ate all the Oreos posted:

Look up Planetes some time, the only fetish it has is for meticuliusly accurate real world spaceflight physics and depressingly spot on depictions of capitalism in 50 years

ate all the Oreos posted:

You see they're robot ladies who want to gently caress you so they can turn into a real girl like pinnochhio.

I'm not kidding.

TinTower posted:

hackbunny posted:

*a quick image search later*



lmao


Huh, first time a search for a "no, actually it's good" anime doesn't turn up anything gross

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However, in 1942, he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army and sent to New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea. His wartime experiences affected him greatly, as he contracted malaria, watched friends die from battle wounds and disease, and dealt with other horrors of war. Finally, in an Allied air raid, he was caught in an explosion and lost his dominant (left) arm. Regarding this life-changing event, a Nov. 30, 2015 NHK announcement of his death showed excerpts of a video interview with him at age 80, in which he said that as the only survivor of his unit, he was 'ordered to die' — a prospect he considered ridiculous. The result of Mizuki's wartime experience was a concurrent sense of pacifism and goodwill. In the same interview, he explained that his Yōkai characters can be seen only in times of peace, not war, and that he purposely created these supernatural creatures to be of no specific ethnicity or nationality as a hint of the potential for humanity. While in a Japanese field hospital on Rabaul, he was befriended by the local Tolai tribespeople, who offered him land, a home, and citizenship via marriage to one of their women. Mizuki acknowledged that he considered remaining behind, but was shamed by a military doctor into returning home to Japan first for medical treatment to his arm and to face his parents, which he did reluctantly.

Upon arriving home, Mizuki had initially planned to return to New Guinea; however, the occupation of Japan changed that. His injuries did little to help, nor did the fact that his older brother, an artillery officer, was convicted as a war criminal for having prisoners of war executed. After his return to Japan he worked at a variety of jobs including as a fish salesman and kamishibai artist.

In 1957, Mizuki released his debut work, Rocketman. He published numerous works afterwards, both dealing with the military and with yōkai. He has also written many books on both subjects, including an autobiography about his time on New Britain Island and a manga biography of Adolf Hitler. In 1991, he released a short work titled War and Japan published in The Sixth Grader, a popular edutainment magazine for young people, detailing the atrocities committed by the Japanese Army during their rampage in China and Korea and is narrated by Nezumi Otoko. The work serves as a powerful counterpoint to revisionist manga like the works of Yoshinori Kobayashi and by extension a way for Mizuki to express his anger at those responsible for all of Japan's victims. When not working in either field, he painted a number of subjects, though these works are not as well known as his literary ones which have made him a household name. In 2003, he returned to Rabaul to rekindle his friendship with the locals, who had named a road after him in his honor.

Relevant Tangent posted:

Nick Land is the dumbest of these people in the sense that he had actual academic status and threw it away so he could do tweets, link to Jacobite, and make approving gestures in the direction of Jordan Peterson. Yud has never and will never achieve anything, but Land had something for a brief moment.

Fairly passive posted:

Facebook seems to have pushed him over the edge. He was eagerly awaiting a thrilling cyberpunk future and he got Facebook.

Mr.Radar posted:

https://twitter.com/homunculette/status/1031971093135994880

mysterious frankie posted:

What the gently caress is Prager U? I only know them from crazy long youtube commercials about how Israel is good, or a black guy saying that racism is over and that other black people who talk about it are whiners... wait, I think I just accidentally contexted myself a good enough answer.

there wolf posted:

It's just a bunch of videos some right wing pundit called Prager puts out to counter the evil liberalism of actual education.

Mr.Radar posted:

Pretty much that. This video (originally uploaded with the title "PragerU: The Blog That Thinks It's a University") does a pretty good job breaking down and debunking one of their videos on creationism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIwKhX-1gZQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92r0-obve7s

White Rock posted:

The fact that those videos have millions of views should be a cause of concern.

Slickly animated stick men can both be used for good and evil.

mysterious frankie posted:

I only knew about them because they take out extremely long youtube ads. I've gone to watch an old episode of The Computer Chronicles, then I got some guy being like "The western Left wants to tell you that Israel is a nation committing genocide against its neighbors. But consider this; Stalin was a leftist and he committed genocide. So genocide is a Leftist thing. Problem is, Israel is extremely Right wing, so by that logic they couldn't be committing genocide. But now look at who is making the claim, the Leftists. Seems pretty convenient, doesn't it? AlsoLechembreadissupergoodcallyourmothershemissesyouGodbless."

Except it takes like 20 minutes to get there. I'm sure some other weirdos like me stop to gawk at the weird commercial, but I'm guessing overall people skip them, as you should, so they're wasting a lot of cash on being something you see five seconds of before your music video starts.

Mr.Radar posted:

https://twitter.com/homunculette/status/1031971093135994880

ate all the Oreos posted:

Oh man I know what video that's from, it's hosted by this "professor" who paints these loving terrible, generic paintings of boy scouts and is clearly super upset that the art world doesn't recognize his clear genius. He talks about how in the art class he teaches he starts by showing the class a picture he claims is by Jackson Pollock, and has the kids interpret it, and then *gasp* it's actually just a picture of his own messy, paint-covered smock, and you dumb idiot kids couldn't tell the difference because art is decadent and depraved now, how dare you try to find meaning where nobody has explicitly spelled it out for you!!!

