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Kunster posted:Part of the telling offs involved making Hydra a good guy organization, as in "Yeah we're The Nazis all but in name" org. And then having Black Widow's Roma origins whitewashed. And the whole thing with killing off the concept of Wasp and clearing up Ant Man's legacy to the point of making sure she wasn't a meaningful character. wasp's only meaningful contribution to ant-man was the time an artist hosed up reading a script and drew hank as hitting her, thus shackling him with that poo poo for forever
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ArchangeI posted:The act of thinking something progressives don't like. Calling it crimethink instantly puts the reactionary on the moral highground because he declares himself prosecuted before anything happens. It's a classic tactic. See also "99% of you won't be brave enough to share this horribly racist article on facebook!!!!!" i thought he meant the insane punk rock anarchist idea of living via petty theft and scrounging and knowin the One Weird Tricks of the world but on purpose
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ikanreed posted:Hasn't a secondary point of every assassin's creed game been to place people into the moral ambiguity of the era, and actually show just a little real history? the first four, up through revelations, were pretty solidly "assassins are the underground freedom fighters stopping the evil hitler stalin templars from world dominatino" without much ambiguity AssCreed 3's whole Thing was "there are no good guys or bad guys, there's just people doing what they think is right, and it turns out they're all a pack of assholes, every single one of them" and that's carried forward to the point where Rogue has you playing as an assassin who defects to join the templars, and the templars you meet are fairly reasonable dudes, not mustache twirling villains, and the assassins are kind of assholes. 3 did it the most though, and it was great because ti got to play off hero-worship of the founding fathers to do it.
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Oct 27, 2015 19:52
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ikanreed posted:Right, sure, there were bad guys and they were the perfect conspirators plotting humanity's downfall, but that's not what I meant. no, the first few games are pretty black and white all the way around. you don't really get into ambiguity until 3 (which i'm replaying right now)
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Oct 27, 2015 23:06
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coyo7e posted:the whole point of rear end creed was golden apples and aliens, when did people start trying to take it serious again i think its pretty cool and rad that they're going for something a little harder than just playing bash the fash with knives
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Oct 28, 2015 00:32
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:Ehhhh if you do the "the truth" stuff in AC2 it does stuff like saying that Stalin was one of the Assassins, and I think JFK as a Templar. The series, I think, has always kind of been aware that the "assassins are good guys who want freedom" thing is obviously bullshit. i think 3 is the best one about it, becaue connor legitimately is that guy. he's an idealist, and the entire game is about his ideals butting up against reality and him becoming more and more jaded, whether its realizing that the colonists are fighting a war to be free of the king, while still owning slaves, or that the revenge he dreamed of is just an empty hollow victory, without glory or meaning, and that yeah his dad's a templar but his dad's actually a pretty okay guy, even if he did bang and run black flag went the opposite way, with edward thinking everyone was an rear end in a top hat from the jump and just wanting to be left alone to build up his pirate paradise (which is basically the homestead from 3, but bigger) and slowly coming around to the assassins' side if only because they were the lesser of two evils djw175 posted:Revelations also leaned pretty heavily on "The assassins aren't really good people. They're just the weaker of the two factions vying for control." in the Desmond bits, but I don't really blame anyone for not sitting through those. was this in those stupid platform bits or in the bits where you talk to the last subject's memories, because those platforming bits were so bad i couldn't even finish them and i generally had no problem sitting through desmond poo poo
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djw175 posted:Platforming bits. well there you loving go that's the worst thing the series has ever done
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Terrible Opinions posted:AC2 was also the one with a fairly well done low key gay romance. Sad that the sequels didn't really do anything with it.\ wasn't it something in the villa that subsequently got blown the gently caress up
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Oct 28, 2015 16:07
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Terrible Opinions posted:I'm talking about Ezio and da Vinci. I'm pretty sure you invented that
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Oct 28, 2015 19:49
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Reminder that AC2 opens with you climbing in a girls window for forbidden nookie and you hit a button to push her dress down
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Oct 28, 2015 19:50
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Cingulate posted:The convenient story is usually one about the conscience of a specific Soviet soldier who decides not to push the button, instead of following his murderous, inhuman orders. on the other hand there's articles floating around about the Dead Man's Hand or whatever, the crazy "if poo poo gets super hosed" last ditch nuclear attack plan the russians have, where there's a million steps to get to it but at the end of the day it's one guy going "well the world's on fire gently caress it"
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Oct 31, 2015 20:14
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this came up in another thread, why does popehat tolerate clarkhat's lunacy?
