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I don't think Unoccupied Korea's Mars mission fits with prejudice of the PRC (high-tech, rich, oppressive). It fits perfectly with our prejudice of the DPRK (poor, paranoid, oppressive).
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Greg12 posted:I don't think Unoccupied Korea's Mars mission fits with prejudice of the PRC (high-tech, rich, oppressive). It fits perfectly with our prejudice of the DPRK (poor, paranoid, oppressive). Hmm.. that seems right. But there is an absence of China that is obvious too. It is a product of this time afterall, and while this series is being made China is not supposed to be a rival to the west. They can have a vision of the future where there are workers toiling away for company scrip but NK having a module where everyone has their needs taken cared for is just unrealistic. I mean sure I like this show but the caricatures are sometimes too obvious.
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Justin Tyme posted:Decadent Americans want more pay and higher Internet bandwidth, while North Koreans are happy with hot chip, underwear, and space wife 
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Some Guy TT posted:i miss the days when superhero movies were self consciously stupid and all the people involved realized there was nothing they could do to change that so they just hammed it up at every opportunity Dark man ftw
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I like reading MCU spoilers purely out of interest in the drama of their production lately. Deadpool 3's spoilers make it seem like it'll be a Fortnite crossover without the narrative integrity and writing finesse of Epic.
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Ryan Reynolds Deadpool, standing before a vast crowd, leans into the microphone and bellows in his most annoying Deadpool voice possible: "Nineteen dollar fortnite card. Who wants it?"
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Like how that call of duty game presented the Highway of Death as having been done by the bad guys, so does For All Mankind present an engineering error due to different measurement standard resulting in disaster having been a communist error because of their lovely society. While in real life that's why a NASA shuttle blew up! Spoilers! It's a pretty good show though!
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HootTheOwl posted:Yeah, well, poo poo Ridley doesn't mess around when it comes to people criticizing his films online.
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Justin Tyme posted:Ryan Reynolds Deadpool, standing before a vast crowd, leans into the microphone and bellows in his most annoying Deadpool voice possible: Ryan Reynolds somehow got to be more annoying than Vince Vaughn for me.
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Dec 7, 2023 20:56
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Nichael posted:Ryan Reynolds somehow got to be more annoying than Vince Vaughn for me. vince is an ugly guy
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Grimnarsson posted:Like how that call of duty game presented the Highway of Death as having been done by the bad guys, so does For All Mankind present an engineering error due to different measurement standard resulting in disaster having been a communist error because of their lovely society. While in real life that's why a NASA shuttle blew up! Spoilers! It's a pretty good show though! That was the Mars Climate Orbiter that crashed due to mismatched units. The destroyed space shuttles were from launching during cold weather and from ignoring an ice strike on the leading edge of the orbiter's wing during launch.
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Dec 7, 2023 21:16
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cold weather. ain't them shits launched from Florida. how bad were they loving up to gently caress that up.
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Weembles posted:That was the Mars Climate Orbiter that crashed due to mismatched units. No the rods they bolted the asteroid with weren't good enough because they were made in the Soviet Union and they knew it because something like that can only happen in a hosed up autocrasy like the USSR not in a liberal democracy like US where it actually happened.
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Grimnarsson posted:Like how that call of duty game presented the Highway of Death as having been done by the bad guys, so does For All Mankind present an engineering error due to different measurement standard resulting in disaster having been a communist error because of their lovely society. While in real life that's why a NASA shuttle blew up! Spoilers! It's a pretty good show though! I was wondering how fail the show would get since the end of last season showed a character in Moscow. They've been pretty good overall but I'm kinda expecting a fair amount of 'evil shadowy KGB runs everything and people get gulagged for life if they ever say a negative thing' once I get around to watching it
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Grimnarsson posted:No the rods they bolted the asteroid with weren't good enough because they were made in the Soviet Union and they knew it because something like that can only happen in a hosed up autocrasy like the USSR not in a liberal democracy like US where it actually happened. They already kinda did that with the stolen tech arc. Oh no evil commies are stealing our spaceship designs but thankfully their inferior slavic brains still build them incorrectly
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Dec 7, 2023 21:26
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ron d moore is space sorkin
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Xaris posted:i like ryan, he's fun edit holy poo poo they were both in Waiting, i don't remember that at all i say swears online has issued a correction as of 21:53 on Dec 7, 2023 |
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Breakfast All Day posted:ron d moore is space sorkin absolutely
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i say swears online posted:twenty years ago i remember thinking of him as like a poor man's dane cook and lol at that opinion today oh that one is worth a revisit based on how woefully outdated it's already become. people always talk about Ryan Reynolds' character's plot, and yeah it's pretty messed up, but the fact that throughout the entire movie there is an ongoing subplot about the "game" they play in the workplace where Men find elaborate ways to show their dick and balls to other employees is a real minefield in the post metoo era
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i can remember seeing the trailers for Waiting in theaters and thinking "this has already aged poorly and it isnt even out yet" so i cant imagine how radioactive that poo poo is now
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i say swears online posted:twenty years ago i remember thinking of him as like a poor man's dane cook and lol at that opinion today They were both the same person for a long time, waiting was when they reproduced via division and became separate people
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im prob gonna see deadpool 3 tbh, once disney gets to x-men poo poo i have to see with my own eyes how bad it will be.