Then the rest of the video is him griping about specific art pieces he doesn't like

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

What I'm saying is that art changes and evolves, and we're all better for it. For every few hundred insufferable rear end in a top hat art majors who get their degree for making a fingerpaint recreation of Picasso's Guernica done in their own bodily fluids or a performance piece consisting of making GBS threads into empty Campbell's soup cans as a comment on the violence inherent in the system, there's someone doing something truly new and creative.

cash crab posted:

I feel that people who spend inordinate amounts of time defending the deepness of their art are typically missing the point of postmodern art (which, poo poo in cans is definitely postmodern); early examples of obnoxiously underskilled pieces, like that guy who poo poo into cans and sold it, did so simply as a protest against collectors, the upper-middle class, etc, or as a signal to the absurd. It means nothing because life is meaningless, which is the typical message, but laymen and strict modernists alike either don't understand or heavily disagree with that message, which is where you get nineteen year old art students who will make a plaster cast of their own hand and then claim it's about their father's rigid parenting style*.

*: Real example from art school!

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Oddly enough Prager U's video about the Civil War is exactly the opposite of what you'd expect. An Army guy explains that the South seceded to keep black people as slaves and they all committed treason.

Maxwell Lord posted:

Beyond that a lot of abstract art isn't seeking representation or symbolic meaning- it's sometimes just "these shapes/colors, arranged in a certain way, are interesting to me". There's no meaning to decode, it's pure aesthetics.

cash crab posted:

like that guy who poo poo into cans and sold it,

ate all the Oreos posted:

I've been told Milo is having/had a meltdown because nobody's paying attention to him and nobody wants to book him as a speaker at anything. I'm not going to check because I don't need the google results for milo on my mind but it was nice hearing that he's apparently fully washed up and miserable at least. Burn in hell you gently caress

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Over the past three years, I have spent literally millions of dollars trying to do talks, speeches, events, rallies and protests, to say nothing of all the stuff I do behind the scenes I can never tell you about. A lot of that money was my own wealth, from before I even started in journalism. My events almost never happen. It’s protests, or sabotage from Republican competitors or social media outcries. Every time, it costs me tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. And when I get dumped from conferences, BARELY ANYONE makes a sound about it — not my fellow conservative media figures and not even, in many cases, you guys. When was the last time any of you protested in the street at the treatment meted out to me or Pamela Gellar or Mike Cernovich or Alex Jones? I have repeatedly put myself in harm’s way in service of American values. My annual security bill amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars — just so my husband and I don’t get killed going for sushi. I have to make that money somehow just to stay afloat, and that doesn’t scratch the surface of staff costs, insurance, your insane American taxes. I’ve fought bitterly and endlessly for freedom in a country I don’t even belong to — not for my benefit, but for yours. I have been betrayed and abandoned by everyone who ever called themselves my friend, with a small handful of notable exceptions. I was a significant factor in Donald Trump getting elected, for which I have received zero credit. I almost single-handedly ignited the current debate about free speech on campus and NO ONE has ever matched my ability to draw attention to these issues. For my trouble, I have lost everything standing up for the truth in America, spent all my savings, destroyed all my friendships, and ruined my whole life. At some point, you realize it’s occasionally better to spend the money on crabs and cocktails. If anyone has a problem with that, then frankly they can go gently caress themselves. All I ever read here is criticism and ingratitude. You guys have no idea what I have sacrificed for you, and you think just because I drown my sorrows with a few expensive bottles of wine, you’re justified in calling me lazy and self-involved. I don’t advertise my selflessness, because I’m not a victim. But for the love of God show some recognition of what your front-line warriors have accomplished on your behalf, you entitled loving babies. YOU WILL KEEP LOSING until you support those of us out there on the front lines while you tweet and Facebook from your living rooms.

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YOU WILL KEEP LOSING until you support those of us out there on the front lines while you tweet and Facebook from your living rooms.

cash crab posted:

Also, pre-photographic art didn't seek pure representation or pure abstraction, depending on the artist or subject matter. If I can bring up Vermeer again, that dude literally used a projector so that he could paint milkmaids. You could argue, I guess, that there was some level of symbolic importance in either the grand scheme of his work, or in individual paintings, but you're still talking about a guy who basically wanted to be a photographer but was born in the wrong era. And ever seen The Garden of Earthly Delights? I would argue a huge portion of its credibility is derived from its age; not to say I don't like the painting, but it's pretty abstract for its time.

I'm sorry if I'm continuing a derail here, but I have this really specific pet peeve for people hearkening back to some specific era to criticise the present. In addition to the fact that we've been doing that as long as there have been people older than us, but a channel like Prager U also does it to get sentimental about, for example, war and some lost concept of masculinity, and much like golden American eras, it never loving existed. If anyone's interested, there's a very good book called The Way We Never Were that discusses that whole idea.

divabot posted:

there wolf posted:

More than once in trans spaces I've come across people wondering why transhumanists have such a bad reputation and it's entirely because their image of a transhumanist is a gender-queer person wanting cool robot bodies and cyberpunk body mods.

EdithUpwards posted:

The saddest thing is there are actually decent transhumanist communities. Some of them have been doing theory since the sixties. Some were part of the trends that became cybernetic socialism, others were outgrowths of socialist-feminism, others were the works of singular trans people with​ a utopian vision of not feeling like poo poo all the time. It's just that none of them, not a single one, is based on some piece of poo poo fanfic author's rewrite of Science.

A bit like the women in the New Atheist movement who worked​for decades on social and academic projects only to get mugged by a bunch of has-been lecture circuit grifters.