Lurker > Mr Lasastryke

Vlado posted...

It is sheer lunacy to believe that in order to be a good Christian, you must consider every woman but your own ugly.

i know, right? it's a pretty dumb religion.
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Vlado posted...

Lasa, I know you are more intelligent than the other people who usually engage me. Look at the relentless attack against family and morality since the end of WW2. Look also at the results from that attack (divorce rates through the roof, broken families through the roof, mental instability - and the respective destructive acts - through the roof).

Do you believe it is all just a coincidence?

Do you believe it is actually us, the ones who want to preserve the family, who want children to have a loving mother and father and to be raised in a healthy way, who love life and love what makes us human, that are to blame for those results?

i don't see how this is a response to my point about molyneux you quoted but uh... check out full throttle's topic for my views on this family bullshit.
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Espeon posted...

Hey Unbridled. See that Vlado post up there? Now WHICH side demonizes the other as evil again? And after the midterm election in which the Dems has their biggest win in nearly 50 years, WHICH party is languishing again?

stefan molyneux has been relentlessly demonizing leftists for the last 13 years on his extremely popular podcast. but sure, it's dems we should be attacking for being SO HATEFUL.
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Unbridled9 posted...

I guess it can't be helped though and the dems will continue to languish while not understanding that their opponents are actual human beings as opposed to some amalgamation of Palpatine and Sauron.

ITT you can't think racists exist unless you assume they're an amalgamation of palpatine and sauron
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this is the essential orson welles-related thing you must watch!

aside from citizen kane
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equilibrium is a great movie. i probably wouldn't say it's "deep or clever" but i agree it's way too low.
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Vlado posted...

Read and respond to the rest of my statement. You - okay, maybe not you personally, but US leftists here - are literally supporting those who create these people.

i did and that was a response to your statement.

my point was that you're acting exactly like jack thompson. the only difference is that thompson is going "IT'S GTA'S FAULT" while you're going "IT'S SINGLE MOMS' FAULT" (wow, seems like you and muffin agree on something for once). neither of you put the blame where it belongs: on the people committing the fucking crimes. also, you're both hilariously wrong.

seriously, why do people like you assume everyone in the world starts out tabula rasa and when they do something fucked up it's because of some external factor? it's like how muffin literally read elliot rodger's entire autobiography, which makes it ABUNDANDTLY clear that he was fucked up since birth, yet muffin still claimed that rodger committed the crimes "because his parents were divorced." fucking incredible.
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Vlado posted...

Hello? Burden of proof is on those who accuse, not the accused.

ok.

david duke is a racist and also a republican.

ergo, "republicans aren't racists" is false.

QED

(to be clear, "democrats aren't racists" is equally false, as foolmo pointed out. but let's not pretend racism doesn't exist.)
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Vlado posted...

A vast majority of mentally unstable people become that way because they didn't grow up in a stable, loving family.

oh, i thought it was because they played too much GTA
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in lee's defense, to an extent he was actually pretty open about what he did. he openly admitted his invented "marvel method" consisted of him coming up with a rough outline for a story, the artist fleshing out the story and then lee filling in the dialogue.

just seems wrong to put "written by stan lee" on the comic without giving the artist any kind of writing credit when that's how you cooperate, is all.
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Jakyl25 posted...

I think Kane was much worse about it

Like I dont think Stan ever tried to write Kirby out of Marvel history the way Bob Kane did with Bill Finger

at least with kane it was confined to just the batman character, though (right?). but yeah, seems like both guys were being huge douches about this stuff.
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Unbridled9 posted...

This may shock some people... but Republican's aren't racist and don't hate women.

i think this needs a big fat "citation needed"
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Jakyl25 posted...

Did he never make amends for that?

well, he did eventually start praising kirby a lot at comic cons and stuff. kinda sucks that he only did this long after kirby passed away but it's better than nothing, i guess.

pretty sure lee and ditko never worked out their issues until ditko's death, though.
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Hardcore_Adult posted...