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as a middle schooler when Waiting came out I saw a lot of my classmates dicks that year
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Grimnarsson posted:No the rods they bolted the asteroid with weren't good enough because they were made in the Soviet Union and they knew it because something like that can only happen in a hosed up autocrasy like the USSR not in a liberal democracy like US where it actually happened. in season 3 when Kelly Baldwin and her cosmonaut bf start arguing over the vietnam war and she mentions the communists purges as how evil north vietnam was i started to get so mad. I get in this alt-universe the war didnt go on as long but still the amount of ppl the south vietnam regimes and its american puppet master killed was way more then any purges the commies were doing. What am i saying is you gotta turn your brain off sometimes to enjoy For All Mankind edit: lmao i accidently said korean same diff
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Popy posted:in season 3 when Kelly Baldwin and her cosmonaut bf start arguing over the vietnam war and she mentions the communists purges as how evil north vietnam was i started to get so mad. I get in this alt-universe the war didnt go on as long but still the amount of ppl the south korean regimes and its american puppet master killed was way more then any purges the commies were doing. I gave it the benefit of the doubt and took that as them spouting propaganda at each other, the only difference is that Russian Guy's propaganda was true lol
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Grimnarsson posted:Watching the newest season of For All Mankind and I thought these morloks were going to strike and destroy the eloi up above but doesn't seem that way? Seems like liberal bullshit that capitalism just needs to be regulated and then it'll be good. It stinks! I like the show though. I think they're still building up to that, especially with Sam directly confronting Poole and the general grumbling about the difference in treatment between the Helios serfs and the people from space agencies.
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Clip-On Fedora posted:If you think Taylor Switft is bad now, wait until the human sacrifices start................... Sounds like that'd make her even cooler
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Blood Boils posted:Sounds like that'd make her even cooler depends on which humans
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DoombatINC posted:i can remember seeing the trailers for Waiting in theaters and thinking "this has already aged poorly and it isnt even out yet" so i cant imagine how radioactive that poo poo is now I can't explain why but I watch that movie maybe once a year. wait no I think it's because the Andy Milonakis and David Koechner scenes are still funny to me. I watch the entire thing for about 90 seconds worth of dialog.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Man I just rewatched Prometheus and everyone on the internet who goes off about how dumb that crew is is right 100% As usual, online people don't know how to interrogate their own preposterous notions ("if a spaceship the size of a building fell on me, I would simply successfully leap to safety") let alone the genre conventions of horror or science fiction. So they miss the joke that every person who removes their helmet doesn't die because of that, and every character that keeps their helmet on dies anyways! Kane thought his spacesuit would protect him when he peeked in that egg, no more or less than Milburn thought his would protect him from that snake. They have no way to know they are up against movie monsters that consistently defy real world physical & biological limitations! Trusting Weyland is the only actual dumb mistake any of the crew make as far as I can recall; everything else isn't information we can reasonably expect them to know. Hell, Weyland's only mistake is trusting that his perfect slave can't out-think his programmed loyalty. And the best part of Prometheus is David feeding everyone enough rope to hang themselves! It's a great, fun xmas movie
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the best part of Prometheus is the abortion.
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indigi posted:the best part of Prometheus is the abortion. The best part works have been if it was aborted
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:oh that one is worth a revisit based on how woefully outdated it's already become. people always talk about Ryan Reynolds' character's plot, and yeah it's pretty messed up, but the fact that throughout the entire movie there is an ongoing subplot about the "game" they play in the workplace where Men find elaborate ways to show their dick and balls to other employees is a real minefield in the post metoo era I had to remind myself of the movie as I haven't saw it since it came out. "How's my favorite minor" is a line of Reynolds featured in the trailer, which he says to the underage hostess.
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i saw this prerelease video for Prometheus and got hyped for it. it's a nifty creepy little thing. actual movie sucked rear end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ7E7Qp-s-8
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The Helios crew is gonna mutiny and declare martian independence and 2010's will be a free Mars plotline
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For All Mankind's politics are not at all perfect, but it is funny that it present a slightly friendlier neolib alternative where 1. The USSR still exists. 2. The imperialist dick measuring contest is through ridiculous space funding instead of (most) militaristic pursuits. And with those two modifications, the world is substantially better if only because climate change was basically dealt with by the early 1990s.
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Nichael posted:For All Mankind's politics are not at all perfect, but it is funny that it present a slightly friendlier neolib alternative where i wonder if afghanistan, tibet, iran et al are monarchies in this timeline
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I'm interested in watching episodes of lovely stupid tv that are specifically about divorced dudes living in crappy apartments. there's the Shangri La Apartments episode of Frasier and the Kirk Van Houston "race car bed" simpsons episode. was there ever a married with children where Al moved out?
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Durf posted:comic book movies are following the same trajectory that led to the crash of their source material: over saturation, too many tie-ins/crossovers, and constant stakes escalation from local to universal to quantum threats. i disagree with this in the sense that the american comic industry never really recovered the nineties era collapse youre describing coincided with manga starting to be widely distributed in english ever since that happened manga has always dominated domestic comic sales even when american comics are on an upswing manga is indisputedly doing just as good if not even better the fact that hardly anyone is actually aware of this is one of the more grotesque examples of just how ludicrously jingoistic most media writing in this country is to an extent that just isnt true anywhere else and a major reason why thats the case is because american exceptionalism is extremely necessary to justify why its drat near impossible to distribute media from other countries here when manga has already proved americans are perfectly capable of consuming foreign culture
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i feel surprisingly not racist right now because reading that my first thought was these seem like completely different kinds of spouses whats the commonality supposed to oh right
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