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Nov 2, 2015 02:01
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Silver2195 posted:I think I remember Ken (Popehat) saying at one point that disagreeing with Clark sometimes helps him clarify his own positions. not really a compelling reason, imho
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Nov 2, 2015 02:34
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In the Dunwich Horror one of the things that repels the townspeople from the kid is that he's swarthy
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:And Wonderwoman got tied up a lot, what's your point? The creator of Wonder Woman is the man who invented the polygraph, his wife, and their live in lover. It was literally their sex life in comic form.
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Nov 12, 2015 13:58
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SIGSEGV posted:Never forget RMS's best and greatest moment: pleasure card
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Dec 9, 2015 13:49
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Cingulate posted:If you honestly read the pastebin as implying "Scott is arguing ... nerds are as oppressed as Black people", you are stupid. Source your quotes motherfucker
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Cingulate posted:I definitely derive more pleasure from people being extremely angry at there being a Black guy and a white evil guy and a woman who (I hope) doesn't have to be rescued, but does rescuing herself in the new Star Wars movie than I ever could from the movie itself. I really hope they make the next movie really glaringly obvious in that sense (even more than Star Wars originally was, with the all-white all-male Star Destroyer crews and the ragtag rebel group). Like, the Sith symbol looks like a swastika, the evil guys include four blonde men, the evil dark lord is a wife beater, the Jedi get a gay latino boss, Boyega kissing the Whitest woman possible on all of the movie posters and in the key scene where the film's stupid space dick explodes, and so on. there's literally a scene in the new one where one of the top first empire guys gives a speech about how they're gonna blow up the republic before firing their giant system-destroying laser powered by a sun, standing in his fancy black uniform in front of a giant red banner with ranks and ranks of soldiers before him who, at the end, raise their fists in salut i'm saying it's straight up nazi rally
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Patrick Spens posted:You are aware that words mean things, and that Alexander isn't DE right? as i pointed out to someone, it took them forever to ban Chuckie C Floorshitter, and nobody liked that guy twitter iskinda slow on the uptake sometimes
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God Bless former forums poster Boniface
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Randall Munroe should be purged just not for any of those reasons. He just sucks bad.
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fatherboxx posted:The reddit mock thread here gave birth to poo poo Reddit Says and the existence of it *ahem* triggered a lot of folks on reddit and 4chan who reacted to the mocking memes and harsh moderation same way sane people react to Nat-Soc Taylor Swift twitter accounts. Actually SRS already existed and goons just colonized it after the creator abandoned it The person behind it just posted threads like "Reddit or stormfront " and the ilk
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Jan 23, 2016 16:29
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:"In one sense, it's clear that we do not want to live the sort of lives that are depicted in most stories that human authors have written so far. Think of the truly great stories, the ones that have become legendary for being the very best of the best of their genre: The Iliiad (sic), Romeo and Juliet, The Godfather, Watchmen, Planescape: Torment, the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or that ending in Tsukihime. Is there a single story on the list that isn't tragic?" watchmen is only considered the best superhero comic by people who don't actually like superhero comics, smh yud
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Jan 30, 2016 15:53
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Cingulate posted:Not a real gamer Nah comics are an actual thing I spend most of my time on in some fashion, and the people who think Watchmen is the best superhero comic are the people who don't read comic books they read Graphic Novels It's good, but it's not the best
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Patrick Spens posted:Sort of? They are pretty explicitly aimed at middle school/high school age kids. Think of they like a mix of YA fiction and comic books. They aren't all as japan as big yud is presenting here. The novel *Edge of Tomorrow* is based off of is perfectly respectable pulp action. That novel is also called All You Need is Kill which is the BEST title
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Doc Hawkins posted:I think you are a cool guy who posts good, but this sounds like a WWE fan talking poo poo about people who follow the Olympics. I'm saying that there is no actual fundamental difference between the two things except if you want to feel like you're better than those fuckin plebes. I read all kinds of poo poo, comics are My Thing in a lot of ways and have been for well over half my life, to the point where I almost pursued a lit degree so that I could maybe find a way to teach about them, and people who say "I don't read comic books I only like Alan Moore et al" are assholes who have never engaged with the medium in a meaningful way It's the same as the (thankfully increasingly rare) assholes who say "I don't watch movies I watch FILMS" like using the grown up word means you're better than other people Cingulate posted:I get the point, but I doubt Yud is big on cultural relativism. Man you keep saying that like its a thing I'm saying but it's still not and also I don't know who this random guy with a website straight out of 2002 is or why I should care about his opinion Also note I never said it was bad, just that people who think it's the end all be all of superhero comics are kinda fuckin wrong and also it kinda ruined superhero comics for thirty years and counting, that and Dark Knight Returns which is as important in terms of history and impact and making a statement on the nature of comic books but it's about Batman so it's poo poo (also it's actually poo poo and I hate it)
