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Oh god, The Meg was shit. Shit acting, shit effects, shit story. It was basically just a Syfy turd dolled up to a 100 million+ budget and cooked in a server farm in China, the same way The Great Wall was.

Chucky 2019 was a decent standalone romp. The original canon still exists with that upcoming TV show, and the concept was a neat spin. That movie had potential to be a massive pile of dogshit, but it was a decent enough watch. The only major downside I had was casting Aubrey Plaza as a single mother, because she still looks so young. Not even the handwave explanation was that satisfying. Otherwise, a fine enough popcorn muncher.

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Why did they have to pick Song of the South for the thumbnail, though? There are plenty of wartime cartoons like Looney Tunes that featured extreme racism, and with those you can look at the circumstances around them to add meaning to them. They're absolutely fucking horrible, but they exist within a valid historical context that's worth talking about.

Song of the South is Disney basically depicting black people as being happy with slavery, laughing and being jolly at their lot in life, while their stories are repackaged for a white crowd with a noticeable lilt of ebonics in the voiceover.

I just mentioned Looney Tunes and how their wartime cartoons had additional meaning through the circumstances of their creation that made them worth discussing, but one cartoon that didn't have to exist was an Elmer Fudd/Bugs Bunny cartoon where Elmer Fudd was replaced with an extremely racist depiction of a black man. He drawled like he had 50 IQ points or lower, he had a massive forehead, his lips were massive. The only humor this character offered was "look at how stupid black people are! What a slow buffoon!" - and it's disgusting. You might have people defending something racist if it's funny, but this character drags the cartoon to a standstill - his antics, whether he was black or white, slowed the cartoon down to a fucking crawl. The only selling point was to have a grossly stereotyped black person, and it's a shitty cartoon because of it.

Song of the South is trash at best. It paves over the injustices that black people suffered by depicting a jolly, smiling black man who serves as a guilt-free depiction of happiness in servitude. After all, that's his standing in life, right? Might as well be jolly about it. There's no greater context except "white people wanted to enjoy black folklore without acknowledging slavery or racism, so they created a black figure who was okay with it to feel better". It's wrong, and there's no circumstances that make it worth talking about except as a product of racism. Just like that trash cartoon that took a perfectly serviceable Elmer Fudd story and replaced it with severe racism.

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ayy

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I live in Australia and I'm not the strongest swimmer, so pass

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JebronLames posted...

did you ever rebuy this game on ps4?

Nope, I grabbed another PS3 for $70. Still using that, as well as my Nintendo Switch. I wasn't done with the library, since I came to the table really late in the PS3's life cycle.

2 of the games in my sig are PS3 titles, lmao

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MGSV has some of the best gameplay in the series, but it has the worst story hands down. With the tired twist, declining cutscene quality as the game goes on, Huey as a whole and Boring Ocelot? It's a really bad Metal Gear game, and while I disagree with the assertion that it's a trash game that isn't worth playing, I understand why some fans are butthurt by it.

I got the PS3 version on launch day for $90 AUD, and I didn't feel like I got a raw deal. I logged about 150 hours into it before my last PS3 shit itself and lost my save. Personally I really enjoyed it as a game, but I didn't like the story at all and it was a disappointing endnote to the Metal Gear series.

Also, Konami fucked up the in-game currency with patches - they moved like 80% of your resources online, including anything you made before the patch rolled out. I found this out by booting up my game in offline mode, and instantly being plunged into the red with no resources to use. I lost like 5 soldiers who up and quit due to lack of resources, because Konami fucked up my currency. And the worst part is that when you spent your currency, it would burn through your offline stash first before digging into your online stash. Eventually you could only spend your online GMP on online items, and your offline GMP would go into the negatives instead of spending the online GMP.

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Maybe you should do a service that people find value in and improves their lives, by which I mean

Omnislasher posted...

close your account

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ultimate reaver posted...

the way the thread title was phrased i imagined him doing both things back to back

To me, that's basically what happened. Came across an article before I went to work about the protest, then I came across an article after work saying he'd killed himself that morning. As far as I'm concerned, it all happened in the blink of an eye

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The Lunar fanbase have a really douchey, snobby contingent who say things like "I feel sorry for anyone who was introduced to the series with the PSP remake" and "the version of Wind's Nocturne in the PSP game sounds like it's sung by an RnB singer" after they went through the trouble of getting the original VA from the PlayStation version back.

