Some Guy TT posted:

this thread is still public by the way no one archives anything in cined

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3571842&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

i should warn you that terry van feleday is a known autist russian female and we cant rule out the possibility that putin hand picked her to spread sedition among innocent easily seduced goons about our lord and savior optimus prime

CharlestheHammer posted:

dragonball is insanely creepy with Bulma yeah. Though it shouldn’t be a surprise Toryiama literally wrote a comic where the punchline was rape

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/PopInABox/status/1182325635668172801?s=20

A Gnarlacious Bro posted:

It's all worth it to see my childhood role models on the big screen, inspiring another generation of people to go out and do good in the world.

Barry Convex posted:

not mine lol

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

except the people who thought he was interesting and enjoyable have moved on and everyones sick of him

yellowcar posted:

https://twitter.com/Lukge1/status/1196104890155749376

gradenko_2000 posted:

One early episode of Jack Ryan begins with a Syrian father out in the boonies teaching his son to wash up, to pray, to take care of his grandfather, and then they share a tender moment as he drives away on a motorcycle

As the man gets a few miles out from the city, the motorcycle is then blown up in an instant, and we're made to understand that he was killed by drone strike.

The drone operator is slipped a one dollar bill by his partner for a "good shoot", and he folds it reluctantly. The operator is clearly suffering some kind of emotional trauma from this work, and we see one wall of his apartment covered in individual one dollar bills, numbering what must be in the hundreds.

He takes all of them down and heads to the local casino to spend it all ... except he ends up winning bTig at the roulette table, and that makes him feel even worse

Some lady at the same table starts hitting on him, and they eventually hook up, except it turns out she's married, and he gets beaten up by her husband when they're discovered

And that's the context in which he shows up to the drone facility the next day with a black eye and fat lip, at which point, his partner "jokes" about him getting beat up by a "tranny" that he must have tried to pick up.

he whole point of this mini-arc is supposed to make us feel like A. drone pilots suffer from PTSD also, and B. the Syrian child we saw at the beginning of the episode is now without a father, and THAT'S SAD

But it's never questioned whether America should be doing any of this in the first place.

___

Much later on in the season, the wife of the Syrian Bad Guy runs away from their estate after discovering that he's been working with and training Islamist radicals. She takes the kids with her, and enlists the help of a sympathetic uncle.

They get discovered by the husband's goons, the uncle is killed trying to help them escape, and then the wife is assaulted, and is heavily implied that she's about to be raped.

This is when the camera pans out to inform the viewer that they've been watched by that same drone operator we met earlier this entire time. The operator makes a snap decision to fire a missile without getting prior authorization, and manages to target the Hellfire missile in such a way that the Islamist militiaman assaulting the wife is the only one hit and killed by the missile, without significantly harming the woman. The woman escapes the dead man's clutches, runs over to her children, and continues the journey.

The operator sees all this, and it's heavily implied by the look on his face and the swelling music that this was a redemptive moment for him. He did something good, for once.

Some Guy TT posted:

the real weird part about harry potter when it comes to racism is that even though we all know voldemort is racist a huge part of his coalition is made up of intelligent magical creatures who are pretty much completely fed up with the bullshit espoused by the ruling wizard leaders to the point that voldemort represents a significant improvement just because hes honest about it and is offering them material benefits for their support instead of platitudes

in my favorite subplot that pretty much noone remembers hagrid and the german half giant headmistress head off to to try and talk the giants into backing the current ruling wizards instead of voldemort and give the chieftain some kind of trinket as a token of their friendship then when they come back the next day the chieftain is dead and replaced by a guy who hates them

hagrid blames the whole experience on unseen voldemort conspirators behind the scenes and it simply does not occur to anyone that the internal politics of the giants were a wee bit more complicated than good versus evil and they might have had good historical reasons to want to murder a leader who has been discovered taking bribes from wizards

The Cameo posted:

so would “oh no, promotheus”

Zoran posted:

this is theft of cined posting valor

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Taintrunner posted:

what

mysterious frankie posted:

I read a description of this and it started with something like “new thing by Pendleton Ward...” and I was like ok could be good then I read “...and Duncan Trussell...” and was like, wait Joe Rogan’s hippie Salacious Crumb? The one with his own lovely podcast? “...based on Trussell’s podcast” and I immediately started doing a slowmo ohhhhhh noooooo. I have yet to watch this video.

Zerilan posted:

Totally forgot Vernon Chatman also made The Heart, She Holler and very surprised that got two more seasons.

LGD posted:

finally, hard proof that dudes rock

https://twitter.com/willmenaker/status/1265695407893594113?s=20

also that there are generational/demographic differences in the way people use imdb rankings that correlate with gender

LGD posted:

https://twitter.com/beanytuesday/status/1270855881442447364?s=20

I've definitely read all of these tbh