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olives black posted:If you're really thinking about getting into Marvel/Star Wars/etc. for the first time just do anime instead. There are a couple of good anime movies but all TV anime is unwatchable. Anything you like about them is done better in games.
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That loving Sned posted:There are a couple of good anime movies but all TV anime is unwatchable. Anything you like about them is done better in games. So you're saying I should be investing my time in harem dating sims or visual novels?
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haljordan posted:Charles Frederick Rogers killed JFK. I think JFK called his own hit but only in that for the US, either him or Jackie had to go. She had too close of ties to Russia and JFK realized she got too deep in the white house through him. So there had to be a hit and it didn't matter who as long as it was one of them. JFK would have had a hard time living with the guilt, and he knew Jackie was making moves on the Greeks so she'd be fine and farther away from the white house with him gone, so he felt like the best play would be for him to be the intended target of the shot. The reason they set it for the open roof motorcade was to minimize the chances the shot could have missed and maximize the chances the shot would have hit Jackie in the chance that it missed. Either way, one had to go! With Jackie gone, JFK would be less accessible through assets of foreign intelligence, and is too high up to himself be useful in counterintelligence. Jackie on the other hand, with a future tied to the Med, outside the US and outside Russia, would serve to be a valuable asset for both US and Russian foreign intelligence offices. So, JFK knew about the hit, he knew there was going to be a shot and that the shot would be meant for him. For the bottom line though, it was also acceptable for Jackie to take the hit. She didn't know about the call. If she did, she wasn't expecting the brains. She was expecting something with the heart - JFK was on all the stimulants and a heart attack naturally wasn't out of the realm of possibility on its own - ie, without poisoning. So when he got blasted and she saw the pieces - she was genuinely shocked. JFK knew she would be and in life, was ok with this being a way to go - he loved Jackie but he knew who she was in bed with - he had his affairs with women, but that was all fun - Jackie's were political and financial, and that stung, so he got a serious kick out making his departure be as traumatic and grotesque as possible for Jackie, and as a sign off, letting her know if he wasn't the baller that he was, that shot could have hit her, he wouldn't have needed to remarry, he would have still been president, still had power, still had any woman he wanted. Because it could have been either of them as long as it was at least one. For the overall benefit of the USA. though, it was better for it to be him. 'Don't ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for you country'. For his country, JFK got a Russian asset to be of interest at the highest level to the American public, with a future interest in her future in his absence, and with that future being unclouded by any relationship scandals. That is, no divorce, no drama, just widowed and in her right to remarry. The public still wants to know, so she'll be checking in. I dunno if I'm willing to die on that hill, but for sure it sounds more plausible than most other theories out there. Trollipop fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Jun 6, 2023 |
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Coounterpoint: Anime is bad.
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My new hill to die on is that Trollipop should get banned for posting maybe the dumbest poo poo in the world
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I thought it was pretty funny honestly.
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Anime is neither good nor bad but merely okay.
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Anime is for weird, neotenized adults.
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anime almost universally has dumb recycled plots with shallow recycled characters, but sometimes the art and/or setting is cool. both anime and marvel are lowkey shameful to be super into as an adult, but whatever e: man, i'm still riled up about "podcast" and it's been days since i posted about it
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That big building in Akira was pretty cool
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Passive Aggreeable posted:liberty mutual commercials suck rear end Everyone involved in the production and dissemination of insurance commercials, as well as the "people" who think they're funny, absolutely deserve to be hanged from the neck until dead, in public, until there isn't a single one left.
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kntfkr posted:Everyone involved in the production and dissemination of insurance commercials, as well as the "people" who think they're funny, absolutely deserve to be hanged from the neck until dead, in public, until there isn't a single one left.  or we could just, like, do socialism and put their propaganda talents to good use
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Musicals suck
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kntfkr posted:Everyone involved in the production and dissemination of insurance commercials, as well as the "people" who think they're funny, absolutely deserve to be hanged from the neck until dead, in public, until there isn't a single one left. Post- hurricane I’m sure we could get that done.
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olives black posted:
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Oh look, it's Jake from State Farm! He's so friendly and affable!
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kntfkr posted:Everyone involved in the production and dissemination of insurance commercials, as well as the "people" who think they're funny, absolutely deserve to be hanged from the neck until dead, in public, until there isn't a single one left. That one life insurance ad where the slogan is "life insurance so good... your family might start getting ideas" and the whole family is setting traps around the house to try to kill the dad is pretty good. One of the only good ads I've seen in years actually.