I like the game, but those assholes are about as notable as the game for me at this point. Neat game, but the douchebag elitist fans can go and fuck themselves.

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spikethedevil posted...

He may of been an arse hole but suicide is never a good thing. Everybody has the capacity to grow as a person and change their views.

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-13/liberal-national-club-president-wilson-gavin-dies/11863096

The head of a university Liberal National Club that surrounded and shouted at drag queens reading to children in a Brisbane City Council Library has died.

UQ Liberal National Club president Wilson Gavin was one of a group of people who stormed the Drag Queen Storytime event.

The ABC understands he took his own life this morning.

video of the protest posted on social media, Mr Gavin could be seen shouting "drag queens are not for kids".

The actions of the UQ Liberal National Club (UQLNC) were swiftly condemned on social media by fellow students, advocates and federal MPs its Facebook page has received a barrage of comments.

The Liberal National Party distanced itself from the UQLNC, which was disaffiliated in December.

In a press conference earlier today, Queensland Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington said she would not comment on the reports of Mr Gavin's death.

"In relation to the unconfirmed reports relating to a young man, out of respect for the family I won't be making any comments on this matter," she said.

"I think today is a day to think about a bit of compassion and respect for people."

The storytelling event was organised by Rainbow Families Queensland who released a statement saying they were "deeply saddened" by the news.

"Rainbow Families Queensland were informed earlier today that the leader of yesterday's drag Storytime protest took his own life this morning," the statement said.

"We are deeply saddened by this news and extend our sympathies to his family."

Drag queen Diamond Good-Rim, who participated in the Drag Queen Storytime event, said she was "deeply saddened from the news today".
"I'd really like to give my condolences and sympathy to the family and friends," she said.

"The support that I have received today on social media has been phenomenal and I thank everyone for their support and kind words."

A UQ spokesperson said its priority was providing support for students and staff impacted by what happened.

"The university understands that the events of the past two days are very distressing for many people," the spokesperson said.

"Mutual respect and diversity are core values of the university, and we hope that everyone shows consideration for those affected during the difficult days ahead."

Well, this story was tonal whiplash. I only learned about the protest a few hours ago.

According to the linked article, Wilson Gavin also spoke on behalf of the Australian Monarchists Party. I think his politics were abhorrent, and yesterday's actions were total shit. But I don't think he deserved to die, and I feel extremely bad for his family. Having to bury a family member like that is fucking awful - especially someone who's this young.

Surprising, but heartening, is the fact that the group he slandered yesterday extended their well-wishes to the family of the man. I think it rings true that even with a garbage streak to his behavior, this death is senseless and traumatic to his family and they deserve whatever support they can get right now.

In the wake of his death, I can't help but wonder if yesterday's actions were a cry for help - an extreme action taken by a person with nothing left to lose. But I can't comment on the circumstances with any sort of objectivity, and even on my best day I would never have been able to affect this outcome through the sheer force of the distance between us.

So that's how this is at the moment.

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Yep, I can dig those results.

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religion of peace

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CanuckCowboy posted...

wow I love Walter wtf

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For a hot second, I thought this was going to be like a manly-man lodge retreat where dudes learn how to chop wood and barbeque to re-establish the basics of manliness. Instead, it's a support group for men who have trouble meeting the masculine ideal and who support each other to find a way of discovering their masculinity.

If more dudes were open to therapy like this instead of binge-drinking and beating their families out of fear of appearing weak, dudes would probably have a better reputation by now.

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I guess it'd make sense that this would be the case, given that they announced Home in the same Direct.

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When the DLC got announced people got all shitty about the returning Pokemon being locked behind a paywall, before other people clarified that the Pokemon would be added in a free update separate from the DLC. This claim was eventually countered with the assertion that the 200 returning Pokemon would be confined strictly to the DLC areas, and only made available via trading between DLC and vanilla versions of the game.