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Cingulate posted:I agree. Fuckin' casuals. Wow it's crazy that you say that because I sure as hell didn't Double ironic because I'm literally grumping about people having a false sense of superiority at the same time you claim that I'm looking down my nose at people for not devoting their lives to this hobby Fun fact I recommend people run far away from this hobby because either you're going to be disgusted and run away anyway or fall in love and have your heart broken every week, nobody should read comics Also I still don't know what you were trying to prove with that link. Some guy I've never heard of disagrees with me? Okay cool that's never happened before
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Dr. Video Games 0081 posted:What's the best superhero comic? Final Crisis? While I prefer Morrison to Moore in general, FC is a loving mess I would have a hard time picking one best superhero comic because there's so many reasons to give it to one. Like, Action Comics #1 created the template that's still in use today, but Fantastic Four #1 shattered that template and gave birth to a whole new style, and Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen both were a major influence on comics pretty much from the minute they hit and continue to be today. poo poo I've argued for Ninja Turtles #1 before for being the spark that set off the indie boom that lead to Image being a thing. I mean, I know what my personal favorites are (All-Star Superman is on there, for sure, with the issue of Spider-Man where he lifts an entire building off himself) but I wouldn't want to even think about calling something the best Whoa look at that nuanced answer that you weren't expecting when you made your pissy one liner almost like this is a thing I've thought about because comics are just what I do
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Peztopiary posted:You're wrong about it and DKR ruining comics, but that's a fight for another thread I guess. DC has spent thirty years chaining itslef to a book that sprang from the realization that Batman is never actually allowed to change and continues to gently caress up what makes a book Mature and For Adults to this day (hint it's not people losing arms and titties everywhere) to the point where they keep loving asking Miller to do sequels when both of the ones we have so far are about how stupid DC is for chaining itslef to DKR You'd lose that fight is what I'm sayin
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Lady Naga posted:Ahahah awesome. The lead up to "you're stronger than you think you are" is literally what I use to explain why I fuckin love Superman even though I hate his comics for the most part to customers at the shop I work at
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Count Chocula posted:rear end is the only Superman comic you need to read, but I'm a Morrison fanboy. Nah you definitely should read Silver Age superman, after they sued Captain Marvel out of existence and then hired the guy who was writing him to write Superman, whose name is escaping me right now. Morrison pulls from those stories a lot in rear end much like he pulls from Silver Age Batman stories for his Batman run Edit it was Otto Binder and they basically asked him to do all the things he did with Captain Marvel, mostly the creation of a "family", but with Superman instead of not-Superman
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Cingulate posted:What's with you and final periods? I'm posting from my phone, which is also the only reason you're getting caps Also you're literally the jackass I was talking about when this all started, kudos
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divabot posted:dear god shut up about your western comics, only manga is on topic for this thread and then only if it's been made into an anime with technologically advanced reactionary hordes and of course underage girls masturbating in detail written in the style of the Sequences Actually you know what One Punch Man is the best superhero comic
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:I would like to read a book about light being an alien invader from another universe. i want to read a book that unexpectedly ends at htat point and leaves me to figure out where the author made the jump
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He's a white nationalist On paper
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Woolie Wool posted:Maybe we need an ad like happyelf's that adds him to your ignore list when you click it. Who? Oh you mean hpayplef
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Woolie Wool posted:D&D shitposter who made Effectronica look like a reasonable and pleasant person. The I know who he is, it was a joke about his inability to spell
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divabot posted:Sandifer book update: he's finished the first draft, with six thousand words on William Blake, setting out in detail how Blake refuted all these NRx fools' claims before they made them - particularly apposite since if they're so drat proud of their knowledge of dusty tomes they drat well should have known their Blake already. so what's this red tidday up thing people keep mentioning
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GottaPayDaTrollToll posted:According to Wikipedia: Michael Vassar (previously the president of MIRI, Yudkowsky's amazingly unproductive AI think tank), Jaan Tallinn (previously helped develop Skype and Kazaa), and Zvi Mowshowitz (previously a professional Magic: The Gathering player, yes really). Funded by Peter Thiel, of course. Aww man Zvi...
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