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I’d let Flo hit my deductible iykwim
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Devils Affricate posted:My new hill to die on is that Trollipop should get banned for posting maybe the dumbest poo poo in the world  Ok, ok, if not an outright Russian asset, she was at least at risk of compromise through her well intentioned international peace work that extended from her time in France shortly after the World Peace Council of 1949. Her internationalism and study of the French language made her a first line of contact for high-society diplomats of sorts from African countries starting to be independent of French protectorate oriented towards some kind of peace with the US but reason for geopolitical plays - perhaps with an attitude in favor of the Vietnam War as an act against France, simultaneously in support of the US and against its ally with the US none the wiser and a level of suggestion at the highest level of direct message and influence to the president (France had economic enterprise in Vietnam that would be hurt by US action, with ties to the first lady, they could communicate in a shared language (French) and be relayed directly to the president with no suspicion of ulterior motive). It may have been outright display of some level of awareness of this potential in her move towards her future husband for political and financial gain with an indirect level of involvement or guidance from US government. Effectively, she was compromised and a liability with JFK in office. JFK was working similarly with her goals of peace in mind, but his level as president and having to handle the actuality of the missiles and the weapons, and being commander in chief, and with a real commitment to Americans first, and the reality that he is seriously a rational and human person, made his own marriage a venue for indirect compromise for foreign influence over US foreign policy without a clear understanding and trust in each others missions separate from each other but also at the same time. Say, Morocco, being a long time ally of the United States, with a treaty of friendship, that doesn't necessarily mean any more than their agreement that the United States is an independent nation and may enter their ports, that may not fully extend to something like, telling the first lady perhaps they would at the level of the king on a personal basis, have an opinion that it would be in US interest to go to war in Vietnam - but only through the friendship being strengthened by inadvertent action that could hurt France. If that makes sense. A month before the assassination she was all over the Med and Morocco. So, there's unfortunate compromise and it makes sense that one of them had to go for them to be progressively effective in their respective missions. At the end of the day, JFK makes more sense to go and only by assassination - he would not be as effective as a living ex president, after an uncertain finish to his term and potential reelection with potential war. Jackie is still effective as a US asset for global and international diplomacy and business as a widow of the last president that doesn't detract from the goal of peace, or its means through personal relationships. But either way, one of them had to go, so the conspiracy that makes the most sense is that multiple levels of intelligence agencies and even the president himself knew about the risk, and JFK signed off on his own assassination as the best way to go, with a failsafe that Jackie had to go too. Jackie probably did not think she had to be open to that kind of danger in this situation for herself, so she was the least bit suspecting that Dallas with the roof open was where JFK was going to get got. That's the game theory explanation for how to get one of them out at the time with the least real cost of human life and of most appreciation (accumulated value) of current and accrued human life domestic and foreign, moving forward. Maybe  Still not the hill I'm willing to die on, but if there's going to any conspiracy theories, there should be some that make sense at a level of personal relationship/global and international perspective/effective diplomatic relationships/peace as the mission/competition and economy/USA still number one. So I'm going to say, JFK for sure signed off and consented to the assassination at LEAST, being a highly likely naturally best course of action. If not coordinated in conspiracy, at least in that a rational actor making moves in game theory at the level of nation states with the goal of least cost to overall human life, in questionable conditions of mutually assured destruction, would consider this the most optimal strategy to play to avoid mutually assured destruction and added cost of human life. Trollipop fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Jun 6, 2023 |
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What southern Ontarians call northern Ontario is actually just the northern part of southern Ontario. Nothing south of Timmins is in northern Ontario. Maybe someday they'll be able to afford maps in Ottawa and the GTA.