Did the Nintendo Direct ever state that the returning Pokemon would be tied to the DLC? Because while rebalancing the entire game to include the new Pokemon isn't feasible, SwSh could just as easily add the new Pokemon to the Wild Area and rebalance the spawns there. The different weather patterns spawn different Pokemon related to those weather patterns, and while those weather patterns have a decent crop of Pokemon dedicated to them per area, there's nothing saying that the Wild Area spawns have to stay consistent or that there isn't fat to be trimmed in regards to overlapping spawns. Game Freak could write it off as a "biome shift" or something that attracts new Pokemon.

If the Direct stated that the new areas are the exclusive home to returning Pokemon, that's one thing. It's a whole other thing entirely to assume the returning Pokemon won't be coming to the vanilla release due to spawn rates. The devs won't go out of their way to retcon the returning Pokemon into the wider Galar region, but without 100% confirmation it seems stupid to write off the Wild Area as a potential home for the returning Pokemon.

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Don't care about the morality of it, I'm glad this pedophile priest is dead. Anyone abusing a position of power to subject people to this sort of heinous crime is better off dead as well. If that's a black mark on my soul that will tip the scales upon my judgement at the end of my life, then so be it - the same God that presides over that process is the one with churches in his name where priests rape kids, so he can get bent. Sick bastard saw fit to design bugs who spread their young by laying their eggs in the eyes of live animals. Fuck him.

This isn't "an eye for an eye, and the world goes blind". Situations like this involve a sick motherfucker poking out people's eyes at their leisure. Stay as morally righteous as you like, comparing the killing of a serial rapist to the morality of an 80's movie, but in a just situation, the people causing the death of a child rapist would get less time in Hell than the motherfuckers raping kids.

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https://youtu.be/fVdl9BnjC6Q
https://youtu.be/-CIQ4sxq758
https://youtu.be/sAHX_omE8t0
https://youtu.be/xfP5HhxebOw

They hosted the Outlaw Roadshow the year they recorded that first song.

They're also known for jamming and expanding on their older songs, including adding a twangy country-folk spin on them.

Counting Crows became a dad rock band in the 2010's.

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Still sexualising the appearance and mannerisms of a child, so still creepy.

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I saw Fellowship at 1 in the morning, so when it ended at 4 AM I was fucking done. It takes a really good movie to keep me watching for three hours straight, and Lord of the Rings isn't my bag - at least not enough to sit through nine hours of this shit.

They're fine movies surely, with fine source material, but I'm not wasting another six hours of my life sitting through this. If I watch more Lord of the Rings, it'll be in my time, not at a friend's place.

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Counting Crows became a dad rock band in the early 2010's.

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https://youtu.be/c7pMFfjIKDA

If you're not familiar with the song, the first three minutes are preamble

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Null_Gain posted...

Basically yes. Anything to further demonize a Muslim, Democrat politician. Just further thinking about it makes even less sense.
Why would person of Religion A take part of a ritual of Religion B? It just goes to show the level of propagandizing happening in Republican circles

I mean, it's not like those wafers are produced in the Vatican. Companies produce them in bulk in order to sell them to churches. They're symbolic, but they're literally just Christ-branded slices of bread.

What the fuck is she going to do with a communion wafer? Even if she were to desecrate it for some stupid reason, it wouldn't matter because it's one wafer out of a 500-pack sold in bulk. There's nothing special about the wafer itself.

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Pathetic.

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What was the deal with that Frogles account anyway?

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What, you'll continue to double-post at people?

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Mutual respect goes a long way. I think people should be open to the idea of those who have power over them, and even if it sucks to hear criticism or be at a lower rung than others, it might be worth taking it in stride and using it as a motivator.

But as an adult, I think it becomes pretty clear to most people who is and isn't deserving of respect. You're bound to get some jackasses with an inflated sense of self worth, and it's clear that even if they have a position of power above you, they don't deserve your respect. It's a balancing act of who deserves it, and it's usually the people who treat you with basic human respect who are worth respecting back.

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So in Borderlands 3, I guess I can understand if Maya stays dead after getting blown up - happened too fast, machine didn't kick in, whatever. But in Borderlands 2, Roland gets a bullet in the back and dies like a dog. Why can't he just respawn at a New-U Station?