Name one person in a position of power who hasn't been an ass to his/her underlings at one point.

well, the problem is that lee took credit for a LOT of characters/stories/ideas that actually came from other people (kirby was probably the biggest victim of this). i'd say this goes a lot further than "typical boss behavior."

i think bob kane acted similarly when it came to batman (if i'm not mistaken - i don't know much about DC stuff), so you can at least make the argument that lee's behavior wasn't unique in the world of superhero comics, but uh... that doesn't make it excusable.
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yeah, don't lose my number is one of my favorite phil collins songs and i would never want to listen to the song via the music video (even though it's a funny video, for sure).

Raetsel_Lapin posted...

...not entirely sure how they can claim there's no symbolism at all--Charlie choosing the music over Beatrice seems like a pretty straight forward message, even if they somehow didn't intend for it to be one.

yeah, i think daft punk is kind of like the orson welles of music, by which i mean that what they say about their own stuff should be taken with a grain of salt. in my view there absolutely is meaning to the video.

...that being said, i'm a pretty pretentious guy when it comes to movies and sometimes i might read too much into them. i even think there's some kind of meaning to un chien andalou, even though buuel and dal insisted that it's completely meaningless. (man, this reminds me of when i had an argument with muffin about the producers [the original movie]. he insisted that it's a comedy and nothing more, i insisted that there's more to it.)
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eh, i don't know how i feel about this. on the one hand, he was obviously a legend and a crucial person for the silver age of superhero comics. on the other hand, is it too soon to say that by all accounts he was kind of an ass to a lot of his employees at marvel (especially jack kirby, who was also very important to the company)?

RIP anyway i guess.
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yeah, the original video is the one for da funk.

i love the fresh video (why didn't daft punk direct more videos?!), and for many more reasons than a beach being the featured location. i love how... ambiguous it is. it shows charlie the dog having a negative experience (trying to explain something to the director who isn't listening) and a positive experience (talking to his girlfriend). gives it a very "slice of life" feel. also, endings are very important to me so i love how it ends with an appreciation for the sea. and i'm a sucker for continuous long takes.

i didn't link to it when i recommended the track, though, because i see it as a short film rather than a "music video." the video kind of overshadows the music.
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forbidden planet and logan's run out already? geez.
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yeah, E.T. is a better answer than sonic '06, come to think of it.
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LinkMarioSamus posted...

I've heard a lot of people defend Sonic '06 over the years.

who?

the only person i've heard of who unironically likes it is proton jon.
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it has to be sonic '06, right?
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Raetsel_Lapin posted...

Nifty. Not one of my favorites of his, but still good. Autoplay followed it up with "What's New In Baltimore?", which was also nifty. Probably would have been niftier if I knew who Steve Vai was--he may have been awarded 10th greatest guitarist of all time by Guitar World, but I don't really know musicians, so I'm not sure I'd even heard of him before.

glad you liked them. yeah, i love what's new in baltimore?

I do love the waves, but that little vocal sample being repeated on an endless loop is just a bit too much for me.

aww. did you watch the music video, though?
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TsunamiXXVIII posted...

"Old Square", which was originally everything prior to FF7 but I feel like now it's e.g. everything up to and including FFIX, has been doing just fine. It's just the characters from FFX and beyond that have struggled (with the exception of Auron, who still seems fine.)

yeah, it's fair to say new square isn't doing well (with the exception of auron - though i'd say a character created in 2001 is only borderline "new square") but that isn't emblematic of square. newer characters in general aren't doing that hot. "nostalgiaFAQs" is a thing for a reason.
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i'm two topics late with this but GMUN archives all topics on his site now so you guys can stop going "lasa archive this."

www.l ogfaqs.com - remove the space

ok carry on.
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kangaskhan = genghis khan
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transcience posted...

lasa, are you just nitpicking every match we got wrong weeks later? why?

...what? i hardly even post in these topics.

i was replying to dog's point that square isn't well doing in the contest, aside from tifa. i said "square is doing fine, it may just seem like the characters are not doing well because the crew sometimes makes some of the characters appear stronger than they actually are in their writeups." seems like a perfectly legitimate and relevant point to me.
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i scream when i finish peeing
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LeonhartFour posted...

I actually think it was a 3-2 split in favor of the Hand!

ok, good crew call on that one!

i do know most of the crew took cecil over crash, though.
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_Dog_ posted...