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Fighting Elegy posted:That one life insurance ad where the slogan is "life insurance so good... your family might start getting ideas" and the whole family is setting traps around the house to try to kill the dad is pretty good. One of the only good ads I've seen in years actually. that sounds pretty good actually
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gently caress me that’s a lot of words
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Trollipop posted:I think JFK called his own hit but only in that for the US, either him or Jackie had to go. She had too close of ties to Russia and JFK realized she got too deep in the white house through him. So there had to be a hit and it didn't matter who as long as it was one of them. JFK would have had a hard time living with the guilt, and he knew Jackie was making moves on the Greeks so she'd be fine and farther away from the white house with him gone, so he felt like the best play would be for him to be the intended target of the shot. The reason they set it for the open roof motorcade was to minimize the chances the shot could have missed and maximize the chances the shot would have hit Jackie in the chance that it missed. Either way, one had to go! With Jackie gone, JFK would be less accessible through assets of foreign intelligence, and is too high up to himself be useful in counterintelligence. Jackie on the other hand, with a future tied to the Med, outside the US and outside Russia, would serve to be a valuable asset for both US and Russian foreign intelligence offices. Sure Die on this grassy knoll
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That loving Sned posted:There are a couple of good anime movies but all TV anime is unwatchable. Anything you like about them is done better in games. I don't always want to play a video game. In fact nowadays I seldom do. I want to relax and be entertained. Also the AAA wing of the video games industry has been dead to me ever since Capcom waited until after the reviews came out for Resident Evil 4 to put in the microtransactions. I'm not spending another dime on this poo poo until actual laws are passed to ban them, which of course means  time for new hobbies. I'll watch vtubers play the ones that I'd be interested in otherwise and then do something else. Like, idk, maybe watching some anime or something
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japanese voice actors are almost always better than their counterparts and maybe ai will replace dubs
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mailorder bees posted:javascript ruined the internet Man, gently caress Javascript though. I'm over cookie consent popups, I'm over silly little boxes telling me to sign up to something before I'm allowed to do something else. I'm over things hijacking my scrolling or my cursor.
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Lusty Grundles posted:Javascript is roughly 60% of my career. I don't have the skillset nor the interest in anything else to do it as a job. Bring back rich clients
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MSPain posted:anime almost universally has dumb recycled plots with shallow recycled characters, but sometimes the art and/or setting is cool. Not including Miyazaki's stuff, there are maybe, I don't know, five animes that I've seen that are actually good with mostly decent writing. Not to say that anime is entirely unenjoyable, but I can only tolerate so much when it constantly abandons all subtlety to explicitly tell me, the viewer, what is going on. Show, don't tell, and all that.
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i liked akira a lot but most of the reason i like it is the amazing soundtrack by Geinoh Yamashirogumi. if other anime had music like that i'd probably be a huge weeb. but most other anime ive seen has really lovely music, so i'm not. i enjoyed fist of the north star though. just a cool kind of spacey vibe to it.
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Devils Affricate posted:American comics would instantly become significantly more readable if they just stopped bolding every 3rd or 4th word, as if they're convinced their audiences don't know how spoken language is typically emphasized. I'm probably just dumb but it always seems like the wrong words are emphasized to me.
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Earwicker posted:i liked akira a lot but most of the reason i like it is the amazing soundtrack by Geinoh Yamashirogumi. if other anime had music like that i'd probably be a huge weeb. but most other anime ive seen has really lovely music, so i'm not. Satoshi Kon is dead and Ghibli is now CGI so anime is over The only person I would take recommendations from is kenny lauderdale, and he also only cares about old anime
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Earwicker posted:i liked akira a lot but most of the reason i like it is the amazing soundtrack by Geinoh Yamashirogumi. if other anime had music like that i'd probably be a huge weeb. but most other anime ive seen has really lovely music, so i'm not. I haven’t seen Akira in years but last time around I loved the 80s cyberpunk aesthetic. While we’re at it, another pointless hill to die on: TIE Fighter was the best of the Star Wars games and it’s been downhill from there ever since.
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Bargearse posted:I haven’t seen Akira in years but last time around I loved the 80s cyberpunk aesthetic. Weird way to say Dark Forces but okay.
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Haptical Sales Slut posted:Weird way to say Dark Forces but okay. Dark forces sewer level was one of the single most terrifying gaming experiences ive ever had.
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NASA is pronounced "NASS-uh". "NASS-aw" is how you pronounce the capital of the Bahamas or the little town in upstate New York. Settling something "mano a mano" means you're settling things hand to hand, not man to man. A dish sponge should never be used to wipe down counters or food prep surfaces. They are the germ equivalent of a Warhammer 40K hiveworld. You'd never wipe your counter down with a bus driver's sweaty post-heatwave-shift underwear, but that would literally be a safer option than a dish sponge.
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I like to pronounce NASA as nasaw because it's annoying to the coastal elites
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Earwicker posted:i liked akira a lot but most of the reason i like it is the amazing soundtrack by Geinoh Yamashirogumi. if other anime had music like that i'd probably be a huge weeb. but most other anime ive seen has really lovely music, so i'm not. watch kaiji. the composer is/was in jail for a decade cuz he smoked a doobie https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1vv_u00Yk6w&pp=ygUUa2Fpamkgb3N0IHRyYWNrIHdpc2g%3D cumpantry fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Jun 15, 2023 |
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A club sandwich is a double decker sandwich and not a triple, because there are two layers of ingredients (the "decks") between three pieces of bread. A triple decker would have three layers of ingredients and presumably, four slices of bread. Fight me on this. 
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