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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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RoboRodent posted:

There's a lot of native people around here (Canada) who wear Redskins merchandise. I figure it's ironic/reappropriating.

They're probably the only people who can get away with that, though. I sure as hell wouldn't.

That merch is probably going to get super cheap soon. I'd say it might get in demand and collectable among horrible people, but then again they're also all cheapskates who probably already own as much as they can cram into their hoards already.

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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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RFC2324 posted:

oh poo poo, I missed the "fill out forms every year" part

yeah, that would gently caress me massively, I nearly got evicted last year because my depression kept me from filing for unemployment and requesting the covid stuff for a long time, and I don't even have particularly bad depression issues

More like every month at irregular intervals. Means testing is designed to humiliate.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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It's essentially a variant on 'starve the beast'; make social programs weak, underfunded and minimal on purpose so you can claim they're inefficient and gut them, leaving nothing in their place. Under the pretense of trying to shut up those whiny kids and minorities by doing the bare minimum so you can say 'we tried'.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Bismuth posted:

Tiktoks are maximum 60secs and this one is less

Its one of those "crystals have magic powers" people explaining that moldavite gives you headaches because it realigns your chakras

That sounds way too long

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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And here I thought it was from Moldova.

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Mar 2, 2017

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Ambitious Spider posted:

Moldavia is is a Zelda boss



Anyone else having Nam flashbacks?

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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christmas boots posted:

Maybe I was wrong about you... You're not greedy... YOU'RE BATSHIT INSANE

Came up elsewhere, but one of MGR's best moments is when a villain's 'we're not so different, you and I' speech to the hero actually works, and the villain has immediate cause to regret this.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Splicer posted:

I'm trying to work out how someone can consider all four of those characters to be right at the same time.

We live in a racist society that's twice as big as it ought to be and needs to be ruled by superpowered aliens.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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iwentdoodie posted:

Metal/punk gigs and other fans probably shaped my willingness to accept and/or just not give a poo poo what others are doing as long as they're not hurting anyone else, as well as sticking up for the outcasts and other fellow weirdos, more than anything else in that 12-19 age period.

It's also why incels never made sense to me as I am not a good looking dude but turns out just not being a piece of poo poo works better!

Incels make a lot more sense considering they're almost universally kids who grew up in the suburbs with neglectful/apathetic/checked out parents who never bothered to get them into extracurricular activities or monitor their mental health and social development, so they ended up raised by unsupervised internet use and unable to access any social events on their own accord without their parents giving them a ride. By the time they reach adulthood, they're effectively feral children all grown up who never figured out fully functional methods of interacting with other human beings, but were given a convenient list of things to blame for their problems, mainly that unlike their fathers they weren't handed success and fulfilment, or at least a steady job and a subservient wife, on a silver platter just for being born white and with a dick.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Jet Jaguar posted:

I've long thought that Rock Lobster would be great as the anthem. Mostly because I want to hear an entire stadium do all the fish noises.

Audience participation national anthem would probably conquer the world.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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BrigadierSensible posted:

National Anthem chat:
The French National Anthem - The Marseilles, has the exact same tune as the theme song to now defunct football team the Fitzroy Lions.

So whenever France plays, I am always reminded of a long dead, poo poo footy team that now plays out of Brisbane.

Adelaide Crows uses the tune of the US Marines battle hymn iirc.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Funny thing since Hoarse Whisperer iirc wasn't open about his identity til he was doxxed as a NYC finance guy

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Hard to say either were maximum racist given they lived literally contemporary with the Holocaust and lynchings and massacres in the US, and as far as we know neither directly participated in them.

Also yeah, Lovecraft's entire family dying in asylums probably wasn't a hobby. He was raised as a girl by his aunts apparently.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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CharlestheHammer posted:

I mean neither of those events really matter to this discussion as it doesn’t take maximum racism to kill people. It actually takes rather little if its systematic

I mean, it was an era where people were murdering minorities as a hobby, as a job, and as national policy. Some racist personal writings and themes in sci-fi/fantasy stories are a drop in the bucket in comparison. No one's being made any more racist by Lovecraft's writings. (as said, apparently we have evidence for being made less so)

Also a funny thing is the subtext of most Lovecraft stories is that only educated upper-class white anglo men have the hubris to look into various cosmic terrors that all the 'lesser' races have the sense to leave the hell alone.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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flavor.flv posted:

One time lovecraft was participating in an exquisite corpse style writing collab, and he wrote the character, having suddenly appeared on an alien planet, realizing that he was no longer human, but an alien and going gibberingly insane with horror at being a monster

Robert E Howard picked it up next, and he had the character immediately come to his senses, realize that being an alien on the alien planet was cool and normal, and go on several pages of swashbuckling adventures with his new superpowers

Seems the kinda thing that reads differently nowadays, especially the idea at being in the wrong kind of body that you're comfortable in.

In any case, dunking on Lovecraft seems a little redundant given what life already did to him; dying in poverty from being unable to afford lifesaving medical treatment.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Pretty sure he knows way more ancient words. Eldritch meant 'elven'.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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And rugose!

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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RFC2324 posted:

I suddenly want a cosmic horror writer with an absolute terror of heaters.

Just stories about space heaters going crazy and roasting entire towns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibOkPx_Ej30

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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'That's what college is for!' in the replies seem to suggest that they're completely okay with the whole 'sheltered kid goes completely wild at his first lick of freedom' thing.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Was still wild how online-only EVO imploded because of #MeToo going up to the management.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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SonicFox is pretty much the every big fighting game at the moment guy, iirc.

