rear end behavior I don’t know what to tell you. If you want to turn all words into slurs I’m not gonna stop you but it seems kind of dumb.
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Feb 9, 2023 04:26
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The defining feature of being a Karen isn't racism, but being an entitled suburbanite white woman with first world grievances and a poo poo enough education to have no perspective on her privilege. None of which was visible on this lady except shared race/gender. We don't even know she's racist, poo poo I didn't even know Henry was black. Goony rear end posting.
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Feb 9, 2023 04:34
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Xiahou Dun posted:Y’all are making a whole lot of assumptions about a character who clearly is in a very complicated situation, and a bunch of you have decided to fill that void with misogyny. when you think a woman who shoots a prisoner in the head in cold blood is bad, it's misogyny
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Feb 9, 2023 06:32
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Remy Marathe posted:The defining feature of being a Karen isn't racism, but being an entitled suburbanite white woman with first world grievances and a poo poo enough education to have no perspective on her privilege. None of which was visible on this lady except shared race/gender. We don't even know she's racist, poo poo I didn't even know Henry was black. Goony rear end posting. Remy Marathe posted:entitled quote:suburbanite quote:white woman quote:with first world grievances quote:grievances and a poo poo enough education to have no perspective on her privilege. And there's some monter(s) bursting through the ground that she ignores looking for revenge. I stand by my diagnosis; stage 4 Karenism, inoperable, terminal. deoju fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Feb 9, 2023 06:32
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The placard that she was pointing to by way of illustrating the inhumanity done to her brother by the people who made the sign. The group that the doctor was in or complicit with or something. In your very first line of this post you tried to reframe the events so the woman was more wrong than she actually was. You just did a loving Breitbart on it without even thinking. Hmmm yes. No misogyny here. I often lie to blame people I like too.
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Feb 9, 2023 07:00
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flashy_mcflash posted:I was joking, because people seemed to be like "why would anyone deign to take orders from this w...w...woman" oh sorry I skipped a lot of posts
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Feb 9, 2023 07:04
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I just assumed the sign was made pre thing yanno? Kind of a my how times done changed deal
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Feb 9, 2023 07:14
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That sign doesn’t jive with a post apocalypse group making it xiodan. Please don’t be a stupid rear end
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Feb 9, 2023 07:16
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Xiahou Dun posted:The placard that she was pointing to by way of illustrating the inhumanity done to her brother by the people who made the sign. The group that the doctor was in or complicit with or something. quote:
Edit: to be fair, every character in this show is awful in one way or another. Except for Frank, and maybe Ellie. And we don't yet know how and why she hurt anybody before. deoju fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Feb 9, 2023 08:10
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You sure do seem to know a lot of the inner workings of a character that’s had less than 50 lines of dialogue.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:when you think a woman who shoots a prisoner in the head in cold blood is bad, it's misogyny That DICK! posted:That sign doesn’t jive with a post apocalypse group making it xiodan. Please don’t be a stupid rear end And yeah, basic media literacy: FEDRA was running an authoritarian QZ like the one we saw in Boston. They killed the warlord woman's brother and she somehow lead a rebellion against the authoritarian leaders of the QZ, but is now dangerously unhinged as the result of the trauma of everything. It was their sign and she was rubbing it in that the doctor was complicit with that double-speaking authoritarian regime, presumably as someone comfortable who just wanted to keep their head down, but nevertheless ended up doing harm to the rebellion, which is now exacting its revenge. That's just basically what's happening, just so we're all on the same page. deoju posted:She literally reads a placard that states "You are entitled to food, clothes, medical attention, family visits and a lawyer" while she has a prisoner in a cell and ignores that to pursue her own personal interests, and ends by executing him. In her implied situation under FEDRA she was very materially oppressed and her relatives killed, presumably to maintain social order. So no, she was not privileged then. And now she is the manager, so to speak. She's in charge. She doesn't just feel the system owes her due to her blind privilege, she actually took power with force of arms. I don't know of any definition of Karen where they are the authority. The insult is that they try to be authoritarian monsters by appealing to an authority that they think owes them, making them simultaneously reprehensible and pathetic. This warlord is being reprehensible in a lot of ways. None of those ways make her meaningfully a "Karen" except the fact that she's being terrible while being a white woman.
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