Like, I get that Borderlands isn't that deep and shit happens if shit happens. We're not talking about a franchise known for its moral complexity or close adherence to canon - Borderlands is a balls-to-the-wall franchise that does things because it's funny. Still, though.

It could be argued that since they're the Resistance, they've been expunged from the New-U Station. But the Vault Hunters in Borderlands 2 are a part of that resistance too, and as main characters you can respawn despite being an enemy of Hyperion.

I guess it's just "you're the player character so you respawn, they're NPCs now so they die". Still, though. Hopefully Borderlands 2 explains how Roland stays dead.

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Blue_Inigo posted...

Sonic 1 special stages are booty

Sonic 1 special stages are better than Sonic 2 special stages.

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Social media ruined the internet, period. Facebook, Instagram, MySpace and Twitter have turned the internet into a bog of homogenised content and petty drama. It's an extension of real life, and it's killed off forums and chatrooms where people could make up names and have goofy fun.

As far as I'm concerned, GameFAQs and Tumblr are as close to the old internet as you're gonna see going forward. I understand labelling Tumblr as "old internet" is stupid, especially with the platform's continuous degradation like the porn ban, but that's a social network that thrives on goofy names and shitposting in a way that most other places don't do any more.

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Foppe posted...

Im surprised there are not more dead.

Over 20 people are dead. Not a bad figure, considering our previously most destructive bushfires killed 173 people, but still pretty messed up.

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spudger posted...

yeah that dude is dumber than trump

I wouldn't say that, but he's certainly a moron and he's definitely fucked this entire crisis up.

DeadBankerDream posted...

How is his party not demanding he resigns?

The Liberal party has a habit of cannibalizing each of their PMs. Tony Abbott got kicked out before his term was over, as did his successor Malcolm Turnbull. Scott Morrison apparently changed a few of the laws around so it would be a harder process to kick out sitting Prime Ministers.

But he also has a handful of similar minded crooks and cronies, like Peter Dutton, Josh Frydenberg and Michael McCormack behind him. We've been swinging hard into left vs right politics for years, as seen by the current administration's refusal to discuss global warming as a "Greens issue". The mood imo is very "if you aren't with us you're against us".

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Because they're launching on PC as well, I'm guessing.

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Bad_Mojo posted...

It's time to rise up and [ToS]. It's the only want to get these losers out of power

Voting is against the ToS?

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It's a solid buy for $14.

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Makeveli_lives posted...

But lord of the rings is on Netflix, just stream it.

Only Return of the King is on Netflix in Australia.

Did I mention this is my first time watching LotR, ever?

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He's had the DVDs for years now, totally legit. Just tried to whack in Fellowship of the Ring and the Blu-Ray app wouldn't play it. We fiddled with the resolution, and the error mentioned the HDMI settings - something we couldn't get into. I saw a Reddit thread saying that updating the TV's firmware could fix all that, but the firmware was up to date.

A perfectly legit copy, hampered from being played in a completely legal way through DRM.

Never mind that this Xbox One has run illegitimate copies of movies via USB in the past. Any video file played illegitimately? Easy as pie. But God forbid you play a DVD with the wrong HDMI settings. It's shit like that that, making legitimate means more difficult than piracy, that drives people to break the law.

Wanna know how we got around this? My friend had his PS2 hooked up from playing The Simpsons Hit and Run, so we're running the DVD off of that.

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Oh, fuck off

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y'all wanna look like badasses but you're just clowns

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People who see her perform say that she's keeping up a full head of steam for solid hour and a half shows. Dancing, playing instruments and singing the whole time. While being overweight might have its health effects, there are perfectly healthy people who carry more weight than what we count as the norm.

If Lizzo's quality of performance was suffering due to her weight, that would be one thing. But she isn't slipping. That's the thing - you'll get washed up celebrities who've packed on a bunch of weight and don't perform as well as they used to, but Lizzo is keeping up with that sort of personality at their prime. She's a heavy-set woman who isn't mired in obesity and bad living - she's athletic enough to be an active stage presence, and for her weight not to slow her down. All signs are pointing towards her actually being pretty athletic and healthy for her weight.