Smash community's got problems even apparently after pretty much the whole thing imploded from pedophilia.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Still like the Zizek take where Persia is the USA and Sparta is the Middle East

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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In some ways, 90s action movies feel hammier than 80s ones.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Skwirl posted:

All of the evil economics people are dumb as gently caress because they think economics is part of the sciences and not part of the humanities.

It's more basically an entire course dedicated to teaching and reinforcing how pro wrestling is real.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Didn't one D&D mod with Opinions about racism turn out to do slavery BDSM with his black girlfriend?

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Douche Wolf 89 posted:

Asking for a tw to avoid being upset in a space you frequent is exactly the right way to use them.

Tumblr popularizing the term to a lot of people was overall positive, but the people who used it as a purity test were loud and noticeable. I think it being a widely applicable and categorical concept made it attractive to rule scolds.

I saw it recently when people criticized a drawing of a She Ra character by one of the show's artists as racist, which is fine, have that discussion. But then people went on tirades against fan-artists for not having TW: RACISM on all fanart they've done using of the characters.

I remember when fanart of Lana from Archer was criticised as 'whitewashing' the character, when the artist used the exact same skin tone as she has in the show.

Early 2010s Tumblr in general was, from the looks of it, basically mostly sheltered and well-off white people learning exactly one progressive concept, and then picking it up as a weapon to declare war on the world with and trying to beat anyone they saw into submission. There's a reason things got a lot more quiet around the leftist resurgence, and was funny seeing 'intersectionality includes class' apparently result in a shitload of people suddenly no longer using 'intersectionality'.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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hawowanlawow posted:

my wife always spoils the reality shows we watch by looking up the cast members' Instagrams to see what they're up to. at a certain point you have to stop getting mad, because the spoiler is always the same: they're in jail

That seems like a greatly enhancing experience.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Len posted:

nah i don't go to tviv, simpsons was just the first thing to come to mind from growing up watching the sunday night sitcom lineup. they would show ads for what was coming up on that nights simpsons constantly. i'm pretty sure that 70's show ended each episode with a "next week on that 70s show" ad too

Next time, on DRAGON! BALL! Z!

The recaps and previews were so extensive that you basically only needed to watch every third episode to keep track of the plot.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Like half of Europe is descended from Charlemagne, it ain't that special. If someone was from that long ago and hosed in your vague area of descent there's probably some DNA in there.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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endocriminologist posted:

I’m related to like four poets who died in insane asylums and well, I’m glad I can barely write

Ah, a Lovecraft?

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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It really does come down to hating trans people and working absolutely everything backwards from that.

They tend to end up being amazingly sexist, homophobic, and racist in the process, currently their big thing is a conspiracy theory book that claims the trans is a plot by Jewish billionaires.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Buckets posted:

No reason :rolleyes: Just because god sends a flood of quails to eat because you're begging for food made from something other than dirt doesn't mean you should actually eat them!

IIRC there was no real downside to that but apparently they'd lived on divine manna for so long they started eating themselves to death.

A lot about Jewish lore makes sense when you realise they consider their God to be capable of having a sense of humour.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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The Mountain Dew flavoured Doritos and Dorito flavoured Mountain Dew

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Ellie Trashcakes posted:

Okay, first thing: lol, you loving turnip. Second thing: still lolling gimme a sec. Third thing: people grow and change over the course of their lives so I mean, it's hardly out of the realm of possibility that a heretofore "straight" guy might decide, in an environment of increasing acceptance, to try that newfangled dick that all the young folks seem to be crazy for these days and, whaddaya know, like it. Fourth thing: this is really the same as the first two things, but I'm composed enough to explicitly say that getting mad about whether a person who doesn't even exist sucks a dick is sad and weird

lol, newfangled dick

Also, Forrest Gump is Ready Player One for boomers

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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PetraCore posted:

I vaguely remember Damien having a romantic seeming connection with a girl in, uuuh... right, Gotham Academy. Nothing age inappropriate, just them clicking when running around doing a thing and becoming friends. Which is to say, a 12 year old can definitely be queer and not have that go weird places.

Most of what I've seen of Damien is really funny since on top of being a little rear end in a top hat he's got a bit of girls have cooties going on. Mostly I recall when he's going undercover with Supergirl.

Also really funny in the Batman vs TMNT movie. He's exactly the Robin to be interacting with the Turtles.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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RPATDO_LAMD posted:

bruce wayne should be ace
no time to gently caress i still have batarangs to throw

he tries but he's too sexy for that

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Dewgy posted:

Forrest Gump the book is a gigantic pile of ridiculous bullshit because that’s what it set out to be, it’s intended to be a contemporary version of a ludicrous tall tale. The movie ruined it and turned it into a sappy feel good piece of Oscar bait.

Pretty much an inverse Starship Troopers.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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He repaid you in entertainment value.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Another thing with furries is that the actual fursuiters are I'm pretty sure a very small minority, and a lot of people aren't necessarily interested in fursuiting personally or aesthetically. Most of the money goes to commissioning all that porn. (Furries are also pretty overrepresented as reasonably financially secure computer touchers and adjacent)

While fursonas can be all over the place, in practice it's like half wolves, half dragons. Having a single 'fursona' also isn't necessarily a thing for everyone.

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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

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Wasn't there a thing with terfs lamenting people supposedly trapped in marriages with trans partners and everyone's like 'lol wtf your country doesn't have no fault divorce??'

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