Knowing how Square characters haven't done all too great this contest, for Tifa to win by this much really speaks something. What makes her an exception to the trend?

eh, gotta agree with leonhart that people exaggerate how much square sucks this contest. the square characters who lose are guys like noctis, not powerhouses.

just seems like the crew sometimes overrates square's strength so they get some of these matches wrong (i think most of them took noctis over master hand, right?).
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Listening to a lot of older Daft Punk right now.

i approve of this post.
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Bonus points for the birds at the transition between the instrumental and main part of the song (and a bit later in the song). Truthfully, I am drawn to any song that even briefly reminds me of an empty beach--seagulls, waves... it's hardly a coincidence that Maclir relied heavily on that sort of aesthetic and came in first place.

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i live near a beach and it's one of my favorite places to be in the summer (if not my favorite place period), and this track always reminds me of that beach (obviously they're making the "beach" connotation super explicit with the waves sound effects [and the music video (which i didn't link to) makes it even more explicit]). this is truly one of my favorite music tracks and one of the main reasons why daft punk is one of my favorite musical duos.

...also, this isn't nearly as repetitive as the other daft punk stuff you've heard, so this may be a daft punk track you DO enjoy...!
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for what it's worth, i didn't necessarily think you probably wouldn't like rossz csillag alatt szletett. because you talked about your distaste for classical music i thought it was possible you wouldn't like it. but you liked some of the classical music in your ranking and you liked civilization phaze iii. and obviously the classical side of venetian snares is "modern classical" (if that's what you want to call it), which is a lot more in your wheelhouse than mozart, i think. so yeah, i would have understood any reaction you had to it, positive or negative.

anyway, i love this album so i'm glad you at least enjoyed parts of it!
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yay, new topic!

the first thing i'll recommend in this topic is zappa's one man, one vote:



this is a synclavier track from the album frank zappa meets the mothers of prevention - i didn't recommend that one in the previous topic because it doesn't focus on synclavier music, unlike the four zappa albums you listened to. this is another one of my favorite zappa synclavier tracks, though.
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Raetsel_Lapin posted...

"Dance Me This" had the misfortune of being the album I listened to immediately after that; not bad, but I don't think I'm a fan of throat singing and didn't really connect with any of the rest--though Wolf Harbor 3 was interesting.

that's too bad. i'm not super crazy about dance me this either, to be honest - i only recommended it because you enjoyed jazz from hell so much. i love the title track and i think the five wolf harbor tracks are good (and i think calculus is interesting, knowing how the track was made), but as a whole the album fails to be another jazz from hell.

anyway, very nice that you listened to all four of the zappa synclavier albums! i wouldn't be surprised if i never manage to get anyone else to listen to all of these albums for the rest of my life, so the fact that you did so is pretty special to me!

edit: oh yeah, i'm very much in favor of a new topic. i'd like to see more of your comments on music.
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pxlated posted...

Did you though

yes
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NFUN posted...

how about not engaging sephy or red sox?

last time i suggested this i received an incredible amount of vitriol.
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also, when in this topic did i talk to red sox?
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StealThisSheen posted...

I think Tony contributed plenty since that's a pretty common sentiment right now

if only any of my detractors could provide anything resembling an argument instead of just bitching relentlessly at me.
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Reg posted...

"nobody bitches at people who talk to seph"

not what i said.
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

oh my fucking god, dude

if you have absolutely nothing to contribute, just shut up.
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that's good, then.

if only the rest of the regulars would follow your example. the only other person besides myself i ever see taking issue at all with people engaging sephy is xic.
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LapisLazuli posted...

Just so you people who do so know, this is why we give you so much shit when you engage with him.

i don't have an issue with this.

i have an issue with the fact that people who engage sephyg don't get 0.01% of the vitriol the people who engage red sox get.
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uh yeah even i can't defend that red sox post
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Corrik posted...

But, breaking the laws are bad. They are there for a reason.

hard disagree. a lot of laws are there for no reason or for incredibly dumb reasons.

weed is a good example - it's insane for it to be illegal when alcohol is legal. either society can function with both of them or neither of them but you can't just pick one. that makes 0% sense.
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Jakyl25 posted...

Okay now I know youre trolling, since weve had this exact conversation before.

it's not necessarily trolling. i've confronted him with quotes by him from my archive and he always responded with "i don't remember this" and/or "i don't know what this was about." could be him playing dumb (sephyg frequently does this) but perhaps his memory is legit terrible.
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