The current Lizzo discourse feels like it falls into the same trap as the faux-concern trolls tend to exhibit for fat people as a way to mock and bully them. People think they get a free pass to talk shit on a fat person because they're just trying to motivate them to be healthier, to be a better role model. But Lizzo has shown herself to be an active showman, and have stamina beyond what just about any keyboard warrior criticizing her would have. Sometimes fat people are healthy at the weight they're at - they have frames that can support that weight, they're actually quite strong beyond what critics see as blubber. So this criticism that Lizzo is an obese landwhale who needs to lose some weight instead of promoting her evil lifestyle or whatever? It's small dick energy. It's focusing in on one visible aspect of this artist, and riding it under the guise of well-intentioned concern.

But of course critics of Lizzo are going to go that route, because her music is ultimately about uplifting people and feeling good while you do it. Of course the backlash against songs about feeling good at the club and partying it up to make the people around you feel good too is going to be met with shame and derision for an external factor of the artist. Can't be fun and positive if the artist is promoting some sort of deviant lifestyle.

People who actually like and listen to Lizzo respond with what they've seen at her concerts, that she's an active, athletic showman for hour and a half shows. Detractors harp on her weight and call her a bad influence on society, like they do with every remotely fat person they can sink their hooks into. If Lizzo can carry her weight and still lead an active, empowering career, then that should be good enough.

Zaltera posted...

She appears to be not just obese but morbidly obese.

Motherfucker, do you know what morbidly obese even means? I don't see Lizzo holed up in bed every day, unable to move because her body weight has made her a prisoner in her own body. I don't see a person whose weight has shortened her lifespan to a 10 year window if she doesn't improve. This is a shitty troll and you know it.

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more like Over-The-Hillian Michels, amirite?

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DocileOrangeCup posted...

Megatech is so dreamy wtf

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Foppe posted...

Would have been more with it with 200 more pokemons...

Maybe so, but ultimately I think it's better that the Pokemon are free. Folks are already pissed about the Pokemon being behind a paywall, despite that not being the case. If Game Freak really wanted to fuck over the series they would be selling the Pokemon back via DLC.

All this means is that you don't need to buy the DLC. You get the Pokemon for free.

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Tmaster148 posted...

Tbf, considering Gamefreak avoided saying they would re-add old pokemon back into the game with a later update people had valid concerns about not being able to use other old pokemon until the next game.

That's fair enough.

Foppe posted...

...so we get less content in the $30 DLC?

I mean, you get all new areas, presumably with their own challenges and Pokemon spawning areas. The price tag is pretty high, but if you don't pay for the $30 DLC, you still get the returning Pokemon. If the Pokemon are all you really care about, then don't buy the DLC.

Cobra1010 posted...

People still play pokemon? My cousins around 18-22 are all playing league of legends, fortnite and call of duty.

Im surprised the fanbase hasnt out grown the series.

Pokemon saw a bit of a renaissance around the time of X and Y. Those games didn't do too well, but with the Hoenn remakes later on and with Sun/Moon, the series has been regrowing its fanbase piece by piece.

Even with its issues and backlash, Pokemon SwSh were the best selling Pokemon games in years.

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So it turns out that all those people hoping for them to be patched back in were rightfully optimistic. The 100 Pokemon per update limit is kind of ass, but it's happening unlike the Dexit hive mind who claimed they wouldn't be coming back until a later game.

Also, I posted in a CE topic that didn't make the distinction of the paid DLC being different from the free DLC. No-one has to pay $30 to get any of the returning Pokemon.

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MC_BatCommander posted...

Watching movies in syndication is such a weird thing to me. Scenes cut to cram in more commercials, bad censorship, basically an additional hour of run time for commercials.
Just all around a shitty way to experience a movie

Some of us grow up poor, even today. I watched a ton of movies on TV as a kid.

It's cheaper than a night at the movies.

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Not a big fan. I didn't think I would miss the endgame content, but I kind of did for the first time in a Pokemon game. I trained a second team up to level 50, but it didn't feel balanced at all the second time through. I had a brief period where I got into EV stuff, but eventually I just dropped the game like a sack of shit.

If the DLC goes over well, I'll consider getting it. Otherwise I'm fine for the time being.

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